Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-05-29
NEGRO BURNED At A STAKE
Positively Identified by His Vic
tim and Confessed.
HE WAS SLOWLY PUT TO DEATH
Infuriated Husband Applied the
Torch.
The Negro Screamed in Agony, and Begged
to be shot-His Body Almost Entirely
Consumed by the Flames in 80 Minutes
Many Women at the Execution.

Long View, Tex, May %. The
elimination of man hunt which had
been in progress since last Saturday
was reached yesterday, when Dudley |
Morgan, colored, who assaulted Mrs.
Mckee, wife of Texas g. Pacific fore
man at Lansing, Tex, was burned at
the stake near Lansing.
1t was learned yesterday morning
that the negro had been captured and
was being taken to Lansing for ldenti,
fication, and by IL O'Clock great
throngs had gathered at the Lansing
switch, and, looking over the ground,
decided to make arrangements to burn
the negro about q quarter OF mlie
away on the line of the country road.
The place of execution decided on
was an open plot, smooth and covered
with grass, being hedged in by high
trees, which formed an opening 20O
Yards wide and 300 yards long. The
trees were literally lined with people
an hour before the negro arrived. The
train was met by a great crowd OF
people from surrounding towns.
The prisoner was taken from the
! train to the section house, which stands
close to the track, and positively identi-
/ fled by Mrs. Mckee and several negroes
| who worked on the section with
| Morgan. The negro was escorted by 200
men armed with Winchesters to the
! place of execution. As he was chained
to the stake he said he desired to make
statement. The crowd surged around
4 him, and those in charge tried in vain
to make them stand back and keep
quiet while the negro talked. he I'M
plicated another negro named Franklin
Heard, saying he Heard was to get
part of the money which was to be
stolen.
Morgan confessed to having COM
mitted the crime, and after having
been securely tied TO the stake, with
his hands and legs free, the members
of the mob began to take ties from a
fire already stared and burn ont bis
eyes. They held the burning timbers
to his neck, and after burning his
clothes off to other parts OF the body.
TIE negro screamed in agony. He wa:
tortured in slow manner, with the
crowd clamoring continuously for {
, slower death, and the negro, writing
/ and grooming. tSgged piteodsly to bt
, shot.
Mrs. Mckee was brought to thu
scene in a carriage, accompanied b,
: four women, and in an effort was mad'
$ to get the carriage close enough for he
5 to see the negro. The crowd was S
, dense, however, that it was impossible
Q Persons held each other on thei
| shoulders, taking turn about lookin
T at the awful sight. The negroes hea
9 finally dropped and the ties we're pile
# around and over him. In half an hou
g only the trunk of the negro remained
As soon as the heat would permit
E parts of his skull and body wer
gathered up by some and carried away
e As the fira died down the crowd too
q the two men who first caught tn
e negro and held them up over the
% heads, while they held their VIII
Ne chesters in their hands and were pho
lie tographed.
10 Section Foreman Mckee, husband I
~ the woman assaulted, applied Il
t. match to the faggots, Many womt
4. were present from the surroundir
1e country, but owing to the great crus
:. they had little opportunity to see Il
in negro until the heat forced the GROW
10 to widen tie circle and the fam
en- leaped over him.
IL. The railroads brought crowds
Ist people to Long View junction, whe
Iis they boarded limited train whit
,r- does not ordinarily stop at Lansin
Id The engineer was forced at the poi
cd of Winchester to stop at the scene
We the lynching, however, and the m
in disembarked.