Ogden Morning Examiner and Morning Standard | 1909-06-27 | Page 8 | Negro Lynched by Mob of Forty Masked Men

I NEGRO LYNCHED BY MOB OF FORTY MASKED MEN EN Okla June Tunc Iun mob moh of or forty fotr men man n took Sylvester r n a L 1 1 negro known as u Alabama Red froze from the tho jail here today and lynched him The negro nero on Thursday had I Hl shot and killed Albert Turner a n deputy consta constable ble lle who had attempted to arrest him The sheriff was out of town and the tho night Watchman atchman was temporarily ab sout from the jail Members 1 of time the mob 1101 cut the telephone anti and electric wires vires to lo prevent Interference then thea broke open the door of jail mu with out Omit opposition and hanged the negro from a telegraph tele raph polo In front of tho the jail Without firing a they the then theu disappeared quietly