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Show I MOB BURNS UP I NEGRO AT STAKE Officers Meekly Surrender Accused Ac-cused Slayer. Says Angry Governor OSCEOLA. Ark., Jan. 27. Harry j,ovf ry, nflffro, charged with t he inur-der inur-der o( C. T. t'rnHfc and his daughter at Jfodena. Christmas da, was burned to . ath by a mob last night on the Miss-laslppi Miss-laslppi river lecc near the Craig frian-tation. frian-tation. Lowrey was taken across the river into Arkansas by the men who earlier had taken him from the officers At Ward Is. Miss. The mgro was driven to Nodeiia. where the mob then took mm to th leveo near the scene of the crime and driving a stake Into the ground, ' halncd the negro fnul burned ini'i in d ath The mob tht n dispersed, l I VT lit RXIXG. H Before WKhiius; the fire beneath the negro, the mob, reports said, held a lng parley 0vfr whethi r he should be burned t death or hanged. The my 'Jority flnalls decided to burn blm. Aslccd if he wanted anything, ihe he- H1 way !i to have asked for food. Which was brought, anil reijuosted he H; in- allow el to bid farewell to his wlft Ind children They were summoned Hj and i lien rhe mgro. It Ik nuld, made .i statement implicating two other ne- N grues-. Officers were searching for 1 Craig and Mrs. Williamson wen shot b ii death when they attempted to quiet JJJowrey who had created n disturbance on the '"ralg plantation. Hugh ami .Tin hard Craig, sons of true planter, also! 1 'were wounded. GOVKRNOlt .i;. UTTLiB K "K. Ark.. Jan. w-nor McKae characterized the lynch ing of llenr Lowrey, negro, nt Xo-HI Xo-HI Uena, Hi n t ever committed In Arkansas," and j declared that lie would recommend the HH legislature that any sheriff or officers HH who permits or does net prevent lynch-1 ing within his Jurisdiction he removed HHJ from office. QOvf mOr McRae said he asked that Lowrey be lt ought to Litile Rock from Hi Paso for sat. keeping and that he tmuld not underslaiul why the negro ' "gfeould have been taken by the round- r i. .ut waTthrough New Tlea'ns, Mlss-Isslppi Mlss-Isslppi and Tennessee Instead of direct, to Tcxarkana and then to Little Rot "and the slate penitentiary. Ili - ' The governor said, officers a;p. i m iijrnoii him over to a mob in Miss issued with lamblike docility anil per-j Imitted lils transportaton into Arkansas j nd hs burning at the st.ik. without s any effort to previ nt his execution H IRBOIUNG l I i . i i I I MARION. Ark., Jan. 27. Kivo ne-' jl fiioca have been placed in Jail litre,! Y Charged with harboring a fugitive iu i i connection with the escape of Henry I bctwrey, a negro farmer, who woe lynched last night hear N'odena n at the time of the killing last month af j. T. Craig, Mississippi county plan-1 tr. and his dnoghler. Mrs. C. O. llll-lamwn. llll-lamwn. Lowrey is said to ha'i t .-malncd in Jfce vicinity of the double killing ev-ral ev-ral days, eluding a possee which' searched for him almost continuous!: and finally escaped from the etatc, making his way to Kl Haso, Texas,! Vhere he was captured. |