Deseret Evening News | 1901-10-25 | Page 3 | Another Negro Burned at Stake

ANOTHER NEGRO H BURNED AT STAKE The Tho Incineration Took Tok T ok Place at Balltown Ja Jai JaU La i BEAT U T AND ANt A WOMAN STOMAN to 10 n Sink Milk and aitt No N u Outcry Hint 1111 Columbia Oct Ocl 21 A negro I named Hill Morris who Mrs John hall Ball at Halltown La Ln was wl was s burned at the stait ste e today After Arter being g cap lured he tie made mollo tn In to implicate others but they the lie soon proved their In Innocence t tHe He TIc woe was taken to the tho scene of his hi crime tied to a it pine sapling with chains chain null aHkI his feat eat and hands handa chained to 10 his lx l body od dy Pino and arni an pipe pine straw were wert piled about the th body and satur saturated with coal coni oil anti and the tue whole sot set seton ct on Ore fire Tile The nero iero made no outcry When names Homes him hi 11 and only when he h was partly consumed did the tho spectators notice any movement on his win hiatt He made no i resIstance when be belag being Iau lag ing nl bound to the lie stake Finke nfl said sold that lint linthe he be deserved de his fate Int Mrs Irs Hall lIall while waltIn on the negro in her Mr husbands store turned her herback herback I Iback back when tile the negro seized her and dragged her Into the road Ho TIe beat his victim on the lie head with a n pine vine knot and thought he hi had killed kilted her Going back to the tho ho store More he ho took all nil the money mono In the cash drawer and put coal oil 01 on his feet and on his hi tracks trucks when leav bay leaving Jog jag stIrs Airs flaIl recovered consciousness conscious nUl and each crawled to her She Bhe Sheat Sheat at once gave ge the alarm and the neigh neighborhood neighborhood commenced a n search for tor or the negro He lIe was 19 at n hs hIs ii home about tour four mites miles from the s scene ene of 01 the tha tragedy tragedy tragedy dy He lie tried to escape but was Wal as shut by ly ono one of the posse and injured In the hip