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Show NEGRO BU RIMED AT STAKE. Punishment Me'e Out to Black Fiend by Texans. Rockwell. Tex. After having been identified by Mrs. Arthur McKinney as the negro who attacked her Friday morning, Anderson Ellis was taken from the Rockwell county jail here, tied to an iron stake driven into the earth, and was burned to death in the presence of about a thousand persons. Earlier in the evening. Will Clark, a negro, was shot and killed when his father. Andrew Clark, refused to allow al-low a posse to search his premises, on the assumption that Ellis was concealed con-cealed there. The burning occurred in the public square. Early Friday morning Mrs. McKin. ney went into her back yard, and was seized by Ellis. She fought desperately desper-ately ami the negro, running away, called that he would murder her should she tell of the attack. |