Show AWFUL VENGEANCE OF ALABAMA MOB negro at tl e stake attel III crima with agonizing screams and his eye bulging from his head john wesley pennington a negro was burned at the stake near enterprise ala bedfor a crowd of enraged and determined citizens of offee county wednesday ahe was composed 0 both white and black and though the suffering wretch pleaded for and fratic ally endeavored to break the chain that tightly bound him not a trace ol 01 sympathy was shown on the face that peered at through the flames pennington had committed a brutal assault upon mrs J davia wife ot one of the most prominent farmers ot coffee conaty and confessed his guilt the crime was committed tuesday afternoon while mrs bavis was gath eang vegetables in her garden she was choked into insensibility and left lying in the garden As soon as she regained her senses mrs davis crawled to the house and told her husband what had happened A large posse was quickly organized with bloodhounds and they chased the negro until early wednesday morning when he was captured in a swamp pennington was bound hand and foot and taken back to the davis home for identification he was and confessed pleading for mercy lie was carried into the woods nearby wt ere an iron take had been set into the ground bound fast to it surrounded by piles at dried brush which was ignited he died cursing his tormentors and in fit een minutes was |