Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-12
NEGRO WHO ELUDED
 MOB IN MISSOURI 70 BE: EE:L.E:cTRocuTED
Will Die in Sing Sing for a Crime He Committed in
 1906

Springfield, Mo-, March 11.--Aft
 CT an escape 14 years ago from tn
 fury of a mob which had marked hin for lynching, with three other ne groes in Springfield, on Easter morn
 ing, 1906, Bus Cain, Springfield. ne gro, IS awaiting death in the electri chair in New York City.
 That Frank Kelley" confesse, murderer of two New York whit, women, was Bus Cain, who escaped from the Greene county jail on tn, night of the triple lynching il Springfield in 1906, became knowr here when Kelley" appealed to rela tives in Springfield for financial ait to fight his death sentence. Greene county authorities had believed Cair to be dead. The lynching hat passed out of mind. as we'll as the murder for which Cain was being held, his accomplice in the killing Bill Allen, paying for the crime al the hands of the mob Now the ne gro is waiting in the Sing Sign death house for the outcome of an almost hopeless appeal to avert the end he so narrowly escaped here.
 Gains case is now before the New York court of appeals. If affirmed his last chance rests with the gov ernor of New York. Cain, alias Kelley" in his appeal to members Of his family here, urged that an at to1ney be employed to ask the gov ernor of New York for clemency.
 He was to have been executed Feb ruary 16 for the killing of Katherine Dunn, a white domestic employed bv a wealthy New York family. He obtained an appeal few days before the date set for his execution.
 Maids Body Found.
 The battered body of the maid was found in the home of Clarence $ Clark in the east wildwood sec tion of Flatbush, Brooklyn, on the morning of December 20. There were signs of terrific struggle and it de- veloped that the girl had surprised the negro in an attempted robbery and had fought with him before she Was beaten into insensibility with some heavy object.
 Investigation showed that jewelry valued at $10.OO0 had been taken. Cain, or "Kelley" was arrested, through information obtained from Emma Robinson, negro maid em- oloyed at the Clark home. The clew vas obtained when a police officer making telephone call got on busy" wire and heard conversa- ion between Cain and the Robin- 'on woman. Cain was captured in Newark, December 20, and his con- ession indicated the negress as an lccomplice. Cain said he had ad- nitted him to the house on the night if the robbery
 According to his confession Kath- 'rine Dunn had surprised him and le had beaten her to death with al leavy vase.
 Sentence was passed on Cain Janu- ny 9, despite the negro's request hat the action be postponed until he following day because of his of the bad luck attend ng Friday.
 Later Cain admitted to the dis rict attorney of New York that he lad shot and killed Emma McDon- i'd. ticket seller for the Brooklyn tapld Transit company, whose body lad been found in a sand pit in the 'latlands section of Brooklyn nearly
 year before. Cain said the shoot ng of the white woman was acci- lental.
 Elderly Man Murdered.
 The first murder charged against Cain occurred in Springfield two weeks before the lynching in 1906. Thomas Roark, an elderly white nan, was killed on the Drury college 'ampus by two negroes who at empted to rob him. Cain and Bill Allen were seen running from the ampus immediately after the shoot ng and were arrested the next day Gain confessed his part in the affair lleging Allen did the shooting.
 The two negroes were held for rial on charge of first degree mur- Ter.
 Two days after they were bound yer for trial it was reported that
 white woman had been attacked | ere by negroes. Two negroes amed Coker and Duncan were ar ested for the affair.
 Feeling aroused eliminated in a riple lynching on the public square f Springfield. A mob was formed. | liter some delay it obtained batter ng rams and sledges and began to alter its way into the jail Pleas y Roscoe Patterson, then prosecut- ng attorney, and other officials that he law be allowed to take it's course ere disregarded. They were hooted own
 Trial of the last of the famous t. Louis "boodle" case was sched- led for the following Monday in he criminal court, it being the case the state against Decker Arthur ager, then circuit attorney of St. ouis. was in Springfield to direct ne trial and was not at the jail when le mob arrived.
 Sager fought his way through the lob and entered the celler of the sil building, found the gas main nd turned off the gas, hoping the arkness would circumvent the mob.
 A member of the mob lighted lse to show the way for several len to go to the cellar to turn the as on. This section fled before le menacing figure of Sager, who. 'vered with dirt and flourshing a lsty butcher knife, looked ready to lake the first man who opposed i'm pay dearly for it. The mob finally forced the jailer give up the keys to the outer cell { DOTS. The inner doors were chis- ed from their hinges. The mob ] lshed into the inner cells asd I .ized Coker and Duncan.
 Cain Hid in Cell. Cain hid against the wall of his Ill when the mob entered and ini7 'e darkness made his way through le crowd without being noticed hile the leaders were getting Coker Id Duncan. Once outside the cell 'ction he escaped easily in the con- lSinn (