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LAYER OF YOUNG WHITE MAN HANGED TO A TELEGRAPH POLE.HE EXECUTIONERS WORE MASKSunty AuthoHtfe* Are Probing the Event.—Dead Boy Had Invaded the Negro Quarter of the Town.Wagoner.—Lynching at the hands ' a mob of fifty masked men was ie fate of Marie Scott, a negress, ho plunged a knife into the heart f Lemuel Pearce, a young white man are, killing him instantly.The mob arrived at the Jail just be* re daybreak and called to the jailer r admittance, saying they were offi* srs who had prisoners with them, he door was opened and a number P revolvers were immediately leveled t the surprised man who offered no ssistance to their entrance.Thrusting the jailer to one side aft-r taking the keys from him, the lead-r of the mob unlocked the cell in rhich the terrified woman was kept, nd placed a rope over her neck. A 3W minutes later, she was hoisted nder a telegraph cable whither she ad been dragged, two blocks from he jail, and left dangling there at he end of the rope.The young white man who met his eath at the hands of the negress was n a party of young men who had entured into the negro section of the own Sunday mdrning. The attack vb.b unexpected and before the com* (anions of the youth could interfere, ie had been stabbed.The body of the dead negress was liscovered by the sheriff about an lour after the lynching occurred. He rut the body down and, later in the lay, an investigation was started, ^ounty Attorney C. E. Castle declared hat he knew several members of the nob who overpowered P. J. Ryan, the light turnkey at the jail here.The fact that the mob did Its work luietly and with unhesitating dispatch was what prevented any alarm 3eing sounded. The lynching was affected without any shots being fired and few words were spoken during the procedure.Wagoner is comparatively quiet. While the authorities are at work on a probe of the affair, citizens seem little inclined to lend them aid, and local sentiment appears to be with the mob. County Attorney Castle believes that many in the party were nonresidents. The majority of them are believed to. be farmers who live near the home of the murdered youth:In the past, several negroes have been convicted of murder here and sentenced to death, but appead to have escaped this end by their sentences being commuted to life imprisonment.
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Haskell News
Haskell, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Apr 09, 1914
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