Show A NE NIM BURN jm ME terribly tortured Cor a mad mob 9 HIS FRIGHTFUL CRIME he TTO ravished lavished Ravi shed and ana tore in in twain a little girl other crimes Tex feb 1 henry smith the negro ravisher of four foar year old myr ie vance has ex expiated in part his hia awful crime by death at the stake ever aiace the i of his terrible crime the city and tho the entire surround ing in country has been in a wild frenzy 0 excitement ex when the news came last night that he ha had bein be in captured a at hope ark and identified the city was wild ft ild with joy over the it sion of the brute hundreds of people poured into the city from the adjoining country and wort word was passed from lip to lip that the pan ish of tile the fiend should be death by fire the whisky chops were closed and unruly men were dispersed schools were dismissed by a pr pro oc lama clama kioa from the mayor and everything every thing was louo in a business lire lieo manner the law was laid aside and the citizens look into their own hands the inhuman beast and burned him at athe the stake never before since the days davis of the spanish inquisition has haa there been emch terrible punishment meted out to any man tho the history of his crime la is oa aa follows thursday last smith picked up little myrtle vance vace aged 3 years near her fai fathers liers residence and carry her to a pasture near the outskirts of the tha city first assaulted the innocent little babar bab and after satisfying his bis fiendish passion took one little limb in each hand and literally Jiter ally tore her in twin ther then covering the body with ie leaves lyes acx and brush he lay down and slept calmly through the night by the side bide of his victim friday morning smith went to the house of his wife and forced her to cook breakfast after eating it he left town the childs remains were found friday afternoon and when the news of the atrocious crime spread the whole town turned out in chase the railroads nu out up bulletins bul lotins offering free to all al who would join in the search A posse went out in every direction and not a stone was left unturned smith was tracked to detroit on foot where he jumped a freight train and left for his old home in arkansas yesterday he be was captured near hope ark and was fully identified this morn morning irig he was brought through texarkana Tex arbana arkana where five firs thousand P eople th ceide the fate of at that tha t place speeches were made by pro prominent tp paris aris citizens liena ci who asked that the prisoner be not molested by texarkana Tex arkana people br brt t that the guard be allowed to deliler him up to the outrage 4 and aad indignant citizens ol of paris arriving here at ai 12 the train was vas mot ma A by a surging mass of humanity strong the negro was placed upon upa n a carnival fl float aall in mecke mccrory I 1 y of a king ding on a throne and 1 fa followed I 1 lowed by an immense crowd was escorted through the city so that all might see themon the mon ster when ithe through the principal streets it halted in an open prairie about yards yarda from the texas pacific depot here smith was waa placed upon a scaffold six sir feet T square qu 3 re and ten feet high and securely b bound n d within view oi of all behold era here he be was wag tortured for fifty ml minutes i by iron brands thrust against his quivering qui yering body commencing at his feet iron brands were placed against him inch by inch until they were thrust against his face then kerosene was poured paired apon him cotton seed hulls bulls placed beneath him and set on fire in less leas time than it takes to relate it the tortured man was burned to a crisp words to describe the awful torture inflicted upon smith cannot be found the story stoby appalls one with its fearful awful terror orien ll crimes special to ENQUIRER SAS FRANCI feb 2 the latest mail advices advises from pekin china bring brine a remarkable story the governor of one oae of the largest of the chinese provinces recently found himself in a serious quandary the matter was finally referred to the emperor for his hia decision it appears that n soul dier eloped with two ol of the wives of a comrade ilia 11 is general on hearing of the aclair at once sent orders that the man and women should be pursued and killed the Tho order po BO far as aa the he male offender was waa concerned was car ried nt an I 1 tho returned to alio with tiia the one ear ol of the ibe inan as emiil ile anre it f his laiafa dath ath but the llie implacable gener general a bent bength tho ex nark ack to ki kiil I 1 tile tie women herein lay his error the la laws las s of china provide that all those who elope shall be ba killed at the same time the records rec ads 11 ave been searched in vain for au in ill tanca L re tile the women have hate been killed subsequent to the deuth deth cf the man witti whom they bey had sinned the governor nor felt that an error had been committed but coull find no ment set forth in ia the records which would maet the case eventually Eventual lv the emperor decided that the general trust be cashiered cashi ered and receive blows from the bastinado and his servant was ordered to receive eighty |