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Show in IN GEORGIA ! BURNEDAT STAKE Dreadful Death Inflicted on Black Prisoner ATHRlVfl. r,., Feb. 17. A mob of IB0OO persons Wednesday night stormed Mhw Clarke county Jail and nfter for- rlbly king John I- Kherhardt. a J nejfro, charged with the murder of Mra. j Walter -Lee of Oconee county from the (Jail burned him nt the stako. I The mob secured the negro from th county Jail after headers had climbed i an elevator shaft to the top floor of j the county courthouse and burned their way Into his cell with a blow torch, lie was taken to a field about five milea I from the city, directly opposite the Ie j home, and burned at the stake, shortly short-ly before midnight, after leaders had I publicly debated whether he should b , hanged or burned. He died In twenty I m:nut. MfsTLee wa8"l.TKef early "Wednesday after she had ben attacked on enter-j enter-j lng a barn on the Lee farm. Hhe resisted re-sisted her assailant and ran hack toward to-ward her home, but was shot from behind. Kberhardt was arrested about noMi at a neighboring farm. Sheriff Jackson tried to protect th il. but a mob gathered In the vicinity Immediately, and before nightfall thousands thou-sands of persons from surrounding j counties had assembled. |