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Show TAKEN FROM JAIL AND Negro Accused of Crime Bound to Iron Stake and Incinerated. Rockwall. Texas. March 7. After having been identified by Mrs. Arthur McKlnney ns the negro who attacked her Friday morning, Anderson Ellis was taken from the Rockwall county Jail here, tied to an iron stake driven into the earth, was burned to death, in the presence of a thousand persons. per-sons. Earlier , in the evening Will Clark, a negro, was shot and killed when his father, Andrew Clark, refused re-fused to allow a posse to search his premises, on the assumption that Ellis El-lis was concealed there. The burning occurred in the public square. Early Friday morning Mrs. McKin-ney McKin-ney went into her back yard and was seized by Ellis. She fought desperately desper-ately -and the negro,' running' away, I called that he 'would murder her i should she tell of the attack, lhe i alarm spread quickly and the entire section turned out, Joining the author- ! I ities In the chase. The search con- tinued through Friday and Saturday ! and today. About S o'clock he was I surrounded at a farmhouse. Ellis made a desperate resistance' and emp- j tied his 'weapon at the posse without effeot and was wounded twice. When It became known that Ellis was held In the county Jail, a quiet but deter- 1 mined crowd of men overpowered tho ' Jailer, secured his keys, .brought the negro out and tied him to an iron stake. Cordwood saturated with kerosene kero-sene was piled' about him and upon his refusal to make a statement beyond be-yond admitting his guilt, in the presence pres-ence of Mrs. McKinney, who fully identified him as her assailant, the j torch was applied. |