Show TEXAS MOB LYNCHES PRISONER WHO CONFESSED KILLING THREE CHILDREN streets filled with pedestrians and automobiles loaded with wit nesses of execution of black man charged with crime temple texas will stanley the negro arrested on a charge of being the man who murdered the three grimes children on a farm near here wednesday night was taken from the justice court room just at midnight friday and was burned on the public square in the presence 0 thou sands of men and ft omen the pyre was surrounded by men who yelled and cheered as they shoved the negro into the flames the streets were filled with arians and automobiles loaded with onlookers trees fringing the street on the sides of the square nearest the burning were failed with boys while scattered through the throng were many young girls hen stanley was cast into the flames he struggled frantically to es cape but was repeatedly shoved back A shot was fired which some claim struck the struggling negro ills struggles soon ceased and the gathering began to disperse several men said stanley confessed that be did the killing claiming that he had been hired to do the deed neither grimes nor his wife who were severely beaten have recovered sufficiently to give an account of the affair grimes in a semi con state said he has a dim decol of a negro being in the room |