Show burned AT A STAKE great mob takes the murderer of a woman from the officers and roasts wm alive yells of the tortured man could be heard above the angry cries of the multitude his eyes filled cayenne pepper and then gouged ou while the flames enveloped the writhing mass of butchered flesh suffered death for a terrible crime but the manner of put ting him to death was horrible maysville ky dec 6 dick coleman the negro murderer ot mrs lashbrook was taken from the officers by a mob ot one thousand men today and burned at the stake the mob led by the husband ot the degroa victim dragged the shrieking criminal through the principal streets of the town bound arnn to a small tree beet alro to brush heaped about him and stood guard until he was dead the negro arrived at maysville at this morning under special guard sworn la by the sheriff including de fitzgerald constable dawson chief of police donovan all the police i force and two deputy sheriffs when they arrived at the court house they met by a root of 1000 peo i pie headed by james lashbrook the j husband of the murdered woman and went immediately up second street j through the central portion of the city i to the hill followed by a mob of fully persons all was done that was possible by the sheriff and guard to prevent a lunching lynching lyn ching but in the face of such ot people irrespective of color it was useless to attempt to do anything the mob grabbed coleman and threw a rope over his head and took him above the city coleman could be heard above the cries of the mob pleading for his life the mob carried coleman to a small hollow near the railroad where they bound him tightly to a young sapling then they heaped a huge pile of brushwood and timber around him and fired the stack while his eyes rolled horribly some one cut his eyes and in a moment his head rolled around and he was believed to te dead the scene was an awful one and around the funeral pyre were thousands of maddened people headed by the husband of the dead woman A torch was applied simultaneously and huge tongues of alre swept up and around the agonized wretch before the roasting began coleman was almost dead the rope had torn and bieck and bis fac ewas terribly beaten about men were at the chesapeake ohio train last night expecting him but as he tailed to come they waited tor him this morning had the officers succeeded in getting coloman in jail there would undoubtedly have been several killed in the attempt to storm the jail doors the crime for which coleman was burned was the murder of mrs james lashbrook given him a home and food she was enticed by him to ealter a shed to see about eoma work when he knocked her down with club and assaulted her the blow did not kill her and coloman notwithstanding her cries tor mercy procured a razor and cut her throat he was removed to escape mob violence the negro shad been employed on the farm also acting as house servant he had the complete confidence of both mr and mrs lashbrook oa the day of the murder mr lashbrook was not at home coleman went to the neighbors and told a etory of a mysterious murder but that night was ori or i rested and kept from a mob by baing hurried to At Covington jail coleman made a full confession which left no shadow at doubt of his guilt coleman was burned near the where charles colllns was hanged forty years ago for a similar offense the place la now used for cricket grounds blue vitriol and cayenne pepper were thrown into Co lemans eyes and his face was smashed in with a club prior to being set afire coleman said he had nothing to eay ills death was slow and writhing ja terrible ag ony he was hooted and glared at by thousands of people at anding on the edge of the pi many women were cresent Tre sent lie died at 1050 a m itis eyes after the pepper and vitriol were thrown into them were gouged out and some say he was horribly emulated just before he died he rose to a sitting posture and eald it you take the alamea away I 1 want to say something then be sank back and died cincinnati ohio dec 6 dick cole man the colored murderer of mrs lashbrook has been kept in jail at covington ky since his arrest because ot fear of mob violence at alays valle ills trial was to begin at mays valle today and judge harbeson had ordered that he be brought to mays valle tuesday night A telegram from maysville however caused the to delay starting until this morn rn coleman was la mortal terror when he was handcuffed today to be placed in the train he begged piteously to be allowed to stay in covington until after his trial was ended it was m tier stood that a relative of the labb brooka was in covington last night and was on board the train today for the purpose it la supposed ot giving information in case any efforts were made to change the destination ot the prisoner |