El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-24
GEORGIA
SAVAGES
With Inhuman Frenzy Tor
ture And Burn An AC-
cused Negro.
AS BAD AS APAChES
We Speak Of Civi|izing 9th
er Countries While Such
Dark Crimes As These
Go Unpunished.

| ATLANTA, Ga, April PA negro
murderer named Sam Hose, who ter
days ago killed q farmer named An
drew Crawford and brutally assaulted
his wife, was taken from the custody oi
Sheriff Brown at Newman, Ga, yester-
day and burned at the stake by q mob
of one thousand.
One and one half miles out of New.
nan a halt was made. A little to
the side of the road was
a strong pine tree. Up to
this the negro was marched, and his
back was placed to the tree. his face to
the crowd, which jostled closely about
him.
Here for the first time he was al
lowed to talk. He said: 'I am Sam
Hose, l killed Andrew Crawford, but
1 was paid to do it. Liee Strickland,
me S12 to kill him.
At this roar went up from the
mob The intelligence impaired by
Hose was spread among them.
''Let him go on" "Tell all you
know about it," came from the mob.
The negro, shivering like leaf, con-
tinued his recital.
"l did not outrage Mrs. Gran ford.
Somebody else did that. I can ider-
tify the man. Give me time for
that
The mob would hear 70 more. The
ho afnh t.
an instant. A heavy chain was pro-
duced, wound around the naked
body of the terrified negro, and clasp
ed by lock at his neck.
He said not word at this proceed
ing. But a moment later, ct the sight
of half q dozen knives in the hands of
members of the mob, he sent up a
blood curdling yell.
In another moment hand grasping
a knife shot out and one of the negro's
ears dropped into snother's hand,
ready to receive it.
Hose pleaded pitifully for mercy and
begged his tormentors to kill him
quickly. His cries were unheeded.
His other ear was cut off with bar
barous frenzy. Then his fingers, one
by one, were severed from his hands
and passed among the members of the
yelling and now thoroughly maddened
crowd.
The shrieking negro was quickly de-
prived of other portions of his anato-
"Come on with the oil" now cried
some, and almost Immediately huge
can of kerosene was produced and
placed at the foot of the tree, where
The negro, his body covered with blood
rom head to foot, was striving and
at his chains.
The can was lifted over the negro's |
head by three or four men and it's con-
;ents poured over him. By this time a
good supply of brush, pieces of fence
'ails, and other firewood had been
placed about the negro's feet.
The pyre was thoroughly saturated
and match applied. A flame shot up
ward and syresd quickly over the pile
Of wood.
AS it licked. the negro's legs he
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his chains. AS the flames crept high
er and the smoke entered his eyes and
mouth Hose put the stumps of his
hands against the tree back Of him
and with a terrific lunge forward
severed the upper portion of the
chains which bound him to the tree.
His body, held to the tree only as
far as the thighs. lunged forward, thus
the flames which roared and
crackled about his feet.
One of the men nearest the burning
negro quickly ran up and pushing him
back said, Get back into the fire
tn ere,' and quickly coupled the dis
jointed links of the chain
PALMETTO, Ca, April 24.-Lige
Strickland, the negro preacher who
was accused by Sam Hose (who was
burned at the stake yesterday by a
m OBJ of paying him to kill farmer