The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-29

threatened to turns loose a heavy rafns
but the warm rays of a. seInlItrop1-
cal Sum soon dissipated them, after a
| few rain drops had fallen
Quite a number of people had come
i'm the might before and camped out
to- be ready for the eVentful day. BY
daylight others commenced to come
i'm wagons, buggies, two wheeled carts
surries and in every Imaginable ve-
hicle; ON horse and mule back by eV-
cry road leading into this good old
town. The trains brought all the
coaches would hold, with vestibules
filled, and some, it was said, We're ON
top of the cars, so anxious were they
to see the execution of this brute
i'm, human form, that they riSked the
breaking of their own necks should
they fall from their perches high up
above the ground they were speed
ing over at SO miles the hour.
The curious were here from all
over Rankin county, with large dele
gations from Hinds, Scott, Sm.nh and
Simpson, a few from Covington, some
from Warren, Marion and Sharkey
and many other places.
The crowd was good humored.
There was no reason to be other
wise, for the law was to hang a Grim
inal whose death every decent person
i'm the world said should be the PEN
aIty of rape.
The SUN was broiling hot, with lit
tie wind to cool ONE who was braV-
| ing it's scorchimg rays to gRfn and
hold, place where good view or
the gallows could be had.
The fence around the brick Jail
was covered to it's full capacity by
people who sat on the top of the
planizs. sixteen feet high, and dang
| led their feet downward for two or
more hours to see the whole thing
There were very few under the
influence of liquor, and aI1ey dad
not get over the lime of decerucy e.
nough to be arrested.
The peanut vendor, the ice cream
cone seller and the pop stand fellow
did a rushing business, as we'll as the
thrifty trucker who sold large, ,jufcy,
red-meated watermelons, TO khose
who wished something cooling.
Some ladies were present; many lit
tile children, some with parents, and
others without, as they were large
enough to keep from being mashed
i'm a crowd; a few were nursing an-
fants who tugged at the mothers
breasts, while the mother kept her
eyes ON the gallows-she didn't want
to lose amy part of the program she
had come miles to see-to hell about
to the neighbors at home who were
unable to be on fland-to think about
while awake; to doubtless see i'm hor-
rible dreams, when asleep, and TO
| newer want to see agafm.
| Newspaper correspondents and a
negro preacher, with possibly a. few
others, were the only ones permitted
to see Mack in jail that morning-he
had been brought out from Vicks-
| burg, where he had been held irl Jail
since trial and conviction, by Sheriff
White and Deputy Hobson the night
L "a Ncaryf
questioners did he come out unequiy-
ocally and admit his guilt. To the
Brandon News representative when
asked if he was guilty CIR innIocent,
he replied that he chad the burden
to BEAR On being told that what
was desired ito be known was, was
| lit right for him to- bear the BURDEN,
which he would lay down i'm half
hour; that if he was guilty lit was
right for him to bear it," He said,
81 reckon lit lis right for me to bear
it,"
On being asked if he desired Ito
warn other negroes who Thought of
committing such crimes, to remem-
ber his death on the gallows,' he
replied, "Yes, sir; please tell them
that for me-
AT 12:35 p. m. he was brought from
THE death cell and with firm step
assembled the stairway, with a deputy
holding each arm, proceeded by the
sller.ff, With deputy following be-
hind the condemned man.
Adam Lewis, a coal black negro
preacher who has lived here since
1857, made a short talk, invited the