People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — Lynchers Were Without a Leader. [ARTICLE]

Lynchers Were Without a Leader.

Cairo, 111., Sept. 5. —There arrived here about midnight Tuesday night about thirty men from Anna, 111., who came, ft is said, to lynch John Jones, in jail here charged with the murder of Mrs. Mendenhall at Anna about a week since. He was brought here the night of the murder for safe keeping. The mob seemed to lack a leader. Sheriff Miller and his deputies were on guard, which doubtless had a cooling effect on the mob, who returned to their homes on the early train in the morning.