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Show IN HAKDSJF IB TWO MEN EXECUTED BY ENRAGED EN-RAGED CITIZENS AND THIRD HAS A NARROW ESCAPE. Negro 8layer of White Girl Hanged, Riddled With Bullets and Burned, While Whlto Prisoner Is Taken " From Jail and Hanged. Cairo, Ills. This city was at tho mercy of a mob on Thursday, two mon being executed by mombers of an Inturlatod and blood-thirsty mob, while- a third escaped with his life owing to tho fact that ho was not caught. "Froggy" James, a noaro, confessed murderer of Annlo Polloy, was hanged riddled with bullots and bumod after a thousand determined mon hnd chased Shorlff Davis iind tho nogro for twenty-four hours and seized tho prisoner. pris-oner. Henry Salznor, whlto, hold for uxor-cldo, uxor-cldo, was later taken from a steel coll In tho county Jnll and hanged and shot by tho Infuriated men, who up to that tlmo woro unsuccessful in capturing cap-turing Arthur Alexander, a nogro, Implicated Im-plicated by James as an accoippllco In tho slaying of Miss Pelley. Alexandor was at last found by the pollco who succeeded in eluding tho mob by a niBO. With tho arrival, later In tho day, o armed troops, further rioting was avoided. Tho four thousand men roaming tho streets up until daybreak had access to many salobnB which remained re-mained open all night. Mayor Parsons and tho chief of pollco woro unable to closo tho saloons bocauso thoy woro shut up at homo by tlio mon. Soldiers of tho Cairo mllltla finally wont to guard tho homes of tho municipal muni-cipal ofTlcers and kept tho rioters In Bomo restraint. Jamos waB lynched In the most prominent smiaro of tho city aim hung to tho nrch at Eighth anu commercial com-mercial strcotB. Women present wero tho first to pull tho rope. . When it broke, tho frenzy of tho mob was uncontrollable, and thoy fired volloy after volloy Into tho body, shooting him to pieces. Tho mob thon drugged tho body ovor tho streets for more than a mllo, to tho Bcono of tho murder, where It was burned. |