The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-11
DEATH AT The STAKE
Axr OF MRS. j. j. CLARK
prR1sHED AMID FLAMES.
NEAR THE SCENE OF HIS CRIME
ponY RIDDLED WITH BULLETS
AND CONSUMED BY FIRE.

od at Liberty City and Taken
wav,s station Last Night-Iden-
t,o.d Positively by Mrs. Clark as
a.. Man who Assaulted Her, the
xoqro Was started by His Captor
=, the Direction of Bryan Jail.
1,o,, of Five Hundred Took Him
,vv.v Before Jail Was Reached.
..c.ndinE Flames Indicate the
o,.b That Overlook Him.
THE negro assailant of Mrs. ]. ].
<-,ork was captured at Liberty City
yesterday by r. L. Young, section
os,ar of the Seaboard Air Line. Last
,,abt he was taken to Ways Station
and Identified by Mrs. Clark positive
w While being removed from Ways
N Bryan county Jail the prisoner was
taken away from his captors by mob
and il is believed, has been burned at
the stake.
Positive news of the lynching is
hacking and could not be secured last
night. The Morning News advices
come from the man who captured the
brutal assailant of Mrs. Clark, who
saws that he was ordered to leave the
vicinity by the men who took the ne
gro from his custody, and that he
obeyed the order.
Mr.. Young made the arrest in Liber-
" City yesterday. He had gone there
on private business and saw the negro,
whose appearance tailed with all the
descriptions of the man who had COM
mtted the crime. The sheriff of Bryan
county was wired of the arrest at Lib
erty City, and instructed Mr.. Young to
ton
With his prisoner Mr.. Young reached
Ways at $50 o'clock, but found no one
in authority waiting to receive him
and take charge of the man. The ne
gro, up to this time, had stolidly denied
all knowledge of the assault upon Mrs
Clark.
He was carried before his victim and
she identified him positively as the
man who had assaulted her. She said
there could be no doubt that the ne
gro under arrest was the guilty man
and with this positive assurance Mr..
Young started with his prisoner for
Bryan county Jail. He was not per-
mtted to reach his destination.
Five hundred yards from the place
where the crime was committed a mob
OF 400 or 500 men was collected.
Its leader demanded the surrender of
the prisoner, and Mr.. Young had no
alternative but obedience to their de-
mand. They were 500 to 1, in the first
place. and in the second, it is not I'M
probable that he was willing to COM
ply. He was ordered then to leave the
vicinity and he obeyed this command
with equal alacrity.
A short time afterwards he saw a
fire, the flames from which ascended
above the tops of the surrounding
trees. He wires the Morning News he
has no doubt that the negro has been
burned at the stake, and this has been
his probable fate.
number of Savannah men were on
the train on which the negro was car
rted back to the scene of his crime.
They describe him as a young negro,
not intelligent in appearance, and lack
ing all indication of being a desperado.
While on the train he denied his guilt
steadily. At Ways station he was met
by mob of forty or fifty men, whose
members seemed not anxious then to do
MIN any harm, but to be certain only
that he did not escape. The plan of
his death had probably been already
made and awaited for it's execution only
Mrs. Clark's Identification of the negro
as the guilty man.
The crime for which he has paid the
Death penalty, with such fearful cir
cumstances surrounding his death,
was committed at Ways Station on
July 26. Like his death, it was &C
companied with every narrowing cir
cumstance of aggravation. The ne
gro walked right into Mrs. Clark's
mousse and choked the woman to her
knees. Her little son, about years
oId, ran to her assistance. The negro
leit the woman and sprang upon the
little boy, beat him until he was in
sensible and threw him under the bed.
ne then choked Mrs. Clark into insen-
siblity.
AFTER that he robbed the house of all
money and things he could carry,
among which was a pistol and Win
chester rife.
MRS Clark ran two miles and met
"er husband coming home. Her throat
was black and blue with the finger
prints of the brute.
a posse started and all railroad sta
uons We're telegraphed in both direc-
uons and every known avenue of es-
cape was covered, but the negro eluded
capture until yesterday.