Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-14
NEGRO TO
AVENGE KILLING
Bound to Hospital Cot, Eze-
kieI Walker Pays the Pen
atty for Crime.
BY PENNSYLVANIA MOB
Tries to Commit Suicide in
Order to Escape--Pushed
Back Into the Flames.
BY PENNSYLVANIA MOB
Special By United Press Wire.

Special By United Press Wire.
Coatesville, Pa, Aug. 14:-All
that remains of Ezekiel Walker, the
negro burned to death last night, is
the charred skull and two ribs,
thrown in soap box and exposed at
the junction of Eschelton road and
Hospital lane.
Several thousand excited but de-
termined citizens are ready to balk
the law by further violence If neces-
sary. AS a result all saloons and
hotel bars have been ordered closed.
Sheriff Golden declared that several
arrests of well-known citizens here
will take place today.
A mob Of 400 men battered down
the doors of the Coatesyille hospital,
dragged out the negro, charged with
killing Special Policeman Rice Sat
urday night, carried him half mile,
manacled him to his hospital cot and
burned him alive.
The lynehing was accomplished only
after the negro, mad with pain, had
lesped from the blazing pyre built over
him and tried to escape, dragging the
bed to which he was bound by his
handouts. A crowd of 1000 watched
the mob leaders beat the creature
with fence rails and force him, shrek
ing, back into the flames Three times
he bounded up and three times was
thrust back, until finally the quivering
body fell into the fire.
Only then was the mob satisfied
The masked men walked back to the
town. and a half hour later they had
dispersed as rapidly as they had gath
cred.
Walker, the negro victim of the
lynching, had shot himself in an effort
to cheat the mob that had searched for
him with guns a day and night.
There was no revealing of Identities.
The men called their leaders mar
shall and themselves they addressed
as brother"
Attendants at the hospital saw the
mob gathering and ran to the tele-
phone. There was no response over
the wire. The men outside had cut
all wires leading into the building
Walker lay helpless on his bed in
the right wing of the hospital Into
the ward the leaders rushed, over pa
tfeI1ts fut,1ttzlEs ard rIcrvunring rrs5n
fright Some one produced 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,
Chief of Police Olmsted tried to
rush through the crowd, but was
showed back into the street. The
bowling mob, now increased to
thousand persons or more, followed.
A half mile to the south the men with
the rope stopped. They were now just
opposite the place where Edgar Rice
was shot. 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.
Others brought back hay and straw
from the fields. They piled the hay
about an(' over the cot and Walker.
Some one touched a match to the mat
tress Of the cot. Soon the cot and
hay about 1t was ablaze. Walker
writhed and struggled against the
shackles that bound him to the bed
Suddenly he gave leap out Of the
burning hay. Then men about the
fire realized what the negro was do
Ing. Walker had leaped over the
fence with the bed roped to his back.
The crowd gave q yell. He was
showed 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
bacl into the fire,