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FINALEDITIONTheMexia evening News_______ n i if v (L'vnro nvnVirsFINALEDITIONMEXIA, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY C, 1922.VOL. XXIV. No. I ID.UNITED PRESS DAILY NEWS SERVICE.75 CcntB Per Month, in Advance-SWAN HUNT ENDS 3 NEGROES BURNEDOne White ^ an Holfl Panning InvestigationBy The United PressKIRVEN, May 6.-~Stacking them m sticks of cord wood, more than 500 people b “Snap” Curry, 26, Mose Jones, 44 and Cornish, 19,— all negroes, in the square hei * morning. The burning of the negroes w; climax of a day and night hunt for assaultei murderers of -Eula Ausley, 17 year old scho* who was found dead in a field T iiursday nig: Curry was the first man placed on thi V and confessed to the assaulting of the girl ar ing her murder.As he was strapped to a seat on a plow which the fire began, he said: “Burn Mo! John Cornich, for they are as guilty as I an the flames began to reach up and set his ( on fire, he began to sing “0, Lord, I m Cc His clothes were completely saturated wi troleum and in a flash, his body was com covered with flames. The last strains hymn came about four minutes after h placed on the fire.Mose Jones was then roped and drag the plow. More wood was thrown on. about six minutes before he was dead.4 Then, John Cornish was lassoed and ged on to the fire again more-wood-was lt;to the pyre.‘ The three bodies were burned to a crAt eight o’clock this morning the fire still burning.The capture of the three blacks w s most thrilling man hunt in the history of With a clew from another negro that was guilty, the search was begun. Frida) 'S noon fully a thousand men engaged in th Currie was captured about five /do terday afternoon. A negro recognized Cui took him to the home of a white man wl was captured and taken to the Wortham The news of his capture spread lil fire and a large crowd gathered. Tin V was slipped into a hank building then ait* Sheriff Mayo started for Fairfield wher severe questioning, the negro confessed, eating two others. Word was sent to Kir* the other two immediately captured.Sheriff Mayo made a valliant effort tect them but odds were too much.lt;. A cavalcade of more than 100 carsat 4 o’clock and the burning took place « A large amount of cord wood was on han* Jnish and Jones did not confess to the crim % QUIET AT NOON12 O’clock.The excitement is dying away over cidenf here earlier in the day. Large l ,V-f are here, viewing the pyre on which tl negroes were burned. Quiet prevails and developments in the tragic affair in co „ ^ with the death of Eula Ausley are known been presented.TWO WHITE MEN HELD FAIRFIELD, May 6.—Claude and Ac - well, white men, are in jail pending ii ■ tipns into their connection with the ass
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Mexia Evening News
Mexia, Texas, US
Sat, May 06, 1922
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