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oi. 4. SWooater University, -.-
CLEVELAND, O., September &—President
3] Taylor, of Wooster University, in a published
q card deniesthat the medidal department of
4 that institution has” been‘or can be consoll-
@ dated with or transferred tbthe Western Re-
serve University asannounted. The trustees
4 of Wooster University call pn the medical in-
4 structors tobe prepared to fulfill engage-.
ments to Jecture a8 per announcement here-
tofore sent out,and “all on al] alggni to stand
? by the Alma mater. | |. paRA
4 ott. Kansas State/Falr.: — -
4 . Torexa, Kas., September 9.—At a meeting
fof the Kansas State Fair Association held
last evening it was ordered that the superin-
Gtendent of the police force of the Falr
q Grounds’be Instructed to watch carefully the
=@ booths and stands and see that no Ilquors or
@ beer be sold or given away on the grounds

<4 during the Fair, The order is signed by T.
3 Y. Johnson,

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4°. No Woman Need Apply.’ | 1.
Boston, Beptember 9-—The Massachusetts
q Supremo Jndicial Court-dismissed the pett-
ation of Cells J.: Robinson to be admitted to
0 practice as an attorney in the courts, on the
_ 4 trounds that under the laws of the Commons
“Wealth women are not entitled to. be ad-
j mitted as attorneys. . { dibs ue!
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eG aoe Ex-Congreesman Dead,” ,

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‘ten o’clock the prisoners were removed

. there Brown
'1.He quick}

FOUND TO BR PERFECTLY CoMPosEs.~"
‘Brown was hed ge philosophic, Aald
} @ and we mig?s es
well go off at'one,time ag st another,”
Brown further. sald that he
fully -prepared,- ~as he had
vembraced religion, had been baptized and
had every assurance that his sins were wash-
eg out in the blood of the gra-
Savor. Padgett and * McGowan
also eald they were prepared for eternity,
The former was baptized and recelved into
the Methodist church one week ago. ‘Lhe

Jauer fe m Catholic. His spiritual!
adviser - was . Father’ Smythe. -The
riest administered extreme unction

ast night and thismorning the culprit re-
ceived communion forthe last time. Ho
talked resignedly, pressing everand anon a
crucifix to bis lips. sy af :
**] HAVE MADE MY PEACE WITH HEAVZN,??
said he, ‘‘and am beg On go. I hare re-
entea of my sins and believe I: shal} pass
m earth to paradise. I have to die on the
ve like a dog, but bow to the igevita-
6. . ; : ” Ry
As there were a few preparations to’ make
for the éxecution, your correspondent with-
drew Jeaving the condemned men to the
guards aod their spiritual ‘adviyors. at

from the jai] and accompanied by tbe guards
and priest and ministers, started to the
8 affoid,some 200 yards away. When nearly

BROKE DOWN AND FAINTED AWAY.-
revived however and the marvh
was resu

la a
& man, - dou’
asif I were a murderer, but I hope to
you allin heaven. Farewell.”? , Ra
McGowan next spoke at greht jJength,
‘detailing -the crime and ciraumstances
‘which Jedtoit. Concluding he sald:**f die
'DAPPY: God help my wife and four ciildren.
rown: ‘I bave only afew words, I am
an unintentional] murderer, but de that”

meet

wy ains are forgiven. I ‘$forgive
everybody, even Judve Parker, wo seu-
tenced me. I feel as if I svere goings ff into
aneternal sleep, and: wanted vo vane An

glory.” es hes
Pr The Indian boys, Abner’ and Amos
Manley, made a confossion, admittur
thattbey killed McVeigh, but asseriing that
they died in the hope pf immortal life: The
doomed were calm and eollected. ‘At 16:3)
their arms and: legs were ‘bout’, ‘and
the black cap and rope adjusted Ten mine
utes Jater the trap wag sprung, the cgnddmne-
ed falling about six feet, Padxott,.*Me-
Gowan and: Urown. almost without a
struggle. The Manleys twitched violently,
and a stream of blood gushed from the
cap which enveloped Abner. dManley’s
head. Altogethar it -was a porrible
epectacie and nearly all the spectators turned
way witha feeling of mausea. Acter hany-
pg 16 minutes,tho bodies were cut dowa and

{nterred. Aosate in eas a 5
} THE AIX MURDERERA |! ,
: The five men hung to-day at Fort Smith

three whites and twd Yadlans—ind their
crimes are described below: ; Seo
i Zs “ - PaT M'GOWAN , ”

was a man of slender bulld, abou) five feet
éight inches tall and of ratih«cnervous tems.
erament. He was 35 years.oi age; was born

n Jreland but ralsed in this coun‘:? from tnt

2 04 rotusine 4 Inyetare, eait did-uot sopear

drin

“Worst Toe fable je by tose tec Wola RITE]

during the trial that taero was any troubvie-
between them and their Fndian welghbors.
Possitly Jealousy'and gencral hatred of the
white man. Of rat ee who did the killing
Bowlegs ‘committed sulcide, another w:s
killed ina drunken broil, two are “on the
scout,” und the subject of this sketch, with
true Indian stoicism, wanted to aie quick.
Tulwahasjo was) respited by. Presidential
clemency and did hot accompany the other
five to the gallows. ue

_ KILLED BY HIS DAUGHTERS,

Tragedy Reported from Vir-
‘i ginia by Telegraph.

DaNVILLz, September 9.—Near Whitmill,
in this county,yesterday, Robert Williams and
wife bad a quarrel.| The wife went to a ma-
gistrate, from whom she obtained a warrant
forthe arrestof Willlams. The Magistrate
appointed Willams’ own son as spectfal con-
stable to execute the warrant, and on arriv-
ing’ at ‘Williams’ house with the
warrant. the deail body of Williams was
found ’ Wing upon a : bed quilt
inthe yard. The head was nearly severed
fron} the body, with an axe lying beside it. It
Was Agcertained twodaughters of Williams,
‘who had been left with him bytheir mother
when sbe went for the warrant, hadi ficd after
having perpetrated the murder,and have not
yet been arrested. . Williams pras educatod
apd 1s a man of good fawily, but addicted to
k and danyervus when drunk.

Pecullar

+ Be Railroad Stocks. -

New York, September 9.+The extraore
ainaty rise in- Ohio and §Misslesipp! .was:
mainly due to the fact that the receiver, John
King, Jr., had yesigned and that a petition
bad been filed in the United States Court for
the Southern District of Ohio asking the ap-
pointment of a receiver who {s not interested
orconnected with the Baltimore and Onblo
Railroad Company. . The covering of
the short contracts b speculae
tors. who had become frightened by
the recent squeeze inanother stock also age
sistedthe upward movement, The dealing
onthe Stock Exchange {n Haunibaland 8t.
Joe common has been quite small. It opened
at 1&0 did, then there weretwo salesof 100
sbare lots at 100 and 200 shares at 200. .Itis
eald, however, there have been a namber of
private settlements on a basis of 200. :

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., Attempted Bank Robbery. / °
‘BALTIMORE, September 91.—Au attempt
Was msdethis morning to rob’ the Yault of
the Baltimore Savings Bank. Four mea en-
tered the treasurer’s room, where were sev-
eral customers of the bank, and ono ongaged
the attention of the treasurer by asking
about investments, holding In his band sever-
al U. 8. bonds, and ‘another: walked back
toward the vault atthe rear apartment, but
bis movement was observed by ono of the
clerks, who followed him and arrested hin.
in frontofthe vault. The other thtoe re-
treated hastily and escaped. | i

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} 0" ¢ Arms Asked For.

! WasnimatoNn, September 9,—Dispstches
have been recelved at the Wer Dopartment
to-day from Acting-Gov. Sheldon, of New
Mexico, asking the department to furalsh
arms to the white eettlors in the Indiana coun-
try wherethe disturbances have deem reo-

Ported, To both these telegrams reply was
roade: Amns will be furnished ff the regular

Bey |Mamtvoxp, Cr., September 0.~ExeCon-
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fancy; seryed fn the Union arcy io the
Twelfth Illnofs Cavalry; was wviitered out
and went to Iive at Rockford, Ill. ‘Phenes he
went to Cedar Falls, lowa, wher: <3 worked
at the wagoo-making baainces He lett
where in 1870, gong throygh* s:as and
the territory to’ Téxas; ca’ be
driftea back t: “oe Chickasaw ¢ ry, where
Be married a wile Woman a lease
an 300 screa of bind, which too dfora |
time with Latta. Paling oy # vay Ls

requisition .{s mada pon. the Orde
nancs Department. Under the } sovlaions
of the law epplytsg tot maLier
tach oftheco Terrtiaries te enti 9 340)
’ arias Mf Uecmmed hecessary (07 Bei peULeIOR,

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another ee
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well moutes
when passiy
assed bim
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borse, Itit
the robbery
observe the § me
noticed thiss
that they cc
riding at fu

were me
Not a
of the

in Wyando:
bery, he thip=-
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passing bin
rollers, an
in Kansas
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terday pars
the fact thaf. .
In search of i:
night tne a! ses
sop, Of Sab. 2
splendid cop. ><
Jobn Burglé -
tuined clues ogee
7

the majorit;
young man
revealed th
ofticer,. avb
brother and

town and p
named men
them In. B
ARMED WIT
revolyers, -§°
thesame ti
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Both partie

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full-Dedgedf.

graccd any B

armed to th
cessful atters ©. =
ing inbhabit{.-

ing into
all m3.
various tim.
man to give f
eertained, Ly-
talk. It €°
the . nam .
whom bees
the robery.
when he na Ee
vorhood. Aé

he was lis
up in ¢t
keepiug as
were Leing «

hae aaa
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were crowsh =

officers -rul
ing porets
presented a
thing was ¢-
silent excite ¢:

acrowd une.

day morzll
Was sworn ?
Once asus
Was. SUCee

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Wha WEES

hearing of } Pay

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"With the mate and captain killed, the murderers broke open their chests, plundered and divided
the money. They also began drinking the captain's wine and brandy,

"As they sobered up it developed that not one of them could navigate the ship. They permitted
the ship todrive as the wind might carry it and this attracted the attention of a schooner out
of Norfolk.

"The mrderers got their plunder into a longboat, scuttled the ship and put off to Ocracoke,
leaving the ship and the rest of the crew and passengers to sink, but the ship bore around and
took a heel on the quarter and left the scuttle above the water,

"The captain and men from the schooner (out of Norfolk) boarded the scuttled ship and after
learning what had happened went in pursuit of the murderers,

"At Ocracoke they learned that the longboat had passed about two hours previously going towards
Sdenton.

"The captain left his chooner at Shell Castle, near Ocracoke Inlet, under care of Captain John
Wallace, They procured a whale boat and several volunt@ées and went in pursuit of the fugitives,
whom they overhauled and took prisoners near Croatan Sound Narrows after a chase of 0 hours,

"The prisoners were then taken to Edenton and placed in the custody of the Law. The schooner's

skipper cancelled his trip to the West Indies, and sailed back to Norfolk. ‘n the salvage of
the scuttled ship he was rightly and justly rewarded.

"In those early days of North Carolina, Federal Court was only held in New Bern, The prioners :
charged with mtiny and taken there were confimed in a dungeon for a considerable time = so long»
in fact, that complaints were expressed in the newspapers of the day.

"Francois X, Martin was attorney for the prisoners, In the course of the trial, the Court had to
take one of the Englishmen for a witness and the trishman had so cunningly conducted his part of
the conspiracy that he was acquitted. The two Frenchmen, one Rnglishman and the American were
found guilty and hanged.

"The solemn charge and exhortion of Justice Patterson to the prisoners gave a charge to the re-
ligious imphlse of the people. A great religious revival grew out of it. On the morning of
the execution, people ran together in miltitudes to see the spectacle,

"The prisoners were to die between the hours of 10 and 2 o'clock. When they were brought to the
gallows and placed on the drop after prayer, the Englishman first and then the American addressed
the surrounding thousands and gave a brief sketch of their sinful lives, Their narratives were
very mich alike and exhibited nothing new in the progress of destruction.

""Both had religious parents by whom they were taught to fear God and to prays bothwre drawn
aside and enticed by wicked boys to profane the Sabuath and disobey their parents -profane
swearing, cockgighting, gaming, drinking stealing and strumpeting formed the black catalogues
of their crimes, according to a newspaper account of the incident published in 1793.

"The Frenchman spoke English imperfectly and had little to say, Apl professed religion and the
1793 news reporter covering the day of the hanging wroteb 'These solemn scenes continued until
lo'clock, The prisoners had yet another hour to live. After closing their addresses to the
surrounding thousands, naming in particular the terrible consequence of Sabbath wreaking and
disobedience to parents, they shook hands, kissed each other, and bid adieu for a few moments
to meet again beyond the grave, They told Marshall West (the hangman) they were done with life
and bade him do his duty, The rope was cut - the drop fell, They died without a struggle as
their ransomed souls ascended to paradise,'

" * The immense assembly gathered to witness the hanging, felt ZKAX the awful presence of God,’

tha mamamtnn n2nnnticans

cheek: bones, -scar: on

‘left. cheek: made by a.

lack kinky hair, high

blow froma brick, = - -

_ Square jaws, square - payee
and heavy built, BBO the

- nd in voice |
- When» talking, “13° a.

_ blacksmith ‘by. ‘trade,
- @nd performs on brass. "3
“musical instruments:

used to whistle Nearly. . ae
all the time Ate

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bs

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ARE , sUNE 29, FoR

a ‘in Georgia, and - his”

“among bis people, No: aes:
= 24s “ Bally” Joseph,a = =.
-< Dad negro,

-=-while out on a stealing eS
a expedition with Joseph. 2
Btephens(a white man), ~
ae wie: and: another .

THEN -RAVIBHED AND.
LLED ‘His WIFE; : ARBCCELE zach ieae ARK. .

“cher and. threw her:
‘body-in'a cave, : ‘Her.
clothing’ and: remains.
“were ‘found, and were -
_| Bepushtvo Fort smaitn,

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tn

JouicE

He is ‘Inseligent. and. eae
A has a dark, large brown...
eye. He made a most: .

s - eloquent. plea’ before...

the. Court that. sen- + re
. tenced him, ‘He hangs =:

‘for killing two soldiers

- Near Fort Sill, I. T., in:

1882, Finch was reared

family. - Stand well.

Jn: 1882,

che...

Yavished her, then shot

ANOTHER OENTLEMAN 0 ‘swine. at Four. :
ek pare ae FOR MURDER. sepa 2 s fa
L : 3 Uhe,
Geo children.” “There bast
: Joseph afterward Harris, paren i the euthort
rnegro, but was: fallen cere
Stephens and: his} ;
hat: of Ta-al-is-to, a , ‘Boss at the B

for killing a white |. ames-Farren, | ‘allas Lim
el fo some me ; one © of the PaOsk notorious Da

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‘kting ‘Hyameor *°H °m SHONTY
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318 FORT SMITH
southwest. By the time the group reached the steps leading to
the gallows, rain began. Marshal Sarber faced the prisoner.
who puffed a cigar w ith “as much noncholance as if the affair
was none of his.” When given an opportunity, Childers spoke
for sixteen minutes, admitting that he had killed Wedding but
asserting that there should have been a mistrial because the
date of the murder named in the indictment and in the testi-
mony was wrong. He cautioned young and old to avoid evil
companions and bad practices. He said that he had no recret.
except at leaving his sister and friends, and asked that his body
“be not given for dissection, but that his sister be permitted to
give it burial in the Cherokee Nation.” He waved farewell
with a general sweep of his hand. To the marshal, he said in a
firm, clear voice heard by all, “Didn’t y ou say you were going
to hang me?” Sarber replied, “Yes,” " Childers coldly re-

sponded, “Then why in hell don’t you do it!” After Childers

had finished speaking, Reverend Harrell offered a 1 prayer
which brought tears to many eyes. Jailer Burns read the death
sentence. The rope was adjusted and the black cap fitted. At
two o’clock, Sarber gave the signal, and a deputy pulled the
lever which sprung the trap. Childers’ neck jerked to one side
as he shot down to the end of the rope. At the same moment,
there was a flash of lightning and a loud clap of thunder. \lin-
utes later, the work was done, the cloud vanished, and Chil-
ders’ body hung limp and quivering.

The hanging anid the storm filled many of the spectars
with awe. A Negro woman screamed, * ‘John Childers’ soul ha
gone to hell, I done heard de chains clankin!” Others believe:

that Childers was never executed, that the man on the scativlc
that day was “the devil in human disguise.” Others may have

thought of the thunder and lightning as God's condemn: wen
of the evil in Indian ‘Territory —_the Armageddon of the We

John Childers was only the first of cighty -seven convicts

felons to die on the Fort Smith gallows. si

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FORT SMILICS EPITAPH 319 q

a)
In 1873, Judge Story sentenced three Cherokees— Young whe

Wolf, Tun- -ne-ha, and Six Kilk ‘r—to hang atter their convic- "| |!
tion on a charge of murdering two w hite tr: appers on Grand
River. Lhe next vear, he sent to the Fort Smith gallows three
more men—John. Billy a Choctaw; Pointer, an eighteen-vear-
old Seminole: and Isaac Pinon, a Choctaw—convicted of
murdering white men in Indian ‘Verritory.*4

Billy, Pointer, and Filmore were the last men to be sent to
the gallow s by Judge Story. He was called to Washington to
explain to Congress the expenditure of $724,000 tn his judicial
district during a three- -vear period. C ongressional inv estigators
charged that ‘this sum expended in a judicial district serving
three hundred thousand persons exceeded the amount spent we
for the same period for judicial purposes in the New England ye
states, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The Committee \{&”
on Expenditures by the Department of Justice found that 4 3
Story’s United States marshal had organized a national bank
at Fort Smith; that he owned three- -quarters of the bank’s
stock; that he forwarded to this bank for payment vouchers
of witnesses, JUNOES, and marshals; and that these vouchers
were paid at a “tremendous discount.” Investigators declared
that there “was a most lamentable state of morajs among the
court officials in the district.” They charged that Story al-
lowed bail for felons convicted on a c: apit. al offense and while
they were aw aiting sentence. Story’s explanations were char-
acterized as “lame, disconnected, and unsatisfactory.” The
committee recommended that Congress abolish the court at
Fort Smith, to assure that “ev ery door to fraud will be closed,
and the administration of justice can be more successfully

maintained.” In the spring of 1874, a bill was introduced in
Congress to abolish the federal court at Fort Smith; when

33 [bid. Harmon, Hell on the Border, 187-95.

34 Western Independent, April 9, 1874 and Harmon, Hell on the
Border, 104.

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320 FORT SMITH

Story resigned to escape impeachment, the Senate failed to
» measure.”” _
Pending appointment of anew judge at Fort Smith. Henry
J. Caldwell presided over the court. He sentenced one maa
to the gallows, making a total of eight executed before Presi-
dent Grant appointed Isaac Parker judge of Western District
cansas. .

oe arrived with his family from Missouri on ~~
1875. Eight days later, he opened his first term 7 court for mre
Western District, a jurisdiction he presided over for twenty
one vears. Parker was soon widely known as the hanging
wud t Smith.” |

Me onysiea setting of Parker’s court was _ erm ae
proceedings there. The courtroom in the old Sok iers Que
ters was fitted with a jury section; tables and chairs for ae
tornevs, witnesses, and prisoners, and a gallery for spec ators
Parker sat behind a huge cherry-paneled desk in an ee
ingly high-backed leather-bottomed chair. An vm escort
brought the prisoners in leg shackles up from ane nase <
jail. Inside each basement entrance to the jail M as: 2 : :
vestibule of rough timber, eight feet by ten feet, where pe
oners were permitted to confer with their attorneys. Judg

Parker established an office and library in the old commissars

storehouse.*®

Parker’s first murder trial was that of Daniel Evans, cha.
with killing a nineteen-year-old youth near Eufaul ” mn
Creek Nation. The judge’s charge to the jurors was enge
In effect, he led the jury—he believed that Evans was gull :
and that the guilty must be punished. The jury, out only *

wal

i ic ilty e 2
few minutes, returned with a verdict of guilty. On Jun

és

ith Tri-We e 13, 1874. Story s Trou’
35 Fort Smith Tri-W eekly Herald. Jen Aes Story Ao. 62"
. . Y . . we a ¢ 5 p i
are detailed in “Western District of Arkan

rd Congress, 1st Session. oo | a?
*» a6 Fore Smith Elevator, January 15. 1886. Also Harmon,

Border, 71-72:

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ven

FORT SMITH'S EPITAPH 321

Parker pronounced sentence, and delivered a long, bitter
harangue denouncing Evans in a cold, harsh voice. Then, in-
stead of saying that the prisoner was to be hanged “until dead,”
the judge repeated the dread word three times—“I sentence
you to hang by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead!"*3*

During Parker's first term at Fort Smith, eighteen persons
were charged with murder, of which fifteen were convicted
and eight sentenced to hang. One condemned prisoner died in
an escape attempt, another had his sentence commuted to life
imprisonment. There remained on death row, besides Evans:
Heck Campbell (a Negro), Sam Foov, James H. Moore, Wil-
liam J. Whittington, and Smoker Man-Killer (a Cherokee).
Parker had decided that all six should be hanged together to
warn the lawless that law had come to Indian Territory.

A scaffold was erected at the south side of the garrison

against the front of the magazine. A reporter from St. Louis
wrote:

The structure is built of rough timbers. The crossbeam 1s
a stout piece of hewed oak, supported on two upright posts,
very strongly braced. The platform is about seven feet
from the ground. The distance between the supporting
posts is about twelve feet, giving nearly two feet space for
the fall of each victim. The trap extends across the breadth
of the platform, and consists of two pieces strongly hinged
to the flooring of the platform so that they form a connec-
tion in the nature of a double door when closed from below.
These are held in place when brought up by a stout beam
of oak, extending in the direction of the gallows’ beam on
which rest two arms firmly fastened to one flap of the door
below. To this beam about the middle is secured an iron
trigger bar which passes up through a place provided in the
trap doors and ts secured by a knee in a strong iron lever
about three feet long, well secured on the facing of the plat-

37 St. Louis Republican, September 4, 1875 Also Western tade-
pendent, September ®, 1875

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Special to the Post-Dispatch, 9 sy,
FORT SMITH, ARK., September 9:—Th{s~
has been a memorable day in tho history of

second event of the kind which has occurred
here since 1870, when six men explated thelr
crimes on the gallows. At all hours yestorrlay’
people were flockingin from the adjacent
country and at daybreak this morning the
throng perceptibly Increased. Indians and
Half-breeds, cow-boys from, Texas, despors-
does from the border, squaws, papooses and
negroes, white men with their: wives
and families swelled thé crowd,
and long before 9 o'clock the
open space surrounding the Fort where :
the condemned men were confined was}
. . PACKED WITH HUMAN BEINGS. = ‘x;
When told that the execution was private
their indignation knew no bbunds and they
remained outside of the enclosute until
all was ‘over, expressing themselves,
in language more emphatic than polite. Ouly
40 or 50 persons were admitted, focludisg
ministers, attorneys -and reporters. - The
scaffold was erected Inan enclosure in’ the
southwest corner ofthe walls surroundlyg
the fort, It stood eight Yeet above the ground
and was constructed evidently with a view to
durability, as the heavy timber of which Its
composed wil last for years. The trap was
12 feet Jong and 8 wide; and was 80 arranged.
astogive’ wayinthe center when sprung;
each balf being on hinges. The ropes were

Diaced so 8 to give a drop of apout btx
feet.

R ke
a ie

the! enclosure with, instriye-
tions to keep back, at all hazards, ‘any °
attemptedtorcale them. A short time ptior
to the execution, the Posr-DispaTcH +
respondent : : yi
VISITED THR CONDEMNED IN TOFIR CELLS.

