Banker’s Slayers Made Their Escape

BANKER'S SLAYERS MADE THEIR ESCAPE

Negro and Chinaman Not Lynched—Mass Meeting Deplores Lawlessness

Clarkesdale, Miss., Oct. 12.—Ed Moy, Chinaman, and Yancey Dean, negro, accused of complicity in the murder of Albert H. Cage, cashier of the Planters' Bank, reported to have been lynched Monday morning, were not killed or lynched, according to reports received here subsequently. The Chinaman after having been pursued by a posse all day crawled on his hands and knees back to town, and the negro, Yancey Dean, accused of having entered the home of the banker, has apparently eluded arrest.

At a mass meeting held here last night mob violence was deplored and the 1,500 people assembled registered their disapproval of blind tigers and took a strong stand for law enforcement. There has been an epidemic of burglaries here recently and this connected with the killing of Sunday night has aroused the ire of the law-abiding element.

After following the trail of the supposed murderer of Albert H. Cage, cashier of the Planters Bank, for about 10 hours, the hound of M. B. Brister came to a halt in the middle of a public road near the McWilliams plantation near the Mississippi River in the lower end of the county. They were taken off for a rest and put on the trail again about two hours later, and when they reached this point in the road they again came to a halt and were unable to find any further trail. The supposition is that the hunted man was picked up by a conveyance and succeeded in making his way to the river and crossed to the Arkansas side. The cane breaks and adjacent territory to where the dogs lost the trail is being thoroughly searched for some trace of the man.

Mr. Cage was interred Monday afternoon in Oak Ridge Cemetery with Masonic honors. Mr. Cage was also a prominent member of the Elks.