West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-05-23
MOB BURNS NEGRO.
Husband of His Victim APP
piled Match, at Long,
view, Texas.
WIFE PRESENT AT EXECUTION.
Unable to See Negro For Dense
Crowd--Previouely Identified Him.
Negro Confessed crIme-slOwly
Tortured to Death.

Longview, Tex, May ga man
hunt, which had been in progress
since last Saturday, ended yesterday
in the burning at the stake of Dudley
Morgan, negro, who assaulted Mrs.
Mckee, wife of Texas and Pacific
section foreman at Lansing, Tex.
The train bearing the prisoner and
his captors arrived at Marshall and
was met by great crowd of people.
Many more boarded the train at Hall
vile, and when it arrived at Lansing
every available place on it was occu-
pied. Waiting at Lansing was another
large crowd from Longview and the
surrounding 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 others of the train
crew. They were told if they moved
the train an inch they would be
killed. The prisoner was identified
by Mrs. Mckee and several negroes
who worked on the section with Nor
gan. 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 to get part Of the
money which wa sto be stolen.
Slowly Tortured to Death.
Morgan confessed to having com
mitted the crime and after he had
been securely chained to the rail-
with his hands and legs free, the mob
began to take railroad ties from a
fire already started and burn out his
eyes. They then held the red-hot and
burning timbers to his neck, and, af-
ter burning his clothes off, to other
parts of his body. The negro scream.
ed in agony. He was tortured DELHI
erately and slowly, with the crowd
clamoring for a slow death, and the
negro, writing and groaning, begged
piteously to be shot. Mrs. Mckee
was brought to the scene in a car
riage, accompanied by four other
women, and an effort was made tn
get the carriage close enough for her
to see the negro. The crowd was SO
dense, however, that this was impos
sible.
GreWsome Search For Relics.
Persons held each other on their
shoulders, taking turns 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 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 on their shoulders, and.
with their Winchesters in their
hands, were photographed.
Section Foreman Mckee, husband
Of the woma- '1aulted. applied the
match to the faggots. Many women
were present 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 them.
Forced Engineer to Stop.
The railroads brought crowds of
people to Longview Junction, where
they boarded the Texas and Pacific
fast train. This ordinarily doesn't
stop at Lansing. The engineer was
forced at the point Of a Winchester
to stop at the scene of the lynching
and the mob disembarked.