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Double-Cross and Double Death 265

sez Trace and
Tradition says
-ople who had
‘cials to bury
1ese despised
ited, and the
-he execution
the head-sur-
ant men who
two villains,
qains about a
began a new
s Bellegrove

g reward of-
2came of the
“an never be
n ' total
“Aauvunw Of the
uittle Harpe
‘ese expenses
“overnments.
’ shows that
‘ed demands

and bring-

“nt town on the
‘ast of Natchez,
‘ited States took
* wealthiest and
825 the seat of
sreafter the old
has been under
‘tood in what is

‘ver, which was
n, is a thriving
a

ing to justice” these two notorious outlaws. There is
nothing indicating the character of Caston’s claim; nor
is there anything to show whether or not he received
any money. Harpe and May were entitled to the re-
ward offered in Governor Claiborne’s proclamation ;
st doubtless would have been granted to them in full
had they not proven that above all other rewards they
best deserved that which they received on the gallows.
Neither history nor tradition tells what became of
the Mason family after Samuel Mason met his fate and
Little Harpe and James May received their reward.
Samuel Mason’s wife, who evidently did not approve
of her husband’s lawlessness — at least not in her later
years— made her home, as we have already seen, not
far from old Shankstown, in Jefferson County, Missis-
sippi. There, according to Claiborne, the historian, she
was “generally respected as an honest and virtuous wo-
man by all her neighbors, and one of her sons [ probably
Magnus or Samuel Mason Jr.] was a worthy citizen
of Warren County.” Monette says that “the Mason
band being deprived of their leader and two of his most
efficient men, dispersed and fled,” and thus terminated
the greatest terror to travelers which had infested the
country.”

In the meantime, the headless bodies of Little Harpe
and James May continued to lie in their double grave
near the Natchez Trace. As time rolled on the narrow
Trace widened and, as roads frequently do, it wore
deeper into the slight elevation over which it led.
About the year 1850 this widening and deepening pro-
cess reached the fleshless bones in the solitary grave, and

84 What became of Mason’s men is not known. A frontier rowdy named
Edward Rose is described in Washington Irving’s Astoria. Lyman C. Draper
wrote on the fly-leaf of his copy of this book that “Rose was probably one of

Mason’s gang.”

266 Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock

the two skeletons, protruding piece by piece from the
road bank, were dragged out by dogs and other beasts
until the highway widened beyond the grave and the
burial site became part of the ditch along the Natchez
Trace.

Some twenty years 480, upon straightening out a part
of the Natchez Trace, the small section of the old road
of which the burial place was a part, was discarded as
a highway, and today the old road bed, including the
site of the grave, is a mere jungle of briars and brush.

Thus the last vestige of these two villains disappeared
on the very highway upon which they had committed
so many crimes, and possibly on the very spot where
one of their victims breathed his last. The ocean of
time has closed over every one of the personal relics of
all these enemies of society, but the waves that their
activities started still Carry on as ripples of human
interest.

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fae 272 Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock

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| ' driven out of the South and settled in Logan County

i about 1782. A few years later “his thirst for counter-

feiting again returned.” But “feeling insecure” Alston
moved from place to place in western Kentucky.
“About 1790 he crossed over the Ohio and became the
fast friend and disciple of the notorious counterfeiter
Sturdevant [ Duff?] at the Cave-in-the-Rock. But he
did not reside here long before he came to himself and
wondered how he, the gentlemanly Philip Alston,
although an elegant counterfeiter, could have become
the companion of outlaws, robbers, and murderers . . ‘
and so he returned to Natchez.” ®

5° Finley says Philip Alston was born in South Carolina and in early man-
hood became “a full grown counterfeiter.” After living in Natchez and
“attaining to the highest respectability ... his avaricious eye rested on a
golden image of the Savior, in the Catholic Church, .. . and he went im-
mediately and counterfeited some coins from it.” He fled from Natchez to
Kentucky and settled in Logan County, where he established a salt works and
store at Moat’s Lick. While running these he managed the Cedar House, a
tavern near Russellville. He also farmed, preached, and taught school, and
incidentally “flooded the country with spurious money.” Thus he became,
“not only the first farmer, manufacturer, and merchant, but he established
the first depot of exchange and the first bank, and also the first mint in
western Kentucky.” About 1788, “the whole people rose up in their majesty
and banished him.” He next appeared in Livingston and Henderson counties
and then fled to Cave-in-Rock. After a short stay at the Cave he returned
to Natchez where “he found his old enemies, who became his fast friends.
He rose in the estimation of the Spaniards until he was appointed an empre-
sidio of Mexico, when in the midst of his success and returning fortune death
stepped in and sealed his fate.”

Finley, who never cites authorities, states that “Peter Alston, Philip
Alston’s youngest son, became an outlaw and robber, and joined Mason’s
band at Cave-in-the-Rock and was allied to the Harpes, and with one of the
Harpes was executed at Washington, Mississippi . . . for the killing of his
chief, Mason, for the reward.” No records have been found that contradict
any of Finley’s statements, except the one to the effect that Peter Alston
killed Samuel Mason, 7

Nancy Huston Banks in her novel *Round Anvil Rock presents Philip
Alston as a kind but mysterious gentleman who, although generally trusted
by the community, is regarded by some with suspicion because of his frequent
absences and ever-replenished supply of imported cloth, laces, and jewelry.
In the novel Alston refers to Jean Lafitte as “my resepected and trusted
friend,” and admits that he, Alston, makes business trips to Duff's Fort, near

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New York Spectator 8-Al- 18 i$ 2:2

States that a man named George Harmen
was executed at Natchez Miss. on 1-16-18

for slave stealing.

Quoting undated issuc of Natchez Gazette

Paes o

HOLLOWAY, Cleveland, blacks.

fried to the Sheriff's office where a!

_ {also present.

Bie sired, but prayed and chanted instead,
“This last words being, “Lord forgive
= | them, for they know not what they are

_|charge, administered pes
“| few minutes later he walked unas- jl...

| 4:56 Dr. Tyrone Pronounced him dead.

: church at Bassfiel

{hanging ever to take place in this}. .
-} county.

» Mississipp3 10.
hanged -at’ Prentiss . Mississippi, on January 29, 194

4, 1940

Cleveland Holloway
Executed lor Murder

Cleveland Holloway, negro, convic
ed of the slaying of Fred Magee in a
cafe brawl arising from an argument
over 25 cents, paid the supreme pen-
a alty for his crime here Monday at
4:52 A. M. on the gallows constructed

behind the court house for this pur-
pose, ‘| 23

Holloway was brought from the |}
“| Hattiesburg jail at 4 A. M. and ear-!

brief prayer Service was held, con-!].
ducted by Rev. Herman Magee, pastor '
fof the Magee Presbyterian church, and

son of Sheriff Gwinn Magee. Rey. |
Horton, Baptist minister of Columbia, |
and Raverends W. L. Hoicomb and |
Solon Walker, local ministers, were

The condemned negro was Biven an fe ee oe
opportunity to say whatsoever he de-'

: doing.” When asked if he wanted

a stimulant of any kind, he said he
needed something to clear his throat.
He was given Several cups of coffee,
and Dr. N. O. Tyrone, physician in

an opiate, and

sisted to the gallows, :

District Attorney Sebe Dale read}...
the death warrant and adjusted the} ~

black hood over the doomed negro’s
head and the rope around his neck, and
as Mr. Dale said “Goodbye Cleveland”
Sheriff Gwinn Magee Sprung the trap,
time 4:52. The body lunged through
the floor without human sound, and at.

The body was clai

med by relatives
and carried to th

€ colored Baptist ses
d for funeral ser-|"*”

So far as we know this is the first}:

A trap was built into}.

fy the old jail and stayed there

and "

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THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
MARSHALL COUNTY,

of the Circuit Court thereof, in the name and by the authority of the State of Mississippi, on their oath

present that.

, in said county

vad. then. end. there.wi fully, unlawfully, violently,..tore1bly,eloni ously,

on, take, steal, rob.and carry. awa

there of the.said. Johnnie Brunson.the.

Sum..of. Sixty. dollars-($60.00)..i8-good.-and--lawful-money-of-the-Und eden...

*ousiy..Put ting. the.said Johnnie. Brunson in.fear.of.sone immediate danger.

certain fire-arms,
and..violent.exhibition.of/deadly

Against the peace and dignity of the State of Mississippi.

ah dt LeAd Z

ern > y -
District Attorney

SMATE OF MISSISSIPPI
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To the Honorable the Circuit

Court,

of. Mars hall

County—Greetings:

WHEREAS, on eo of. February : 9-46, the same being a day of

the regular term of our SUPREME COURT, begun and held in the Court room, in the Gkwiecl in the City of Jackson, in

said State, on the— Second Monday of. Sep tember , in the year of our Lord, 19 43 the following

SDR IS SRS SER TT EB 0 tw SST Tet SEB tee TE EES Ot ae ee

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Final Judgment was rendered by our SUPREME COURT, to-wit:

Ter ee ee,

Charlie followay

No.28 075

piste

Tids cause having been submitted at a former day of this term on the
| record herein from the Circuit Court of Marshall County and this court
having esau: examined and considered the same and being of the
“opinion that there is no error therein doth order and adjudge that the
judgment of said Circuit Court rendered in this cause at the August 1945 |
i Term be and the same is hereby affirmed, It is further ordered and ad-
_ judged that the appellant, Charlie Holloway, for such his crime of robbery
with fire-arms be safely kept in the County Jail of Marshall County until |
Thursday, April 4th, 1946 and on that date within the County Jail of
Marshall County or at such other convenient place as the Board of Super~
Visors of Marshall County may designate, he, the said Charlie followey,
be by the duly and legally constituted authorities for that purpose,

‘electrocuted, in the manner and form as prescribed by statute, by caus-

ing to pass through the body of the said —— ee & current or
intensi
currents of electricity of such sufficient As to cause his death. It is i

ifurther ordered and adjudged that the County of Marshall do pay the costs
of this appeal to be taxed, etc,

’

YOU ARE THEREFORE HEREBY COMMANDED, That such execution and further proceedings be had in said cause, as

according to right and justice, and the judgment of our SUPREME COURT and the law of the land « ought to be had

WITNESS, the Hon... bY rdney Smith

Chief Justice of our Supreme Court; also the signature of the Clerk and

the Seal of said Court hereunto affixed, at office, at Jackson, this the

25th aay of March

TLE STAT OF MIeetser PPT
9°
MARSHALL COUNTY

Mls SP 3 a Se

We, the uncersicned R. Lawrence Tucker, Sheriff orf Marshall
County, “ississippi, dul elected, qualified, co;missioned and
acting, and Jack Jones, his deputy sheriff, and Dr Jack “, Nouns,
a regularly licensed physician and Health Officer of said County,
present at the execution of One Charlie Holloway, make and sign
this certificate pursuent to the provisions of Section 2552 of the
itississippi Code of 1942 ana hereby certify that the said Charlie
Holloway was, ror such his crime of robbery with fire-arms, executed
within the walls of the Court House of said County at Iolly Springs,
Mississippi at O'clock Me, on tho 4th day of April, 1946,
and that said charTTe Holloway was then ena there executed in con-
formity with his prior conviction and Sentence in the Circuit Court
of said County and in conformity with the final jJudement of the
.»., Supreme Court of said State in Cause No. 36 O75, entered and render-
~~ -@d on the llth day of February, 1946, the same being a day of the
récular term of said Supreme Court begun and held in the Court Room
in the Capitol in the Clty of Jackson, Mississippi on the 2nd lMon-
‘day of September, 1945, and the mandate of Said Supreme Court in
. Said Cause dated March 15, 1946 to and on file in said Circuit Court,
and said Charlie Holloway was then and there electrocuted by the auly
“2nd legally constituted i that purpose, in the manner
o"< weseribed by statute, bs ~ Ss through the body of saia
‘igharlie Holloway curre ° @lectricity of sufficient
intensity to cause death, all in conformity with the said sentence
of said Court, the Board of Supervisors of said County having there-
_,tofore, by order duly and regularly adopted and Spread upon its officia
go Minutes at its Reeular April 1946 Meeting, desicnated said Court House
Napies, OF ‘aeid County as the place of said execution,

Pan —

Bre,

A Ae The signatures of the other public officers and persons who
ogous: Witnessed said execution are hereunto affixed, and they join in certi-
. fying the above facts.

Done at the City of Holly Springs, liiss., this 4th day of

April, 1946,

sheriff of Marshall County, iiiss.

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Deputy Sheriff Marshall "County, iiss.

RA Gtant~ Meo
Physician and—~Gount= pe OPE

‘at eee Q
Sirnatures of other ESe hi a a a
nublic officers and pe r= i
“er, .itnessing execution: Li, ? TL,

KE foe.

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SINDAY VISITS. SRO

Dramatic Scene Enacted in
Death Cell as Evangelist
Brings Comfort to Con-

demned Pair
Gee”

One of the most solemn and
dramatic scenes that has been wit.
nessed by anyone in the precincts
of. Hinds county jail was thut en.
acted Thursday afternsoa, Tivectty
following the Close of the Billy
Sunday revival service ia the near.
by ofty auditorranc | ‘ttre
sreat evangellst had been convery-
ing with Governor Whitteld, who
wus on the platform at the revival
Service, and had Dimaded with Afr.
Sunday, to stop in atthe jal) and

Accompansing Rev. “Billy” wag
Rev. H. M. King, pastor of the se.
cond Baptist Church, who found on
arrival ot, the -condemned = ceil
Sheri win Wella, Jaslor Wii
Kucker, Attorney Stuare Cc
Broome, and a Tepresentative of
the Daily News, none of whom
were aware of the Tizit of the two
ministers, ‘
Sherift Wells, as nost, escorted
Mr. Sunday ard barty within the
Steel protective enclosure that sur.
rounds and Isolates the narrow
cage in which the two JUUNK New

Oc8 Were confined, and Pretty
shortly Sir- per lili i ed
an earnest conversation: with the
{wo young Regroes, who were 80;
Fhottly to see the Hehe of their
last day on earth oollterated by the
coming of their lase Night. Pur.
ting bis face close to the inter.
Stices between the steel barn. the

evangelist addresacd each of the
two, by their given hames,

Freas Geverner.

you and pray for seu, because
Governor Whitseld * asked me to
You don't know haw sorry he was
When he taid me that he cowd not |
-2ee his war to stand tn the way of |
carrying ou @ SeneNSs or et
court.” The - ars —werg Tuning |
owt his eyes, “and = his voloe

{J ewe 2. want=. you-~ig: telf mes

anythti
your mind thar Ought to be made
Known you Ought to come out with

(EBOWN YOU OUGht to come our wii

; , ith a!

t ‘Dont go to your fate w |
lie on your lips, but confess and

show God that yoy repent of the

was not a. break nor a
emer in the solce of either of
the two to whom the words of re
pea) and ‘promise were addresse .
Eddie Lee, who seemed the oe
Oulzpoken of the two, ee
to Sir. Sunday's impreasive pebdeaene
by declaring that he wan all ready

not
7and prepared to go, and was
afraid to dite. He spoke in a nape
lrather subdued voice, the sound ne
which was not audible two fee
rom Bis @ ; Si
vlared Th a clearer tone: “! eae
1 sure hope to mee \
use I's goin ome,
ated a moment of allent medi-
tation, Mr, Sunday lifted up big
voice, and prayed, softiy, earnest-
ly for the true conversion of -the,
400 YOURE. Ragroes,_—wahila. otders |

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supplication as so sofily uttered
Twere ended. ms so
A Pathetic Parting.
Then, “Well; goudbye Lester and
eadle. 1 willl be eet eee for you.
d tomorrow morning, and
tonight an oper pont

7 be ad

Other slée,° Mr. Sunday,” sai
wauie Lee. as Billy Sunday repiaced
‘} is bat and withdrew. ‘ :
From that cagu the evangelis

4803.

r trial’ growing out of the
elece and robbery of- dirs. Nellie
Mardis, at. Smuith” Stutten: There
he spoke to the four prisonera and

at they would yct come clear
as the ayful> charge that bangs

“1 aurely hope to meet you on|

{mounted the stairs to the, big ‘cell:
ek. oo ere nd tor ans

over them. -

HURD, Lester, and LEE, i. epiacks,

} hanged a at Jackson, Miss.,,
January 30, 192 5,

=" TRE AND HURD HANGED —

FOR KILLING MARSHAL
HURD MAXES CONFESSION

as They Go To Their Doom—Pistol and Razor
Blades Found After Hurd Tells Story

Deciaring that he was “gullty as
charged, guilty as charged,” Lester
Hurd, who {sliowed Eddla Lee, alias
T.of(ten, to the gallows at the: Hinds
county jail Friday morning, sald he
ftred the fatai shots which killed
Oille Lancaster, Bolton marshal

Lee, in bis final statement, sa'd
he was there but had nothing to do

{th the shooting other than by
just being {tn company with IHfurd.
When this statement wae made as

T.co stool on the threshold of
-aternity Hurd called from the death
cell, “Tell the truth, Eddie, Ml} soon
meet you on the other side.”

About 19 o'clock a group of min-
tsters, physicians, officers, under-
takers and newspaper men entered
the jal), At 10:18 o'clock Lee wus
Jed out of his cell by Deputy Sheriff
WHI Sandel. It was evident that
the condemned men hail planned who
should go first, for when Mr. Sanitel
entered the cell Leo stepped forward
anid Wurd crouched in a corner evi-
“denily praying.

Outward signs of nervousness were
‘pbsaent. Never a muscle flinched as
the black walked to the trap through
which he was doomed to plunge to
hia death In a few minutes. After
mumbling a more or lesa incoharent
words about the crime for which he
pald the supreme penalty, Lee turned
to Sheriff W.S. Wella “I want to tell
you goodbye sheriff," he said ax the
_officer who was to apring the trap
grasped his hand tin farewell. Rev.

“A. Thornton, negro minister, de-
livered a prayer while Lee ralsed his

eyes heavenward, “Tell, Mr. John
Siremons I will meet Bim on the
other side,” xsaid Lee. “I wish he
was here so I could shake his hand.”

Thea negro expressed his feeling
that he bore no malice toward any.-
one and hoped to meet them all fn
heaven. As the noose waa adjusted
over his head by Jaller Will Rucker.
the sheriff unlocking the trigger
sald, “May the Lord have marcy on
your soul, Eddie.”

~ “Thank you,” he replled ind
plunged into the tpacé between tha
second and third floor of the Jail.

Never has the sheriff been mors
- m than then. Under the circum.

cea it might be expected that
sa would have been extremely ner-
vous. He performed his duty as an
officer, well.
- When the trap sprung under Lee

* “a faint chanting song could be heard

from the death cell, All was quiet
except for the song which grew
in volume until the clear tenor could
ede distinctly heard all over the house

. and far down the street outside. The

singing siopped suddenly as Hurd

: Jreécognized his sweetheart in
the jail yard, “Goodbye Belie, Dll.

meet you over there.” he yelled.
“I ara sending you some picturés hy

—

Reverend Thornton.” he said and,
then, }
“Ceming hame. Coming hame, t
Never more t roam. {

Naw T lay my armour dawn,

Lord, Im coming heme.”

The fast words of tho song art tte
ed into a chant again and with the
exception of a few whispers among
those present to keep their spirits
up, no sound could be heard through
the jal.

In 13 minutes after the tran was
sprongs Irs, W. oS. Hamiltan and
N. oR. Curry pronounced Lee dear.
His hody was taken down to the
first floor where an X-ray machine
had been set up fer the purpore
of taking pieturcs of his neck (for
sefentifie research.

Murd Confesses

Following a brief interval tn
which the necessary arrancemcnis)
wera mada on the trap door and the}
repe put tn place, Hurd was ted to}
his fate. He aleo uppeared caim
theugh slight!y mere nerveus than
tee. :
“Hurd, in a few nilmutes you with!
be with your maner. Would Seon ttke
to maka a statement? Wa want son:
to come perfectly clean,’ sats There |
ton. !
“Um eniltw as charged, guilty as,
charced,” he declared. "Lo shot at}!

him six timag with a .28 Colts”
Tntil that moment both negoees
had denied any part tn the shoot.
ing and tha cenfession trough? sev-
eral questions fram the officers :
“You will find the pistol in the newe:
erage at the ecsty jail’ sald bare. :
“C took Jf into the jail with me, htt:
We got it from the bey we robdtet}
at Edwards that night.” :
An officer asked {ff thera were nee |
t
‘

three c€ tha party to the shooting
to which Hurd answwedt “Te, sun.
Sho’, Ae ta whe the thint party,
wae he declined to state.

“LT wieh foe you to take this beelk
out of my pocket and send {tf to
Helte.’ he sxart to the preacher,

‘And I wish yeu to take this houk. a
he indicated ancther pocket, “and
read what {f eas where the match
has it marked" The second hook
was a testainent ant Hurds favor.
tte scripture wasn read. Ile seemed
to get great solace from the worils,
“Whoseever bellaveth on the Lord
Jesus Christ ehall bef savecl.” The
negro Jooked un and oo murmeresdt
“Amen”

The aherif? atarted to adjust the
black cap over his face and he salt,
“Just a minute sheriff before you
put the cap on I want to ray aome-
thing more.” The aheriff datayed the
action. “I fuee want ta say T have
no hard feelnges for yeroor anyone
present ard 1 hepe to meet yeu all!
on the other alde.”’

Aa the cap was being adjusted anit
the nouse put into position, Mard
atarted singing aKain, ,

“Lam coming home to Jesus,

as QS — Léde MY, es
Saeko me fl tidied

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History of Crime |
~ For Which Pair—+

Paid With-Lives

Bolton Marshal Killed,
Deputy Wounded as Lee,
Hurd Fire From Dark

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Rv the hand of the law Leater
Hurd. awed 27 yearn and Eddie Lee,
‘ull a Betdle re Loftan, asiightly
young. Wata AQrtntsterey the
punishment * ¢ their crime, of
ashich they stood voavicted, That
‘w4R M rere the Hte #f diliiel
lancaster, 2 Well-known citezen o¢
Hinds ‘county and who waa at the
time of Kis death towg marshal of
J olton,

This occurred on the ight of
Decamber 21, 1923, when Cherrhel
Lancaster, and Deputy Sherif¢ Joha
Moore remnined in walting at the
Mekon denoat, after adviers from
Edwacrda that (Wo negroes were on
the . ppraaching freight train, who
wete wanted far rol-Lery in that
town When the tra:a slowed up
the officers divided oo a8 (to watch
‘the train from beth sides. Evidently
the egenpers were Prapareg to
‘fiehl, as wae Indicated by the
readiness with which they opened
fires Aw soon ar they saw the offi-
cers stalaing thern.

As a reault of the testitade that
fellewed. Lancaxter fell) mortally
wounded, dying shortly afterwards,
While one man, a resident of the

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jnined the party, ‘waa WoUndet per
alerwards Foeceovered, Hurd and
lee made their escape during the
reoftusion that followed the fall of
(Re town marshal. but a hurry up
Miessawe to Sherit¢e Louis Willlams
Teaulled In rounding up a posse of
<.ery officer available. and a wire
t) tant, the blood hound specialist
at Crystal Springs, eho hurried to
Jackson and was carried to Bolton
the same night, ef early the fol-
lowlnw morning, which was Chertet~ |
trea day,

Hurd was captured, after being
truced hy the hounds to his kiding }.
Dlave, but Lee had ‘separated tront-
him and mad kis way to Jackson
without loaving any scent for the |
hounds to”

“ <T~srvrerad- days, - .
étentually discovered by pe

tee

iwithmanding his Lroteste of fane-
,CeBes and-an a! Cged_alibi, surri--
clent evidence wae fou tirtustizy?
jhotding-him 3 the td “fury. ;

et: 4

When the circuit court oorvered
at Raymond, in February, the two
were indicted by the grand jury
And tried at the same term, They |
pwere defenice by teawvers e Bled |
by the court, tried separately, y
| different Juries, and each was con-
vieted cf murder as charmed. The!
death sentence was the only course:
left to the circuit judge. Hon.
j Wylie -HocPetter, which was duly
Tproneunced Appeals in both cases
‘fvllowed, wtsh the result ghat the
j criminal court history of Hinds
fevunty wall enrry as the ontstand-'
Jing Jegal event of this day.

Ie ix said ef Nessre George Teat

B02 es 8 se ee Tees

pen the Jo0n). Bae evan reward-
“ed with Jafee counsel fees, have

werked niwre dillgently and
fearnestly fur the benefit of their
‘Jelients! Miah these rentlemen~trre:

dene threughuut their connection
with this unfortunate and tragic

Care,

BHR

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Yuzor blades were found directly

! am comlog home—"
The trap had eprung and all was

at{th,
In 18 minutes after the drop Hurd

wan taken down and his neck &-
rayed.

