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Show BLOODY BATTLE WITH MOB. f Deputy Sherlffa Firs Upon Men Who ' Try to Lynch Negro. Cairo. Ill In a pitched battle early Thursday morning a mob thai aoiight tn lynch ft negro charged with purae matching and twenty deputy sheriff, whu ure guarding the J11II, several member, of Ihe mob were stint down 111 an attempt lo rush tho J11II. The number of the Injured la unknown, the estimate, varying between two und eleven. There nre three negroes In the Jail. One, John Prutt, waa arreated on churge of anutchlng puraea from women. wo-men. He waa Immediately Indicted by Ihe grand Jury and It Is believed th mob was alter him. CTmIiu hna liwn In ! of Hirwt since Ihe murder was discovered, on November 9, of Miss Annie Pelley, ft I shop girl, w ho was alleged to have been alaln by Will James, negro. After ft long rhaso through Alexander and adjoining counties, a mob captured cap-tured Jiiuie., taking him from the custody cus-tody of Sheriff Davis. The negro was taken 10 Cairo nnd hanged In tho public pub-lic aquare. |
