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Is8NEGRO IS BURNEDBY LEESBURG MOBe8SLeesburg, Camp County, Texas, Oct. 11.—“I did it; I am sorry,” were the last words uttered by Wylie Mc-Nealy, a 19-year-old negro, who was taken from officers at the county jail at Mount Pleasant last night and brought to this place and burned by a mob of 500 persons. The lynching took place four miles east of Leesburg about midnight.McNealy was held following an assault upon the 8-year-old daughter of a well-known farmer near her?. Hehad confessed to the attack.I The child was walking alone along i the country road on her way from Sunday school to her father’s horn*’)p* •Sunday morning. She said afterwaid that the first she knew was that a coat was thrown over her head ande ] she felt a hand at her throat, afterwhich she lost consciousness.rItL-a hThree hours later on Sunday thenegro, who had been acting suspiciously, was arrested while sitting in front of a store in the village. He was taken to Pittsburg and later to Mount Pleasant, where he was lodg-ved in jail.That night a mob formed, but due to lack of leadership, nothing was 1 done. The next evening 400 or 500 determined men gathered and in 100 N J automobiles went from the Leesburgvicinity to Mount Pleasant and de-n liberately stormed the pail, took the negro and carried him back with themitd11 to near the sc ene o.f the crime.A steel rail was procured and leaned over a stump in such a way that the upper end was about five feet n from the ground. The negro was fas-n | tened face downward to the upper end of this rail by means of chainswdabout his neck, shoulders and feet.Rpsntlieory»lyri-asf-hecsd i He was asked if he had anything to say and replied:“I did it. I’m sorry.”The black made no outcry. There was no excitement among the members of the crowd. Everyone was jf j quiet and determined. There was sj j hardly a sound above a low tone or)n ; a whisper.Under the swaying form of the negro a pile of kindling and brush was placed and soaked with kerosene. A match was touched to it and soon the flames leaped up and enveloped the writhing form of the black boy. The crowd watched in silence. Aside from a few low moans there was no sound as the body on the end of the rail turned and twisted. In four or five minutes he was unconscious and within half an hour the body was burned vd almost beyond recognition as that of a human beinftThe crowd quietly disbursed about midnight, leaving the body swaying over the dying embers.The Sheriff of the county declared that from all appearances the little girl had been in the.woods with the negro for nearly an hour.e:w-k-Id-ode s edhi*
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Whitewright Sun
Whitewright, Texas, US
Fri, Oct 14, 1921
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