Hundreds of peonte had gatherel: :

around the fail and ae sven As the?

witnesses of the hancing heean ted!

file out the crowds nutside dispersed, f

- * o

Following the exeention humtreds |

of negrees and a fow curfous white |
peopla went ta the Kariath street
funeral home where the bodies were.

inken,

ne Crime

On Yecember 24 1923. Marahaly
Oite Lancaster and Deputy Sherif?!
John Moore got word tne Gyttea thaty
three nexrees were head taward |
that town fram iwarstla after Having |
robbed another negro. Tha officeds!
walted When the train camo inte!

fire. Mr. Tancaster fel) mortally
wounded and Mr. sfoorea was ‘also
wounded, not before the negroes had |
hoth ‘been wounded, however. Lee
wan shot throuch the right foot and
Hurd had hie lew broken by a bul-
let. Lee escaped for the time be-
Ing and came to Jackson but Hurd
was too aneverely wounded to make
good his escape He was taken In
a thicket near the scene of the
tragedy. TBloodhounds trailed Hurd
to his hiding place on Christmas
day. -

The negroes were brought to the
city jail’ in Jackson, later to be
removed to the Raymond fail and
after conviction to the county jail
lere. Their case had been before
the courta for the past 14 months,
no stone having been lefe unturned
by thelr attorneys for staying the
execution, but to no avail. (the evt-
dence was too incriminating.

YIND REVOLVER

Rasor Blades Found Under Murd’s
Dead Body

A search of the city jal! following
Hurd's confession on the gallows
by Chief John Simmons and Offtleer
Jeasio Wall revealed tho revolver
the negro spoko of loaded with aix
28 calibre bullets. One revolver
was taken when Hurd was arrested:
hut he succecded In keeping one. He-
had not acen (he gun In about 14
months,

When Hurd dreppet through the
trap Friday and after hie heart
action had ceased two rusty safety

under hia hody.

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Gas & Water
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EXECUTION OP GREEN H

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~ At an early hour yesterday morn-
ing all the thoroughfares leading to the
city were thronged with people com.
ing to witneas the execution of Green
Henry. Many were on foot aod had!
walked as faran twenty’ miles. The
crowd in town was tarlously estima
ted. at from two totbree thousand.

The prisoner had been urtehackled
ateight o'clock in the morning, and
shaved and dressed in white pants ani
shirt. He seemed perfectly resigned
to his awful fate. At eleven o'clock
the Sheriff proceeded to the jail with
his Deputies, and, ascending the stairs
brought down the prisoner to the scat
fold In the rear of the jail, clad in his
dark death muoizle. Dr, J. F. Bouldin
lead ion a hymn, which was joined in by
many of the assemblage, after which
he offered up an éluquent prayer in
behalf of the condemned. Rev. Mr.
Harvison then preached a short and
very appropriate -sermon, abounding
in Words uf codsolaiion and hopp for
the doumed inan. Ip response to ques
tions propounded by “Dr. Bouldin be
said his faith in the saving grace ol
the Savivar, was unshaken, and he re
lied iwpheitly upon iw. The Bheri
themreal the ’

* DEATA WARRANT :

and asked the prisouer it’ he had ass
thing to way before the sentence of the
law was execiterdl upon hin. We Step)

ped forward * upon the trap, immedi.

rately undernéach the gallows, end in a
‘clear and etcatiy voice addressed. the
‘multitude. Ie suid he was ready to
die. -He had) made up his mind that
he must die, and set abont making his
‘peace with God. «He believed he had
full pardon, and rejuiced-in the Bweet

peace it gave him, . ie

Heé protested that his shooting of
‘the juilor, in the atteinpt to esvane last
winter. was sovidental—which, we he.
livve, is now generally Boncedail to Ve
true, He then with scarcely a trengor
in bis: voice | a oe

__ BADE WIS FRIENDs Goop BYE.
shaking bands with thove upon the
sciiffold. He place bis-hunds sbehind
him to be tied; thie being dune his feet
were also ticd, the rope Wus pul. aro
his neck, the black cap over his face,
Lhe trigger was sprong, ant the eb! prit

DROPPED THREE AND ONE-HALF FEET
when, to the horror ot all, the -Kulut,
which th: Sberiff had Erocured a jjro-
| lessionai to tic, clipped, and he felt wo
{the grouna Me was placed-upon “the
svaifold immediately, veing perfectly
conscious, and, indeed, ? pot. beriously
hurt, and while another knot was. be’
ing tied; drank soms water and talked.

At this moment caine. By. ‘on
DISPATCH FROM dev. AMES,

in response toa petition for cummuta
tion which had been sent itr the THorn-
ing... The Governor \
SS DECLINED To INTERFERE

and Green Henry was again placed
under the galluws and the rope adjust.
ed. He gave'directions tothe Sheriff
to “be catain and have “everything
right thif time.” Again the trap was
sprung and with a fall-of four feet his
neck was brcken and he died without
&@ struggle, ae

After hanging fiftcen minutes Doc.
tors R. E. Lanier and P. J. Maxwell
Pronounced him dead, and he was
placed in bis coffin and delivered to his
relatives to be buried at Tabernacle
Churchyard twelve miles East of Co

’

lunibus, beside his mother, in obedi.

ence to bis last request. .

THE COLUMBUS PRESS,
Columbus, Mississippi,
July 31, 1875,

page 3, column 3

GREEN Henry ‘wus executed on
Friday, July 30, at Columbus, Miss.,
% . “y ay.
for the murder of!Sleg Wilson.

Ne er Re A nee A eee

pon 1

Nore Corree# Date

plantations or rather on the edge
of it, the middle being somewhat

elevated, and the plantations on
/ the edges and extending in. There

is considerable difference in the
soil of some of these prairies, and
some in all, and a good deal of in-
ferior land in the County, more
than a stranger who had only
heard of it would suppose. From
Macon three miles to Geo. B.
Augustus’ on Horse Hunter Creek.
(The vacant house still stands on
the Martin Conrad Ranch, four
miles North of Macon and West of
Highway 45).

shouting, and o’her religious
exercises. I became tired of the
meeting and went to Lowndes
County with John Shuler. After
about 10 miles we stopped and
dined at Mr. Randall’s and ac-
companied Miss Mary Randall
and Miss Elizabeth Brown of
Columbus to Mr. Tesse Smith’s,
then to Mr. Lawrence’s. From
Mr. Lawrence’s I proceeded to
Jas. Platt’s and then on to Mr. Ar-
temas Jenning’s, about six miles
S. E. of Mr. Lawrence’s.

Sunday September the 10th,
1843. Very hot. Went to Aunt

lamuy, but never Knew its extent
until about to leave them. I freely
own the tears flowed more plen-
tifully than for years. Went to T.
H. Dixons and remained until
Thursday evening.

Thursday October the 12th,
1843. I came to Aunt Gavin’s on
Friday the 6th, and left today.
Gabriel Gavin went with me to
Pickensville, six miles. Pickens-
ville is a small place with a hotel,
two blacksmith shops, and three
or four stores, and is situated on
the East side of the Tombigbee
River, 25 miles below Columbus.

The Last Public Execution In Noxubee County

Si Connor, colored, who lived
on the farm of Henry Patty in the
Cliftonville area, was indicted in
the August term of Circuit Court
of 1907 for the murder of his wife.
The file containing the record of
the case cannot be found in the of-
fice of the Circuit Court Clerk of
Noxubee County, but the report

handed down was that Si Conner
became so enraged at his wife
about the last of July, 1907 that he
took an axe and cut her head from
her body. He was placed in jail,
and on Aug. 15, 1907 was indicted
for the murder, and ordered to
stand trial. (Criminal Court
Record, Book 1, p. 28.)

He was tried on Aug. 16, 1907.
Book O, p. 292 Minutes read, ‘‘The
jury of J. B. Poindexter and 11
others, after having heard the
evidence, the argument of coun-
sel, and received the instruction
of the court, retired to consider
the verdict, and found the defen-
dant guilty as charged.’’ Jury No.

LO6T £1zZ tequeydes
Sst Suooep ye Jepanm 20g posuey fyoeTq “Tg ‘RUNUH

+
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+ UOW RS Was ytunaable.
{3 : wis Clin.
The crime jog which Dick Mudsoa dicd
| asthe killing of Mr Jno. W. Clark, ut
| the Gone fuller of Ynz00 county, on Mon-
; day, March 23), 1886. Hudson was con-
; fined In the Jaif.at the Ume for the murder
Of arsusterbont enthe Lake Washing-
, 200 Jan. toch, ube killlug In both In-
, stances being done with a billct of wood.
Hudson, with Tom Palne couilned for
, murder, ang Bul Harsis for burgiary,
cencocted a plan to escape and were In
tse Yard wher Mr, Clark starled after
Dick who wus eadeavoring to climb the
Jail fence. Although Dick had a pistol Io
his hand Mr. Clark endeavored te arrest
| tioa but Dick picking up a billet of wood
from the wooplle near by, struck bin on
the Lead and Inflicted wounds from which
he died. Dick was Indicted at the May
term of Curt for both murders, but tried
for that of Mr. Clark, and although ably
delended by Messrs. R. 3. Holt, and
J. BE. Everett:'was convicted and
‘sentenced to be bung, He has
"been very quiet In the jailand speut much
of his time praying an@ reading bis Bible.
He fasted last Sunday and agaln ‘Tuesday
the day before nis execution. Harris was
convicted of burglary and Tom Palue per*
mitted to plead guilty of manslaughter,
for tha offenve of which be wus charged.
RM Lurk
The following {s a sketch of bis past
life, written by himself while In jal}, In hig
own handwriting. It ls written in the
style In which megroos who have just
learned to write generally use, and Is
bot corrected except as to spelling ;
R.D. Hudson, born Ottawa, JI, 1865,
aged 21, recidénce Boffalo, M. Y,.. The
son of R. Hodson, mother, Emma Hud
son, sistcra, Mary J. Hudson, Lebanon
Jolla Hucsoh, Ottawa, Lt, Lile Hudson,
Balle ‘Hadson, brothers, Heary Hudson,
. Harry Radeon, Riley Hadson, * residence
/Bumilo,N, Yor .
| B.D, Hudson, tbhe~ Burglar ot Buffalo,

4
i al ry
corp bo

~ Hele bm

P pot what f waated, but Lcould “wOob get

out until late that alee, Io had ‘to burst

through (be window, Got away safely.
BUG YORT CHage, ‘

Golng through a man, the rmount xet-
Ung $11 aod a watch, He pot onto me
and put the copa on (o me they give me.
For awhlle ther pushed me £0 close J
had tocrnck down on them. ‘tat gave
me some eliow to pet way. One of my
rbots tovk evfeet on htm and pus him te
elecp. [ (ben Lad all the city after me,
they gave men hard ight. Got away
safely.

FUCCESSYUL B8TKALING WaQON LOaD OF

YRUIT,
Myself and Boston Charley In the city of
St. Louls. We had sold out und all when
he got his wagon and team, ‘hey came
to about $18 We gaye him a round.
Got off safely.
BREAKING & HOUSE SUCCESSFULLY.

We went In when they were eating din-
ner, We bad been working for a good
While to go In to rob It, but ‘we could not
get the chance. I go and get in the war-
drobe until night. My partner was on
the outside. About 12 o'clock that night
[ searched the Louse all over, I madea
g00d ralse too, I got all the fewelry and
money I could find, nnd there was no ove
hurt, bat { was sorry for the lady for she
had no jewelry to wear and no money to
spend, I sce it in the paper the next day,
I was sorry of course,

Robbing uw man la Tennessee. My age
14 years, [got no money but J got bis
ring. 1 wne pleased at it, he asked ne
not to teke ft from him. Now that was
the first ma ever I had robbed that way’
Itold bimto give me hie money else I
would Kill Lim. He teld me he bad
nothIng but’a ring, £ took itrnd tet bim
xe, l got away all right. . a8
STEALING A MAN'S BHORS OFF His FrKT,

One night It was very cold and I want-
ela pale of shoes very bad a0] puil bis
off. He wae in a livery stable asleep, I

and Ukt good aight. I wa eorry” tor toe

then“ travelled | ning |

ne Ne Vn

en Teatetied | ning end thew gox out
well Cheage [e423 37" none
And | Egat kway we

% a "hb
aay) oe eee on ¥ a

are i - bag we
Mrs. Q. J. Burros in the loss of
(heir irfant child, Phil, who died .
on the Lakeland place in Holmes| f)
couoty, Wedocaday morning, He
was barried In the Yazoo City
cemetery yesterday,

Mr. Bryau Clarg, of Flora, came
over Monday with (be Gardoer
Povey, intending ta ride him ip
the race, but he wa3 taken sick
aod compelled to return Wedgie :
day evening. is

Mr. J. E. Porter. one of the
handsomest and moat popular of
(be commercial tuuria(s that viait
our State wasin town yesterday,

ra ae

Dr. J. P. Moore was sammoncd
Saturday to atteud Mrs. Dr. B. T.
Edwardsin Vicksbarg, who was
quite ill, remaining antil Tuesday.

Mr. 0. W. Gibson has arranged i
to erect a@ dwelling house which
will be patup by Mr. L. Antram
io the near fatare,

gen cleing

Judge R. 8 Hudson left op
Wednesday to visit his sole sar.
viving brother, Mr. Lemuel Hud.
60n, in Terry, Mise,

The railroad extension is being
poshed rapidly and excellent work
has been done, ‘Leo ‘miles bave
been completed. !

Ot se
. Miss Pattie Battaile left yewter:
day to visit relatives In Birming-

ham, Ala, Mra, Richards reture-
ed with ber, ; . ;

Mr, Frank Hamel is‘at.bome for |:
the vacatioh, from Sti) Stanislaus |.
college at Bay Sf, Louls. ae :
aad Po ee re oy a .
notte. Je O. Bdwards, ‘of Silver
Creek, with ber childrens, fa on ‘a
Visi to Mrw. BM. Beamon,: 4
Bee nd Be et Spend Faces, Ms

a PR wt

—— |

ae 3
eu io Seaergn er toad Eee. ieee
‘Mi aod, Mra. GW. Brauiley
retcrned Monday fiom Biloxi, he z.
oR 3 as Sets : 37

het a team foe woman

Xs:
i

Mn hal as ah MINN litt Masses
utenced ty be hunge He bas
ven very quiet fa the jail and speut much
(his (me praying and reading bis Bible.
¢ fasted last Sunday and azaln Tuesday
ve day betore tle execution. Harris was
myicted of burgiary and ‘Tom Palne per”
itled to plead guilty of mansliughter,
r the offence of which he was charged.
Mia nari
he following ig a sketch of bis past
'e, written by himself whlle In ja'l, In his
vn handwriting. It t written in’ the
yle In which ucgroos who hive jist
arped to write yeu rally use, and fe
ot corrected except aa lo epelling :
R. D. Hudson, born Ottawa, IIL, 1865,
ged 21, residence Buffalo, N. Y. ‘I'he
on of R. Hudson, mother, Emma Hud-
m, sisters, Mary J. Hudson, Lebanon:
alla Hudson, Ottawa, LI, Lile Hudson,
ale Hudson, brothers. Henry Hudson,
-larry Hudson, Kiley Hudson, resilence
affalo,N. Y,. '
R.D. Hudson the Burglar ot Buflalo,
".Y. My first break, stealing, 13 years
f oge: A game cock, eggs, chickens,
ogs, knives, bouks, Ink, tools of al!
tnds, apples, oranges, Fourtcen years of
ge. =
Learning to be a kee picker, first
tealing plng from boys. “My' truiner. 1
ces (heh training uoder Fennesece Will.
was with him 6 ra0nthe. I left bilm at
sawling Green, Ky. 2 then travelled
vith Chleago Charley, 0 crack Chicago
undbagger, learntng to sandbagger and
ut pockets. [wes with him about two
curs. Twas good In the business at that
ime. We then wero sandbayging, rob-
ing market wagong, picalipg trucks and
allses, and grips, nots and shoes und
cots. ‘Then we would ga to werk upd
ell them, Then I came to Nashville,
Penn., stealing Im the market house a
rocket book with smeunt of $50, oycr-
oat worth $10, and also my breaktaat. I
hen cut off g lady's pocket book which
be bad on hor wrist, Bhe had the umount

A aDigaactd

f $31.20. But wisen they found It out 1]

vas going out, Age 16: [ was golog

‘own Galleg St. there waé x nice sult of

lothes out fora siga, 1 wanted s sult at

wen :

Ket the charow Pyoand get in the war-
drobe unlll night. My partuce was on
the outside, Aboutll2o*cluck that nlght
I searched the house ull over, I made a
good rulse too, F got all the fewelry and
money I could flud, and there was no one
hurt, but { was sorry for the lady for ehe
had no jewslry to weer and no moucy to
spend, I sce itin the paper the next day,
I wi sorry af courer.

Robbing « min in Tennessve My age
id yeare, [got uo money but | got hie
ring. Lwus pleased at it, he asked me
not to take it from lima. Now tbat was
the first man ever I had robbed that way:
I told Lim to give me his money else 1
would kil} him. He told me he had
nothing but aring, I took itand let him
ge, I gotawag allright.

STEALING A MAN'S FHOKS OFF HIS FRET.

Onc night it was very cold and I wavt-
ela palr of shoes very bad soT pull his
off, He wag in a livery elable usleep, I
took whut little money he had of course,
and bid good night. I wna sorry for the
eld lig but Hudson had bile share Just the
sane and got away ealely.

. STEALING A, HORSE -
btit I did not have timo to sejl him. ‘They
had me 60 hot that [told the horse I did
not want him. I fumped off the horse
and toox to the woods, J fell nbout 15
fect In a hole. Iwas there (i) next mor-
ning ard then gotoutall right.
HORSE STEALING.

I got away with this one. I stole him
frem a man who wag traveling, The man
was xbdout 5 miles from the city. He
told me that was the only support he had.
He first showed fight, but he was a Jittle
too Yate, for | thd jm fou. Sold the

Jeft ‘the olf lag without

led

(octet @ dwelieg bonse which
willbe potup by Mn, Antram
in the near future,

nn a. eee

Judge R. 8. Hudaon left on
Wedaresday to visit his gole sur-
yiving brother, Me. Iemuel Had.
son, in Terry, Mise.

The railroad extension ia being
pushed rapidly and excellent work
bas been done, ‘eu miles bave
been completed,

ee Oe ee 4s
co

Miss Pattie Battaile left yester-
day to visit relatives in Birming-
ham, Ala, Mrs. Richards reture-
ed with ber, ,

Mr, Frank Bawel ia at bome for
the vacatioh, from St. Stanislaus
college at Bay Bt, Louia.

Mrs. J. O. Edwarde, of Silver
Creek, with Ler children, is on ‘a
visit to Mrs. B, M. Beamon.

Mr.and Mra. G@. W. Brantley
returned Monday from Biloxi,

Bradfield’s

Female Regulator.

This {rmoua remedy moat hapoplly meets
the demand of the age for woman’s pecu-
Nar and multiform sfillctions. [t lea rem-
a for WOMAN ONLY, and for one

complaintss Sufferine woman, ft wit! re
Heve you of. pearly all the complaints pe-

Lae

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Dh etc sgh A cont ipl ea tty Se ety?

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4

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HA
starz OF MISSISSIPPI (/
COUNTY OF AMITE
THS STATS OF HISSISSIFFI ge
VS
HAPRKY HUFF

aITT cOmT OF SAID COUNTY s

eC THE CLK OF ph, CTE

We, Wiley Smith, Sheriff, Ss, We Van Normans Tom Smith, Ernest Lawson, Harry
~ Wepowell, Ba Lawson, Deputics, and prg M.D-Quinn and saa Physicians, em
ployed by the County of Amite , do hereby certify “hat on Fridays
at the hour of 1 AM. and within the walls of the Court House in the town of
did witness the electrocution of Harry

Liberty, Missis sippis

Defendant in the State Blectric Chair,operated by Watson

State Blectrocutioner, and that a current of electricity was
eay of the said Harry Huff until he was dead et 1215 AM. That there were
Present other Public Officials and pe’ sons who witnessed said execu
John Brovm, Funeral Home Director, Gloster, Mississippi

H AeAndersony, Mar shal

JeF Spoichts- Senitation Supervisor

Carl Quim, Witness

(2 Revs WC. Teplin, Colored, . Minister

William Taplin, Colorods Deacon
. And who have affixed their signatures heretoe
pnatures » this the __ 30 ; day of Noveber » 1946.

Witness our si

DEACON

Navember 29, L946,

Huff, the condemned

s passed through the

tion, nemely:

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IVEY, Henry, black, hanged Greenville, MS on July 11, 1879

‘The third capital explation was that of . '
I'rimus, a slave \eloning to Col. Ker- The ‘next aud Ives le
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Kal mares poi
shaw, and valued at the fanc price of othe nlperalle perfarmanee vf yeater da
000, rims was a cook fit tn have oe that of. Audrew Irey, ‘ail, Idack.
jservel Ducullus, and = enuld take ‘ellow uf about 80 years .f nc. le-
hie ax and gu into the woods, wae hung bn ‘79 or WU Wad hey Vive. .
yet the timber, bring bt ta othe ing with « young Wontan whi wae nicl.
shop aod prxluce a wagon, and @ wagon - tr to his infant child, wid Ient-rren by ¢
renarkable fur iw superior axcelleses. - Jralaus WAS Correspendingly crud gy |
riimus became jealous of Pompey; & abusive, after Kivlng hee a enal de of
fellow mervant, aud becosil

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a punbehment. Here he anught dat of A trunk Vursing her infant he bhewrul
Pompey and stabbed hin to heath, eset: ly dlesonneleed that rhe shenkl retern
ting and stabbing him reywatodly val sed _ Hr “Upgere for hin. On bee
ally butchering hiss. Ue wae exoontes FeMNGT Tie drew. piated mad shot h:
AU ONL Corercaaed vn Pater, ae re “Uist thee tool Llowiug hechen ce

Minow fwrot bellum clays “with whitg Ott mel bn falling Gilled the child. - i'¢e
winged treedum Haating oor ue,” the Carmparel Freon jail alter wntence aml hied
hada inn this evosnty siasbee bones inst to the Witermost contines e:
(Bree, while the te a number the Pine ull, mbt gan miles distengt
wstouudling vatinate uf JUL Lew peor wont Capt, Mut, the MMelent Mnecifl, learn.
oh whedete Utve laceas women! .

Jag of be Wheienleute aent an eMeder,1

Ty UXT Ty aweesony Chatters ened Weputy. te was re mrulenced and duly

(lots tecnetne is tnene annerentiontnest anyway) © hung. according to hoyle,

were hive ie thee Ceonet lenin yor ane There ia g morn that the Vi mer’ ys rea:|-
an the identiont opot where the gallows Pratiuy denw fur themeel ven, Withemet .
ow rtatde Cotter hive! cme Der PR proming AN Oplirion me to rapliol pan-
Creek, wed wcodeuiuk, wi de wena drove iehnmut, it is oafe proud us PUP Tree Lee
Webs cnt of tee lense with a beewue ople who will comprine the jepalecy
Wlherersnpmotte Cottons geoot nbs alacet ggetan mand wf the world in a Uh0+064om med Year (pam
slit Ture chowin. ‘Ddaee cet leee whee pe mee cab 3 ge wur.day with
bs thot rencalbed, rowielinng inp. owes wad ems .| oh wonder, { - people— met—emty -
Huyed ww cutting woul beyond the Me. : murdered each other, but that the eou-
livaas place, mone threw slled latent, mouwealth engaged in the horrid prac.
Having wdilficulty wlth tle neginse Ju. tire,

qMarters, he walked ballanile dat ol bie ie =_—

rind; - ie retarning tune .

thaer Kisege Vere oof thee quarters heml..

wll witls mw boetebor bebe, msl cory Ula '

meeting afer stepplug barkwanle, walk
hia oS from bile shoakles syd struck the
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with Lawn Crsivn he dropped theogt
he trap inte etemity.

EVENING POST, Vicksburg, Mississippi
July 19, 1884

424 MISSISSIPPI TERRITORIAL ARCHIVES.
To S. Rennick.

A Letter from the Governor to Lieutenant S. Rennick Cun»
manding a Detachment of the United States’ Troops at the Grind
stone Ford in Claiborne County.—

Sir,

A few days since, as Colo Joshua Baker was descending te
Mississippi, he was attacked by a set of Robbers, between the
mouth of the Yazou River & the Walnut Hills ;— This Bandits: »
said to be commanded by a certain Samuel Mason & a ceriaie
Wiley Harp who have for years past been in the habit of cum.
mitting with impunity Murders and Robberies,—

I am particularly solicitous, that these persons should be arrest
ed and brought to punishment ;— I have written to Colo: Dasid
Burnet & requested him to assemble a small Party & proceed te
the Walnut Hills & to the Yazou, in search of the offenders j
I hope you will give Colo: Burnet all the assistance in your powed
— If you could furnish him with a Sergeant & 12 Men, yow
would be rendering a grest service to the Civil Authority, —

Samuel Mason is well known in this Territory, as is a Sos of
his, by the name of John, who is also reported to be amongyi
the Robbers.— I think it probable, that they may be found af
or near the Walnut Hills;— at that place the Wife of Joea
Mason resides.—

With respect & Esteem.

I am Sir,
your Hble: Servt:
(Signed) William C. C. Claiborne

Lieutenant S. Rennick
of the 8rd. U.S. Regiment

“Seymore Rennick, of Virginia, Lt. U. S. A., January 9, 18v1.

GOVERNOR WILLIAM ©. C. CLAIBORNE. 425

To Officer in charge of Troops at mouth of Bear Creek.

