| Show INDIS MOB mon agro 1 armed at soli aitio ib in t 70 ale ob ky dee I 1 richard Ill chard coleman colored confessed con med tir ot of mrs james lashbrook Lah brook w it of hill employer expiated big hi crime I 1 lu n daylight at the hand hands of a mob conlU nir of thousands thou ud of citizens by burning 1 it I the take stake after buffering suffering torture and aj fright beroa I 1 theodr the dread A ful percale per tale occurred JQ tle I 1 peaceful cricket ground grounds of this one ou of the old ft root and among the pro uil cities of kentucky the barbarities inflicted indicted upon thia this u youl negro by citizens of one of the moat most highly civilized elv cities of the state tt are re mostly belief bellet andean kod can only be for by th the interim horror created by long of the atrocious crime of which full bad ia ion I on made by ou boom nau coleman after the murder 9 two 90 0 month months ago go was taken to CoT lopton tor for safety the trial WM was act for tod exly by and coleman was brought here when he be was taken from the officers by a bobot mob of 1000 persons headed by the ui husband of the murdered mur dred woman coleman coald could be heard above he the cries of the mob pleading for his hi life the prisoner pr loner was drei g 4 to t a afaf ling lingard and et rapped against the tree acing the husband of the victim large quantities of dry bruh brush and large bite bitle of wood were piled around him while be he wae waa praying for speedy death jamef lashbrook Laah brook the husband of the applied the first match to the brushwood brueh nood A brother of the alo 1 tim truck struck the second coal match someone with a knife wa was viciously slashing at the prisoner a e chest uy by a sort of cruel concurrence of action OB on uie thos part of the mob not a khot shot was aa fired the purpose seemed to be bon to give the wretch the greatest grea amount and duration of torture aa As the flame flames arose the borrom lor in creased lie made vain 1 effort efforts to with draw hi his limb limbs from the encroaching fire fires his hi eye eyes rolled la in a frenzy of gut uttering bering the rope ropes securing him blue to the tree were burned and hi big body finally fell forward on the burning pile even then although it wa was not certain whether be wa was living or dead the vengeful pur as of the crowd led them to u ue so fillas rail aud and lo 10 long 1 pole poles bo to sh hi ill body back into the I name mea it fu auh a i r cot of c certain how loog long life la lasted stood during all that time member members of the family of mr birs lashbrook Laih brook bad had remained to keep up the fire and to keep the body in to position lon where it would con unus to burn after fter three boar hours a nephew of mr mrs Laah Lo ashbrook brook wa was still pushing the body bod on th the burning cm sm ber hers while a burrous burlou crowd of several veral thousand thou and person po reans including many women lingered on the scene in all the who constituted the mob there wa was not a single effort to disguise dl gute or conceal identity no man wore a maak mask all the leadra leaders of the mob are well known and there are hundreds bun dreda of witnesses who can ca testify to their part in the tragedy they they include leading citizens in all alae of business bu nef and many are members of church |
