| Show NEGRO BUR JED AT STAKE ras r penalty for assault ing U oman charles young a negro charged with assaulting and afterwards murdering mrs fret edward lewis at a white woman 1 was bu burned rood a al L forest ci city ty A ark rk by a mob of 0 infill idled citizens cili zeni sheriff W E williams every effort against this extreme measure lie fie had telephoned to judge 11 ot of that thai district who lud had to 10 corne come the next day and give ive immediate trial to the negro and the llie leaders ailers lc of the llie mob had given tile llie bli crill positive pledges pled te that tiey th ey vitald await the llie trial arid and take no violent measures about 30 u 0 clock a mob marched to the jail the keys deputy sheriff undertook to toloai com muoi musicale caLe with sheriff williams whereupon members of the mob forcibly took the cell icess aej from froin murphy Murp liy and breaking brea liing in the cell door with sledge hammers dragged tile llie prisoner from his cell sheriff ahlum lH lum had arrived in the meantime his protests being unheeded the mob took the negro to ft a point about half a mile east of town bound him piled wood mound him and set fire to it the negro begged piteously for his life but the mob turned deaf ears in a short time lime the flames leaped up aud and lie he expired in the presen presence ct of the se several hundred men composing the lite mob after young had been put to death dealt the mob started in quest of another negro alleged to have been implicated in tile the killing of mrs lewis but was unable to find him |