A Letter from the Governor to the Officer Commanding the
United States’ Troops near the Mouth of Bear Creek on the Ten-
nessee River.—

Town of Washington April 27th. 1802
mr,

I have received information that the Road from this Territory
to Tennessee, is infested by a daring set of Robbers, among whom

| are a certain Samuel Mason, and a certain Wiley Harp; Men who

have long been habituated to murder & plunder.—

I doubt not, but you will give all the protection in your
power to the Citizens who may be travelling through the Wilder-
ness, & I further hope Sir, that if you should receive informa-
tion of any Mischief being done or attempted in the Wilderness,
you will immediately order out a Party of Men, and make the
hecessary exertions to arrest the offenders;— This kind of con-
duct on your part, would give additional security to the exposed
Traveller, & great support to the Civil Authority.—

With great respect & Esteem

I am Sir,
your Hble: Servt:

William C. C. Claiborne

To John McKee.

Natchez May Ist. 1802.—

Dear Sir,

I have received information, that the Negro of whose death,
I acquainted you of, in my last Letter, was murdered by an
@ indian who resides in the Mucklesow Town;— my information
@ comes through the channel of some Choctaws, now in this Dis-

HARPE, Wiley and MAY, James, whites, hanged Natchez, MS, on

2/8/180h 95

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ABSTRACTS FROM NEWSPAPERS OF WILMINGTON,
NORTH CAROLINA
1801-1803

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m the north side of Market-street..
wned by Joshua G. WRIGHT and Thomas
A Lot on the same side of said
ie north side of Dock-street..adjoin-

Dock street..occupied by Captain
tpied by Mr. Robert MUTER... Joshua
ember 20,

led Moorfields. It is so well
‘ssary... Richard QUINCE. September

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of Ground in said town..to satisfy
802. Wm. BLUDWORTH, Shff. Wilming-

‘ed on the estate of Matthew JOHNSTON,
estate to make immediate payment,
bit them properly attested to Mr.
September 27.

‘ county..in Wilmington, on Saturday
1 E-*-*- of Matthew JOHNSTON, de-
a ie ehold Furniture, &c. &c.

been paid to my late advertisement
I now give further notice that I
26th instant, At SIMPSON's Mills
8th, At South-Washington on..the
t Mr. CRAFT's on Holley-Shelter,
n road, on..the 5th, At the Four-
h... William BLUDWORTH, New-Hanover

arrison on the 5th instant, Joshua
He is about 26 years of age, 6
eyes, light hair, by occupation a
arolina... John F. POWELL, Lieut:
er, N. C. 8th September, 1803.

scriber..a Negro Man named NED,
a yellow complexion, and has thick
of this county... James BLUDWORTH.

subscriber..a likely negro man named
llow complexion, about 5 feet 5 or
ove described Negro..is legally out-
2), 1803.

bscriber..a Negro Man named QUASH,
nches high... Thomas ROBESON.

(752) Ran Away from the subscriber's plantation on the Sound..a Negro Woman named
FANNY, between 25 and 30 years of age, about 5 feet two or three inches high, of a
yellowish complection-She was formerly the property of Doctor FERGUS, deceased, an
lately of Mr. L. A. DORSEY, from whom I purchased her-She has a husband belonging

Mr. Peter MAXWELL named BEN. A reward of 10 Dollars... William G. BERRY. Septem
20th.

(753) Kingston, (Jam.) July 30. ‘The Vanguard, of 74 guns, James WALKER, Esq. co
mander, arrived yesterday at Port Royal...

(754) Philadelphia, Sept. 7. New Discovery. Nathaniel C. GROVES, of Boston, has
discovered a method of ascertaining the longitude at sea with precision

[ rsesey October 4, 1803. (Vol. 7, No. 3_. pirgjlor, NV, C. flog

(755) Lexington, August 30. By a gentleman from Natchez, we are informed, that a
the 25th or 29th of July,..James MAY, came to Huntsville, near Natchez, and made o
before a magistrate, that sundry articles of property and money, which he then del
ered up, he had taken from the notorious Samuel MASON, after shooting him in the h

Just above the eye. MAY had been robbed and taken by MASON on his passage down th
river...

(756) Wilmington, Tuesday, October 4, 1803. The Louisville (Kentucky) paper of t.
25th Aug. contains the following..: "An expedition is expected to leave this plac
shortly, under the direction of Capt. William CLARK and Mr. LEWIS, (private secret:

to the President) to proceed through the immense wilderness of Louisiana to the We:
or Pacific ocean...

(757) Notice Is hereby given, agreeably to an order of New-Hanover Court, That a
division of part of Lot No. 22, will take place between the Coheiresses of George
BLYTHE, on Saturday the 19th day of November next. October 46

(758) For Sale, On Tuesday the 18th day of October ensuing, at the Hermitage, All
Household furniture of the late John BURGWIN, dec..together with several horses, c:
waggons, &c. &c. a number of plantation tools... Jos. G. WRIGHT, A. J. DE ROSSET.
Ex'rs. October 4.

(759) Notice is hereby given, That the copartnership of MACOLL and MACKAY, is this
day dissolved by mutual consent... John MACOLL. Murdock MACKAY. Wilmington, Octc
ber 4, 1803.

(760) The subscriber has removed from Market street to the house lately occupied t
John HENRY, next door to Mrs. DORSEY's Tavern in Front-street, where he carries on
the business of Tayloring as usual... John MACOLL. Wilmington, October 4, 1803.

(761) Sheriff's Sales. On Monday the 14th day of November next, the following Lan
Negroes, Houses & Lots..to satisfy sundry Executions.. That valuable Plantation ca
led Spring-Fields, in the neighbourhood of Rocky Point, about one mile from the fer
and 15 from Wilmington, containing 640 acres. A valuable Saw-Mill, with about
3,000 acres of Land adjacent..thereto, on Island creek, and Some Lands on Catfish..
described on the day of sale-belonging to the estate of Mr, Henry HALSEY, deceased.
The lease of the Stores and Dwelling House on the south side of Market street Wilmi
ton, formerly occupied by ISAACKS, LEVY and BISHOP-the property of Jacob LEVY... A
Lot of Ground 55 by 66, on the south side of Market street, adjoining A. HALL's on
the east-the property of Mr. Benjamin BLANEY. A Family of Negroes, seven in number
the property of Mr. S. MABSON. Three likely Negro Fellows, the property of Mr. A.

4 Oct. 1803 99

. HARP/ Wiley, and MAY, Jamesy whites, hanged Natchez, Misse, on February 8, 180.

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226 MISSISSIPPI, AS A PROVINCE,

scour the woods from the Bayou Pierre to the Yazoo, and capture the villains
if possible. I have written to Lieutenant Rennick, 3d United States Regi-
ment, Walnut Hills, and to the officer commanding United States troops, mouth
of Bear Creek, Tennessee river, soliciting their co-operation, but I hope that
the credit of arresting them may fall on you.”

The Governor offered a reward of $2,000 for their capture.

Harp, soon after, separated from the band, and went towards Ken-
tucky, where he and his brother, some time after, paid the penalty of
a long career of atrocities. Mason and his gang one day robbed a
traveler, and took from him a copy of the Governor’s proclamation.
He had had some words with two of his party, and, on one occasion,
when only the chief and these two men were in camp, and he was
asleep, they shot him, cut off his head and set out with it to claim
the reward. Circuit Court was in session in the old town of Green-
ville, Jefferson county, when they arrived. ‘They went before the
Judge to make their affidavit and get a certificate to the Governor.
The head was identified by parties who knew Mason well, but just as
the Judge was in the act of making out acertificate, a traveler stepped
into the court house and requested to have the two men arrested.
He had alighted at the tavern, had repaired to the stable to see his
horse attended to, and there saw the horses of the two men who had
arrived just before him. He recognized the horses as belonging to
parties who had robbed him and killed one of his companions some
two months previously on the Natchez trace, and going into the court
house he identified the tvo men. They were tried, convicted and
executed at Greenville. With the death of their chief and the de-
parture of Harp, the gang dispersed, and for many years there were
no more highway robberies in Mississipp1. .

This is the account usually given by Mason’s gang, and is substan-
tially repeated by Thomas Reed, Esq,, a leading member of the bar,
in his minute and very interesting Centennial history of Jefferson
county.

In 1813, John L. Swaney, the old mail rider between Nashville
and Natchez, gave to the editor of the Gallatin (Tenn.) Examiner, a
different version of the story:

“Mason originally lived near Cross Plains, in Robertson county, Tennessee,
and went from there to the Natchez country and organized his band, which con-
sisted of his two sons, Tom. and John, and six or eight other men. Tom.
Mason, senior, (the Governor, in his proclamation, calls him John,) was then
about fifty years old, weighed some two hundred pounds, and was a fine look-
ing man; rather modest and unassuming, and no appearance of the brigand.
He frequently encountered me and the other mail riders on the route and was
always anxious to hear what was said of him. He often told me not to be
afraid of him as he was after money and not letters, and that he did not wish
to hurt any one, but money he must have. Hisband was the terror of every
trader. Traders, in those days, went down the river in flats, sold their produce
for dollars or doubloons, which they packed on ponies and came through on
foot, in gangs of five or ten men. Before leaving Natchez, they had to supply
themselves with provisions, as there was then no accommodations on the road, in
the Choctaw country, except at the Agency.*

*When General Wilkinson was negotiating a treaty with the Choctaws at Fort
Adams, in 1801, after obtaining permission to have the road opened to the Chick-
asaw line, (where it would intersect the road leading by Colbert’s ferry to
Nashyille,) he proposed that a certain number of white families be allowed to
settle thereon to keep entertainment for travelers. This they shrewdly refused, but

TERRITORY AND STATE. 2:

Mason usually kept an intelligent man at Natchez ye alot eae
outfits, and thus would have notice of the approach o — =
their strength. When they effected a robbery they not oe y 8 Aiud
money, but provisions for their stay in the woods. After U

ernor's proclamation, Mason and his gang were closely hunted by the

whites and Indians, and, having made some narrow sae Lane)
uit the country and crossed the Mississippl, to ngs ere 2 ou
Lake Providence, in the then Spanish Territory. Says Swaney :

“On one of my return trips from Natchez, I fell in with he oe
Fis « 5.
Tom Mason, carrying a baby and a small sack of pros ge et ae
<i : ickasaw Agency, to go thence to 3.
was making for the Chicka ney, to. pte dene gat
: vay. which I did by placing her on my se.
begged me to help her on her way, w c cing hei ; a
did this for a day, and made up the lost ego x traveling all night. Mrs.
hey wer { out of reach.
ason told me they were all sate and ;
ay eee after this, two men, calling themselves Sutton and May, eee
. Pa} . i . r ge a
to Greenville, Jefferson county, Miners. ae —- ee
i thers, to identify 1t, s y mig
Mason’s, and called on myself, and o ; y Shey. meee ay
y fai > and unable to account for the head the)
reward. They failed completely, ee eke
ri - tried and sentenced to be hung. On ay
were charged with murder, tried ¢ as ig easton BD
cecuti [ John Bowman, from Knoxyulle, g
execution, one of the guards, J ; Bellet: Sead
[ : ed as Little Hi He denied the name; but bo p
of the condemned as Little Harp. Laci csard
i id if y , Harp, you have a scar under your Je pp :
sisted and said if you are Harp, you ) ew
T cut you in a difficulty we had at Knoxville. Bowman tore the man's shirt
~ a 0)
osom open and there was the scar. ;
° Harp tana a notdrious robber. There were two A sia aa piel Spee
Bi i i raney says
i -»__this one, a small man, called Little Dlarp. Swaney se.
called the Big Harp—this one, , 1 pine iy ©
cnoxvi ; vas a race rider, and tha
he knew them at Knoxville w hen he v ee ON eT ei
vi ; sy were broken up by Sam. Gibson and party. ©
race at Knoxville when they wer ) n sod Dee de
i two Harps killed and robbed an old ma
night after the race, the two ‘1 : en ea ant
is si f 7 away to Kentucky, where J
this side of Knoxville, and ran kere NE eae ibe
i any 3 that a company of men set out to ‘
ommitted so many outrages th : = ——
ow They found them and killed the Big Harp—the ae ne
in his mi r ith Sutton % een-
his escape—and he says, no doubt in his mind, was hung with ¢
ville, Mississipp1. ; ; elas ed
After Mason’s band was dispersed, other men, sncop nese by Mason’s
cess, tried it, but never got as much money as the Masons.

Captain W. L. Harper, of Jefferson, | in his eloquesl ae
address, gives still another account, differing from oe ; iin pa
Swaney’s, but all of them agreeing 1n some ee ie rare
however, was an eye-witness of the execution—the eas iving ered
perhaps, and he is reported to be a man of truth. 3 any g nis ~
ments about matters that transpired here in those days we know

strictly accurate. Captain Harper says:

“ Governor Claiborne offered ae ie . one Rospror ie
leader of the band that infested the road. Nast iss

is - not far from old Shankstown, and his wife was generally respect¢
ad virtuous woman, by all her neighbors, and one of her sons was a
worthy citizen of Warren county not many years ago. cig

The reward tempted two of the band to kill Mason, or some hag ela
was Mason, and bring in his head to Greenville for pe marae freer
identified it by certain marks thereon, except the wife, wee asl Se cat
it. The Governor had sent his carriage for her express y to co - ORD ae
testily. But some parties had recognized in the roameges ae m nw 0, tae
with Mason, had robbed them but a short time before, w _ they vere sie
tried and hung, thus getting their reward, but not exactly In . J

Ni y -as opened, the La
as soon as the road, usually known as the old Natchez ar 2 Nao , iin:
Fleurs, and other half-cast families, moved to it and made lots of mone) k ng

entertainment for travelers.

224 MISSISSIPPI, AS A PROVINCE,

brought up a merchant. The litigation here will involve conflicting titles to
vast tracts of valuable land, and will demand profound legal attainment on
the bench. If these gentlemen, or either of them, should resign, as is now

rumored, I respectfully urge the appointment of thoroughly trained lawyers,
of the highest character.

The Legislature is now considering a bill to vest in the Superior Court an
equity jurisdiction, introduced specially to reach the antedated land grants
heretofore referred to. They are numerous and threaten much trouble. Col.
a continues in bad health and 1 am much inconvenienced for aid in my
office.’

FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME,

Natcuez, February 5th, 1802.

The old factions still survive to some extent. It is gratifying to me to know
that they were created before my arrival. I believe I have firmness enough
to be independent of any of them, and virtue sufficient to be just to all.

The Legislature will probably adjourn in a day or two. With patriotism
and honesty, they are liberally endowed, but lack experience, and are conse-
quently slow. . Most of the laws passed by Governor Sargent and the Judges,
have been repealed, and almost an entirely new code substituted.

A law to prohibit the importation of male slaves, above the age of sixteen,

_passed the House, but was rejected by the Council. This class of population
is increasing rapidly,,and will, sooner or later, be a great public evil. But the
culture of cotton is so lucrative, and personal labor so valuable, it creates such
a demand for negroes that we shall soon be overrun from the older States, and
probably by the most abandoned of that unfortunate race

~~ T hope you will approve the enclosed letter to General Wilkinson, urging

him to establish at this place, a small arsenal of the surplus arms now at
Fort Adams, with one company in charge. We are now defenceless and
without arms.

A violent dispute has sprung up between the Legislature and the Chief
Justice, (who has many friends,) and they have taken steps to procure his re-
moval or impeachment. They adjourned on the 2d instant. The acts are not
voluminous, but the printing and publishing will probably be tedious and ex-
pensive. The people complain that they are ignorant of the laws. The fact
is so, but it is not in my power to offer a remedy. The only printer in this
Territory (and he is a novice in the profession) has been employed, on high
wages, to print the laws* The work is going on, but from the want of type, a
good press and assistance, it cannot be completed for several months. I am
surprised that printers from the older States do not turn their attention in this
direction. I know of no quarter where a well-conducted paper would be more
lucrative and of more advantage to society.

The appointments made by Governor Claiborne up to the rst April,
1802, were:
Abner Green, of Adams county, Treasurer-General for the Territory.T.
JUSTICES FOR ADAMS COUNTY.

Abram Ellis, James Terrall, Adam Tooley, Caleb King, George Fitzgerald.
Daniel Kerr, Sheriff; Peter Walker, Clerk County ; John Henderson, County
Treasurer; Robert Stark, Clerk Adams District Court; Abner L. Duncan, Dis-
trict Attorney; Archibald Lewis, Clerk and Master in Equity for Adams

District.
JUSTICES FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY.

Cato West, Thomas Calvit, Jacob Stampley, Henry Green.

#James Terrall was appointed Printer to the Territorial Legislature.

+The same gentleman who had been appointed, by the Governor of Georgia,
Register of Probates for the county of Bourbon. He was a model planter, and
owned the Grange plantation on Second Creek.

TERRITORY AND STATE. 207

John Girault, Clerk County Court; Daniel James, Clerk District Cot

Felix Hughes, Master im Chancery.

JUSTICES FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY.

John Caller, John J ohnson, James Fair, Joseph Thompson, John McGuire,
Thomas Bassett, John Brewer, John Henson.
Richard Lee, Clerk County Court.

JUSTICES FOR CLAIBORNE COUNTY.

Wm. Downs, G. W. Humphries, James Stanfield, Ebenezer Smith, Daniel

t, James Harman. .
fo Saburt, Sheriff; Matthew Tierney, Clerk County Court; Samuel Gib-

son,. Coronre.
JUSTICES FOR WILKINSON COUNTY.

John Ellis, Hugh Davis, John Collins, Richard Butler, Wm. Ogden, Thomas

on Hunter, Sheriff; Samuel Lightner, Clerk County Court.

MILITIA OFFICERS, 1ST REGIMENT.
Benijah Osman, of Adams, Lieutenant-Colonel ; Abram Ellis, of Adams,
Major; Richard King, of Adams, Major.
FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY, 2D REGIMENT.
Zachariah Kirkland, Major; Wm. Thomas, Major.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, 3D REGIMENT.

John Caller, Nathaniel Christmas, Majors.
FOR CLAIBORNE COUNTY, 4TH REGIMENT.
Daniel Burnet, Lieutenant-Colonel; Wm. Nealy, Major.
FOR WILKINSON COUNTY, 5TH REGIMENT.
John Ellis, Lieutenant Colonel: Richard Butler, Major.
ARTILLERY IN NATCHEZ.

Samuel Postlethwaite, Captain; Jos. A. Parrott, Ist Lieutenant ; Joseph
Newman, 2d Lieutenant. |

J. E. Trask, Brigade Major and Inspector.

These were all representative men, opulent planters, and prominen’
merchants and mechanics, including the only printer 1n the Territory.
The descendants of most of them are still numerous and influential
in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

The Governor attended the regimental musters, in the_ several
counties, where he addressed the militia and was most cordially re-
ceived.

1802. About this time, the Territory was much excited by the
robberies and murders perpetrated by Mason and Harp. The Gov-
ernor addressed the following note to Colonel Daniel Burnet:

“J have information that a set of pirates and robbers, who alternately infest
the river and the road, have their rendezvous in the cane-brakes —_ \ a
Hills. A certain Samuel Mason, his son John, and a desperate = ain a
Kentucky, one Wiley Harp, are the reputed leaders of this bandittl. )

known at

ave long been robbers and murderers, and the two former are well :
ee They recently attempted to board the boat of Colonel J an erg
between the mouth of the Yazoo and the Walnut Hills, but were cag ue
his show of arms and preparations for defense.. These men must ear
The crimes of Harp are many and atrocious; and the others are nearly as bad.

I wish you to place yourself at the head of fifteen or twenty picked men, and

*Newspaper men had some chance in those days.

22 MISSISSIPPI, AS A PROVINCE,

sought. They gave their names as M .
fisd the country and died su bis here oe, and many believed Mason

With the execution of the igh
Natchez trace became pen some” Th peg A pret tere
settlement on the road of numerous respectable Indian (half-blood
families, who attracted many of their people to settle around the }
The Choctaws never robbed nor permitted robbers to live amon thenk
Honesty on the part of the men and chastity of the mona set
characteristics of the Choctaw people, the real proprietors of the os
main of Mississippi, whose traditions have been preserved in the
names of our streams and counties, which should ever remind us, a =
our posterity, that when ‘we were but a feeble people they fou ht fc
us the martial Muscogee; and when we had become Saris aid
opulent, in the darkest days of our history, when pressed to the aie
by a superior adversary, when we had no reward to hold out, onl
our broken lances and shattered shields, they came to our aid, a 4
shared with us the doom of the vanquished! Mississippi, if she a
ges ia a one years, as God grant she may, should never ra
ae re feat Jace that binds her to this noble race, born under her
1802. The Legislature was again in session
laws, established Jefferson College, and elected Cot Thoms: M. "Groen
of Jefferson, to Congress, to supply the place of the Hon Narsworthy
Hunter, who had died in Washington.* , *
The seat of government was established in the town of Washington
The printer not having completed the printing of the laws, Edward

Turner, a young lawyer, was employed to make a number of copies
?

and received a warra J :
dayalt | nt on the Treasury for $36.00. Economical

*Thomas Marston Green, an ac i
; ars : complished gentleman and most iti
wae a eee sa the head of a numerous Sparen onUiemeent
i -. He was a Virginian, an officer of the Conti } Z
moved to Georgia, and was associated with Gen. G "Rovers Glagke ani Gee.
Elisha Clark of Georgia, in their sch fo railed on the acide Roce
ls g attack on the Spaniard
oe oa ee ner - scheme for ana paniards. Colonel
: a le y of friends, went to the Holston, buil
scended the Tennessee to its mouth, expecti cass Be
} there to find Gen. G
Clarke and his party, but not findin Neon at i ume en,
L ; a g them, and being unable t Ohi
with their boats they continued on to N teh Col. G nd sal tetecvine ann
the Sentai Govern Laie pete oe atchez. Col. Green had an interview with
tire district for the S i
He was a bold, determined and seeaiat ia EN gethories fda.
¢ : tman. The Spanislk thoriti i
that he was likely to excite a tcanutt nd hi : A to Nee Oraes
ph ld an hit eae pe = im arrested and sent to New Orleans.
trie ee ey nd from exposure and anxiety died shortly after
arrival. ( eart of the Spanish Governor, and Col en W
a eee St family settled on the waters of Cole’s creek, in Velerion neat
. Cato West and Gen. Thomas Hinds were his sons-in-law, and by intarmar.

riages it constituted one of the largest connections i istri
l ns 3 i
ner Green, married a daughter of Col, Hutchins. toe TSS A

TA native of Fairfax county, Va.,m ;

PF lertersiont ae é x y, Va., moved at an early age'to Kentucky

rooney) in 1801. Clerk of the Legislature, Register ‘of the Land Ofer ae
y General, Circuit Judge, Chancellor, Judge of the Supreme Court, he ran a

long career of usef
§ Ce of usefulness and honor, a ied jus +e :
out an enemy. , and died just before the late civil war, with-

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM JUDGE TURNER.

“When I first came to Natchez I br i
I firs } 1 ought a letter of introducti
Deen thea Benton fate uncle, Col. Thomas Green. This led Care
d Greens, Hutchins, Wests, and their extensive connecti >
my marriage with a daughter of Col. West. Gen. Clay, (father of Comfun) haa

This was due mainly to the ‘

TERRITORY AND STATE.

1802. A warrant was issued in favor of James Patton, upon the cer-
tificate of Hugh Davis and John Collins for marking out the road
from the national boundary, 31° north latitude, to Natchez, what
is now known as the Woodville road.

FROM JAMES MADISON TO GOVERNOR CLAIBORNE.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, May 11, 1802.

I enclose the opinion of the Attorney General in the conflicting land claims
referred to by you. Although the praseology used by him does not refer to the
technical distinction between a chancery and common law jurisdiction, ‘the
former having no distinct establishment in the Eastern States, yet you will find
your idea justified that equity can always relieve against fraud. Your Terri-
tory, both in its infant and frontier character, demands concord and unity.
We rely much on your patriotic dispositions and prudent counsels, which as
they develop themselves, cannot fail to inspire the well meaning with confidence
and to repress the mischief making proclivities of others.”

OPINION OF LEVI LINCOLN, ATTORNEY GENERAL, UNITED STATES.

It does not appear from Goy. Claiborne’s letter, or from the letter of Lyman
Harding, Attorney-General of the Territory, what were the pleadings in the
action in which evidence of fraud in the dating of a grant was excluded ; what
was particularly in issue; why it was done; whether it was from the idea that
the evidence was not of the proper kind; or the best which the nature of the
transaction admitted of; or that the witnesses were considered incompetent
from being interested in the question or in the cause. Nothing can be clearer
than that all grants made by the Spanish government, after the ratification of
the treaty, by which the district was ceded to the United States are void. A
claimant who had in fact obtained a patent or a title before that time under
the Spanish, or since under the United States, can alone hold by his grant.
There being no question of a right by mere possession in the way, and indeed
such a right to vacant lands can never exist against Government. The only
question is, when was the patent granted; not when was it dated, or what is its date.
The delivery of a deed isa consummating act by which and from the time of which
it takes effect and operates. Its delivery may be before or after itsdate. An ante-
date, a subsequent or no date is material only as proof of delivery, until which there
can be no deed. But prima facie, every deed shall be delivered on the day of
its date, and to be made fairly and in good faith. These presumptions are,
however, controllable by proof. The executions of all deeds must be proved.
If their validity is questioned any evidence which will show any of their es-
sential parts to be different from what they are presumed to be, and in favor of

married my cousin. I was one of the aids of Governor Claiborne, and accompa-
nied him and his staff, all in full uniform, to review the regiments in the different
counties. This was the first the people here ever knew of citizen soldiers. The
Governor was a fine speaker, with a clear, ringing voice, very fluent and graceful,
and the regiments forming into a square he addressed them very eloquently, in
regard to their rights and duties. ‘ov. Sargent never could organize the militia,
and few men would accept his commissions. :

The Spaniards had no public schools in Natchez, and only one or two private
tutors. In Gov. Claiborne’s time Jefferson College was incorporated. An associ-
ation formed in Jefferson county for the acquisition and dissemination of useful
knowledge. We held our meetings at Villa Gayoso.{ I delivered the first ad-
dress and it drew down on me the opposition of the whole Sargent party. A sim-
ilar association was established in Natchez, and excellent schools in each county.”

