The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-04-26
FOR NAIIELESS crime!
A Nero savisher Burnt at the Stake
bv Infu-iated White Men.

A Nero aavisher Burnt at the Stake
by Infuciated White Men.
Sam Hose, the murderer If Alfred
Crawford, who assaulted the victims
wife and dragged her owe the dying
body Of her husband, has paid the
penalty Of his crime by the most ter
| rible death a criminal ever suffered
10 this State.
Hose was captured at the home Of
bis mother near Marsballville Satur-
day night and brought to Newman
aud lodged io ill Sunday morning.
A crowd OF $500 people took him
from the Sheriff aud burned him a.
the stake after cutting off his ears
and mutillating his body in an in,
describable manner.
Hose confessed the crime, and III
his death agony said that L'ge
Strickland, another negro, paid him
go 10 kill Mr.. Cranfo,d. AS the
result Of this statement Lige St,ick-
land was lynched Sunday night, and
his body was found hanging to a
tree about a mile from Palmetto
Monday morning.
The awful Gene at The death Of
Sam Hose is graphically described
by a member Of The Journal staff,
who wrote the following dispatch on
the scere of the tragedy:
BURNED TO DEATH.
Newman, Ga April 23.-Sam Hose
was burned at a stake two miles from
Newman on the Palmetto road. The
torch was applied at 2:3O o'clock.
At 2:4O a chain which held the
negro to a tree broke aud fell Into
the flames. The fire was put out
and the negro chained again. He
slowly burned. B>fore the fire was
| started both ears were cut eff and he
was ~emasculated.
At ESQ p m, Hose ceased his
fearful contortions, and his head
dropped upon his shoulder. The
crowd cheered every contortion.
Warning was given for nene to shoot,
but to let him die by degrees. Then
an eager crowd sprang upon him and
cut out his vital organs. Men taking
pieces of his heart, etc, as CHASTITY
souvenirs Of the terrible event.
While burning he confessed all
the details and implicated a negro
named Lige Strickland, who had
offered him $40 to kill Crawford.
On the way to the stake Hose was
positively identified by Mrs. Nc
Elroy, Mrs. Cranford's mother, and
also by Mrs. Cranford's sister.
Hose was marched through the
streets of Newman, followed by at
least $500 people.
s'This is a warning to all negroes!"
cried the crowd.
I left the scene of torture at 5
o'clock, and Hose was unconscious.
He did not utter a cry, but several
blood vessels broke from the agony
Of the torture.
Hundreds are now at the scene
| and Newman is almost deserted.
Sam Hose was first put il the
Newman j,i], and the crowd waited
for Mrs. Crawford, who is in Newman,
to reach the Jail. The crowd was
very orderly, but such determination
as is shown by 2 $40 people I have
never seen before.
The trip from Griffin was made
yer; quickly. Sheriff Brown refused
to accept Hose at the depot in New
nan, demanding that he be delivered
at the j4il. He was marched
the streets, thousands wildly cheer
ing and hundreds in line.
Sheriff Brown and the captors Of
Hose, the Jones brothers, of Marshall
vile, put their heads close to the
prisoner as they marched, saying:
Boys, be quiet. II you shoot
him you will kill US. We are going
to take this man to JAIL.
Thousands packed about the Jail,
and many ladies were on the scene,
waving their handkerchiefs and ap-
plauding the men who made the
capture. Nothing on earth could
| hayad saved Hose, and a regiment of
soldiers would have been powerless.
Mrs. Cranford's arrival was await
ed impatiently, and it was reported
she was on the way to the Ill.
Sheriff Brown had been informed
that he must deliver Hose to the
crowd, and he acceded to their de-
maud to save a wholesale loss of life.
The crowd blocked everv street. in