Show BURNED ATTHLSTAKE Mobs Horrible Work at a Louisiana I Town f NEGRO RAVISHERS FATE > WAS CHAINED TO A POST AND BUHNED TO DEATH i A Thousand People Witnessed the Sickening SightProminent Lawyers Law-yers Made Speeches Warning the 11 Negroes PresentArkansas Mob Hangs and Riddles a Negro I 1 Dallas Tex June 3A special to the News from Shreveport La says A thousand people gathered at Doyline on the Vicksburg Shreveport Pacific railroad about IS miles from here to witness the burning at the stake of William Street a negro who brutally outraged Mrs Parish The crime was committed on the night of May 30 The people erected a post near the railroad track near the town and laid the light wood and kindling saturated with coal oil preparatory to chaining Street to the post Street is a negro about 28 years of age He confessed the crime to a colored col-ored minister but said a colored minister min-ister named John Rhodes was implicated impli-cated When going to the stake he looked frightened but refused to have anything to say He was tied to jthe stake and uttered not a word as the crackling flames shot up in succession above his head The tlames were started at 1 oclock AL It was a sickening sight which lasted fL ten minutes when Street was a charred mass I Well known lawyers made speeches warning the crowd of negroes that such crimes would not be tolerated in a civilized civ-ilized community The woman whom Street assaulted is ina most critical conditionand could not identify Street when caught until doctor held open her eye lids |