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Show rA HORRIBLE TAIL Three Black Fieiids of Florida Flor-ida Rape and Murder. NO WHITE WOMAN SAFE. The Negroes Were Lynched But First Made to Suffer Some of the Indignities Thfey Mested Out to the Unfortunate Girl. St. Louis, May 19. A special from Ellayille, Florida, to the Republic, says: Three negroes were lynched in a dense swamp on the Suanee river, by white men, lor asaaulting a white cirl. It is reported that they were flayed alive and then burned, after being subjected sub-jected to horrible tortures. The crime for which the negroes were so horribly put to death was one of the most terrible in the history of this section of Florida. The scene of the crime and retribution was La Fayette, the adjoining county to Madison on the j souto. Miss Mamie Armstrong, the beautiful beauti-ful daughter of a p romineDt Lay Fayette Fay-ette county farmer, left her home live days ago to syend the night with a neighbor who lived two miles distant. The next day Mi: a Armstrong's lather went to the House to brinp; her home, and was alarmed to hear that nothing had been seen of her. Mr. Ai matron? alarmed the neighbors und a search vas made. The woods were scoured ai d the Suanee river dragged. Finally abiut midway between the home of Mr. Armstrong and the neighbor's house, the haudkerchfef of Miss Armstrong Arm-strong was found clinging to a bush and all around were evidences of a des-per.ito des-per.ito struggle. The eearchers followed the trail thus indicated, finding all along that the ! girl had beeu dragged into the woods. Alter proceeding for a mile, thi corpse of Miss AriiiBi.ronz was found in a thick dump of bushes- The body of the girl was in a horrible condition. Eyery shred of clothing had been torn iroGi it and she had been assaulted. The lower limbs had been torn apart, her bead crushed and her throat cat. It was evident that the girl had made a desperate light for under her nails were found pieces of black cuticle which she had torn from her assailants. assail-ants. Sam EehoJa was suspect' and was threatened witn lust.tuc utuin uUie3 he confessed. If e did so and implicated Sim Crowley and John Brooks, Echols said they kept the girl for twenty-four hours before killing her, forcing her, in the meantime, to repeatedly submit to the most horrible indignities. For the greater part of the time the iegro said Miss Armstrong was uncDnscicus. Having secured the negroes implicated impli-cated by Echols, the white men proceeded pro-ceeded wi' h the three fiends to a dense swamp on the Suanee river where they were made to sutler tortures similar to that they had inflicted on the girl. The white people are terribly aroused and swear they will exterminate the negroes if these outrages are continued. Kero's Appearance. Ia his youth Nero was remarkably haudsome, but early in manhood his habits of dissipation made him exceedingly exceed-ingly corpulent. To judge from his medals and the descriptions left of him he must have weighed over 200 pounds. His features were regular, but his eyes were so protuberant as to bo almost a deformity, and ho was nearsighted, so much bo that ho could not recognize his iCoSS lettuce? rcto- the street. |