The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-03-06
A NEGRO BURNED
In the Street Of Terre Haute, In
diana For
KILLING A WHITE WOMAN.

KILLING A WHITE WOMAN.
Groves Ct Mer, Women ant
Children Witness the Barbor-
Gus Scene. No Attempt
at concsalment
Punishment, swift and terrible va
meted out Wednesday at Terre Haute
Indians to George Ward, the Negr'
who murdered Miss Ida Kinkelstein
the school teacher, By shooting heI
with shotgun and cutting her throa
Tuesday afternoon. A few hours after
his arrest an angry mob battered doWr
the doors of the jail, dragged the pris
oner to the Wabash bridge, severs
squares away and hanged him to tht
bridge draw. Not content with ths
hanging the crowd cut the corpse
down, and, laying it on sandbar un
der the bridge, kindled fire and Gre
mated the remains. 1t was the frs
lynching that Terre Haute ever ezpe
rienced.
Ward was arrested at 10 o'clock a
the car works, where he was employed
IS a lstorer, and after being full!
identified by two citizos, made q CON
fession. His only excuse for the mur
der was that Miss Finkelsteiu had
called him dirty Niger" aud slapped
him in the fase. Sheriff Fasig com
municated with Gov. Darbin, but the
mob accomplished its work before the
militia could be ordered out.
The governor had wired Capt
Thomas Of Co. B, to rlace his company
fully armed in readiness for duty.
At noon the crowd outside the jail,
numbering sevaral hundred, including
men, women and boys battered down
the iron doors, but were driven back
by Jailer LaWrerce O'Donnell. who
fred over the heads Of the mob. Deputy
Sberifs Cooper, Eessick and Leforge
we're struck by scattering shot and
slightly injured, but nobody in the
crowd was burt. A detail Of police
vainly tried to disperss the crowd
Ar 1885 o'clock another crowd bat.
tered down the outer doors Of the jail
securing possession Of the keys and en-.
tering the cell room. The side door
was opened for the rest Of the crowd.
The cell was quickly opened and Ward
was dragged forth. He fought with
the desperate ferocity Of a beast al
bay. He was dragged out to the
street, still fighting with all his
strength, but blow from q heavy
hammer fellei him to the ground.
A moose was quickly adjusted to his
neck and the mob started with its
victim toward the Wabash bridge.
Tne feeble resistance made By the
wretched creature after that blow with
the hammer was soon quieted by the
savage blows Of tie mob. Face down.
wsrd he was dragged through the
street to the bridge and across the
rough plauking Of the driveway to the
draRbridee. Many are Of the opinion
that the fellow was dead before the
scene Of the hanging was reached.
However, the rope was thrown over
one of The upper beams and the body
drawn up.
Then burning at the stake was
sgreed on unanimously, and a fire was
quickly kindled on the bank Of the
river just south Of the bridge. The
body, bearing no sign Of life, was
thrown into the fire, and fsggots were
piled upon it. The stake was omitted.
TIE body was in q horizontal position,
the feet prctruding at one end, the
head at the other. The can Of turpen,
tine was poured on the eager flames.
After that conbustible oils seemed to
aow spontaneously toward the fire and
the flames lesped high, while the body
Of the Negro was rapidly consumed.
None Of the mob attempted disguise.
When the body was taken down tc
be carried to the fire the bridge west
of the draw was barricaded, but the
east bank Of the river and the bridge
on the city side of the draw were
crowded with thousands Of men, NO,
men and children, gazing at the awful
spectacle. With grim determination
the mob fed the flames and watched the
flesh shrivel to cinders and the bones
crumble and burn.
Souvenir hunters were on hand in
force, and fragments Of the body are
now scattered broadcast. One man,
while the feet still protruded from the
flames, offered 81 for toe from "the
Nigger's foot" A venturesonle youth,
drawing a knife from his pocket, made
dash for the prize. He quickly ampu
tated a toe, delivered the goods and
got his money.
AS the bones began to crumble and
fall apart the fragments were take1
from the fire and carried away. At
o'clock there was nothing left Of the
booy except small llsection Of the trunk
| aDd the back Of the head. Busy hand!
kept the burning faggots piled upor
| the roasting segments. Women came
to the scene By scores. At about 2:3(
| o'clock the barricade was removed anc
the crowd surrounded the FIRE.
| Ward was27 years old, and leaves :
widow and two children. He came here
four years ago, from Circieville, o
The statement that he was one time
in an insans asylum is denied by hi
wife. He served a jail sentence in 1888!
for larceny. The leaders Of the mol
are unknown, and as public sentimen
upholds the lynching, no prosecution
are expected.
A Mystery of Verdi's Will.
VerIi's will, says the London Chron