Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1877 — A Negro Burned at the Stake. [ARTICLE]

A Negro Burned at the Stake.

On Friday night about midnight a posse of between sixty and seventy-live men quietly entered our town, went to the blacksmith shop, broke it open, procured tools and proceeded to the jail and broke open the door. They went to the cell in which George Jackson, the negro ravisher and murderer of the little girl Corinna Hayes,was confined, and, breaking open the door of the cell, they took George out and departed. Thev carried him south of town about four miles, near the Berlin road, where they chained him to a green sapling and -there burned him. The whole affair was conducted so quietly, except the noise made in breaking open the shop, that very few persons were aware of their presence until they were leaving town. As they were going off they set up a loud yelling, which was done to prevent the voice of the negro from being heard. Some of our citizens saw them riding through the streets, and, learning they had the negro, followed them till they came to the place of execution. When they arrived there, however, the negro was burned to death and the men all gone.— Hamburg {Ark.) Monitor.