The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-02-27
BURNED AT THE STAKE.

BURNED AT THE STAKE.
The Assaulted Woman Applied the Match Whic
Gave the Fiend Taste Of He'll.
st. Louis, Feb. 26.-The Repub
lies special from Texarkana, Ar.
kansas, says: Ed. Coy, the negro
fiend, who last Saturday feloniously
assaulted Mrs. Henry Jewell, wife
of a respectable farmer living few
miles outside of the city. this after
noon answered for his awful crime
being burned at the stake in the
presence of 5000 people.
Jewell left his wife and baby
alone while he came to town last
Saturday. During the afternoon
the negro came to the house and
assaulted Mrs. Jewell. He then
dragged her into the barn where he
kept her an hour, assaulting her
repeatedly.
When Jewell returned no time
was was lost in giving the alarm
and soon scores of men were scour-
ing the country in all directions.
During the night two negroes
we're arrested but Mrs. Jewell de-
clared them innocent and they
were discharged. Finally it was
learned the guilty negro was Ed.
Coy. and that he had gone north
toward the Little river country.
The search was vigorously pros
ecuted, but without avail until
early this morning, when a mes
sage came from a farmer named
Scott saying Coy was at the house
OF Ed Givens, negro living near
him, and asking for men to come
out and arrest him.
Before the posse reached the
place Coy had started away, but
was intercepted by Scott and his
sons, and held until the posse ar
rived. Mrs. Jewell identified him
without hesitation. Coy was
placed in room and guarded until
the last of the searching parties re-
turned to town.
When it all the leaders heldla |
and decided to hang |
Coy. He was accordingly brought |
out and started FIR Broad street,
where it was the intention to hang
him. Arrived there, some one |
threw up rope, but the mass of
people set ap shout Burn him!
Burn him!'
Finally the crowd forced him on
State Line avenue. When near
The postof1ice someone who had
nold of the rope moose which was
about the prisoners neck, at
empted to climb a telegraph pole.
lie was uncermoniously dragged to
he ground.
Burn him! Burn him!" went up
he cry again and it was clearly to
een that death by fire alone would
lppease the wrath of the people.
At this juncture Charles M
teeves, a leading citizen, mounted
IN elevation and besought the
rowd for the sake of their wives
nd children, if they were deter
mined to burn the wretch, to take
nm outside of the city. The APP
eal had the desired affect and a
ush was made to the suburbs.
Near the Iron Mountain tracks a
lngle stump about 10 feet high
TODD alone in a clearing, and
hither the negro was dragged.
Another man who favored hang
'g began climbing the stump, but
venty leveled shotguns impelled
i'm to descend hurriedly.
The negro was then made secure
the stump with wire fastenings
nd a liberal supply of kerosene
as poured over him.
A shout went up: "Let his VIC
IN apply the match; let Mrs.
'well light the match" {
In response to the call she
merged from the crowd supported {
her relatives. Without a word
70 spokesman placed in her hands
match. She looked at the negro
I'd falteringly turned to the c
ovid.
mo, you apply i'll" was the cry c
the woman was seen to falter. y
re struck the match applied it to il
Q clothing of the wretch in two
aces and stepped awav Tn n