People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — Missouri Lynchers Foiled. [ARTICLE]

Missouri Lynchers Foiled.

Mexico, Mo., July 25.—Emmet Divers, the negro who murdered Mrs. John Cain, of Callaway county, after he had assaulted her, was captured Tuesday night. It was learned yesterday that a posse of citizens of Callaway were coming here for the purpose of lynching Divers. To prevent this Sheriff Stephens quietly slipped the negro out of jail and took him to St. Louis.