Show NEGRO MURDERER BURNED dies at the stake in texas town after ta r slaying 9 officer belton texas henry gentry a negro IS 18 years old paid the penalty ot of his crime of 0 murder and presumably intended assault at the s take stake tonight while two others a brother and a companion charged with complicity city missed a like fate through the plea pleadings dingi ot of sheriff burke and several citizens early friday the negro attempted to force an entrance into the home 0 of f mrs lamb a widow but was frightened away by a shot by the womans comans daughter several hours later while gentry was being searched for by a posse headed by constable james mitchell Ml gentry firing from ambush killed the posse leader the mob surrounded the fugitive and as it closed in gentry made a dash tor for liberty but was shot and crippled ile he was dragged behind an automobile uto mobile to belton where several thousand frenzied men and boys boya awaited his coming in ten minutes he be was burnad to a cinder |