South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-04-25
Fiendish Crime in Arkansas.
HORRIBLE OUTRAGE AND MURDER.
A Woman Tortured Three
Days and then Killed.
FEARFUL RETRIBUTION
TIE Murderer Burned to Death.
He Is Roasted Cd Hours
10 Compelled 10 Svdiior hii Ors TosI and Ia.
hn Orn Rroiled Flssh
THE MosT DIABoLIcAL CASE on RECORD

MEMPHIS, April l6.-The Augusta, Arkansas,
bulletin this week, says the Wheeling Tntelii1,n-
Ger OF the 18th inst, contains the following let
ter 1t 10 from Thomas Warren, OF Union, Cook
county, TO J. u. Courtney, Of Kearney, Clay
county, Missouri, and dated but a few days ago
81 will tell you OF horrible murder which
took place not far from where live. II hap
pened about month ago. There were four ne
groes concerned in il. A married lady went to
neighbor's honse to stay severaldays She
was not well when she left home, and her hus-
band told her he would take care of the children
until she came back but when she got to where
she was going, there was no one at home. except
tho hired men, and she started back She hal
not gone far before n negro man stopped her
horse, took her of the horse, htched it outside
OF the road, and told her to take the path before
him, and drove and pushed and pulled her eight
miles into the bottom, tied her 10 tree and ra-
Wished her. lie kept her there three DAYS and
three nights tied 10 tree Tho second dav
while there she had a child in the woods by her
self. 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
lie found the horse tied where tho negro had left
1t three days before. lie 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 seon a negro three DAYS
before driving Il white woman before him down
the path. They scattered of to hunt for them.
and got so close that the negro went by where
the woman was tied, killed her with a stick and
then left her; but they went on after him, not
off his track. The negro stopped at house and
asked negro man and boy If there was ANYBODY
hunting for the missing lady They told him
yes, aud as he got up To start they caught him
and started back with him, and met one Of the
mon in pursult, They made him tell where the
woman was. lie said he killed her They then
made him take them to where she was lie said
they were in sight of her the day before when
the woman tainted, and iaid 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 hin what
they must do with him. lie tod them to burn
him. The men who bad 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 md then cut strips OF his skin of hi.
body and made him brol them or the Goals and
eat them, and they would roll him in the coal,
and take him out and talk To him and put him
back. Al last they built a large FIRE, put him
on top Of il and lef; him burn to ashcs Their,
WAS not . white man that had anything TO do
with it, all were negroes. Tae other three ne
groes that were killed wars shot dead on tn,
spot; they knew whore the woman was And
would cot tell"