The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-04-26
WORK.
Mob Of Georgians Perpetrates .
Frightfu1 Crime.
A Negro Murderer IL Round to n Tree
and slowly; Cut 20 Rieces-The Bob
Is Completed by Pouring OIL on
the Wretch and VOastIng
Him to Death.


Newman, Ga, April 24.--Sam Hose,
the murderer OF Alfred Crawford and
the ravisher of his wife, was burned at
the stake two miles from here Sunday
afternoon in the presence OF $500 peO'
pie.
Mrs. Crawford identified the African
and her verdict was agreed to by her
daughter, who had often seen Hose
about the Crawford place.
Just as the mob that had captured
Hose were leaving Newman news was
brought that the next train from At
ANITA would bring 1000 people from At
lanta. This was taken to be regi-
ment Of soldiers and the mob decided
to burn the prisoner at the first favor
able place rather than shoot him when
the militia put in an appearance.
Leaving the town whose Sunday
quiet had been so rudely disturbed, the
mob, which now numbered nearly 1900
people, started on the roadNsb Palmet-
10. line of buggies and vehicles OF
all kinds, their drivers fighting for po-
sition in the line, followed the process
sion, at the head of which, closely
guarded, marched the negro.
Hon. w. Y. Atkinson, former COVER
nor of Georgia, met the mob as he was
returning from church and he appealed
to them 10 let the law take its course.
In addressing the mob he used these
words: "Some of you are known to
me and when this affair is finally
settled in the courts, you may depend
upon it that will testify against you"
A member of the mob drew a revolver
and leveled it at Atkinson, but his arm
was seized and the pistol taken from
him.
One half a mile out Of Newman a
place believed to be favorable for the
burning was reached. A little TO the
side OF the road was strong pine tree.
Up % this the negro was marched, his
back placed to the tree and his face
to the crowd, which .jostled close about
him. Here for the first time he was
allowed to talk. He said: ,
81 am Sam Hose. killed Alfred
Crawford, but was paid to do it; Lige
Strickland, the negro preacher at Pal
matto, gave me S12 to kill him"
AT this a roar went UP from The
crowd. The Intelligence impaired by
the, wretch was spread among them.
LET him go on; tell all you know
about it." came from tine crowd. The
negro, shvering like leaf, continued
his recital. ...
81 did not outrage Mrs. Crawford.
Somebody else did that. I can iden-
tify them. Give me time for that"
The mob would hear no more. The
clothes were torn from the wretch In
an instant. A heavy chain was pro-
duced and wound around the body OF
the negro, clasped by a new lock which
danged at Hoses neck. He said not
word to this proceeding, but at the
sight of three or four knives flashing in
the hands of several members Of the
crowd about him, which seemed to fore
cast the terrible ordeal he was about
to be put to, he sent upa loud yell. In
stantly a hand grasping knife shot
out and one of the negro's ears dropped
into a hand ready 10 receive it. Hose
pleaded pitifully for mercy and begged
his tormentors to let him die. His
cries were unheeded. The second ear
went the way of the other.
Hardly had he been deprived OF his
organs of hearing than his. fingers, one
by one, were taken from his hands and
passed among the members of the
crowd. The shrieking negro was
quickly deprived of other portions Of
his anatomy and the words: "Come
on with the oil' brought huge can of
kerosene to the foot of the tree where
the negro. his body covered with blood
from head to foot, was tugging at his
chains. The can was lifted over the
negro's head by three or four men and
its contents poured over him. BY this
time a good supply of brush, pieces of
fence rail and other tirewood had been
placed about the negro's feet. This
pyre was thoroughly saturated and a
match applied.
A fame shot upward and spread
quickly over the pile of wood. As it
licked the negro's legs ne shrielSed and
began tugging at his chains. As the
flames crept higher and the smoke en-
tered his eyes and mouth Hose put the
stumps of his hands TO the free back
of him and with terrific plunge for
ward of his body severed the upper
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oniy as far as the thighs lunged for.
ward, thus escaping the flames which
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