The Indian boys, Abner and Amos Manly,

awaking at daybreak, partook of vn hearty
breakfast. Their spiritual adviser, Rey, Mr,
Jeffett, spent a greater part ‘of.
the night with them, and vislted:
them at about 8 o’vlock, accompanying
to the scaffold. They were brigh
ent-looking youths of eiiger an atl on
‘© your correspondent they protested thelr
Innocence of the murder of McVefxh,
asserting that, when. the deop ‘fall
to-day two innocent persons wou!d perish.
They were tirm; nota muscle of their, faces
obanaing when they talkedi * of
approaching death. Since Attornoy, Genera)
McVeign telegraphed that there was ‘no
hope of executive clemency they became re-
signed, and asserted thelr determinatiop to
dle bravely. ; i
Geo. W. Padgett, Patrick McGowan pad
Wm.'F. Brown were each visited, and ~
FOUND TO BE PERFECTLY aettiag 3
Hrown was especially pniloyophic. Aald
he: “‘Weallbaveto die anu we miz% a?
wel go. off at one time as at another.”

A guard’. was set on the whalls4Darnett, almost

Brown further. ssid = that be {yas

bought him out, and Latta left, threstening
McGowan’s "i Iife, (Shortly afterward Mo
Gowan, smarting uncer what he dcomed to
be dangerous bjs life, followed Latta and
phot him. He nover denied the charge, and
wbever ram away to avold the deputies. He

wade Do complaint against the lawyers, but.

fretted over tho condition of hia.wifs and bas
bles (four), and over the fact that tie witness
op whow he so much depended should have
sworn falsely uzafnat him and now holds bis
Jease in the nation.) His attorneys work hard
for a commutation, '!, ‘ ‘ $:
on ye + GEORGE W. PADGETT ‘\..°-:
was a heavy-set, fair-complexioned m&n of
23 years of age. He was born in Smith coun:
ty, Texas, and Jived' most of bis life on th

cattle range as traf! hand, making occastona):

trips through the nation to Kansas with the
herd. He murdered Wm. H. Stephens jn

‘1 July, 1830, om the Salt Fork of the Arkansas

River, about thirty miles south of Cald well,
Kas. Stephens was a Texan, and had charge
of the herd. The difticulty arose about
a few heal of cattle that Padgett
charged ; Stephens with having. stolen
in exas. JDadvett: refused to “cut
tbem out’? of the herd for Stephens’ share,
and nese. Quarrel arose and Padgett shot
him dead. Whenthe Judge aske
what be had to say why the sentence of the
Jaw should not be passed he simply sald “he
belleved he had the doed to do.” Like te
others he took his death sentence very coolly.
. WILLIAM T. BROW?
was born {n Daviess county, Afo., and was 27
years old, of mila demeanor, and nothing of
the Seapetaee about him. -He lived in
the ..Chickasaw menue,’ for, the fast
few years, and «at the time of the
murder (August last). was engaged in supe
plying the Quartermaster at Fort Sill with
sy for the cavalry. | His partner in the con-
tract was Ralpb C. Tate, who was from Texas,
He clalined be never t{ntended to shoot Tate,

who was hia friend and partner, but he was
after one Bob Moore, a noted desperado, who

bad unmercifully beaten him, e shot him
In the dark, thinking {twas Moore be was
shooting at. He took his sentence very
quictly, and had no remarks to make. ;
The two Creek Fndian boys, ;
Mote ~ AMOS AND ABNER MANLY,
ati]} malntain their innocence of the murder
of MacVeigh. They were respectively 19 and
17 years of age, and presented the
tures of the ureducuted Indian, wild and de-
fiant. Tbey wanted ratherto be shot than
banged by the neck.’ The murder they were
charged with way bloody and brutal. They
came to MacVelgh’s house one: cold night in
December Jast aud asked for lodging. Mac-
Veigh made a good warm iire for them and
deg apallctnearthe tiré for thelr use.
oword morning they arose and
killed AfucVeigh and mangled his hired man,
putting his bead off with an
axe, ond completely severing his wrist.
These boys bad two trials—the first earlyin
May,tbe fury failing to agree, standing eleven
for conviction and one for acquittal; the sec-
ond trial the jury brougntin their verdict of
guilty'inless than one hour. It bas never
transpired why these boys should have done
this horrible deed, Hl
TULWAHARJO RESPITKD
is a full-blooded Seminole Indian, and tn
a Preah of ave. He was one of a
Indians under command of Charle owlegs
(who waa a son of the famous (Billy Bow-

{utellic | legs of Florida war fame), who murdored

Scott Davis, a white man murried to a Chick-
asaw woman, and also for the murder of »

Joseph Bateigan, a white man who had leasod
hese murders were commit

under Davis. “T
ted In May, 147¥, and were outrageously cruct
and cowardly. « avisWas ambuscaded inu
lonely plave and shot, and was buried {na hol-
low treo, Bateman was fired upon’ while
‘Plowing In bis feld. It 1s rather sing-
nTiar that no “one appears to know
where these white mon were from—
Whetber South or North Davis was a
catde-buyer and apecalator, while Hateman
worked tho farm.
ed remains a mivetere, watt Gid-not
Guficg the trial that thers was any
between therm and their Indium nelehbors.
Porsiviy jealousy and general hatr i of the
white man. Of the party woo aid t » killing

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FREDERICK, Francis, PETERSON, Peter, R@, John Pe, and WILLIAMS, John, whites,
hanged Boston, Masse, on February 10, 1819 (Federal, )

"EXECUTION OF THE PIRATES, = The sentence of the law was on the 10th inst (Feb,

10, 1819), executed upon John Williams, Francis Frederick, Niles Peterson, and
John P, Rog, convicted of piracy and murder on board the schr, Plattsburg, while

on a voyage from Baltimore to Smyrna. On signifying to the Marshal that they

were prepared, they ascended the scaffold, and after embracing each other and their
clergyman, they were launched into eternity. Owing to the fastenings of one of the
ropes not havéng been AKMAEXXX properly secured, one of the unhappy men fell to the
ground after being a few moments suspended. He was totally insensible, and was
instantly run up again; the Marshal having made every arrangement to guard against,
or to repair any accident. = BOSTON PAPER."" RALEIGH REGISTER AND NORTH CAROLINA
GAZETTE, Raleigh, NC,March 5, 1819 $3:5.$

"TRIAL OF THE PIRATES. < On Monday last, before the Circuit Court of the United
States, present, Hon. Judge S,ory and Davis, came on the Trak of John Williams,
Francis Frederick, John P, Rog, Nils Peterson and Nathaniel White, who have been
charged with Piracy and Murder, in five saveral indictments, on board the Schooner
Plattsburg, of Baltimore, which sailed from that port to Smyrna, in July, 1816.

They were tried upon the indictment for the murder of Thomas Baynard - shpxsupercargo
of that fessel, The prosecution was managed by George Blake, Esq., the United
States' Attorney; and the prisoners were defended by S. L, Knapp and Stephen Hooper,
Esors] The testimony exhibited a most diabolical and complete case of Piracy and
Murder, unequalled, we venture to say, in the records of jurisprudence. The
prisoners adduced no witnesses, relying entirely upon any defects in the governe=
ment's evidence, and upon the hope of invalidating the testimony of the two princi-
pal witnesses brought forth by the Ufited States - to wit = the second mate and steware
of the vessel, The jury returned their verdict of GUILTY, on Tuesday afternoon,
against the four first named above, and NOT GUILTY as to White, The Judge ina

most seolemn and impressive manner proveeded to deliver the sentence, which was, that
they should be executed agreeably to the law, on Thursday the 2lst of January,

WHITE still remains in custody and is to be tried on several other indictments, -
BOSTON GAZ,"

326 FORT SM 1TH

euilty and Parker sentenced him to hang did the father return
. +4 _
ens Western celebrities felt the stern justice of the federal
court at Fort Smith. One of the most colorful figures tm »
pear before Judge Parker was David L. Payne, the Boonen
leader, On August 13, 1880, federal troops peachen | Bor
Smith with Payne and five followers, whom they had arrested
in the Indian Country near Fort Reno on 4 charge a Erespass
on Indian lands. Payne claimed that he was merely seeking a
home on land belonging to the United States, cxeresins nis
rights under the Homestead Act. Much interest in ue aye
trial was aroused among the Indian nations. Tribal eaders
feared that if the court upheld the Boomer leader’s contemtiaM.
‘fF would “legalize the overwhelming of our nes
and thev contributed money to assist the prosecution. & : t <
preliminary hearing, Parker said that there were ao cnn
charges against Payne and his comrades, and he set t rem ot
libertv and ordered them to appear at the I chraary ae
answer charges of going, the second time, into the Indtat
‘ ; , 45
a one used the Fort Smith court as a forum to conwate ns
contentions, speaking to large audiences and having go
press. At his 1881 trial, he and his attorneys argues eee
central part of Indian Territory, at two-million-acre “
known as the Unassigned Lands, was properly a part ° “
ublic domain and open to homestead entry. Parker Sal unt
he would take the matter under advisement. On May 2 mee
Parker ruled against Payne in that although the jan nr ~
tion were unassigned, they were clearly a part of ae ae
country. Federal Jaws to protect the Indian nations upligt 7
the United States to expel intruders for first offenses anc ¢

« Fort Smith Elevator:
44 Western Independent, March 9, 1881. Also Fort Siu

March 11, :88t. ;
4 Fort Smith Elevator, August 20, L880.

FORT SMI PHS FPIPAPH

wo
te

fine them for second offenses. Parker declared that the Boom-
ers must stay out of Indian Territory, and fined Payne one
thousand dollars. Phe Indian nations were jubilant over this
decision.*8
One of the most colorful and notorious characters to appear

in Judge Parker's court was Belle Starr, famous as a lover,
horse thief. and bandit queen. A product of the border guer-
rilla wars, Myra Belle Shirley had married Jim Reed, a rene-
gade who operated between the Miussour: settlements and
Texas. Belle’s marriage into the Starr family brought her the
professional name by which she is known in history. In 1882,
she was arrested near the Osage line on a charge of stealing
several horses in the Cherokee Nation with the intent of sell-
ing them on the McAlester market. The following February,
Parker's courtroom was jammed for the Belle Starr trial. One

observer said she lacked grace of carriage and looked much

older than she was. But Belle was active. She refused to take

the stand, she dashed off notes to her attorneys. she cried when

someone mentioned Jim Reed, and she looked up at Judge

Parker with a “bold and fearless glance.” None of these wiles

helped—she was found guilty of horse theft and sentenced to
one year in prison.*

Other dramatic trials involving women at Fort Smuth were
those of Elizabeth Owens and Fanny Echols. Mrs. Owens was
charged with the murder of Ezekiel Hurd. The Qwens and
Hurds were farm neighbors in the Choctaw Nation—their
dwellings were about two hundred yards apart, and they used
the same well. Hurd accused the Owens family of abusing his
stock when the animals wandered into the Owens yard, and
he sent word that if they did not stop he would “stomp” them
“into the ground.” On another occasion, he threatened to
“come down and kill the whole damned outfic.” As Hurd

46 Tht. March 1&8 and May 4, 1881.
47 Joid February 23 and March 16, 1883,

ta
te

FORT SMITH

form floor. By a movement of this les er back, the ae
bar which holds the trap in position |S released ante Heer
drop down. On this door the condemned musi a ans
Six ropes at this moment are tied over the beam, un ‘ Spas
of sand of 200 pounds in weight each have tet
dropped to test the further working of this awful eng \
of death.**

The execution was well reported. All local eas

were present, along with correspondents a has ae
Louis, and Kansas City. In the crowd which gat nose * 7
the walls of old Fort Smith on September 3, 1875, were : ie |
Negroes, Indians, farmers in working clothes, vee
city people, and rough-clad frontiersmen. sang on ones
\aledon tested each rope. At nine-thirty, the pens oo
swung open, and out marched the prisoners, ™ yo lia . : |
ward the waiting gallows. Fach man wore a leg is a “
handcuffs. Four clergymen marched with the processions
armed guards fell in at the sides and rear. The Peach
climbed the steps and took their seats on rough bere nes me
was permitted last words. Campbell, the Negro, ns _
multitude “farewell and hoped they would all meet in ean 7
Smoker Man-Killer spoke in Cherokee—an interprerer bi *
lated, “I am prepared to die” —declared his innocens me
said, “Mv conviction was caused by prejudice and false -
mony.” Moore, a giant of aman feared as a gunfighter, loo xe
down and in clear, crisp tones said, “I have lived like 2 mate
and I will die like a man.” Evans held his potse and silence
The warrants were read, followed by prayers, ap enn
benediction. Maledon stepped forward and Tine’ thes _
up with “their fect squarely across the fine W ners mere a
planks forming the death-trap. One yy one h P ne _
hoods over the men’s heads and adjusted the nooses. me
took his position and pulled the lever which sprung the Th"

oR Liman Soprembe le
38 6+ Louis Republican, Septemoer 4, 1875

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FORT SMITH'S EPITAPH 3

The bodies dropped. Maledon had done his work well. Every
neck was broken by the fall, and six lifeless bodies dangled
from the end of the ropes. Guards placed the corpses in
coftins. Friends and relatives called for four of the bodies.
Whittington and Campbell’s remains were buried in a small
plot on the military reservation sct aside for that purpose. The
most melancholy sight was that of Smoker Man-Killer’s Cher-
okee wife and mother. His mother claimed his remains, placed
the coftin in a little wagon, and started back to the Cherokee
Nation, with the widow, softly sobbing, walking alongside
carrying a baby.*”

Accounts of the mass hanging appeared in newspapers
across the country. The macabre doings at Fort Smith had
caught the public fancy, and widespread editorial notice gave
rise to Parker’s being called—“the hanging Judge.” Execu-
tioner George Maledon, who became a celebrity almost as
famous as the judge, took great pride in his work. Parker’s
heavy docket saw 160 men sentenced to the Fort Smith gal-
lows, on review, many sentences were commuted to long
prison terms, usually for life. Maledon hanged a total of sixty
of the seventy convicted criminals executed at Fort Smith
during Parker’s term as presiding judge. He conscientiously
selected handwoven hemp rope from St. Louis, specifying
that each rope be impregnated with pitch to prevent slippage.
The Fort Smith gallows carried the sign: “The Gates of Hell.”

For years, the attraction that drew the largest crowds on
the Southwestern frontier was the annual mass execution on
the gallows at Fort Smith. In April, 1876, more than seven
thousand gathered to watch the hanging of five Indian Terri-
tory criminals. By i880, Parker, enibarrassed by the carnival-
like atmosphere these executions generated, decided to restrict
attendance. For the September, i881, execution, only about

39 Hoestern Independent, September 8, 1875. Aiso St. Louis Repub-
lican Seprember 4, pko¢

32 SORT SMITH
324 «FORM
rmen, attorneys, clergymen, and court officials

fitty newspape | ‘laleialee
1 re d to witness the hanging of five convicted

were permitte
7 . £0
murderers. Co
Alrhough the executions were the most conspicuous feat

i fF yustice > Southwestern
of Parker's administration of yustice on the Soutl

frontier, most of the court's time was taken p with ies
matic matters. Nearly nine thousand persons were a :
| ye Parker's twenty-one years at For

s indicates that

up with less dra-

; a oo
various crimes during t's tw me
1 : es

Smith. A random sampling of Se ober ee

. 38 yvemnb , 1883,

i 2 Vy ‘ember 1, 1882, to N¢

for the vear Novel 0 November 1 eee
yurt Was in session fot 291 days. The sessions pegan at “ven

th morn 7 ally adj it five in th

thirty in the morning and usually adjourned about

J deo naxi.
; i i ’ yearly muc

afternoon, although night sessions often ran until nears

. , = =

7 cans were charged with
yioht. During this year, twenty-six persons were enang oe
~ odew: one aesone AVE rape; forty-four, assault w Eee Hatt

> ’ -

murder; one, arson, : ASS ov
to kill; dinee perjury; 230, introducing “ hiskey into In
A 5 . . ;

Territory; sixteen, moonshining; three, ember7lernt “ °-
counterfeiting; two, cutting ee oecmee i i Bone
intimidating witnesses; twenty-eignt,- » Seung
See mnelicine Convicted persons given priser ee x *
€ o the Detroit House of Correctho Lit |
iar. Albany (New York) Prison, W nia ee
Reform School. and Menard Penitentiary at C rer me a

Prisoners were said to dread commitment to ne ee
in the basement of the old Soldiers Quarters aimoxt sm
as they did Parker's stern pronouncements. Soe
likened this jail to the Black Hole of Calcutta. | wine we
month period in 1884, 522 persons served some Ui)

The Fort Smith Elevator reported that on October +3.

; yal > military post repirs-
the 170 prisoners in the federal jail at the military | pie

- rge : we xeor > at one time
“the large her ever incarcerated
sented “the largest numbe

a 2c | + + ’ = Ser ret >a psi \
4 t 4 if { 4h, and oe pre met .?
HA i eSLCTIL 1h depen PULL: \p il 4, 18° t

7) fevator, Septem QO, USRt.
Fort Sevith Flet ator, Septet berg ae
Mi kort Smuth Elevator, January 26. 1954.

TAA,

ALOE EA AALAND A ARLE SLOAN,
7

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FORT SMITH'S EPITAPH 325

the history of the court.” Female prisoners were lodged in the
old brick guardhouse constructed at Fort Smith before the
Civil War."
A new federal jail, constructed next to the old courthouse,
Was completed in 1888 and was occupted sooner than the
United States marshal had anticipated. On March 17, the
prisoners attempted a mass escape. They had just received a
large number of religious tracts and Sunday-school pamphlets
from local clergymen, and they stutfed these into cracks in
the ceiling of the old jail and set them afire. Guards discovered
the fire. put it out, and checked the escape. On March 19,
1888, the United States marshal moved the prisoners to the
new federal jail. Additional improvements in the federal court
establishment at Fort Smith included construction of a new
courthouse in 1889. The February, 1890, term opened in the
new building. Thereafter, the old Soldiers’ Quarters was used
to house officers for the jailer, the United States commissioner.
and the marshals, as well as a hospital for the prisoners. **
United States deputy marshals brought in most of the per-
sons tried in Parker’s court. Citizens’ posses and light-horse
police companies from the Indian nations also assisted in ap-
prchending fugitives. On one occasion, a murder suspect was
delivered to the court by the father of the victim. William
Brown, a cowboy in the Chickasaw Nation, shot seventeen-
year-old Ralph Tate. Brown fled when he learned that the
father of the slain boy was after him. The elder Tate trailed
Brown for six hundred miles through Indian country into
Texas. After twenty-eight days of hard travel, he captured
his son’s killer near Henrietta. Tate manacled Brown, pad-
locked a heav vy trace about his neck, and led him all the way to
federal jail at Fort Smith. Not until the jury found Brown
"2 Thid., October 19, 1888.

' Fosrer to Attorney General, December 16, iX&g. National Ar-
chives Department of Justice File 4-779-1880. Also Fart Smith Ele-
vator, March 23. 1888,

Va SEF eet
SRO zm

Iv =) ry mary saeme a
~- ACZ:29 o'clock the ftntal trapi was sprung.
(The two wen fell a distance of six fevt,and died
“with s¢arcely a struggle. At the equ of Iwenty
<.' Bniutes the utlending physicians pronounced
> a bile extinct, und the tes “werd cut doan,
- Stewurt’s, was placed in a beaudful casket,
beeiing the inscription ona Silver plate: **iest
'- do pence,’ and the body was’ ctuken in charge
Res hat fis biother,. Although Jlenrt Stowart hua:
> all along denied shat hp participated in thu
» Boarder of Jones, the following — * os
ty aa KXTRACT FROW A LETTER co
written by hin on Wednesday fiat toa Jady
Ariend in hansas would secin $0 eusttradict that
statemmont, and (o show that at lowgs te bad all
? tho elements of marder tn bis heart ht the time,
A portion of this letter reads ay’ follows: “My
“greatest sin while in this nation wus tntempers
ys ance, though it Was never carried go fur that
. you would call it dissipation. ‘I -had a great
“dew of trouble there, The Doeter (Jones) that
«, Washilleu probably erased more tiopble with
“me and my ‘tamily, by startin tmaull-
_ Clous falechoods, than alt gthera combined.
He was adendly enemy of athe Pouch strange
, Set may seem, J never had a croes word wiih
{, biw in my lite. He always avoided ine, On
‘the duy that he yas killed had leven the re-
yootest jden that: wy cousin intended to take
hia life, lL wonld!’ have savedbtin the trouble,
for at that time I wanted no one else to du it.
-1 presume inthe eye of the law that I did
wrony in gr “nied him ontof the country, re-
“sisting the onicers on two oocasions tu tho ex
tent of killing one of thelr horses: and wound-
ny thiwe of che Afteen that tried to urres$ us.
THE CAKEEM OF A REMARKAILE MAN,
‘On the vth of Avast, Isis, Henri stewart and
his cousin, Wiley stewart, murdered Dr, Joh
“B, Jones, on the piatiorin ot'the Mo, Ko and T
» MM... at Cadda, 1. T., unde the following eir-
“cumstances: ‘Ihe South-bouid passonger and
“ mailtusin lad Justleftthe station, and as the
tc, Poot OMeu was kept tn the depot building tt
+) Was Customary for the citizens to répair to that
- plico daily soon alter the mail arrinpad to ges
their muil, powspapers, ete.! Ou the day in
qgoestion Dr. Jones was walking ujt and down
the platforin, waiting tor the oMce to opens
when the Stewarts rode up ou horseback, ane
Wiley, who was bomewlhut Intoxicated,
commenced cursing Jones, ehargsing hing
with iniecrne oe Henri and bimeelf for intro!
_ “ducing Whisky into the Terauory. Jones made
vi gome reply which in the belay al Wus not un-
Aerstnod by any of the witnesses, wh denti
rafed tus revolver and dred on Jones, the snot
tuking effectinthe hand.
+ Grew jus shot-xun on the Doctor, and ladged
- ‘whole load of buckshotin his nevk, and be
co felldead, Aathe report of the gun nis horso
ugped and threw Wilcy to the ground, und as
10 yathered himself he again threw his gun
own on Jones, who Jay there 'a mangled
Micgding corped, when Henri suid, "Oh, Go
“dsu it, be ts dead; let's go.) Whey then
caaght and mounted his horse, and they
- both rode. off, meking a cirdle around
the town, ung being re enlorced Ly a eharne-
* ter hnown to the comuuunity ae ** Texas Incic,"’
athe Wuaty cume back, to- within forty or. fifty
yurds of the ecene of the murder, brandished
their weapons ynd detied the whalé crowd then
+ asserted thore to ultempt their arrest, They
. + then rode ot in a westerly direction, Henri
Sy Jouiling buck as he went the elegant and Clianic
y. bavective, “Come on, you sons pt b—s.'’
: Seon afterwarca an oleh of the Chickasaw
« Nation gathered a posse, fuilowed, sud cuonmag
Bpon thew the pext duy, a -Mehe ensued, u
which one of the horses of the Stewarts was
y killud. Thegarty, however, :
ty BUCCEDAFULLY RESISTED THE OFFICERS
Ag ANd Coeaped. That night «horse was stolen in
, thhe ovighborheod, and the samethosse Wits,
" Gutlerward, traced to Vinita, where Heurt bud
“roldat and thea taken the train forMissouri, It
Mppeurs that the cousiua parted before Ment
, reuhed Vinitu. Wiley bas nover Yeen “appre-
ehended. dfenriwentto Alba, Jaaper County,
Mo, where tin fajuily tesides; Wag soon alter:
wards urrested, brought to this lace, (ried und
convicted oi teeter, The trial took place at
7 $e May termofthe United states Court, and
he was sentenced to be hanged on the uth of
7. Aupiuet. His recitives and frlands finmediately
went lo Work to secure nopardon or conlputy.
thon of scutency, and Liouuht every lovor with-
fn their grasp tu bear to secure this end,
“Hlrauge ws itinpy uppyesar, they secured the sly
Hatures of cight toginbers ol the jury which con-!
victgd’ hin to ny petition to the Mesident
for bisunconiitto wl pyrdos. | The Presulent,
however, after thoroughly fnvestizatiny tho:
| wane, refused to tuterfers, and left the luw ‘to
Rube dts course. The foregoing 14 a correct
vorston of the murder of Dr. Jones, ae testi-
Bed to by the witnesves, who wers men ot ro:
“mpectability aud well worthy of fuilercdie. In
aninterview Letween sour correspondent and
Menethe dented pyrticlputiog inthe murder,
r and suid he suw ley atthe platform tulking
With De, Jones, wnd Went there to vet him to,
Come away; thathy was behind Wiley when he
fred his pistol, and Mred it into, the ground to
Mt net Whey’e attention, thinkdngy that ut the
rack Gf Cue pietul Wiley wourd wheel lis
horse pod then he woul! cet him to ride away,
He nchnowledces that tie accompanied AVhiev

omrry U

Wiley tmmediately $

ee ae

wees dies 1 ae EOS BP

nae Po ee es ae Te Ee

both ure dead. Lbave u sister Living
Ville, Tenn,, and gowat Holyoke, ;Musy. 1

practiced -mediciow. whi living. fa
the Nation, I » deny tha- aireriatet
repurts — that Ir have lea - wild

wat reckless iite since coming West, aad thatl
Was one of the netorious Sam, Bass’ gung. |
never was with Sam. Bass or any of hiv raiding
gang of cowboys, nur have lever seen him,
that I know of, tu Texas or el4ewhere, So far
aa itwlessness is concerned, | lo mltis that 1
‘have mtrodud¢ed tiquere tate the Indian coun-
try contrary! to law. To have beeuw arrested
three times of thia charuc, Aid escaped from
the oMcerseqon tine, {Pwive f successfully re-
sisted the officers with h shut-yuu, Thisia the
extentof niy reckless career, The quar Jin-
srodyced inte the ovuntry was for use in my
practice aw plvsician,

