The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-31
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ter, Tex.-Thnusands Looked On-The
 To Repeatedly Distinguished to Prolong
 Agony-His Fate Decided by Vote
 my Women and Children in the Crowd |
 ht Surrounded the soainld'
 Ter, Tex, Oct, SO.-For the second |
 in the history of the Lone Star |
 ,e a negro has paid the penalty of
 6>rutal passion toward white women
 being burned to death at the stake. 1
 Sunday evening Mrs, Leonard Bell, |
 ,nineteen-yea wife of a prosper farmer living near Kilgore, visited
 mother, and about dusk started to " K home along a lonely road On the # she passed 8 cotton gin, where a X lber of negroes were at work. x bon afterward her mutilated body
 found at the side of the road. There every evidence of a terrible struggle
 ing taken place, as her body was
 ost naked. The fisnd, after assault
 her, had cut her throat from ear to and completely disemboweled her. N}e alarm was quickly given, and the \ ghborlng farmers began assembling
 ahe scene of the outrage.
 The officers of Tyler were asked to \ assistance in capturing the murder A special train was chartered on Sf Cotton Belt road and g. record aking run was made to Rusk peni- tiary forty miles distant. There K of bloodhounds was secured, and return trip was made with equal ed. The hounds and a party of men N for Kilgore upon its arrival and fly Monday morning they joined in \ s chase.
 \ Nhe dogs at once took the scent, and CT tracking it distance of two miles V It the trail. They crossed and re-
 pesed the scent until late at night, en they again picked up the trail, \ Id at o'clock yesterday morning they pped in front of a cotton pen, three K les from Kilgore, where they began to F y, thus signifying they had run their \ etim to earth.
 li The officers entered and found a negro leep. He was awakened, but offered
 resistance. He was securely hand ! fled. Just as the authorities were \ lVing with their prisoner a mob of 200 | rsons came up. Each man was heaY- { armed, and although the demand for e prisoner was not at once acquiesced yet the officers said they would take
 seir prisoner wherever told.
 The mob then left for the scene of the Murder In the meantime word had read through the surrounding country, Ad each little hamlet gave its quota to Me crowd of man hunters. The mob
 as composed of determined men, and
 ey soon chose a committee from the
 ost deliberate and prominent citizens
 investigate the identity of the prison
 Witnesses were summoned and closely X #lterrogated, the result being that his
 entity was clearly established. While s his was taking place the officers were Aarching toward the city and escorting N heir prisoner and fianked by hundreds sf well-armed men.
 S8 When they began descending the hill Which leads to the city they were met y a committee, who reported the result s4f the investigat ton, and demanded that he negro be turned over to them. The ficers demurred at first, but the posse s%ould brook no delay, and 300 armed hen quickly overpowered the guards x snd secured the prisoner, who had
 cen identified as Henry Hilliard, a ne- Fro, who was married and lived nearly si Il his life in the vicinity of his crime. W He was brought before the committee, # nd, trembling in every limb, stammer- Nd out a confession of his guilt, which, s8n substance, is aIs follows:
 q was coming down the road and saw Mrs. Bell in the road She was scared sbf me, and knew that if I passed her fshe would say that I tried to assault sner and I concluded that I would as- Etsault her and then kill her. I cut her hroat and cut her in another place and &eft."
 W He then asked Sheriff Smith for pen Scil and paper and scribbled the follow ling note to his wife:
 T am arrested by Wig Smith. Don't 8know what they will do with me. If I sdon't see you amy more, goodby. (SigneO HENRY" He requested the sheriff to send the Snote to his wife, and that officer grimly accompanied the message with the re- mark that the negros wife would soon know all about his fate The news of Sthe negro's capture had spread like wild fire, and every cross road and turnpike was filled with the dust of hundreds Of vehicles, as their occupants urged the horses to the top speed in order to reach Tyler in time to witness the execution, which, by a general understanding, had been agreed upon.
 After his confession and thorough Identification a vote was taken as to the mode of punishment. It was unani- mously decided to burn him and 1t was agreed that he should suffer his penalty on the public square of Tyler.
 The crowd greeted the vote with a volley of cheers, and, quickly falling into line behind the committee and the prisoner, began the march to the city. It was estimated that nearly 4,000 per sons were in the procession, that rep resented every shade of humanity and condition of life, from the highest to the lowest.
 The procession wound along the road in semi-military style and shortly after 4 o'clock the advance guard entered the main plaza of the center of the city This was filled to overflowing by an ex- pectant crowd, which had waited sever al hours in the broiling sun in order that they might have a vantage ground or which to xyiav.r tbe death DenaltY as il