Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-02-11
His Quivering Flesh Burned
Through and Through With
Hot Irons,
While IA Mass Of Men, Women ana
Children Gaze With APP
prevail.
News Heralded by Booming An
wills And This Is Civil
cation.

Paris Tex, Feb. Henry Smith, the
negro rayisher of fouT-year-old Myrtle
Vance has expiated in part his awful
CRIME by death at the stake. Ever
since the preparation Of his awful
crime, this city and entire sulroultll.-
country has been in "a wild frenzy Of
excitement.
When the news came Last night j..U
he had been captured ut Hope, 1.fh e.
sas, the city went wild with joy ON~. ,...
apprehension of the brute. Hundreds
OF people poured into the city from the
adjoining country ana word passed
from lip to liz that the punishment OF
the hend should be death by tire. Wits
key shops were closed, the unruly mobs
were dispersed, the schools We're dis
missed by proclamation from the mayer
aud everything was d)ue III u business
Ike manner.
The law was laiu aside and citizens
took III their own hands the inhmuun
beast and burned him at the stake.
Never before since the days OF the Span
terrible punishment meted out TO any
man.
Tie history Of tie case is us follows:
Thursday last Smith picked up Little
Myrtle vance, aged Lhree and half
years, hear her fathers, Policeman
Henry \ance's residence, ana carrying
her To a pasture near the outskirts OI
the city first assaulted the innocent babe
but not satisfying his neuulsh passion
took one OF her little limbs Ia each
hand and literally tore her IN twain.
Then covering the body with leaves
and brush he lay down and slept calm
ly through the night by the side OF his
victim. Friday morning Smith went 10
the house OF his wife and forced her to
cook him IA breakfast. After eating II
he left town.
The cnuds remains We're found Fri
day afternoon and when the news OF
the auOciouS crime spread, the whole
town turned out in a chase. The rail
roads put up bulletins Offering free trans
portauon 10 ali who would join in the
search. Posses went out in every di-
rection and not a stone was left I'M
turned.
Smith was tracked to Detroit, where
hc mad gone on loot and there jumped
a freight train and left for his old home
ia ARKANSAS. Yesterday he was captured
near Hope, Arkansas and fully ldenu-
lied.
This morning he was brought through
TcNarkana Where 5000 people awaited
the tram anxious 10 see the man, AT
that place speeches We're made by
prominent Paris ciuzens, who asked that
the prisoner be not moleSted by IeXar-
Kama people, but that guard be allowed
to deliver him up TO the outraged and in
diguant citizens OF Paris.
Along the road the train gathered
strength from various towns, people
CrOWdIug upon the platforms and tops
Of the coaches, anxious to see the lynch
ms ana the negro who was soon TO be
delivered to m Infatuated mob.
Arriving here at one o'clock, the train
was met by a surging mass Of humanity,
10000 strong, Inc negro was placed
upon a carnival tloat in mockery of u
king upon a throne, and followed by an
immense crowd, and was escorted
through the city SO all might see the
inhuman monster. When the procession
had marched through the principal
streets, it halted in the open prairie
about 800 yards from the Texas Pacific
depot
Here Smith was placed upon n scat1old
six feet square ana ten feet high, secure
~ bound, within view of all beholders.
Here he was tortured fifty minutes by
red hot branding irons being thrust
against his Quiyering body Commening
at the feet the brands We're placed
against him inch by inch until they were
thrust against his face.
Words to describe the awful torture
inflicted upon Smith cannot be found.
The story appalls one with its fearful
awful terror. The negro, for a long
time after starting on his journey 70
Paris, did not realize his awful plight
At last, when told that he must die the
most aw1ll death by slow torture that
human mind could conceive, he begged
for protection. He was willing TO be
shot, and wanted Marshal Shaklin, OF
Paris to do ii, but was told he WA TO