St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-02

the grave TO another life, hotter and
more terrible than the one just expert
enced. Curiosity seekers have carried
away almost all that was left of the
memorable event, even to pieces of
charcoal. The cause of the crime was
that Henry Vance, when a deputy
policeman, in the course Of his duty
was called to arrest Henry Smith for
being drunk and disorderly. The negro
was unruly, and Vance was forced to
use his club. The negro swore venge-
ance, and several 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
Frustrated with grief, and the mother
now lies at deaths door, but she has
lived to see the slayer OF her innocent
babe suffer the most horrible death
that could be conceived.
The Awful Torture.
Words to describe the awful torture
inflicted upon Smith cannot be found.
The story appalS with its fearful, awful
terror. The negro for long time after
starting Oh the journey to Paris did not
realize his plight. At last, when he was
told he must die the most awful death
by slow torture that human mind could
conceive, he begged for protection.
What protection could he get with thou
sands OF people from Hope to Paris de-
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 in
bodily and mental pain in anticipation.
Scarcely had the train reached
Paris than this torture com
menced. His clothes were torn off
by piecemeal and scattered in the
crowd, people catching the shreds and
putting them away as mementOeS. The
child's father, her brother and two
uncleS then gathered about the negro
and thrust hot irons into his quivering
flesh. 1t was horrible. Oh, God of
mercy, it was terrible. This man dying
by slow torture in the midst of smoke
from his own burning flesh. Every
groan from the tiend, every cOntOrtion
of his body was cheered by the thickly
packed crowd of 10000 people. The
mass of beings was 600 yards in diam
eter, the Scaffold being the center.
After burning the feet and legs the hot
irons, plenty of fresh ones being at
hand. were rolled up and down Smiths
stomach, back and arms. Then the
Eyes Were Burned Out
and hot irons were thurst down his
throat. The men of the Vance family
having wreaked vengeance, the crowd
piled all kinds of combustibIe stuff
around the scatfold, poured oil Oh it and
set it atire. 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 here from every part of this
section. They came from Dallas,
Fort Worth, Sherman, Denison, Texar-
kama, Fort Smith, Ark, and a party of
fifteen came from Hampstead county,
Ark, where he was captured. Every
train that came in was loaded to its ut
most capacity, and there were demands
at many points for special trains to
bring people here to see the un-
paraIleled punishment of fiend for an
unparalleled crime, and when the news
of the burning went over the country
like wildtre at every country town an
wills doomed forth the announcement.