The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-02-23
MOB STORM JAIL
At Caro-, Illinois, to Get Negro Who
Saatchec Purses From
LADIES ON The STREET

The Crowd in Ugly Mood Early
Friday Morning and Further At
tack on Jail Expected.
At Cairo. Illinois, in fight Thurs
day between q mob tina: seeks 70
lynch a negro charged with purse
snatchins and Ave deputy she,iGs
aho are guarding the jail. several
nembe-s OF the mob were shot down
= an attempt 70 rush the jail
IT,. number OF injured is unknown
the estimates varying between two
eleven.
The mob was still gathered about
the Jail at an early hour and was
constantly increasing in size. Sheriff
Nel!is entrenched his force OF dep
1ties behind shu,tered windows and
sent out word to the mob that he
would fsh, to finish to protect his
prisoner.
The mob worked itself into Sren-
y and another rush on the jail is
expected. The local militia company
vas ordered out Thursday night by
The Governor but the authorities have
been unable to find the company's
officers TO lead the men. Sheriff Nell
IS appealed 10 Gov. Deneen for more
soldiers and outside companies are
| aourly expected
There are three negroes IN the
Jail. One of them. John Pratt, was
srrested on 8 charge OF snatchios
purses from women. He later con-
:essed. He was Immediately indict-
60 by the grand jury and it Is be-
.ieved the mob is after him.
The mob began forming shortly
after dark. AS soon IS the talk OF
lynching reached SheriE Nellis he
appealed to Governor Dsneen for
troops and swore in Ave deputies
a crowd gathered about the jail.
tut no attempt to storm the st-ue-
,ure was made until shortly before
midnight
Sheriff Nellis made good his prom
:se to shoot and several men In the
mob fell a: the first volley. Then
the mob withdrew at safe dis
lance and began firing into the jail.
breaking the windows but injur.ng
rome OF the defenders.
A disoatch from Cairo at balf-
past three O'Clock Friday morning
says the mob that attacked the Jail
is reforming block away and q
second assault is imminent. The
rob. however. now numbering 500
| persons. is cr;zed because Sheriff
Nellis and his deputies fired on them
and threats are made to lynch them
IS WEI: as the negroes.
Among the seriously injured Of the
: rioters are:
John Malone. shot through head.
Sam Wers:nscr. SHOT in shoulder.
Horton Fraeh:n. shot in leg.
George y. Walker. shot II leg.
alaloney Is tae husband Of one
Of th4 women whose purse was
<uatched.
Caused by Pelley Murder.
Cairo has been in 2 state OF un-
.es, since the aeinous murder was
| discovered on November 9th Of Aiss
Annie Pelley. = shop girl, who was
slain by VIII james. negro. After
4 long chase through Alexander and
adjoining couGties. mob captured
James. taking aim fro2 the custody
cf Sheriff Davis. The negro was led
5ack TO Cairo and hanged in the
public square.
The mob then entered the 1a., and
ragged forth white man held for
,xo-icide and hanged him
I. was asserted by the Cairo pa
1ers and leading residents at that
time that the mob spirit was enSen
..ered by the delays Of the courts II
;unishi:..; criminals.
Sheriff Davis was removed from
,T!ce BY Governor Deneen, who acted
ucGe- a law that required the sum-
| mary removal o: a sheriff WHO al
lowed a prisoner TO be taken from
sim.
The revenceful feeling towards ne
-roes seemed 10 die out after COM
.an;es OF State troops had held tha
,,tizens il abeyance Tor severa! days.
An alleged accomplice OF James In
he murder of Miss Pel!ey was later
brought back 70 Cairo, but no ia
.ictmen; zas found against him
While the mob that lynched James
as, November was fendish in its
treatment of the body OF Kiss Pei
,ey's alleged slayer. tearing out his
rear. and burning il At the spot on
which the girls body was found.
10 talk Of further vengeance on ne
.roes AS heard except periodically.
Thursday nights outburst cana
therefore as surprise 10 CITY oA1ce'S
but Sheriff Nellis. prottias by his
predecessors removal for failure to
,.otect James. used drastic measures
% save mis- prisoners.
No serious effort was made TO pun
ism any OF the members OF the moo
TIA: lynched James and the whifa
man last November. No arrests were
j, oad.. although Sheriff Davis said
that he recognized several OF the
, rioters. 4 coroners jury that hei1
an inquest owe. James returned a
, yerdict that read in substance that
: 10 came 10 his death at the hands
~ nersons 70 the jurors unknown.
Fight About Booze.
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