The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-04-17
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
Exclusively to the Intelligencer.
By tho Western Union Line
once Northwest COZ. Of Main and hoproo sts)
.FIENDISH CRIME M ARKANSAS.
Horrible Outrage and Murder.
A Woman Tortured Three
Days and then Killed,
FEARFUL RETRIBUTION.
The Murderer Burned to Death
He Is Roasted Twsnty'EOur Hours
Is Compelled to Swallow his
Own Toes and Eat his Own
Broiled Flesh
FEARFUL RETRIBUTION,
The Murderer Burned to Deaf
Tho Mos, DlaboIioal Case on Record

MEMPHIS, April 1O.-The Augusta
Ark, Bulletin this week contains the fol
lowing letter. 1t is from Thomas War
rem, of Union, Cook county, to ]. n.
Courtney, Of Kearney, Clay county, Mis-
souri,, and dated but few days ago.
N will tell you OF a horrible murder
which took place not for from where l
live. 1t happened about a month ago.
There were four negroes concerned in it.
A married lady went to o neighboFs
house to stay several days. shc was not
well when she lelthome, and her husband
told her he would take care Of the chill
dren until she came back; but when abe
got to where she was going, there was no
one at home, except the hired men, and
she started back. She had not gone far
before o negro man stopped her horse
took her of the horse, hitched it out
side Of the road, and told her to take tho
path before him, and drove and pushed
and pulled her eight miles into the bot
tom, tied her to tree, and ravished her.
He kept her there three days and three
flights tied to tree. The second day
while there she had o child in the woods
by herself She was gone from home
three days before her husband went after
her; and he went over to the house where
she had started to go, and when he
found she was not there, started home
He found tho horse tied where the negro
had left 1t three days before. He took
the horse home, collected some men, and
commenced hunting for her, and the next
day they saw two little negroes, who told
them they had seen a negro three days
before driving white woman before him
down the path. They scattered of to
hunt Tor them, and got so close that the
negro went by where the woman was
tied, killed her with stick and then lell
her; but they went on after him, not OF
his track. The negro stopped at house
and asked negro man and boy II there
was anybody hunting for tho missing
lady. The told him yes, and as ho got
up to start they caught him and started
back with him, and met one Of the men
in pursuit. They made him tell where
the woman was. He said he killed her.
They then made him take them to where
she was. He said they were in sight OF
her the day before, when the woman
tainted, and said she had tainted three or
four times while tied and begged him to
turn her loose and he would not. They
took the negro to her husband and asked
him what they must do with him. He told
them to burn him. The men who had
him were all negroes. They built two
log heaps and put him in the middle
They were twenty.four hours burning him
They cut his toes of and made him swal'
low them and then cut strips OF his skin
off his body and made him broil them on
the Goals and eat them, and they would
roll him in the Goals and take him out and
talk to him and put him back. At last
they built largo fire, put him on top oi
it and let him burn to ashes. There was
not q white man that had anything to dc
with It, all were negroes. The other three
negroes that were killed were shot dead
on tho spot; they knew where the woman
,Vns and would not tell