The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-17
HAIL BARBARISM.
FAGOT AND STAKE!
Drenched With Oil, Living Torches Rending the
Air With SuppIicating Shrieks, Two Negro
Murderers Meet Their Doom.

only from the information to be gained
from Cato can we bring the right ones
to Justice. / can almost promise you
that when the case is finally sifted
there will be five other parties who
are equally guilty"
I've know you are our friends Ken
drick,' some one shouted, but prom
Use us that you will let the man stay
in the Statesboro all and not be taken
back to Savannah. Then we will dis
persen, not until then"
Theer was some shouting and cheer
ing and Kendrick could not reply.
Promise us that" they shouted.
You shall no. take them away from
StateSboro.'
The Guns UnIoaded.
A commotion to the front drew the
crowd there. This was but temporary.
Presently they were back at the rear
and some twenty-five men crowded
around the guards Before they could
be prevented they had caught two of
the guards, wrested their weapons
from them and thrown open the
breeck blocks. The weapons were
empty That was what the crowd
wanted to ascertain. The troops had
been given orders not to load their
rifles.
One Never Surrenders.
The captured soldiers were held
prisoners. The same policy was fol-
lowed with others of the soldiers Mar
after man. caught isolated. was re-
iieved of his rifle after a struggle.
At the front a member of the mob
crept along the wall until he got close
TO the guards. He threw himself upon
them. In the breach thus formed his
f.nr MI T,Er,N
hundred wildly cheering men followed
him and soon the soldiers, though
they fought desperately and inflicted
bayonet wounds upon some of their
ASSISTANTS, were overpowered.
One young soldier of the Oglethorpe
guards never surrendered. He fought
his way free, fought through his cap
tors and out upon the lawn. A weap-
on was raised to strike him.
Shame" shouted the crowd and
struck down the man who had raise /
the weapon. Then they threw them
selves upon the boy and overpowered
him.
Dragged Down, Roped Like Beeves.
The small guard about the prisoners
withdrew into the room and closed the
door. The mob crashed against it.
bursting; it as though it were an egg
W
mercy, all resistance having been
beaten down, Cato. Reed. Handy Bel
and the, other prisoners covered be-
fore the crowd. The dragged Cato
and Reed out. { releasing Bell into the
hands of the few soldiers left there as
soon as they learned that he was not
Reed for whom they had mistaken
him.
Reed was taken down one stairway
r1rit !, obj hi
down the other, both pleading for
their lives.
By then the crowd numbered 500
They dragged the men along shouting
and cheering along the roadway lead
ing to the Hodges homestead where
the five members of the family had
been murderd and burnd. That was
their destination. The heat was so in
tense that the crowd weared wher
two miles of the six mile route had
been traversed.
The Place Of Execution.
DING seventy-five yards from the
road the crowd halted. The two ne
groes were made to seat themselves
on log. They are told they had
but short time to live and that they
should confess.
Reed was the first to speak. He
confessed. duplicating other negroes
as he had in the court room. He de-
nied however, that he had taken an
active part in the murder.
Cato answered incoherently The
crowd moved across field to strip
of woodland. Several men climbed
to branches and called for ropes.
BURN them!' Burn them!' shouted
the crowd.
Cato begged to be shot or hanged,
saying lie was innocent. that he had
had no part i'll the crime. Some OF
the more humane wanted to grant his