The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-11-28
"B0NY'S" AWFUL RIDE.
BOB ANGELS NIGHT TRIP ON GOLD
93"-HOW A CHILD'S DEATH
WAS AVENGED.
San Francisco Argonaut.

San Francisco Argonaut
A crime had been committed il
Mississippi. One lovely evenin,
in May, us a rosy twilight wa
stealing on, little girl dragget
herself to her mothers door. Sh
had been gathering wild violet
and yellow iasamine along til,
brook-a tavorite paStime-and in
tended to decorate sher mother
humble mantel-piece, but she ha,
been gone a long time. Her larg,
blue eyes were bloodshot, ant
a large shadow appeared beneatl
them, her. t1aXen hair was dis
heveled, and the marks of bru
tai fingers stood out with inflamet
prominence OH her tender throat
She could not climb the steps, and
called family and piteously:
Motherw
The woman rose from her chair
dropped her scissors and spools,
threw her work on the floor, and
gazed at her child, stupefed and
horror stricken. She caught hel
up and pressed her to her heart,
moaning:
/" My poor baby! My poor ba.
by! q my God! My God y
That night the child died, as dies
tender flower that has been
plucked and crushed in Il strong,
cruel hand and thrown aside to
perish. Lying there Oh the couch
she seemed as pure as a hope of
heaven, as beautiful as IA dream.
A chilling horror tell like pail
on the people for miles around.
Women, pale and frightened, left
their homes to find better security
III their neighbours house, and they
huddled together like sheep that
knew wolf is near. Mounted
men and men on foot were securing
the forests all night, and toward
morning they brought in negro.
He was the criminal.
There is crime that in the South
ranks side by side with the toulcst
murder both in the meaning of the
law and in the hearts of the people.
Female security is as powerful Il
principle as human life. But there
is Il difference. In the latter case
it sometimes happens that a man
escapes the galIows for a life term
in the pcnitentiary in the former,
there is the gallOwS in the hands of
the jury, of the rope, knife or pis-
tol at the hands of mob. There
is no escape--death follows the
footsteps of transgreSsion.
The younger and more hot. blood
ed men insisted OH a speedy termi.
nation of the tragedy, but other
cOunsels prevailed. Here was Il
rare opportunity for a display of
devillsh skill, horrible ingenuity
and cruel refinement. 70 hang the
wretch would be com monplace aud
vulgar; to cut his throat would be
butchery. There were threatening
and showed feeling
nnyielding, unrelenting and dark
and unfathomable as perdition.
" Bob Angel goes down tonight,
lon't he 2"
"Ges on the 93."
"At I1-45Y7
81 think we had better send him
lown on Bob's engine"
"Why ~
"Tain't worth while to palavar. |
You know Bob. He's very keertul."
The prisoner was held until the
reigkt train pulled mp to the STA
ioii. When Bob Angel descended
rom the engineca he was follow
d by his negro fireman. The lat
er had evidently Just finished his
supper, for he was wiping the
crease from his shining lips and
hin with the back of his hand,
which he in turn wiped on his hips.
lie procnred the oil can and torch
vas "oiling up" as a long run be-
ween stations was ahead. The ne
,ro had a neck like a bulls; he
vas somewhat knock kneed and
lad a splay of feet of an enormous
ize. He was large and strong,
md could crack hickory nuts be
ween his teeth like a hog. His
Iame was cole Bony,p which,
Iowever, was not an Authorization
# Bonaparte. He was thus called
because he diSdained to eat the
neat only of chickens surreptitious-
Y obtained. He ate bones and all.
"F I'll turn him over to Bony,"
aid Angel; "not that l mind deing
myself, but Bony will enjoy it so
luch.D
as he safef'
"Safe! why, he had rather DO it
ian play his old fiddle or dance all
light with his Dinah y
Bony was called aside and the
line revealed to him. {
"An' dat's de nigger dar who
ent am tuck an done it, ell 7"
" Yes.r
" Wotcber gwine to do wild i'm ~ |
" "Well, you see, Bony, we're 60
g to take him down on the engine,
I'd | reckon yon might let him get
way, you knowV a
" Git erway! What fawr