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Show NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE. Northern Mob Executes a Negro for Murder of Girl. A northern mob, led by a Virginian, burned a negro at the stage Monday night within a few miles above the Mason and Dixon line at Wilmington, Delaware. The victim was George F. White, a negro, just out of the work house, who was accused of having feloniously fe-loniously assaulted and stabbed to death Miss Helen S. Bishop, the 17-year-old daughter of Rev. Dr. E. A. Bishop. The prison authorities attempted to prevent the lynching, and, when the mob came for the man, poured a volley into the crowd, several being Injured. The mob finally overpowered the jailer, however, and took the negro to the scene of his crime, where he was burned at the stake, after having confessed con-fessed his crime. There wore many negroes confined In the prison whore White was secured, but none of them were molested by Hie mob. |