Roy Mitchell, 1923 July 30

Bosque River in Cameron Park, He forced the girl to help him drag
—the-body-to-the cliff's—edge-and-push-it- over. He was taking her ———
in the car to a point further along the bluff when she managed to
escape and leap over the edge of the cliff, Fortunately she landed
in a clump of shrubbery and was not injured. On the night of Jane
19, 1923, he shot W, E, Holt, a l\6-year-old white man, three times
and forced Mrs, Ethel Denecamp, Holt's companion to submit to sexual
relations after which he bhot and killed her also, He beat both
bodies over the head with his gun barrell and then tied Holt's body
to the rear of the car and dragged it some distance, Mitchell was
arrested shortly afterwards and when his home was searched, Holt's
pistolk scabbard and gloves were found as well as a piece of rope
matching that used. to drag his body, Mitchell made and signed a
confession to all of the above murders and he was suspected of having
perpetrated a number of other killings, for one of which a man had
been burned at the stake in 1916, At his trials, he repudiated his
confession but the evidence was so strong that he was convicted of
six murders and received the death penalty in each. Following un-
successful appeals to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, he was
hanged ‘at Waco on July 30, 1923. Prior to his execution , he admitted
his guilt of all of the crimes against him and said that. his original
confession was true in all details, A large canvass had been erected

Bosque River in Cameron Park, He forced the girl to help him drag
—the-body—to-thé-cliff'!s—edge-and-push-it- overs -He-was taking her ——
in the car to a point further. along the bluff when she managed to
escape and leap over the edge of the cliff, Fortunately she landed
in a clump of shrubbery. and was not injured. On the night of Jane
19, 1923, he shot W, E, Holt, a l6-year-old white man, three times
and forced Mrs. Ethel Denecamp, Holt's companion to submit to sexual
relations after which he bhot and killed her also, He beat both
bodies over the head with his gun barrell and then tied Holt's body
to the rear of the car and dragged it some distance, Mitchell was
arrested shortly afterwards and when his home was searched, Holt's
pistolk scabbard and gloves were found as well as a piece of rope
matching that used. to drag his body, Mitchell made and signed a
confession to all of the above murders and he was suspected of having
perpetrated a number of other killings, for one of which a man had
been burned at the stake in 1916, At his trials, he repudiated his
confession but the evidence was so strong that he was convicted of
six murders and received the death penalty in each. Following un-
successful appeals to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, he was
hanged ‘at Waco on July 30, 1923, Prior to his execution , he admitted
his guilt of all of the crimes against him and said that. his original
confession was true in all details, A large canvass had been erected

Bosque River in Cameron Parf, Hé forced the girl to help him drag
the bod: é er, He was taking her
in the car to a point further. alone the bluff when she managed to
escape and leap over the edge of the cliff, Fortunately she landed

‘a clump of shrubbery and was not injured. On the night of Jan,
19, 1923, he shot W, E, Holt, a li6-year-old white man, three times
and forced Mrs. Ethel Denecamp, Holt's companion to submit to sexual
relations after which he bhot and killed her also, He beat both
bodies over the head with his gun barrell and then tied Holt's body
to the rear of the car and dragged it some distance, Mitchell was
arrested shortly afterwards and when his home was searched, Holt's
pistol scabbard and gloves were found as well as a piece of rope
matching that used. to drag his body, Mitchell made and signed a
confession to all of the above mrders and he was suspected of having
perpetrated a number of other killings, for one of which a man had
been burned at the stake in 1916, At his trials, he repudiated his
confession but the evidence was so strong that he was convicted o:
six murders and received the death penalty in each. Following un-
successful appeals to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, he was
hanged at Waco on July 30, 1923, Prior to his execution , he admitted
his guilt of all of the crimes against him and said that. his original
confession was true in all details, A large canvass had been erected

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mated as being between four and ten thousand persons and the hanging
was made public, WxXX Mitchell went to his death calmly and his last
words were: "Goodbye, everybody, Take me on home,"

