Show WOOD WAS TOO WET WEL WHY way THREE NEGROES WERE NOT KOT BURNED louisiana mob reconsidered iasin its intention tent lon and contented itself with hanging three alleged murderers amite city la jan rothree SO 20 Three norro murderers ar aro dead arch joiner and john johnson Joh naon who at the last moment momen men t confessed their guilt of 0 killing I 1 the cotton family larn lly and cus williams villas alias Morr lasey who shot and killed his young wife the bodies of tile the two former filing bans to lo it 11 limb out lit in tile the woods woodi about halt half a mile irom from the ili e houge in ili which they butchered thol their was lethrim the last negroes neff roa body ass out cut down a little while ago anti and oil an inquest held over it last night about men lode 1010 lulu toil lov n and first securing the keys to tho the jail from deputy nv I 1 light took the three negroes from jail tied their hands und and with ionic topes lopes attached to their necks led them away the captives were taken to the little zion alon church on oak street in this place and there was banged to a tree that did duty before a As a gallows allows johnson Johnf ton slid and joiner were brought to amate city from new orl ans bestel yesterday to 0 o plead to indictments indictment and after a li hearing carin remand t I 1 without hall bill during the day citizens cit lena called at tho the jail red and joannon marte made a confession cont confes slon lie he wild said he always liked tho the cotton colto family mid and would not love harmed them had it not been for or the fact that lie he wan av hull led lie he artner himself with in an fix ax not lot to hurt tile the people peaple in the house hut but to their he had been told to 16 watch tho the door the murder Joli nuton said wan wa tile tho girl maud miller whose mother mrs cotton whipped her for allowing atten attention tiong thin was tile tho only motive he knew for the crime lie said ac L arch joiner shot cotton 11 then ten tr u ck marvin stephens son at 0 M lr to anna stephens with tin an wc ax on oil the fore i head bond joiner finished the men then went into tho the loom occupied by MM I 1 stephens Steph cna mrs airs boton and lizzle 1111 ter and killed tho three women OFF TO THE LYNCHING when independence waa mas beached leached 86 halt was made by the lyach lym hers ers and those ulic v ho gi filvin kin opportunity port unity to bee the live negi cles after alch aich the ilic march resumed ned in lna ina a south 0 beily direction front froni cc when V adien A athin two allies inalea ot of tho the dence formerly occupied by the cotton family tho the crowd not hot up a 0 yell just juht before the cotton place K a ff cw v line of nearer my god to thee the were humme to a doleful tone arrivi n g at tho the place where tile tho five i jero committed commit teA johnson and joiner were made to jump out of the joiner lad had loosened tile the top rope on oil ills his hands and made a daring break fox for freedom lie ife rot got off a few feet when tell some ne grabbed him others rushed to the rescue and he was soon subdued and a top rope placed around his neck joiner set up a piteous moan and begged to bo be shot lie he requested to be permitted to fight johnson saving johnson johndon h had gotten hini him into all tile the trouble johnson signified his de cle site elic to tight fight and the were i given an opportunity unity to punch ench each other johnson Joh nyon though much smaller than joiner put up ug a good tight and dealt joiner some hard blows the men wore were separated and taken into different or of the house boune and under threats of torture joiner was asked to tell all lie he knew about the th cotton murders he stoutly denied having ever seen john johnson before and denied having any knowledge as to who did the killing finally by a hafl torture and more threats joiner admitted that ho he came to tho the fence tile the night of 0 the murders mur dera but no nearer tile house in ili the meantime another squad quad had johnson off getti gettier nr its his confession confos confes ilon nIon ile II 11 maintained maintain that joiner was the ansti fator of oc the whole plot BURNING BUG SUGGESTED some one suggested putting to death by burning them nearly every one acquiesced in this llila suggestion and thice big bi ores were ti arted LarIed one for the men who nho were all wet to dry their clothes by and tile the others presumably ter for the of burning the negroes most of the men wore nore eager to burn bum johnron anyway and it la Is generally believed that he was visa put on the fire for a or two but others othera pleaded for him and the was changed n j the associated press representative I 1 desiring to get ct c t the latest news to tb the newest telegraph station by 3 in the morning did not remain to see the execution but was as assured that joiner would be shot to death and johnson burned it was waa 2 15 45 when this decision was at reached knit and the correspondent started tor for the n ph office orenco four miles oft off over a wet and perv road As AB soon eoon as na the mesa message a its was waa filed fulcd lie he galloped back and fou found nd that the mode made of de death th had bad been suddenly changed to h gang for both at this time the degroo brought face to face alth fill each other and joiner owned lit lip saying that he had killed hilled john cotton cotlon and johnson reiterated his 11 t I 1 onic aslon made when lift h was waa cauchy nu glit that he hall d aim cotton mine acnes miller and lizzle willer miller neti nettier neither I 1 1 or nf them implicated any v litto inan jat ast night but did implicate other no ile groes after this statement by tho the riel croes tho the moll conveyed them amov eral cral hundred yards yarda from tho the cotton residence and hanged them side by side de and fired a volley into lal their bodies head vaa mas tilmont hot orf off and johnson Joh jon wa was wai i filled with bullets in their confession confes Blon johnson slid joiner said that two lection band I 1 working near we a there ther I 1 wid took part dart in fit the murdena their object waa aa robbery as aa they believed the old man cotton had bad money in the bouse no was advanced wt eliy Y they did not kill ala mla maud zoti amle 1 they mere killing lie he rest real it fi 1 e riall that the two rie groes tile implicated william boll bell nud and charloa chark a brooks loft left independence the lay day a efte ere tho file coi cottons tons were murdered anil and have not tl n hourd heard of since sico |