{Villa Gayoso was on Cole’s creek, in Jefferson county, (not far from the river)
where Gov. Gayoso erected a sort of chateau as a summer residence, and posted
asmall garrison. The land was claimed by Everard Green (son of Col. Thomas
Green) and was in controversy between the parties when the Spaniards left the
district. It was turned over by the Spanish authorities to Capt, Guion as public
property, and he stationed there to hold it for the United States Corporal Diddup
and five men. ;
The Green family are now and long have been in possession of the premises.

made in 1916)

-HARPE, Wiley, and MAY, James, whites, hanged at Natchez, Mississippi, on

2=8-xX% 180),

THE OUTLAWS OF
CAVE-IN-ROCK

Historical Accounts of the Famous High-
waymen and River Pirates who operated
in Pioneer Days upon the Ohio and

Mississipp1 rivers and over the
old Natchez Trace

by
Otto A. Rothert

Secretary, The Filson Club

The Arthur H. Clark Company
Cleveland: 1924

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s <a Deer " 7 ~ ey
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ied

all these contentions were overruled.” “And for trial
(each) put himself upon the country and General Poin-
dexter, Attorney General.” Each was tried by separate
jury, James May being the first, and each was found
guilty. Then the two attorneys came forward with “a
plea of former acquittal,” but the court rendered a deci-

ance at this term and for traveling to and from said
court one thousand miles.” Among the few available

82 The counsel for the defense evidently objected to the jurisdiction of the
court, claiming that the alleged “robberies by Mason’s men” did not occur
within the bounds of Mississippi Territory. The question of jurisdiction is
commented on in two of the letters written in 1804 by Thomas Rodney to
Caesar A, Rodney. [52]

nglish astron-
Tour in the
sa few pages
he says, “its
-omewhat the
itered it and
‘Id a number
1 in this soli-
“lety, gave us
Y apparently
This prob-
‘Ss made at a
equently the
-e might not
‘Is in Amer-
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d e feet
dped at the
‘he greatest

-Rock ever
one of the
0and Mis-
the appen-
is M. Har-

eler, wrote
ie Cramer
‘ished, and
' robberies
fresh cir-

}
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Lair of the Outlaws 25

culation. His book entitled Travels in America per-
formed in 1800, contains a chapter of fabrications
headed “Cave in the Rock, Ohio Bank, September,
1806.”

In July, 1807, Christian Schultz, then a young man,
Started from Pittsburgh down the Ohio in a flatboat.
He arrived at “The Cave in the Rock” about October
1, continued his trip to New Orleans, and returned, via
ship, to New York. In his L'ravels on an Inland V oy-
age he devotes a few Pages to the Cave, Saying, among
other things:

“It is a very curious cavern .. . I could not help
observing what a very convenient situation this would
be for a hermit, or for a convent of monks. . . I have
no doubt that it has been the dwelling of some person
Or persons, as the marks of smoke and likewise some
wooden hooks affixed to the walls sufficiently prove.
Formerly, perhaps, it was inhabited by Indians; but
since, with more probability, by a gang of that banditti,
headed by Mason and others, who, a few years ago,
infested this part of the country and committed a great
number of robberies and murders .. .”

Fortesque Cuming, an unprejudiced Englishman,
wrote in his Tour to the Western Country that the Cave
is “one of the finest grottoes or caverns I have ever
seen.” This interesting traveler, in January, 1807, pro-
ceeded to Maysville, Kentucky, by boat, and from there
made horseback trips to central Kentucky and Ohio.
Returning to Pittsburgh, he started, on May 7, down
the Ohio in a flatboat for New Orleans. From old
Bruinsburg, a few miles above Natchez, he visited old
Greenville. In this town about three years before, one
of the Cave-in-Rock outlaws had been convicted under

unusual circumstances and hanged and buried in an
> etl

fer

$8:

26 Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock

unusual manner. When traveling by boat Cuming al-
ways carried a few skiffs in order to get ashore more
easily. On May 18, 1807, a few minutes after passing
the head of Cave-in-Rock Island, he landed at what is
known as Cave Spring, 4 cave-like opening a few hun-
dred yards above Cave-in-Rock from which a strong
spring of water constantly flows. This crevice in Cave-
in-Rock bluff is about nine feet high, three feet wide,
and extends back some forty feet. Cuming at first mis-
took it for the famous Cave, as has been done by more
than one traveler since his day. In his sketch pertain-
ing to his visit to Cave-in-Rock he writes:

“Rowing along shore [below Cave Spring] with the
skiff, we were soon undeceived as to that’s being the
Rocking Cave, as a third of a mile lower down, one of
the finest grottoes or caverns I have ever seen opened
suddenly to view, resembling the choir of a large
church as we looked directly into it. We landed im-
mediately under it and entered it. It is natural, but it
;s evidently improved by art in the cutting of an entrance
three feet wide through the rock in the very center,
leaving a projection on each hand, excavated above to
the whole breadth of the cavern, the projections re-
sembling galleries .- - It is crowned by large cedars,
and black and white oaks, some of which impend over,
and several beautiful shrubs and flowers, particularly
very rich columbines, are thickly scattered all around
the entrance .. - Standing on the outside, the appeat-
ance of some of the company at the inner end of the
cave was truly picturesque, they being diminished on
the eye to half their size, and removed to three times
their real distance.

“There is a perpendicular rocky bluff just opposite
the lower end of Cave Island, about two hundred yards

above the
half a milk
tion.”
Thomas
traveler Ww
commente
into the z
party left
floating a
flatboats <
an all-nig
river is he
with man
in-Cave,
bordering
to here r
are yet U
penetrate
savage.”
The ea
ber of th
Cave, pu
the main
impress¢
some of '
lated up
Some cc
A numb
found c:
around '
vous of
For \
used in
ans, Or :

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man’s

nes of
‘ded in
t even
lasons,
ee and
widely
‘tr how
might
om be-
otured
iat one
Caylor
in and
3 writ-
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ire
urt, as
ime of
r ques-
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1entity
‘rsisted

s past
cading
viason
a man
ect no
uld he
.en out
ed of
ig but

Double-Cross and Double Death 257

the severest punishment that could be inflicted upon
him might be expected. With him, as with Little
Harpe, escape was his only hope. And both escaped.”

How Little Harpe and May escaped is not known.
While at Natchez they may have been indicted for Ma-
son’s murder. If so, having killed Mason in compli-
ance with the governor’s proclamation to capture the
outlaw dead or alive, they were acquitted. William
Darby, then living near Natchez, writes that the two
prisoners “learning their danger fled from Natchez,
but were taken in Jefferson County, Mississippi, and
confined in jail and in due time, tried and con-
victed. . .” They were tried before the Circuit Court
in Greenville, in January, 1804, as is shown by the few
existing entries made in the now mutilated docket book
of that court. No record of the court proceedings was
found, although a careful search was made.

The first entry found in the docket book is dated Fri-
day, January 13, 1804. The court was presided over
by Peter B. Bruin, David Ker, and Thomas Rodney,
who were among the best known men in Mississippi.
It is an interesting fact that when Aaron Burr was ar-
rested the following year on Cole’s Creek, near Green-
ville, he was tried in Washington, Mississippi, before
two of these same judges, the third, Judge Ker, having
died of pneumonia contracted while serving at the trial
of Harpe and May. William Downs, as foreman of
the grand jury, brought in “an indictment of robbery”
against each of the prisoners: “The Territory against
James May” and “The Territory against John Setton.”

31 All the early records prove beyond a doubt that John Setton and Wiley
Harpe or “Little” Harpe were one and the same man. A few of the later
writers confuse May and Setton and, apparently as a result of a superficial
knowledge of the careers of these outlaws, state that Wiley Harpe had
assumed the name of one May.

Double-Cross and Double Death 261

pages of the docket book bearing on this case is one
containing two entries dated February 4, 1804. They
show that the sentence passed was in the same words
for each prisoner. James May’s is the first on the
record, and is immediately followed by Little Harpe’s:

“John Setton who has been found guilty of robbery
at the present term was this day set to the bar and the
sentence of the court pronounced upon him as follows,
that on Wednesday the eighth day of the present month
he be taken to the place of execution and there to be
hung up by the neck, between the hours of ten o’clock
in the forenoon and four in the afternoon, until he is
dead, dead, dead. Which said sentence the Sheriff of
Jefferson County was ordered to carry into execution.”

On Wednesday afternoon, February 8th, Little
Harpe and James May were taken from the jail to a
field about a quarter of a mile north of the village of
Greenville. There, on what has ever since been known
as “Gallows Field,” they received their well deserved
reward, but not the one they had planned to procure.
They paid, with their lives, what was, considering the
atrocity of their crimes, a light penalty.

In pioneer days the official executioner usually pre-
pared a gallows by fastening one end of a long beam or
heavy pole in the forks of a tree and placing the other
end similarly in another tree. On this cross timber he
tied the rope with which the condemned man was to
be hanged. The prisoner, asa rule, was put on a wagon,
his coffin serving as a seat, and driven to the place of
execution. Upon his arrival the same wagon and coffin
on which he rode were used as the platform and trap
of his gallows. After the suspended rope was properly
looped around his neck the condemned man was made
to stand erect on his coffin. When all details had been

ane
ee .

264 Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock

This new rave yard was on the N atchez Trace and
contained less than half a dozen graves,

mounted poles. The next day the indignant men who
had opposed this as a burial Place for the two villains,

53 Greenville, originally called Hunston, was an important town on the
old Natchez Trace. It lay about twenty-five miles Northeast of Natchez,

Possession of Mississippi Territory, A number of the State’s wealthiest and
most aristocratic Pioneers lived in or near the town. In 1825 the seat of
justice was moved from Greenville to Fayette and soon thereafter the old
town passed out of existence. The site of old Greenville has been under

cultivation for many years. The court house and the jail stood in what is
now known as “Courthouse Field.”

ing to j
nothing
is there
any mo
ward o
it doub
had the
best des
Neitt
the Masr
Little F
Samuel
of her }
years—1
far fron
Sippi. 1]
was “ge:
man by:
Magnus
of Wari
band bei
efficient
the grea
country.
In the
and Jam
near the —
Trace w
deeper j
About th
cess reac!

34 What t
Edward Ros:
wrote on the
Mason’s gan,

<onen

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- ee
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pooner om

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Peers
ee - a e

—a
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262 Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock

attended to the horses were rushed forward, leaving the
human body hung suspended in the air. In some in-
stances the gallows was a frame-work with a platform
in which a trap door was built.

In the hanging of Harpe and May the procedure
was somewhat unusual even for a frontier country. Two
ropes were tied to a heavy pole placed high between
two trees. The two men walked from the jail to the
gallows. Each with his hands tied behind him was
made to mount a ladder; his feet were then bound and
the noose fastened around his neck. When the ladders
were dropped the two bodies fell as far as the suspended
rope permitted, and thus each was “hung up by the
neck” until, as prescribed by law, he was “dead, dead,
dead.” [54]

The news that Samuel Mason had at last been killed
was a great relief to the country. The fact that Little
Harpe and James May were actually hanged was a
matter of equally widespread interest. The Guardian
of Freedom, February 20, 1804, published the follow-
ing, which was copied by a number of papers, includ-
ing The Kentucky Gazette of a week later:

“Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Mississippi
Territory to his friend in this town (Frankfort) dated
February 8, 1804: ‘There have been two of Sam Ma-
son’s party — which infested the road between this coun-
try and Kentucky — in jail at Greenville for trial. They
were condemned last term and executed this day. One
of them was James May; the other called himself John
Setton but was proved to be the villain who was known
by the name of Little or Red-headed Harpe, and who
committed so many acts of cruelty in Kentucky.’ ”

The Palladium, March 3, published a news item
dated Natchez, February 9, 1804: “Setton and May

ee ae E- — ee ROR ETE

were e€
and fo
inform
of exec
person:
with
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highw:
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that the
the knx
two off
to indiv
conden
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on earl
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a short
tance tc
[105]
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me in-
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1 was
d and
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ended
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dead,

culled
“ittle
vas

-di_..
low-
elud-

Double-Cross and Double Death 263

were executed at Greenville yesterday between three
and four o’clock, pursuant to their sentence. We are
informed that Setton made some confession at the place
of execution which has a tendency to implicate several
persons not heretofore suspected as parties concerned
with Masons in their depredations. May complained
of the hardship of his fate; said he had not been guilty
of crimes deserving death and spoke of the benefit he
had rendered society by destroying old Mason.”

The hanging of Little Harpe and James May for
highway robbery was a fulfillment of the written law of
pioneer times as well as the unwritten law of frontier
communities. But many of the enraged citizens felt
that the law of pioneer justice had not been satisfied for
the known and unknown murders committed by these
two offenders. There is nothing in history or tradition
to indicate that an attempt was made to lynch the two
condemned outlaws. But the lynch spirit evidently
raged. In the words of Franklin L. Riley, an authority
on early Mississippi history: “After their execution on
the Gallows Field their heads were placed on poles, one
a short distance to the north and the other a short dis-
tance to the west of Greenville, on the Natchez Trace.”
[105]

How long these gruesome warnings to highwaymen
stood along the road and what finally became of them
isnot known. Each doubtless met with a fate befitting
a head so ignoble. It is not probable that they were
ever interred in the grave with the two headless bodies.
Tradition has it that the two bodies were placed in a
box and buried in a new grave yard about one hundred
yards east of the Greenville jail and court house and
about the same distance north of the hotel in the central
part of the village.

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{Rly - av ia | | consolati i ¥ Al |
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ang & today at Gulfport, going 9° his . sel fot sé ametime atl since last ‘Satur: |
eat quiet ys 1 neither ef day tw 0 deputies, HW. Duckw orth and

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‘that resistance | would be~futile, he
i uielly handed overt the broken hand-
“cuffs and shortly afterward was led,
having béen ad handcuffed, | to the

office of the deputy sheriff where he
remained! “unti the execution took

‘place.,| . theart, Mattié Gallo-
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ning im m'alface s Neate pal-
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fate, to ‘think it
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and the noose

ifn oles with a élight
1 Cha} was rep aced and
the lever, | the body,
atrnigtt down | ten feet. . Drs,
vt and?) H.| Barnés watched the

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".. Hesry Tarner and Sainé . Hopkins, |
* bettrolores, were legally executed. ‘Jang
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“Henry Tarner was hanged. fore ‘the.
‘murder of: Taylon Bady; en: the-Dan.
_ Boswell place, na -Bondra,. Deo $9025
and: was_indicted $F eb.: 193, “ocaped |
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tained sin Gecision, ae lower e court. —

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vaeter was killed ht
7 WHE Mamitton. white, arcompanying , |
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‘change of ahotea with three Negroes, |
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train in Rolton to eahten for the three. ||
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422 MISSISSIPPI TERRITORIAL ARCHIVES.

fortable Lodging for the Sick, and sometimes for the necessaries
of life.—

With prospects so gloomy, the enterprising Citizen of the
Western Country, reluctantly ventures down the Mississipps
during the Spring & Summer Months, and the difficulty & ex.
pence of procuring Hands, become so great, that contemplated
Voyages are sometimes given up, or if prosecuted, the Hands um.
ployed are too few to ensure the safety of the Vessel, while on its
Passage ;— these inconveniences would in a great measure, te
remedied by the establishment of a convenient Hospital at Or
leans, for the reception of Sick and disabled Americans.—

With Sentiments of Esteem &

Respect.
I am Sir, Your Humble Servt.—
(Signed) William C. C. Claiborne
The Honble:

James Madison
Secretary of State

To Daniel Burnet.

Town of Washington April 27th. 1802,—
Sir,

I have received information that a set of Pirates and Robbers,
who alternately infest the Mississippi River, and the Road lead.
ing from this District to Tennessee, rendezvous at or near the
Walnut-Hills, in the County of Claiborne;—a certain Samuel!
Mason! & a Man by the Name of Harp, are said to be the Leaders
of this Banditti;—they lately attempted in a hostile manner te
board the Boat of Colo: Joshua Baker, between the mouth of
Yazou River, and the Walnut Hills, but were prevented by Colu:

*There is in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History &
record in French of the trial of Mason for robbery, by the military author
ities of New Madrid, dated January 11-31, 1808. For facts relative to Manu
see Claiborne’s “Mississippi,” pages 226, 227, 228.

GOVERNOR WILLIAM C. C. CLAIBORNE. 423

Baker’s, making a shew of Arms, and manifesting a great share
of firmness.— These Men must be arrested; the honor of our
Country, the Interest of Society, & the feelings of humanity, pro-

® claim that it is time to stop their Career ;—The crimes of Harp,

are many and great, and in point of Baseness, Mason is nearly
as celebrated :— While these Sons of Rapine & Murder are per-
mitted to Rove at large, we may expect daily to hear of outrages
upon the Lives & properties of our fellow Citizens.—

The Militia of your Regiment not being organized, I presume
it would not be in your power, to execute (strictly) a Military
Order, I shall therefore only request, that you will immediately
endeavour to procure 15 or 20 Men as Volunteers, and place your-
self, or some confidential Character at their Head.—

This little force will then proceed to the Walnut-Hills, &
after making due examination & enquiry at that place, they will
examine the woods in the Neighborhood of the Mississippi as
high up as the Yazou; —If you should fall in with Mason & his
party, you will use all the means in your power to arrest them,
or any of them, and I desire, that the person or persons arrested,
may immediately be conveyed under a strong Guard to Nat-
chez.—

I hope that the honor of taking these Lawless Men, will be
confered on the Citizens of your Neighbourhood; —Should they
Succeed, I promise them a very generous reward,—

I have written to Lieutenant Rennick upon this subject, & it
is probable, he will give you all the aid in his power.

With great Respect & Esteem.

I am Sir,
your Hble— Servt:
William C. C. Claiborne

P.S. For your information, I have enclosed you the Statement
made by Colo: Baker to me, of the late attempt made to Rob’

him.
Ww. Cc. Cc. C.—

Colo: Daniel Burnett—

HARPE, Wal bie
ARPE, 4 ey and MAY, James, hanged Natchez, MS, 2/8/1680)

Mississippi Territorial Archives

1798-1803

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AND GOVERNOR WILLIA

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DUNBAR. ROWLAND

Director, Mississippi Department of Archives and History

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106 SOUTHERN REPORTER; Vo. 11. | (Miss.

oner was where he had no right to be,
and had gone there with aa unlawful in-
tent or purpose, and armed with u deadly
weapon, to provoke the: difficulty, and
shot and killed the deceased, he cannot
justify or excuse. himself upon the ground
of seli-defense, and they will find him guilty
as charged. (3) The court further in-
structs for the state that, if the minds and
consciences of the jury are fully satistied
by all the evidence in. this case that the
prisoner was: hunting Sam Young to kill
him, armed ‘with a deadly weapon, pro-
vided for that purpose, and that when he
found Young he provoked a difficulty
with Young, or was the aggressor in the
difficulty in which he killed Young, then
he is guilty, even though he killed Young
in self-defense”. Defendant was con.
victed of manslaughter, and appeals. Af-
firmed,

Jayne & Watson, for appellant. Atty.
Gen, Miller, for the State. _.

Woobs, J. If the first instruction given
for the state stood alone, and without
other charges to explain and qualify, we
would feel it our duty tu reverse the judg-
ment. Fortunately for the adwinistra-
tion of thecriminal law in this state, in
more than one charge given for the de-
fendant the jury was fully instructed ag
to the rights of the accused growing out
of the law touching self-defense. | The
second and third instructions are not
without evidence ‘to Support them, as
counsel was led to believe. The accused
had threatened only the night before the
homicide to take the life of the deceased,
At daybreak next morning, armed with
a Winchester rifle, he appeared in the
cookroom, where the deceased was eating
his breakfast, and after a littie conversa.
tion with another person discovered the
deceased, and commanded or challenged
him to put up his gun, (the accused hav-
ing a gun under his right arm, muzzle
down, while he was eating his breakfast, )
and immediately fired upon and killed his
victim. The only evidence of the dead
man’s moving his gun at all shows that
he elevated the muzzle when he was told
to put up his gun by the accused. On
this proof there was slender ground on
which to rest any invocation of the much-
abused, so-called “God-given right of self-
defense.” While the first charge for the
state was subject to criticism, and while
the second and third instructions for the
state might have been made fuller and
clearer, the fact remains that the accused,
ou the whole, had the jury most favor-
ably charged in his behalf. He has noth-
ing to complain ofin this respect. It is
alleged as ground for reversal that the
counsel for the state, in the concluding
argument, expressed the opinion that the
defendant might be convicted of. man-
slaughter. We agree with the district at-
torney that the prisoner might huve been
convicted of manslaughter, but differ with
the jury in thinking he should have been.
Looking at the whole case, we think it
most probable that the accused was
saved a conviction for murder by the
opinion which the state’s counsel is said
to have expressed in his argument. How-

ever this may be, the jury might very
properly have convicted of murder, and,
however hard it may seem to the accused
that heis to be deprived of seven years of
his life by confinement in the penitentiary,
let him reflect how infinitely harder his
fate if the jury had only done what they
might properly have done.

HANSFORD v,STaTE, _
(Supreme. Court of Mississippi. Nov. 2, 1891.)
HoMIc1pE—APPEAL—INDORSEMENT OF INstRvO-
TIONS—-SIGNATURE OF CLERK...

1, Instructions in a trial for murder, marked
“Given” by the clerk, as required by Code 1880,
§ 1714, in order to dispense with a bill of excep-
tions, but not signed by the clerk, will not be
considered on appeal, 1

2. In a trial.for murder, the court erred in
instructing the jury’ that every killing with a
deadly weapon was presumed to be malicious, and
that the burden was on defendant to show that
he was in immediate, real, or apparent danger
of his life or great bodily harm from deceased.

Appeal from circuit court, Scott county;
A. G. Mayirs, Judge.

Indictment against Joe Hansford for
murder. Defendant was ‘convicted, and
sentenced to be hanged. The transcript
of the record filed in the supreme court
contains none of the testimony offered on
the trial, but does contain what purports
to be the instructions given at the instance
of the state and the defendant. These in-
structions are marked “Given,” but they
do not bear the signature of the clerk. The
second instruction, given for the state, is
in the following words: “In every killing
of ‘a human being with a deadly weapon,
the presumption of law is that the killing
was done with malice, and therefore mur.
der; and, if the killing with a deadly
weapon is proven beyond a reasonable
doubt, then the defendant must show that
he (defendant) was in immediate, real, ur
apparent danger of his life or some great
bodily harm from deceased, to overcome
the prima facie evidence of murder.” De-
fendant appeals. Affirmed.

E. H. Johnson, for appellant. Atty,
Gen. Miller, for the State.

0OPER, J. The judgment in this case
must be affirmed, forthe reason that there
is neither a billof exceptions in the record,
nor were what purport to be the instruc-
tions of the court made a part of the rec-
ord in the manner provided by section
1714, Code. Not being a part of the rec-
ord by bill of exceptions or otherwise, we
cannot consider them for.any purpose,
We indicate the ground of our affrmance,
in order that it may not be inferred that
we approve what purport to be the in-
structions as appearing in the ‘record.
The one numbered us the second is,in sub-

1Code 1880, § 1714, provides that “all instruc-
tions asked by either party shail be in writing,
and all alterations or modifications of instruc-
tions given by the court to the jury, or refused,
shall be in writing, and those given may be
taken out by the jury on their retirement, the
clerk having tirst marked all instructions asked
by either party, or given by the court, as being

ven or refused, as the case may be; and all
Toatrussions so marked shall be apart of the rec-
ord, on appeal, without a bill of exceptions, ”

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atahide; that ‘edndenined In McDartel v.
State, (decided: in 1847,) and reported in 8
Smedes & M. 401.., It has.. been repeatedly |
given since in the trial of. indictments for:
homicide, but no conviction secured by it
‘has ever been permitted to stand when the
error: has been certified in the record of the
Td ecvd are Donciunelaiatey MMP aTEOR “
tedootie ats on TE
') OWorsHaM et al. v. McLrop.

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ena RE Be TT

“(Supreme Court of Mississippt.. Nov. 16, 1891.)

