Show HE WAS N I 1 t ERA 1 ED I 1 he 11 agro who kill lid two girls HORRIBLY mutilated I 1 his body was out in ID pieces and burned by the angry mob ky july joly 8 seay J miller the negro charged with the out oat rage and murder of mary and ruby ray was hanged at yesterday afternoon and his hia body burned after being horribly mutilated the negro made u proclaiming his innocence no cence but it is ia said he ha afterward made a partial confes confession ison the steamer three states with several hundred men from cairo on board met tho iho special train from kiiker tou at birds point the pr prisoner idoner was A as put on the boat and taken to wyckliffe frank gordon the fisherman who ferrii ferri ed d the murderer across the mississippi river wednesday night miller as the earne man an still miller pl pleaded abed innocence and john the father of the murdered girls counseled pAi patience ence the mob brought the prisoner to tn this city arrivi arriving n g at there were not few fewer er than men at the depot and the train was crowded art vidua ua to this an agreement was made by the people to allow the father of the crib dren to prescribe the ment sherid hudson the orie oner and guards mounted the seRf scaffold fold which had beebi erected and john ray the father of cf the murdered girls made a talk in which he be said I 1 this is the man who killed my children bet let us keep quiet now and at the proper time burn nim mm the negro was waa called upon and responded spondee promptly ad with wonderful nerve considering the circumstances under which he was placed ilia his voice was dear clear and he be seemed oblivious to lia his l ia surroundings his exact words wre were us sa follows fol lowa my name is ia seay J miller and I 1 am from SpunK field I 1 am here amone you as a stranger and am looked on by you sa the mot brutal man that thai ever stood on goda green earth I 1 am standing here an innocent man among excited men who do not propose to let atie jaw take its course I 1 bare bat a committed no crime to be deprived of my liverty or life I 1 am not guilty at this time he be was disturbed by several questions and many called on him to go on but sheriff hudson begged to be permitted to vat him in jail anil and got get rest eat for himself which he needed badly it was finally agreed to hang him at i 3 and ana the negro was placed in jail to await the time when he ha would be called forth at the negro was brought from froin the jail to the principal street with a chain around Ms his neck and many men pulling r at it the crowd was wild and t to no o one could guess at the fate ok of the netro negro he was almost suffocated when the tha north end of the depot was reached and ane father of the girls relented to some borne extent and th thit lait it he be be banded rather than burned at 3 ia the body was swung to a telegraph pole directly at the north end of the depot and as he was drawn up bi his clothes were torn from his body by t tho he in maddened mob he was heard beard to say av just as they drew draw him up im an i innocent 2 man but there was a fu fully 1 v authentic report that he be had made 6 partial confession as the mob took hins bins from the jail the con confessor confes fesson aon imp implicates licatesi a partner but nothing positive can oer oe learned the negro was then drawn up wb when en hia feet were two or thre feet from the ground someone some one shot him from the front trie ball passing entirely through his body boda in a few minutes life was ex tin vincit cit beina asce stained that he was waa deadam the body was left danzing hanzing ban zing till during daring which time some tosa u and n d fingers were cut off tire tha body was finally taken down and the ears cars cut off nearly all of the re toes and fingers were severed and the body otherwise mutilated the body was then placed between two kegs a and kindling dwindling pile piled dupon upon it and then enough wood to complete comple lB the job of 0 burn burning in z the crowd remained orderly to the last but waa vas very determined themen the men hadid the hanging are from tennesee illinois illinoia anul and Mip missouri but bat the work was dene in im such a manner and the throng was soo eo great that thai vo no man can name came an individual who participated |