Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1901 — NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE. [ARTICLE]

NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE.

Bill Morrla* Who Aflflaultei Woman at Balltown, La., Lynched. A negro named Bill Morris, who attacked Mrs. John Ball at Balltown, La., wai burned at the stake. After being captured he made an effort to implicate other negroes, but the latter soon proved their innocence. Morris was taken to the scene of his crime, tied to a pine sapling with chains, and his hands and feet were chained to his body. Pine knots and straw were piled about the body and saturated with coal oil, and the whole set on fire. The negro made no outcry when the flames first reached him, and only when he was partly consumed did tho spectators notice any movement of hil body. He made no resistance when being hound to the stake.