Continvanocs — Warver or LANDLORD’s Linn —
-PLEADING—AGREEMENT OF COUNSEL.
1, Plaintiff, failing to take the deposition of
his coplaintiff, who was in an advanced stage of
consumption, knowing that his testimony would
be wanted on the trial, is not entitled to a con-
tinuance on account of the absence of such co-
plaintiff. ' Wp oy
- 9, Acceptance by a landlord of a draft from
the tenant insatisfaction of rent due, payment of
which draft the tenant countermands, will not
Dade at as @ waiver of the ‘landlord’s lien for
‘rent. PG BOA Pe
.. 8 Where counsel agree that the pleadings
shall be considered. ‘regular with respect to the
oining of issues, an objection cannot afterwards
e made by either that, the cause was tried on
an issue not joined... |

ahd

+ Appeal from circuit: court, Sunflower
ounty; R..W. WiLLIAMBSON, Judge.
Action of replevin by R.G. and L. T.
Worsham: against 8S. J. McLeod. Defend-
ant had levied a distress warrant on plain-
tiffs’ gonds, and they gave bond, and re-
tained the goods seized, and to their dec-

aration in replevin the Jandlord replied,

justifying the taking. The tenants plead-
ed that nothing was due. It was devel-
‘oped on the trial that defendant had
‘years from the Ist day of January, 1889,
and that in November, 1890, the lease was
“eanceled, and the sum of $1,290 agreed
‘upon as being due by plaintiffs under their
eontract of lease. For this amount plain-
tiffs gave a sight draft on their merchant,
which was duly accepted; but on the fol-
Jowing day, and before it was presented
‘for payment, they instructed him not to
pay it. For plaintiffs the courtinstructed
the jury that, if defendant took the draft
‘in payment of the rent. absolutely, she
thereby waived her lien for rent, and they
should find for plaintiffs; for defendant,
that the draft.was prima facie evidence
of the amount due, and that, unless it
‘was believed from the evidence that the
draft was taken in ful) and absolute pay-
ment of the rent due, the lien was not
waived. There was judgment in favor of
‘defendant for $935.24, and plaintiffs appeal.
Affirmed. «|, be oer

. Wynn. Thomas & Griffin, for appellants,
Orrick & Baker, for appellee.

\GoopkrR, J.’ We cannot say that there
was any abuse of judicial discretion in the
refusal by the court to continue the cause
on account of the absence of the plaintiff
‘UL. T.Worsham. The plaintiff must have
known from the commencement of the snit
that his testimony would be desired on the
trial. ‘ He was then, as the evidence
shows; in an advanced stage uf consump-
‘tion, and there is nothing to suggest that
his condition ‘has at any time improved

since then. :
‘probable ‘from the beginning of the con-

Jeased the premises to plaintiffs for three |

JD. t0BURNS bo) DREYPUBL YO" : ‘107

SU ve was {heteforé tore than
troversy that he would fot be able to at-
tend the court in person, and the plaintiff

should have procured the taking of his
deposition. But by the admission of the

‘application for a continuance in evidence
‘the plaintiffs secured the benefit of his state-

ment, and it is more than probable that

‘they could never havesecured his personal

attendance.’ The court fairly instructed
the jury as to the effect of the accept-
ance by the landlord of the order upon
Garnett Bros. for the rent due. Certainly
the plaintiff, who by countermanding the
order prevented its payment, cannot be
permitted to say that it was satisfaction
ofthe debtdueforrent. We have searched
the record in vain for the two distress
warrants said to have been issued, and to
which reference is made in theinstructions
of the court and in the judgment. Coun-
sel for appellants speak of them as two
warrants issued to the same county, but
there is nothing in the record supporting
this suggestion. Foraught that appears,
they may have been issued to different
counties, and this itis conceded may be
done. Acts 1882, p. 144. But it is said
that the defendant, by his avowry, justi-
fied the taking of the property only under
one warrant, while the instruction of the
court submitted to the jury the lawful-
ness of seizures under two, thus submit-
ting to their decision matters not put in
issue by the pleadings. The reply to this
is that the record contains an agreement
of counsel to the effect that the pleadings
shall in all things be considered as regular,
in that the issues upon which the cause
was tried were regularly joined. Under
this agreement the appellants cannot say
that the cause was tried upon an issue
not joined by the parties. <
_ The judgment is affirmed.

: (69 Miss, 211)
Burns et. al..v. DREYFUS et al.

(Supreme Court of Mississippi. Nov. 2, 1991.)

Lien or CoTenant For Rent — Riauts or, Bona
Fipt PurcHASER — DISSOLUTION OF INJUNCTION
—DAMAGES. ;

1L.. No lien exists in favor of cotenants for a
balance due them by their cotenant for rents and
profits of the joint estate, as against a bona fide
purchaser or incumbrancer of the interest of
such cotenant.. ‘-

2. In such case, on dissolution of an injunc-
tion to prevent a sale under a deed of trust exe-
cuted by the debtor cotenant, defendants were
entitled to the 5 per cent. damages allowed by
Code 1880, § 1918, in case of dissolution of an in-
junction to stay a sale under a deed of trust.

Cross appeals from chancery court, Hind
county; H.C. Conn, Chancellor.

“To be officially reported.”

Action by Edward Burns and others
against Sol Dreyfus and another.’ The
substantial averments of the bill are that
appellants’ father died leaving a will by
which he devised to appellants and John
W. Burnes, their brother, a one-third inter-
est, each, in certain valuable real estate;
that John W. Burns took possession of
this property, and collected all the rents

for a number of years, appropriated them

l, on which J. B. Poindexter ser-
ved also included the followiig:
R. M. Long, S. J. Aust, G. W.
Douglass, M. C. Carter, L. J.

Stuart, Mat Edwards, W. F. Rid.
dle Jr., B. R. Greer, and J. W.
Aust. Some of these may net have
served on this particular case,
however,

On page 307, Book O of the
Minutes, we find, “5th day, 2nd
week, Special August term,
August 23, 1907. THE STATE VS.
CY CONNOR (MURDER). The
defendant Cy Connor, having been
convicted on a former day of the
present term on a charge of mur-
der, auc saying nothing at kar of

sentence; It is therefore ordered
by the court that Cy Connor for
such his offense be hanged by the
neck until he is dead, dead, dead,
by the Sheriff of Noxubee County
on Friday, Sept. 27, A. D. 1907.

Toin White Crigler Zives his
recollection of the time preceding
tie execution and of that day of
execution itself; “I was a high
school boy in Macon when the last
public hanging took place. Si Con-
nor had been tried for the murder
of his wife, and sentenced to be
hanged on Sept. 27, 1907. Soon af-
ter the sentencing carpenters
began erecting a scaffold on the
courthouse lawn, directly in front
of the present library. It must
have been fourteen or so feet high,
with steps up to the landing. Si’s
cell was on the upper floor of the
jail, and on the South side, and he
watched the constriction. While
the prisoner was in Jail, and
awaiting execution, he got a
thorough case of religion, and
Spent most of the days, and part of
each night, preaching to a large
group who kept the street almost
blocked between the jail and the
court yard listening to his
preaching.

‘Mir. S. M. Thomas was school
Superintendent at the time, and he
stated that any of the high school
boys who brought a written
request from his father could wit-
ness the hanging, but my father
refused to give me one, and I
didn’t get to see it. But, I do

Ole af a eee

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Shepherd, W. B. Rogers 5. Rk.

remember the large crowds Who
flocked to town on that day. The
colored started arriving the day
before, and they (as well as the
Whites) continued to pour into
town right up to the time that the
trap fell. Mr. Eminett. Dantzler
was Sheriff at the time, and hated
lo spring the trap, but said that he
had been elected to enforce the
law, and he did. The boys who
witnessed the execution came
back to school and recited- at
length all the details. Some of
them brought pieces of the rope as
Souvenirs. They also told of one
man’s going through the crowd
Selling pears right up to the last
minute. :
“One of my school-mates liad a
relative in jail at the time, and
carried him his meals. I would ZO
with him and visit for a time. We
went up the day before Si Was
executed, and we talked to him.
He showed not the least
frepidation at the coming event.
He was just as caim and cool as if
he were going to his dinner, and
actually seemed to be looking
forward to the end of his life. And
ne never did lose his ‘cool’. From
all reports he ran up the steps,
made a brief address to the
crowd, imploring them to lead
upright Christian lives. When he
had finished, Mr. Dantzler asked
him if he was ready to go, and he
replied that he was, and to get it
Over with.”’ ,

The following is taken from
THE MACON BEACON of Sept.
28, 1907, Captioned “THE
HANGING”. :

‘Without the tremor of a
muscle, without a quaver of fear,
and with the same Silly smile he
wore at the trial of his life, Si Con-
nor, the wife-murderer, passed
from this world to the next via the
gallows at noon, Friday the 27th. |

“A great crowd of people,
mostly of his own race, had come
to town to see the ‘deep damnation
of his taking off’. Some 700 or 800
persons thronged the courtyard
and adjacent streets. . .The con-
demned man came out of jail un-
der the guard of Sheriff Dantzler
and Deputy Clark at four minutes

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carted siete tire Pre nein

lo twelve. He was dressed
black, black face, black hand
black shoes, with a spot of whii
for a shirt front, and a streak |
light brown where his hair we
parted. The part of his hai
Showed almost white among s:
much deeper black. He walke
with ne wobbling of the knees te
the scaffold, and up the stee;
Steps; and, when he spoke there
was no tremor or quaver in his
voice. It was firm and could be
heard across the yard and the far-
ther street,
“There were a few hysterical
screams from the women in the
crowd as the prisoner passed
through the throng, but a deep
hush fell on the assembly when
the condemned reached the scaf-
fold. While he was Strangling to
death, a process which took some
four minutes, a few high pitched
and emotional cheers were heard.
But the ceremony, episode, oc-
casion, incident, or whatever one
wants to call it, was anim pressive
one, and awed the Spectators.
There were curious ejaculations as
to the impassiveness of the vic-
tim; there were expressions of
wonder at the nerve he exhibited
in the face of horrible death; and
there were some exclamations of
admiration for his courage and
his religious faith that barred the
terror of an unknown future. But
everything took on a Serious and
solemn aspect. There is no doubt
that everyone was Breatly im-
pressed by Si Connor’s death. So
far as The Beacon’s ‘represen-
tative can judge of the effect of
the execution, the moral influence
of the public hanging will not work
toward the betterment. . . Had the
condemned man been privately
hanged in jail, without parade or
publicity, the effect in behalf of
law and order would have been
great. As it is, it is doubtful
whether the hanging will be a
deterrent from or an en-
couragement to crime.”
This was the last execution in
the county, and may have been

the only public one in the history
of the county,

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"LEGAL MURDER - A VICTIM TO CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, A few weeks since, a man named
Hicks was hung in Lawrence County, Mississippi, for the murder of a man named Allen,
and died protesting his innocence, Subsequent developments go far to show that Hicks
was innocent of the mrder, The Natchez COURIER of the 3lst inst. (Dec. 31, 1850),
furnishes the following statement of facts in relation to this tragical affairs

"!'The evidence on which he was convicted was entirely circumstantial and went to
prove that Allen was shot in the back of the head, the ball passing out under the
eye. hicks was therefore hung for shooting Allen. His last statement to the two
clergymen attending him the night before the execution was that he, his wife, and
Allen were traveling together with a team and gamp ing out by night; that while he
was away from the camp on the morning of Allen s death, he heard his wife scream,

and on running back, found Allen apparently lifeless, He had been drinking, and
went up to Mrs, Hicks with evident designs of hugging and insulting her. She told
him s@veral times to go away, and when he persisted, she struck him upon the head
with a wagon hammer, which she had in her hands pounding coffee, and from this blow,
alone, without any further violence, his death was occasioned,

"'Notwithstanding his protestations of entire innocence, Hicks, as we have said, was
hung for shooting Allen in the head with a rifle, and that too upon circumstantial
testimony entirely valueless, unless that mode of death has been considered as proved.
And now comes the strange after development} The denial of Hicks had made such an
impression, that it was thought necessary to examine the murdered body, in order to
do away with any idea of Hicks' innocence, by showing that Allen was indeed killed by
a rifle ball. Accopdingly, three days after the execution a committee of respectable
citizens disinterred Allen's remains, The result of their investigations prove
beyond a reasonable doubt that Allen was never shot. His skull, upon examination,
appeared to have been forced in by a blow upon the back of the head, immédiately
where it joined the neck, Pieces of the bone were hanging im the orifice of the
skull, which were driven in from the effects of the blow, The bone running below

the left eye was slightly fractured, but the sockets of the eyes, and the bones in
the face bore no marks of a bullet having touched theme

"tIn all probability the story Hicks told was type, and he is another victim to
circumstantial testimony. We pity the jury that tried him,'"

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penses in transporting persons, {
awaiting the death penalty to and;
from: the state penitentiary, and
the superintendent of the peniten-
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would serve as executing officer.
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electrocutions under the provisions
of the bill, would be the trustees of
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peace in which the prison is lo-
cated, the superintendent of the
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‘county in which the crime is com-
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Lawd. (At this moment, Walton,
who had been listening, turned to
an acquaintance. and said, “Frank,
dat means you, too, Frank, you jist
don't know.”) So now while de
breath of life ts goin’ from me, I
will say this, serve God ‘twel] rou
die.” And then, kly changing
his mood, Huggins to Frank
Batts, » How you gittin’ ‘long,

Some poet has said, “Much may
be said hy those about to die.” and
that last statement of Huggins’ to
his friend said more than any
speech he could have made.

“Going te Heaven”

Walton also had: much to say, and
in his nervous manner, dictated his
last statement to the world to a
Star reporter, “covering the case."
“Us ain't goin’ to de debil. Us is
goin’ to Heaben, ‘cause us is got
trust in de Lawd. May he bless Mr.
Martin ‘specially, he’s done al! he
could whilst we's alive. an’ we hove
we meet him in Heaben. An’ may
de good Lawd bless My. Cameron.
and Mr. Dunn, dey done all that

wuz humanly possible to defen’ de
case. An’ may he biess Mr. Holmes,
an’ Mr. Gilbert. An’ all de rest of
de folks what's been coud to us,
bless dem, too.”

At & request from Walton, Rev.

Bmiuey sang, “The Old Account’'s

Been Settled." the three ministers
and the two murderers joining in
on the chorus. During the singing,
Walton, with the fervor of his race.
iooked toward the low ceiling and
waved his erms, chanting the
chorus,

Marion Walton and Eugene Hug-
gins Friday morning said they were
ready to die. They added they had
made their peace with God, and
spent their Jast hours in prayer and

song, bidding goodbye to their.

fricnds and relatives.

A delegation of negro ministers
Friday morning were with them in
the death cel]. A group of relatives.
weeping. were in the corridors of the
jail in which these two blacks were
to die for the murder of J. J. Mc-
Carty in late December, 1926.

The execution of these negroes ts

set for between noon and four.

o'clock Friday.

Both Friday morning were not the
same men that were met two days
ago—both were more subdued only
a few weak smiles and an earnest
desire to talk mark their last hours.
Both were more than willing to give
last statements, for both have much
to say.

“May de good Lawd bless all de
whitg folks, ‘cause dey sho’ been mo’
than good to us,” stated Walton.
“an’ may de Lawd bless all dese
folks what hab come heah to be
with us while de breath remains in
our bodies."

Both Walton and Huggins were
in a@ religious mood. with the soft
songs of the attendant ministers
ringing in their ears.

Both ate little breakfast, order-
ing fried oysters, fish, coffee, bread
and cigarettes from a local cafe,

penalty inflicted for the death of rather than be

quick bursts of sound. by Walton,

sittin’ on de throne. an’ He wi/a small. quantity
Jedge all, each and ebery one. You- | the latter's filling

vior.” Huggins, :
The entire night ~and morning nrony, grabbed
were spent in prayer an SONngs,
with Revs. B. Washington Coats. | Mrs. Moo
T .Hutchins, anc J. H. Smiley
Staying with the men in their jas; | her
hours. Negro spiritual songs, re-| husband,
quested by the doomea men. vere Huggins as he
ping. And several readings from|store and fled
the Bible given.

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But foe these’ men, death ts de-| in nte;
matted by the state—the sapreme | were to shoot thetr

& fellow man. Im a tiny cell below . Carry One Pt He
the déath chamber, the men waited,; They had one Pietok - be }
thinking much, talking in short | them and the weapon as

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“All young folks, love for God.” Senate the Sgn
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tiny cel) for death, and the sent with hig pistol made

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some relatives. some attendants,
watching. Inside the ceil. some} headquarters was

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former inmate had written. “Give | Phone to send officers for. Oey ae

me liberty. or give me death” While awaiting the rivet.
Sentenced Two Times jOtficers and when his eyes.

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ed and condemned to death by pocket; fired

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as possible, conviction and sentence
to death followed. On a secord ap-
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JAMES, Mildred Louise, black, electrocuted Vicksburg, Miss., May 1), 19h.

"Vicksburg = (A P) = Two of Warren County's most sensational murders were avenged here
early Friday in a double electrocution which took the lives of a middle-aged white man

and a negro woman, The woman, Mildréd James, went to the chair shortly before 1:15 aeme
and she was pronounced dead four minutes after she had taken her seat. She had been con=
victed of slaying Miss Nannie Con klin, aged spinster who lived alone in a rambling old
house near the city limits. James Samuel Hughes, convicted slayer of Deputy Sheriff S. Je
Luckett, followed to the execution chamber at ):25. He was pronounced dead at 4:35. The
woman had no statement as she sat calmly in the chair, She gave a fleeting smile to a
Catholic priest as eye guards were made fast. Hughes asked mercy on his soul in a

brief profession of faith in Christianity. He was a member of the Holly Roller faith."

DAILY NEWS, Jackson, Mississippi, May 19, 19h) (1/3.)

JACKSON, Emanuel ("Kid Boy''),. black, hanged Liberty, Miss., 5-27-1932,

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This cause having been submitted at a former day cf
this term on tho record herein from the Circuit Court
. of Amite County and this court having sufficiontly

oxanined and considored the same and being of tho

opinion that thore is no orror theroin doth ordoz and
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adjudged that the appellant, EMANUEL JACKSON, Alias,
"RID BOY? JACKSON, Lor such his orimo of murdor bo
Safely kept in tho Jail of Amite County until Thursday,
May tho 12th, 1938, and on that day boetwoon tho hours
of 10 ofahool A. Mo and 4 ofclock P. M, within the jJaax
yard of Anito County or at ovoh othor convontont piace
on tho Lousd of Oupsxedoora of tho sad Matto County
may dosignatoe, he, the cadd Etanog, JAGKSOM, Also,
"KID BOKPFACKSON, bo by tho shorif? of Amato County,
hanged by the nock wmtil he is dead, It 43 further
ordered and adjudged that the Covnty of Amite do pay
tho costs of this appeal to bo taxed ete,

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YOU ARE THEREDORE HEREBY COMMANDED, That such oxecution and further proceedings be had in said

“enuge, as according to right and justice, and the judgment of our SUPREME COURT and tho law of the land ought

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JACKSON, Emanuel ("Kid Boy"), black, hanged at Liberty, Mississippi, May Ey 1932.

"McConb, Miss,, Oct, 22, 193l-National Guardsmen were stationed about the Pike County jail
at Mapnolia, a few miles from here, tonight after mob threats had been heard against the
life of Emanuel KKXM (Kid Boy) Jackson, negro, awaiting a jury verdict at Liberty, Miss,,

iim his thial for the murder of Bramblett Bates, a 5l-yearsold farmer of ‘Amite County.

The troops were requested by Sheriff N. B, Travis of Amite County because of the gathering
of citizens about the courthouse lawn in Liberty and a threat offered at a bridge between
Magnolia and Liberty as officers were conveying the defendant to his trial,

"A detachment of lO National Guardsmen under command of Major Allam McCleurarrived in Mage=
nolia tonight to preyerveorder and 20 additional Guardsmen weremobilized at McComb under
Capt. J. T. Dawson as an emergency move while awaiting the arrival of the Jackson troops.
The order of mobilization was issued by Governor Theodore G, Bilbo at Jackson, Sheriff
Thad Ellzey of Pike County, in whose custody the negro had been placed by the sheriff of
Amite County, early tonight with a group of local officers spirited the negro out of his
confinement in the Pike County jail to aplantation home 15 miles east of Magnolia, but
returned him later in the a: ae when he had recei ved word that the troops were coming,
"Officers planned to escort Yackson to Liberty tomorrow morning for the jury verdict. The
jury received the case yesterday afternoon and reached a verdict soon afterward, Jackson's
trial lasted an hour and 15 minutes, Since then the jurors have been awaiting the return

of the defendant to the court in Liberty to announce their verdict. The slaying occurred

on August 25, 1931. Yackson was aprested in East Feliciana Parish, La,, on Aug, 27 and

was kept in jail at Baon Rouge until last Tuesday, when he was taken to Liberty for arrange}
ment and trial. Between time of arraignment and trial he was carried by officers back and
forth betwee Liberty and Magnolia and was kept in the Magnolia jail at night.

"ord from KXKHKK Liberty said that it was planned to produce Jackson in court at 9 o'clock ©
tomorrow morning to hear thejury verdict, but there had been a report that an attempt would
bemade to have him taken there tonight. Yackson testified at his trial that Bates, the
planter, went to his house early on the morning of Aug. 25 and demanded that he go to work ©
on his (Bates') farm. The farm hand said he refused to go because he had other wrk to do
and he testified that Bates thm threatened him with a knife, dackson testified that he
shot Bates in self defense, The negro said Bates died with a knife in his hand,"
TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, Lasy Oct. 23, 1931 (2/1)

The following from TIMES-PICAYUNE of 10/2),/1931:"Jackson, Miss., Oct. 23, 1931l-Accompanied
by 70 National Guardsmen, Emanuel Jackson, AmiteCo, negro was brought to the county jail her
for safeke@ ing today, after hearing the death sentencepronounced on him at Liberty, where
troops stood guard while the jury brought in @ verdict of guilty, closing his trial for
mrder of a white farmereseeeeEarly this morning, parreunded by the Guardsmen, Jackson was
brought to the courthousewnere other troops stood guard with riot guns and heard the jury
verdict of guilty read, The jury had been out since lh pe m. Wddnesday. There was no
demonstration and Judge R, L, Corbin immediately afterward pronounced the death sentence,
setting date of execution for Nov. 27. The tropps then entered a caravan of 12 automobiles
with the negro and brought him to Jackson," Page8, column 7,

"Liberty, Mississippi, May 27, 1932=With werds of advice to 'all the boys' and an assertion
KRXKXZRXKMKAXKXXARUMARURYAEAE that he held no animosity for anyone, Emanuel "Kid Boy! Jack=
son, 25=year=old negro slayer, paied the death penalty on the gallows here today for the
murder of Bramlette Bates, well known Amite County planter,

"Jackson told newspapermen to 'tell all the boys if you can buy a pistol for a dime, run
from the man offering it, One bullet has cost my life,'

"The hanging of Jackson rung down the curtain on one of the most sensational murder trials
in the history of Mississippi, marked by rw ar riots and the calling out of 2 National
Guard companies to mintain order, Bates was shot to death last August." TIMES-PICAYUNE,

New Orkans, Lae, May 28, 1932 (3/8).

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THE CLARION-LEDGER, JACKSON, MISS., MONDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1951

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[AFFAIRS
OF STATE

By CHARLES M. HILLS

Thei national convention of the
Sens of Confederate Veterans wil]
be held in Jackson next year, and

will sometime in June. It was
| held this year at Norfolk, Va.
| Mis$issippi nas about 600 mem-
| bers the organization, and Jack-
| son camp boasts about 100 of these.
|W Nj (Jack) McGee, secretary
| for the State Budget Commission
and camp commander of the local
unit the Sons of Confederate
Vets,gsay s his group is the second
Jarge$t in the nation.

Beljeve it or not, the largest
| camp of the Sons in New York
City, definitely in eeland. And,

¥ Anyway, it
Jackson

We are told that the souferners
who have gone North, jealously
guard their membership in the
Confederate organization and ares
sbout the most active in the nation

This indeed is a funny old world,
snd politics are not the only mak-
ers of strange bedfellows.

We understand that today there

are 17 Confederate veterans liy-
ing, and two of them are in Mis-
sissippi. _

Local Commander McGee is the
son of a man who was held prison-
er for many months at Ship
off the coast from Gulfport, when
that bastion was in the hands of
the Yankees. It was a
bastile and fort built by the Con-
federacy, and captured by the
Yankees,

When Commander McGee's fa-!.

ther was released from prison af-
ter the Civil War ended, he walk-
ed all the way from Gulfport to
his home in Newton county.
“There was no hitchhiking in
those days,"” observes McGee.
ig probable that
will watch with consider-

| able interest the national conven.
| tion of the

Sons of Confederate
Veterans here next year. They
have been invited by the loca)
chamber of commerce and Mc-
Gee’s camp, and have accepted at
the Norfolk convention this year.

One of the duties of the New
Capitol engineer ig carétaker of
the state’s portable electric chair
The instrument is kept in the Old
Asylum building out at Highway

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MISS DOROTHY HUBBARD

of Forest and Jatkson, as-
sumes duties as Director of
aie Education of Centen-
ary Methodist Chur es le
Miss Hubbard is tha daughter
of Mrs. Ruth Hubbdrd, house
mother of the Methodist Home
in Jackson. She recently com-
pleted an outstanding college
career at Millsaps College,
Jackson, where she tajored in|

| Religious Education.

Patrol headquarters, far the most

part, except when it takes its le-
trips. t

There was an electrécution : the

| other night at Batesville. We wun-

derstand that the new engineer,
who has to see that the condemn-

the switch, was exceefiingly ner-

don’t blame him!

We under-

| stand that the new state building

engineer had never been around
execution before. -

HOLMES, Wyatt, black, hanged Holly Springs, MS on June 2), 1861

= <==, ‘| doomed man ended by. saying, ‘Death hag ho.
ee PEN Mn. 6) Vig: (sds dominion over me. My name will be on the.
LURED 0: (LARIAT, pee roll-cal] which will take place after’ awhile.

