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Show NEGRO FLAYED ALIVE. West Virginians Wreak Horrible Vengeance Ven-geance on Negro Brute, Tho little town of Dovon, Mingo county, West Virginia, was tho scono Saturday of the assaulting ot n llttlo 14-year-old girl by a negro, followed by hiB subsequent lynching by an enraged en-raged mob numbering over 200 mon. Tho negro, who was caught In tho act of committing tho crlmo, was tied to a post, his clothing torn from his body and pins, tanks, pen knives and overy conceivable woapon of torturo wu stuck Into tho skin of tho negro as he struggled, vainly pleading for his life. Ho wbb allowed to suffer a hundred deaths with his body bleeding in a thousand places. Tho almost lifeless form of his llttlo llt-tlo victim was then placed before tho glaring oyes of tho bruto, whllo willing will-ing hands cut tho tonguo from his swollen mouth. Ills cries becamo incoherent and before tho enraged citizens could bo chocked tho skin was literally cut from his body and distributed among tho villagers. Ho died with his cyos on tho llttlo girl whoso llfo ho had ruined. ills heart wns then cut out with Jackknlvcs, his toes and fingers chopped off and carried away as mo-montos. mo-montos. His bloody and mangled form was then soaked with koroseno and fired. |