| Show confronted BY HIS VICTIM HE GLOATED OVER CONQUEST THE SHERIFF WAS POWERLESS before life was extinct the negro was cut down a funeral pyre built and flames completed mobs work I 1 T july 1 A negro who committed a criminal assault upon tho 16 year old daughter of ira robertson near womack was captured last night and after ibeling taken back to the scene of his crime was hanged and burned near the spot where he committed the crime confessed to crime he confessed his crime and offered no resistance to tho mob to one person the negro gave his name as CHIT mays 0 marshall tex and he told another that it was will of san antonio by the time the negro was overtaken near bradley last night fully armed men had joined in the chase and soon after tho capture the march to womack began it was nearly 3 this morning when the robertson home was reached and the negro was brought before the assaulted girl the one said she at once and the negro replied yes lady im tho one gentlemen I 1 admit the crime hanged and burned the mob then proceeded with their victim past the spot where he had committed his crime and to a tree in the road on the bank of walnut creek where a rope was thrown over a limb about eighteen feet high and the other knotted about the mans neck he was given an opportunity to speak and again confessed his guilt and after a fervent prayer to god for forgiveness he was drawn into the air to die by strangulation before lifo was extinct the body was lowered to the ground logs and brush were heaped upon it and the mass ignited por a moment the body writhed a few groans were heard and the flames completed their work two hours later the charred boody was burled uneda the same tree under direction of a deputy marshal from purcell who had been thwarted in bis efforts to take the negro from the mob miss condition is not serious |
