Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — BURNED AT THE STAKE. [ARTICLE]

BURNED AT THE STAKE.

Negro Tortured to Death by a Mob at Lansing, Texas. Dudley Morgan, a negro, wa* burned to death at Lansing, Texaa. A crowd of 4,000 men, most of whom were armed, took him from the officers on the arrival of the train. Morgan was taken to the home of hl* victim, Mr*. McKay, wife of Section Foreman M cKay, who identified him a* her assailant. A specie* of trial was arranged by the leaders of the mob. Morgan confessed his crime and implicated another negro. A large field was selected for tbe cremation. A stake was driven into the ground, and to this the cowering black was bound until he could only move hi* head. Heaps of inflammable material were then piled about him. The husband of the abused woman applied the match and the pyre was soon ablaze. The negro wa* tortured in a horrible manner. The crowd clamored continuously for * slow death. The negro, writhing and groaning at the stake, begged piteously to be shot Henry E. Harris, aged 85, aothor of “The King of Andora,” died In Duluth, Minn., of ptomaine poisoning. He wa* a son of the late A. A. Harris, a distinguished Virginia Confederate officer aud for a long tkpe a resident of Fort Hcott, Kan., and prominent ia Kan*** politic*.