The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-04-29
The Burning of the Negro Hose.

The New Orleans Daily States
commenting on the Burning at the
stake of The negro Hose, says:
1Ie negro who murdered a white
farmer near Newman, Georgia, and
then assaulted the wife OF his victim,
was burned by mob of 1000 peo-
pie on Sunday afternoon. He had
escaped capture for some ten days
after the preparation of his 'helilsh
crimes, and when arrested admitted
the murder but denied the assault.
declaring that a negro. preacher
named Strickland had paid him Sl2
to do the killing. When taken be-
fore Mrs. Crawford she fully identi-
fed him as her asssilant, adding that
he told her he chad longed for the
OCCASION" At last accounts Strick-
land was being tried before Judge
Lynch. Some of the crowd were in
favor of lynehing him while others
we're of the opinion that Hose had
lied and thought they might execute
an innocent man.
The scene Of the burning was n
horrible ONE, the details of which it
is needless to here give. After the
wretch was chained to tree a can
of kerosine oil was poured over him
one of the men who handled it is
said to be native of Pennsylvania
and match applied. Previously
his ears and some of his fingers were
cut off. While the punishment was
fitted to the crime, it is to be
deplored that the crowd were guilty
of acts that followed the burning.
The body, and even the tree were
cut TO pieces and seized upon as SOU
venirs.
The Atlanta Constitution COM
ments editorially as follows on the
crimes and the punishment OF the
brute who perpetrated them:
"The terrible expiation which Sam
Hose was forced 10 pay for his crime
will arouse flood of discussion car
ried on by those who know the facts
on the one side, and by those who do
not care for the facts Oh the other.
''But, while the form of his Grim
malls punishment cannot be upheld,
let those who are disposed to criticise
it look into the facts, and by these
facts temper the judgment they may
render.
San uuassuming, industrious and
Woodworking farmer, after his days
toll, sat at his evening meal. Around
him sat wife and children, happy in
| the presence of the man who was
fulfilling to them every duty imposed
by nature At peace with the world,
serving God and loyal TO humanity,
they looked forward 10 the coming
day.
"Noiselessly the murderer, with
uplifted AK. advanced from the rear
and sank it TO the hilt in the brain Of
the unsuspecting victim.
Clearing the child from the moth
er's breast, he flung it into the pool
OF blood oozing from its fathers
wounds.
"Tben began the elimination
which has dethroned the reason of
the people of Western Georgia during
the past week. AS critics will howl
about the lynchipg, the Constitution
will be pardoned for stating the plain
facts.
sThe wife was seized, choked,
thrown upon the floor, where her
clothing Jay in the blood of her hus-
band, and assaulted.
Remember the facts! Remem-
Der the dark night in the country
home! Remember the slain husband,
and, above all, remember that shock
ing degradation which was inflicted
by the black beast, his victim SWIM
ming in her husbands warm blood as
the brute held her to the foo!
"Keep the facts in mind! When
the picture is painted of the wretch
in flames, go back and view that
darker picture of Mrs. Crawford as
sauItcd in the blood of her husband I"
OF course a yell of protest and
rage will 60 up from the north. But
what matters that: For crimes like
this, death by the rope or at the
stake will continue to be melted out
at the south. whatever the opinion of
the rest of the world. Ones only
regret is that the auto Ga fe. was ac-
companied by acts that detracted
from the awful solemnity of the
occasion.