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Mitchell, a black resident of Waco, Tex,, began AXAK# a spree of aoe)
robbery and murder on the evening of Feb. 11, 1922, when he shot and
killed W. H, Barker, a Concord farmer, murdered Mrs, Barker with an
axe and mortally wounded with the same ax 13-year-old Homer Turk, the
son of a neighbor who was visiting the Barkers. On the night of May

7 when We P. DriskeBl drove into his garage in northwest Waco, Mitchell
split his skull with an axe which he had picked up in the yard and
stole a pistol which he used to wound a man and a woman in Waco's
Cameron Park on the night of May 15, He used the same pistol to kill
Harrell Bolton on the night of May 25, After killing Bolton, he raped
his womankscompanion and released her in the woods, She told the au-
thorities that her assailant was a black man with a gold tooth in the
front of his mouth and another black with such a tooth was taken to
her for identification, She told her father that he was the man who
had killed Bolton and raped her and the father shot and killed him,
The body of this innocent man was taken to an undertaking establishment
WREKE from whence it was later removed that night and taken to the

city square where it was burned on a pyre of cordwood and hay, On the

night of Nov, 20, he shot and killed Grady Skipworth, a white an who,
whith his date, had gone to "Lover's Leap," a limestone bluff on the

MITCHELL, Roy en iia eat
July 30,192
Mitchell, a black resident of Waco, Tex., began HXMK# a spree of ee
robbery and murder on the evening of Feb. 11, 1922, when he shot and
killed W. H. Barker, a Concord farmer, murdered Mrs, Barker with an
axe and mortally wounded with the same ax 13-year-old Homer Turk, the
son of a neighbor who was visiting the Barkers, On the night of May
7 when We P. Driske@l drove into his garage in northwest Waco, Mitchel]
split his kkull with an axe which he had picked up in the yard and
stole a pistol which he used to wound a man and a woman in Waco's
Cameron Park on the night of May 15, He used the same pistol to kill
Harrell Bolton on the night of May 25. After killing Bolton, he raped
his womankscompanion and released, her in the woods, She told the au-
thorities that her assailant was a black man with a gold tooth in the
front of his mouth and another black with such a tooth was taken to
her for identification, She told her father that he was the man who
had killed Bolton and raped her and the father shot and killed him,
The body of this imnocent man was taken to an undertaking establishment
HMw from whence it was later removed that night and taken to the
city square where it was burned on a pyre of cordwood and hay. On the
night of Nov. 20, he shot and killed Grady Skipworth, a white an who,
whith his date, had gone to "Lover's Leap," a limestone bluff on the

MITCHELL, Roy i a aie ees
Toly 30,192
Mitchell, « bleck resident of Wacc, Tars, vegan EIMEE a atrce of rape
robbery and murder on the evening of Feb, 11, 1922, when he shot and
killed w H. Barker, a Concord farmer, murdered Mrs, Barker with an
axe and mortally wounded with the same ax 13-year-old Homer Turk, the
son of a neighbor who was visiting the Barkers, On the night of May
7 when We Ps Driske2l drove into his garage in northwest Waco, Mitchell]
split his bkull with an axe which he had picked up in the yard and
stole a pistol which he used to wound a man and a woman in Waco's
cameron Park on the night of May 15, He used the same pistol to kill
Farrell Bolton on the night of May 25. After killing Bolton, he raped
his womantscompanion and released her in the woods, She told the au-
thorities that her assailant was a black man with a gold tooth in the
front of his mouth and another black with such a tooth was taken to
her for identification, She told her father that he was the man who
had killed Bolton and raped her and the father shot and killed him,
The body of this innocent man was taken to an undertaking establishment
i from whence it was later removed that night and taken to the
city square where it was burned on a pyre of cordwood and hay. On the
night of Nov, 20, he shot and killed Grady Skipworth, a white an who,
whith his date, had gone to "Lover's Leap," a limestone bluff on the

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