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Show coLonADo nApisr 1 UUIINBD AT THE BTAKB I riHte" roner, lin Afanlled ami liar, d.rtil an I l-lrar-Olil lllrl, tlt.lt an At. (01 rale. I rrctlon Porter, tho 16-year-old negro j wheattaulled and murdered 11-year-old Loolte Krotl at Llmou, Colo., recently, ( wat bnrncd at the atake on the Identl-I Identl-I eal tpot where ha committed the crime, Saturday evening. I The aherlff of Lincoln county atarted with Porter for the county Jail at Hugo, but the train wire boarded at Llmou by 1 a determined mob of 300 men, who I took Porter from tlia aherlff and took blm to the acene of lilt crime. I An Iron atake bail been firmly act In I the ground, to which Porter waa bound 1 with chalnaafler having knelt In ailent j prayer. Hoards were piled around the negro, aaturalcd with kerosene, and when all naa In readlneat, IL W. I'rott, father ot the murdered girl, applied a lighted match. Porter turned hit head and an awful ripreiwlon changed hit face. With a tadilen convulsive tugging he ttrelched hit head far from the rapidly Increaa-log Increaa-log Ilarnea and uttered a cry of palu. "Oli, my Ood, let me go men, I've got something more to tell youl Plcate lat me go. Oh, my Ood, my Oodl" lu terrible icretchea thete wnrda, the flrat lie had tittered aloud, came from the negro. A terrible lugging at the chains, a aucceatlon of awful groana and acreamt, the negro's awful agony waa at last breaking down hit sullen compoture. Not an oath escaped escap-ed him, but be begged and pleaded to beahoL No attention waa paid to his appeal, and he waa permitted to suffer until nature came to lit! relief. Au Inquest was held on the fan bones that nere not consumed. The verdict was that Porter came to his death at hands of pencil unknown. |