The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-24
THE MAN DIES FOR RAPE
They Burn Out His Eyes. Howl Fol-
Lingering Death.
THERE ARE NUMBERS OF WOMEN RESENT
Ihe Crush Shuts Out From Them The Hideous
Drawing Card. Men VINO Captured The
Negro Lifted Above The Mob
and Photographed,
and photographed.
By the Associated Press.)


Long View, Texas, May 22.-The cul-
minaton of n man hunt which has been
IN rogress since last Saturday was reach
ED today when Dudley Morgan, colored
who assaulted Mrs. Mckee. wife of n
Texas and Pacific foreman at Lansing,
Texas, was burned at the stake near
Lansing. 1t was learned this morning
that the negro had been captured and
was being taken to Lansing for identifi-
cation 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 a
quarter of a mile away on the line of
the country road. The place of execution
decided upon was an open plot. smooth
and covered with grass. being hedged
in by high trees, which formed an open
ing two hundred yards wide and 800
yards long. The trees were literally
lined with people an hour before the ne
gro arrived. At IL o'clock the train bring
ing the negro and his captors arrived in
Marshall, near which place he was cap
tured and was met by great crowd Of
people. Many more boarded the train at
intermediate points. and when it ar
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crowded. Waiting at Lansing was
another large crowd from Long View
and the surrounding country.
The prisoner was taken from tho train
to the section house which stands close
TO the track and positively identified by
Mrs. Mckee and several negroes who
worked on the section with Morgan. The
negro was escorted by 200 men armed
with Winchcsters to the place of exc
cution. AS he was chained to the stake,
ne said he desired to make a statement.
The crowd surged around him and those
In charge tried in vain to make them
stand back and keep quiet, while the
negro talked. The negro made state
ment in which he implicated another ne
gro named Franklin Heard, saying he
UIeard) was to get part of the money
which was to be stolen. Morgan con-
fesscd to having committed the crime
ami after having been securely tied to
the stake with his hands and legs free,
the members of the mob began to take
tics from fire already started and burn
out his eyes. They held the burning tim
bcrs to his neck and after burning his
clothes off, to other parts of the body.
The negro screamed in agony. He was
tortured in q slow and painful manner
with the crowd clanorng continuously
for a slower death, and the negro with
ing and groanng, begged piteously to
be shot.
Mrs. Mckee was brought to the scene
ir Il carriage, accompanied by four 9TH
er women and an effort was made to
get the carriage close enough for her
to see the negro. The crowd so
dense, however, that it was imposs.
bic.
Persons held each other or their
shoulders, taking turns in locking at
the awful sight The negroes head final
~ dropped and the ties were piled
around and over him. In half an hour
only the trunk of the negro remained. AS
soon as the heat would permit parts of
lis 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 up over their heads, while they
! held their Winchesters in their hands
anC were photographed
Section Foreman Mckee, husband of
the woman assaulted, applied the match
to the faggots. Many women were pres
ent from the surrounding country, but
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
The railroads brought crowds of peo-
pie to Long View junction where they
boarded limited train which does not
ordinarily stop at Lansing. The engin-
eer was forced at the point of Win
chest Ter to stop at the scene of the lynch
ing, however, and the mob disembarked