Now, Mr. tt porter, Lnope I have furnfishea
you with sutlcient duta that you may fully rep-
resentiic, ward lepel you wiliavuid, tor tue
sakeof my family, that style of lauguag A 50
often used by representattves of the preas Yn
‘Gives hko wine.; Ldonotmean that L wontd
have you misrepresent tny esse to. the pubue,
but that you wil fully represent me, “

BILL ELLIOTT’ & CAKKER, :

The murderer of bavid J. Brown had been at
Muscoxce about ten dase when the trayic event
took pluce, nnd bad been known thereonly an
“Colorado Bil.’ When arrested he guve his
Game as Bill Hivott, and aa he has Leen tried,

ronvicted ad seatenecd under the -niume of

Villiquy Elaett, and known here by po other
Dame, until recently, le will be reterred to in
these dispatches Oy that name. Mis tre pame
is William Eiliote Wilev; he was born Qt @ar-
thage, Ohio, January 3, 1847; his parents soon
afterwards moved to Giendinate, Ohlo, where

they lived until JS), when they ‘moved
th Olney, WM. Im S63. Willinin, = then
Ooly sixteen years old, eniistod in the
Sth ‘Hiinois = Caviulry Volunteers, and

werve@d agca private soldieft until the close
‘ot the war, after which he wens to Atchison,
Kansas, and worked « few months at the tine
ner’s trade. From that time nntil the mid-
nizht ory at Muscovee, which teriniunted in
the violent death of David J. Brown and the
Mixht of his murderegio the Arkansas river
swamps, he secomato have®bven, from hiwown
atory; awancerer On the great Western fron-
tier, peramoulating the Stes of Colurndo,
Kaneaa and Tergs, thé Indica Territory. and
New Mexico. Lajthe tatter part of January last
he turned up at Muscogee, J.T. He seemed to
have no particular business there, but wusa
loiferer, & Irequenter of the brothels and
buwdy houses that infest thattown, and was

logkea upon as a bully, and supposed
to bO A refuges from justicu from one
of the Stutes,7> MMe took up his

abode ata Diothe! kept by Rath Shepherd and
Inude ber hi¢tmistresa, and inthis aen of. in-
fquity his last terrible crime was commited,
pi wene 12 o'clock of Sunday night, February 2,
INty, two men of respectable Cherokee Lami-
lies—Howe Cupningham, aged nbuut eighteen,
xnd David J! Brown, aged ty Shennan eo
to the house buat were adinitted. Brown at the

timo wus snewhat under the influence ot
Hquor, Filieae idl “gone .to bed, but got up,
anda joinep! in card-playing and carvustixy
furan hour for sowhen Brown became too

drunk tolungersitup, 80 be lay dgwnon Kuth's
ved. The bigh iaotriag wos keptup vy the bal-
ance of the jRuty, consisting gt Ethott, Cun-
Jaglveiy, Algan HaINeR John Woods, snd two
westnna} by Ruth Sheperd and Sadly Alden, until
about 3 ofclogk fn the morntny, when Cunuing-
hain tfled to get Brown up ow go lume,
H A BCUFRFLE ENSUED .
between Cupsinghum and rown, andthe Iat-
Aer fellbacRoutne bed ayain, Cunninanau
Men said toRutha: lt you will let hts sleep
bere Pub det dial alone.’’ Rath replied: lL
don't eee whatetse weean do."’ Eliiott then
spoho upand ends “fife ean't sicep ip my
watnan’@ bed’) Mors, wrangling follpwed;
Biown became somowhnut aroused from his
stupor, and, whily Canningiinm wns trying to
wet hin toyo, be geghbed Caunninglien’s pistol
from the scabburd and etarted for the door,
Another sculls tollawedt between Cunniugnau
and Brown forthe possesstoy of. the pistol,
when Fitott raised trom his! seat and eom-
fmenced shooting, One shot taking eifect in
Cunningham's ley, and two taktag et.
fect: on Srown, the plwtol being wined
divectly ont Brown's eur at the last shor,
Brown fell dead, aad Ebliote rabueds
the pintol that biown nd Cunmingiaue bad
been sculling over, and handed at te Huth, ana,
told her to shoot down the freee man that dark. .
eyed thedeor, Me ther forbade any person
Jeuving the house, eacepl John Woods, who
he demanded should yo inimediately and bifug
himahorse., Woods went away, but returned
withoutu horse, Durtig bis absence the uur.
derempuced up and down the floor, revolver da
hand, und would occasionally rab it over the
dead tian’ fice, mod vive ubternnce too such
remarks us!) have Kiged many a better d—-ad
“Youn than pou.’ Waren Woods came buck
billote duganed Of -nitn the nearest way
to the tinber, wand lett the house. Ile
windered off into the Athunsas Kiver
bottom «a otew omiles, and, Ista dows

pqur Nash:

tf torother wolien, adel is lbatied (ur her, e-
‘fueed togive himup, Vhe more be hated ber
and scorned Ler the cioser ste clung ta hin,
She reluscd emphatically to listen to way pros
Posulfor a srenxration ormdivurce, Then na
determined (hat at he could nut ba divorced
froin her in tite he would be divoveed by death,
The went syateraatically to work. . te called to
hie nied Simon sucman, a negro farm: hand. Ie:
procured aome xyyehroe, and puting it ia
goine Culawu wine, CudenVerod toe ities the
hegro to prew.tibto her hatthistus nexro
deeiined to du, despite the ltise bribes woich
were ollered biur, Stilien, tasertumately, «id
not tell of this transection then; for, oeing?
filed With neyro superstition, he feared that
the tnan would poison aint, aud po be kept his
mouth shut. Batled ii bis athemptto yet an.
other Jodo the deed be dared not Comnit, the
despetate man determined tu kill they wouan
htiweelf. , ay
: A POISONED CHALICE. ’ 2

It was a benutite! day in April, 1878. It was
the Such duy of the month, and it was to be fos
Ian day ofsife tor the wife who satin ler porch
waiting for tie return of her busband. Just
usthe sun was setting, Bowman came in from
his work, Heo had wainalifask of whisky with
hiv, and his face wore a pleasant sivile as he
rected bis wite cordialiy. Tue poor wousan,
to whom for so long a kine word troin her hus-
band Dad been unknown, felt ber heart thritl
with delixht, and the wan-face Ifghted up with
the oOld-tine liyht wheo she beard her
Dusbapd speak. He told -ber ghat be had
received a present of wm very suiall quan-
thy of splendid whoisky-+thas. ho had
drunk one juseep ‘from 6, and that
there wre ptill lettin the bottle enough for one
wore, nnd that one he bad saved tur her. She
thanked bitin with a full Deart, and wuot wath
hina mato the dtatng-room, and watched hin as
he placed the mintinthe xlase#and poured ja
the whishy. As he mixed ap the sugur and
water he safd to her: ‘lam determined that
thie shall be the Dest Julep you ever tusted,’’
She took the Julep and drank it eagerly. She
swullowed the Ge ath-draught without a suspi-
cion. Herheart beat wild with deitghtatthe
thought of being reconciled to her husband,
Veople pnasing the house somo moments ufter

heard agonizing screauis and rushed fn. They

saw w wight never to be forgotten, ‘ ¢
WRITHING IN DeaTH AGUNY,

Even when eomeof the witnesses heatitea,

onths ufterwarde, they er ee they
‘called the horrmble scene, They fond Mra,
sowiuen lying on the Nour fa the miadleof the
dining room, ber ounce bandsome features die-
torted, and the once ehapely Nyure drawn up
in hideous knots. Her contortions were tear-
lul toe witness, and her sereains of pain were
Mponizing. She was then past help. Aa the
three neighbors rushed in they saw Bowinan
Dwetily pich up a tiansk and try to secrete it in
bis clothing, Failingin this, he rushed trom
the house, and was syen to hide it in squre cory
shucks near. the grouse, Ie then came
back and inado yiplent demonstrations of
Krief, When be retumed to the house his wifd
wasdeud. But before she disd tne though
fushed across ber mind that she had bees
poisoned, and thatthe smnile had been pugon
to bide the dumnuablua design of bor husbdéad,
She knew fiuin her’ sensations that she tn
bocn putsoned, and forge she drew her last
breath she told those hnar her of the bottle and
the wint Julep and her husband's altered man.
her, Hor last words were, God forgive bim
tor his crime, fur be has poisoned me.') Tha
drink way the denth of Bowinnn as well aso
his wify. tle was arrested atonce. The indixs
nition of the people knew no bounde. His
crime had be¢n comroitted in) Rockinghaa
County, but no fury could be obtained thers,
And the cuee was remover to Ashboro,
THY TRIAL ATERAC CRD CROWDS, ,
Ten medical cxperty were examined. The,
damning evidencs wat the report of the analy:
sig OF the dead Wotuan's stomach, ‘Tue strychis;
ning was found there, ‘
One tact of interest im connection with Bow!
man’s trial je that he was tried inthe very
Court House to whieh President Antvew dach>
son mAdY his maiden speech. Lhe fury wus
out butabhore time und returned a verdict of
Hutity. Bowinan broke down eoupletcly when
the verdict was reudered. itis only chiid, a
sweet littio girl, stood by lum. ‘Fears weru
shelforhber, but novye moistened wheu thy
just doom of; Bowman wae pronounced. Ha
took lie cnse fo the Court Appewls, bat that
Court sustained thy lowe: Cours, j

Resplted. z
Spectal Disvateh to the Giove-fe.nocrat, i ]
Hearrorr, N.C., August 29.—George Gorey,

_culored, sentenced to be hung to-day for the

murder of Cyrus Brown, colored, wad this
morning respited by the teovernur unth Pep.
tember 25. ‘ Px {

7 t
The Scientists, Net Loe
‘SanaToua, Angust2),.—At the opening af thy’
general session of the Assoctation for the! Ad
Venecinent of gence exyhtewa new moulbere

fn hiv Mhaht, detied the crowe that tine aesern

by the site ofa log hemlet seo woul tha tis

Murderers Before The Fort Smith Court

TABULATED LIST NO. 1.

NAME OF MURDERER.

WHEN CONVICTED.

WHEN SENTENCED. |

DATE SET FOR
EXECUTION.

REMARKS.

Thomas Beard
George White
William Shannon
John Wofford
John Raper

Jas. Buchanon

Sinker Wilson. alias Flyer Wilson,
alias Acorn........... ...08.

Ta Ka Na Gee, alias Wilson

David Ross

November 29, 1856...

' Tune 29, 1858

October 1, 1858
May 25, 1859

December, 1859

(Two mistrials. Dec.
3 and Dec. Io, 1860)

December 2, 1867

December 2, 1867....

November 20, 1869 ....

October 8. 1856 ....

; June 30, 1858

| December 2, 1858.....
May 27, 1859
December 9, 1859 ...

Cr? ee err
a

December 30, 1867....
December 30, 1867....
May 22, 1869

May 14, 1870..........

i
| May 29, 1857

| October 1, 1858.......

June 24, 1870

May 6, 1859 ses ccew <s
September 30, 1859..
April 27, 1860.......

February 7, 1868 ....
Fevdruary 7. 1868 ....
September 3, 1869 ...

The first execution at Van Buren.

| Commuted.

; Commuted.
|
| Commuted.

Commuted to life imprisonment;
March 2. 1860.

Records from December 15. 1860 to
August 31,°1865, missing.

Escaped—scouted 9 vears; executed
September S, 1876 at Fort Smith.

Commuted.

Commuted to fifteen vears at Little
Rock—afte: wards pardoned.
Executed at Van Buren.

« NAW LHOIN-ALHOIN GHONVH AH

leant Sa Se wv si ii ie ioiatiaina:itank 5 ey :

bye

. Sot WW a8 Decemode 7
.

* Respited; exccuted September 8, 1876

TABULATED LIST NO. 2.—Continued.

eat |
NAME OF MURDERER Name of Victim. | “Grime = aes. Eadie : ghana A ! RACE
| € ommitted. | -

John Valley 2... 266 ewes sae ees Eli Hackett ............. | Cherokee ....| May 20, 1876 ...... June 24, 1876...-. September 8, 1876 | White a0
* Sinker Wilson ......... .. cease Datus Cowan............- ! a ....| December 2. 1876 | June 24, 1876...-. ; September 8, 1876 ; Indian co)
Samuel Peters ..........5. -. see Charity Hanson.......... | Choctaw ..... June 21, 1876...... June 24, 1876..... September 8. 1876 Negro a0,
John Postoalk: .......sseseecsceseee John Ingley and wife ... Creek..... .- | August 16, 1875 vee October 14, 1875. ..| December 20, 1875 Indian S
James Diggs.--.......-..- eee eeee JCGould ..........00.005 Cherokee..... November 8, 1878 | November 9g, 1875 | December 20, 1575 | Negro '?
Wiley, alias Colorado Bill........ David J Brown........... Choctaw...... | May 28, 1879 .... June 10, 1879 ....- ' August 29, 1879 .. White 2
William Elliott .........-.-...64. David J Brown........... fda ewees May 28, 1879 ..;. | June 10, 1879 ----- ' august 29, 1879 ...| White tr
Dr. Henri Stewart............-66- Dr. J B Jones........... WE cwie oso oar May 16, 1279..... Juue 10, 1879 ..--- August 29, 1879 ...| White a
George W Padgett........... . .--| WH Stevens..... «. sista Wisiaiers Cherokee .... February 17, 1881 | June 16, 1881....-. September g, 1831 | White oe
William Brown ............020055- Ralph C Tate ..........-- Ind. Ter ....:. March 3, 1881.....| Jume 16, 1851 .... September 9, 1881 | White ra
Patrick McGowan ............ «-- Sam Latta............... Chfgkasaw ..-| May 17, 1881..... June 16, 1881 .... September g, 18S1 | White =
Amos Manley ..........----++055: Ellis MceVay.....-. .. ... Choctaw..... June 3, 1881...... June 16, 1881..... September 9, 1881 | Indian im
Abler Manley ........... -.-+.e-- Ellis McVay .........05. es ei June 3, 1881....... June 16, 1881..... | September 9, 1881 | Indian .
Edward Fulsom........ ....-..45 | Jontans Mossiogill.... eee March 11, 1882....} April 15, 1882. . a June 30, 1882...... | Indian z
Robert Massey......-.-..eeeeeree> EP Clark .........-. _, | Chickasaw ...| December 11, 1882 | February !, 1883..; April 13, 1883 .... Negro tr}
William H Finch ............-..- ae areca a Sean Choctaw ..... February 23, 1883 | May 5, 1883 ..---+- | June 29, 1883.-..- | Negro A
Tu-al-is-to .......... ..++.ee. ++-| Emanuel M Cochran.... ieee March 24, 1883 ...| May 5, 1883 ..-..- | June 29, 1883..... | Indian °
Martin Joseph, alias BullyJoseph| Bud Stephens and wife .. Chickasaw ..-| April 4, 1883 ...... May 5, 1883 ... | June 29, 1883..-.. | Negro

Thomas L Thompson .......... -| James O’Holleren ....... = ..-| February 22, 1884 April 28, 1884 ....| July 11, 1884 ..-. «| White

* Twice sentenced—escaped after being sentenced in 1867,

TABULATED LIST NO. 4.—Bonds

Forfeited in Murder Charges.

NAME OF PRISONER.

Date of Indictment

Date of Conviction

Date Bond Forfeit Amount of
Declared Bond

Mark McLaughlin
James Prater

Ira Ames

Johnathan Offat
Charles Jaynes
Charles Jaynes
fetaka

William Carney

Jack Hartgraves......

November 28, ’71
November 29, ’71.......
(Arraigned Nov. 28, 71)
January 22, 72
(Records lacking)
May 2, ‘72. 2.00... ... oe
May 15, ’72

May 24, 72

May 30, 7

(Records lacking) 5.. -
June 25, ‘73 x

(Recaptured Dec 4, ’73)
(Records lacking)

oe 4s

(Arraigned Nov. 21,°76) |

“ ‘é“

“Aug. 8, 89

May 23, 72
Not tried

SULY 10, 78s sees - 5555: | 5%00*
1 000
1 000
2 000
1 900
800+
November 18, 72 2 500
July d, “72
Y June 7,72
November 9, ‘72........
January 16, ‘73
November 24, ‘73
(Again forfeited)
November 9, 74
November 12, ‘74.0.0...
May 15, ‘76
November 9° 7

November 9, °

September, 13, 89 ..... .

Total amount of bonds forfeited, less bonds recinded

* Bond allowed on order granting new trial.
+ Order of forfeiture recinded November 16, 1872. on proof being established of the defendant’s death.

; Order of forfeiture recinded April 30, 1890, on proof being established o! defendant’s death,

‘MHAANOd AHL NO TH,

Charles Smith ..y..-. va bb Se WGI mUEY oe tee.) Feb. LU sy. 3 pris ‘ .
ea nansiadugnNnte
John Alison ....... cece rece erence eee n ere cees | May 28,1895... | July 9, . | Oct. 1, 1895.....- Reversed, ww triay, gnd sent up ‘or seven
H years, five months.

Mollie King .......eeceeeree see eeeer essences? | Feb. 24, 1896... ! March 4 see April 30, 1896... : Appealed, new trial, sent up for life.

: i
Ell Lucas .....c cece eee e eres e eee nen eee eee Jume 11,1895... July 9, 1895S..... ' Oct. 1, 1895.... Reversed, and returned to the Choctaw Nation.

* John Brown was sentenced to hang, the case was reversed; a new trial, again sentenced, again reversed, anda third trial resuted in his being sen-

enced to one year In the penitentiary.

TABULATED LIST NO. 3.—Concluded.

When to be REMARKS

NAME OF CONVICT | Date of Conviction | Date of Sentence
Executed

Frank Carver......-ececece cece eee eeeeterneers | June 29, 1895... | July 9, 1895..... Oct. 1, 1895.... ' Reversed, new trial, and sent to Columbus,
\ ' Ohio, for life.

Thomas J. Thornton.......-:eee scence rere ees August 14, 1895 | August 23, 1895 | October 9, 1895 i Ten years at Columbus. Sent to insane asylum
‘at Washington, 1898.

7 Buss Luckey........--eeeeeeeece eres eeeseeette Aug. 24, 1895... ; Sept. 7, 1895.... | Oct. 20, 1895... New trial, acquitted, and sent to Columbus, O..

ae se cwcttinicanesitlan” Wa *
20 ay

for fifteen years for train robbery.
* Ed Wilkey, alias One Davis........-+-+-+++5 Sept. 25, 1895 .. | Oct, 9.1895..... Dec. 19, 1895... | Commuted.

Ed Alberty, alias Charles Burns.......+-+-++++ Nov. 15, 1895... | Dec. 4, 1895 .... Jan. 29, 1896... : Reversed, new trial, and acquitted.

June 24, 1895... | July 13,1895... Oct. 1, 1895..... : Ree new trial, and acquitted April 5,
June 24, 1895... | Julv 13, 1895... | Oct. 1, 1895..... Reversed, new trial, and acquitted April 5,

| ey Mary A. Kettenring .....-.--seeeeeeerererrtees

George Washington Frazier.......--.++++++0++
Richard Calhoun.........::eseeee eee eeeeeeeece June 24, 1895... | July 13, 1895... Oct _! a new trial; and acquitted April 5.
8.

|
| |

ae a La itn par G8 i il hid set bm mci

* Convicted of rape. ,

t Indicted for rape,

«NAN LHDIS-ALHDIA GHONVH FH

TABULATED LIST NO. 2.—Concluded.

; Nation where Date of Date Set for
NAME OF MURDERER Name of Victim Crime was Conviction Peary Execution

Committed

RACE

Lewis Holder.................64. George Bickford ....... ‘Choctaw ....| Sept. 19. 1892..... Sept. 19, 1894..... November 2, 1894; White

Cramrore joldsby alas CRerO-| ses est Wetton, .ascesxas Cherokee ....| Feb. 27, 1895 ..... April 13, 1895... March 17, 1896 ...

feasted Skt oemerwses Mike P Cushing........ Feb. 11, 1895......] April 15, 1895.....| April 30, 1896.....

Indian

|
|
|
|
|

GOOPZS. PEACE cone - cee neieieiseres William Vandever .....| Creek ........ March 1, 1895 ....| June 3, 1895 ...... | April 30, 1896..... White

JONH PEACE vases tcc. oes cescaece William Vandever.....J| ‘cw... .... “ “ --.-| June 5, 1895 ......} - veeey -

Rufus Buck...............2..00.. | Indian
|

Lewis Davis «ses clecs sve vs icsasens

ss 7" Committed Rape on ; - | ox 190k .
| : . Luckey Davis.................... hes Rosetta Haseen Sept. 23, 1895. so Sept. 25, 1895..... | July 11, 1896...... . Negro

Sam Sampson............... 044. i Indian

Maoma July «cecewc cece sses one J
| P

Jas Casharago,aliasGeoWilson| Zachatria W Thatch....} Creek........ Dec. 18, 1895...... Feb. 18, 1896......: July 30, 1896...... Italian

‘MAGNO AHL NO TH,

TABULATED LIST NO. 3.

| | | H
NAME OF CONVICT. | Date of Conviction! Date of Sentence | fy See bl as REMARKS
} ! xecute

George LeFlore..... oo bebe ce ence eee Dec. 23, 1871... 1.0.0... te Ge hi esau ee Died in jail while awaiting sentence, October

ne run Aa er alls FEE Gale FO
reget says

of August and the 28th of September, 1864, poe i
ticipate in the murder and massacres comanied
Indians on the Minnesota frontier,
“By order of
“Com, Mil

“Witnesses: Mary Woodbury, David F arti
Swan, Bernard La Batle.”

He was found guilty and sentenced to bw)
he subsequently turned state’s evidence, and i @
of assistance rendered to the Prosecution, I ewsadien
commuted his sentence to ten years’ imprisongedus

Of the entire number convicted, thirty-caghe ae
cuted simultaneously on December 26, 18, few
square scaffold constructed in Mankato, Mina, ty ie
of John and George Sontag, who with Chr Ue
notorious as desperadoes in California,

The Indians who were convicted but ein he
penalty were imprisoned at the Military Prwon @:
port, Iowa, but all were liberated in 1866, i

Former Chief Little Crow, who was acewsed a
principal instigator of the war on the white, we
Strawberries with his sixteen-year-old sim quae.
Lake on July 3, 1863, when he was recognumé ad
named Nathan Lampson, who immediately ew ga
former Chief, inflicting a wound in the chest "
died a few minutes later.

