Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number (Missing)
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 29, 1902
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(Title Missing)
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(CONF)ESSED
THE CRIME.
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Dudly
Morgan, the negro arrested near Longview on the charge of assaulting Mrs. McKee,
the wife of the section foreman, was burned at the stake Thursday afternoon in
the presence of a large number of of (sic) people.
After being caught, Dudly made a confession
of the crime and preparations at once began for his execution.
When all was ready the match was applied to
timbers saturated with coal oil and in a second the pyre was one mass of
flame. The body was burned to an unrecognizable mass in a short time, on
the trunk remaining. The crowd was orderly throughout and all is now
quiet.
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