Show ANOTHER VICTIM OF MOB SPIRIT ONE KILLED IN ILLINOIS I RACE RIOT Leader of Attack on Jail Falls Before I Deputies Deputies' Bullets J i TROUBLE AFTERMATH f OF JAMES LYNCHING Cairo Jail Now Guarded by byI I Company of State Troops CAIRO Ill Feb 18 Thirty Thirty militiamen militia militia- men en this morning patrolled in front of the r-the the Alexander county courthouse where shortly before 1 I a. a m m. Alexander Halliday Halli- Halli day leader of a- a amob I. I mob attack on the r jail jaU was shot to to death by deputy sher- sher L iffs and four others were wounded Halliday son Ion of a former maJor of j Cairo airo lay Jay for three hours dying vinz beside t the e courthouse steps with the tempera tempera- F ea a few dt degrees above zero Durin During that hat time Sheriff Nellis acting on or- or Jer er Deceived br by telephone from Cover Cover- or r Deneen refused to permit anyone remove the woun wounded ed man or to aw ala al- al a- a w a p to 10 enter the in closure The sh sheriff says he believed the tho man manis is dead Militiamen l who removed his at 4 a. a m m. says it was warm in- in leSting that death had but a hort ort time before The D Dead ALEXANDER LJ ss years d dairyman son of ot Mayor LayOl omas AV Halliday of at Cairo wounded head aud body lIe a n ct former former policeman pol leman in head and shoulder houlder at att M. M I ry's rys infirmary h m aw of Ir I h h I fe t hs as s 1 11 one of the negro O sought by tn r t mob 1 slight wound on cheek k orton Crehan wounded on ec rge B. B Walker alker tho Associated Tress Press respondent wounded In the leg was shot when n h ho stopped for moment to learn what the trouble was bout out f Eight of the twelve c deputy sheriffs of f shots hots killed Halliday and wounded Be e. e oth s 's were ere negroes This fact was pt t. t definitely Known to the crowd which ormed tho tho courthouse but It was was su It d and tho suspicion f helped to arouse Be racial radal Defenders Defenders' Deadly Volley he deadly deally volley which the sheriffs sheriff's I fired from th the windows In of the courte court court- e was fired Jn In answer answel to scattering k is from ac crowd crowd and after the In obedience to the sheriffs sheriff's order fired one v volley Jy Jn In the air ne of the bullets t fired from the Jow lied ed tho sheriffs sheriff's right hand hand causing blister Th The mob fell back bak to two saloons ad- ad the courthouse and jail and reIned re re- fined Ined there until the saloons were geed shortly after 3 a. a m. m on an order f m Major 1 Parsons caused b by a message m the governor at Springfield hen the men were turned out of ot tIle the It was ton old cold to remain outside a. a another attack on the courthouse was Jt 1 ventured The militia company or- or red ared out by the governor at midnight I Ed not t succeed In assembling until 1 a. a u and at that hour the militiamen le- le fd Nellis' Nellis deputies I Tie e mob attack on the Jail was the growth of public indignation over o r ty crimes b bv negroes de and annoyances to ien row Out of Purse Snatching Irs IrE Rose laJon l ys purt-e purt was JIW Wednesday evening She drew revolver and fired at tho negro but he n away with her bpI purse In her purse a. a silver er dollar donar to which a post postage p had be become ome attached l Ir Mrs J y th hI police pollee of this fact and when negro offered sui sUh h a coin oln In a store I he was W arrested Hie e told negro t. t John Pratt tont confessed that had taken Mrs Maloney's purse and iY-fral iY days al asro O that of Mrs Accord He Id Lincoln Wilson was his accomplice II H un n. n negro was a If iso arr sted Nellis heard talk of ot lynching In Afternoon and evening and Ii at t 10 p p. p m. m lift up Governor Deneen a at t Springfield It t midnight an order was sent Caire for Captain Gre Greaney of the loX lo- lo X militia company to proceed to the ills ill's ad There was dola delay In finding no nev and In ar arousing th sheriff called on Mayor layor Par Par- for aM from the police The Tho mayor d d' d he be would