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In answer to this charge the Omen: gk ; fxr trouble which he felt certain the whites would
that the hostility arose out of the fact thy es ss —_ = The Indians then decided to make the attack
the Indians were opposed to the efforts made @ due + ee OT

; The next day they entered the store conducted
them from barbarians to civilized beings amd te ous am w aterick and demanded food. Myrick replied:
to subsist by industry. gee a. -— =:

ee es ewe grass.” and for this reply he was shot and instant]:
Some of the Indians adopted the white mgs es shes opti, Handfal o-eraes unl atic
lived by the sweat of their brows, and a: = +

*- dead man’s mouth, laughed and said: “Myrick
good behavior the Government extended to thes
leges, which caused those who were
become more dissatisfied than ever,

ert 2
— gvass himself.”
> ye See belied every man, woman and child they could
= ge we Ge exception of two young ladies named Mary
"emt gx! Maltie Williams, who were frightfully outraged
living near the reservation left their homes pawn pesceers, but were subsequently released to Gen-
the Civil War, and as a consequence the Imdiss: 3 - 4g: Se « expedition.
bold and defiant. ae SS ® + eck on the morning of August 20, about twenty
On August 16, 1862, four Indians were ee exe ep to a little settlement beside Lake Shetek,
hunt deer when they stopped at the home ¢ gq We Sees families resided. Although these people had
near Acton, Meeker County, Minnesota, am weed the Indians kindly, they killed every man,
ky, but were abruptly refused and wt child who did not escape by crawling into the
They then proceeded to the home Sauk we @ the felds§ A Mrs. Alomina Hurd, whose hus-
stepson. At this house, which Was within = | We Ge Grst to fall, was permitted to leave the village
home and one-quarter mile from it, ? i #8 tee babies, provided she took the road the Indians
and Mr. and Mrs. Webste eing 4 beeen! She lost her way and traveled for five days
stepson’s house, Jones and his wife follow wee Se Sx seem then raging with nothing to eat but a piece
sued between Jones and an Indian whom he aa amt ban
ing a gun, during which Jones referred _ ™ & of the day was an eleven-year-old boy named
“black devils.” The Indians then witharee

Se%ck, who carried his fifteen-months-old brother
about fifty feet, and while they were ree
wife and Webster and Baker came out #5 =

_ “ Back for fifty miles, but he died shortly after-

seh SK £500 PE Over-exertion and lack of nourishment.

the Indians turned and opened fire, Kilby ; ee oe " ®ac been killed and Mrs, Eastlick was lying help-
The Indians then fled, and Mrs. Wear eS | Pomnad from a bullet wound. Her two little boys
who were in the house at the time of the att and F tank, aged five and seven respectively,

ae.

the alarm through the neighborhood. er ‘hpi Two Squaws saw them, and catching the
The four assassins ran to the home _—_ her’ * them to death with bludgeons before the
where they stole two horses. Two Indians vail — fin Many other children were only beaten
mal, and they escaped to the reservatiom, es beipless and then left to die from hunger and
their experience. ratifs a Sie te: snes
When Chief Little Crow was informes © © pe OR ae: 1 et the massacre a mai] man drove by with
pired he sounded a general alarm ané = oe “x Mrs. Eastlick with him. When they had

out to bury the dead. They also found the

392 Celebrated Criminal] Cag of . caebrated Cases East of Pacific Coast 393

ve they entered. It was arranged to get them

traveled fifty miles they overtook little 3 ow te

the mother had lost and had given up tor 4 ee. ai y ence and then the signal was ‘given to some

along the road with his little brother stil! Pe his ie : : : - aweriied nearby, who took the Indians into custody
On August 19, another band of Indians os 4 EE. | att g@ccey. For many days previous to this capture

town of New Ulm, which is located on the! ~ cee gered men, women and children, until they had

The citizens had been forewarned of their Mie
put up such a strong defense that the ink — ae
but not before many people of both sexes were ki
houses burned. ae ee
The next day Chief Little Crow personaly
dians to the town, and although fourteen sees

and the greater portion of the town burned, the

ceuxewens with the capture of the Indians, General
4. gee’ such an advantageous position with his artil-
“» @e Indians left in charge of the white prisoners
= « mercy, and when they were commanded to sur-
ge @e catives they did so immediately. Many of the
eee seponets had been subjected to most inhuman bar-

finally forced to retreat. ere

Little Crow and his men next attacked Fort
he lost about 100 men while only three soldiers ges gaa

While Little Crow and his men were es eee
Ulm and Fort Ridgley, other
scouring the country and torturin
white person they met. A young
enceinte, was seized and, in the pres
who was also tortured but finally ree
and the child removed and nailed t
afterward found in this position by the

- seeeenber 3, 1862, General Sibley and 2,000 soldiers

exseel at Wood Lake, Minnesota. On the morn-
~~ ®% Gp several wagons loaded with soldiers left the
mg & the agency, and when they were about a mile
Qe Ge camp, twenty-five Indians who were con-
: ‘te grass, jumped up and opened fire. The soldiers
™, wad several on each side were killed. The firing
# Ge attention of the soldiers in camp and also
Ses and about 800 Indians who were in the woods
pa Tee result was a general battle, which proved to
_— — s Waterloo. Nearly 300 Indians were taken
girl laid beside its mother’s body. The chi ® ae. ie rie sae Ee es
: 12 Nears ‘S ; S were captured a Militar

being pulled asunder by the legs. = = - "= "a appointed to investigate the vari h a

On August 26, arrangements ae ee = 8 person atraigned was O-ta-kle (ean wk hie
the fiercest warriors of Little Crow's band < feos 2 mean, commonly known as Godf “The Lares
egy. The officials pretended to be ignorant ot © eS me gad as follows: ble aero
the leaders of the numerous outbreaks and Bee.
300 of the most desperate men to report :
warehouse to receive their annuities.

fellows, including Little Crow, were evs"
they did not respond, but 234 reported =

morning as requested. For obivous rearome ©
into the Se

rr:
CHARGE, Murper.

5. 2 ah ia Bg this, that the said O-ta-kle, or

or heds ae Ulm, Minnesota, on or about

ee irvine i joi a war party of the Sioux

a € citizens of the United States,

KR peacefat and murder seven white men, women
citizens of the United States.

permitted to carry their weapons im! a = tice
annuities were paid, so their suspicions ™*"" Fle - second: _In this, that the said O-ta-kle,
us times and places, between. the 19th

this morning. when soldiers statione?

: FERERAY HANGINGS AT FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS.
ve <a

ney epee Speen heft figs a Ph OI

{BER 9, 1876. °

SEPTED

a ee

| DEVIL'S DARLINGS.
an Murdorers Hu
fe Fort Smith, ~:

he Horrible Crimes for.
which They Suffered.

cuted fora Crime Committed
Nine Years Ago. o- ra

teeny A Boy Exe
uced to me pith $5

zency of the;
| | desiring

Another Murderer Mee
gorts in New York.

it of the Northfield Bank Robbers

and Cowardice of the Pursucrs..

Course; Believed to be th
and Younger Boys.

Minor Actions of Murder an
=> > bery Elsewhere,

eee ened

September 8.—To-day
ution im the Coart-yard
ot Court of thie place,
oe Sanders, a Chervkce,
Sam Peters, # Choc-
a Peoria Indian, paid the
, which were éommittedin
The number present atthe
Wazgon-loads of peo-
ommenced pouring into the town onthe
evening of the previous day,
literally Jammea, but everythin
“orderly and quiet manner.
prisoners were
SAKEX FROM TRE JAIL ‘

underastrong guard of Deputy Marshals. On
arriving at the gallows, the
signed them,and made
into eternity.. They «
of their situatiog. Aftert
-yead and {oterpreted reli
The prisoners Lid fsrewe
adjusted, the black caps dra
and at 11:55 e’ch .

‘ {TUR DROP FFLL,
and four souls} were launch
The ‘Independent,
s execution closes

Fort Surrn, ARK.,
the scene of another exec
of the United States Diatri
by which four Indians, Osc
“ §inker Wilson,
taw, and Jack Valley,
penalty of their crimes
the Indiaa Torntory,
execution was very large.

and the strects were
g passed ofia an | sorty being less thau ao hour behind,
At ll o'clock the

y took the’ stand as-
aration for the plunge
ere acemingly unconscious
he death warrants wero
ious services were held,
Itoall, the ropes were
WR over theur faces,

of this pince, says
a list of fifteen who
cd withia a year by the sentence
the same spot aud the same
of Scptember, 1s75, ove
1876, and fuur to-day,
treme penalty of the

have been exceut
of the same Court, on
ows, elxon the Sd day
e2istday of April,
nine having euffered the ex
lees than Ove months,
1) DESCHIPTION OF T

Lrrrie Rock; Se
the descriptions ©

leon, aCherokee, was ae medium-sized
about 1% pounds, twe
e feet five inches high,

nited States Court, then held at
Arkansas, on the

6.—The following is
the, prisoners and their

four

man, weighin
was

convicted ia the U
’ Van Buren, Crawford C
Deceinvber, 180
' MURDER OF DATUS COWAN,
sentenced to be hun

a white boy, and on the 7th
day of February. ‘1063.
the day set for
d.remained at
hi April, 1876, when he was rec
q he last term of the United States
for the Weatern District of Arkankas, Le Was re-” ,
fenced to Le hung on the sthd
1576. Prom bis age ak present,

isctecution he male
large nearly nine
aplured,
Court

ay of Septemoer,
Wilson must bare

| & MERE BOT:

= taare AVA orhen

eversthing being quiet, Mrs. Carlysle returned to
the house and found fi, Say Cahier tin
{ . 7 GRER HUSBAND LYING DEAD see ey
Just at the steps of the porch,on the gronund.§ The
rockets of bis pants were turned inside out. He
ad hud a pocket-Look with some money. in his
peeneisi but this was gone, Jn looking about the
ouse to sce what. had been disturbed, it was
‘found thata trunk, ip whieb there bad been about
-$1,200 in Cherohee warrants and money, had Leen
Carried away. Neitherthe trunk oor contents
have ever beep seen since. Sanders was persist-
entin bie doutal of participation in the murder @
to the last momert. The last on the ligt was
es JOUN VALLEY, \ y
a Peoria Indian, twenty-six years old, five feet
ten inches high; weighing about 10 ounds. In
‘this case the proof is very poative,and (here js no
doubt as to the murder and who committed the
deed. On the 27th aay of November, 173, the
prisu@er killed one Eli flackett, a white inan, on
|Spriog Haver, in the PeoriaNation, Iteeems that
a few dase before the killing an altercation took
place Letween Hackett andthe mother and brojh-
er of Valley, inre vard to the payment-of some an-
-nuity money to a little gir, Hackett(achid, The
child had fired with fackett's brother, and he
beta claimed the. moneys. Hackett, Leing the
ather, also claimed it. The Agent Hoag asked
ifthe ciild had any parents, Hackett said he
was her father, and thereupon the Agent paid the
mouey to Hackett. Some days afterwards fackett
wus atthe house of Jno. Beavers, abouts o'clock
in the evening. Beavers, his wife, bus two broth-
ers and Lackett were ; :
“gITIINO AROUND THE FIRE
talking, when Valley, the prisoner, came in, and
was invited to a scat pear the fire, which wae ac-
cepted. After he bad been sitting there about
haif an hour, Valley, without rising, suddenly
drew a. pistol, and, not saying & word, shot at
Hackett twice. The first shot bit Hackettin the
breast, and the other struck achalr on which he
‘was sitting. When shot, Hackett Jumped UP,
threw-hta band to hia breast, aud said ‘‘ Lord,’
and went out. Valley remained eitting some three
minutes after the ehootipg, and then got up and
weutont. Ie confessed hia crime, and laid the
blame to too much whisky. sinsiptias

» a _——neneend ° .
The Northficld Bank Robbofs.
RY. PAUL, September 8.—The fourteen citizens

late Thursday oight, in a ravine near Shieldsville.
Shote were exchanged, and one of the robbers’
horses killed; but as the robbers turned to make
afight, and as the citizens were poorly armed,
they dared not dash into them, and the robbers,
mounting their dismounted comrade, took to the
woods and were again lust sight of. They were
Jast hourd of at Waterville Lake, at 3 this after-
noon, going south toward Okaman, There are

about 400 men: in pursuit of them, one arty of
anil it is be-

heved will have them before moraoing. The trag-
edly is the all-absorbing topic of discussion here
to-day, and the genera impression scems to be
that the robvers are members of the famous
YOUNGER AND JAMES GANOS,
It Is certain that they Orst came to this city about
two wecks ago, over the rivor road, and that thoy
have since been scen in diferent localities in the
State, each giving different names and generally
differcnt accounts of’ themselves. In the pockets
of one of the rubbers killed was fuund one fine
Howard gold watch, a map of Alinnesota, &
pocket compass and a small amount of money. In
the pochetof the other wasa fue gold Waltham
watch, but nothing was fuund on the body of
either to inUicate who they were or where from.
Gov. Pillsbury has offered @ teward of $1,500 for
the capture of the robbers, or proportionately for
each une captured. ;
!

‘The Riot at Charleston, 8. O.

of passing blacks Gred into the armory windows

turned by the Guards,
Excepting this, and one or two other minor
disturbances, the atreets were quiet after unid-
night. The pablic
uneasiness. The
‘light procession to-night.

blacks talk of having @forch-

of it. a P ‘
ly the intervention of Congressman Small, the
Combabee strikers have becn induced to disperse

continue to work ia the rice Mulds. es
fe , nana ag Ng ’

Execution ofa Murderer.

in pureuit of the Northfield robbers overtook them -

Crarceston, 8. C., September 6.—All night
he colored militia and white clubs remained at
‘thelr places of rendezvous unger arms. A party

of the Montgomery Guards. ‘The fre was re-

feeling cootinuce one of dcep

Efforts are being made
tu prevent 1b, as trouvle will probably grow out

without further molestation of the laborers, whe

Rocurstee, September 8.—Eighmey, the Oaks

CWAPTER OF ACCIDENTS}.

: Ae aN , Py ; ——s ids th ‘
Torri*le Tornado in Linn Court
» © Missouri, ° wi oe

id lp

j .
. : any

Great Damage Done to Property,
9 Beveral Lives Lost.

« 4, AGN 5

~ 4
~ in ‘

: Young Lady Suffocated by Gas—Siz Unt: ;
Gaaths in New Orleans—Suicide and
te Death by Starvation,

a as
Bpectal Correspondence of the Globe-Democraty :
MeADVILLE, MO., September. 6.—A te:f .
tornado visited this nelghoorhood about 5 0’ by
yesterday afternoon, It was seen raging thre
the tree-tops about a mile and a balf west-
appeared to be coming directly toward this tt
causing great excitement among the citi ,
When within about three-quarters of a mile
tant, however, the tornado. changed Its coure
north-northeast. Immediately after it hadp
a terrific rain-storm set in, and for three hous
water streamed down In sheets. ,

Doring the rain-storm a messenger eaméin
the diatrict which had been visited by the tor
and reported that «

WM. HARNEY WAS gn
by the falling of his house, and his wife and
man seriously injured. A party. consists
aurgcons and citizens, among whom was
Brown, immediately started for the accne:
catastrophe. About two.and a half miles &
town the track of the storm was crossed. 4%
trees, as large as & man's body, had been to
bythe roots, and some of them carried to
distances. On arriving at Harney's plac ;
house was found lying Mat io ruins, with Il
underneath. .All hands went to work, anc
short time his body was-recovered, but lif
extinct. Coming back to town a round abot.
was takco, and scyeral houses were: seen in se
and deserted. Coming to the ruincd house
Liga Hany, he was found to be badly tnjurec
bisdaughter bad a leg and arm broken.
house had been @ heavy fraine, but 38 eoulk
withstand 4

+ THE BHOCK OF THR STORM“

The fences, too, wero torn to pieces, and §
stout board fences were twisted opt of alle
A report camo from the little towo of Wh.
thatseven orelght buildinga were tlown «
and one man killed by lightotog, and twa we
ed by falling buildings. Reports also canicpe
Brookfich! to the efect that ecven bulldin
becn Llown down, among them the M. E. é
and the largo hay barn belonging to J. K. i>:
No lives were lost at this place, As near Ai
be ascertained the losses are aafollows: At §
ville, $15,000; at Mrookfeld, $16,000, a
Wheoling, $8,000, Total, $39,000. :

E A RAILROAD ACCIDENT
also occurred, as a result of the storm three
a half miles east of this, on the Haruibal ae
Joe Railroad, An ‘*extra’’ eastern-bound §&

into a washout, cap 3
and wrecking the engine and etx care. The
man jumped off,but the engincer stuck to hi

arerising rapidly,
water eo fast toatl
railroad track.

Two Untimely Deaths at Lebanon
Special Dispatch to the Glode-Deiaocrat.
Lypaxom, ILL, September 8.—Phillp Ki
a saloon keeper, of Caseyville, was found ¢
bis own house Ja that villace carly yos'®
morning, with a revolver lying beside him. B-.”
oner Schildknecht impanelod @ jury who, aS
hearing the evidence and viewing the both.
turned as thelr scriics that Whilip Kunkle
to his death by apistol shot fred by his own
having shot himect£ throngh tha head. Dei
was flty-four years ofage, in good ecircumel ©
and no reasum is known for his commit: ee
rash act. ; * A ae”
During the. afternoon of yesterday the ie
body of an unknown man was found by som ine
road laborers, leaning against & tree, 98 th te
aide of the treatle werk which spans Big &
Croek, one mile west of thie place. The s
fe bero, but no verdict will be returned bee
ing. Deceased is Lelicyed to be 6a need '

Corners’ murderer, was banged ta Canandaigua.

who wae seenon our streets: Tharsdar: &

eee

388 Celebrated Crimina} Cases of Ceicbrated Cases East of Pacific Coast 389

ee Mer with murder and convicted. He was sentenced Pee, arp practice. While they eventually acce
: BY Prisonment but was liberated in 1900. ees = = ae aes ctianally expressed is saalsgactt a a
: T) U } ? < Shortly afterward he went to Oklahoms where By = ri seid acy ete freated:
APU IN 2 cer Joseph Burnett attempted to arrest ‘bem ce tee o» Keb 8, 1857, a former Chief named Inkpaduta, who
: Thy ; Pe = 1903. As Kelly attacked and was Overpowermye Ge. 3 =; we extlawed some years previously for killing another
so OMA . the yugt drew his pie ase ee hm Sys user? Tasagi, and a band of about twelve followers,
ag n later years the terms of Cole Younger’s gai ue weneg near Spirit Lake, which is located on the bound.
gE p volisher modified so that he was permitted to travel shark Gone a ve wf lowa and Minnesota, when a dog cgi
oA mz S and deliver a prepared lecture, in Which he obserent meng sew wae bet one of the band. The injured Indian killed
ee man who chooses the career of outlawry ® ether & whereupon the owner administered a beating to the
; W fool or an innocent madman.” ee. > ‘ex Ay there were many white men present the Ths

# = molent resistance, but the entire band hastened to

Ba y r* y : weet setiement, where they killed every white man, woman
PM i iE cae aa * S< m sght, excepting three married ladies named
cas €O THE OUTRAGES COMMITTED BY THE Barbe and Thatcher, and a Miss Gardner. These
ae . DIANS AND THE SUBSEQUENT & Ser ser taken prisoners, and after being frightfully out-
i. 8 wv / O AND EXECUTION OF THIRTY-EIGH | Pe empelled to carry the loot seized by the Indians.
BM aeie: a ee eae é ¢ Ril and Mrs. Thatcher finally became exhausted and
pies: (From Judge Buck’s History of * sah proceed no further the Indians killed nee
Seog . By virtue of a treaty with two ribe fe Soeex ‘Bete and Miss Gardner were subsequently released
eae known as Dakota) Indians on July 23, 1 a consideration.
sheet remaining two tribes on August 5, of the | Mr 26, some of this gang went to Springfield,

— Sr betchered seventee
Seme! Abronder j i
s €r, In command of Fort Ridgley, was in-

Site :
er Pa Mlassacres and he dispatched a company of

: ; : session in Iowa and Minnesota ae oy scene of Slaughter. As the Indians had long
Se oe am pos te Se Be ath ere not properly equipped

to the Indians as soon as they tT eee “Sa aga er through the nit tes Co

and $30,000 additional to be used for te —

schools and the erection of mills, Shop

was to remain in trust with the United *

and 5 per cent. interest to be pal re

was set apart for them by the American . was #7 n people, including wome ;
of land in the Minnesota Valley about car bande * asi g n an
by twenty miles in width. fo. te “ue

agreed to sell to the Government all other ind s

MZ here :
Was, according to the census, 7,737 Indians

ion. ia were very poor and it was said
Ba from starvation. It was fur-
€ Indians that there was corruption in

Indians. oa: LE Se .

hen the te oo “se"tment a .
- a. fap Seer se: ae accet St SA the le fe sistribatip n of government
is ot ead ear ey - *- a *acheq th arged exorbitant prices; that

es eir women
Or fae: : » and that they had not
fands as Provided by the treaty.

claimed that they did not fully aaa
they signed it, and intimated that '

tees 7
Da Tite te Se eh wT ge a Pe gtd ee ee ad Se Me Sie oe

ia ee hi i

DIN ba Ra AOA Le Hi

President teeodens Roosevelt met
Meeker in Washington D.C. and he
gave his crusade his endorsement:

but pushed on eastward toward his goal,
the nation’s capital, where he planned
to present -his idea for reviving interest
in the old trail to President Theodore
Roosevelt and Congress. As he guided
the oxen and the wagon toward Washing-
ton, great crowds lined the road to see
him and cheer him. In New York City
he was photographed with his team and
wagon in Wall Street. ‘The big prairie
schooner went on until Ezra Meeker
drove it proudly down the streets of
Washington, D.C. Eventually he shook
hands with President Theodore Roose-
velt, who made him welcome and gave
his crusade a hearty indorsement.

Ezra Meeker’s mission was a success.
The country was Oregon Trail conscious.
Fame had come to rest upon his shoulders
but he was far from finished. He had just
begun. In 1910 he made another journey
east by covered wagon. In 1916 he back-
tracked the Oregon Trail once more,
this time in-a more modern vehicle, an
automobile, but with a covered wagon
top.

Nine years later during an aviation
meet in Dayton, Ohio, a: small plane
zoomed down out of the west to land be-
fore the grandstand. When one of the two
figures in the cockpit removed his hel-
met, he was instantly recognized as Ezra
Meeker, 94 years old. He had made his
last trip over his beloved old trail through
the clouds. A few months later he passed
away in his home in Washington. His
mission was accomplished, for the Oregon
Trail, largely through his efforts, had
taken its place among the empire land-
marks in the hearts of a nation. Ezra
Meeker had become a legend as an over-
land pioneer. : e

THE THIRTY-NINTH HANGING

(Continued from page 33)

back in Tennessee. :

The Indian war in Minnesota had sup-
posedly ended with the great Mankato
hanging. However, small bands of rene-
gade Sioux still roamed the Southern Min-
nesota prairies to make sporadic raids on
the frontier farms and towns for both food
and horses. John quickly joined one of
these raiding parties. Campbell persuaded
his five new Indian friends into making a
little raid south of Mankato to avenge the
death of brother Baptiste, steal a few
horses, and loot the farm homesa He neg-
lected to mention Andrew Jewett, the five
hundred dollars, or his old threat to burn
up the city of Mankato. These would be
the real purposes of the proposed raid.

