Evening journal., 1922-05-06
BURN NEGROES
Who KILL child
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and John cornish-they are as
guilty as l am"
curry's chant. "oh, Lord I am
coming" rose higher and higher as
the flames leaped.
AS the body was completely sat
urated with kerosene and petrol
cum Curry's chant died away.
Jones was then roped and dragged
over TO the plow, wood was thrown
on. In about six minutes he was
dead
John Cornish was lassoed and
dragged on to the fire. Again more
fuel was added and the three bodies
were burned to a crisp.
Ats o'clock the fire was still
burning.
The capture OF the three blacks
followed the most thrilling man
hunt in Texas history. Farmers and
business men of three counties be-
= ran early Friday morning to run
down the slayer OF the white girl.
with a clue from another Negro that
.snapn Curry was guilty, creek bot
.onos and hills we're beaten back and
'-Souh. all day. "a,
curry was captured about b.so
Friday afternoon five and a nan
miles south OF Wortham. News OF
the capture spread rapidly and with
IN an hour a large crowd had gath
sred about the jail. The black man
was slipped out and taken to Fa,r-
field where he was placed IN the
county jail. Under severe question:
ing the Negro confessed and imph-
Gated the other two Negroes at XIII
WIN.
Jones and Cornish were arrested
and brought to Fairfield. No sooner
than they had been placed behind
the bars. a mob Of close TO 400 had
gathered and stormed the jail. The
guard was quickly overpowered, and
the three blacks were taken and
placed in automobiles.
More than 100 automobiles leo
he parade back to Kirvin a distance
IF about 13 miles.
The cavalcade arrived in Kirvin |
,bout the square. A plow was placed
n the square. A large amount OF
wood was on hand by the time the |
Negroes were taken out OF the au-
omobile.
Curry was first brought TO the
low and strapped and chained TO
he iron seat. He was then mutilated
md crude oil and kerosene poured
,ver him. He cried to burn the other
wo Negroes and started singing as
he match was applied. Jones and
Cornish did not confess partici-
patton in the crime. They were also
mutiiated before being burned.
when the mob appeared and
broke down the door I attempted to
reason with them and talk them out
Of It." Sheriff Mayo said. There
we're about 1875 automobiles and
loaded with from to 10 men each.
guess there we're about 1000 men
in the mob. I was alone at the Jail |
and they showed guns in my face !
and took me outside. Then they got
the Negroes. If / had been given op-
portunity to talk to the Negroes
could have found out more about
the two white boys and II they had
anything to do with the crime"
FAIRFIELD, Texas May e.
Omitted Press) Claude and Audie
Crowell, white men, are in jail here
today pending an investigation in
connection with an assault and
murder of pretty little Eula Ausley,
II, at Kirvin for which crime three
Negroes were mutilated and burnedl
to death at dawn today.
Tracks leading from the scene of
the murder lead to the home of the
orothers. Sheriff II. NJ. Mayo said.
''The shoes of the Crowells fit the
tracks," was the terse comment of
he sheriff. One of the brothers was
arrested yesterday and the other
urrendered after the mob had |
AIKEN the Negroes from the jail
ere.
"In the pockets of one man were
ound s15," said the sheriff. The
Ing and Crowell families had some 4
ind OF a fight some time ago in
hich one of the Crowells was badly /
Ut This is just another clew we
re following" {
At Kirvin hundreds OF persons ,
ocked to see the funeral pyre of the $
cad Negroes. Snap" Curry, Nose (
ones in red embers were all that t
'as left. y
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