Show Rape and Hope MEMPHIS March 2GAmos Johnson colored col-ored aged 40 was hanged yesterday afternoon after-noon at 215 oclock at Marion Crittenden I county Ark for outraging a little white child only eight years of age The girl Margaret Arnold had been left in his charge by its parents who wore on a flatboat and he had cared for her for four years The crime was committed last Decembet and he was convicted by a jury of his own color He confessed yesterday morning and made quite a lengthy harangue from the scaffold fully 1500 people mostly colored witnessed the execution His neck was broken by the fall The victim of his lust is being cared for here by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd Shep-herd Her parentage beyond what is stated is unknown |