Show A story of blood MEMPHIS april 16 the augusta arkansas bulletin of this week contains the following letter from thomas warren of union county arkansas to J N courtney of kearney county mo and dated but a few days ago 1 I will tell you of a horrible murder that took place not far from where I 1 live it happened about a month ago there were four negroes concerned in it A married lady went to a neighbors house to stay sevel several d days slie she was not well when slie she left loft home honie and her husband told her lier that lie would take like care of the tiie children until she came back but when she got to where she was going ther there ewas was no one at home but a hired shired man mau and she started back she had not gone far before a negro man stopped her horse took her oft off the horse and hitched it outside the road and told her to take the road before him and drove and pushed and pulled her eight miles into the bottom and tied her to a tree and ravished lavished ravi shed her he kept iier her there three days and nights tied to a tree the tile second day while theresae ther eShe had a child in the woods by herself she was gone from home three days before her husband went after her he went over to the house where she had started to go and when he found she was not there there started home and found the horse tied where the negro had left it three days before he took the horse home and collected some men together and commenced hunting for iier her and the next day thoy they the saw two little negroes who told them that they ther had seen a negro tile tiie day before driving a white woman before him down the tile path they thet scattered off to hunt for them and got so close that they saw the negro they went by where the woman was tied he killed her with a stick and then left her but they went on after him but got off his track the negro stopped at the house and asked a negro man and a boy if there was any body hunting for a missing lady him yes and as he got up to t start they caught him and started hack back with him and met one of the men in his pursuit they made him tell where tile the woman was he said he killed her they then made him take them to where she was he said they were in sight of her the day before when the woman fainted and said she had llad fainted three or four times while tied and she begged him to turn her loose and he would nol not they took the negro to her husband and asked him what they must do with him he told them to bum burn him the men who had him were all negroes they built two log heaps and put him in the middle they were twenty four hours barnin burning him they cut his toes orf off anz ant and made him swallow them and then cut strips of if his skin shin off his body and made him broil them on tile tilo coals and eat cat them and they would roll him in co coals alsand and take him out and talk to him and put him back at last they built a large fire and put him on top fop of it and let him burn to aslies ashes there was not a white man who had anything to do with it but were all negroes the tile other aree three iJ negroes eroes that were killed were shot dead on the spot they knew where the woman was and would not tell teil |