Show BURNED AT filE Sf AlE Awful Punishment Meted Out to a Negro Who Had Committed a Most Horrible Crime s Husband of Victim of the Colored Fiend Applies Torch to the Fuel Which Reduced the Body to AshesCrime Committed in the Afternoon Perpetrator Cremated at MidnightSccne of Crime and Lyrrchlng in Electric Georgia I I Wetumpka Ala Oct Winfield Townsend alias Floyd a negro was burned at the stake In the little town of Electric fifteen miles from this place a halfhour after midnlght this morning The negros crime was an attempted assault on Mrs Lonnie Harrington Har-rington whose husband set fire 16 the fuel which reduced Townsends body to ashes HORRIBLE CRIME ATTEMPTED Yesterday afternoon at 1 1 oclock the I I negro who was a nephew pf the negro I Floyd hanged a week ago for an attempted at-tempted assault attempted toassault Mrs Harrington Mr Harrlngtpu was at a cotton gin in Electric Ills home Bone B-one mile out of town The negro came to the house and told Mrs Harrington that her husband had sent him to get 20 cents from her She tojd him she had no change WOMAN SAVED BY NEGRO I Then the negro left but returned In about ten minutes The womans screams were heard by BQb Nlcholls a I negro who was passing along the road at the line lie ran to the house in time to sec the negro escape As soon as Mrs Harrington was restored re-stored to consciousness Nicholls gave the alarm The news spread rapidly All the stores at Electric were Instantly Instant-ly closed the ginneries and sawmills Kliut down the people left their wagons In the road and their ploughs in the field and gathered for u pursuit oClho negro > The crowd divided some scouring the woods near the scene of the crime mil others going to the penitentiary for 1 bloodhounds The dogs Were takctv tv 4 I where the nerros trades disappeared and an exciting chase ensued The dogs stopped finally at a tree in front of Odions store on the north outskirts of Electric The crowd coming up soon discovered the negro sitting on a limb He was brought down at once and taken to he scene of his crime There he was con fronted by his Victim who Identified him Word was sent to the others other-s parties that the negro had I been found PREPARATIONS TO KILL HIM About 11 oclock a crowd of several hundred was In the little village The negro was taken to the edge of the village and preparations for his death were quickly made A rope was flung over the limb of a big oak and a hun dred men stood ready to swing him up Then a halt was called and the manner man-ner of death was discussed by the mob A vote was taken and the balloting showed a majority of tho rrowd to favor death at the stake The stake was prepared and the negro wa bound to It with chains HUSBAND APPLIES TORCH Pine knots were piled about him and the flames were started by the husband of his victim As they leaped to the negros flesh ho uttered wild cries to God for mercy and luMp The crowd looked on jcaf to his cries ard In an hour the negro was educed to ashes CONFESSED HIS CRIME Townsend before being bound confessed con-fessed the crime and said he was also implicated with Alexander Floyd who waf hanged two weeks ngo for an attempted at-tempted > assault on MIwi Kate Pearson l1c salt he and Floyd had planned other crimes of like character |