, 1892-02-21
ROASTED ALIVE.
An Arkansas Negro ~Criminally
Assaults a White Woman.
Six Thousand People Turn Out
and Capture Him.
Tied to a Stake, Saturated
with Kerosene,
And His Victim Touches a
Match to Him.
He Dies Mid the Shouts of the
Assembled People.
Burned at the Stake

ST.. LOUIS. Feb. 20. The Republics
special from Texarkana, Ark, says: Ed.
Coy, a negro iend who last Saturday
iendlshly assaulted Mrs. Henry Jewell,
the wife of a respectable farmer living a
few miles outside the city. this afternoon
answered for his awful crime, being
burned at the stake in the presence of
5000 people.
Jewell left his wife and babe alone last
Saturday while he came to town on bust
ness. During the afternoon the negro
came to tie house and assaulted Mrs.
Jewell.
He then dragged her into a barn where
he kept her about an hour, assaulting her
repeatedly. When Jewell returned home
no m was lost in giving the alarm and
soonIscores OF men were securing the
country in all directions. During the
night two negroes were arrested, but
Mrs. Jewell declared them innocent and
they were discharged. Finally 1t was
learned the guilty negro was Ed Coy aud
that he had gone north toward Little
River county.
The search was vigorously prosecuted,
DuJ WlIuOut AVAIL uutll tdrlN tuls mOTulDB.
when a message came from a farmer
named Scott saying Coy was at the house
of Ed. Owens, a negro living near him,
and asking for men to con.e out and ar
rest him. Before the posse reached the
place Coy had started away, but was in
tercepted by Scott and his SONS and held
until the posse arrived. Mrs. Jewell
identified him without hesitation.
Coy was placed in a room and heavily
guarded until the last of the searching
parties returned to town. When all were
in the leaders held a consultation and de-
| cided to hang Coy. He was accordingly
led out and started for Broad street where
1t was intended to hang him. When they
arrived there some one threw up a rope
but the mass of the people set up a shout,
burn him, burn him." Finally the
crowd forced the men who held the negro
to move north on Stale Line avenue.
When near the postofice someone who
had hold of the rope, the moose of which
was about the prisoners neck, attempted
to climb a telegraph pole. He was un-
tremendously dragged to the ground.
Burn him. burn him. went up the
cry again and again, and it was clearly
to be seen that death by FIRE alone would
appease the wrath of the people. At
this juncture Charles NJ. Reeves, a lead
Ing citizen, mounted an elevation and be-
seeched the crowd for the sake of their
wives and children, il they were deter
mined to burn the wretch to take him
outside the city.
The appeal had the desired effect and a
rush was made to the suburbs. Near the
Iron Mountain tracks a lsingle stump
about ten feet high stood alone IN the
clearing and thither the wretched negro
was dragged. Another man who favored
hanging began climbing the stumb. but
twenty levelled ~shotguns impelied him to
descend hurriedly. The negro was then
made secure to the stump with wire fas-
Jennings and a liberal supply of kerosene
was poured over him.
A shout went up, Let his victim apply
the match. Let Mrs. Jewell set the
fire." In response to the call Mrs.
Jewell emerged from the crowd, sup
ported by relatives and walked to the
place of execution. Without a word the
spokesman placed in her hand a match.
She looked at the negro and falteringly
turned to the crowd. mo; you apply
it." was the cry as the woman was seen to
falter. She struck the match, applied 1t
to the clothing of the wretch in two
places and stepped away.
In a few moments the negro was a
sheet of flames writhing and groaning in
horrible agony. Death resulted in about
ten minutes. Only about twenty min
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