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Show LYNCHING OE ! NGGROJ SOUTH Mob of About 3,000 in Memphis Mem-phis Burn Murderer of 1 Little Girl. BODY SOAKED IN OIL Torch Applied and Body Burns Fiercely Until It Falls to Ground. "MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 22. Eli I Persons, a negro, confessed murderer of Antoinette Rappal several weeks ago, was burned to death near the scene of the crime at 9 o'clock today. A mob estimated at from 2000 to 3000 saw the death of the negro. In preparation for burning the body , was soaked in oil and afterward sus-i pended in midair from the limb of a tree. A torch was then applied and i the body burned fiercely until it fell to the ground. Persons is said to have repeated his confession that he killed the child, and implicated two other negroes. Members Mem-bers of the mob immediately set out in pursuit of them. When all was in readiness Mrs. Rappal, mother of the dead girl, was taken to the bridge where the prisoner was held and Identified him. In a short speecli to tho mob she declared she wished Persons to suffer the tortures tor-tures he dealt to his victim. Telephone messages at 10:30 o'clock stated that the mob had captured DeWitt Ford, a mute, one of tho negroes ne-groes implicated -by Pjersons- ln the murder of tho Rappal girl, and was on the way to tho sceno of the first lynching. |