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Show m Ti SCENE OFA Wtt Son of a Former Mayor of Illinois City Is Wounded and Bleeds to Death While Jieriff Refuses to Allow the Dying Man to He Cared For guns. He fell over the railing of the court house steps and lay In the snow. The othtrs fell back hurriedly, none of the wounded men being In too serious se-rious condition to leave. At saloon tho wounds of four nien wrere dressed, and Sheriff Nellis Nel-lis was called up by telephone. Dying Man Unattended. ; "We want to send over and get that man who is lying there," said a voice from the saloon. i "You can't come until word la takeu ! to (he governor," said Nellis, and ho called up Springfield. He told Governor Gover-nor Deneen thai the man in the snow was dead, as he believed him to be, and naked If ho could permit the body to le removed. The governor advised him. Nellis says, to wait until tne militia came, and to lake no chances on a ruse which might result in a renewal of the mob's attack. So when the next mes- ' sage came from the saloon Nellis told his questioner that rvery one must keep away. The mob spirit has never died here Ince the murder of Miss Annie Pel-Icy, Pel-Icy, a shop girl, November 11th last, by a noero, which was followed by the lv aching of a negro and a white man. The body of Miss Tclley had been found in an alley. She had been attacked at-tacked and murdered. William "Frog-gle" "Frog-gle" .Tames, a negro, was arrested on suspicion, after a hunt for the murderer, mur-derer, in which blood hounds wero used. Troos in Control. Company K has relieved Sheriff Nellis and has matters fully In hand. A heavy soldiers' guard has been placed around the Jail and no one is allowed to enter the jail yard. . Coroner James B. McManus began an Investigation of the shooting or Alexander Halllday this afternoon. Arrests are threatened If he. finds, as. the physicians say, Halliday died lrom the loss of blood and exposure.' Members of company K called an ambulance and Halliday was taken to a hospital. Physicians there said Hal-liday's Hal-liday's wounds were not necessarily mortal aud that bis life probably would have been saved if he had been tkcn from the court house grounds Immediately after he w-as shot Mob Spirit in Past. At night a ruob formed and took .lamr-s from the jail. He was hanged in the public square and his body rld-dlod rld-dlod with bullets. Tho mol, which numbered thousands, thou-sands, also took froti the jail and lynched Henry Sabner, a white man, 'who was held on a charge of wife murder. Governor Deneen rushed state troops to the scene. These rebtoied qnlet, preventing the bnchlng of Arthur Ar-thur Alexander, another negro suspected sus-pected of coniplicrrT in the Pelley murder Tho man wag spirited away to Champaign for sarc keeping and afterward released on proving his Innocence. In-nocence. The people hero nre loudly condemning con-demning the action of Sheriff Nellis In not allowing the body of Halliday to be removed from the court house step, where It lay In the snow for several sev-eral hours, and before Captain W. P. Greaney of Company K finally forced the sheriff to allow him to remove the body. Cairo, 111., Feb. IS Thirty militia-n,e:i militia-n,e:i this morning patrolled In front ol the Alexander county court house, where, shortly helore 1 a. in., Alexander Alexan-der Halliday, leader of a mob attack on the jail, was shot to death by deputy dep-uty sLerlfls, and four others were wounded. llr.lllday, son of a former mayor of . Cairo, lay for three hours d)lng besldo tho court house steps with the tem-pHiature tem-pHiature a few degrees above zero, L:rlng that tlmo Sheriff Nellis. acting en orders received by telephone from Governor Deneen, refused to permit auy one to remove the wounded man or to allow a physician to enter tho c ticlosure. The sheriff say be believed the man was dead. Militiamen, who removed re-moved his body at 4 a. ni.; say it was warm. Indicating that death bad com? but a short time before. The dead: ALEXANDER HALLIDAY. 35 years o'd. dairyman, son of formor Mayor Tbos. W. Halliday of Cairo; wounded In the head -and body. Tho wounded: Sum Teshiner, former policeman, wounded in head and Bhoulders; at St. Mary's Iuflrmary. John MaJoney. brother in law of Mrs. Roao Maloney, whose purse was snatched by one of tho negro prisoners prison-ers sought by the mob; slight wound on cheek. Horton Creban, wounded on ankle. George B. Walker, the Associated Press correspondent, wounded la the letf. Creban was shot when h stopped for a moment to learn what the trouble was about Deputies Are Negroes. Eight of the twelve deputy sheriffs whose shots klUed Halliday and wounded the other wtre negroes. This fact was not definitely known to ihe crowd which rtormed the court house, but it wa suspected, and the husplcicn helped to aroufe the racial feeling. Tho deadly volley which tho sheriff's sher-iff's men fired from the windows of ihe court house was fired in answer to scattering shots from the crowd, and. after tho deputies. In obedience to the sheriffs order, hud fired one volley In the air. One of the bullets fired from th" crowd graced the sheriff's right hand, causing a blood blister. The mob fell bac2 to two saloons adjoining the court house and jail, and remained there until the saloons were closed, shortly after 3 a. m , on an order from Mayor Parsons, caused by a message from the governor at. Springfield. When the men were turned out ef the saloons it was too cold to remain outside, an4 another attack ou the court house was not ventured. Tho militia company, ordered out by the governor at midnight, did not succeed in assembling until 4 a. in., and at that hour the militiamen relieved Wel-1W-.' deputies. The mob attack ou the Jail was the outgrowth .of public indignation over petty crimes by negroes, particularly pursc-f natchlng6 and annoyances to wonieu. History of the Crime. Mrs. Rose Maloney's purse was snatched Wednesday evening. She drew a revolver and fired at the negro, ne-gro, but he ran away with her purse. In her purse was a silver dollar to which a postage stamp had become attached. Mrs. Maloney told the police po-lice of this fact, and when a negro rifTrd such a coin in a store yesterday yester-day he wns arrefted. The negro, John Pratt, confessed he had taken Mrs. Maloney's purse, and, several days ago, that of Mrs. Accord. He said Lincoln Wilson was his accomplice, and Wilson, a negro, was also arrested. Sheriff Nellis hoard talk of lynching lynch-ing in tho afternoon and evening, and at in p. m. called up Governor Deneen at Springfield. At about midnight an order was Kent, to Cairo for Captain Greaney, of the local militia company, to proceed to tho sheriff's aid. Tbore was delay In finding Greaney and In arousing the militiamen. The sheriff called on Mayor Parnous to aid the police. The Mayor said he would order some of Hi" nUht force to assist Nellis, but none of the eight night policemen appeared at tho ronrt bouse. From 10 p. m. until midnight th crowd gathered In the saloons, and lk of lynching fomented Into an attack. at-tack. Mob Did Not See Guards. The Jail wa3 dark, and the mob couirj not. see the sheriff and twelve deputing standing guard with shot-Kuns shot-Kuns at the windows of the two offlcea on either sldo of the main entrance. As ihe crowd rushed toward the s'e-p Sheriff Nellis called loudly "Stand back, or my men will fire "n yoi-V The first four men In ih crowd, Nfills declares, had handkerchiefs over their -rac4-. Nellis drew a revolver re-volver and, xhootlng a command to i fire, Im fird a shot over the heads ol Hip mob. I The drpnfb-s who nad been ordered ' to fire their firsi vollev in tb atr did k'i. A6 lb Found died awoy l-lol l-lol shots Iw.an popnln? from the crowd Mid bullets rell around th sher-IfT. sher-IfT. ! Then came the ce-oud volley. Halliday. Hal-liday. who had Ftrted up the steps n advarce of hi.? fellows, was felled charges from at least two shot-, |