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Show NEGRO MURDERER BURNED AT STAKE TEXAS MOB LYNCHES PRISONER WHO CONFESSED KILLING THREE CHILDREN. Streets Filled With Pedestrians and Automobiles Loaded With Witnesses Wit-nesses of Execution of Black Man Charged With Crime. Temple, Texas. Will Stanley, the negro arrested on a charge of being the' man who murdered the three Grimes children on a farm near here Wednesday night, was taken from the justice court room just at midnight Friday and was burned on the public pub-lic square in the presence of thousands thou-sands of men and women. The pyre was surrounded by men who yelled and cheered as they shoved the negro into the flames. The streets were filled with pedestrians pedes-trians and automobiles loaded with onlookers. Trees fringing the street on the sides of the square nearest the burning were filled with boys, while scattered through the throng were many young girls. When Stanley was cast into the flames he struggled frantically to escape, es-cape, but was repeatedly shoved back. A shot was fired, which some claim struck the struggling negro. His struggles soon ceased and the gathering began to disperse. Several men said Stanley confessed that he did the killing, claiming that he had been hired to do the deed. Neither Grimes nor his wife, who were severely beaten, have recovered recov-ered sufficiently to give an account of the affair. Grimes, in a semi-conscious state, said he has a dim recollection recol-lection of a negro being in the room. |
