Show COLORADO RAPIST BURNED AT THE STAKE breeton porter wio and nd mor mar dord ru an 11 1 orold or old alil girl ut meets an n A ful for fate preston porter Port erthe tile 16 year old ne naro ro I 1 bo assaulted and murdered 11 year old old louise louisa frost I 1 roal at al limon colo recen recently win was burned at tile stake on the tha cl cal spot pot where lie le committed the crime saturday evening the sheriff kli crift of lincoln county started with porter for tile alic county jail 11 bt at lingo hugo but ill clr attain as boarded at limon by a determined mol dinou of men who took porter from tile sheriff herlof and took him to the scene of ills hla crime an iron stake had been firmly act ct in the ground to vi aich porter was bound with wi th chaing atler after having knelt in silent prayer hoards boards were piled around the negro saturated falu rated with kerosene and when all was in readiness read inea R IV frost father of the murdered mui dered girl ci applied a lighted match porter turned his bis head bead and an awful expression changed ills his face with a sudden au adden convulsive tugging he be stretched ills head bead far from the rapidly increasing flames and uttered a cry of pain oh ohl my god let TUO me go men ive got something more to tell youl you plenta please lot let me go oil oh my oil od my god jo in terrible these words worda the ilia first he had uttered aloud ca came m e from the negro A terrible tugging at the chains a succession of awful groans and hc be reams the degroa awful agony WUK was at last breaking brcak inc down hi his sullen not an oath escaped him but lie he and pleaded to be shot no attention was paid to his bl appeal and he wet was permitted to suffer until i nature came to his relief an inquest was held on the few bones that were ere not consumed umed the verdict was that porter rame came to his death at hands bands of persons unknown |