‘ . ; Mcvt me in heaven, | drpthers and ‘sistors. |

‘

- da Ok pee ¢ ieee ie é ; ‘ ‘ Heaven.ia my home. ‘Good-by. Farewell. (I:
ie Execution. of & Weak Minded Colored | am ready.’ Minister Hang gave out the hymn; .
a Youth: In ‘Mississippi, Crea ae ae Cote ‘And Lam born: to dje,'? which. waa sung (i
Oh TS oe bp Mae may the impressive negra style, Holmes: join- .

Wompantc tite. ie ee eae ing with the others, After: 9’ short

mp heed wee Him to Marder an “Aged: prayer, the seeatnnte: bade hia Rood:

ee She'Scigeroat Saat , lous to His Wife by and dismounted from’ the; scaffold,

tg Swhtte tn ent it) the Scaffold, eputy Sheriff Miller prepared Holmes for the

eh ae othe Real (alprits Escape ah act, and at 12 o'clock the rope was cut,’

With IMPripdament. ; oe and with a snap which told. that bis neck wag
eras, nihetiepennns KE broken the body swung in mid-air, There wore
to the lons-fidenocrss ree sone very affecting scenes, Several of the.

Lo Spectators swooned. ' In fifteen minutes life
wns declared oxtinct, and the remajng ‘wore |

fe
PA ae pA
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Spectal Dispatch
Hour SPiINGs, Miss. ,' June 24.—Anout 5 000
‘ ’

Peapls of ail X09, 81Z04,| ge

assembled here to-duy | td de condition, taken down and delivered to relatives, As the’
‘tion: of tho negro Wye rie at ue Oxecu- crowd left the scene rain: began to fall, and @
Was clojay Odi ae eee NU8: The day. wot procession three rniles long wended its way
tea! f ES and PIOBSant.” Fifteen mine) buck to town. The execution took place at the
Ute net x o'clock. the) condemned mManar Merete te? irae viL COMP. wea th
4Ve > thes fg iy he: Nae aol LED ON BY EVIL COMPANIONS. eek a Ree
of theta APand a oeedtition Under the oscors: Last fall near Oak Grove, a villave in the.
ata anc about 100 police. «He Was fn. northwestern part of this (Marshall) county,
C1080 ¢ carriage swith’ the! Sheritt ‘ the crime that sent Wyatt Homes to the Kale
ored yIninister, and: hile. coos 2 & COls, lows was perpetrated. Andrew Scott, an old
ing ‘attho!-acattora % #9 counsel, Arriy-: negro, quiet and harmless, was the murdorer’g
Big ide caffold ho! ‘showed the firm. victim, He was well to do and cared fora
‘DOss The | had’. ex} Odd all the wat young wife and his only son, The wife, tiring
hrovgh and mounte tie'etene with oie ee of her aged husband, decided that he must be
“meanor, Biarts dy th ‘Steps with a firm do-' put out of the way, She had been on intimate
Or. Sheriff Howard regd the death: war.! terms for some time with a negro named Adam
; Toles, As w result of their relations @ child

rant and informed him; that he could talk’, >

While if'he desired toy J

Chey <R was expected, and the woman stated that thig
mn @ faint and weak |

cireujustance necessitated the disposal of her
hushund, She was afraid that when he discov

voice he Whispered af we

ona bs W words but ;
began to. tremble.and h tot ered. as fahad legs ered the condition of affairs ‘he would kill her,
would fall. He soon Falfi tana: ough he and proposed to head him off. Toles was in-
furtlier lens of hers e@ and then gave formed that he must put the old man out of the
er signs of breaking down, He began in way, and that speedily, or have some one to do
loud Ns to addresg the colored peop! ba it for him, The woman promised to pay him
: were greatly excited a d {1 fF PMO, wha #louwhen the decd was done, and to share the
ang. \ % 17 ludulging in groang Old iaan’s property with him. The compacs

Bet vier di Aaa SoM way mi rerd hie se bhi took 2 CUS DED on,

a 0U8: FORM } ; ce Jim Woods, into his confidence. To hit !
Te agid bé peaceable s! yt LAMENTATION,. : THE PLOT Was DISCLOSED

e a t abe And quiet,go that you can and he agreed toact. Woods then went to
h ar and not gO away with wrong tales " Holwes, Informed him of the work on hand,
want each of you to tuke the scene to h is ( and induced bim to begomea party to the con-
you Gan't tell which n a ePene Co heart, for spiracy. Holmos demurred at first, and would
here! Don’ aich my ‘be the next ta stan not agree to do Anything at allin the matter

+: Don't charge w : until niter a great deal of urging, Among

other things Toles told himethat Jesse Seott, a
son of the old milan, and Abe Hindsley waylald
him, but wore unable't carry out their inten,

{ weak and the erowd tlons, Owing to an unforeseen circumstance,
were) ddmonstrative, |: A ‘woman f Parad: ‘Two | woeks after the above converyation |
Holmes’ fcontinued: aay ah ainted, . Holmes was again approached on the subject, .
brot ry od: iP: ‘Read your Bibles; . the pationce of. the Others’ being” about exe?
Aree sisters, | cet me in heayen,'? bausted. * ave Be Putuaon ty trib ways

ntt ZTO'4 . ‘ BPs todo with the plot, but was finally prevalle
exdltet ions he negro spectators became more on totahe a ani an offer of ashare of the
na Mf ry, moment; swinging their bodieg money having its effect on the youthful ang
and eryig out, “Hulfefuta Bless the Lord 1" foolish negro, On the night of the muntee
and ffAnien,’’ and bee amin wild SNe: Holmes and Woods met Toles, who had @ bottle
lie th a rig ~~? Mlng wild over the be- i of whisky. All imbibed, and then the trie

At # sacrilege wis going to be committed ,° went across the Alesynder place to Seott'’e
3 he hahging of ond apparently,'so good, Ie house. Subsequent ocetirrences are described in|
ecom iik-evid PT A Bia a) THE LANGUAGE OF TOLMRS HIMSELE, Oo}
bey ‘ee tt t bee neeibe-remg.. which was . When we got near the house Jesse Scott war to

8 nniny ” reak: tha guard-line round ‘the shout (ous. Phat was the signal, and he gnve
Ballays ould get beyond control, the Sheriff | ft Adamo weatto him, talked a minute ang
stopped his wild talk, and told him he could i . . ‘ MT aes. vw Se idgtadaly
speak quietly for five minutes. Hud he been .
ash dy * : continue here would. hava beca.
FOUDIE, The murmuy which was rising ree - ? : }2 ; 7-
9a. Ma a LeBE- (Emec lat

minded one of s roaring waa. Many police ox-
+ he belief that p: tic
Sf He \eriff iso ae
py LAN ATTEMPT FO RELRASH |) NV) .
‘the Prisener. upon which a bloouy.rint would = " JOvies, ©
bavgengued. When Holmes was quieted the

crowd becamo passive. and continued 80. The |

obec! Jurf ae

.Presned

x the prompt action es
Be a ae I Sa ae

Aliasiasippi

Executive Department

Jackson

TO THE SHERIFF or__defferson Davis COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI—GREETINGS:

WHEREAS, at the Jaruary, 1939

term of the Circuit Court of

Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi,

“Cleveland Holloway

was convicted of the crime of __Murder

and sentenced to _ Hang

Paul B. Johnson
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, SERGHHOMOHEAR, Governor of the State of Mississippi, by virtue

of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of the State, do hereby grant

unto the said Cleveland Holloway

and I do authorize you upon receipt of these presents to take action and be governed ac-
cordingly.

REMARKS:

A ten day stay of execution is hereby granted

so that the Governor may have time to review

the case in detail,

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the Great Seal of

the State of Mississippi, to be affixed, this
18th

day of

January » LED

By thé Goversorena | | 7 ;
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GOVERNOR.
Secretary of State.

SUPREME COURT

“Sheriff's Returng

\ By virtue of tha within order, sentence and judgment, which waa stayed,
vy ‘Baril attached Executive Order signed by Governor Paul B. Johnson, I, S.C,
Magee, Sheriff of Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, have on this date, being
the date fixed by judgment and sentence of court and thereafter changed and
fixed as of this day by Exeoutive Order hereto attached, personally executed
the within order and sentence by hanging the said Cleveland Holloway, ina
Place designated and fixed by the Board of Supervisors of Jefferson Davis
County, in Jefferson Davis County, hanging the said Cleveland Holloway by the
neck, until dead, in full compliance in every way with the law and judgment of
the aout. .

This the 2g day of January, A.D. 1940.

KG Wl Gn ~_—

“Sherirf of Jefferson Pavis County,
Mississippi.

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Form 521

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To the Honorable the-____-_---------------- Circuit Res eae enc meee

Jefferson Davis

of._______ ne enn re ty

December,
WHEREAS, on the ay 19-99; the same being a day of

..County—Greetings:
the regular term of our SUPREME COURT, begun and held in the Court room, in the Capitol, in the City of Jackson,

in said State, on the.__Second__-- Monday of___September, , in the year of our Lord, 19-39, the

following final -------- was rendered by our SUPREME COURT, to-wit:

This cause naving been submitted at a former day of this

term on the record herein from the Circuit Court of

Jefferson Davis County and this court naving sufficiently
examined and considered the same and being of the .
opinion that there is no error therein doth order and

adjudge that the judgment of said Circvit Court rendered in.
this cause on the 2lst day of January 1939, be and the same |
is hereby affirmed, It is further ordered and adjudged that -i J
the eppellant for such his-crime of murder be safely kept Hs
in the jail of Jefferson Davis County until Friday, *
Januery 19th, 1940 and on that cete within the jailyard
of Jefferson Davis County or-at such other convenient - Pr
place as the Board of Jefferson Davis County may designate, |;
he, the seid Cleveland Holloway, be by the Sheriff of Jefferson .
Davis County, hanged by the neck until he is dead. It is ii
further ordered and edjudged that the County of Jefferson Ho
Davis do pay the costs of this appeal to be taxed, .etc.

YOU ARE THEREFORE HEREBY COMMANDED, That such exeéution and further proceedings be had in said
cause, as according to right and justice, and the judgment of our SUPREME COURT and the law of the land ought
to be had.

ny WITNESS, the Hon SY SEG SMW ee

Chief Justice of our Supreme Court; also the signature of the Clerk

_ . and the Seal of said Court hereunto affixed, at office, at Jackson, this
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HANNA, Henry, black, hanged Winston Co., MS 9-9-1870.

"HUNG-Henry Hanna, freedman,

who was convicted of murder in the

first degree, at the July Term of the Circuit Court of Winston
County, suffered the extreme penalty of the law at the hands of

Sheriff Metts on yesterday,
crime of which he was convicted.

is hard."

confessing that he was guilty of the

"The way of the transgressor
- Louisville Bulletin."

Macon Banner, Macon, Mississippi, September 10, 1870 (2/4),

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HaNiko, Jim, slave, bl, hanged Woodville, Ms on Jan. 9, 1846

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‘the —

Horninie Arratn.—A most melancholy and
horrible occurrence took place on the plantation
of Mr. A. C. Dunbar of this county,-on last Mon-
doy evening about B o'clock. Mr. John Lind-.

wey, who had charge of the plantation, while stand:
j.ing nedr the gin, saw “a alrango negro allempling

to break into one of the negro houses, and imme-
diately proceeded to arrost him. Stationing two
negroes outside ho entered the houso which the
strange negro had previously. entered, and not
finding him below, went up A laddor and opening
a door loading into a small garret room, saw the
nogro and commanded him to remain whore he
waa: Instead of which fe rushed upon Mr. Lind-

soy, who cocked his pistol, but his arm seems to
havo bean immediately ‘knocked up, (the shot of
his pistol were found in the roof immedintely over

the place whero ho stood) and a deadly thrust from
a knife piven him, Mr. LL. walked out of the
house and directed thy servants who camo to his
nesistance to pursue the runnway, aud then falling
down died even befor ife could reach him
from the distance of reais ‘The knife en-
tered between the ribs below the rightshoulder-
blade, behind. and must have cut some of the
large urteries in “the vicinity of the lungs, Mr.
I,. was one of our most respectable and worthy
citizens. He has left a young wife and child,
who have thus been dy prived of o kind husband
and father, without a moment's warning.

The murderor baa been apprehended and lodg-
ed in jail, and as wo are to have no court until
uext June; he will have the advantage, wo sup-
pose, of noarly a year of idleness to grow fat at
the public expense. We hope alwaya to go for
Justice and Law, und as far us may be for chari-
ty, but we--do, wish that the perpotrator of this
foul act might loyally. have even-handed punish-
ment dealt out to him more speedily, “~° *

The negroes on ‘tho plantation could with diffi-
cully be restrained from burnings the murderer
upon the apot. "This shows in what estimation
they held Mr. Lindsey. vt.

Mr. I. wasin the 35th*yenr of hisage. The
murderer, “Jim,” belonging to Mr. George No-
lund, has been examined befuro Justices Wim. L,
Cuge and I. Cooley, and remanded for {rial atthe

next term of court.

Re puryicar MS
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192 SOUTHERN },50,
HOLLOWAY, Cleveland, black, hanged at Prentiss, Mississippi, on January 29, 1910,

"Cleveland Holloway, negro, convicted of the slaying of Fred Magee in a cafexbrawl arising
from an argument over 25¢, paid the supreme penalty for his crime here Monday at }):52 A.M,
and carried to the Sheriff's office where a brief prayer service was held, conducted by
Rev, Herman Magee, pastor of the Magee Presbyterian church, and son of Sheriff Gwinn Magee,
Rev, Horton, Baptist minister of Columbia, and Revs. W. Le Holcomb and Solon Walker, local
ministers, were also present, The condemned negro was given an opportunity to say whatso-
ever he desire, by prayed and chanted instead, his last words being: 'Lord, forgive then,
for they know not what they are doing,' When asked if he wanted a stimulant of any kind, he
said he needed something to clear his throat, He was given several cups of cofee, and Dr,
N. 0. Tyrone, physian in charge, administered an opiate, and a few minute later he walked
unassisted to the gallows, District Attorney Sebe Dale read the death warrant ad adjusted
the black hood over the doomed negro's head and the rope around his neck, and as Mr, Dale
said 'Goodbye, Cleveland,' Sheriff Gwinn Magee sprung the trap, time }): 5), The body lunged
through the floor without human sound, and at l:56, Dr, Tyrone pronounced him dead, The
body was claimed by relatives and qa@arried to the colored Baptist church at Bassfield for
funeral services, So far as weknow this is the first hanging ever to take place in this
county§" An unnamed newspaper from Prentiss. Clipping furnished by Hon, Guy Magee,
Chancery Clerk for Jefferson Davis County and son of Sheriff Gwinn Magee, Dec, 21, 1981.

Supreme Court sentenced him to he hanged on 1-19-19),0 when it affirmed conviction, On le
18, Governor Paubl B. Johnson, Sr., granted a l0-day stay ef execution to review case in
detail aftar which he refused further intervention, Court papers, including Sheriff's
return, showing that he executed Holloway on Jan, 29, 190

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HINTON, Murdock, white, 48, electrocuted Wiggins, Mississippi, February 2,° 19516’

DUSELSCTYONSETIOORL OG?

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"Wiggins, Feb, 2 (AP), = Murdock Hinton died in the electric chair here ‘early Friday for
the slaying of George County Sheriff J. fs Nelson two years ago, ,The gray haired farmer,
who has been accused of the death of ‘three members of his family but was tried only for
the slaying the sheriff, was given the first .awaX charge of electricity at 12:07 aeme
and°was pronounced dead at 12:11, Shortly before the execution he requested that the
approximately SO witnesses be removed from the courtroom where the state's portable
electric chair was installed. Officers explained that witnesses were necessary @1 and
the execution proceeded. Friday was Hinton's 8th birthday. Hinton was brought here
over icé=covered froads from Jackson several hours before the execution. He told a
newsman he was 'not too worried! about the ordeal, ‘but its those KAMXaXT ARIAS GE kids
I've been worried about all these months,' The children, .ranging in age from ) to.18,
are living with relatives of Hinton's dead wife. Hinton was captured at his mother's
home~néar Pascagoula four days after he went berserk at his farm home at KuZSAALRY
Lucedale. Nelson was killed by a blast from a shotgun-when he went to investigate an
argument which was climaxed by the slaying of Hinton's wife and granddaughter, | Hinton
fled, taking his daughter with him, Her body was found in the sheriff's wrecked auto
several ‘miles from the Hinton home, Hinton's attorneys @& claimed he was. insane. A
psychologist and 2 EHAMAKBYBYBERX KEREBL BEAK NY SUX HEF AB EAX I BUK BUX HARA K
criminologist testified they believed Hinton was-feeble-minded. Dre Je Le Jaquith,
superintendent of the State Hospital, and a psychiatrist, and Dr. Vincent.Js. Daly,
hospital psychologist, testified they found Hinton sane last December 28, The circuit
court and the state supreme court refused writs of habeas corpus on the SXEZ#XERAEAEAER
claim that Hinton was insane, Egrlier the U. Se Supreme Court upheld SHBZESHEZREZERIZKA
the conviction and death sentence and Governor Fielding Le Wright refused to intervene."
JACKSON, Misse, DAILY NEWS, February 2, 1951 (8/2&36)

€ e on . ; obs - a. :
"Governor Fielding Le (#i#KX Wright said Wednesday he would not intervene in the case
of Murdock Hinton, George Coynty white man scheduled to die Friday for the murder of
George County Sheriff J. E. Nelson. Attorneys for Hinton Tuesday appealed to the
Governor to stay Hinton's execution for 90, days to give them time to perfect. an appeal
to the U, Se Supreme Court. If granted the stay by the Governor, the counsel said, ~
they would seek an appeal to the U. S, Supreme Court from the action of the State
Supreme Court Tuesday in refusing to postpone the execution. Tuesday Hinton's attorneys
asked the state high court to postpone his death in order that they might appeal from
Hinds Circuit Judge Me Me McGowan's action of Monday in refusing to issue a writ of
habeas corpus. The court refused, Hinton's attorneys contend that he is feebleminded
and therefore mentally XK4AMMAK incompetent, They allege that the hearing before Judge
McGowan produced newly-discovered evidence = that is, the existence of a number of
cases of insanity on both sides of Hinton's family." DAILY NEWS, Jackson, January
3k, 1951 (i47.)

Article by Frances Baker Briggs. "A family history of insanity and crime was unfolded
in Hinds circuit court Monday morning by the sister of Murdock Hinton, George county
white man scheduled to die February 2, for murder, Occasion was a sanity hearing, held
before Judge Me M. McGowan, Hinton, convicted by a Stone county circuit court of the
murder of Sheriff Je Es Nelson, in 1948, was found to be ‘completely sane' in December
by psychologists at State Hospital, KaaMKAK (mental) Whitfield, Hinton's execution is
set on his |\8th birthday - next Friday, The George County man was indicted also for
the murder of his estranged wife, their daughter and her infant (10 weeks old) daughter,
but was tried only for the murder of the sheriff, Mrs. Zudy May Richardson, sister and
neighbor of Hinton, testified her brother had been 'sick = mentally - all his life,'

She added that a number of persons on both her mother's and her father's sides of the
family were insane, Several of the insane relatives, she said, were now dead, Two
uncles, twin brothers of her mother, were killed immediately after they finished serving
ten years in the penitentiary. 'None of us are very bright,' she said, One of her

cousins, Mrs. Richardson said, was a ‘wild man,' b 5 i
locked in a room all his Life, “she aditted that she did not testify ah the PBHebBburt

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trial regarding the cases of insanity, explaining that neither her father nor mother
would allow her to do so, Two other witnesses for Hinton testified Monday morning .that
in their opin ion he was feebleminded and therefore was mentally incompetent, They
were Howard A. M&MSHHX McDonnell, Biloxi attorney and criminologist, former state~
#K senator JXANAX ERI ANS ARIK BAMA FXAKAKKEK, and Dr. Ne B, Bond, Jackson consulting aaybhes
logist. McDonnell said he examined Hinton for 2 hours Sunday; and that in his opinion.
Hinton was'feebleminded, -McDonald admitted that he administered no standard psychia-
tric test. McDonnell said he discovered that Hinton'scleft breast resembled a woman's
breast-and that it emitted a milky substance, The attorney said that in his opin ion .
Hinton probably suffered from a glandular disturbance which:he said contributed: to his
mental deficienty. McDonnell said Hinton told him that he had engaged in unnatural
sex practices on himself and with animals for many years, even during his married life.
Hinton, said McDonnell, told him that he had "had to kill them! (his family and the
sheriff) and that-if the circumstances were repeated he would "have to do it agains!
Both. McDonnell. and Dry Bond testified ‘that Hinton. showed no sign of remorse or
of apprehensions Bidwell Adams, .coast. attorney ‘and former Lieutenant-governor, repre=, '
sents ‘Hinton, Attorney General J. Ps. Coleman represents the state, The hearing was (to: -
continue Monday afternoon, with Dr. W. Le. Jacquith, director of State hospital, whit-
field, and Dr. V..J. Taly, psychologist there, expected to testify on behalf of the
states Dr.*Bond told the court that he administered the Stanford-Binet intelligence:
test to Hinton and'that Hinton rated '50,! This, said. Bond, is the border line between’

a 'low grade moron and a high grade imbecile." Hinton, he said, showed the mental '
S died of a child of seven and a half years, He said persons of this intelligence quo-
tient could do a number of-things-"plow - cut :wood- even*make whiskey.' (The State con~
tends that Hinton ‘is not-feebleminded, using as one of the arguments that, according. to
a witness in the-lower court trial, he earned his living by! making vhiskeys). Bond
said that the Stanford-Binet test was the test most widely recognized by competent psy-=
chéabpists. ‘Bond added that he found no evidence of a’major,mental disease, but that
ins his opinion Hinton's brain cells had 'just-never developed.' A-person of- Hinton' s
mental age would not know the difference between right and wrong, and according to this
interpretation would be ‘insane, Bond said, Hinton, a pale-skinned, white-haired many
shoved almost no emotion during the morning session of the hearing, -He stared straight
ahead, chainesmoked and picked his teeth, between cigarettes, with the frayed endof a
match. Occasionally he scratched his face with fingernails three-fourths of an inch —
long. Hinton showed his only interest when Dr. Bond testified that Moonshine liquor
could be manufactured inca chemical laboratory, and mention ingredients involved," DATL
NEWS, Jackson, Mississippi, rrowid 29, 1951 (12263) .

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o1 ID 9 BD eke ow A Eg big does UA , Wel Vid a ae | he ohn OOP OM UL, OF

am HOUSTON DIES
: ‘ON THE GALLOWS.

AN IMMENSE THRONG—-FULLY 5,000 PEOPLE
WITNESSED THE EXECUTION.

Most Perfect Order Prevailed.

hanging of Jim Houstin, convicted | been. . Fortunate would it be to

the murder of Jim Stitts, both! warning were taken to heart and
colored. Early in the morning] heeded!

people began coming in, in fact After his short talk arid confes-
some came in onthe evening be-! sion, the black cap was drawn over
fore, and by the time appointed | his face, the rope adjusted around |
for the hanging the streets and by | his neck and at 12.10 the trap fell |
ways were packed and jammed by | and with a dull, sicking thud; the
a surging mass of men, women, | body was dangling at the. end of
children, horses, wagons and. ve-;the-rppe. In fourteen minutes his
hicles of every description, the heart had ceased. to’ “beat. » and
line of all’ sorts of conveyances ex- | 20. ‘minutes after the trap. fell: “the
teriding ' back along the streets and | body was taken down and placed
roads: inalt directions” “beyond the in ‘the coffin andthe soul of Jim.
Jimits ‘of the village,. at least’ ‘nine- Houstin,, the murderer, was before
tenths of the immense throng being | his Maker. ~ :

«At 13*minutes to’ 12, ‘tt. Sheriff’ throughout the entire proceedings,

from the jail’ ‘and. seating. hinvin: aj as large. a. gathering. of people
surry’ ‘proceeded t to. the. place’ of, never aseembled anywhere: with

The largest crowd ever assem- |them against being led. astray by]
bled in Belen was here on Tues-jthe enticements of evjl women,
day of this week to witness the; xambling and whiskey, as he had}

at the last term of circuit court: of{his race of people if his impressive |

colored "people. ; The most: perfect. ‘otttee's sevailed )

Green conducted the: ‘condemned | and ‘we. awit venture. to assert that}

exeanene Hee sgonterence “Being, iess ‘canon ads disorder: than

pees
‘afforded plenty

spect bea Bee ne ee sgood:

eee hea snroughen without op lech ‘ora ‘a
‘Of. roont : for’ all disturbing incidents.” ‘Sheriff ‘Green
view. of the | is:to,be, etigratilated and ja: ‘fact

execution.’ "On being. led --up” to
ee vemetes uaidertbs: ida ‘ver

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At Raitroad, » ,

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“More Cotton tocome in. Jt w

- day fell out of a Wagon and breke his
arm. -Dr.J. W.C. Smith was called in
. to set it. .

that there will bea grand masked ecarni-

cided success,

Satur day, having worked fuithiully in the

- State.
= in tke legislature, or who stood higher,

«)<the coinihittce appointed, that arrange-
~ mentgure being made to build a Cnion
- church at Old Shiloh, ‘in the Midway

fn a shor t time, i

was ‘turned syer to ‘the amiga Mr
(of J00..G, White 2 es

Saline te Agate i.

