Show COLORADO RAPIST BURNED AT THE STAKE preiton reston borter who assaulted end and mur dered an I 1 11 I 1 lear old girl girt meet an awful pate fate preston porter the 16 year old negro who assaulted and murdered 11 year old louise frost at limon colo recently was burned at the stake on the ident cal spot where he crime saturday evening tl TI e sheriff ot of lincoln county started with porter for the county jal jail at hugo but the tra n as boarded at limon bj a determined mob of men who took porter from the cheriff and tool him to tl e scene of his big clime an iron stal e had been firmly set in the ground to which porter was bound with cha ns na after having knelt in s lent prayer boards were piled around the begio sa saturated with kerosene and when all was in read ness R W frost father of the murdered girl applied a lighted match porter turned his head and an awful express on changed his face anith ith a sudden convulse ve tugging he be stretched his head far f aiom i om tte rapidly increase ing fla nes des and uttered a cry of pain oh oli my god let roe me go men I 1 ve got something more to tell youl please let me go oh my god goa my godi godl I 1 in terrible screeches creeches cree ches these words ain the first he be had bad uttered aloud came from the negro A terrible tugging at the chains a succession of awful groans and screams the negro negros s awful agony was at last breaking down his sullen composure not an oath ed him but he be begab I 1 and pleaded to be shot to no attention was n as paid to his appeal and he be was permitted to suffer until nature came to his big relief an inquest was held on the few bones that were not consumed the verdict was that porter came to his death at I 1 ands of persons un known |