Garland Globe | 1906-04-21 | Page 2 | Build Bonfires beneath Bodies of Their Victims

BUILD BONFIRES BENEATH BODIES Of TREIR VICTIMS Missouri Mob Hangs Negroes and Then Starts a Fire Under the Men as They Hang. Sprlngflold, Mo. A mob took two negroes from the county Jail Saturday night and hanged them to tho electric tower In tho center of the public squaro and built a flro under tho-men as they hung. Tho negroes wero Horace Duncan and James Copeland, both under 21 years of age. Thoy wero In Jail, charged with assaulting Mabel Edmonson, Edmon-son, a whlto girl, Fully 5,000 people went to the county coun-ty Jnll about 9 o'clock and with telephone tele-phone poles and sledge hammers literally liter-ally tore tho Jail to pieces. Finally tho two negro suspects woro dragged from tho Jail and taken to the center of tho publls square and hanged. After the men wero strung up, o bonfire wns built beneath their bodies. Later tho mob returned to tho Jail and took Will Allen, a negro, charged with tho murder of a man named Hourke Inst January, and hanged him In the public square.