The litdé child ot Mr. © Roeder is stil!

oe qitite™ ill with pacumoaia, but Was iin:
Be proving 3 yesterday, che

Work is rapidly .progressing on the
cabankment — in Chau plin’s
fic dd in eight ot town, ;

atler Jeut
Will be eall-

We -hea: that inmicdiately
Rev. Mr. Martin, of Canton,

‘ed Rpon to pertorm a marmage in Yazoo

City.
The New York

World has sentus a:

number of weeklies for distribution which

We will give away to those who wish to
See them.

hardly expect very much
Was selling
in town yesterday, for middling, trom §
to 8 1-4 cents.

a oe

Mr. O. E. Hubbell has a hen whieh

We can

usually lays large eggs but last week
she. tapered off for the season with one

smilie than: & san! pecan,

Mr. 5. S. Shipp has moved into the

“McCormick louse ou Jefferson strect und

the coudition Ws ee Me eaih has
ue deen, improving. as

St BEES End TVR ie tener,
Gr Mr. Clarke but nothing could save |
hin and Wide atier twelve Gia nizht |
he died,
The killing was evidently the result at |
a preconeerced parson tue part ot War bs,
Panecand Wadenitrese pee
Alte Chath ew -is Cp itee os coty
confi hae or fis prner Ba es Dai,

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Wetlroute hati hi baa t wR Cie j :
ane exceed doit al
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p fsO%CIS
Was Diade of tren
Way Br brent of tie ironmectis which
Into fee By simply drawing a bolt att te ,
cells contd be clo-cd and the me als place ard ,
ed belore each celi tor the Prisoners with
Ne “ehunee for tiem to Zev out. Mie
Clarke heeleeted fis preenation and ene §
tered the cell in which the tyo prison -ps (
Were neither ba denfed nor ironed in any }
Way lolowed by Paine, the other pri |
Ner, Who bad also the free Use of his |
limbs. A violent stra: gule evidently took
place immediately, as Mr. Clarke's neck
showed prints of finger morks and his
voice ery ing Murder could be beard Dir
indistinctly. His pistol was taken away
ard he was thrust into the e cage whic ‘hj;
Was bolted after him while H: ris, blind. |
son and Paine went ont. ae
Hudson had killed a negro on the Ta URC

a A aa

wt st et

Mrs. Jane Posey will occupy the chouse
-on Broadway formerly occupied by him,

Little John McCormaek while playing
in the school-ground at Benton Wednes-

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We learn from the American. Citizen

val and skating tournament at Flora to-
hight. which we. trust will, prove a de-

Our legislators returned from Jackson)

interests of their constituents und: the
No county had a better set of men

We learn, from Me. E. L. King, One of

neighborhood, and that tt will be put up

“Quite Q crowd Triended the Budtion
sale: Ol. Messrs, Smith & Clurke’s stock
The totul amount. re.

4 4

‘ Soe

‘We were sorry tO learn dat on “Wea-
hesday Mr. WA, Heary, and his sister,
nule, were ‘suinmoned to Brookha

“yen by tho-hews ot the death of Mrs, A, 4
@. ae thelr pas
Of t hat

J to call murder

an esteemed ph

ak one ‘of | pears

Washington on January 10h, both opi y
them being roustabouts S.npd on both Ovc- ii
casions used the Same Werpons, a billet) £
of wood. und struck his, Viclims twice on P
the head. He is stuntly built, weighing
ubout 180 pounds.

The jail was built in 1882 with all the
modern ammprove nents, ‘Ue trout being
two stories and the back pat being a
long and. wide room in the eentre of | }
Which isthe eage and cells, pf

Mr. J.B. Martin dese ves, great wedi :
for the part tuken Dy him, for without his |: i
assistince the prispners would doubtiess ;
haiveseapéd ere coe: as he heard the |
woise and legrned wi at was the matier,
he begun Waving his Tynnds’ trom the}
window et his cél] to attract aftention wha | r \

at. the top of fus voice. |
After his rele; ase he prevented Hudson

Laheee ae a ee

scaling the walls whichs he fuaile seve al See Bae
efforts to'do, beng ike
Mr. JO. W. Clarke was boii 35 years Rene ttt

of age, stont bul and bad been jatlor fey
the SheFitr, . Capt. Sim Harrison, tor nbout |
(wo years. Be Wasa native of Yazoo wad
bad many warm “friends, ,, bis. futieral, :
toon” place Tuesday evening at 4 o'clock.
‘As soon as Hudson Was, placed back ht
Ins cell after, the killing he” took “ap his F
Onner wma “began eating. with: apparent.
relish? Neither de nor’ the Oile rg Jedi ned:
Gt Mr, Clarke's den thuntib next day when, BS
they all expressed regret a
Deardd Fehorsetul at at being the. cntise’ Oj
Nie a death 1 Of “a min who hud neve. Hobe,
finy vy. yoni n 2 Afadeou “qyowed that:
he much ashe, bat L that,
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“Pea Read about * son's Real Estate

Agency in another column CT 6m.
CITY DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

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* For Mayor.
- C.H, WILLIASIS. 4
For City Assessor and Tax-Collector, s:
HL. PHIPPS. :
For City ‘Treasurer. pee Ra
D. J. DUNN, 5
Aldermen ~Ward One,
3. FROMHERZ,
OWEN BROWN,

be * ‘ -
~Aklermen—Ward Two,

| Az00 CITY HERA

“ed by Tom Paine, a pegro confined tar i

Yazoo City March 96,1886. Murder, who wus Carrying the foud, th

fout, and Zing to the door leading to the

| Mr. Clarke locked in the cuge i whieh4t

oi Son being lu his el and Paine in the
j hall arownd the ectls and cage. Carey re-

of after Iuasons who had LOssrssion ot his

3 - a se ey a 4 year —
THE KILLING OF mR UNO Ww,
POR 4 LARK eo

On Monday evening between two and
thiecro'cluck Mr. Jno, W., Clarke, tollow-!

tered tre cage ol the Jail in which wert
Dich Hudson, contined for murd ar, Bill |
Harris tor burglary, and Milton Levison |
for grand larceny, Ten Paine also OceN,
pying ene of the celis connected with the
CUMC, ge” ;

-In a 8hort while Carey, the negro
cook, heard evies and looking. ant saw
Bill Harris and Diek Hurlson ratning out
of the side doer ot the fail. Carey cried

bart of the building Contalnivg the cells
wd cage found it loeked but the key om
the door, Opening the door he “found

Were none of the prisoners, Mltion Leyi-

leased My. Clarke, “wno Started at ss,
?

Pistol which Gad first’ been seized by |}
Harris but turned over ty Hudson, Ca-

JAMES A. BARKSDALE,
E. PoSwWALN,

LOCAL JOTTINGS,

Fish bait is getling in demand, .

SO 0 nee

>
The boys are beginning to play bases]

cfrey started at tirst ther Harris,

S0n Near a Woudpile at the side gate iu
the yard. as Hadsou was Dlicing stieks m4
Wood against the fence altenipting to ihe
seale it. Mr. J.B, Martin, a white prisa. |

Ber coifined in one vl the upper reoms, ‘A
Who Wilressed all that occurred ty tue ¢
Yard, called upon Clarke ACT LO upproaeh it

ele. Clarke finally Cash Up with bid.

ball. ed “
ne get oo |
CAS party Went from town ,to Open
Lake Ung week fishing, a .
% e ne OA renee
Ss Mare Ino, Browfield bas charge of the
; jail in place of Mr. J. W, Clarke.
’ >
Mr. Lee Warren, who has been quiie
Hl with pneuinonia is now convalescing,
“The Presbyterian society meets Next
Monday evening at Mrs. B, M. Beam-
on’, Aiehre ay a8

The ladies of Trinity Guild meet next

Hudson who would be Sire to Kill him
wad Whe had 2 Pistol Tu hand, bat to rer
hin out so that he could assist tn the ire
rest. Clarke pushed on aud ailcINpted to
take Hudson. “Ladson Weking ao effort

blows on huis head, the second teHing hin fe
like a beef and causing a plenteous flow ff
of blood. By this time ‘Carey bad sue. |

Tt eveded In setting the hers and rek aig |

Tuesday evening at Mra. ok, T. Eggte:-
+ tons. see eee ee

eae

“A oS aie
os All che indieatious are in favor of one

his pistol on hin and kepthun of and ic =H
Was only alter the deputy slierif, Mr. p*
C. Love and a number of Others cume upl}

Of the finest fruit crops that we bave had

for years,
eee "The Buus are degincing to uunoy
stock ir the country, They ure quite
SahPlentital "os tee aS Sf

that Hudson, Warris nod Pame. the latter | 3
having run into the yued alter Carey en. ge
tered the Kage Foo, were apprehended,
Hudson was fond Wa cMOp Daeh of the |
Kitchen in which a Uihey was ‘cOuped :
Up, %. i

Sat da ;

Jor the ta Sow CTIA

sells RSET. BRA pai > Ma, « tprerden Ve owed ohne et eee tegen cree Pa :

lo. use his pistot Picked “up a stick ot FS
Wood from the Woodpile and when Clurke z ‘
Uporowehed struck with all His diight two HE Sse

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His Evential Lifeas Written by
Himee)f.

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THE HERO of MANY EVIL DEEDS
ENDS HIS CAREER ON
THE GALLOWS.

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He Prefesses to Mave-Wade Poace
With Elie Ged and Expects te
Spend Fiernity in Heaven,

On Wednestay, at ten minutes atter ten
o'clock Dick Hudsou pald the Iast penul-
i ty for the murder of Mr. Jno, Clark

At elght o'clock, ut ble request, a hearty
breakfast was served lo which be did full

Sustee, cullrg wits goud appeiite and
relish. Ben Collins, the jailor, then

' brought In hig clothes and after taking a
bath he put them on. Rev. J.C. W.

, Palr, Paster of the Methodist Mplscopal
Church, colored, wlth Deleware Jobnson

; was admitted at nine gud the three united

‘fm earvest prayer, Dick expressing his
| firm fulth In Christianity, an earnest be-

' Net that his sine bad been forgiven and

that he would ge to heaven. At half
, past nine, in the presence of a number of
, Persons, the colored minister administer-
ed the sacramen: of baptism accordlag Lo
the Methocdiet ritual which he read. Dick

_ Joinect in the necessary rezponses In a
' ' firm, but low yolce. During the reading
, of the creed at every expression of faith
contained In it he anewered carnestly, “I
believe.” Alter this the preacher, Dick
end Deleware Johnson knelt down and
Ree. Pulr pruyed moat (ervently and ably
calling down the Di¢ine biesslug on the
man s0 800% to alone for the (runsyres-
' sloue of bie life. At ten o'clock Dick was
brought out from bla cell, hundeufled
“und his legs manacled, When he was
‘ stood on the drop, arranged fn the place
" prepured for such eccastong when the full
‘was built, ne at oneeexclaimed, “thank

God, the Ume Lar come.’ His counte-

nance secmed radiant. nota nerve quiyer-
‘ed, and be gaye eno look upward, a8

though searching for the joys soon to be
‘his, ‘The shackles were taken off his lezs
and they were bound with twine,

When Sheriff Harrison uted him it he
wiahed to sny apything he replied ina
somewhat indistinct tone, “nothing but
that he hoped to mect all present Io heav~
en.” ‘The preacher then made a short
talk saying that Dick Hudson had expe-
rienced religion and Jelt confident of
going toherven. Tue hymn 304 of, Gos-
pel Songs, beginning, We just began to
view thy bloom,” was then sung, Dick
Joining in. While it was being sung the
Sheriff approached Dick with the black
cup when he said, “Farewell brothers,
nicet me iu Heaven.” While (he cup
was being adjusted oyer bis bead and alm
terwards he began to ejaculate constaut-
ly, '“Phank God, thank God,” uutil the
rope which held the trap was cut promp”
tly a¢ fen minutes after len by Cupt. Har-

‘rison with one blow of a hatchet und Dick
was Iaunched Into eternity, As he fell
his neck Was broken. He guve three
gneps and rulacd up his body three times,

, then nll was etill for several miautes

, when bla shoulders moved up twice.

. Promptly at twenty minutes alter the

_ drop tell Or, Geo. P, Blundell, the jail

' physician, felt bis pulse and otherwisc
! examined him, pronouncing him dead.
‘At twenty-seven minutes alter ten he
; was cut down, About one hundred
' ple were congregated In the jail building
and yard ond a few doysand men climbed
‘on the fence and watched to catch such a
, View as WAS attainable.

io HIS CCIMK.
The crime for which Dick Undsoa died

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peckel book from my sister, the street
was orcwdeds 1, of cours, did not knew
ber, {na ble way of slenling you know.
But ebo mado alan and tte cups thascd
me down by the Take. £ ren tnio tho
water and laid down. £ went bome that
ulght and she was teliing me that the
pocket.picker hud got her book and there
wis $5 In it. Sho sald she made olariu
and the police chased hlin. I sald to
het, they shonld have killed him. I was
very sorry Indeed, 1 did vot glye her
back her $5 fust the same,
_A aT. LOU CHAS.

. There” mysclt, golug by the name ol
Windy Dick, St. Louls Charley, Spring
All] Shortey, Chicago Stun, and several
mere of us. We hud been sanibegging
In the City that night, we had sandbagged
9men. First, a gold watch and $55; sec-
ond. $5; third, $10.50; fourth, $1; fifth,
$75; elxth, $45 and vn watch; seventh, a
ring and 60 cente; eighth, $4 48; ninth,
$23, We concluded we would go nnd
work u alore out on the edge ot the Cily.
While we were there and trying to getin
there came two night watchmen. ‘They
gave usa hard chase, I wae caught, the
boys had to fight unt) L could get away.
They dragged mea good ways, they
came near getting me, I wasin a close
place unlil I got so 1 could yo. Lwis
sore Indocd but fl did not stop me,
AVIGHY AT LEBANON, TENN., WITH THE

cors, °

is was training three young Jads who
wanted (o be sharpers, They had good
pluck about them &o I concluded 1 would
traln them, se I started out with them
around the City. I carried tbem to the
depot. We would steal baggage aud sell
it, when the train would come we would
ask the drummers fo Jet us carry If away
for them then we would ewn It ourselves
Wo had been ut itso long so the caps got
In tons. ‘Then the cops yot ine ont froin
the ging. ‘They wanted to wake arrest
on me. [gave them Pfeht, they had me
foul, but L won Just the same.

a{cnase

At Cinelnnati with Grocklyu Wid. ‘They
chased us from the river. We was pick-
Ing pockets. ‘They chased ns so close we
bud to take the waters We were on the
stenmer Golden Crown, By taking water
we got away entely.

A successixl piece ef work I did io
Desmolues, Iowa. 1 had becn in the city
about three days. I wanted to work a
jewelry shop. The third night [ worked
Itte perfection. I unlocked tbe door and
chloroformed the man and got all was in-
side and got away Safely.

STYALING AT A HOTEL,

One pight I was stealing a trunk with
my partrer from this lotel. We got the
trunk but we could not make It. I was
most too small. We slipped in the win-
dow snd got under the bed till they had
gone to supper. We Icit the trunk out in
the back yard. We eprang the lock and
got what we could get off with. Gotaway
salely.

A ETCCHSSPUL STEALING
with Black Hurry at Seymour, Ind. A
jolly time stealing beer from the cars
nnd whiskey. We made our money at It.
We would sell Jt by the keg. We had
the city fine. We would get peanuts,
goods of all kinds. Seymour was good
place for a railroad crossing. A good
place for pick-pockets. Got away salely.

Year 1881 started out in the highway
meeting with some of the bincklegs at
Chicago. We from there went West.
Fortune was not with us, We had sand-
bagged und pickpocketed around there
until (hey got on to us. We went to
werk and got well supplied for the busi-
ness. Wo got two six-shooters aplece
We had bard timcs to get away with

PCO | them after wo had sot them. That night

ebout 8 o'clock lL went Inio a gun shep
und kid myself until they closed up.
When he hud gone up stalre to go to bed
I got what T wanted, but I could not get
ont untillate that nfgbt, I had ‘to burst
through the window, Got awxzy safely.

asthe bllee of We Ing. W. Clark. at

eet ane men. te

‘their iffant child, Phil,

of: "Buitalo, “gee: York: es grabbed a Fauna valley and” ‘by’ that, wer “conld x
KO through more tha that ‘oi #0 E wont}.

ond stuck fire 10 her and (hen thé town
was mad. We all was at vir peste. When

they went out to put the fire we
went ia got whut money we re

Whea they bad, put ou: the fi bad }.
gone through 7 pr 8 houses, “d.
We concluded we would Jo a store up

for all It wae worth, which we did, wo
had to blow the sale opcn to yet the mon-
ey which wasn amnll mount, xbout
$500. We got ‘all we could drink, [felt
sorry for the old lad because we lett him
hothing. to support bimeelf with. We
then worked a bsuk., The banker wasn
brave Ind, we had to kill him to gaye eur-
selves. We cut bis throat, worked the
benk to perfection tnd went away. I did
not want to kilf him but 1 had todo it.
Ho sald be would «ic before he yould
give up the keys to let usin whero the
sale was 20 we killed him. We meta
country fellow In the road and asked him
to shove’outall the money he nad, ‘I'he
Ind drew his six sheoter but he was too
Inte and I tald him Jow, I met up witha
crowd of boys and asked one of thein lo
show his knife and told him I wanted to
trade he did not, so I cut histhroat, {
don't know whether be died or not,

Dick's further sketch would take too
long to Insert entire, He describes the
robbery of n wagon trila with 8 wigone
and 8 men, Dick's yang ki led all the
men und plundered the wagons. He tells
bow the gang wanted to ewap naga with
a farmer, tut on his refusal, of a fight
between them the farmer und bis two
sons, one 16 the other 5 years ot age.
Driyen off they return, btiro the barn
and kill the farmer but *parcd the boys
who Dick suys acted very binvely. He
then robbed a market wngou wounding
three men in the confiiet which resulted.
Then a farmer's store honse. Next a ped-
Mer who wis robbed nod vounled and
thrown into a well, He comuiitted rey.
eral robberies in Little Rock. Tle rebbed
a boy at Vicksburg etagiin at the same
place at night gotalter a Jew git track
him, bat titled fo rot) ting
drunken tna wing on the ereet anda
one eyed onc who wasiatse dreiuck.

Tnatight en the bo W.. 8 POR. oa
young Lid thotat him six times when he
wot paid off on Oct. T8th, Dick cut tim to
death, 'e

We givcin his own words the killing
en Yazoo River and the killing of Jno.
Clark : |

The Captain ofthe watch onthe Lake
Washington kicked we In the mouth.
The steradore struck me with a stich of
wood It took great cflect so I was not able
to fight then, 1 tokl theo I would see
tem afterja bit, Uiey Baid very good. As
soon asl was able [| got mea stick and
killed the captain of the watch, arrested
shortly atter and brougut'to Yazoo jail.

eerted a

I wes arrested Jan. 1st, 1886, utter being |

there fora Jong while one day T thoaght
I would make «a brenk, there were two
wore in then withme, ‘They did agree to
mike the break with me. These two
boye were trusty. They aid they would
tuke him outin the yard. | told them that
would not work well, we should eatch
him atthodoor, It worked for 5 days. 1
told the boys the way we Should tlo this,
we should take him at the door and put
him In the cage and go gel the cook. So
they all agreed to It 80 we caught him
and prt hin In the cage. : ‘tl caught him
‘myself, the other two boy weakened on
me. Thcy were loo slow, That is why
we ceuld not get away.: They did not
do their part. So atter we had put lim
In the cage some one let bim out, it was

i meppete the cook. After he was turned
erun up on me and I atruck bim
witha stick, from ee be died that
night nbout Tt o'clock,

Dick deseribed several other robberles
but all about the sume fone nor of those

related by him. ino

oe site sympathize with Mr. and:

Mrs. CO. J, Burros io the loss of
who died.

on the Lakeland place ‘tn Holmes '

wR mm tee

a ee ee

~ re
a Fae "is » ly lh near ay he: v4 ~ c » hae
slave IKE, ble CK, hanged Natchez, Miss, » 5/21/1852

ee ae

es Se

Execution of the Negro the

Yesterday, a few minutes Pastiwelve tne nese.
Ike, the property of William (. fonver, of this.
county, was hung privately inthe Natehez Jaq:
Vard. The rope was adjusted, and the drop rape
cut by the Deputy Sheriffs |

There had teen great exertions used io ent this,
negro clear of this final punishment. The man, |
named Shillings, whom he cut, has been famous, |
or infamous, on every plantation where te has
been overseer for his difficulties with nhecroes.— |
The friends of the negro’s life signed a petition to’
the Governor for Ike’s pardon, and brought it, we
learn, for Shillings to sign, which he would not do;
unless they gave hima hundred dollars, in which
case he said he would Carry itup to the Governor
himself! :

So it appears that this man could be bribed for
$100, and as the demand was not given him, he
would not perform that humane duty. True, the
negro acknowledged the deed committed, and he
should and ought to be punished ; as, also, should
the man that could or would be bribed, for the life
of man, for one hundred dollars, meet the same in.
fiction. He was conducted to the scaffold by the
Deputy Sheriff, in Company with the Rev. Mr
Hardy, Catholic Clergyman, who waited upon him
in his last moments, and to whom he declared a
full resignation and Preparation to meet his fate.
His last words, as we are informed, were to some
of his negro friends: « Good bye, boys, | hope to
meet you in heaven.” , 7

This prosecutor, Shillings, was buta few days_
ago elected, by the City Council of Natchez, as
Night Watchman. wi! the City Council of
Natchez keep in employ such a man, that would
or could be bribed for $1002 We hope not.

The execution was Private by order of the Su.

preme Court, which had the final revision of the

trial.

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‘oldest Re man. ever peat t& thé
gailawn TH Mssiaetppl wil be hand-
ed in tae Jail gard at Pitisbore at
four octock this 2fternoon- |
j Final xpocala to Oevernar Russe
te vammute the death sentence were
of no avail. Prienda of the condenta-
ed man «opt the releqra pe -ard tele-
paone BZited not from early morntng
until afer the noon hour today, hove
ting. 79 cave the iife of Ivy, Det with-
eat aveii The moverniar remained.
edduraia, and stated that he would not
interfers with the court mandate.
ghith was coviewed Isst wegk by the
State ‘katd of Pardors and that body
29 recommend 3 coomiutation

te
s
;

man of about the saree age. The
Billing eceurted on a public road in
Calhour county” of May 16tm, 1919
Tse petition. lor commutation, signed

ferred by Govwerne Rureaell to ste
State. Board @@ Pardons for recommen-

Friends. of ivy... induced Sheriff
Young. of Calhoun county, to pest-
Yona the haagiseg wntil four o'ciock
this afternesn, noping that a com mrt -
Ltation oF reprieve might be granted
oy the Gavernet at the last moment.
Whale tha petition for the commu:
Yation . of Ivy's death sentanca was
‘‘Aymercasly vigned, a. counter TReVe-
yaent waa siraost equally stron, and
the executive office was Welaged with
tettera from infiuesdal ‘Rtizens mM
that section of the © niate declaring
that Jog-had- commitied & cold-viced-
ed and urprovoxed murder, ‘and dié
not deacrve clemency. stent he J

An effort wna: mae by the friends
of Ivy whila Governor Russeli was out
of tha stata to induce Acting Gover-
nor Caateel to grant’ @ commutation,
rand it was at first though he would
‘do 20, out after % carefti, review of
the petitions, and counter petitions
the Acting Governor reftueed to act.
After Governor Torssel! returned te
the stata ke referred. the case to the
State Baard of Pardans. .

DA JUsws
SY gpes or M S

ontls

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212)

“JD. Every Item of Informa.

SYCIANS should state CAUSE
Exact atatement of GCCUPATION iz

PHY

ACTLY.

A
é

properly clagnified,

_ certificate.

AGE should be st ated

FADING INK—THIS iS A PERMANENT

that it may be

m back of

Se:

seems mene So
SR ROR AN ST

MESSISSIPPI STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
1 PLACE OF DEATH / Bureasm of Vital Stetisttes

< / :
Cosaty . aR tA 02200 State! Bz: EEE oe Registeatten District Ne_Z, —
Village whave (eta... Vot, Pa IO Os UP. imary Pegistration Dist, Na” Na.
-L (if death occurred fm @ hospital or institution, give tte NAMB instead Cf wena ana pember)

ity... awe PMs. 2 ee x... Ward
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2 FULLNAMB......-¢Le asc... h. Aiey :

(a) Residence. No.. Bt, a

(Usua. place of sbede) (if bon-reaident give ¢
Length of residence fm elty or town where foath cocucred 7°& Men fa Mow tong fa UL. A, 8 of Seca tent onl poss za

PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARA I MEDICAL CERTIFICATR OF BEATE
3 SEX 4 COLOR OR RACE | 6 SNGLE, MiREED, Winew=n,
i

Bled SERA PEARS mh fe ee : 4 = . ‘
SMES SIE A IE eS a TOR | 3. 1 QERENY CERTIVY, That I attended the dececnod
od erese ld pee at St ack on from fed: Geen, ee 396@, tm... 4

i$ BATE OF PRATA CHoeth, day and yous) 7- tag 2p Pao

far) Wire at

PROS baht wos saaitial tee RMN 5, Gach Soce o s ti

4 DATE OF BISTM Gounthy dey and pearrt he J. f RES | thet I lect caw hh fing alive

Vi
7 AGE ~ ¥ERARS Houthe /DATS | M LEGS theall end that death seeurred oa the date «t3
ix | 2 Vig PP gl oa The CAUSE OF DEATH? was as fellows:

& OCCUPATION GF DECEASED ; :
(s) Treads, prefeasion, or we eae rotates esi
Porto wbee. BieA SF wT Rle nk ee wee ee ee seer veeresnccctnensece

(b) Generel, nature of Industry, 2 «ue
hussimers, om esighiohminné fp -# & is

@hlen cavyployed iar. employer)... 0.... eee erererres | oon ere

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| 9 BIRTE- | ielty Ge towne)... ee Oe ea (Secondary) +. eee
i eS x ¢ “miry} ee een nwe eee eterna eane & we

OF FATHER 4% (§...- if met af pice of dente? ...

