Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-02-21
BURNED At THE STAKE.
A Negro RapiSt's Victim Applies the
Torch to the Oil
THAT HAD BEEN POURED ON HIM
And in an Instant the Flames Were Licking His
Body-Seven Minutes Of Terrible Agony and
All is 0ver-The Woman Identified Him
but Shrank from Lighting The Fire.

TEXARKANA, ARK, February 90
Ed Coy, the negro who last Saturday
evening brutally outraged Mrs. Henry
Jewett, much respected white lady,
at her house, about four miles from this
city, was captured this morning and is
now in eternity, having atoned in a hor-
rible manner for his fearful crime. The
dead man was mulatto. Upto the last
hour before his death he declared that
he was innocent.
During a reporters interview with
him this morning he said he had been
on the run since last Saturday night,
and gave as his reason for leaving at
that time that he WINS told that the
Sheriff was after him for gambling.
Sunday night he went to Texarkana,
to William Yancey's house, intending to
surrender, but was told by the negroes
that if be did so he would be lynched.
He then left. He returned once more
to Texarkana last night, he says, in
tending to surrender.
When near the residence OF Calvin
Scott, however, he was captured by Mr..
G.. Scott and kept under guard by him
all night. This morning Marshal
Renshaw, accompanied by a small
posse, went to Mr.. Scott's house and
took the negro In charge.
He was at once taken TO the residence
of Henry Jewett and was promptly and
fully identified.
When taken into Mrs. Jewett's pres
ence he said to her: "Are these the
clothes the man had on?"
mo, but you are the rascal that as
saulted me-" came the instant rejoin-
der. This afternoon crowd OF a
thousand people secured Coy from his
captors as they were bringing him to
the city. Up Broad street they marched
with him and through the little city,
and to the Iron Mountain round-hohse.
A large stake to which had been fas-
tened some guy wires, was what they
wanted, and it was found here. Up 10
this they brought the cringing negro,
and in a twinking he was securely
bound to 1t. One OF the mob advanced
with a can OF coal oil, which had been
secured from a neighboring house, and
the crowd then knew what fate was In
store for the negro.
wv mere MIS-. JeWeJt! was bHt
cry from many throats. Here" re-
sponeded a few voices on the edge OF
the crowd. "Bring her forward" was
ordered by man who seemed to be
master of ceremonies.
The woman made her way through
the crowd which willingly made way
for her and in q minute was in front OF
the frightened negro. Without word
the spokesman placed In her hands a
torch.
Mrs. Jewett looked at the negro, the
torch and the spokesman, and falter-
ingly turned to the crowd. "No, no,
apply it," was the cry as the woman
was seen to falter. The tcrch was APP
piled instantly by the woman, who i'm
medlately turned and made her way
through the crowd. The flames licked
up around the negroes legs, and he was
soon enveloped, all the while yelling
Justify. In seven minutes he was dead
after the most excruciating agony. The
good people OF Texarkana deplore the
necessity of mob law, is the verdict to-
night, but the opinion is general that
Coy has been rightly served.