Mob Grew Maddened

Memphib, Oct. 17. - Jefferspn EUis, the Fayetfce oounty rapi 3 . was etrung to a telegraph pole by 358 men wtfchln 200 yards of the scène of his crime. Before hanging the negro the mob ent off both his e;irs and all of his fingers and mutilated him iu a horrible and unmcrciful manner. The mob with their prisoner reached the home of liis victim, Miss Prater, soon aftel Diidntght. The yo'ung waman identified hlm as her assnilant. As soon as tuis was done an armed squad of mun took Ellis trom Constable Farrow and startud with him for the piko where the public road erosses the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Here there is also a telégraph pole. A big fire had been built at the place and sround it the mob gathered in a circle. The handcuffed negro was on his Unces beforo the fire. The leaders of the mob told Ellis to pray, but he only looked at them in a stupiu manner. Sang a Negro Ilyinn. Being told that lie was abo ut to die, ho raised his voice in a negro hymn. By the timo he flniahed the mob was looking ugly. The fiercer element were m complete control. Crls of "Burn him" were heard on all sides. This fearful fate would probably have been fort.inate for the negro, as subsequent events proved. Amid the shouts of the mob a man jumped to the negro's side with a drawu knife in his had. "Cutoiï his ears," they cried. "tíive me a flnger," shouted ono man "I want a thumb," cricd another. The better element in the crowd drew off at this time an;l said they werè not in fuvorof doing anything but hanging the negro. The protests were not noticed. Baing urged on by the fierce3t in the crowd, the man with the knife cut off tho negro's right ear and Iield up the bleeding trophy in full view of the crowd. Ilorribly Mutilated. The negro screamed froni his torture but his other ear was cut off a few moments later. The mob becamo maddened at the sight of this work and those who were mutüating the negro found ampie encouragement. They next cut off all his fiagers, and tearing away part of his clothes they mutilated hitn in a horrible marnier. The negro was covered with bluod and his head looked like It had been scalpod. The mob was not even then willing to end the negro's agony. Finally, fully thirty-five minutes after the torture of the negro began, the rope was put around his neck. The telegraph pole was seventy-flve feot away. The rope was a very long one. The tree end was taken by a man who quickly climbed the telegraph pole and threw it over the cross arm. The crowd jerked the negro to the foot of the pole, and ' while the mob shouted the bleeding and mutilated form of the negro was swung to the cross arm. Head Cut lroin the Body. The negro was lowered to the ground and his head was cut from his body with pocketknives. The noose was then put over the feet and the headless body was igain swung up. It is intended to send the head to the family of the little girl the negro attempted to assault lase Saturday in Misslsslppl. Jeiï Ellis on the afternoon of OeC. 5 criminally assaulted M,iss Bettio Prater in the presencb of the latter's two little sisters. He escaped from a mob which had gathered to lynch him that night, but he was pursued unremittingly until he was captured Monday near Moiint Pleasant, Miss. He confessed to the assault upon Miss Prater, to the out rage and murder of a Mrs. Wilcox of the same neighborhood two years ago and to an attompted assault upon a little girl in Mississippi while he was trying to escape from the mob.