Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-17
A FIEND INOARNATE. |
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The HerrOrs of San Domingo Eclipsed.
A White Woman Tied up In an Ar
kansas Swamp.
Subjected to Outrages for Three Days
.dIEIEGE 8I1 D
Horrible Punishment OF the Black
Devil. lrsl 4
A FIEND INOARNATE.
By a Mob Of His own Color.
Compelled to Eat Breiled steaks Cut
of his own Body, and Burned 70
Death I'm q Slow Fire.


Compelled to Eat Breiled steaks Cut
OF his own Body. and Burned 10
Death I'm Slow Fire. ...s.-,,,-,,-s
MEMPHIS, April 16.-The Augusta, Ark,
Bulletin of this week contains the following
letter from Thomas Warren, Union county,
Arkansas, to j. NJ. Courtney, Of Kearney
county, Missouri, and dated but few days
ago: i
| will tell you of horrible murder that
took place not far from where l live. IL
happened about amonth ago. There were
four negroes concerned in it. A married
lady went to aneighbor's house to stay sew
eral days. She was not we'll when she left
home and her husband told her that he
would take care ofthe children until she
came back; but when she got to where she
was going, there was no one at home but
hired men and she starte d back She had
not gene far before negro man stopped
her horse, took her off the horse, hitched it
out side of the road and told her to take
the path before him, and drove and pushed
and pulled her eight miles into bottom
and tied her to tree and rsvished her.
He kept her there three days and nights
tied to the tree. The second day while
there, she had child in the woods by her
self. She was gone from
home three days before her husband
went after her. He went over to the
house where she had started to go and when
he found she was not there, started home
and found the horse tied where The negro
had left it three days before. He took the
horse home and collected some men to-
gether and commenced bunting for her and
next day they saw two little negroes who
told them that they had seen negro the
day before driving white woman before
him down the path. They scattered off to
hunt for them, and got 50 close that the ne
gro went by where the woman was tied,
and killed her with stick and then left
her. But they went on after him, but got
off bis track. The negro stopped at a
house and asked anegro man and boy if
there was anybody hunting for the missing
lady. They told him yes, and as he got up
to start they caught him and started back
with him and met one of the men in pur-
suit. They made him tell where the wo-
man was. He said he killed her. They
then made him take them to where she
was. he said they were ia sight of her the
day before, when the woman tainted; and
he said she had tainted three or four times
while tied, and she begged him
to turn her loose, and he would
not. They took the negro
to her husband and asked him what they
mnst do with him. He told them to burn
him. The men who had him were all ne
groes. They built two log heaps and put
i'm in the middle. They were twenty
four hours burning him. They cut his toes
off and made him swallow them, and then
cut strips of his skin off his body and made
him broil them on the Goals aud eat them,
and they would roll him in the Goals and
take him out, and talk to him and put him
back, and at last they built a large fire, put
him on top of it, and let him burn to ashes.
There was not a white man that had any
thing to do with it--all negroes. The
other three negroes that were killed were
shot dead on the spot. They knew where
the woman was and would not tell.