The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-23
BURNED AT THE STAKE.
TEXAS MAN-HUNT ENDS IN I
 CREMATION.
Negro Who Assaulted a White w oman Pays the Penalty of His Crime at the Accompiice-- dentitied by the Victim.

Longview, Texas, May 22,--The cul-
 imitation of a man hunt which has been l in progress since last Saturday was
 reached to-day when Dudley Morgan 1 (coloredD, who assaulted Mrs. Mckee, wife of a Texas and Pacific foreman at Lansing, Texas, was burned at the stake near Lansing.
 | It was learned this morning that the negro had been captured and was be- ing taken to Lansing for Identification, 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 The place of execution decided upon was an open plot hedged in by high trees. The trees were literally lined with people an hour before the negro
 arrived. The train was met by great
 crowd of people from surrounding
 towns.
 The prisoner was taken from the train
 to the section house and was positively
 identified by Mrs. Mckee and several
 negroes who worked with Morgan. The
 negro was escorted by two hundred
 armed men to the place of execution.
 As he was chained to the stake he said
 he desired to make 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.
 He implicated another negro named. Franklin Heard saying he (Heard) was fN p,-f 1,a t1Ia 4p be stolen. Morgan confessed to having committed 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 fire al- ready built and burn out hls eyes, They held the burning timbers to fis neck and, after burning his clothes off, 10 other parts of the body. The negro screamed in agony. He was tortured in slow and painful manner, with the crowd clamoring continuously for slower death. and the negro, writhing and groanng begged piteously to be shot
 Mrs Mckee was brought to the scene in a carriage, accompanied by four oth- CT women, and an effort was made to get the carriage close enough to see the negro. The crowd was so dense, how ever, that it was impossible.
 Persons held each other on their shoulders, taking turn about looking at the awful sight. The negro's head finally 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 his skull and body were gath 1 cred up and carried away. As the fire | lied down the crowd took the two men | who caught the negro and held them up i 1ver their heads, while they held their in their hands and were 
 Section Foreman Mckee husband of he woman assaulted, applied the match o the faggots, Many women were pres mt from the surrounding country, but < ,wing to the great crush they had very title opportunity to see the negro until leat forced the crowd to widen the cir 'le and the flames leaped over him
 The railroads brought crowds of peo- ,le to Longview Junction. where they boarded limited train which does not stop at Lansing. The en- tlneer was forced at Q point of q Winchester to stop at the scene of the ynching, however, and the mob disem- 'arked.