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Show SAVED FROM MOB. Negro Was Hanged and Shot, But Is Still Alive. Dotban, Aln. Tho negro Fmnklln, who was taken away from Sheriff Butler and his deputies and hanged to n trco, Is again In tho hands of the law and stands n chnnco for recovery. Tho mob wns so closoly followed by tho officers and lnw abiding citizens, determined If posslblo to avert tho lynching, thnt they did not hnvo tlmo to got their victim outsldo tho corpornto corpor-nto limits, nnd hurriedly stringing him up to tho first trco nnd thinking thoy had riddled him with bullots, fled. On tho nrrlvnl of tho officers tho nogro was still allvo and wns immediately im-mediately cut down nnd placed In tho county Jail. It Is thought ho will recover. |