order some of ot the night to assist Nellis hut but none of the t nl night ht policemen appeared at nt the house houlle tack on Jail t om 10 p p. p m m. until lack vJ In the saloons saloon midnight the and aud talk Synching fomented Into an attack The WaH ia dark the moh h herff an and twelve twel deputies could coul 3 not nee lee standing 1 with shotguns at the windows two Vo of 0 on cither r side sille of ot the mal main ftp fhe rushed toward tailed loudly the step Ops' Ops und t 1 hack back or 01 my men will iII fire on first four l 1 men n In the Nel- Nel ires had handkerchiefs over their N Nellis lIIs drew a 11 11 01 and lint a a. command to fire he file r o the heads ads of the mob a 10 e deputies who had b been en 1 ho died volle volley away In pistol the all air shots shot did dido eo to popping from the crowd and be- be I around the bullets I Is Killed cam cann volley olly Halli- Halli ft who had hac start started up the steps in len ance of his fellows was w-as felled d bv by I from at least Ip two nc tho over f railing of the tvS and la lav In the snow The I fn hurriedly U rJ I none of f the others wounded In too serious gu guf ct condition di i n to I 0 saloon the wounds of the fou- fou i vere re end and Sheriff ned up by telephone want to send over oer and g t that ho o I hi there said a 11 voice t come until Ive I've tall talked to nor s said Id and he can t i up Springfield He toM toH Governor Go D n neen en that the man JUlin In the snow now was vas dead as h believed him to he he and if It he hG should the bod body y to 10 be moved moed re re- re The o advised him ellis Nellis says to walt wait until the militia came cam and to take no chances on a ruse which might result In a renewal of the mobs mob's attack attack- So o when the next age manage cams cam from saloon Nellis his hi questioner the that every evory one must keep away Tames James Case OAKA The mob spirit spirit has b s ne never d died d. d here her since the murder of ot Miss 1 Annie a R. shop girl November 11 last by hy Pelle Pelley a no- no which gro was followed by the lynching of a a. ne negro o and a white man The body hody of Miss lIss Pelley had foun found 1 In an aile alley She had bad been been tacked and murdered at attacked at- at William 1 James a II negro n-gro was arrested on suspicion after aner a hunt I Ifor for the murderer In which used d were werf us At t night ht a R. mob formed and took James TanH'S I from the jail He was WUI in th the I public square quare and hi body hOdy riddled with bl bullets The 1 mob which n numbered thousands al also o tool took from the jail and l h Jf n a white min who was held charge of wife murder on a Governor Deneen rushed tate state troops to the scene These The quiet and prevented the lynching of or Arthur Alex ander another ne negro ro suspected of ot corn corn- in the P Policy murder The man iwas a away ay to Champaign for for safo sarti keeping and released on ing his Compan K has hall relieved ed Sheriff Nellis and aud has haM matters fully In hand A heavy guard of or soldiers has Ion been placed d around tho jail and aud no one Is III a allowed to en enter ter the ja jail II yard Man Died From Exposure Coroner James B. B McManus Ic began an I Investigation atlon of the thc shooting of Alexandr Alex Alex- I ander andr d. d this afternoon Arrests I arc threatened if It he as oj the phy phy- say that Halliday died from the tho Io lor I ss of blood and exposure Members of company K called ailed an ambulance am am- and Halliday was taken to a hos s I pita pital Physicians there paid Mid Halliday's wounds were not necessarily mortal and that hi his life probably could have ha been saved sa If he had ben been taken from the courthouse grounds Immediately after he W WAS bI Tho people here are loudly condemning the thet action of ot Sheriff Sherler Nellis In not allow allow- ing ng the body ody of oC II to be removed from tle courthouse st step where It la lay In he 11 now for ow tor se e se eral 1 hour bOuT before Cap Cap- P. P Gr of I K finally g tb o no ej lit |