Show HUSBAND SET FIRE TO THE FAGGOTS Young Negro Burned at the Stake in Texas Confessed to the Crime of Assault Assaul and Was Identified by His Victim j jI I rORT r Or WORTH Tex Tes Sept Sent 7 iA A Ar r F r special to the Record from fr rn Wax Va tells of the tim burning to tonight tonIght tonight night of at Steve Davis a young oung negro who confessed to outraging Mrs S P Norris Norrie aged 20 last Saturday A consisting Ing of persons tied the negro to a a piece of gas pipe pitie that had been baen set ast l in the ground piled pied fagots around him and set the mass ma on onfre fire fre The sufferings of the tho negro were of short duration owing to the fierce fierceness ness nest or of the fire fre which was fanned by a I gale of wind which blew i across acoss the th prairie Husband Lighted the Fire The husband of the woman vonan is said to I have set let the match to the tinder and started the blaze that consumed tHe tle negro Davis D was arrested last Tuesday and taken takE before the woman omon who at that time was vae wa not sure fure it I was he She had been ben ill I Today he was again taken before the who on sight of him f In tod Confessed His Crime When she ahe she Identified him and his fate was sealed The Then negro n r finally confessed conr ed detailing the crime rime This la is f the third negro that has been burned in this section acton of of Texas Teas within a short time One of those these thoe was as lynched Inched at Sulphur Springs and another at Waco Reo |