LYNCH LAW IN TEXAS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 20 July 1916, Page 3

LYNCH LAW IN TEXAS

That the abhorrence of unnecessary delay in execution of criminals is still inherent in the Southern States, United States of America, was again illustrated on May 15, at Robinson, Texas,

seven miles from the city of Waco, j when a negro, who upon his, trial con- j fessed to the assault upon and killing j of a white woman, was seized by the ' mob and dragged from the court-house. The trial took place at Waco, and fifteen thousand people surrounded the building It is stated that the mob at first seemed willing to hang the negro i from the suspension bridge, but a sag- 1 gestion that he be burned on the plaza j met -with instant response. He was , dragged to the city hall yard, where the chain, already around his neck, was | thrown over the limb of a tree, wood j piled around him, and the fire started. 1 About I o ’clock members of the mob , returned to the scene, put the charred j body in a sack, and a man on horseback j dragged th e body through the principal streets. What remained of the body was dragged behind an .automo- i bile to Robinson, and suspended from j a telephone pole.