The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-05-30
HAD ASSAULTED A WHITE WOMAN
TORTURED IN A SLOW AND PAIN
Full MANNER UNTIL RELIEVED
ny DEATH.
VICTIM SEES Awful TRAGEDY
MANY WOMEN ARE WITNESSES OF
THE SICKENING SPEC
TACLE.

Longview, Tex, May "a. - A man
hunt which had been in progress since
last Saturday ended yesterday in the
burning at the stake of Dudley Nor
gan, colored, who assaulted Mrs. Nc
Kee, wife of a Texas & Pacific section
foreman at Lansing, Tex. When 1t
vas learned that the negro had been
captured and was being taken to Lam
sing for identification the excitement
OF the people knew no bounds. By IL
o'clock in the morning great throngs
had gathered at the Lansing switch
and arrangements We're made to burn
the negro. Just before II o'clock the
train bearing the prisoner and his cap
tors arrived in Marshall and was met
by a great crowd of people. Many more
boarded the train at Hallville, and
when it arrived at Lansing every
available place on it was occupied.
Waiting at Lansing was another large
crowd fl ON Longview and the sur
rounding country.
The negro was not taken from the
train on the side where the crowd was
and when the engineer started to pull
out several Winchesters were leveled
at him and other Of the train crew.
who were threatened with death. The
prisoner WAS identified by Mrs. Mckee
and several negroes who worked on the
section with Morgan.
Identified by His Victim.
Mrs. Mckee said they had the right
man and the negro was escorted by
about 200 men, armed with Winches-
tiers, to the place of execution. AS he
was chained to the stake he made a
statement in which he implicated an
other negro named Franklin Heard,
saying Heard was I'd get part Of the
money which was stolen. Morgan con-
fessed to having committed the crime.
and after he had been securely chained
to the stake, or rail, with his hands
and legs free, the members of the mob
began to take railroad ties from a fire
already started and burn out his eyes,
They thea held the redhot and burning
timbers to his neck, and after burning
his clothes off, to other parts of his
bciy. The negro screamed in agony.
He was tortured in a slow and painful
manner with the crowd clamoring con-
tinuously for a slow death, and the
man, Writhing and grooming, begged
piteously to be shot, Mrs. Mckee was
brought to the scene in a carriage, &C
ccmpanied by four other women, and
an effort was made to get the carriage
close enough for her to see the negro.
The crowd was so dense, however, that
this was impossible.
Grewsome Search for Relics.
Persons held each other on their
shoulders, taking turns about looking
at the awful sight The negro's head
finally and the ties were PILED around
and over him. In half an hour only the
trunk OF his body remained. AS soon
as the heat would permit the crowd,
with long sticks, began a grewsome
search for relics. Parts of his skull and
body were gathered up by some and
carried away. AS the fire died down
the crowd took the two men who first
caught the negro and held them over
thei- heads, while they held their Win
chesters in their hands and were pho
tographed.
From the time the first fire was ap-
piled to the negro's body until the dy-
ing emsers alone were left, the crowd
yelled and cheered for the men who had
chased the negro.
Section Foreman Mckee, husband IF
the woman assaulted, applied the
match to the faggots. Many women
were present from the surrounding
country, hut owing to the great crush
they had very little opportunity to see
the negro until the heat forced the
crowd to widen the circle and the flames
leaped over him,