Andrew Jewett, the unsuspecting tar-
get for this raid, was the former post-
master of Garden City, Minnesota. The
highly regarded thirty-two year old hus-
tler lived on a farm in the Rapidan area,
located seven miles east of Garden City,
and seven miles south of Mankato. He
lived here with his wife, two-year-old son,
and his aged parents. Completing this
household was another relative, Charles
Tyler, who acted as the hired man.

John Campbell and his five Sioux raid-

ers arrived in the Rapidan area and were

ready for action on May 2, 1865. The
Jewetts weren't aware of any danger when
they sat down in the kitchen to eat break-
fast that morning. Suddenly several In-
dians in warpaint pushed the front door
open, ran through the living room, and in-
to the kitchen. Mrs. Jewett grabbed her
young son, William, and ran out the back
door, followed by her unarmed husband.
Old Mark Jewett, Andrew's father, barely
had time to push his chair back from the
kitchen table when he was shot in the
head. Several of the raiders went out the
back door and began to shoot at the flee-
ing Jewetts. Andrew was dropped by a
bullet in the back just a few yards from
the barn door. A tgmahawk blow to the
head finished him off. Mrs. Jewett man-
aged to go a few feet further on before
she, too, was killed. Little William fell out
of his mother's arms, was struck on the
head by a now crimson tomahawk, and
left for dead.

The hired man, Charles Tyler, was out
chopping wood in a nearby ravine. He
was killed at almost the same time the rest
of the Jewett family was being massacred.

After this quick killing spree the In-
dians started to plunder the house. Cloth-
ing, food, silverware, and the lone horse
found in the barn were taken. John Camp-
bell made a special search for the five
hundred dollars which had been the cause
of the multiple murders. No one will ever
know just exactly where Andrew Jewett
kept Lieutenant Fall’s money, but later
events were to prove that John found the
hiding place.

When the Indians went upstairs to look
for more loot they found still another vic-
tim in one of the bedrooms. There, cow-
ering in a bed and trembling in fear, lay
Andrew Jewett's invalid mother. Once
again the tomahawk performed another

killing mission. The crippled old lady was:

the easiest to murder.

The Indians soon left the farm, went a
few miles further on, and made camp in
the thick woods along the Le Sueur River.
John Campbell left the group and started
to walk toward Mankato! With money in
his pockets he could now do any one of
three things: get drunk, do some scouting
for another raid, or start a few of the long
threatened fires.

Campbell could pass as a well suntanned
white man or as a half-breed and hope to
avoid the search that would soon start for
the killers of the Jewett family. Besides,
he had no further use for his five com-

rades back in the woods since the raid had |

achieved its original purpose. |

A neighbor of the Jewett’s, a Mr. Har-
low, heard some shooting in the, area
about 6:30 that morning and assumed
some early riser was out hunting. Two
hours later he rode over to the Jewett
farm‘to borrow a wagon. Harlow found a
scene of death at the farm, but what was

even more amazing was the fact that lit- .

tle William and the elder Mark Jewett
were still alive! Later, after help arrived
from Garden City, old Mark told about
the five or six Indians who had made the
raid. He died of his head wound several
days later. Two year old William Jewett
miraculously recovered from a bad gash
in the head and lived to be the only sur-
vivor of a massacre that took the lives of
five other relatives.

John walked into Mankato that same
morning—a prisoner! The half-breed had
stopped in at a farm home for a drink of
water. As John stood waiting for his drink,
a rider came galloping into the barnyard.
This was O. W. Dodge, a self-appointed
Paul Revere, spreading the dreaded news
of both the Jewett murders and the pres-
ence of a Sioux raiding party. John didn't
wait for his drink, but started off again
toward Mankato. This, and a dark com-
plexion, aroused Dodge's _ suspicion.
Dodge decided to forego any further
alarm spreading. Instead he rode out and
caught up with the half-breed. Several
questions from Dodge were given evasive
answers. Taking no chances, Dodge
pulled out his pistol and forced Camp-
bell to walk ahead of him on into Man-
kato.

O. W. Dodge wasn't too sure of just
who he had for a prisoner, so he decided
to take Campbell to the Clifton House
Hotel in downtown Mankato to get fur-
ther advice. A group of loafers hanging

around the hotel might have an answer.
John nearly won his freedom in the im-
promptu interrogation with the story that
he was Pelky, a half-breed Winnebago
Indian working for a farmer south of
town. Just then an onlooker said, “Hell,
that looks like John Campbell from around
Traverse Des Sioux!” (Traverse Des
Sioux was the name of’a small village lo-
cated about twelve miles down the: Min-
nesota River from Mankato.)

John quickly denied his own name, or
any knowledge of any murders committed
by any Indians that same morning. He did
offer to lead the assembled citizens to

‘ some Indians hiding in the woods. Fear of

an ambush caused this offer to be de-
clined and the lying half-breed was
thrown into the local jail. ~

The jailer was all too lax in the perfor-

‘mance of his official duties. He didn’t

bother to search the prisoner, and he let
some friends take John out of his cell that
evening. Some of the local citizens had
their doubts about this Campbell-Pelky
character, so they decided to get a con-
fession. A noose was placed around the
half-breed’s neck in a nearby alley and he
was ordered to talk or be hanged. Camp-
bell called this bluff and kept his mouth
shut.

Someone checked the contents of
John’s pants pockets and found a ladies
handkerchief, a small bloody towel, and a
five dollar bill. The handkerchief had a
corner cut off, possibly where an initial
had been sewn. The men then decided to
put the rope away, strip John of his cloth-
ing, and throw him back into jail. Among

the items of clothing taken off were two .

pairs of ladies long white hose, a black
coat, and a pair of shoes that didn’t fit.

These articles of clothing were taken at
once by several riders to Garden City.
Relatives of the Jewetts confirmed that
every item had been taken from the vic-
tims of the massacre that morning. A sis-
ter of the slain Charles Tyler identified
the black coat from a distance and told of
a small triangular patch she had once
placed on the sleeve. Closer examination
confirmed this identification.

It was nearly dawn when John was_

rudely awakened and confronted with the
new evidence. John now had another
story to tell his captors. He was still Pel-
ky, and he had been captured by a large
raiding party of Sioux warriors. The
raiders camped in the woods south of
Mankato. One small band left the main
camp and came back later with articles
looted from a nearby farm home. He was
forced to exchange his own clothing for
the newer items forced upon him. John
then told of escaping later that same
morning and making his way to Mankato
to bring troops back to the camp of the
renegades.

Mankato was in a turmoil on the morn-
ing of May 3, 1865. A mob of eight hun-
dred armed men had formed for just one

' purpose—hang John Campbell for the

Jewett murders. | Another group—less
than a. hundred in number—was armed

. and ready to preserve law and order. The

latter group of prominent citizens wanted
the prisoner to be given the full rights and
protection of justice. The lynch mob
wanted to move fast because they were
afraid the military authorities would in-
tervene and take the prisoner-away. John
could possibly avoid the death penalty in
a military trial.

Finally a compromise was worked out

between the two factions. An open air -

court would be held that afternoon and
John Campbell would be given a jury
trial.

The unusual court was called to order

- right after dinner on the block now oc-

cupied by the Blue Earth County Court-
house in Mankato. Judge S. F. Barney
presided over the tense trial, and a quiet
mob stood in the hot sun and waited for
the jury’s verdict. John Campbell now
admitted who he really was; dropping the
Pelky name and story. He still stuck to
his story of being taken captive by the
Sioux and forced to wear the incrim-
inating clothing. He also admitted to
being a deserter from the United States
Army, which presented still another tale
for his listeners to consider.

The prosecution was based on two

‘points: first, was the variety of conflict-

ing stories used by the defendant; second,
was the clothing.

Judge Barney told the jury to give the
prisoner every benefit of reasonable
doubt. In a few minutes the jury returned
with a strange verdict. Trying to please
the two factions in the crowd, the jury
found the defendant guilty of murder, but
recommended that Campbell be tried
again by the regular session of the dis-
trict court.

The vast majority of onlookers had
gathered to see a hanging and this legal
maneuver didn’t stop them from their
avowed purpose. The guilty part of the
verdict was good enough. The rope was
on hand, and as soon as the verdict was
announced the mob moved to take John
Campbell. The law and order group tried
to get the half-breed back into jail where
he could be put under guard.

For ten tense minutes the large crowd
milled around—guns drawn—as the two
factions fought over the prisoner. The
helpless half-breed was literally pulled
back and forth and getting a bad beating
in the process. Finally the law and order
faction, fearing more violence, gave up
the prisoner for hanging.

A wagon was pulled under a nearby -

basswood tree, the rope tied to a large
low branch, and a noose was formed for
the unhappy John Campbell. John was
placed on the back of a wagon and the
noose was placed over his head and tight-
ened around the neck. When the wagon
was pulled out John would supposedly
drop into the void between what was once
the wagon bed and the ground, give a few

kicks, anddie. =,

The mob was in a hurry so no one both-
ered with either a hood or tying Camp-
bell’s hands together. The wagon was
pulled away and John merely reached up
and cleverly grabbed the rope above the
noose. Instead of hanging by the neck,
the terrified half-breed was hanging by
the hands and screaming for a priest. The
disgusted mob ran the wagon back under
the prisoner and made preparations to do
the hanging scene over again.

Father Valentine Sommereisen, local
Catholic priest, was in the crowd. He el-
bowed his way through the throng to the
wagon and asked to speak with the prison-
er. This request was reluctantly granted.
The priest and the condemned man talked
and prayed for a few minutes in the French
language. The priest then gave John the
final rites of the Roman Catholic Church
and stepped off the wagon. Campbell's
hands were securely tied, and the second
try at hanging him was successful.

John Campbell was declared dead fif-

teen minutes later by a local doctor. -

Father Sommereisen claimed the body,
which he later sent to Campbell's Indian
mother at Traverse Des Sioux for burial.

Father Sommereisen refused to repeat
anything Campbell told him before his
death on the make-shift gallows. The
priest did tell the authorities where to
find money belonging to a Lieutenant
Fall. Four hundred seventy dollars was
found stuffed into the bedding of the
bunk in John’s jail cell. This money, to-
gether with the five dollars found earlier,
left only twenty-five dollars still missing.

The hanging of John Campbell took
care of only one of those involved in the
Jewett murders. Now remained the task of
locating the other Indians. John's tip on
their approximate location was acted
upon immediately after the’ hanging.
However, the fivé Indians were safe in the
thick woods and underbrush south of
Mankato. Efforts to move the five braves
out of the woods and into the open areas
were futile. A soldier and a ten- year-old
boy were Killed on separate occasions in
this attempt. Finally, after a week or so,
the Indians decided to go back to the
Dakotas. Moving across the open prairie
at night and hiding in the woods by day
the renegades left Minnesota.

On May 17, 1865, the five Indians were
caught in an ambush by a small detach-
ment of Sioux braves acting as scouts for
the United States Army. In a short battle
on the Dakota prairie four of the Jewett
murderers were killed and one escaped,
although badly wounded. There wasn’t
any doubt as to the identity of these dead
Indians. The Jewett horse, plus clothing
and silverware taken from the murdered
family confirmed that these were John
Campbell's companions on the raid.

With the hanging of John Campbell,
Mankato’s short but impressive era of
hangings ended, and so did the Indian
raids into Southern Minnesota, ]

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THIRTY-NINTH HANGING:

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No American city can equal the record
of Mankato, Minnesota, when it comes to
hangings—legal or lynching! In a period
of less than three years, thirty-nine men
felt:the hangman’s noose tighten around
their necks. Thirty-eight of these men
were hanged all at once on December 26,
1862, by direct order of President Abra-
ham Lincoln.

This hanging, rightly called America’s
greatest mass execution, put to death
many of the Sioux Indians and half-breeds
convicted for atrocities committed during
the savage uprising of 1862 on the Min-
nesota frontier. The thirty-ninth hanging
occured in 1865 and came as the result of
a mass murder, a strange trial, a wild
lynching mob, and one of the poorest ex-
amples of hangmanship in American his-

_ tory. The only thing these two hanging
events had in common, other than local-
ity, was the fact that the half-breed Camp-
bell brothers were involved in both exe-
cutions.

When John L. Campbell was told in
early 1863 about his brother Baptiste
being one of the unlucky thirty-eight on
the gallows at Mankato, his only com-
ment was “I'll burn that town to the
ground!” No one present at the time
doubted his sincerity with regard to
this threat. The dark-skinned, French
Sioux half-breed had a reputation for

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Depiction of the hanging of 38 Sioux in Mankato, Minn., from “Die St. Peter and Paul's Geminde” by Arthur Schaub. >"

meanness and hell-raising. It was rumored
around that he had killed several Sioux
braves in drunken brawls a few years be-
fore in Minnesota.

Only one thing kept John from carrying -

out his threat to burn up the city of Man-
kato. He was at the time somewhere in
Tennessee serving with a Minnesota cav-
alry unit and fighting in the Civil War.

The Campbell brothers must have
loved fighting of any kind. John was
among the first to volunteer for service in
1861. He was assigned to Brackett’s Bat-
talion of Cavalry and sent to the South
for combat duty. Baptiste had stayed
home, followed the lead of Chief Little
Crow in the wild 1862 uprising, and had
died on the gallows. In theory, then, the
two brothers ended up fighting on oppo-
site sides during the Civil War.

John’s military record indicated he was
a good cavalryman. He took part in the
battles of Pittsburgh Landing, Corinth,
Lockridge Mills, Clarksville, Fort Donel-
son, and the Tullahoma campaign. Any
further rancor he felt about his brother’s
hanging was kept to himself.

Two events finally gave John the oppor-
tunity to carry out his long awaited chance
for revenge. First, his unit was taken out
of the fighting sector in Tennessee and
sent back to Minnesota in 1864. The
Sioux uprising of 1862 had started a whole
series of small wars in the Dakota Terri-
tory. More troops were needed to keep

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the rampaging Sioux under control and ~™
out of the settled areas of Minnesota and
Iowa. Second, John was friendly with ©O
Lieutenant Marshall T. Fall, and this of- ——
ficer was talkative enough to give him an
incentive to commit a robbery that was to »
lead to murder. :

Lieutenant Fall told John he was the

successful proxy bidder for a farm site on =a
the former Winnebago Indian Reserva- ar
tion south of Mankato, Minnesota. The He
Winnebago Indians didn’t take part in the “9
outbreaks of 1862, but they had been (D
banished from Minnesota along with the ©,
beaten Sioux tribesmen in 1863 and their
lands had been auctioned off. The loose- "=

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lipped Fall also told John that Andrew 95
Jewett of Garden City, Minnesota, was
holding his five hundred dollars deposit
until the final payment for the farm was al
called for by government agents. John ue
suddenly became interested in all of this ct
small talk. A few more questions brought O
out details as to where Jewett lived. Now’
John knew where he could pick up an
easy five hundred dollars fast.

A few days later, on April 1, 1865, to be
exact, John Campbell decided to desert
the United States Army. He hadn't forgot- ry
ten his old promise of revenge, and he was
now only a few hundred miles west of oO
Mankato. Besides, chasing elusive Sioux “?
warriors wasn’t half as exciting as the O
bloody warfare John had experienced cr
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alt. Fort Smith, ARK., August 2.}-The exeeu-
aise on of Henri 3tew artand William Eliott took
‘arc place to-day within the plink: inclosure con-
taining tho gallows tn the presence of about
. QAlty persons, including phyvicinos, newspaper
“spépovtera, guards and othér spectators, ‘The
Condemned men rested well und slept soundy
fogt night, and scumod in porfécuy quod apirits
this morning, well reconciled to their fate.
«3/74 4 Their spiritual advisers, Revs. Wo A. Sumple,
ef lofthe Presbyterian, and V. ¥. Harland, of the}
os Method{et Caurch spent the whole of tre morn-
a 5 Ing with them, abd about li o’cldck their re-
vi, | Dposuve attorucys called at the jal aud |

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ne -BID THEM GOOD-BYR, ees

‘2° Stowart’s half: brother arrived hero Wedacs-
_ Way nignt, aud they spent most of their time
together upto afow minutes before Henri Ictt

, - She Jail for tie scaffuld. When Jteuri was in-
" fupmed aboot a week ago that tae President
* had refused tq interfere in. his gaso, he ro-
Wwarked that he had acted under no uther theo-
vot Fy since his conviction, and was prepured to
ows tale. Notwithstanding this it was evident that
-*‘wondl yesterday he clung tathe hbpe that the

“7 Z* Executive would yet interpose in hia behalf,
> Last.nluht, be prayed long and fervently,
‘(and has since appeared -to be a
“f ehagged person, fully prepared to mees his
fate. None of Biljote’a friends or reintives have
9° Deen to sev him since bis arrest. He died like a
+ bero, folly in the faith thug Josys Christ bad’
* forwiven him, At precisely 2:10 o’clock the
rieoners leit the jail, accompunied by the min-
ters nud Kuards, walked ina fra pace to the
¢ j scutold, and invunted it, Deputy Marshal C.
M. Barnes read the’ death warrants to them.
The Kev. Mr, sample untted with theus in the
ord’s Pruyor, und continued :
miss VRAYING FOR THEM : ¢ ;
V+, -for some winutes. Then they stepped forward
(tha trap-door and Elliott addiessed a few
+ Wordstothe aseamnbled spectators. He only
ay Felerred to the criwe egmmitted by saying that
vt he killed Brown in solf-dense, as be Verly be-
lherod, and that God had pardoned him ‘tor wu

3, Dis sins, Stewnrt did nos refer to the crime for

had been convicted, merely sayin

‘Ewhich he
through tulth in Jesus Cheiss he beliaved hi
Sine had beln washed away, and, raeplow thy
From that bung bestde dim and giving its Jerk,
waited: *Thank God that by suoh speedy
‘) Mivans as this will kdow no suffering,’?
te At2:29 O'clock the tutul trap was sprung.
The two men fell a distance of six feet,and died
With scarcely a atriugile. Atthe end of tw enty
Usinutes tle attending physicians Pronounced
und -the bodies were cut down.
Stewurt’s was placed in a beautiful engkes,
beziing the inseripiion ona 6ilver plate :/* est
fa penco,’? aud thy body was tuken in charge
by his brother, Althoagh Henri Stoware hus

moved withthe children to'Connectient, near
apeestur, @na I was placed fn schoo! with the
Ithimate alifect of being educuted for the mnedt-
cal profession, which course wus purwned at
Hartford and completed in the Medical De-
'Ppartmentof Yala at New Muvon. At the eurly
ageol ninetoon was supposed by everybody
to DO Past twenty-two, und upon such repras
fenlationa T-obtuined a postion as ship sur.
, Reon on board the Sasitiago de Cuba, plying be-
tween New Youk und Aspinwalle To wae after-
wards transferred to tho Oregonian, oKthe
mah position ne,’ runping between Panung
and sau Francisco, continumy ta that capucity
Until ‘the spring of Ises,. when 1 obtained
@ ailatar position. with the Pacitic Steam
Navightion Company, then -punning.. an
Crtensive ‘line of etOninels botween
Munaga und Valparaivo. My first few months
were spent aon tho, through dine of steamers
which only stopped nt Callno, Peru. Wishing
80 seo tore of the country of the Pacitle Coast
ot South Autrvicen, Lobtained a transter to the
“intermediate line,’’ running between the
sume places, but culling at ail the seaport
fowns, andj goiug up the principal givers,
While with this company my time was about
/@jually divided between duty on wea and visit-
ing the towns furinthe futerior of the South
Atnerican repudiics. On one oecuston L Visited
orata, beyond Lake-Puna, aod rhs
_ ON MY KETURN TO ARICA, *
on the southern ecoust of Peru, L arvived in time
tO harrowly escupe being crushed to death by
falling buidto ys tithe tcriilia. earthquuke of
August 13, Isis. Many People “Were killed an
thre oceudion; Ainony the numbor Capt. Doty,
of tne United states etorestap Iving fn that
port, tis wife wasinthe hotel, whilg he was
binying billiards on tye opposite ain of. tne
seer, When the tet sock’ whe flit, they?
both rusted out to méet each other, but were
overtaken by the falltoy buildings, and buricd
inthe ruins onty & Jéw feet apart, -His ship
Was diusbed to pieces tn the burbor. Other ves-
sls were wished ashore; amoug the number
the Cnited States slip Wateree, which was lilt
ed bodily by the yreat dal wave and carried
Over 1,009 yards north of the city, und
Hindéd loy. the plain. | Soon’ atter
this L went to Vasparaiso,: and resuined
my old position, continuing qintil the
steamship Magellan sturted in the so of Is
fur Northwopton, Englund, Spon whith vesset
Ltook pussitye., Thnt fine stesmer's. fate wus
to run upon a rock near the eastern entrance
Of the Strait of Mayellun, and become % total

deer wewere hot far trom the tingin land
all hunds weve saved, und ina tew weeks L was
on my way @ Rio Janciro, 1 remiuined on the

Atlantic const of South Amertea long enough
to visit all the towns as far North na Clara.
then went tg the West Indies and visited many
polnts theres amony the different tslands, on a@
Vessel enuuged in carrying merchandive to the
(Cubans, « i aoe that was to me itnancially
@ success, In June, 1330, I ruturned to Ilart-
ford; rema{ned there | buts a few duys,
when of }went, to New -Yorx — and
Sniled onia Vessel bound tor Genon, Italy, from
which point 1 traveled north through Ger-
Many, stopping, however, at.bat few places,
and returned to New York, where] arrived ga
the lst of January, 871, and in tour days mote
Iwas in Muidiactan, Kansas, where iny mother
brother und s#tster bud moved to. I remaine
there that Ycar, and while there united with
the Congregattonnl Chureh. In August, 1873,
While © visiting the. tunity of Judyve Ss. K.
Williams at Leavenwoith, 1 formed the ac-
Quaintince of many
DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS OF KANSAS,

among them Gov. Geo. T. Authony, tlon, Mar-
voy ide, Judge of she Distries Court, Hon. bb.
Gray, Jud“e ut the oY Meitisien Widen and Judgy
Krewer, now of the >upremé Court of Kuness.
That all ol located at Kansua City,
whore L remained tll March, 1873, when my no-
nadie nature influgneed tov’ to move again,
This tiie l went to'Osw ego, Kansas, and while
there inarried the witlow of the late J. W.
Greyy, anextenriveeuttlo denier, of lilinois.,
In June, Ist#, Linoved tothe Choctuw Nation,
within thirty miles of where I wus born, where
Lremutined “ to the time of the crime for
whien L stand convicted, with the exception of
nine months spentin Texas atter my faintly
thoved away. My wife moved to Alba, Jusper
County, Mo..in May, 1877, whereshe still lives.

