TERRIBLE EXPIATION OF MURDER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1713, 18 June 1884, Page 2

TERRIBLE EXPIATION OF MURDER.

News comes from Texas of two terrible crimes committed at a place called Lyons, about 18 miles from Anstern, in Fayette oountry, The faots of the case are :-At a late hour one Saturday night a burly negro entered the house of Mrs Moors, and ordered that she prepare a supper for him. The poor woman though frightened at the prosence of such an unwelcome visitor, and the hour being late, refused to comply with the negro's | demand, whereupon, he deliberately proceeded to the woolshed,' and taking therefrom an axo, returned and brutally murdered the helpless widow. He then fled. Friends of the family arriving soon afterwards, and the alarm being given, a posse of 100 men set out on the trail ot the murderer, and he was captured at an early hour next morning. He was then marched back to the scene of his crhe, and, after being identified hy the children who witnessed the mnrder, was then taken to the neighboring wood and ordered to prepare for death, Seeing that he had no chance for mercy he confessed his guilt, whereupon a firo was at once kindled, and the unfortunate murderer was made to expiate his crime by one still more horrible that of being roasted to death. No arrests have been made, and it is not likely that those who dealt out this shocking retribution will he held amendable by law, '