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BURNED AT THE STAKE,Sam Hose Tortured For the Cranford Murder and Assault.foum! at Bis Mother** Hnn«e ami filvet*I p to » Blob in Newnan, Oa , Attar Ho Had Bean Locked Up.Hiwiusr, Oft. (Special).—Sara Hose, tb# negro murderer lind assailant of Mr. and Mrs. Cranford, was burned At the stake.In the presence of 2000 people, near thU town Sunday afternoon. Before his dentil Hose's body was mutilated with knives, and the torture endured for half nn hour. When the flames had ended his suffering, tbo mob rut the remain* of his body Into small fragments.Hose made a partial confession, ae* knowledging that hr klllrd Mr. Cranford, and said that the murder had been instigated by a coiored preacher, who bad paid him $12 to commit it.Hose had b«en on the farm of tbo Jones brothers, between Macon and Columbus, since the day after he rommltted hi* crime. His mother is employed on the farm, and to her little cabin he fled,h*uU safe refuge,Saturday morning one ox tne Jones boys met Hose,*and as Im was talking to htmno-ticed that his “ginger” face was ebony Mark. Just below the eotlar of his shtrt 1 he copper color was dlscernable. Jones became convinoed that ho was the negro for whom the authorities, assisted by bloodhounds, had been scouring the country for ten days, and determined to arrest him. Sunday morning the Jones boy» brought the negro into Macon and put him aboard a Central Railroad of Georgia train, with the Intention of bringing him to Atlanta.In some way the news of the arrest leaked out, and, as the town had been on tbo alert for nearly two weeks, the intelligence spread rapidly. From every house In the little city came its occupants, and a good-sized crowd was soon gathered about the jail. Sheriff Brown was Importuned to give up the prisoner, and Anally, in order to avoid an assault on the Jail and possible bloodshec). he turned tho wretch over to tbo waiting crowd. A procession was quickly formed, and the. ...... Hero ev-Governor Atkinson, olGeorgia, who lives In Nownan, carao hurriedly upon the scene, and standing up In a buggy importuned the orowd to let the law'.ako Its course.Judge A. 1). Freeman, also of Newnan, spoke and prayed the mob to return the prisoner to the custody of the Sheriff andgo home.The assemblage beards the words of the two speakers In silence, but the Instant their voices had died away shouts of On to Palmetto!” “Burn him!” “Think of his crime!” urose, and the march was resumed.Leaving the town, the mob, which now rmmhored nearly 1600 persons, started on the road to Palmetto. One and a hall miles out of Nownan a place believed to bo favorable to the burning was reached. A little to the side of the road wa§ a strong pine tree. Up to this the negro was marched, his back placed to the tree, and his face to the crowd, which jostled closely about him. Here for the flrst time he was allowed to talk. He said:“I am Ham Hose. I killed Alfred Cranford, but was paid to do it. ‘Ltge’ Strickland, the negro preacher at Palmetto, gave me $12 to kill him.”The clothes were torn from the wretch A heavy chain was produced and wound around the body of the terrifled negro, clasped by a new lock which dangled at Hose's oeok. He said not a word to this proceeding, but at the sight of three or four knives flashing in the hands of several members of the crowd about him * which seemed to forecast the t Meal he was about to be £ut tot he uttereda wild sbrlek. 7A hand grasping a knife gliot out and one of the negro’s ears dropped Into a hand ready to receive it. Hose pleaded pitifully for mercy and begged his tormentors to let him die. His cries were unheeded.Wheu the crowd wearied of this mutilation the words, “Come on with the oil,” brought a huge can of kerosene to the foot of the tree, where the negro, his body covered with blood from bead to foot, was striving and tugging at his chains. The can was lifted over the negro’s head by three or four men and Its contents poured ovsr him. By this time a good supply of brush pieces of fcnoe rail, and other firewood had been placed about the negro’s feet. Ttiis pyre was thoroughly saturated and a match applied.A flame shot upward and spread quickly over the pile of wood. As it licked the negro’s legs he shrieked once and began to struggle. As the flames crept higher and the smoke \ ered his eyes and mouth, Hose put the stub., of his hands to the tree back' -of him and witli a terrifto plunge forward of his body,severed the upper portion of the chains which bound lam to the tree. His body, held to the tree only as far as the thighs, mnged forward, thus escaping th# flames which roared and crackled about ids feet. One of tho men nearest the burning negro quickly ran up and, pushing him back, said: Get into tho lire there,’’and quickly coupled the disjointed links of the chain.The torch was applied about 2.30, and at 3 o’clock the body of Bam Hose was limp and lifeless, his head hanging to one side. The body was not out down. It was cut to pieces. The crowd fought for place# about the smouldering tree, and with knives secured such pieces of his carcass as had not crumbled away. The chain was severed by hammers, tho tree was chopped down, and the chips and such pieces of the firewood as had not been burned were carried as souvenirs.(iOVKKNOlt BLAMES THE NEGROES.Bays They Munt 1Protectthe Whites IIThey Kxpinet l'rotection.Ati-a:(Bpecial). — GovernorCundlei•made a’stiitement on the burningof BumHose, nearNewnan, In which hesaid:“Thewhole thing iftdeplorable, andHose’s lt;Time, the horribledetails of whichhavebeen publishedland at•o too horrible forpu Plicatlon, is themostdiabolical in theannals ■of crime. Tho negiroes or that com-inanity ever halost tho best opportunity they willvo to clevfttis themsolves in the esti-inationof their wbiite ntdghbors, Tho dia-boilcalnature of tbe .lunlile crime was wellknownto every one1 of thesm; tho perpetra-iug Hose to justice.“The good and luwaMdlug negroes must separate themsolves from the lawless and criminal element. They must denounow crime and uld in bringing criminals to justice, whether thoy be black or white. In this way, they can do more to protect themselves than all' the courts and juries in the Btates can do for them. To secure protection against lawless whites they must show a disposition to protect the white people against lawless blacks.”A Woman Confesses Murder.Saraflnl Garvoldl, an Italian, was found dead in St. Louis, Mo., a few days ago, having been shot in the back. TL* v police arrested John Bohurt, a Belgian saloon keeper,who had turned his wife out ot his house because of her relations with the uead man and Mrs. Bohart. The woman confessed to shooting the man.ltnrul Police In Cubs.The organization of the rural police in Cuba will be hastened on account of I ho. activity of bandits in the thinly populated parts of tho island.
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Uhrichsville Twin City News
Uhrichsville, Ohio, US
Thu, Apr 27, 1899
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