Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-06
A CHILD FLAYED ALIVE.
A Brutal Negro Whips His Hsphow
10 Death.
Inhuman GIoa!;ag 0yer the Little Fellows
Suffering Ky Y! How de
Pieces Do Come"

CIYrNvIGLr, S. c., March 5-"You want
to sleep like white folks, do you" said
John Barnes, q stal wart able bodied negro,
as he snetched his sick little nephew out
of bed, carried him in his arms to post
outside, to which he tied him with stout
rope coiled around his knees, waist and
neck. Having thus pinInned the boy the
brute went back and got bundle OF hick-
ory switches, which ho always kept for
purposes OF cas,icition, AID began to ap.
ply them, cutting at every blow and ex'
claiming with oaths:
"YOu doesn't want 10 get up, doesn't
you? I'll make you think there's annud-
er hurricane done come"
The boy cried with pain under repeated
cuts of the withes, until at last exhausted
nature refused to give expression. Think
irg this favorable time to eItort prom
ises of future early rising from the boy,
Barnes put the question to the boy, but
the emily answer he received was drop OF
the head as the boy sighed deeply.
"You won't won't you?n shouted the
enraged man, taking the action OF the boy
as a negative. "Oh, you lazy little rascal!
You won't get out of work even il dis is
f,t,d dom days. and faster and faster the
o ows fell, cutting into the flesh and max.
il = regular layers, which, as cross blow
would sever one end, stresmad out llike
gibbons OF blood. Barnes, maddened into
'rer zy seemed to take delight in the fall
mg blows, and as fresh string OF flesh
T:s faved out, would shout out, Xxi, vi.
LIw de pieces DO cumm
At last the boys neck Strengthened up,
bis eyes rolled and his head fell upon his
a!tsst with feeble sigh, and the brutes
am. was descending with another blow
Wien il was caught up by negro woman
1lo had stood by him begging him to stay
his bloody work.
sre dar. you've dun kill d your poor
sisters chile"
TIE wretch turned and -sn.
Other YOman came on the scene about
this time, and tie first one CO led to them;
Hurry up end unite the boy, | think
he's living" But ds COZ ss the last rope
was cut the boy fcll i"to her arms dead,
resting on her shoulder.
Killed his poor sisters cid" ws the
ejaculation most freqUpnily heard. Sew
erAl men came up b. this time, attracted
by the wOman's lamentations. They c2un'
ted upon the body l5Dsspsrl'e and distinct
cuts, besides many more which were lost
in others previously made. Flesh hung
out in strings aud the body felt like a
handful OF fish worms 20 tie hngsrs as
men tried 10 liftit. ~
At last a voice was raised, where's
Barnes? Heng him. hsug him" and the
infuriated men, Joined by many others
who had now come up, joined in the
sesrch for the villain. White people
also took part il the pursuit and soon
captured him. a conflict between the two
races was imminent, owing TO the detefmi-
nation OF the negroes to lynch the Pris
oper at once He was taken safely away,
however, and is now in Andersen jail.
The boy was q son OF Barnes sister.
Dying last summer che gave him into her
brothers charge. The latter has mania
for work, declaring that not even child
should remsin idle. His cabin in the out
skirts of Towpville, where the tragedy
took plsce, is now surrounded by crowds OF
excited blacks who declare that they will
lyrch him vet