Eureka Reporter | 1904-08-19 | Page 2 | Burned at Stake

at STAKE TWO CREMATED BY MOB IN GEORGIA hid been colv acted of murdering an ent re farr ly and sentenced to die on tl e gallows i i clothing saturated with 1 se e wn h i g ana in their tsuny arec ieng to heaven for the ini cy that the n ob v not how pail d wi fato two of the i in the m erdei and 1 arning of hadgos and wife and three 1 r cull dien six miles from states alno wed s ago were burned at the stake at ga alt abo t 1 30 a mob charged on the house avei powered the mill tary guard which had been secured to guard the secured cato and reid who had been found guilty after a legal trial and sentenced to be hanged took them two miles from statesboro State and then burned them alive the climax came quickly and unexpectedly trouble had been expected and a military g lard had been stationed around the jail but it appears their guns were not loaded it also devel aps ops that several deputies were in league with the mob and aided in overpowering the soldiers ool diers the men were chained to a laige stump twelve feet high pine wood piled around them and then the whole mass saturated with kerosene just as the natch was applied to the pyre one of those 11 front asked reid if be wanted to e 1 the truth before he died yes sir 11 led mr and mrs hodges he replied who 1 billed the childrens 7 he was asked hand be 1 came the response as ohp flames leaped after the men vere dead the croad kept piling on fuel un til both bodies were b arned except the trunk