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Show NEGWO FLAYED ALIVE. . West Virginians Wreak Horrible Vengeance Ven-geance on Negro Brute. The little town of Devon, Mingo county, West Virginia, was the scene Saturday of the assaulting of a little 14-year-old girl by a negro, followed by his subsequent lynching by an enraged en-raged mob numbering over 200 men. The negro, who was caught in the act of committing the crime, was tied to a post, his clothing torn from his body and pins, tacks, pen knives and every conceivable weapon of torture was stuck into the skin of the negro as he struggled, vainly pleading for his life He was allowed to suffer a hundred deaths with his body bleeding in a thousand places. The almost lifHess form of his little lit-tle victim was then placed before the glaring eyes of the brute, while willing will-ing hands cut the tongue from his swollen mouth. His cries became incoherent and before the enraged citizens could be checked the skin was literally cut from his body and distributed among the villagers. He died with his eyes on the little girl whose life he had ruined. His heart was then cut out with jackknives, his toes and fingers chopped off and carried away as mementos. me-mentos. His bloody and mangled form was then soaked with keroseno and fired. |