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"Everybody will have an opportunity to see him," called out one of the leaders; "put out all the lights and move toward Price's Corners."

Scores of lanterns vanished and in the sudden gloom there was a swift movement, during which White and his captors were lost to sight. They were soon detected hastening toward the spot on which Helen Bishop had been murdered, and on which it had been decided to execute her assassin.

As he was dragged swiftly along, the frightened prisoner begged for mercy. He offered to confess everything, but his captors would not give him an opportunity to talk until they had brought him to the stake. There he was permitted to stand and make a confession in which he said he had killed Miss Bishop. He said he had asked her for money, promising to release her if rewarded.

"She gave me 60 cents," he said. "Then I asked her if she was going to tell, and she said she was. I cut the back of her neck with a knife, and asked her again if she would tell. She said yes again, and then I cut her throat. If I was a white man you would not do this to me."

The confession aroused the crowd to a high pitch of excitement, and the leaders prepared the stake and the fuel in haste, fearing their prisoner would be taken from them and shot down.

One man split rails, while another, mounted on a white horse, rode at top speed to a farmyard and brought a bundle of straw.

White continued to beg for mercy until the wood and straw were set afire.

The flames burned away the thongs and he fell into the fire. Leaping to his feet, he attempted to run away. A member of the mob felled him with a rail, and he was again placed on the fire. Several times he