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FINALEDITIONThe Mexia evening News_______ ... » i tt« (L'vnro DDnVimFINALEDITIONUNITED PRESS DAILY NEWS SERVICE.VOL. XXIV. No. HD.MEXIA, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY C, 1922.SWAN HUNT ENDS 3 NEGROES BURNED“.T* ........*.....♦......-.......One White Man Held Pending InvestigationBy The United PressKIRVEN, May 6.—Stacking them on like sticks of cord wood, more than 500 people burned “Snap” Curry, 26, Mose Jones, 44 and John Cornish, 19,— all negroes, in the square here this ' morning. The burning of the negroes was the climax of a day and night hunt for assaulters and murderers of-Eula Ausley, 17 year old school girl, who was found dead in a field T liursday night. Curry was the first man placed on the pyre ^ and confessed to the assaulting of the girl and aiding her murder.As he was strapped to a seat on a plow under which the fire began, he said: “Burn Mose and John Cornich, for they are as guilty as 1 am. As the flames began to reach up and set his clothes on fire, he began to sing “0, Lord, I m Coming His clothes were completely saturated with Pe* troleum and in a flash, Ms body was completely covered with flames. The last strains of the hymn came about four minutes after he was placed on the fire.Mose Jones was then roped and dragged to the plow. More wood was thrown on. It was about six minutes before he was dead.Jv Then, John Cornish was lassoed and dragged on to the fire again more-wood -was added lt;to the pyre. jThe three bodies were burned to a crisp.At eight o’clock this morning the fires were still burning.The capture of the three blacks was the s most thrilling man hunt in the history of Texas. With a clew from another negro that Currie was guilty, the search was begun. Friday after-'S noon fully a thousand men engaged in the hunt. Currie was captured about five o’clock yes terday afternoon. A negro recognized Curry and took him to the home of a white man where he was captured and taken to the Wortham jail. The news of his capture spread like wild fire and a large crowd gathered. The black V. was slipped into a bank building then into a car. Sheriff Mayo started for Fairfield where after severe questioning, the negro confessed, impli-eating two others. Word was sent to Kirven and t the other two immediately captured.Sheriff Mayo made a valliant effort to protect them but odds were too much., A cavalcade of more than 100 cars arrivedat 4 o’clock and the burning took place about 6. A large amount of cord wood was on hand. Cor-nish and Jones did not confess to the crime.% QUIET AT NOON12 O’clock.The excitement is dying away over the incident' here earlier in the day. Large number! are here, viewing the pyre on which the threlt; negroes were burned. Quiet prevails and no nev developments in the tragic affair in connectioi . ^ with the death of Eula Ausley are known to havi been presented.
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Mexia Evening News
Mexia, Texas, US
Sat, May 06, 1922
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