Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-02

RED HOT IRON BRANDS
thrust against his quivering body.
Commencing at the feet the brands
were placed against him inch by inch
until they were placed against the face
Then being apparently dead, kerosene
was poured upon him, cottJnseed hulls
placed beneath him and set on fire.
In less time than it takes 10 relate it
the tortured man was waited beyond
this vale of tears to another fire hotter
and more terrible than the one just eX-
perienced.
Words 10 describe the awful torture
inflicted upon Smith cannot be found.
The story appalls one with its fear
ful, awful terror.
The negro, for long time after start
ing on the journey TO Paris, did not re-
alize his plight.
Atl-st chen he was told be must die
the most awful death by slow torture
that human mind could conceive
HE BEGGED FOR PROTECTION.
What protection could he get with
thousands Of people from Hope to Paris
demanding his life?
He was willing to be shot, and wanted
Marshal Shanklin, Of Paris, TO do it,
but he was told he would be burned to
death.
His agony was awful. He pleaded
and writhed Ia bodily and mental pain
in anticipation.
Scarcely had the train reached Paris
than his torture commenced.
His clothes were torn of piece-meal
and scattered in the crowd, people
catching the shreds and putting them
away as mementOes.
The chlld's father. her brother and
two uncles then gathered about the
negro as he lay fastened to the torture
| platform and thrust hot irons into his
Quivering flesh.
1t was hoIrlblel On, God Of mercies,
| il was terrible!
This man dying by slow torture in
/ the midst OF
SMOKE FROM Ills OWN BURNING FLESH.
Every groan from the fiend, every
cOntOrtion Of his body was cheered by
/ the thickly packed crowd Of 10000 peo-
pie.
The mass OF beings was six hundred
yards in diameter, the scafold being the
center.
After burning the feet and legs, the
hot irons, plenty of fresh ones being at
hand, were rubbed up and down Smiths
stomach, back and arms.
Then the eyes were burned out and
irons we're thrust down his throat.
The men Of the Vance family having
wreaked vengeance, the crowd piled all
bninds OF cOmbustible stuff around the
scaffold, poured oil on it and set it on
fire.
The negro rolled and wriGgled and
tossed out of the mass only TO be pushed
back by the people nearest him,
He tossed out again and was
RoPED AND PULLED BACK.
Hundreds OF people turned away but
the vast crowd still looked calmly on.
People were there from every part of
this section. Every train that came in
was loaded TO its utmost capacity, and
/ there were demands at many points FOR
special trains TO bring people here to see
/ the unparalleled punishment OF tend
/ for an unparalleled crime, and when the
news Of the burning went over the
country like wild fire, at every town
anvils doomed forth the announcement.
Curiosity seekers have carried away
already all that was left Of the memOr-
able event, even TO pieces Of charcoal.
The cause OF the crime was that
Henry Vance, when a deputy police
man, In the course of his duty, was call
ed 10 arrest Henry Vance for being
/ drunk and diSOrderly.
! The negro swore vengeance and sew
eral times assaulted Vance.
In his greed for revenge, he last
Thursday grabbed up the little girl and
committed the crime that he will never
again commit.
The father is proStrated with grief,
and the mother now lies at deaths
door, but she has now lived to see the
slayer of her innocent babe suffer the
most horrible death that could be con-
Ceiyed.