Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1911-08-19
pushed away the hospital attendants.

WAN AAACu W thACitOtNs
Walker lay helpless on his bed in
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.
Ont OF the hospital they dragged tho
bed and the negro with IL.
Walker couldn't make an cutlery.
His self.inficted bullet wound In tho
mouth had made this impossible. His
eyes glared the terror that was his.
Out of the building the men dragged
the cot. The negro's bed turned and
rolled. the manacles and ropes dig.
ging into the negro's Gesh. The
crowd outside the hospital gave n
cheer as they saw their leaders come
out with the negro. But the leaders
with the rope did not stop. Out over
the lawn they ran to the street. Chief
of Police olmsted tried TO run
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 dead run. The cot bumped
over the roadway. and rolled from
side to side. A bowling mob. now in.
creased to a thousand persons or
more. followed.
A half mile to the south. the mea
with the rope stopped. They werr
just now opposite the place where
Edgar Rice was shot the night be.
fore. AS though their crime had all
been planned the men began TO
scatter in all directions and bring in
fence rails TO where the negro lay
bound. Three or four pairs Of brawny
arms pitched the negro and his cot
over fence into field on the farm
of John Newlin.
Others ran here and there and
brought back armloads of hay and
straw. which they had picked up from
the fields.
The piled hay about and over the
cot and Walker, Some one touche-
a match to the mattress of ire cot.
Soon the cot and hay about was
ablaze.
Then the others piled fence rails
ON the negro. Walker writhed and
ctr lnA line hA ohoaElnc fhnt
bound him to the bed Suddenly he
gave a leap out of teh blazing hay
Before the men about the fire real.
lied what the negro was doing. Walk
er had leaped over the fence with the
bed roped TO his back.
The Gro vd gave yell Men with
fence rails showed the bed and the
negro back into the blazing hay
Three times did the negro try to es.
cape in this manner Each time the
men with the fence rails showed him
back in the fire.
The third time the flesh was hang
ing from the negro's bones.
Satisfied by the horrible scene, the
leaders OF The mob poked their fence
raisl about the embers OF the smok.
ing pile OF hay for awhile. and then
started down the road toward the
town.
Detective Rice was shot as he went
to the rescue of two Italians whom
the negro. 1t is alleged. had held up
and was attempting to rob in the
neighborhood of the Worth Mills
When Rice reached the scene OF the
holdup the Italians and negro wer'
engaged in a hand-to-hand battle.
With the appearance of the police
man. the Italians. without stopping
to thank their rescuer. fled precipi.
lately. leaving him to cope singlehand'
ed with Walker The later, according
to dying statement made by Rice,
grappled with the detective and dis.
armed him. Rice put up valiant
fight TO regain possession Of the
weapon and was shot through the
right lung.
The leaders of the mob are known
to District Attorney Gawthrop. and
thirty arrests are expected within the
next twenty.four hours.