Show MA MAN AND D IFE BURNED U AT STAKE T f They Thc Were Negroes the Ceremony Defog Being Witnessed by One Thousand People eople r P HAD KILLED A WHITE MAN MANThis MANThis MANThis This Same Man Miln lied Had Killed hilled a D Negro And Ind Then Started a 0 Little rued DO Miss Fob Feb Hoi hal halbert bert anti and his wife negroes were burn burnad od ad nt at the tho stake hero here today by a amob a amob mob of at over ocr 1000 persona for tor the kill killin in Ingot lag of JOInes a prominent white while planter and John Cart Carr a n negro n gro groon on Wednesday nt itt the Eastland pianta lion two miles from title tills city Tho The burning of oC Holbert and his hits wife vito closes a I tragedy ed which has ha cost eight Ight lives lion hait engaged m men mell anti and two packs of tit bloodhounds In u II four tour days chase across four tour counties anti lis hia stirred this section lI of oC Mississippi almost to tren Luther Holbert and wife ICe negroes burned nt lit the stake 1 ny y mob snob James J white planter killed by Holbert John Winters negro killed by East land lund Three unknown negroes killed by posses The Tue killing of ot Eastland l Carr Cart lId find Winters occurred Wednesday dor nt at East lands plantation Holbert and Win tern lers were In cabin when hen East Kast land entered anti and ordered Holbert to i leave the tho plantation A ensued In which It Is I aliened cd Holbert opened Ire fire on Kant East Eastland land fatally wounding him lId kill killIng lag Ing In Carr Eastland returned tho tite th fire Oro mint lint killed Winters When the tie news of ot tho tragedy reached Do a 11 posse was wall formed and left leCt Immediately for tor plantation Arriving there further shooting occurred and an a unknown negro was waa killed Holbert and his wire wife who had donned mens men clothing both heavily armed had lied fled Pusses were formed nt at Greenville Cleveland and other othel points atil the pursuit of ot Holbert his wife was wan begun behun with will horses hones and bloodhounds rite Tho chase which was begun Wednes Wednesday day morning was ivan continued until last night when whet Holbert rt and his wife stife worn out from traveling over oer miles on toot foot through h cline breaks and swamps were found asleep ep In Inn a heavy henvy belt or ot timber three miles east of or Shepards town and captured by a 0 posse without n u shot hot being fired Dred The two to negroes worn Wem brought to and this afternoon were burned at the stake by b t a mob almost In the tho shadow hadow of ot the negro church here Yesterday two negroes ne roes were killed by byu bya u It posse near county C One of ot tho the negroes bore loro a striking re no resemblance semblance to Holbert and was wan mistaken en for tor him by members member of ot the posse He lIe was wan called on to surrender but In Instead steM stead of or doing so he tie showed light fight ant both negroes svere shot down 1111 by posse posie pos e emen men as Holbert had lied sworn he would not be taken alive and was WAil known to tobe tobI be lx heavily armed d EastlAnd was ne a II member of ot a II wealthy Mississippi family and a IL a reward of oC IV U Ii was wag offered by imy h relatives for tor the rapture capture of ot hla 1111 hI slayer Two brothers brother of 01 participated In the tho chase and capture of ot tho the and Md both boUl were present when Holbert and his hll wife mite were burned The rho wn son of nt Holbert Molbert who captured Friday l night and held on ott suspicion of complicity l In the killing of oC was ivas given glen hl his hili freedom his hU Innocence being be e established |