Show r NEGRO FLAYED ALIVE west virginians wreak horrible ven geande on negro brute the little town of devon mingo county west virginia was the scene saturday of the assaulting of a little 14 year old girl by a negro followed by bis his subsequent lynching by an en raged mob numbering over men the negro who was caught in the act of committing the crime was tied fo 0 a post his clothing torn from his body and pins tacks pen knives and every conceivable weapon of torture was stuck into the skin of the negro as he struggled vainly pleading tor for bis his life he was allowed to suffer a hundred deaths with his body bleeding in a 4 thousand places the almost lifeless form of his lit tie tle victim was then placed before the glaring eyes of the brute while will ing hands cut the tongue from his swollen mouth his cries became incoherent and before the enraged citizens could be checked the skin was literally c cut ut from his body and distributed among the villagers he died with his eyes on the little girl whose life he had ruined his heart was then cut out with jackknives his toes and fingers chopped off and carried away as me his bloody and mangled form was then soaked with kerosene ke roseno and fired |