The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-16
VEGRO BURNED IN KANSAS.
Took Him From Jail and Saturated
us Clothing With Kerosene.
Vas Applied and the Victim Was Literally
ed to Death He Protested His
Innocence.

lei ASH, Kan, january 1o.--Fre5
Ider, the negro who Saturday even
tempted to assault Miss Eva Roth,
|ho was supposed to have assaulted
He'd Pearl Forbes in this city in
Iber last, was this afternoon taken
be sheriff's guard and burned at the
blocks from the center OF the city.
bly, 5000 people witnessed the lynch
lander was brought to the city from
hltentiary at Lansing at 4:3O o'clc *
dternoon and placed in the county
The citizens gathered in great num-
BID finding peacealble entrance to the
armed themselves with
I'd iron The Jail doors were bat
down and Alexander was dragged
\ scene of his crime. followed by
IDS of bowling, frenzied men and
Wing at the scene, railroad rail
luck into the ground and the negro
kd to it with chains, Then coal oil
buried over his body and set afre.
btested his innocence to the last.
2negro was taken from his cell at
tate penitentiary at O'Clock this
bon, put into hack and brought
In. Fifty deputy marshals sur
ID him and Deputy Sheriffs Stance,
: and Brown sat in the hack on
Sside of him. There were fifty
3 and wagons in the procession
Followed the hack. There was no
b to create a disturbance on the
b the corner of Fourth and Olive
d was reached the police who were
hack following the one in which
4der was concealed, jumped out and
several negroes.
attracted the attention of every
|pi in the excitement the hack in
EAlexander was concealed was fran.
n driven to the county jail, and just
b mob reached the doors he was
h in the first cell on the east side
cell house. AS usual the doors
bcked and the crowd first attempt
|Sgain admission by peaceful means.
a Everhard refused to deliver the
q The crcwi pushed it's way to the
Dor and the door was forced from its
q Then the crowd surged into the
Ipr by the narrow doorway. A huge
8ar was secured ana the iron door
&cell house attacked. The.door was
so bent that it could he forced far
s back for men TO climb over it..
q gained an entrance in this man
Pin the meantime the crowd had
y down the side gate of the stock
"a in moment there was a yelling
a the jail yard.
n side door, which was made Of
#sheet iron, was the next object of
y Several of the thoughtful ones
Qrovided themselves with sic lse
prs and cold chisels and it was the
pf only few moments before the
n We're cut from the inside. The door
~ Its hinges in moment. More
Nshed inside aud the iron bar was
xcalied into play and the doors OF
"a room broken down.
n the cries went up, HE is not
DC has escaped"
&ch tine court house; there is a
= between here and there"
man with sharp eyes spied a
ID ss mass crouched down in ore
of the dark cell. An exultlnt cry
<pp, He is here; we've got HIN;
the keys"
Fal keys were found lying around
Fridors and these were passed into
wd, Tney would 40, work, Then
~ sledge hammer was called into
In five minutes the heavy lock
Pen broken off. a yell OF terror
from the cell. The tension was
at that men filled III, room with
Zeal laughter. Outstle the crowd
lling in a manner thai has per-
ever before been heard in tie
IN Leavenworth. Inside the cell
those who were nearest the door
pb Issued forth in a moment. drag
ZEN struck over the head with .
Pr, but was still conscious, Men
"a to get at him. These infuriasel
beings struck savagely at him,
only his captors, who guarded
8ell.
~ burn him" they cried.
(Bde the stockade the crowd surgsd.
3Aaer and his captors ware sur
d by great wall of human neso.
M Third street and up the hill INTO
Ranrt house ysrd they dragged him
n they stopped Confess before
I'm you" they said.
IN innocent" answered the prison
~ am dying for what another ms n
see lots of my friends here. They
81 did not do 1t. Would not l have
VI j was guilty?"
4 lie" the mob cried, and one
III How struck the negro in the fore