Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-27
a TOUCH OF HE'LL.
Bill Howard, Il Negro RapEst, Hung to
a Lamp-POst in the Public Square,
and Afterward Roasted and
Embellishments tiOns
that RIVaIIed Pan
demOnium.

Fort Scott (Kas.) special to the Times
Journal: 1.-The residents of this community
were startled and outraged by the intelligence
received early this morning, (twenty-
third instantly that the twelve-year
old daughter Of George Pond had been
ravished by negro named Jim Howard. On
Sunday night the little girl was left at home,
distant from Fort Scott some six miles, by
her parents, in charge of the other and
younger members of the family, and about
eight o'clock going out to the gate of the
residence to look for her parents, she was
seized by the inhuman iend who accomplish
ed her ruin. He grasped her from behind,
and placing his hand over the child's mouth
to prevent an alarm. and swearing he
would choke her if she cried, he
the brush some distance removed,
aud there consummated his deVillsh design.
Then conveying the poor defenseless child
still further, ne for the second, third and
fourth time repeated the crime that brands
him as the most depraved of criminals. FL
naliy releasing his prey, as would the wild
beast, all mangled, torn and disfigured, but
pointing first to light IN the distance. ne
fed from the justice that was MS due. The
poor girl found her way to the house of Dr..
Parsons, about five miles from the place
where she was abducted. A medical exami-
nation shows the girl to be seriously injured,
and although she will probably recover it is
possible her life may pay the forfeit Of the
outrage. Hundreds of men, so soon Us the
facts were ascertained, formed themselves
into volunteer corps to hunt for the villain so
destitute of humanity, but up to this hour ne
has not been captured. Ii found, the senti-
ment is so strong that his lite will undoubL-
eddy be offered up as a sacrifice to the feelings
of a community that will not suffer such
brute to live"
LATER PARTICULARS
ST. LOUIS, March ga Fort Scott, Kan
sas, dispatch says: Yesterday Bill Howard,
a negro, who cruelty and diaboically raped
twelve-year old daughter of George Pond,
was discovered in an old mine half a mile
distant from the residence of Pond, and
about six miles from this city. After some
little parley he came forth and delivered
himself up, after beng promised by his cap
tors that he should receive no bodily ham
from them. About two o'clock the cOrteGe
arrived in town, and the prisoner was
promptly lodged IN Jail. But soon the eX-
element rose to fever hight, and the breath of
lynching was announced with emphasis, the
facts of the case being so horrible as to be
without a parallel in the history of crime.
About seven o'clock fully one thousand per
sons, accompanied by thirty masked men, Ia
a solid line, with drawn reviewers IN their
hands, marched to the Jail, overpowered all
resistance, tore the iroa grating from How
ards cell and forclbly took him out. A rope
was then tied around his neck, and amid
yells and shouts the demon was dragged by
hundred hands the distance of five bl7cks
and hung to lamIspost on the corner Of the
public square by the Infatuated mob, whose
anger had passed all bounds. After the body
had hung there fifteen minutes, on the shout
of 'Burn him." BURN him!" being started
they took 1t down and dragged it to the square
In spite Of all resistance and the objections Of
the more quiet and peaceable porti IN Of the
crowd and literally roasted and burned the
| remains in fire Of dry goods boxes and coal
oil, amid demonstrations that rivaled pande-
monium. The good citizens regret that the
excitement Of the people, bent on revenge,
should have led into such a barbarous act,
but it is only just to the citizens of Fort Scott
to state that most of the active parties in the
| act are residents of the country, and largely
| of the coal banks in this vicinity"