ROASTING A MURDERER ALIVE.
A NEGRO named Reed recently assaulted and murdered a girl at Gainstown, Alabama, and then fled. The entire population searched for him, and eventually caught him on the Mobile River. Guarded by 200 men, Reed was marched in chains to the scene of tho crime Hero he confessed, and was chained to a tree, and there roasted alive, about 500 persons, including both whites and negroes, watching the scene. He was tortured by a pile of fagpots being alternately fired and scattered until he fell dead in agony and the flames consumed him. His body was completely reduced to ashes.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2230, 23 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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104ROASTING A MURDERER ALIVE. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2230, 23 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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