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Show amm1SStmTSasl - I NEGRO UURNED AT STAKE. Arkantita Fiend Fays Feimlty for Aaaault-I Aaaault-I MB Woman. Charles Young, a negro charged with assaulting and afterwards murdering Mrs. Edward Lewis, n white woman, was burnod at Forest City, Ark., by a mob of Infuriated citizens. Sheriff W. E. Williams used every effort against this extreme measure. Ho had telephoned tele-phoned to Judgo Hutton, of' thnt district, dis-trict, who had promised to come the next day and give Immediate trial to the negro, and tho leaders of the mob hadglven the sheriff positive pledges that they would await the trial and take no violent measures. About 8:30 o'clock a mob marched to tho jail and demanded the keys. Dep-' uty Slier Iff Murphy undertook to communicate com-municate with Sheriff Williams, whereupon members of the mob forcibly forci-bly took the cell keys from Murphy, and breaking in the cell door with sledge hammers, drugged the prisoner from his cell. Sheriff Williams had arrived in the meantime, his protests being unheeded. The mob took the negro to a point about hulf,a mile east of town, bound him, plied wood around him and set fire to It. The negro begged pitcously for his life, but the mob turned deaf cars. In a short time the Humes leaped up and ho expired in the presence of the several sev-eral hundred men composing the mob. After Young hud been put to death, the mob started in quest of another negro, alleged to have been implicated in the killing of Mrs. Lewis, hnt was unable to And him. |