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Show I NEGRO UUMNEv AT STAKE. Olack Fiend Con le net to Cutting Throat of Young Woman. Ituak. Texas.- Leonardo Johnson, n iieuro. churned w llh kllliiiK Mla Minnl IteddliiK. n younii while wiitiiau, on Monday, was l.uiued at Iho stuko by u mob Mon, lav tilnlil. Sheriff Noiwood and a poaao woro on route here with Iho nearo when they were oyeria.wereil by n mob at loue Hlnr, hoar tbo home of iho murdered mur-dered woman. tSceurliiK the neuro, who wna plead-ln( plead-ln( for his lire, the mob. composed of mora than 100 men and boys, driiKKcd him a short dlslnnre from the lowo. There. II Is staled he confessed b had murdered Mist Iteddinii. The neuro waa then lied lo a stake, and after brush hud been piled lil k la around hi in. Ihe torch was applied. D.iri'KiinllnK tho pleudlim of Johnson, tho lite wns fed tun II ho was dead. Miss Hedd'.iiK had left her homo en route lo line Star nlHiut niHin. Two hours later, her body, with her throat cut from em to .ear. was found lu a douse wtKid a short distance from the lown. |