Tbave no chlidven; two were bon to us, but
both are dead. L barge a sister living near Nash.’
Ville, Tenn., and Onuat Hotyoke, Muss, I
practeed — ‘tucdicine wine living in
the Natlon, I. deny the cirentated
reports that To. huve pea a wild

MAE Fucklyys ite since counny West, mad Chat t
Was one of (hoe nctorious Sam, Bacs’ yang. -
never was with Sam. Bares or any of bis rating

gang of cowboys, nor hive | ever ween him,

(Whisper thas busband anu wite were not hap-

j tothe Jafler here from Elifott’s stster, and he
than told who he was, nud opened a corre:
spondence with hte fi tends, who have made an.
elfort to becure x Commutation of sentonge for
bins, but without ayuil. ‘ aes Seay

if ° . r
Bowman, tho Wife-Votsoner, Hanged.
Speetal Diapateh to the Globe-Demorgat, ¥
_sisiporo, N.C., August 22.—Thos. P. Bow-
Mun, the wife-murderer, was hanged here to-
day, in the presence of a crowd numbering
5,000. Bowjnan spoke to the crowd, and al-
Inded to the fact that he and his wife had lived
unhanplly together, Bowman’s ttle girl was
ip thy village when her father was executed,
and her grict was heartrending. The drop fell
atls5. There was no digorder. ce ae
A RUSRAND'S ‘DIABOLICAL DEED. §
Few trials excited more interdss in North
Carolina than thutef Thomas. P. Bowman fur
tho murder of his wife. Disearding the im-
proved and popular modecfu wuapons of mur-
der, the revolver and alotsun, Bowman, who
had a lurking fondness furtbe fashions of me-
dicval times, resorted to the medieval made
Of iourder—poison, Perhaps the primo mative
Of the murder muy be attriboted to two caused.
1, Bowman was a handseme man, and bis
wife was ia handsome. woman, Soon ufter tho
war, Bowman, tho was uw farmer, began to cut
adash in Kockiogham County, Ho was six fect
dn beight, and whatis known in polite circles
ne ow ffdady = Miller,’’ or in circles .less
pulito by thes Not wo elegant — yet
more, forcible uppellation of **masner.!" He
Wy Very pepning’ among the young jadies and
Was Very much of 4 buau. - About eldven years
#Q he wet Misys Thusza A. Sianton, g beantifol
Jtunette, and one of the most popubr youny
Judies in Rockingham County. On lotn sides
it Was What sectued to be a case of ldve.at Urst
sight. Six mothe after he met her he led her
‘tothe altar, and the most frequent comment
heard when they were seen together, was
; Whats handsome couple.’ They lived hap-
puy together, apparently, for about five veurs,
‘hen tho gossips in the netghborhood bean ta

‘py, 2nd svvou Kowitun made nu aecres vf hts
: DISLIKH OF His WIFEL 31 f
ifo was never seen) ids Company with her, and
he rarely invited ay friends to hia housg. |
What weut on there, what harsh words, wha
accusations, Were not known .thea, Lut byve
all been made pudlic since. Finding hepaeit
nowlected, Mrs. Baywmuan, wens out a tittle
Mor than usualkyin the

world. Shoe was stil

had dlways been piulee with her noigh-
bors, On the J6tbh df last December shu re-
turned home frum 4 sinull camp-meeting, 1!
Was it strange plicuy tu heac such thiays, but
here she had heard euough to convince her
that the cause of her husband's coldness was
that he wus too intimate with other women—a
terrible peel aatg fora trusting wife to make.
She ruebed into the house, and twaring her
bonnet off, threw herself upon tbe floor, and
erying, ‘Ub, God, whata husband!" tore heg
Dur and tell du convulsions to the floor. sue
Jay in a stupar for sdveral hours, and in this
condition beb hustbwad found her when be
eame in several huurs afterward, The next
day thero was a etorviy scene in that house,
The wife accused heg husband of lnidelity and
he denicd the chargd, brom anger and biter
denunoimtion, wouun-bae, she went into tears
and tenderness, wud, falling on her kuecs,
Dexged her recreant spouse to forgive ber
bareh words and ve true ty herin the futare,
But thore was no forgivensss in bis nature,
‘The opportunity he bad lony been louking for
hudcome. He played the injured innocence
rolo, And was too much of onded even tu speak
tober, Fromthat tine Bowman's hatred of
his wile increased, and he wade up hfs mid to
get rid of her. Like most uturderere,
ho was @® coward. Ho wanted to get
his wife aut of the way but he did
noe Posen tho courage to kill her bimselt. He
tried persuasion und argument fist, tte want.
ed tu convince ber thai they Were uneulted to
each other. Butele, knowiayg of lis fonducss
for other women, and of his hatred fur her, re-
fused ta give himcup., The more he hated ber
aud searned Ler the closer she clang tor hin,
She tefuscd emplatteaily ta listen to ai pron

ely
af
a

little counts
nh handsome woman any 6

Dosal lor #& separation er a divane. Toes he
determined (hat at he cout nut te dived:
froin ber in tity be woald © divorces Pi deat,
Ho went systermationily G) eo eo Me CADE eg

Dis id Simon Atiiman, atm tant. 4
‘ .

: aay . - oe rae) plan 2 tae

~ dteectubied there to utlempe their arneet, ‘hey
= then yore off in a westerly direction enri
~ burtiag buck as he went the elegant and Classic
davective, “Came on, you sous ay".
>». Soon afterwards anoilicial of ‘the Phickasaw
“x, Nation xathered a poa-e, fuilowed, abd euiuing
\ upon them We next duy, a Sxhe sned, uy
which one of the horses of the Stuwarta was

Billed. ~The purty, howover, é
BUCCESSIULLY RESIeTiD THE OFPICERS

27> and eseaped. That night a horse wae stolen in
it:the neighbourhood, and the -ssine horse was,
‘YS allerward: traced to Vinita, where dlenrt had
hold it and then taken the train for WO ssouri. It
appears that the coustiue parted befpre Menri

Sreached Vinita. Wiley bas nefer Lara. appre-
-hended. Henri wentto Alba, Jaap County,
Mo., where bis lawily vesides,iWwas soon alter. 4
wards urrested, brought to this place, tned and
© convioted of murder, The trial ‘took place xt
She May term ofthe United states Court, aga
> “he was sentenced fo be hanged on pig 29:h of
“Angust. fis telatives and friends immediately
went to work tO secure a pardon of copiauts:
thon of scutence, and brought every lever with-
in their grasp to bear to secure this end,
‘ot btrapge as itinay appear, they secured thealg-
nagures Of eight etbers of the jury which con:
victed him to etition. ty the President
for his unconditidnal pardon. y The President,
however, after thoroughly favnatigning the
wang, refused tovinterfere, and lcfttha law to
tube tts course. ‘the foregoing 14 a correct
veraton of the murder of Dv. Jones, ae testt-
fied-to by the witnesses, who were men ot ro-
- ppeetability and weil worthy of fuil credit., In
: aninterview between your correspondent and
vf" Menrt he denied participating in the inurder,
* and said he suw Wiley atthe miatforny tutkiig
sa with De, Jones, Rnd wens thore to pet him to
.. Come away, Mnthys was bebiml wiley when he
5 fired bis pistol, abel Mred it intp the ground to
attract Wuey's fttention, thinking pliatat the
rack of tie pletot. Wilay gould wheel his
hovee and then jie would Ket hiurto ride away,
He acknowledges. that he accompanied Whey
fu hie tight, datied the crowd thut had asseni-
Died avuut Jones’ boy alter the wider, and
that he resisted the Chickhagaw giticers who
Porened thems it haw been intiuuntyd that the
Chactaw triends of Henrt wie have interested
Shenisyives tn lite Gehalt since big donviction,
care wore foc thbetlees his paydon would have
in Wiley'y cise, Bllould he be artested and
Drought to trials than they do-for Henri’s fate,
“Wuey has been reared among them, his father
-advother und friend@ till reside in the Natton,
and Ly is Bonnd to the Choctaw pe ople by
J etranger Ges than Heust, whe it wilh Deet perete
froin the fojlowiuy sketch af his lity, bas nad!
thitticlatebogese with them. -
, & SKETCH OP OTEWAKI' SIF,
: The followiny is a wuceincet skete of Henrt's
Leo bite as gleaned from bin whea tates sewed by
‘. your correspondent: .
wes born ab Mavhew, Choctaw Nution, Oc.
Dad y been tod's will
wisp day dt Uctober

tober 23, Int; themeiors

t @o spare <a d Jife until uh
yo Mbat Ll would bae-thirty sane yearysold, Luin the
* youngest.of finr, the iasue ola murriaze Le-
ween Chiles F. stewart, a white mpi of Scot.
dish pasents, and Trephenia Wall, Dres-ulethhih
_ @ewtee of Choctaw Lioed, springing from the
False family of Choctuws, My mother died
In the gopring Of of 1649, and muy father ufter-
7 Ward inarricd Mins Sunet slate, who wana mis-
“ slowgry at Fort Towson, 1. T The Ipving issue
vf Udelatter martiage ware Arthur T. and Alice
Fe Mewnrte The forwer tw now fig business

~ ag eke utd Atghison, Runoks, and the lat.

aes 9

| bau teed to get Brown up to go bone,

Sia’

hoing-
? ; A BCUFFLR ESSULKD' ‘
between Cupninghum and brown, and the !at-
ter fell bacRog tho bed ayuins Cuanuingani
then said to Ruth: “lt you will Jet him sicep
bere Pht let Liat alune.'"* Ruth repited: 1
don’t eco Whaleise weean do.’’ Eillott then
spohe apand wmids "fe can’t sicep ip my
wownn’e bed.’ More wrangting fotipweats
iow became somowhnt aroused froge dits
stupor, und, whily Cunningham was teviug to
#echiin to vo, he grabbep Cunninghien's pletol
from the acubbard and blarted for the door.
Another scuite tolluwed between Conningnin
nnd Brown foe the possession uf, tha pisty,
Whey, Rillote raised trom bis seat and com
Mcuced shooting, Ong shot tuking effuct in
Cunningham's ley, and twe takfas ‘ef-
fect on Hiown, the - pistol being wimed
directly at Brown's eur at tie. just shot.
Brown fell alead, mod) Nilluie. graboeds
the pistol that biown and Cunmingiiaue hat
been sculling over, and binded it to Ruth, and
“old her to soot down the fret man that dark:
wied the door. Hae then forbade nay persou
leaving the house, erceptJohu Woods, who
he demanded should yo iminediately and bibig’
hima hore. Woods wentuway, bot returned
without ua horse, During lis absence tho unre,
durer paced up and down the floor, revol¥egin
hand, ud would oceusionully rab it over the
dead mun’ fuce, and give utterance to such
Yemurks ug’) Dave kikied many a better d——d
Sohn than you,’? Wien Woods camo back
kiliote diuudd of hiyn the nearest way
tof the” tlnber, and left the house. He
widndered off into tho Atkansas River
Vuttotn oa few oimiles, and, lying down
by theistd» of n log he slept so soundly that bis
Darsudrs dauie upon tam with bis thusty Win-
ehester tide and revolver by hig side, wand un-
‘armed him before he awoke. | Wooda, Cun-
ningnam and the woman Sally Alden were
sunimoned us Witnesses we Lhe triwlon the part
of the Gqivernment, but'saliy died before the
trial cameo off, and Kuthishepherd, on the part,
of the defendant. Elliott aiso Went upon the
stand to testify yu hia Ownbehal(, He clammed
that be shot Brown in selt-defense; that Brown
had drawn bis pistol and cocked fton hit, and
waesnbout 10 shoot when be Sredthe tutal
shots, this story, bowever, would not bexnv a:
ried cross-exmminntion, une wre so dneconsist-
feat with the facts ug detailed by the disinter-
sted witnesses thut bat littledif any, weigne
Wus KiVentoitby.the jary. ‘Po testimony of
Luis tutetress WA pot sustain
; Nis VERSION OF THE AFFAIR, .
She Goverutieut wituesses, | The jury was out
buta sliait time betere returning u verdict of
guitty. | Up wohne timhe of the trial the defend.
‘fant haouly bbea known as Willian Elliott, or
*Cojorado Bill.’ bus while the trind was in
(progress a ygestlemah from Fore sid, il. 'T.,
tappened Intulthe Court Houve and recognized
the prisoner udu character ho bad Juin about
‘that post for sgme tiipe undertie nume of Bill
Wiley, and who, it was curtently reported, had
ived mman ft} Western Fexun Rod fled to the
ipitinn cCountsy. “Nhis circuwetence was men-
toned ja your correspondents dispatches to

but did avree in ail material points with that of |

Sa hl i a POT OPM NS ii dldiiis diese v 2

: : 4 Ce olaving @ud: nae ef te bide the dumuacie desu os ber husband, ¥ 5
and all joined in card-playing aud Satsacgens “She knew. froin her sensalions that she had | POlierasy ‘
foran liour of so when Brown becalny $00 | Leen polaoied, and beture ale drew ber last | farie
druik olehiwerats up, 60 belsys te oy bg te it Deuntiv clea tid (hues wauther et ihe butte ane ol
yued. The carousing was’ kept up Uy the bale | ene int Julep and hee husband's altered inane |e
ance of the puty, Consisting ot Fehott, Cun-, her, Hor last. words were, “God forgive tim Twat
Ainglyiuy, & nan natined John Woods, and two tor his crime, fur he has poreoned me.’ Tost | Pari
woth, Ruth Sheperd and Sajly Alden, uatil drink wagthe denth of Bowinan us well av of * '
‘about 3 o’clock tn the morning, When Cu rea.

hus wifa, Ho was airested ubonee., The indigs
nution of the people Kirew no bounds. Mis
crime had been coiwwmitted tu Rock: nuhaus

County, but no jury Could be obtained Qiere,:] gojs
and the cusee wus re:noved to Ashbera, ims:
THE THIALATIRACTAD CROWDS, Sons
Ten medical experts were examtood, The | peck
danindug evidence was the reportolthe analye “e

sis of lue dead wotuan's stomach,
nine was found there,

One tact of intereyt in connection with Bow-
Inman's Cial ja thathe was tried tnthe very
Court Honse in whieh. President Andrew Jack-,
son wade bis taatden apeech. ‘The jurv.was
out but aebeorttime und returned a verdict of
eulily. Bowrnan broke duwn eumpletely when
the verdict was rendered, His only ehiid, #
sweet lictio girl, stood by hin, ‘Tesrs wore
shedforher, but novye molstened when the
justdoom of) Bowman was pronounced. He
took his ease (o the Courtol Appesis, bat that
Court sustuined the lower Coust.

Tbe atrych.

ah Kesplted,
sSpectal Dispatch to the Giove-Deinocrat, :
DeAUFORT, N.C, August 29.—Geoaye Gorey,
colored, sentenced to be hung ta-day for tha

murder of Cyrus Brown, colored, was -thig I
morning respited by the Governur unt Sep- | ab 3
temberas, : A moe
r erik
The Sclentists, : our
SARATOOA, August 29,.—At the opening of the the

general session of the Assoctation for the Ad- | has 4
vanecinent of Science, eighteen new. mowmbers a

were clected, e : :

Otto Struve, the Rivsian astronomer, was in-

trouuced, and expressed his Pleasure at the ee
introduction, Ho spoke of his errund to this pub
country, and oftia confident expectation of

obtaining here a enperlor telescope, toy uso in
hie observatory st Pultowa, :
Gg. V, Riley, of the United States Iisedt Com-
Mission, read paperson the pbilosoplly of he
transportation of Butte Mics trom lagvie and
chrysally, + Bane

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Mining Stocks, ¢

San Francisco, Auguat 29,—Alpha, 214; Alta,
6.3 Belcher, 444, Best & Belcher, 18*,; Bullion,
7N; California, 6; Whollar, 6%: | Consol.
idtated Virginia, 4; Cfown Point, $Y; E
16%; Exchequer,64 5 Gd@oid & Curry, 31%
Prize, 34%; Hale & Noreroes, M5
Justice > Mexican} 36; Northern Be om
Uphir, Overiann, ¥; Ruywond & bly, ly-
Suviaee, Db'g; Sierra Neysclis, 4143 35"
Yollow Jacket, 15 ie, MO;
Imperial, i; A ni White, 2
Independence, 2);

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DAVIS, John, THOMPSON, Thomas L,, and WOMANKILLER, Jack, all hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, (Fed)
on July 11, 188).

"Fort Smith, July 11, 188)-Thomas L, Thompson, a white man; Jack Womankiller, a Cherokee Ir-~
dian, and John Davis, a Choctaw Indian, were hanged at 12 a.m, today, They left their cells
at 11:10 aeme, and ascended the scaffold steadily, Thompson said he was prepared to die,
and had done nothing that anyone els@ would not have done under the circumstantes, The
others said nothing, The drop fell at 12 o'clock and all died without a struggle, The
execution was private.

"THE CRIMINALS AND THEIR CRIMES,
"The three men who were executed here today expiated the crime of mrder, all of which was
committed in the Indian Territory, the United States Court located at this point having
jurisdiction over all criminal cases within the bounds of the Indian country, During the
April term of the court the sentenceof death was also passed upon three others = Matthew
Music, a negro, convicted of outrage; Daniel Jones, a white man convicted of mrder, and
Fanny Echols, a negro girl, also convicted of mrder. A week ago, President Arthur, after
having once declined to interfere, responded to the appeals by by the United States judge
and district abtorney and commuted the sentence of Fanny Echols and Dani#l Jones to life
imprisonment and granted an unconditional pardon to Matthew Music.
"The crimeof Thomas Thompson, who was a whiteman about 50 years of age, was committed in
September, 1883, at Stonewall, Chickasaw Nation, his victim being an old man named James O'-=
Ialeran, whose body he threw into a dry well on the premises where the two men lived alone,
neither of them having a family, The disappearance of O'Holeran finally aroused suspicions
and an investigation by citizens of the neighborhood brought to the surface the body of the
murdered man, and caused the arrest of Thompson, who acknowledged the killing, but claimed
it was done in self-defense, the weapon used being a tomfyller beater (a mauleshaped club
used for pulverizing corn), On the brial he could bring no evidence to sustain these
statements and, besides, a knife wound was found in the breast of his victim, which he could
not account for. The government showed that the killing was done in order that Thompson
might come into possession of what property his victim possessed, The jury sustained the
theory, although the evidence was all circumstantialk for no known eye witnessed the bloody
deed save that of the murderer,
"John Davis, a full-blooded Choctaw Indian,suffered the penalty of death for the murder of
John Bullock, a native of arkansas, whom he waylaid in June, 1883, Bullock was traveling
through the Choctaw Nation on his way to Arkansas, Davis crept upon him from ambush and
shot him dead, using both barrels of a shotgun for the purpose, After securing two dollars
and a portion of the clothing from his victim, he dragged the dead body to a secluded spot a
concealed it in the brush, The next day he was arrested in a drunken condition, wearing the
murdered man's clothes, and relating and boasting of his crime, The unfortunate Indian could
hardly be termed civilized, he was but 20 years of age and spoke only his native tongue, and
seemed never to realize the enormity or results of his crime,
"Jack Womankiller, a full-blooded Cherbkee Indian, was hanged for the murder of Amos Wyatt,
a white man, on June 10, 1883, The crime was similar to that of Davis, Wyatt, who lived in
therm tion, had been to this State on business and when on his return home, Womankiller, be-
lieving that he had considerable money, followed him along a lonely road, and waiting until
the tired travler lay down to rest during the heat of the June day, he killed him while he
sleote The mrderer secured $50 in money, During bhs trial, he set up the plea that he was
drunk, He spoke only the Cherokeelanguage, when death sentence was passed through an inter-
preter, he replied: 'All right#" During his imprisonment, he was totally indifferent to his
fate, Womankiller's alias was Galcatcher,"
Subsequent article states Davis killed Bullock on May 18, 188). Also that Thompson said he
killed mrtner in self-defense and mde statement on witness stand to that effect. In his
last statement to minister reiterabed, but convicted on strong circumstantial case, of having

murdered O'Halaran for his possessions,
p

NEWS, Galveston, Texas, 7-12-188) (3-2).

si ain OI Tila a WG: ic sme i aaa si:
oun te Se ee (Federal
sD 3aHOT, DANDY JIM, AND 3KIPPY, Indians, hanged Fort Grant, AZ, on

9 ,

3/3/1882, =

Trip's Frecution.

SAN FRANCIMCO. Sarch AUoubs
patel (rota Port teramt Arizona. sass
“The Indians Dead shot. Dandy fou.
and Skippy were hanged at bon today

;Thev meunted the scaffold laughin s
‘and showed no signs of fear. They nated

‘read fo them. Dunny this time the
risopers were conducted) to the gal
ows. which they mounted smiling|s
and showed no fear. The height of the
| platform from tbe ground war s!f fret.
with four feet drop. The trap-door ex-

ithes wer happy. and shook hands worl,
AUheic friends on the platform. and attes
hpravers by (he chaplain. the drop was
Sprung and the men died withert 4

struggle. The arrangements were oi.

tended the full jength of the platform.

| The prisoners were ranged

along the

i platform. the ropes ad usted. and a man

i stationed behind eac

to steady him.

Their hands and feet were then piu-.

ed ane nethipg oevurmead to cde ois ljoned. and thev were told if they al
the execution Li ' |
: Lit cn @ iisaasbot.@ande Jim and’ Lanvthing to say liberty to do sw would
Skippy were banged in the presence oo!
aru ope thoiusabe persons mast:
psolcdbers. Upon the receiptof the sentence ‘wed chothes amd food, but were now go-
ot the court martial and the preside: t's if 1
aclien theron even precaution was tak-
(én to prevent escape Neotwaithst tding
the Vigsiance and precaution exten based.
Dandy Jim succeeded in separating bys
shackles some thre: weeks age and
mivie a desperate attempt to escape. fut
; Was fred upon by the guard and wound:

, their fnends gone before them.” Dead.
‘ahot snid be saffered a great dealin this
iworld and woald soon be al.

irest. Ue felt ~
| offered upa prayer for their souls, and

| at three minutes

ean the left arm. frum the effects of i were drawn over their heads and at 1:05
+ which, he was. siMering when (the lever which supported the trap was
iT fA eens Pantie sel” tek er aa | pulled away and drop fell re
Ta Rel soot, 5? Marans) Gs flab twas no vemible struggle, only with
Pnet once took at the gailows after brrahk- Jandy Jim. over whoae ody a stight
| fast. Dands Jim asked hew gant ' tremor for a couple of .

ae he bad to ve, and when fold. at!
icaused a marked effect in his appearance 3
Iinmediately afterward they were hand:
icuffed for the fret tume since their con.)
finement and conducted ts they cells |
At }2:20 the trumpet proclaimed the hour
for the execution was nigh and troops |
assembled in fmt of their quarters |
under arms, and marched t. within
about twenty sanisof the galiows whe e
orders promulgating the sentences were

ciane = pronounced life
and seven minutes later the dodies
_were cut down amd! cons to coffins.
-chere was no excitement, and the suc-

‘managed and conducted wae .
‘ad by all who witnessed ft. The bodies
‘teil be interred in the vicinity of this

| post,

( 1967)

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Indian Heritage Edition
Edited By
Jack Gregory
Rennard Strickland

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Indian Heritage Publications
1971

216 FORT SMITH.

From the beginning of the federal district court.at Fort
Smith, the adjacent inilit tary post play ed a role in the admin-
istration of justice for ndian Territor yv in that a log building
on the original Belle Point site was used as a federal jail. By
August 30, (871, deputy marshals had delivered to the federal
jailer and his four gu uakds nine white pisonets, seven Negroes,
four Indians, and a Mexican. Tacked to the prison wall was a
list containing the names of sixty-seven attorneys, W hich out-
numbered the prisoners by three to one. One inmate said, “If
there were fewer lawyers their hope of delivery would be
better.”

On November 14, 1872, fire destroyed the Rogers’ Build-
ing. Story moved his court to the Sebastian County Circuit
Courtroom and held a two-day session. Meanwhile, United
States Marshal Logan Roots received permission from the De-
partment of the Interior to open the large brick building
within the walls of Fort Smith known as the Soldiers’ Quar-
ters. On November 18, Story called court to order in this
building. The northeast room “of the first Moor was taken over
as a courtroom. The southwest room was converted to offices
for the United States marshal, clerk, and other officials. The
full basement, used by the military as kitchens, was turned
into a federal ae at |

Judge Story’s most famous case at Fort Smith was the mur-
der trial of John Childers. Childers, a tall, muscular Cherokee

half-blood from Cowskin Creek, had no previous criminal
record. His troubles began with Ray burn Wedding, an itin-
erant peddler from Kansas who owned ; ‘handsome black
horse. Childers was alleged to have voined Wedding on the
morning of October 14, 1870, as Wedding drove up Caney

Creek in the northern Cher okee Nation. Childers tried to

89 Tbid,, August 31, 1871.
21 Elarmon. Hell on the Border, 71-72. Fort: Suati

pendent, November 21, 1872.

i “eytery fad

FORT SMIETH'S EPIFAPH 317

trade for the horse, but W edding refused. Later; Wedding
was found, hfs throat cut, in Caney Creek. At Broken Aerie
in the Creek. Nation, a deputy m marshal recognized Childers
and the black horse and arrested the Cherokee on a charge of
murdering W edding. Childers escaped, was again arrested,
and again “escaped| He was said to be enraptured. by a whore at
Fort Smith. U nite States marshals gave her ten dollars to lure
Childers out of hiding. Marchals. watched -her house, and

when Childers finally came to her they sprung the trap. Con-

tinuances by his attorneys delayed action until November,
1872, when a federal jury at Fort Smith returned a verdict of
guilty. Judge Story ordered Childers to be executed on Fri-
day, “August 1S, 1873 a

Workmen erected a gallows near the jail. Until a few hours
before the execution, Childers expected to be pardoned or to
have his sentence commuted. His attorneys had forwarded
petitions for executive clemency to President Grant. These
hopes were crushed by a telegram from Attorney General
George H. Williams informing the lawyers that it was be-
lieved in W ashington that Childers was guilty and that conse-

| quently the president would not intervene. Heav Vv pressure

to let the law take its course was said to have been exerted by
persons living in southern Kansas who had been friends of
Wedding.

