Show NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE black fiend confesses to cutting throat of young woman husk texas leonardo johnson a negro charged with killing miss maud redding a young white woman on Aton monday day wits was burned at the at stake ake by a mob monday night sheriff norwood and a posse were en route here with the negro when they were overpowered by a mob at lone ione star near the home of the mur dered dared woman securing the negro who was pleading for his life the mob composed of more than men and boys dragged him a short distance from the town there it la Is stated he confessed he had murdered miss alias redding the negro was waa then tied lied to a stake and after brush had been piled high around him the torch was applied disregarding the pleading of johnson the fire was fed until lie ho was dead miss alias redding had left her home en route to lone star about noon T two wa hours later her body with her throat cut from ear to ear was found in a dense wood a short distance from the town |