Negro Lynched by angry mob

NEGRO LYNCHED BY ANGRY MOB Murderous Attack Is Cause of the Lynching STRUNG UP BY MASKED MEN Negro Had Escaped But Was Recap. tured by Sheriff When Two Hun- dred Men Take Prisoner and Finish His Career. Montgomery, January 19.-A special to the Advertiser from Dothan, Ala., says: Cleveland Franklin, a negro employe of the Southern Cotton Oil company, was lynched here tonight about 8 o’clock by a masked mob of 200 angry citizens. The negro’s body was riddled with bullets after it had been swung from the limb of a tree in the northern part of the town. Franklin shot and seriously wounded A. C. Faulk, secretary and treasurer of the oil company, here last night after he had been caught in the act of robbing the cash drawer at the mill. About 9 o’clock last night, after an ab- sence from the office of a few minutes, Mr. Faulk returned and found the negro on the floor under the cash drawer fum- bling with the combination. He asked the negro, who was in the employ of the mill, what he was doing, and was in- formed that the superintendent had sent him in to do some repair work and began to make other excuses. Mr. Faulk turned to call the superin- tendent and ask for an explanation. The negro, seeing that his ruse would not en- able him to escape, pulled a pistol and fired five times at Mr. Faulk, two of the shots taking effect. The sheriff was notified immediately after the shooting and a posse was organ- ized. A diligent search was made for the negro last night but without result. This morning the sheriff learned that the negro was at Webb, Ala., and later in the morn- ing he was captured there. Franklin was brought back to Dothan by private con- veyance. After putting the team up at the stable and just as the start was made for the jail a mob of 200 men, all masked, swooped down on the sheriff and his posse and forcibly took the prisoner, and ear- ried him to a point a shor distance above the oll mill, whore they strung him to a limb and riddled his body with bullets. The lynching created a great deal of excitement here, but no further trouble is expected. None of the men in the mob were recognized. NEGRO LYNCHED BY ANGRY MOB Murderous Attack Is Cause of the Lynching STRUNG UP BY MASKED MEN Negro Had Escaped But Was Recap. tured by Sheriff When Two Hun- dred Men Take Prisoner and Finish His Career. Montgomery, January 19.-A special to the Advertiser from Dothan, Ala., says: Cleveland Franklin, a negro employe of the Southern Cotton Oil company, was lynched here tonight about 8 o’clock by a masked mob of 200 angry citizens. The negro’s body was riddled with bullets after it had been swung from the limb of a tree in the northern part of the town. Franklin shot and seriously wounded A. C. Faulk, secretary and treasurer of the oil company, here last night after he had been caught in the act of robbing the cash drawer at the mill. About 9 o’clock last night, after an ab- sence from the office of a few minutes, Mr. Faulk returned and found the negro on the floor under the cash drawer fum- bling with the combination. He asked the negro, who was in the employ of the mill, what he was doing, and was in- formed that the superintendent had sent him in to do some repair work and began to make other excuses. Mr. Faulk turned to call the superin- tendent and ask for an explanation. The negro, seeing that his ruse would not en- able him to escape, pulled a pistol and fired five times at Mr. Faulk, two of the shots taking effect. The sheriff was notified immediately after the shooting and a posse was organ- ized. A diligent search was made for the negro last night but without result. This morning the sheriff learned that the negro was at Webb, Ala., and later in the morn- ing he was captured there. Franklin was brought back to Dothan by private con- veyance. After putting the team up at the stable and just as the start was made for the jail a mob of 200 men, all masked, swooped down on the sheriff and his posse and forcibly took the prisoner, and ear- ried him to a point a shor distance above the oll mill, whore they strung him to a limb and riddled his body with bullets. The lynching created a great deal of excitement here, but no further trouble is expected. None of the men in the mob were recognized.