The day of the execution dawned bright and clear, and a
large crowd turned out to watch. As the fatal hour ap-
proached, the multitude grew restless, Finally, at one in the

afternoon, there was a shout. Childers, guarded by six deputy

marshals led by Marshal John Sarber and Jailer C ‘harles Burns,
had left the jail. As the execution party approached 1 the scaf-
fold, a small black cloud was sighted hearing in from the

“2 Records of Disposition of Cases, 1872-73, vied States Court for
the Western District of Arkansas. Western Independent. November 21
rX72, Mav 22, 1873. a

ere ae A ihiond

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328 FORT SMITH
rode past the Owens house on May 26, 1877, Pizaber W ue
‘nto the road and demanded to know if he planned “to cat :
his threat into effect.” Hurd shouted for the woman “ge
to hell,” and rode on. When he returned, Plizabern wens
picked up a shotgun, walked into the road, and meee a
“Are you going to do what you said you was? cleat bie’ “
“If you are willing to drop it, | ain.’ Mrs. Owens seappe’
“See that vou do it.” and turned toward the howe ; -
leaped off his horse, seized her by the hair Ww ith oe ran and
caught the shotgun with the other. Throwing | ‘ as _
to the eround, Hurd began “stomping her. Elizabet * i
band Obediah was on the porch skinning a raccoon. re near!
his wife’s screams, rushed to the road, and three times tol
Hurd to release his wife. Hurd refused, and Ow ens et
him in the chest with a barlow knife. Hurd stagge = nS
several steps, collapsed, and died within a few minutes m
Obediah and Elizabeth Owens were arrested and rons : 7
Fort Smith. At the close of Flizabeth Owens trial. # he Jury
deliberated for one hour before returning a verdict “ not
cuiltv. Much interest was manifested in her trial, fort "s s
the first time that a woman had been tried for mee
Parker’s court. Apparently, the verdict was popular yecause
it was followed by “oeneral applause.’ ae | a
Fanny Echols was a bright-looking, well: proportion
neat, and attractive Negro girl of twenty. She and Joho ve
liams worked for Mrs. Crabtree at Eufaula in the reek
tion. Though not married, Fanny and John lived ton
One day when an admirer came to see F anny, Ic zn a “i -
shots at him, drove him off, and then tried to i Hae 7 ;
escaped with a severe beating. Later, a friend gave
pistol the next time Williams beat her, she shot him “ ia
marshal arrested Fanny and took her to Fort smuch fete!

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FORT SMITHS FPIVAPH 9 329
jail" At her eral before Judge Parker, she was “plainly
though neatly dressed, and wore a nicely Jaundried sun bon-
net.” She informed the court that “if she had not done what
she did, she would have been killed herself.” The jury found
her guilty. When the “hanging judge” sentenced her to the
Fort Smith gallows, she stood and listened with no show of
emotion; but when the guards took her from the courtroom,
she broke down and was removed weeping to her cell? On
July ri, 1884, Fanny Echols was to die with five other con-
demned killers. According to the editer of the Fort Syith
Elevator, none of the six “seem to be making any great prep-
arations for their departures unless it is Fanny Echols, who
was baptized in the river” on the last day of June by the min-
ister of the Negro Baptist Church. Happily for Fanny, a tele-
gram from Washington arrived in Fort Smith on July 3,
advising that President Chester A. Arthur had commuted her
sentence to life imprisonment.>!

Even the Fort Smith executioner, George Maledon, ex-
pressed relief when the president commuted Fanny Echols’
death sentence—he dreaded the thought of hanging a woman.
Another time when Maledon showed sentiment was at the
Busby execution. Shep Busby, a Kentuckian, served in the
Civil War with the 56th Illinois and the soth Missouri. After
the war he settled in the Cherokee Nation fifteen miles north-
west of Fort Smith. At one time he served as a deputy marshal
for the Fort Smith court. About 1891, Shep's wife left him,
and he took in two Indian women. ‘The United States com-
nussioner at Fort Smith swore out a writ ace using Busby of
adultery, and Deputy Marshal samney Connelley rode with
the warrant to Busby’s cabin. Busby sav Connelley coming
and killed him from an ambush. Busby hid in the wilderness

Fort Suith Elevator, August 24, 1883
8 Fhrd.. Mav 2. 884.

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330 «FORT SMITH

for several weeks, finally surrendering to a posse. At his Kort
Smith trial, he claimed self-defense, saving that he ahd not
know that Connelley was an officer of the law. I he jury
found Busby guilty, ‘and Parker sentenced him to dic. - the
day set for Busbv’s execution approached, Maledon called on
Parker and asked to be excused from his usual duty. Never
before had Maledon done this, and Parker was puzzled, When
Maledon explained that he could not execute Busby because
he is a Union soldier,” Parker assigned Deputy Marshal G. 5.
White as Busbv’s executioner?” a
James C. Cashargo was the last man to die on the } ort Smith
callows. Born in Arkansas, son of an Italian immigrant farmer,
Cashargo had a long record of crimes, including forgery, aa
ceny, and jailbreak. In May, 1895, he was arrested ona charge
of killing Zacharia W. Thatch in the Creek Nation and naling
the slain man’s team, wagon, and valuables. A jury found nim
cuiltv, and Parker sentenced him to hang on July 30, 1896.°°
~ Between 1883 and 1896, various federal laws nibbled away
at the jurisdiction of Parker’s Fort Smith court. An i889 haw
reassigned the Chickasaw Nation and the greater part of the
Choctaw Nation to the Eastern Judicial District at Paris,
Tex. Other sections of Indian Territory were assigned to
federal courts at Wichita and Fort Scott, Kansas. Then, on
September 1, 1896, Parker’s court lost its remaining ae
tion over the country west of Arkansas. Indian Perritory W 7
divided into three judicial districts, each with its own court
with original and exclusive jurisdiction.”* _
Parker died on November 17, 1896. The news caused jou
rejoicing among the prisoners in the Fort ome federal ye
Word quickly passed from cell to cell ike a signal fo Te *
lee.’ Che devil's shore got de ole cuss dis time!” sang out ons

52 [hid., August 21, 1890, December 18, i891, February 5, 1% *
April 29, 1892.

ie Ibid. June 7, 1895, and July 31, 1896.

na United States Statutes at Large, XX\ IT, 593.

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prisoner. “Ts he dead? Whoopee!” velled another. “Almost in
a twinkling, those prisoners nearest the ones first learning of
Judge Parker's demise, took up the refrain, and for a brief
period it looked as if pandemonium was about the break
loose.””?5

After the 1896 judicial reorganization act went into effect,
the federal government stepped up its program, initiated in
i871, of liquidating the Fort Smuth property. An 1884 act had
granted certain military reservation lands to the city of Fort
Smith for the erection of public buildings. The rest of the
reservation—except for the national cemetery, the area within
the garrison walls, and a site to be selected by the secretary of
the treasury for a public building—was given to the city of
Fort Smith for building public schools.°*

In 18y7, Congress made provision for the sale of part of the
land within the fort walls, but reserved the federal jail and
barracks and the land these buildings occupied. During World
War I, the Department of Justice authorized the Arkansas
National Guard to use these buildings as temporary quarters.
In 1925, the federal government transferred the remaining
post property to the city of Fort Smith.?*

In 1961, Congress authorized establishment of Fort Smith
as a National Historic Site. The city of Fort Smith was re-
quired to donate to the secretary of the interior certain lands,
including the tract acquired from the federal government in
cg25 and the tract west of the old Choctaw boundary. By
'g68, restoration has progressed, so that the original Fort
Smith foundations have been excavated and a limited part of
the new post refurbished. In the restoration the emphasis ts
on that period when it served as headquarters for the federal
court for the Western District of Arkansas.”*

55 Harmon. Fell on the Border, tow-10t.

® United States Statutes at Large, XXUIL, 19.
97 Thid. N XTX. 596.

= Thid AXNXV, 489.

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TABULATED LIST NO 3.—Conttnued

NAME OF CONVICT

Date of Conviction

Date of Sentence |

1
When to be
| Executed

REMARKS

Alexander Lewis

* John Brown

Famous Smith

John Hicks

Willie Johnson, allas Willie Overton

Marshall Tucker

John Gourke

John Graves

Frank Collins: ,<sicsssew ss ss sowie vo» canis esnre
Robert M. Hall... 0.0... cece cece cece eee eee eee
Sam Hickory

Alexander Allen

Henry Stari... 0.0. cscs 66 sansa sss onwaewey !

Dennis Davis
Thomas Thompson
Charles Smith
John Allison
Mollie King

Eli Lucas

Oct. 26,1891...
March 22,1892...

Jan. 8, 1894

March 7, 1894...
March 7, 1894...
March 12, 1894..
May 22, 1894...
July 29, 1894...

i Aug. 11, 1894...
' Aug, 17, 1894...

Aug. 25, 1894...
Oct. 11, 1894...
Oct. 20, 1894 ...

Nov. 17, 1894...

| Dec. 4, 1894...

Feb. 20. 1895S...

| May 28, 1895...
Feb. 24, 1896...

| Jume 11, 1895

Jan. 12, 1892...
April 30, 1892 ..
August 5, 1894..
Oct. 29, 1894...
May 7, 1894 ....
Oct. 29, 1894...
Oct. 29, 1894...
Sept. 19,1894...
» Sept. 19,1894...
Séet. 19, 1894...
' Sept. 19, 1894...
| Oct. 29, 1894...
Nov. 4, 1894 ....
Feb. 2, 1895

| Jan. 19,1894...
| April 15, 1895...
| July 9, 1895

| March 4, 1896...

|
|

.. : July 9, 1895

April 27, 1892...
June 28, 1892...
Sept. 28,1894...
' Dec. 27, 1894...

Dec. 27, 1894...
Dec. 27. 1894...
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Dec.

2.1894....
2,1894....

Oct. 1, 1895

July 25, 1894... |

2,1894.... |

2,1894.... |
27, 11894...

Feb. 20, 1895 ... |
April 2, 1895... '
Apr!l 24, 1895...
June 25, 1895...
: Reversed, new trial,
| April 30, 1896...
' Oct. 1, 1895...

' New trial granted and acquitted.

Reversed—served one year in penitentiary.

Reversed and nol. pros.
Reversed, new trial and acquitted.
Reversed, new trial, sent up for life.

— and commuted to life at Brooklyn,
N

j Reversed and pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

and given four years at Columbus, O.
Reversed and acquitted.

: Commuted to life imprisonment at Columbus.

Overruled by Supreme court—new trial and

acquitted.

Reversed, new trial, sent to penitentiary for
five years.

Reversed, new trial and sent up for life.

Reversed, new trial, and sent to penitentiary °

for fifteen years.
Adjudged insane and placed in an asylum.

Reversed.

Reversed, new trial, and gwenten years for
manslaughter.

and sent up for seven
years, five months.

Appealed, new trial, sent up for life.

Reversed, and returned to the Choctaw Nation.

* John Brown was sentenced to hang, the case was reversed; a new trial, again sentenced, again reversed, andathird tsial resuted in his being sen-

enced to one year in the penitentiary.

TABULATED LIST NO. 3.—Concluded.

NAME OF CONVICT

Date of Conviction Date of Sentence

When to be
Executed

REMARKS

Franke 'Carveticccc ca ses ceroseeeiecs ¢ o seeeccsecace <
Thomas J. Thornton

Buss Luckey....

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' June 29, 1895... | July 9, 1895
' August 14, 1895 | August 23, 1895

OR, 1, 1B9S ann |
October 9, 1895 |
_* Aug. 24, 1895... | Sept. 7,1895.... | Oct. 20, 1895...

Reversed, new trial, and sent to Columbus,
Ohio, for life.

Ten years at Columbus. Sent to insane asylum
at Washington, 1898.

New triai, acquitted, and sent to Columbus, O..
for fifteen for train roDber:

year

‘MHqauNOd AHL NO TTHH,,

NAME OF CONVICT

TABULATED LIST NO. 3.—Continued.

Date of Conviction | Date of Sentence.

When to be
Executed.

REMARKS

Tul-wa-har-jo
Sah-quah-nee
John Jacobs
* Mat Music
Barua Maha

Fanny Echols

Luce Hammond
Hewah-na-ckee
One Wiley
Blue Duck

* Convicted of rape.

seibin eioiesainia » ¢ w14i6 $416 866 S ST Side « ele ererarese | March 29, 1883..
Dec. 18, 1883...
Dec. 22, 1883...
Sept. 8, 1884...
Nov. 24, 1884...
Nov. 24, 1884...
Dec. 20, 1884...
July 25,1885...

June 24 1881...
Angust 9, 1881..
Nov. 17, 1882...
- July 14, 1883 ...

| Jan.

June 16, 1881... | Sept. 9, 1881...

August.20, 1881
Feb. 1, 1883
April 28, 1884...
April 28, 1884...

April 28, 1884...
April 28, 1884...
31, 1885...
31, 1885...

Jan.
Jan.
Jan.

Jan.

31, 1885...

1885....

3051886...

.27

. 1886...

Jan.

. 30, 1886...
. 30, 1886...

30.1886...
Jan. 30,1886...
April 30, 1886...

TABULATED LIST NO. 3.—Continued

Oct. 14, 1881...
April 13, 1883...
July 11, 1884...
July 11,1884...
July 11, 1884 ..,
July 11.1884...

. April 17, 1885...
April 17 1885...
April 17, 1885...
April 17. 1885...
April 23, 1886... |
April 23, 1886... |
April 23, 1886... ;
April 23, 1886...
April 23, 1886... .
April 23, 1886..
July, 23, 1886...

| New trial granted and discharged,
Commuted to life at Detroit.
Commuted.
Pardoned.
New trial granted and discharged.
Commuted to life at Detroit.
Commuted. ;
Commuted to life at Detroit.
Commuted to life at Detroit.
Commuted to life at Detroit.
Commuted to life at Detroit.
Commuted.
Commuted to lite at Detrvit.

Died in jail while awaiting sentence.

Commuted to life at Detroit, pardoned in 1895,

Commuted to life at Detroit.
Commuted to life at Detroit.

Commuted to life at Detroit.

Commuted to life imprisonment at Menard,

Ill.—Pardoned after one year.

John Parrott

NAME OF CONVICT

| |
Date of Conviction | Date of Sentence |

When to be
| Executed

| Oct. 20, 1887..

March 11,1886.. | Oct.
Aug. 2, 1887.... |
Sept. 14, 1887...
Sept, 16,1887...

| Feb.
Feb.
| Feb.

REMARKS

30,1886... | Jan 14, 1887... |

9,
2,
9,

1888.....

|
April 27, 1888... |
’ April 27, 1888...

April 27, 1888...

Commuted to five vears at Menard, III.

Died in jail while awaiting execution.

Commuted to twenty-one years at Little Rock.

Commuted to life imprisonment at Little Rock.

Commuted to life imprisanment

‘MHaNOd AHL NO TTAH,,

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Blue Duck .ccc.. ee cece cece cee c ee eeeccrerenes

* Convicted of rape.

Dec. 4.

LS85 pains

Jan. SO, 3:

Jan. 30, 1886... | April 30,

TABULATED LIST NO. 3.—Continued

Lommutec siifle a Je di
. ¥
Commuted to life imprisonment at
Il].—Pardoned after one year.

Menard,

NAME OF CONVICT

Date of Conviction

Date of Sentence |

When to be
Executed

John Parrott

Jeff Hilderbrand
Richard Sutherland
* William Alexander
Emanuel Patterson
Lewis Burrows
Steve Bussel
William G. Sorder
George Brashears
William Woods
Henry Miller

Frank Capel

Elsie James

Jo Martin

Madison James
Charles Bullard
William Alexander ........-+-e-e ee eee aivregeieitia ee
+ John Boyd

+ Eugene Stanley

* Convicted of rape.

+ John Boyd and Eugene Stanley wre found guilty of murder, but on appeal
Boyd was sent to the penitentiary for ten years.
sentenced to fifteen years for each robbery, and ten years for the murder case, ma

were convicted of manslaughter.

March 11, 1886..
Aug. 2, 1887...
Sept. 14, 1887... |
Sept, 16, 1887...
Oct. 20, 1887...
Sept. 15, 1888 ..
Sept. 27, 1888 ..
Oct. 12, 1888...
Nov. 2, 1888 ....
| Nov. 20, 1888...
Nov. 20, 1888...
March 1,1889...
March 22, 1889
April 6, 1889....
Sept. 4, 1889....
Oct. 16, 1889 ...
Jan. 21,1890...
Oct. 29, 1890 ...
Oct. 29, 1890...

Oct. 30, 1886...

| Feb. 9, 1888

Feb.
Nov.
Feb.
Nov
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Mar 29: 1889..
April 29, 1889...
April 29, 1889...
Nov. 1. 1889 ....
Nov. 1, 1889 ....
Aug. 2, 1890....
Jan. 12,1891...
Jan. 12,1891...

|
|
|
|

| Jan 14, 1887...
| April 27, 1888...

| April 27, 1888...
| April 27, 1888...

| April 27, 1888...

| April 19, 1889...

; | Jan. 25, 1889...

| Jan. 25, 1889 ...
| April 19, 1889...

to the Supreme Court

April 19, 1889...
April 19, 1889...
April 19, 1889...

July 17, 1889 ...
July 17, 1889 ...
Jan. 16,1890...
Jan. 16,1890...
Oct. 1, 1890

April 21, 1991...

| April 21, 1891...

REMARKS

Commuted to five years at Menard, Ill.

Died in jail while awaiting execution.

Commuted to twenty-one years at Little Rock.

Commuted to life imprisonment at Little Rock.

Commuted to life imprisonment.

Commuted to ten years at Little Rock.

Commuted to life at Little Rock.

Commuted to life at Columbus.

Pardoned.

Commuted to life at Columbus.

Commuted August 6, 1889, to life imprison-
ment at olumbus.

Commuted to fifteen years at Detroit.

Commuted to life at Columhus, pardoned after
one year.

Reversed, two mistrials and nol. pros.

See foot note.

the case was reversed, new trial granted and they
Stanley was found guilty of killing and of robberv in three counts and was
king fifty-five years in all.

ONAW LHOWM-ALHSIA GADNVH AH

TABULATED LIST NO. 3.

NAME OF CONVICT.

| Date of Conviction |

Date of Sentence

When to be
’ Executed

REMARKS

George LeFlore
John Broderick
Robert T. Barber
Frank Butler
Oscar Snow
Black Crow
Irwing Perkins
Charles Thomas

William J. Meadows

* Joshua Wade. ....... 0... e cece eee eee ee

Thomas Robinson

Carolina Grayson

Peter Grayson

Man Lewis

Robert Love ..........-.++-- sisiaiaisiewin 6 + afer eisreis
Uriah M. Cooper

Jackson Marshal

James N. Heaslet

Lum Smith

* Convicted of rape.

Dec. 23, 1871... |
Dec. 4, 1872 ....
' July 2,1873....
May 27, 1875S...
| June 7,1875....
! , 1876...
, 1876...
» 1876...
,1877..
,1877..
,1877..
3, 1877... |

, 1877... |

1877... |
, 1877...
, 1879...
, 1879...
1880...
| Sept. 23, 1880 ..

June 26. 1875... |

June 26, 1875... ;
| Feb. 26, 1877...

' Feb. 26, 1877... :
Feb. 26, 1877...
. October 12, 1877

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!

October 12, 1877 |

|; Ogtober 12, 1877

Feb. 25, 1878...

29, 1880
29, 1880
29, 1880

Oct. 12, 1880...

" Janury 5, 1874.. | April 3, 1874...

(Manslaughter) ..
Sept. 3, 1875... |
Sept. 3,1875.... !
April 27, 1877... |
April 27, 1877...
April 27, 1877...
Jan. 18,1878...
Jan. 18,1878...
' Jan. 18, 1878... |
June 21, 1878...
| June 21, 1878...
June 21, 1878...
June 21, 13878...
June 18° 1880...
June 18, 1880...
June 18, 1880...
Dec. 17, 1880...

Died in jail while awaiting sentence, October
27, 1872.
Commuted to five years.

Three years in penitentiary at Little Rock.
Killed while escaping.

Commuted to life at Joliet, Ill. Afterwards

pardoned.

' Commuted to life at Moundsville, Va.
_ Commuted to life at Moundsville, Va.

Commuted to life at Moundsville, Va.—Pardon-

ed after six years.

Commuted to life imprisonment at Detroit,
Mich.

Commuted to life at Moundsville, Va.

Commuted to life imprisonment at Detroit,
Mich.

Commuted to life at Detroit. Mich.

Commuted to life at Detroit, Mich.

Commuted to life at Detroit. Mich.

Died in jail before date of execution.

Commuted to life at Detroit, Mich.

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July 9. [887....--

Silas Hampton .........-.-.-.++- | Abner N Lloyd.....-.----|

M Kuykendall, H Smith!
and Wm Kelly....:. Creek..

George MOSS.....-. esses eeeeee ee George Taff..........--+- Choctaw ....

July 13, 1887...... = feces

Sept. 17, 1887....., February 9. 1888 April 27. 1888. ....
i
Jack CLOW 6 .ccce cevcecccceevsces | Charles B Wilson.......$ pane rene August 26, 1887...' “3 ” = a wears

Seaborn Kalijah alias Green..

* Respited; hanged August 6, 1886.
*Granted a respite; was hanged April 8, 1887,

TABULATED LIST NO. 3.—Continued.

NAME OF MURDERER.

INation where! Date of

Crime was | 3
Committed. | Conviction.

Name of Victim

| Date of | Date Set for
| Sentence, | Execution RACE

Owens D Hill .........-.--..--+55
Gus Bogles ........---..+sse+ sees
Richard Smith ......... ...--..
James Mills..............--.5 555
Malachi Allen .........--..+-++65
*William Walker.............-.-
“Jack Spaniard.......-.-..---5-+
+George Tobler......-......--++:
Harris Austin

John Billy.....0...... 0020000000
Thomas Willis.........---.-+-++5-

Sam Goin ...........--5 0-02 eee)

Jimmon BurriS:. :.. 0... ..+.+s
Jefferson Jones............---++5
John Stansberry........-.-.-+-+
*Bood Crumpton ..........-.+++-
Shephard Busby ............--+-
John Thurnton...........-..-+++
John Pointer.....----- +++. essen

Viney Hill...............| Choctaw
| William D Morgan .....

i” Nov. 16, 1887....

Thomas W Pringle.....

§Shadrach Peters .....
1Cy Love........-... +++:

Calvin Church.......... Choctaw
' William MIrwin.......

WSsi: | Choctgw

‘ Sept. 9. 1889...
' Sept. 9, 1889...
Sept. 14, 1889. .

Houston Joyce.......... .

Houston Joyce.......... :

Henry Wilson...

| '
| Moliie Stansberry.....-! BYE! cusnga: « « 2

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' Sam M Morgan......... <= cesta | June 3, 1890...

