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Show BURNED AT THE STAKE. Negro Man and Wife Executed by Frenzied Mob In Mississippi. Luther Holbort and his wife, negroes, ne-groes, wero burr-ed ut tho stako nt Doddsvllle, Miss., on Sundny, by a mob of over 1.000 persons, for tho killing of James Eastland, a prominent whlto-planter, whlto-planter, and John Carr, a negro, on Wednesday at the Eastland plantation, planta-tion, two miles from Dcddsvlllc. Tho-burning Tho-burning of Holbort nnd IiU wlfo closes a tragedy which has cost olght lives, has engaged 200 men and two packs of bloodhounds In a four days' chaso ' across four counties, and has stirred this section of Mississippi almost to frenzy. Tho killing of Eastland. Can- and Winters occurred Wednesday nt Eastland's East-land's plantation. Holbort and Win-tors Win-tors woro In Carr's cabin when Eastland East-land entorctl and orderod Holbert to loavo the plantation. A difficulty ensued, In which, It Is alloged, Holbert opened flro on Fast-land, Fast-land, fatally wounding him nnd killing Carr. rnstland returned the flro and killed Wlntors. Whon tho nows of tho tragody reached Dcddsvlllo a posse wai formed and left Immediately for Eastland's plantation. Arriving there, further shooting occurred, and an unknown nogro was killed. Holbort nnd his wlfo. who had donned men's clothing, both heavily armod, had fled, Pcssos wero formed at Groenvlllo, Clevoland and othor points, and tho pursuit of Holbort nnd his wlfo was i begun with horses arid bloodhounds. Tho chnse, which wai begun Wednesday Wednes-day morning, wns contlnuod until nSt-unlay nSt-unlay night, whon Holbort and his t wlfo, worn cut from travollng over 100 V miles on foot through oanohrenkR nnd V swamns, woro found rsleop In n heavy holt of timber throo miles east or Son-nrdstown, Son-nrdstown, nnd raptured by a posso without a Bhot bolng fired. |