A MURDERER BURNED AT THE STAKE.
J. M. Baker, a young farmer of Bell County, Texas, was recently murdered by Tom Williams, a negro desperado, who was duly arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged. Daring the trial the courtroom was crowded, and when sentence was pronounced, and the prisoner was ironed and taken back to gaol, it was openly threatened that he should be burned, as hanging was too good for him. On the 26th January a crowd collected around the gaol and demanded to be admitted. The sh. rff had gone home, leaving the g ;ol in the keeping of a deputy. The doors were opened, and a dozen men entered. Williams was pointed out to them, and he was taken and secured to the back of a horse. The mob then mounted their horses and rode off on the Bell County road about two miles. Dismounting in a patch of woods by the road-side, they bowed two masquite saplings, fastened them together, making a stiff arch, to which they bound the negro by a chain. His feet were made fast to the undergrowth, faggots were collected and piled up under him, and then set on fire. He begged piteously to be spared, but his execuliomrs knew no mercy. For nearly an hour his tortures were continued.
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 578, 26 April 1876, Page 3
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220A MURDERER BURNED AT THE STAKE. Globe, Volume V, Issue 578, 26 April 1876, Page 3
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