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Show WORK OF FIENDS. Set Fire to a Woman After Pouring Coal Oil Over Per. Particulars have been received of a revolting crime committed in Chester-fieid Chester-fieid county, North Carolina, a few days ago. Cassie Boone, a young woman, was enticed from her home by four white men. carried to the woods nearby and assaulted with knives. The woman was gashed with knives in the fleshy parts oi her body, the cuts being from four to twelve inches in length. Then coal oil was poured over her, and she was set on fire and released in the woods, to run screaming until she fell dying. When found, a small braid around the forehead was the only shred of clothing left on her body. The men have been arrested. |