killing of another Negro "rapist" was a case of "fearful depravity." Had
she revealed the father's name, he would have been lynched and his taking
off charged to an assault upon a white woman.


BURNED ALIVE FOR ADULTERY

In Texarkana, Arkansas, Edward Coy was accused of assaulting a white
woman. The press dispatches of February 18, 1892, told in detail how he
was tied to a tree, the flesh cut from his body by men and boys, and after
coal oil was poured over him, the woman he had assaulted gladly set fire
to him, and 15,000 persons saw him burn to death. October 1, the _Chicago
Inter Ocean_ contained the following account of that horror from the pen
of the "Bystander" Judge Albion W. Tourgee--as the result of his
investigations:

1. The woman who was paraded as victim of violence was of bad character;
her husband was a drunkard and a gambler.

2. She was publicly reported and generally known to have been criminally
intimate with Coy for more than a year previous.

3. She was compelled by threats, if not by violence, to make the charge
against the victim.

4. When she came to apply the match Coy asked her if she would burn him
after they had "been sweethearting" so long.

5. A large majority of the "superior" white men prominent in the affair
are the reputed fathers of mulatto children.