Milford chronicle., 1911-08-18

the other men had been addressil
as marshal" walked up the stel
leading to the hospital On the e
step he turned and faced the crow
on the lawn
Men" he shouted. are you goir
to allow a white man to be downed
a niger"
He looked about him for an il
stant, and then those in the rear
the mob surged forward. He wa
pushed mp toward the hospital step
and with a wild yell the man ran u
the steps to the hospital doors.
They battered down and hammere
the glass out of the windows on on
side of the hos1.' with their fists.
In the CORR 4 the hospital Pc
liceman Howe me them with a draw
gun He fired two shots, but the in
furiated men did not notice 1t. The,
brushed the policeman aside an,
pushed away the hospital attendants
who tried to interfere.
Walker lay helpless on his bed II
the right wing Of the hospital. Into
the ward the leaders rushed. Other
patients fainting and screaming from
fright
Some one produced a rope They
tied the shackled negro to his cot,
winding the rope about his feet and
underneath the bed
Then a score of men lay hold OF
the rope and ran down the corridor.
Out of the hospital they dragged the
bed and the negro with it.
Walker couldn't make an outcry.
His self-inhicted bullet wound in the
mouth had made this impossible. His
eyes glared the terror that was his.
Out of the building the men dragged
the cot. The negr0's bed turned and
rolled, the manacles and ropes dig
ging into the negros flesh. The
crowd outside the hospital gave \
cheer as they saw their leaders come
out with the negro But the leaders
with the rope did not stop. Gu, over
the lawn they ran to the street. Chief
Of Police Olmsted tried to runl
through the crowd to aid Policeman
Howe, but he was showed back into
the street
Outside the hospital grounds the
men with the rope started down the
road on a dead run. The cot bumped
over the roadway. and rolled from
side to side. A bowling mob, now in.
'reased to a thousand persons or
more. followed.
A half mile to the south. the men
With the rope stopped They were
ust now opposite the place where
idgar Rice was shot the night be-
ore. As though their crime had all
cen planned the men began to
cater in all directions and bring in
ence rails to where the negro lay Z
ound. Three or four pairs Of brawny
rms pitched the negro and his cot
yer fence into a field on the farm
John Newlin.
Others ran here and there and
-ought back armloads Of hay and
raw. which they had picked up from
e fields.
The piled hay about and over the
It and Walker Some one touched
match to the mattress of tre cot.
ION the cot and hay about was
.laze
Then the others piled fence rails ?
the negro. Walker writhed and
ruggled against the shackles that
und aim to the bed Suddenly he
We a leap out Of teh. blazing hay.
fore the men about the fire real
ID what the negro was doing. Walk
had leaped over the fence with the
d rOped to his back =
The crowd gave a yell Men with
ice rails showed the bed aud the
gro back into the blazing hay.
Three times did the negro ty to es-
'e in this manner. Each time the
n with the fence rails showed him
x in the fire.
he third time the flesh was hang n
from the negro's bones
a5isiied by the horrible scene, the
iers Of the mob poked their fence
u about the embers Of the smOk-
pile Of hay for awhile. and then
ted down the road toward the
elective Rice was shot as he went
be rescue Of two Italians whom
negro it is alleged had held up
was attempting to rob in the
.hborhood Of the Worth Mills.
hen Rice reached the scene Of the a
up the Italians and negro were
lged ia a hand to-hand battle.
ith the appearance OF the police
the Italians, without stopping
hank their rescuer, fed precipi-
y. leaving him to cope singlehand-
nth Walker. The later. according
dying statement made by Rice. A
pied with the detective and dis
ID him. Rice put up a valiart
to regain possession of the
'on and was shot through the
lung
e leaders Of the mob are known
district Attorney Gawthrop. and
y arrests are expected within the a
twen y-four hours.