The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-27
LYNCHING IN TERRE HAUTE
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l hang him great crowd collected along i the river side. This kept on increasing in size, as thousands of men, women
 and children hurried to the scene. Af- ter it was determined to burn the negro
 bar was placed across the bridge to prevent the crowd from pressing closer and when the fire was lighted and the
 body was thrown into the flames the east bank of the river, the bridges up and down stream and hundreds of housetops were black with spectators
 Those who took an active part in the lynching made no attempt at disguise
 The certainty that the wretch was dead did not appease the anger of the mob. With grim determination they fed the flames and watched the flesh shrivel to cinders and the bone crumble and burn. Souvenir hunters were out in force and fragments of the body are now scattered broadcast. One man, while the feet still protruded from the
 flames, offered one dollar for a toe from the ''nigger's foot.' A venture some youth, drawing a knife from his pocket, made dash for the prize, He quickly amputated a toe, delivered the goods and got his money. As the bones began to crumble and fall apart the fragments were drawn from the fire and dragged away.
 Busy hands kept the burning faggotts piled upon the roasting segment. An old stump with spreading roots was placed upon the apex of the pyre and was soon aglow.
 s,1an fn 1on hxrr and elbowed their way into the inner circle of spectators, undeterred and ap- parently unmoved by the horror of the spectacle.
 The crowd watched and waited and came and went while the flames did their work. Ward was twenty seven years old and leaves a widow and two children. He came here five years ago from Circleville, Ohio. The statement that he. was at one time in an insane asylum is denied by his wife. He serv- ed jail sentence in 1889 for larceny.
 The leaders of the mob are unknown and as public sentiment upholds the lynching no prosecutions are expected
 Indianapolis Feb. 26.-A lynching and
 
 to-day, coming as 1t does so soon after the brutal assault on Dorothy Darter, a respectable white girl, on the streets of Irvington last Thursday has famed public feeling to a fever heat. Follow ing the announcement to-day of the arrest at Newcastle, O., a negro answering the description of the assail- ant Of Miss Darter, many quiet meet ings were held throughout the city and plans to lynch the negro if identified were made. The police are on the watch and Superintendent Quigley will have the entire city force out to guard the negro if identified and brought here. The negro at Newcastle admitted to-day that he was at Irving on the day of the assault of Miss Darter. Twenty negroes have been arrested as suspects and taken before Miss Darter, but none had been identified by her. Trouble is feared by the authorities.
 When Governor Durbin heard to-day that Ward was in danger of being lynched he telephoned the chief of po- lice of Terre Haute and was informed there was no danger. The sheriff also told him that he was fully able to con- trol the situation, Twenty minutes later the sheriff telephoned that a mob was gathering about the jail. Imme- 1iately an order was issued command i ing the commander of the militia com pany at Terre Haute ot get his men and | protect the prisoner.
 The order was on it's way when an- other message said that the mob had | the jail and were about to ynch the prisoner.