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Show NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE. Husband of His Victim Set Fire to the Faggots. Fort Worth, Tex. A special to tho Record from Waxahatchle tells of tho burning Thursday night of Stovo Davis, a young negro who confessed to outraging Mrs. S. P. Norrls, aged 20, last Saturday night. A mob consisting of 3,500 persons tied tho negro to n plcco ot gaB plpo that had been set In the ground, piled fagots around him and set tho mass on lire. Tho suffeilngs ot tho negro wero of short duration owing to tho fierceness of the lire, which was fnnned by n galo of wind which blew across tho prairie. Tho husband of tho woman Is said to havo set tho match to tho tinder nnd started tho blaze that consumed the negro,. |