| Show BIIHNED AT THE STAKE ManHunt in Texas Ends in Tragedy NEGRO IS ROASTED ALIVE Tbrhurcd In a Slow and Barbarous Manner His Eyes Are First Burned Out Flaming Brands Applied Ap-plied to His Neck and Other Portions Por-tions of His Body Ho Begged to bo Shot Woman Whom He Assaulted As-saulted Accompanied by Four Other Women Saw Cremation ai Longview Tex May 22A manhunt which had been In progress since last Saturday ended today in lie burning at the stake of Dudley Morgan colored who assaulted Idrs McKee wife of a Texas Pacific section foreman at Lansing Tex When It was learned that the jicgro had been captured and was being taken to Lansing the excitement excite-ment of the people knew no bounds MOB IS FORMED By 11 oclock this morning great crowds had gathered at lie Lansing switch and arrangements were made to burn the negro Just before 11 oclock the train bearing the prisoner and hIs captors arrived In Marshall and was met by a great crowd of people peo-ple Many boarded the train at Hall vllle and when It arrived at Lansing every available place on it was occupied occu-pied Waiting at Lansing was another large crowd from Longview and the surrounding country GUNS STOP TRAINMEN The negro was not taken from hue train on the side where the crowd was and when the engineer slartcd to pull nut several Winchesters were levelled at him and others of the train crew They wcro told If they moved thr train an inch they would all be killed NEGRO IDENTIFIED The prisoner was Identified by Mrs McKec und several men who worked on the section Mrs McKee said they had the I right man and the negro was escorted by about 200 men armed with Winchesters to the place of execution CONFESSED HIS CRIME As he was chained to the stake ho made a statement In which he implicated impli-cated another negro named Franklin Beard saying Beard was to get part of tho money which war to be stolen Morgan confessed to having committed the crime HURNEDOUT HIS BYES After he had been securely chained to the stake or rail with his hands and legs tied members of the mob began to take railroad ties from a u fire already started and burn out his eyes HORRIBLE TORTURE They then held redhot and burning timbers to his neck and after burning his clothes off to other parts of his body The negro screamed in agony lie was tortured In a slow and painful manner mannerWOMEN WOMEN IN THE CROWD With the crowd clamoring for a slow death the negro writhing and groaning begged pIteously to be shot Mrs McKce was brought to the scene In a carriage accompanied by four other women and an effort was made to get the carriage close enough for her to see the negro The crowd was so dense however that this was impossible im-possible Persons held each other on their shoulders taking turns about looking at the awful sight GRUESOME SEARCH FOR RELICS The recjyjte head finally dropped and the tics pe piled around and over luau Ijh lilt an hour only the trunk of his bcfijF remained As noon as tho heat would permit the crowd with long sticks began a gruesome search for relics Parts of his skull and body were gathered up by some and carried away PHOTOGRAPHED OVER FIRE As the fire died down the crowd took the two men who first caught the negro and held them over their heads while they held their Winchesters In lick hands and were photographed MAN CHASERS CHEEllED From the lime the first lire was applied ap-plied to the negros body until the dying embers alone were left the crowd yelled and cheered for the men who had chased the negro HUSBAND LIGHTED FAGGOTS Section Foreman McKee husband of the woman assaulted applied the match lo thin faggots Many women were present from lie surrounding country but owing to the great crush they had very little opportunity to seethe see-the negro until the heat forced the crowd to widen the circle and tho names leaped over him FORCED TO STOP TRAIN The railroads brought crowds of people peo-ple to Longvlew Junction where they boarded the Texas Pacific fast train which does not ordinarily stop at Lansing Lan-sing The engineer was forced at the point of a Winchester to stop at the scene of the lynching however and the mob disembarked |
