Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-31
at,RNEp TO DEATH.
Tho Terrible Fate Met by Negro Muir
dercr at the Hands of an Angry Mob in



dercr at the Hands of an Angry Mob in
Texas.
QUEEN CRY, Tex., Oct. 27,-The
negro, Lee Green, who murdered the
wife and child of Farmer Law, z
miles from this place, on Saturday, was
on Monday burned at the stake in
sight of the scene of his double crime.
Before he died he confessed the MUIR
ders and said that he committed the
crime for the money, $50, which he OBJ
tanned.
Green was captured Sunday night by
posse and taken to the Jail at Linden.
He was caught near Kildare after some
resistance, but when he found he was
to go to Jail accompanied the officers
without making any trouble. Monday
morning at 3 o'clock crowd appeared
about the Jail and demanded the keys
The jailer's wife refused at first to
give them up, but yielded finally to
the threats of the determined men.
Green was hastily taken from his cell
and put on a horse and closely guarded
as he was conveyed to the house of
| Farmer Law. No attempt to harm
| him was made as the men seemed de-
termined to make no possible mistake.
| Upon the arrival of the crowd and
the negro at the house of the farmer
| the negro was turned over to Mr.. Law
and the crowd drew back, recognizing
the right of the bereaved to take his re-
venge. Green was led by Law to the
side of the well in which had been
| found the bodies of the woman and
her daughter. The heart-brol1en man
asked the negro if he had committed
the crime and Green confessed it. He
said that he approached Mrs. Green
as she was bending over washtub and
struck her over the head with heavy
stick which he carried. He had
not at first intended to kill her
but fearing he had done SO took up the
body to throw it into the well when
the 7-year-old daughter of the woman
began to scream. He threw the body
of the mother down the hole and them
beat out the brains of the child and
dropped the second body as he had the
first.
! A little 4-year-old boy ran up from
the yard and began to cry as he discov--
cred that his mother was missing. In,
desperation and determined to leave
no possible chance for discovery, the
young negro grasped the boy and
dropping him into the well threw the
tubs and washboard after him, expect
ing that the child would be killed by
them. Green then robbed the house,
securing $50, and started to escape,
stealing horse from neighbor
When the confession had been made
Mr.. Law turned the negro over to the
guards and retired into the house and
entered into a consultation with his
} neighbors, who made up the principal
portion of the crowd. They did not
/ constitute all of it, however, for all
day long there had been arriving at the
: plantation groups of men, white and
black. from all parts of this and adjoin-
ing counties
: Shortly after noon Mr.. Law told the
) leaders of the mob to take Green ont
and lynch him. They in turn yielded
I to the strong solicitations of the coll
, ored men who made up great por-
e ton of the party and told the latter
E that they could wreals on him atting
e punishment. The consultation be-
: tween them was not protracted. There
: was little need of it, and at 2:3O o'clock
a Green was led out to the side of the
!. road and placed against tree and a
log-chain twisted about his neck and
body to hold him in an erect position.
n Immediately forty-six negro men
n began to pile about the tree a mass of
fagots. The young fend saw that his
l. fate was ut hand and began to beg for
5 mercy and yell with terror. A number
n of aged negresses had collected and
k their chants, mingled with the stronger
i, ones of the men who were construct.
q ing the funeral pyre- made a wierd
= scene. One, an itenerant preacher, be.
IS gan to pray, but his voice was lost in
e the din, he could not make himself
e heard and the young ruffian who stared
IS death in the face received no consolar
tion from the supplication. Suddenly an
n old negress walked out of the throng
l. which had drawn back as the pile
l. had been completed and touched &
A match to the light wood. In a momenl
e. the smoke and flames began to arise
ID The cries of the dying man, encirclel
n, by them, became fainter and fainter
te and in few minutes his soul hat
t, passed to eternity not fifty-four hour
le behind those of his victims
I'd The crowd which witnessed tn,
IN burning of the murderer number
c. about 1000 and was made up abou
nt equally of whites and blacks.
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