' i
| Barney Connelley...... | Cherokee ....: Dec. 11, 1891...

| Laura Moynier......... | Choctaw ..... ' March 15, 1892..
1

| Bolding ana Vandever ! _...| March 26, 1892

* Respited; hanged August 30, 1889. + Respited: hanged January 30, 1890.
+ Appealed. judgment affirmed. re-sentenced and executed. June 30, 1891.

‘May 10, 1888...
“August 21, 1888.., November 2, 1888! January 25, 1889 Negro

John Windom .......... | Seminole ....| Nov. 10, 1888...

| April 12, 1889...
| \
| ws Sept. 19, 1889...

tae Negro

..| May 26, 1888... .! ... White

’

_.| February 2. 1889 | April 19, 1889.....

“ . July 17, 1889...... Indian

|
November 1, 1889: January 16, 18% Negro

Chickasaw vs August 23, 1889.. “ “ “: #s White
_.| Sept. 4, 1889...

‘Indian

| February 26, 1890) May 1, 1800....... | July 9. 1890....... | White
_..| August 2, 1890 October 1, 1890...

| January 21, 189 April 27. 1892.....
.| April 30, 1892...... June 28, 1892.....
- July 28, 1894...... Sept. 24. 1894.....

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TABULATED LIST WO. &

aie wy —_— a

NAME OF MURDERER, Name of Victim. “Crime was Gen. Prsecrg lol oie RACE.
Com mitted. :

John Childers .................,. Reyburn Wedding....... Cherokee..... November 18, 1872] May 19, 1873. ... | August 15, 1873. .| Indian.

Young Wolf...... wiesaseresaals Ya is-areucsess Creek...... -| June 23, 1873 August 4, 1873 October 10, 1873. .| Indian.

Six Killer.........0........... 2. vik paid 7 Grand, Creek .| June 23, 1873..... August 4, 1873 ....| October ro, 1873...| Indian.

Tunagee, alias Tuni ............, Creek......... June 23. 1873 .... ; August 4, 1873....| October 10, 1873.. | Indian. =

John Billee 00.0.0... 0000..0.0.24. Perry DuVal ............. Creek -| December 23, 1873 | January 5, 1874 ...! April 3, 1874...... Indian. es)

John Pointer............. 00000... A cattle drover. ......... Choctaw December J, 1873 January 5, 1874 ...| April 3, 1874...... White. 7

Isaac Filmore.......... ......05. Unknown white man ....| Creek ........ December 17, 1873} January 5, 1874 ...| April 3, 1874 ...... Indian. O

McClish Impson.......... ....... Unknown white man ....| Creek ....... November 12, 1874] November 13, 1874 | January 15, 1875 .| Indian. Z.

Daniel Evans....... Seabolt.......... 2. 2.2... CreeE 3 sic .cc- May 19, 1875 ......; Jume 26, 1875...... September 3, 1875 | White. az

Jobn Whittington................ John J Turner............ Chickasaw ...; June 16, 1875...... June 26, 1875...... september 3, 1875 | White. =

James Moore. ............ ...... William Spivey.......... Ciferokee May 25, 1875 ..... June 26, 1875..... September 3, 1875 | White. to

Edmund Campbell .............. Lawson Ross............. Ghoctiw «s+. | May 27, 1875...... June 26, 1875...... September 3, 1875 | Negro. =

Smoker Man Killer............... William Short............ Creek.........) Jume 2, 1875...... June 26, 1875...... September 3, 1875 | Indian. io;

Samuel Fooy ..................... JB ONCE scccscawscs voces. Cherokee ....} June 25, 1875 .... | June 28, 1875 ....:}| September 3, 1875 | Indian. az

Office McGee...... 2 ce. eee Robert Alexander........ Choctaw .... | December 11, 1875 | February 5, 1876..] April 21, 1876 .| White, i

William Leach ................... John Wadkins............ Cherokee ....| December 20, 1875 | February 5, 1876..| April 21, 1876 ..... White.

Isham Seeley .......,...... beceees Mrs. Mason ............. Chickasaw ...) December 31, 1875 | February 5, 1876..| April 21, 1876 ..... Indian.

Gibson Ishtonubbee.............. Dr. Funny............... Chickasaw ...; December 31, 1875 February 5, 1876..| April 21, 1876..... Indian.

Aaron Wilson..................... James and John Harris..} Chickasaw ...} January 1, 1876... February 5, 1876..| April 21, 1876..... White.

*Osey Sanders... ............ +...| Thomas H Carlile. ....... | Cherokee ....! January 5, 1876 ...! February 5, 1876. | April 2r, 1876 .... | Indian.

*Respited; executed September 8, 1876
TABULATED LIST NO. 2.—Continued.
ma ]
NAME OF MURDERER Name of Victim. | “Grime was. Contin. D rictoN giana al | RACE

John Valley.... 00. 2... Eli Hackett ............. | Cherokee | May 20, 1876 ...... I june 24, 1876..... September 8, 1876 White am
“Sinker Wilson ......... ........ Datus Cowan.............000 8 es December 2. 1876 June 24, 1876..... September 8. 1876 | Indian 9)
Samuel Peters ................... Charity Hanson..........; Choctaw ..... June 21, 1876...... | June 24, 1576..... September 8. 1876 | Negro ae
John Postoak «<2. .100%. ssevens John Ingley and wife Le Creek ...... , August 16, 1878 sel October 14, 1878...' December 20. 1878 i Indian 7
James Diggs..-.......0.....0000. JCGould ........ .......) Cherokee... November 8, 1878 ' November g, 1878 December 20, 1878 | Negro O
Wiley, alias Colorado Bill... | David J] Brown... “hoctawx “Tay 28. 1879 Tune 18- Augusto? White =

TABULATED LIST NO. 2.—Continued.

NAME OF MURDERER

Name of Victim

Nation where
Crime was
Committed

Date of
Conviction

Date of

Date Set for |
Sentence ‘

Execution | RACE

William Phillips

James Arcene

James Wasson
Joseph Jackson
Calvin James

*Kit Ross

Lincoln Sprole
James Lamb
Albert O'Dell
JohnT Echols

+ Patrick McCarty
John Stephens
Silas Hampton
Seaborn Kalijah alias Green..
George Moss

Jack Crow

William Bullock
Nathaniel Wyatt
William Hill
Henry Feigel
Henry Feigel
Henry Martin
Mary Jackson
Tony Love

Johnathan Davis

j Benjamin F Clark
) Alex Clark

Edward Pollard
Edward Pollard

John Pattenridge
Thos Mahoney and bro

Annie E Carr and son;
Lewis, and Dr. Pyle |

Abner N Lloyd

M Kuykendall, H Smith!

and Wm Kelly
George Taff

Charles B Wilson.......

* Respited: hanged August 6, 1886.
* Granted a respite; was hanged April 8. 1887,

Choctaw ....

Cherokee....

Chickasaw ..
Choctaw ....
Chickasaw ..
Cherokee -«..

am
€
4

Chickasaw

Cherokee....

Chickasav ..

TABULATED LIST

.| July 20, 1884
.| March 28, 1885...

.| Sept. 18, 1886

February 27, 1884
March 12, 1884...

“ “ce

July 30, 1885
September 15,’85
April 1, 1886
April 3, 1886

“6 o

.| August 20, 1886. ..'

Sept. 23, 1886
Sept. 3, 1886
July 9. 1887

July 13, 1887
Sept. 17, 1887
August 26, 1887. am

|
April 28, 1884 July 11, 1884 .... | Indian
| April 17, 1885.... | White
June 26, 1885.....

January 31, 188
May 29, 1885

se a

Negro

‘ Indian

January 30, 1886 . April 23, 1886 ....) White

“ “ Negro

April 30, 1886 | July 23. 1886 .... |

April 3, 1886......50 0 0 wee i Indian
White

October 30. 1886..." January 14, 187

Negro

July 30. 1887 . Indian

NO. 3.—Continued.

NAME OF MURDERER.

Name of Victim

Crime was

'Nation where’
| i
| Committed.

Date of
Conviction.

Date of |

|
Date Set for |
Sentence,

Execution RACE

Owens D Bilt « .ccceecs = 5 eee oes

Gus Bogles...............

Richard Sr

Viney Hill

' William D Morgan.....

... Thomas W Pringle

Choctaw

Nov. 16, 1887......
May 10, 1888
August 21. 1888..

‘May 26, 1888... .

February 9, 1888 April 27, 1888

July 6, 1888.......

Negro
White

November 2. 1888 January 25. 1889 , Negro

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commiasion to bis brother. 5° we
» Sere ‘ SAMLEC PETERS eow Ss *
was a Choctaw, twenty-eight years of age, five
feet eight inches bigh, aud weighing about 150-
ounde, On the 15th day of October, 1875, Jaince
fanson, who wns engaged ion teuding stock fur
George Downing, left bome in the morning, lear-
tng Wie wife aod child, but afew months old, at
hia bome, ia’ Hiwan Prairie, Choctaw .Nation
‘and wentto Stringtown: by railroad and staid
there antl } o'clock of the day.. From there he
went to Downing’s, and paid bim sume moncy he
had received fur cattle he had sold. Lie arrived
at Duwning's late in the afferioun, and intended:
stayrng Were all night, Lutabout midoicht he was
awakened and informed that ? : 4%
: KIS WIFS NAD BEEN MURDERED. ;
Tle immediately went home, and the first thing he.
| gaw aon entering bis hovee was the body of hig
wife,.whom he had Je({tthat morning in good
“health, Jaid outjon a table cold in death, a victim
of the knife of @ brutal assassin. The first per-
son who entered the bouse after the murder,
about3 o'clock im the’ day, found the body of
Mra. Hanson lying in the miudle of the room on
the fluor in a pool of blood, with hor head tuwards
the dvor, and her baby, four months old, in her
arms. She wag lying op her right auie, her right
arm extended on the floor, the baby lying on her
lef, arm, which was around the baby. who was
crying. Mrs. Hausom waa deadr On exanina-
tion of the house and ite surroundings everything
indicated that the wornan had made
“A DRSPKHATK BTRUGOLB
to suve her ijife. Blood was found spotted all
around the room, and onthe porch wasa large

ool of blood, where she had Jain on the floor,

lood was on the table and ou the cradle, and on
the sides of the cradle were smears of blood.
Blood was on thé bea posts, aud one solid sheet
of blood Iay between the bed and table. Onthe
porch spots of blood were found, as though it had
been slung froma knife. On laying out the body
the wounds\were found to be a large cut just be-
tween thy hive and ribs, on ber left side, several
emall cute oo bdr pack, @ large one on ber
shoulder, two be

' cuTs ow H¥R THROAT, fe
ust through the skin, and acut across the arm.

‘he only reason that Can be given as cause for
the murder is that the prisoner offered to. shake
hands with Hanson, the husband of the mur-
cb woman, ® few days previous, and was re-

use ' :

Atthe execution the prisoner made the follow-
{ng statement: Hanson had aecused me of fteal-
ing a yearling, and of breaking into his corn crib

‘and stealing cord and ineal out of it. I did nos
do the atealing, and was not going to lay under
the biame of it. I weattasee Ilanson. Ho was
not at home, but bia wifo wasthere. I asked her
about it, but she could not anderstand me right.
; BHIE GOT SCAGED
atwhat Iwassaying. Ihbad the door closed and
my back againstit. She came toward the door
and Lshoyed her back. Shecame up-again an
hallooed.. I thea bit her with a knife in the
breast. She turned, and IL struck her again in the
back somewhere. He was asked, Did you kill
her? The prisoner nodded his bead in the afirm-
ative, Hie was asked again, Did you kill her,
Sam? Le answered, Ut killed her,

’ OSKE SANDERS, - ,
another of the unfortupates, was a Cherokee In-
dian, good looking, complexion light for an In-
“dian, well made, twenty-mine years old, and five

feot eleven iuches high. Sandcrs was tried at the
March term of: the United States Court, and con-
victed, and sentenced to be hung on the 2)st day
of April last. Dwo daye priorty the execution,
the. President repricved bim, and the 2d of
June last: fixed as the ony for bie executien,
Again prior to the fatal day he was reprieved,and
the 8th day of Feptember, 1878, set as the day up-
onwhich be was to euffer the penalty of bia
crime. Sanders was convicted of the murder of
Thomas Carlysie, and the principal witness was
his wife, who was prescut at the hilling of the
Dan.

‘ ‘ POINTS IN THB TEATIMONY
are as follows: Carlysie, a white man who had
intermarried with aCherokce woman, lived in the
Indian Country, twelve miles from Tahlequah,

-About dark on the 6th day of August, Carlysle
and his wife were silting on the galiery before the
two houses, when Osee Sanicrs, with a stranger,
rode up t@ the gate. Sanuers, in the Cherokoe
tangusge, said, ‘*Goodefeuing.’’ Carlyale asked
them tocomein. Sanders did the talking at the

ate. Carlysie sent his Kittle bor to open ihe gate,

tbeing fastened on the inaide. The stranger
camein the yard firat, Saunders folluwing, and
rode directly to where Carlysle was sitting. It
eee noticed thas both Sandcrs and the unknown

“4° PISTOLS IN THEIR RANDS.

Thé stranger caught hold of Carlysie and tried
tothrow bim off the gallery. Whilet this was
going’ on, Mrs. Cariysle spoke to Usee Sandtra
and asked him not to do so, Sanders then threw
his pistol over ber face and went to.where Car-
lysle and the stranger were struggling: Drs.
“Carlysle called her children together and rao to
the meadow, about 150 yards from the house, and

bid in the weods and grase, As they were run-

Ae = ot 4 ROME ool,
satened attentively to Righmey, who marty.

Mr. Webster and Fellow-citizena of Ontario
County :-The people have to look ol for my be-
ing Lere tn this place where I stand to-day. You
‘kuow what you bare done. You willhare to bear
in mind that you brought mo to this: You and
Mere, Crendall talued to me, and now I have te
suffer the penalty, and you go free, You know
what lsay is the truth. I forgive you and Sirs.
Craudall. Always thick of Jt. That is alll bave
tosay. Mr. Webster attempted te reply, but the-
Sherif would pot allow bim, ebrkerecsld 9

‘ \

Ras — 33
sy Pocket Picked,
Spegial Dispatch to the Glodbe-Democrat, .

QuiNcr; ILL., September 8.—While boarding a:

train at the depot Igst nicht, a. Mr. Watson, of
Independence, Ka., had his pocxet picked of
$100. He discovered his lgse a moment after it
.oecurred, and at once suspected @ young maa
who had become very thick with bim during the
day. He notified the police and a description of

the man was sent out on al! the roade, and he
was arrested at Ferria with between $500 and $609
of the money still in bis poseession.: He syuecaled,
ane aaid the youth who belpcd him bas the bal-
ance. , , ‘

A Shocking Case. of Infanticide.
Bpeeial Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat,.
GREENFIELD, IND., September 8.—A young
woman named Eliza J. Jackson, living northwest
of this city, gave birth toa child on Wednesday
last, which. she deposited in a potato-hole and
covered it up alive. It remained in this condidon

‘twenty-four bours, and when found was alive,
though it was fy-blown and waggots were work-
ing into ite head andearsa. The child diea this
morning. The mother is in a critical condition,

- A Boy Brutally Killed,
CHICAGO, September 8.—During the parade of
the Hayes and Wheeler procession on the North
Bide, last night, Johm Bothman, a young German”
abouteighteem years old, who had been playing
with bis companions, was knocked down by them

and kicked In the abdomen so terribly that he died
almostinastantly, It ie mot known whether the act
Wus intentional or not, and the perpetrators are
as yet undiscovered. : f

TICKETS!

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Convention of General Ticket Agents ta
New York—Prices of Round Trips to
the Centennial. ‘ Ais Pt

. New Yor, September 8.—At the Convention

of General Ticket Agenta to-day, the following,

introduced by W. B. Shattuc, on the Aviantle
and Great Western Railroad, was referred to @
committee to report to the Convention this after-
noon:- * ;

> RESOLUTIONS. 2 ins
> Whereas, the past bas demonstrated the fact
that rates om the Centennial ticke}s are too bigh;
therefore,

Resolved, That rates on Centennial tickets be
reduced to one full fare to New York and return;
to Philadelobia and return rates shall be $1 leas
than to New York and return; from Detroit, To-
ledo, Cleveland, Crestiing, Columbus or Cincia-
pati, or west or South thereof.
~ Resolved, That no line shall be allowed to sell!
round trip Centennial tickets unless yar! fant

ate in a reduction on @ basis of oue full fare for
the round trip. ‘

ORGANIZATION. ; ;
©. P. Atmore, of the Louisville, Nashville aad
Great Southerm Kallroad, was chosen Chairman
of the Convention, and Samuel Rowell, of the O.,
B,anaQ. BR, R., Becretary.
KMOADS REPRESENTED. ‘

Among the roads represented werd the Peaa-
sylvaoia Central, Erie, baltimore and Obie, Lake,
Shore, Clevemud and Columbus, Atlantie and
Great Western, Chicago and Northwestern, Mil-
waukee and St. Paul, Vandalia, Ohio and Missle-
sippl, Mieseurl, Kansas and Texas, Toledo and
Wabash, Missouri Pacife and Union Pacific,
Many ladies were present at the Cpavention. The
New York Centra) Hailroad was cbt represented,

THB ANNUAL ADDRESS :
was dellvered by 8. F, Pierson, General Agent
ofthe C., CO. and I, Railroad, It reviewed the
growth of railroad interests im this country for
the past fifty years. ‘

Thos. L. Kimball, of the Untom Pacific Rail-
road, was chosen to delirerthe next annual ad-
dress. . : :

To the afternoon session Samuel Stevenson, of
Cincinnatl, was elected member of the Executive
Committee, ia place of Mr. 8t. John, of Chicago,
whoretires by rotatlon. The Cuonveution then
weat into secret session om the resolution regard-
ing the proposed reduction of Centennial round
tip Uckets, : , : ‘

Prov. Wrerev lott Naahville for Raltimore vea-

‘floating in the river opposite St;

Bpeclal Dispatch to the Globe-Def-

| Ohio Valley, rising barometer,

c: PY.
- ALO BI ee
New OxLeans, September &,-
ing the body of Mra. C. Bart
was found Gosting im the lake
end of the protection levee, it
had committed sulcido. ©. *
The body of anunknown wht
composed condition, was foung--.
few yards from the pew shell rf.
cations of foul play, '
A hegro man named Martin wit _
& doorstep of the Custom Mouse k
sulted from fatigue and heat.
The body of a drowoed Ct:

isi

Mitchell Mobonald, colored,
Wasrun over this evening by asf
Gumuy and cut io (wo and instag: &

Train Ditched on the O.

BRaARDSTOWN, «ILL., Septeig.-
Dbeavy rain and thunder aturn}*
locality last night, doing a great
the coro, in many places, ts blo :
aleo washed considerable of the 5

and M. Railway. The freight t&
ran into one of those washo
whole train. This evening the |
clear, and the trains will run os

Buffocated by Gas Whi k™
Bpecial Nispatch tothe Glode-Denfe.

Grand Harips, MicH., 6e\B.
Mary E. Runnels, about efghtc ei
found dead in her room at the #»
this morning. She arrived last g"
Mich., retired early and blew t!Be-*
room being in a distant part of

escaping gas was not discovere&
bermaid came to cleaa the room®
was on her way to Wayland, M.

‘A Fire at Cluctn
Crxcnnuti, September 9.—A &
loe'clock this morning in the +E
tory of L. H. Lyon & Co., Wea} &
building and contents were com &
Losa estimated at $50,000. » *

pene ‘Phe Weatherg.

Wasnrnotow, D. O., Soptem!B
nopals fur the past twenty-foor
ometer continues highest} in Ma

risen thence southeastward ore:

ly winds aad cloudy meant are

orted. The loweat pressure «
ta the Lower Missouri Valley,

With stationary or i temper
cloudy or clear weat sb “s

at Omaha, ;
Probabilitles for Baturday—In &
and Gulf btates, southerly wind &
perature, with partly cloudy
calraina, possibly followed by #
winda in Western Texas, and Up
on the Carolina coast. kor Ve

cool, parsly cloudy weather. F
sissippi and lower Missouri \

ometer, north aod east &
ana Faget | cloudy, follc ks
weather. For the Upper

winds, rising barometer, cuoler®
clearweather. For the LowerB >
to northwest winds, couier, &
cloudy weather and rising bar
Middle and Eastern States, nort BR:
stationary or rising baromet pk

Cloudy or clear weatber. The
and Missouri will continue o&
alighily, :

New Commandant for t!
’ ‘ of the SouttEe
Lovrsvirtm, Ky., Septemt. &
H. Roge? arrived here on Thais) ©
assumed command of the Liy 7
South, relieving Gen. Galucias & .
will eave here to-morrow for #2)
Join his reginient, the 16th Tufls 5.

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Tirvavitee, Pa, Septambe
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The following article was taken from THE COASTLAND TIMES, Manteo, Ne C., date unknown.
MUTINY OFF OBRACOKE ISLAND IN 1793 BROUGHT FIRST DEATH SENTENCE IN U. S. By Aycock Brown.

"*Four Sailors were hanged for mutiny at Ocracoke Island, Ne Ce, in 1793, when the first sentence
of death imposed by a Federal Court in the United States was passed at Bern (New Bern), Ne Ce?

"The foregoing was a newspaper filler a friend of mine had clipped from a Wilmington, De}., new-
paper in 194]. He had sent it to me for publication in the shortlived Ocracoke Island Beacon I
was publishing at the time,

"I began a search for additional data about the incident in the old State and Colonial records
on file in the courthouse at Beaufort, but failed to find anythinge

"In the next edition of the Beacon, referring to the clipping and my fruitless search for additi-
onal data, I wrote: *Perhaps some reader of this island newspaper could help me get facts about
this 'first death sentence' resulting from the mtiny off Ocracoke Islam,!

My appeal for additional data did not go unenoticed and, afew days later, Romulus A, Nunn, widee
ly known jurist and historian of New Bern sent me plenty of facts about the incident. His story
in deta&l was published in the Beacon issue of Dec, 15, 1941. I had planned at the time, due to
its human interest to send this ---- to various Editors, but a War had started, and it was only
a few weeks until I was in it up to my neck, and out of the writing business for four years or
more, The story as Judge Num gave it to me from records he had in his possession follows:

"The first death sentence under authority of the United States was given in 1793 by the Federal
Court at New Zern. 4t was the case of the United States against Maunier and five other mariners
charged with mntiny and murder on the high seas off Ocracoke, They were aboard a ship out of
Charleston, S. C., bound for Bordeaux, France,

"Shortly after passing Tybee Bar, two Frenchmen, two Englishmen, an Irishman and an American con-
Spirsd to murder the master and mate and take the ship to some northern Eurppean port. There
they planned to dispose of the vessel and its cargo, divide the proceeds and escape,

"From an account of one present at the mtimer's trial, presided over by a Mr. Justice —
of the Supreme Court of the United States, it appears thats

"On the ghird day from port, and when the ship was off Ocracoke Inlet, the villans carried into
execution @ part of their horrid plan, The captain's watch upon deck consisted of one Frenchman,
the +rishman, the American and the Maxoman, When his watch was out he retired to his cabin
leaving the tei shman and the American lingering on deck,

"As the mate called his watch, an Ingléshman was set at the halm, the other standing near the

cabin door, A couple of iron bolts were lying on the quarterdeck near at hand. The two French-| ~~

men stationed themselves at the bow where an axe lay against the windlass,

"One of the REHEX Frenchmen, looking over the bow, exclaimed: *Voye' qu'el e'trange poisson.'
(Look! W hat a strange fish3')

"This exclamation attracted the attention of the mates he ran forward and as he looked over the
bow, one of the Erenchmen caught up the axe and s truck him in the back, The blow, not being
instnatly mortal, the mate made a loud outcry. Frenchmen seized and threw him Overboarde cece
The outery of the mate roused the captain, Srpinging from his berth, he rushed upon deck, As he|

left the cabin the Englishman stationed at the door struck him upon the head with an iron bolt,

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