Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-08-14
HELPLESS
To COT NEGRO IS
BURNED BY MOB
Pennsylvania SCENE
OF HORRIBLE lYNCTlNG
Wounded Prisoner Carried
From Hospital and Cremated
Alive While Avengers Look
on in Cruel Silence,
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Coateville. Pa, Aug. 1S.-Zachar-
ioh walker, a negro desperate was
carried on a cot from the hospital
here tonight, and burned to "A crisp
hy frenzied mob of men and boys,
The negro who had shot and killed
Edward Rice. special policemen OF
,he Worth Iron mills, last night, was
first dragged to the scene of the
shooting, begging piteously for
mercy. We had been arrested by a
possee late this afternoon after a
starch that had stirred the country
side
when the possee finally locat-
aa him he was found hiding in a
cherry tree, and with the last bullet
in his revolver shot himself in the
mouth. falling from the tree. He was
removed TO the hospital and plac
under police guard.
few minutes after o'clock. Il
crowd numbering almost one thou
sand persons appeared at the hispital
The leaders were unable to gain ad-
mission, but quickly smashed the
window frames and crawled through
the corridor. A policeman who had
been placed on duty to watch Walker
was the only person In the building
besides the nurses and patients. The
leader of the mob placed his hand
over the policeman's eyes. while
others who had entered the building
set about 10 take their man from the
hospital When Walker was taken 10
the hospital he was strapped down In
order to prevent his escape.
The mob seeing this, gathered up
the bed and placing ii on the should
ers OF four men started for the
country They left the town by way
of the Towerville road and when a
half mile from the hospital, stopped
at the farm OF Mrs. Sarah Jane
Newlin
Here they entered a field and
quickly gathering a pile of dry grass
and weeds placed the bed containing
their victim upon 1t. A match was
applied to the pile of grass and the
flames shot up quickly, entlreiy en-
shrouding the screaming victim. That
not vestigc 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 quick as it mad
gathered. There were almost as many
women in the mob as men. The MOB
was ordered, scarcely a murmer be-
ing heard from the time that 1t began
to congregate on the streets until II
had dispersed less than an hour later,
During the march from the hospital
to the scene of the burning of the
negro a distance of less than three
quarters of a mile. not a policeman
was encountered by the determined
mob.
Coatesville Is a town of 10000 per-
sons about thirty miles west OF
Philadelphia.
Before the body OF the negro had
been consumed the news spread
throughout the town that Walker had
been ynehed on the outskirts ana
while the body and bedclothing were
yet smouldering, the road leading to
the scene was alive with automobiles.
II Is estimated that nearly five hum
dred such conveyances visited the
scene of the burning before midnight.
After the mob had gone short
way 1t dropped the bed which the
negro was strapped and then
dragged the half crazed victim with
feet and hands still tied to the bed
along the road. The negro evidently
believed the crowd was bent on lynch
Ing him, begged piteously not to be
Strung up and while lying in the
ped watching the mob gathering the
dry grass and piling it near by. his
Tears We're doubled.
As the flames went up around the
negro, he wiggled only to be thrown
back again. When the crowd, which
included men, boys and few women
ieit the scene, they walked quietly
along the road until within a short
distance of the borough limits and
then dispersed.
District Attorney Y Robert Gaw-
thrope came over from West Chester
and stated that every effort would be
made to discover the identity of the
ring leaders of the mob.