Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1911 — NEGRO BURNED ALIVE [ARTICLE]

NEGRO BURNED ALIVE

Work of Unmasked Mob in Purcell, Oklahoma. Cook on Diner Charged with Heinous Offense Against Wife of Young Farmer. Sbawnee; Okla., Aug. 25.—Peter Carter, a negro, thirty-five years old, a cook on a dining car, was burned at the stake in the center of the city at Purcell, Okla., at 6:2.0 p m. by 2,000 unmasked men and women. Drygoods boxes were piled twenty feet high and the negro was placed on top of the pile by hundreds of willing hands. The boxes were saturated with coal oil, and the fire started. The cries of pain of the burning man were answered by shouts of joy by the mob. No attempt was made by the sheriff or his forces to quiet the mob, or to save the negro’s life. The man was captured by two negroes two miles south of Purcell, and led into town and turned over to the moh The negro’s death was brought about by a heinous crime committed by him on Mrs. M Spragger, a white woman, the wife of a young farmer living one miles south of Purcell.