Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-15
NEGRO BURNED
 BY LARGE MOB
Taken from Jail Within 30 Miles of Philadelphia and Is Strapped to His
 Bed
ANOTHER IN OKLAHOMA

COATESNlLLE, Pa, Aug. 14.-- Zaehatiah Walker, a negro desper. ado, was carried on a cot from the hospital here last night and burned to a crisp by a frenzied mob of men and boys.
 The negro. who had shot and killed Edward Rice. a special po- hceman, when first dragged to the scene of the shooting, begging pit eously for mercy He had been arrested by a posse late yesterday afternoon after a search that had stirred the countryside.
 When the posse finally located him he was found hiding in cherry tree and with the last bullet in his revolver shot himself in the mouth, falling from the tree. He was re- moved to the hospital and placed under guard.
 Policeman Is SUbdUed
 A few minutes after g o'clock a crowd numbering almost Loco per sons appeared at the hospital The leaders were unable to gain admis- sion but quickly smashed the win dows and crswled through the cor ridor. A policeman who was placed on duty to watch Walker was the only person in the building besides the nurses and patients. The leader of the mob placed nis uaiit5 S1iss the policeman's eyes while others who had entered the building set about to take their man from the hospital. When Walker tsas taken to the hospital he was strapped down in order to prevent his es- cape.
 Stop at Farm House
 The mob seeing this, gathered up the bed and placing it on the shoul- ders of four men started for the country. They left the town by way of the Towerville road and when half mile from the hospital stopped at the farm of Mrs Sarah Jane Newlin.
 Here they entered a field and quickly gathered up a pile of dry grass and weeds, placing the bed containing their victim upon it. A match was applied to the pile Of grass and the flames shot up quickly, entirely enshroudins the screaming victim. That not a ysstige Of the negro be left the mob tore down the fence along the road and piled the rails upon the burning negro.
 After waiting for half an hour the mob dispersed as quietly as 1t had come. There was almost as many women in the mob as men. The mob was orderly, scarcely murmur being heard from the time that it began to eongregate on the streets until it had dispersed less than an hour later.
 Policemen Remain Away
 During the march from the nos pital to the scene of the burning or the negro, a distance of less than three-quarters of 8 mile, not po- neeman was encountered by the de termined mob.
 Coatesville is a town of 10000 persons about 30 miles west or Philadelphia.
 Before the body of the negro had been consumed the news spread throughout the town that Walker had been '1ynchedr on the out skirts and while the body and bed clothing were yet sm0uldering the read leading to the scene was alive with automobiles. It is estimated that nearly 800 such conyeyances visited the scene of the burning be- fore midnight.
 Feared Hanging
 g. After the mob had gone a short distance it dropped the bed upon which the negro was strapped ana then dragged the half crazed victim with feet and hands still tied to the bed along the road. The negro evi- dently believing that tho mob was bent upon lynching him. begged pit eously not to be strung Cp' and while lying on the bed watching the mob gathering the dry grass ano piling it nearby, his fears were don bled
 As the flames went up around the negro he wiggled up only to be thrown back down When the crowd which was composed Of boys, wo- men and men, left the scene, they hurried straight to town.
 District Attorney Gawthorpe came over from West Chester and stated that every effort would be made to discover the identity of the ring leaders of the mob.