The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-03-16

crowd. One man. according to JBen's story,
was going. to shoot the prisoner. but BEN
IN to hin to take care Ben says he gave
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string up the sls , bss,es It was soSn
sixty feet long MeaSfme e.. fG pP.onsr Was
strong branch q few feet from the ground
:, PuryeAr was limp from fright from the time
the nIst man that took hold Of him he said
Can you get me to the jail 2"
This man said he would try. But II was use
Lewis Meyers. who was IN the crowd. made an
effort to release the prisoner and get him to
side The, rope. was adjusted BY a boy Of
men. a. many as could get hold Of sixty feet Of
rope seized It: and at 4 signal tha negro shot
the limb to which he was strung with such
force that 1t probably stunned him. for he did
News Of the lynchinz spread throughout the
town and county and all the neighborlDg
towns and the sight OF the negro attracted
the wO%sS aaS children Issn IN town cameo
FINALLY Harrison g Drake. Justice of the
nsrs Jury: They were John X. bssker, 20 10.
Nathan shsier. Drs. J. H. sEuii and William lam
the man dead. and an vndertakers wagon
came and took the body to the Iail. The Jury
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second session they adjourned until to-mor-
Sheriff Krssgs showed a reporter for The
Sun Just how Puryear made Mis- escape. Each
cell has two doors. with implicated system
the bolt that shuts It may be drawn f back sb By
"a outer Soi. 1hs sheriff She a. wa; away from
lock the door OF the nsgTos cell. she says. She
door open. The negro got hold OF a short
piece OF board and a nail, and he used the
which he Ioosend, and then with his hand
drew the inner bolt and was at large in the
The crowds which visited the scene OF the
tsepsatss The limb on which the negro
Was the hero Of the town,
lie took up cOIlsSti9p after the hanging,
Psddisi bits Of that Up and down the sf4sst ali
day at IS cent, bit He had very little left
toward nightfalL
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MI and aitS ss00 ssS ' miller the SnsS.
S.:n the and man With hS the sf !sS :
Is RTsdisisd hat q body wii know about 4 :
trial Was particularly AtTocious. He visited
him and HE wife and step. SS for some time
and Mrs Ehlers was supposed to be at the
positively Identified By the stspson. He made
fs dsys a %s IL .hs Of
and Al ii b. + Morey. 10 Which he said: " smarter
I was about tW Q feet from the door when
commenced shooting. don't SNOW who was
down there. She and her husband we're sit.
ting down on the lounge cutting u9
sSms thss door Ha next to son me- two nH u
Mis EhlSIi Idld not drs Al the sqP. When
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a. h' the I'D. Of the house. % II 9 The 'P bog
had been In there II would have been
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lars. some tsn-esnt pieces. some quarter-dol-
niss mysslL l gave my wife some Of this
money when l came back home
stroudsbnIg Il only four milss from the
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