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f)INegro Kurned to Death.We are informed that on KentuckyThanksgiving day, a couple of youn^ men of Maysville, whose lamily eonnec-l j tions are described as of the ‘‘highest respectability,” were on a drunken spree at the “Parker House.” in tl at place, and protracting their frolic till a very late hour, after ail the household had retiredto bed, attempted to arouse the bar-keep-er to procure more liquor, and failing in this, and succeeding in fiinding a yellow man, one of the waiters, asleep, they con;eluded to set fire to him in order to a.uakenhim! With this view they took a camphene lamp, and pouring the fluid over his whisk* T » and ignited it and thepoor fellow’s neck and head became instantly wrapped in an tr.tense blaze,,{ which continued till the fluid was consu-irimed, The sufferings of the victim wasn dreadful in the extreme. No refinement C j of torture could have produced mote ex-j. cruciating misery. But, strange to say,ej death did not release him from tormentuntil after the lapse of two weeks. 1 ho e I poor creature was the slave of Mr, BaB,^ | the keeper of the Paikcr House, who saysas our informant tells us that no human suffering could exceed that of his boy du-3f ring the fortnight that he lived after the If burning. These young men respccta-_ bly connected,” whose drunkenness re-(j suited in this horror, are said to allege ihat they burned the negro by accident —r ; that when holding the lamp to his farethey managed to break it and spill thefiery fluid upon him. The yonng men are rich They have agreed to pay Mr. Ball 0 $1*200 for the loss of his servant. Our | J informant states that no one in Maysville l0 speaks oflhis transaction wi'houta shud-].1 der of horror, but that no movement hasbeen made toward a legal investigation of\. j the matter, and that the “high position”of the parties implicated will overaweany such movement. We ask the citi-I zens ol Maysville. in the name of their rv ■ honorr if these things can be true?- Cin.^*1 Com.ir• iioid
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Wilmington Clinton Republican
Wilmington, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 11, 1856
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