Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01
After Complete Investiga-
ton Black Man Deter
mined Murderer.
KILLED 3 CHILDREN
Men, Women, Boys and
Girls Watched Flames
SINCE His Body.

TEMPLI, Texas, July 31.-Will
L Stanley, the negro arrested on a
charge of being the man who muir
dered the three Grimes children last
Wednesday night and at the same
time beat the parents into insensibil-
room just at midnight and was
burned on the public square in the
presence of thousands of men ana
women who had thronged the streets
awaiting the outcome Of the eXamina-
ton Of the alleged accomplices
brought from Rogers tonight.
The two negroes brought from
Rogers had accompanied Stanley from
Temple to that town the morning
after the murders, but the stories
told failed to implicate them in the
minds of the committee who ques-
toned them tonight.
The two negroes brought from
Rodgers tonight were released after
their examination and told to leave
the city at once.
Smap GirlrLOOk On.
The scene on the well-lighted pub
lie square at the time of the burning
Of the negro was unique. The mob
had chosen an open space in which
10 build their pyre, this being sur
rounded by the immediate partici-
rants, yelling and cheering as they
showed the negro into the flames. All
about the streets were filled with
pedestrians and automobiles loaded
with fascinated onlookers. The trees
fringing the street on the side of the
square nearest the incineration were
filled with boys, while scattered
through the throngs were many girls
of tender age.
When Stanley was cast into the
flames he struggled frantically to es-
cape but was repeatedly showed back.
Several Of those close enough to hear,
said that Stanley confessed that he
lid the killing, claiming that he had
neen hired to do the deed. He begged
to be permitted to live long enough to
tell about IT. but his admission of guilt
was all sufficient for those around
the fire. A shot was fired, which
some claim struck the struggling
negro. His struggles soon ceased and
the gathering began to disperse. In
few minutes the square was prac-
tically deserted and the crowds had
vanished.
Gather death" Fuel.
AS the mob left the justice court
building with their prisoner shortly
before midnight for the public square,
number of them went through al
leys and side streets gathering dry
goods boxes and anything they might
find to make their fire. These were
dragged to the square and broken into
bits Igniting a small pile of the
kindling, the mob threw additional
scraps on the pile until the flames
rose to considerable height.
After the fire had burned out the
remnants of the body were dragged
out and hung to a telephone pole as
warning to others.
The crime for which Stanley was
burned occurred during Wednesday
night. Thursday morning a neighbor
calling at the Grimes home found
three children of Mr.. and Mrs Grimes
lying in pools of blood, their bodies
brutally mutilated while the floors
and walls of the room were bespat-
tered with the crimson fluid. The
parents themselves were beaten about
the heads and bodies to such an ex-
tent that not until today were they
entirely conscious. Tonight both are
resting we'll although the condition
of the father is critical. The instru-
ment used by the assassin was an
iron rail cutter such as is used by
railroad track men. The skull Of
each Of the victims was crushed In.