PLACE OF FATE’E (icy cr town)............... ee er ores
.@ or Country) ~~ o- a there an autoyegy? ...........

1: ‘AIDEN NAME OF MOTHER | ed Manet PF ia kc st ttt tees tee e eee

: Ses Sep oe iid £2 ord Signed ...... we AREF. HE . x.
| 13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or town)......... se wt RE TLL (heirene).. ed Ca hoaBe<, Arecze

1 State Count
| (State or miry > <S a

OF DEATH in;

tion should be car
important,

N. B.—WRITE PLAIN’ *

Form V, : No. 4

SUAS SNIT IOS “State the EMaezse Causing Death, or in deaths
Canees, state (1) Means and Noture of Injury, and (2) chethen ae
eidental, Suicidal, er Mesnicidal. (See reverse side fer editions

seses

ay
eats

ogld: and formal:

‘3. ane

ness and: happiness VandsJiia can:
ve thors} ‘vass for governor, will. “arousdNRO,
sy oR! ene Te sible, enthusiasm anywhero, Montgom-
Bs owes tment ery. Journal.
ud an tht

PeANME Bie ceca. VOTO
ug : the courage of honesessonviction,
he Jacks personal: magnetism, is
in manner, he
b. Jacks the, art of. ‘drawing "and en-
deating 0 men to: hiny and: making}.
: girong sion tahine,

hte social maenibios that go" “to
‘make up the sum “okauman: groat-

fase, atudy

ay and i

au not:

MADY.)its use; ‘that he

refer-,

the | 8° long tried and -

BA Household Treasure.

t few] : “D. W. Fuller, of Canajoharie, N.
lusion. Y 4 Says that he always keeps’ Dr.
oratic | King’s New Discovery in the house

“Land his family has: always ‘found
that the very: best.results’ follow

' fact |without it, if-procurable. G. A.
‘ound | Dykeman Druggist, Catskill, N. 2 a
ooted. | 88y8 that Dr? ‘Kings New. Discov-
ery, is undoudtedly the best Cough
_ {| ramedy ; that he has used itin his
‘M0! family for eight years, and it has!|.
he a'| never failed to do all that is claim-
pop-|ed for it. Why not ‘try a’ Remedy

bottles free -at H.W. Hausman &

“would not.

tested. Trial

PURCHASED A

sold at Macon, Ga.,

1080
‘Ome,

—n.
ugh,
the ie extends from?

asks
iors.

y-tgreat’ Northwest:
i Atlantic.

s[eibe For the past few | days: extensive
{circulation has been given to a ru-
mor that the Kunsas City, -Mem-
phis and Birmingham road had
+ bought the Macon’ and Birming-
-~ham road and that tho latter
would be extended to Birmingham
’ to connect with the: former, 31.2
“The Macon aud Birmingham was

At special master’s “sule, and: at
‘that timo it was! stated that’ the}:
140)) purchasers Tepresentod the Kansas |:
mie] City, Memphis*and Birmingham |
o-us| people.» Since that the report has;
eS) been | widely circulated and sulso-
ae circumstances lend ‘colour. to
~The Macon and: Birminghan

“y Grange, Ga.’ The route had been’
ged [Surveyed 7 from. Birminghant to La=
Grange, a distance. of 110 milos—
}An extensiou of the Macon,Dublin
and Savannah‘road~ ffom: ‘Dublin
suod | to: Savannah,.ia ‘distance | of «less
ude} than 100 miles, would give an out-
and .Jet:to the Atlantic® Ocean, * s0me-
“| thing that the Kaiisas City, Mem-
S| pbis ‘and Birmingham’ peuple have
+wanted for a long timo.r 78s?
*“sWith.these two gaps, " Birmings
‘tham’ to’ LaGrango™ aud Dublin to

« BAID ‘TO. “HAVE
NEW LN Zi

a few days ago
Ins

“Macon? to “Le

aed obser vos.

“But. IB).

gun shortly

the scaffold i i

by a *youug’

he deserted lis.
whom he live

“The futhor ‘
man’ Who i is’ a

ling statemen
-Tne old ma

loud. voices.

the bodies cut
- Hathorne re
beside those o
morning.“ He
of N. Cy Hath
tor from *Mari

tho: State. %

“In, speaking
man Hathorn

ful condition
time was such:
apybhings <>

life by-suicide.*
my ‘wife tod

and let us par
give. mo janyt

hor own to- an

life Was vstich®

told imal

He ‘stated’ just before _the black
|.cap: was adjusted, ‘that he ‘ought,
to be bangod, but, that the, Merritt,
woman, should: be required to’-die.
also, : a8 ‘she. was ‘the’ one that insti-

pol, =was’ among * the: ‘spoctators!.
when. Ha thorn ).mado. this start-|,

and then Jolloroda lengthy argu-
ment ‘between-them!~

domned’ ‘inay displayed i iron’ nerve
and were from. ‘first to ° “the last}
talking from the scaffold i in atead

-The drop. fell

well. knows. man, in. this’?
Ps, &

; “HATHORN’S CONFESSION

“The ‘iMfluence | of. Ave woman
drove me to ‘desperation, “The aw-

“My * oldes{,: children
thought that Iwas half crazy... 1.
once made’ preparation 0 end my

‘time I would frequently try. to got ¢

told up here that -poopl.
want: that‘ woman to ‘suffer for
‘what I have dono: “This” is’ not
true--She is the: price of: my life,

but I iwish “her no. harm. God
Suvannah, ‘filled in{.the “Kaisas knows sho’ will

8 Qity,~Memphis: ‘and Birmingham
‘road, wonld have'a direct line: froin |'
t Kansas’ City: ‘toSSavannah,”, thus
connecting =the.” Braiarws:of the
ith {tho South +9

ae * | was in my “omploymont
time-in. ‘Decamher® last, coving that;
T° was. “distressed * ‘and | wretched,
asked: me awhat was. tho 2y ‘

‘be glad’ to: know!

past: if possible,

small jail to tho Jeena! ‘told was bo-

aft r u90n to-day,

tho. condemned nien “ alking with

firm, “sloady tread, aril mounting contral and east Africa, thus es.

ns tha, sume manner,

‘Both’ wore allowed to talk on the
seaiTuld. and: ‘Hathorn, thoro: ad- Hobe The’

crime, “but Stated,” in away “of Ox:
tenuation, that he- as. urged. on,

d for aw hile.

of: “the? “Merritt -wo-
‘minister of the: “gos-

t. 5
n contradicted , him,

“The ‘con-

down. ?
mains will be buried

f his wife tomorrow
was a first cousin’
orn, & populist sona-
ion 1. County,” aud” a

of the. Merritt ~WO-|>
said: t

of my life ‘at’ this
ag to: unfit, me: fer:

*Duriny all ‘this

ivide.-what we. had
t, but sho} would not
hing: Ivhad. been
“think <I

have’ enc igh: sin of
swer for. ewould
future

ieaiee .gomnd,

about: ms

white” oman,, *Joso-
“phie “Moxsitt itt by 4 haino, for’ whom

“joountry has a large. white: “popula.

‘/stadually. turn” it ‘into a’ whito-

man’ 8 country. | “They will “exter-
“at "1; 35 and ~ fif-|

teen or twenty minutos later the
men. wero. "pronounced doad gud

cf tpedple could “Tpatn

See rete epete tb snyges oe eon eee

of extending their dominion’ inty

tablishing - an empire. extending
from_Cairo to. _tho Capo: of} Goal
Germans,

Gad

tion, with Tailway, and” stormboat

each,

rica.as the continent upon? which

havo ‘had ‘ in“ the past, In) the
future. they will 0 to. ‘Africa, jand..

minate ‘the blacks a8. we extermi-~

many. years tho native. Africans
‘Twill bein the minority.) «Under
European methods this heretofore
almost unknown land will become
a thickly populated and civilized
group. of ‘States.-' Lator ‘the’ colo-’

monts, and they. will repeat’ the
example of the United Stutes. “ -.
“Perhaps the main point of in-
| terest. to us is the fact that immi-
gration . will never aguin. bo “as:
great a factor ‘in’ ‘our ‘upbuilding
as it has boen in. the past.’ .The
tide i 1s” ‘turning to South Africa,

THAT GREAT. “Tp,

easily as they do’ evil: we “would:
haye a Tittle millennium every day”
in tho’ “yoar, For! instance, 8
newspaper. man ° “can publish ®.

and tho‘noxt day. evory man, and
street urchin will tell you [with
out tho apking] all the’ particulars.
of the Pp

_—_

Wey w it ‘I ‘00 now names “adued ”
to our alroady largo, ‘list vf “aub-

80 as to Acer wy up with, lhe approach:

once, but tho British in Qape. Cul-
ve tek ores ree
ouy have'never given up their idea

Tho. discovery of Gold’ aud. ‘dia.
mont mines. of | cours9 draws poo- %

his.) “Wie ‘awl lets thoge-r6ribh8, ‘and p

Own the
lines, and flourishing. ‘cities oquip-

milés ‘long, and. the country” 18 bo.
ing “settled iby a, good class of* ‘col-
onists. Nearly twenty- -five” cities ~
have. a population ot over 10 000

SAIL Naa indications point to AL;
| Europe will here: after- expond her. sg
energy and ‘hor. capital. \ There.

‘will never again “be-such a rush 3
of emigrants to.this country” 28 We |

nated’ the ‘Indians, ’ ‘and] bofore -

nies:: will .throw. off their allogi-.-
ance to. the European’ “govern- *

prize’ fight ar ticle: “of four aides ae
alongside of a Talmage ' sermon, sa

seribora, fur..1806, "Now, is. the:
: time, {6 have your ‘name enrolled

! Come |
ete et Atiefiod
/

1h nae cate eR Ype Ses EG NEE re

HATHORN,

mew $90
ae wh a ee

be
F

“white. and WADE, b

ry r

oi wo tac i aad
ack, hanged at Aug

ina A ide inal UMass

. $1.00 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE, 7:

soswn’, JANUARY, 15, 1896: 802

—

RUE,

‘ys. of

» {the two announcements clearly

liome.
~ onal

i
he

WONY,

\ tight-

“Geom Saytain
them-
somina-

The de-

2 want
county

PON AN-
. ape-
ot and
at the
rats of
ot. Joe
lL gov-
ement
P not
senti-
‘ohn
as it
Tunts-

cone
Shama
t for-
i dacy
utorial

eon GAN]

‘w lies
‘inston
+, tho
no hig
for oan
‘yorat.
® tho
ohne

ment for governor is a: very’ tame
and insignificant pronunciamento,
It is not so strong or so discrovt as
that of Governor Uatos two years
ago. And tho difference in the
tone'and temper and wisdom of

defines the difference between tho
two candidates, The one is stilted
vain glorious and affects a courto-
ev that is more formal than sin-
cere or respectful. “Tho other was
open, candid and respectful. The
one Was narrow, contracted, hav-
ing but one -idea, one purpose,
The other was brosd, manly, ay
groesive, but liberal and _discreet.
Mr. Clarke, as his letter indicates,
is an aristocrat-in -manner. and
bearing, cold, phlegmatic, solf-as=
serting, dignified to the verge of
coldness, with no sympathy for
the common masses of the-com-
mon people, On the other hand,
Oatos was a poor boyAvho worked
his way hy his own onergies, -by
his own native talents, round by
round to the top-most of the Jad-
dey, mingling ‘always with the
people, thoroughly in touch: with
them, always in ‘their confidence
and: always, in. sympathy “with
thom, His advantage ina contest
like that precipitated two years
ago, and that precipitated now,
over @ man with Mr. Clarke’s tem-
per, with his education ,and_agso-
clations, is manifested even at the
home of Mr. Clarke,’ where’ there
is no enthusiasm aroused or will
ho aroused by his candidacy. > Mr.
Clarke is an able lawyer, a man of
great integrity, well educated and
a profound etudent who has Jaud-
able ambitions, but he has made:a
fatal mistake, He is doonied ‘to
disappointment and defeat... With
tho courago of honest conviction,
ho lacks personal magnetism, is
cold and formal in manner, he
lacks the art of drawing and en-
dearing men to himv and making

bet
Loli:
ime
Lille

OS BRA GR NS ‘a Rit

whore
sible,

strong friendships... A close atudy
devoted-f0 the law and its -atten-
dant suucesses, he kaa noeglectud
those social menilis thet fo to
mako up the sum Of human -groat-
noes and happinoss And his can=

A White ? Man‘an
Ilemp at the Sz

Tn accordance wi
sed upon them at

Thompson. .Wad

this place, which

| first district of Perry county, ;

Thecrimo of wl

FOR THE SAME CRIME,

vs. Shocking Uxorcide,’

the Circuit -Court of this, Parry
county, F..D, Hathorn, white, and
fo. color sro | bd
980n.. Wade, ~ colored,.: .were| ed.
legally executed at..tho old’ town
of Augusta, twenty ‘miles -castiof

were convicted was the murder, in
October last, of. Hathorne’s wife,
the negro having ‘heén hired to
commit the crime, which was’ one

Ho Said he would attend to it. He
mado repeated promises .and had
failed.“ Te would come and got
provisions, and I told: him if he -
was going to comply with his.
promise I wanted him todo go, I. -
“| did not threiten him, ashe Bays, -
}{t would have been folly for me to
have done so,
thero was_nothing
that I could shoot with.

d Negro Stretch
amo Time for a

he would attend to it at snight,:.

SENSATION AT “GALLOWS. and did so. I saw him at the gate,

but not at the window, as he says,
IT would have givon a thousand

Hattiosburg: Miss, January 8,—| worlds, if [had had them, in fiyo-

minntes after the gun fired if I
sould have recalled it, but it was
too late. I don’t understand why
or how L could ever give my con-
sent-to permit my wife to.be— kill-
‘Inever found pleasuro in see-
ing anything suffer. I always *
loved. my children and ‘gone
through heat and cold, day and
night, to make a support for them.
My wifefwas a good woman. Sho-
was naturally of a jealous temper-
ment and fractious, but she was
industrious and she was a good
mother. If sho had only havo
been willing to partjwith mo (after
it became impossible for us to live
together) and allow me to havo a

th sentence pas-
the last term of

is tho site ‘of the

rich the two mon

. “Isaw him on the morning be-
—— ters fore the killing at night. Ho said

of-the most brutal over committed
in this state, by. the “hueband ‘of
the woman. “The execution took
place -in the courthouse ‘square, |
in site ‘of gallows on which James

three hundred people... The mon
have been confined ‘ii; the jail’ at

but’ were.taken. to the scone. of
the execution yosterday morning gy
atan carly hour, and upon. their
arrival at tho jail put -undor the.
doath wateh.. 2328.) apt

The solomn march “from the
small jail to tho. scaffold was ho- o1
gun shortly after Yoon to-day, | oy
the condemned men walking with
firm, steady tread, and mounting
the scaffold in. the same Manner,

seatfold and, Hathoin thoro’‘ad-
mitted: for’thd ‘séeond <timd” his

‘ 7 Can id
Wopo. The) Gormans, howevor,:..

part of what wo had both worked
for, she would be alive today,”

THE FUTURE OF AFRICA:

~The trouble between the Boers

id the British in. South “Afriea

Co deland the noted: sutlaw, met] a:

death neatly forty yeurs ago,’ and | has directed publi¢ attention: to
i pit eal tie , amy
Was witnessed by a crowd of-over] the darkfcontinent.

Ilo had a gun and «.”:
on’? the place.’

Twenty years ago very'little was:

known of Africa. A few explor-
this place sinco their capture, but ers. penetrated, its forosts and’:
wrote books, but tho tide of emi- ‘

‘Recently there*has been a big
change "in the sftlfation, “Tho
Boers havo gained ithoir independ-

ice, but the British in Capo Col-
iy; have'never given up their idea

of oxtonding their dominiai ‘inte
central and oast Africa, thus ess

Y tablishing. an empire extending
Both wore allowed to talk on the| ¢,

om_Cairo to tho. Cayo of sGoods

part in the
crime, but stated

commission ‘of the

tonuation, that he was urged on

occupy la iarge portion ‘of “east:
Africa, and the Congo Froo State
and also tho Portugueso possos-.
SIONS. oo ;

, in way of ox-

by a_young white woman, Joso-

vass “or governor will arousdé20-

thon oa F
onthusiiem snywhoroMontgom-
ery Journal, « - * ;

A Wouschold Treasure.

phinesttenitt by name, for whom

Tho discovery of Gold and dine. :

he desertod hig

IIo stated just

ee tr ' \ Pure FEY aK thd Vn ve ges wT

CRD wag ndtuated

Tes Pi dea fag to Pi eae aan

whom ho lived for a wl sie.

Wi iter Ty Wil th

country has a largo white popula-
tion, with railway and) etoumboat

’

before che black

{fr + iO cisely

ett so-tesglons and now:the

<4
:
is =
2
5
BS
v4

'96QT 6cy Axenuep ‘ou eqety faeds

sis ante, en

No appeals
HEMPHILL, Andrew, and JONES, Tom, blacks, hanged Grenada, Mississippi, Nov. 6, 1936.

"Greenwood, Misse, 8-12-1936-A tenant flareup was blamed today for the killing of two white
farmers, We Re Ingram and William M, Simpson, for which four negroes were arrested and
spirited to an unannounced jail, Sheriff Earle Equen of Laflore County said the planters
were shot down when they went to evict tenants on the plantation near Avalon, The sheriff
said two negroes who gave their names as Andrew Hemphill and Tommy Jones confessed to the
shooting. The names of the other two negroes were not divulged, Hemphill was arrested at
the scene of the crime, The others were taken into custody later, Sheriff Ecuen said
Ingram and Simpson, who farmed together, had ordered thenegroes to move from their cabin,
They refused, This morning the two men went to the negro cabin and removed the furniture
and then returned, Just as they stopped their car, they were fired upon from a near-by
field of corn. Ingram was killed instantly, while Simpson lived until a party of men and
Simpson's wife arrived from near-by Avalon, Simpson was lying in thecabin where he had
been carried, and died soon after telling his wifes: 'I am dying; move me into the shade
and take care of our child.' Ingram and Simpson had been farming near Avalon since Febru-
arye Both moved there from Arkansas, Simson from Turrell and Ingram from Earle, Simpson
is survived by his widow and a two-year-old son and Ingram by his wife," TIMES-PICAYUNE,
New Yrleans, La., N##X August 13, 1936 (2/5.)

"Greenwood, Mississippi, August 15, 1936-A local unit of the National Fede ation of Colored
Farmers in the Avalon Community of Laflore county was investigated today by Sheriff Earle
Eouen in his attempt to solve the mysteries surrounding the slaying of 2 farm overseess last
Wednesday. The men slain were William Simpson and W. D, Ingram, young farmers from Arkan-
sas, who came to Mississippi about a year ago as overseers on the Ben Goodman plantation,
After the double slaying county officers arrested 2 negro tenant farmers on the place, An-
drew Hemphill and Tommy Jones, and carried them for safekeeping to the Hinds County Jail at
Jackson, Sheriff Equen said the two negroes admitted the slayings and said they belonged to
thenegro farmers! organization, But, he said, they wuld give no reason for the killings.
The two farmers were ambushed in their automobile on a field #rip and shot to death with a
shotgun and pistol fire and the body of one of the victims was left in a negro cabin, In
his roundup of suspects, Sheriff Eouen arrested several negro tenants for ouestioning, In
addition, he detained John Bennett, local organization president, for questioning, The
sheriff said a number of negroes on the Goodman plantation belonged to the organization and
that trouble had been threatened for some time between negro tenants and the overseers,
termed by the tenants as 'plantation bosses,' Some of the negro farmers had refused to
submit to supervision by the overseers and threats had been reported, The sheriff said he
was convinced that the slaying of Simpson and Ingram was 'premeditated,'" TIMES-PICAYUNE,
New Orleans, Las, Auge 16, 1936 (8/6.)

"Grenada, Sept. 29, 1936-A Grenada County jury tonight condemned two negroes to death on th
gallows for the slaying last month of 2 young white men after an all-day trial attended by
a tense crowd of 500 persons. The prial recessed at 525 p.m, and reconvened and hour late
for concluding arguments and the court's charge to the jury, The defendants, Andrew Hemp=
hill, 45, and Thomas Jones, 3, admitted the slayings from the witness stand, They con-
tended they shot William M, Simpson, Jr., for Duke University athlete, and W. W. Ingram,
21, last August 12, in defense of their own lives, ‘Mr. Simpson told me one time if I did=
n't get off the land he was going to kill me,' Hemphill testified, 'I told him he woundn t
have to kill me to get me off,' ‘'Then when he and Mr, Ingram came to my house they threate
ened me again, One had a pistol and one had a shotgun, It got so it looked like they were
going to kill me and when they raised the gun, Tommy shot first and then I shot,! The tria
reached an emotional €limate when Mrs, Sadie Simpson broke into tears describing her hus-
band's death in her arms, The defendants were spirited out of town yesterday to avoid poss
ible violence after their first arraignment, but they were returned to Grenada this morning
in custody of Sheriff Dave Dugan and two deputies, After Sheriff Dugan took the prisoners
out of town yesterday, Jailor Ed Brunsonws forced to conduct two groups through the jail t
prove they were not there," TIMES-PICAYUNE, New @rleans, La., Sept. 30, 1936 (18/u.)

HAVERSON, O. H., White, hanged at Westville, Miss., on May 31, 1901.

"Jackson, Misse, Octe 3, 1900. = Details of the murder of Frank Ammond, a well-known
merchant of Braxton, a station on the Gulf and Ship Island railroad, have reached here,
Ammond was assaulted last Saturday night while on his way home from his store and left
for dead. He rallied sufficiently to accuse two railroad laborers, Beavers and Haherson,
of the crime, which, he said, was for robbery. Beavers was arrested later and is said
to have made a full confession, Word has alaso been received that Haberson was arrested
near Brookhaven, and was being taken through the country to Westville, Feeling is at

a high tension in Simpson, Ammond since died from the effect of his wounds," JOURNAL,

Atlanta, Georgia, October 3, 1900 (2-6&7.)

3S wok : ss ‘ocd } "Now Leiter, you know this Is as
pa a far aes j
HURD-CONFESSES..- | —_____ meet you” ish gat, but
TURD CONFESSES | at moret Soe tan ares Ht
OF, wy euar hie data DO Sei ze © help j .
SLAYING.-MARSHAL' see Miao TF cates Depe not die with “aay. conn ee
hel: ean LAGE. sup: n. hag wl whic te with anything hid ‘nat YOu ovght
waa Cte te Ma Sata oo r ee." ee ail. 3 tu tt b ‘
miniites Vite for. Lester. Hutd wae for. their &INePo ne and unen table teen pecan rer iat aes aifexe
_ exit ea eke plete siluee herire Welle had (Yes, fo did the "hooting. with a.
A Morbid Croma | Prope need hea gue the bye ~a$ calibre gun. and must have fired |
184 eg Tee Mest’ sian thaksal i, mek one Smee noes to about six times. I Et the: gurr-er¢,
Meubdte hanging has taken place | been Stravchaa ty h vane weihs of- amen at Lewards, that same
inthe. Sitedec courte ten. aberie! {ccs dg Pad the ansing of night. L cant say whether anybody
Wella ‘nad his deputies were busl-) tthe cua helehte to. them, Our in tise wan shvoting or not.”
nessiike with their . unpleasant: Likewise the ateet at Hard sec es FAME halting
bu ‘Eyary Wetall had heenseares! | goc't' : Re, bee game, dura dectared that he had the
> .atiaigedy the topes and) fog’; sie wp ad had been teat~ p2me Weapon with him at the time
atfapiathorounnio j ry Order.§ ascertain whether he was atrested, and that he had
was né‘gruesotie b shaky or’ sthe Sues tao pond i INtO & commode at the Jack-
ite , - t sh re oan ;
ine treaty data) out of the b an urdemh which the ropes ‘were to be Wold bee 0 al he Ssliexed a
Acree of meaty one thowbaga | |preyinit, igmien tern” vanl eke] [hee Tysead rend to the
persons, qulét. -Iatiess, ~ worbia, Methodicatly. we eee cateied Gn prisoner a few comforting and rece
fatoed~on--the--ouieide of: tha. 3ati tor be Cally, ma though. the. mate Onring verses from the Now Testa
ancleeure. Why euch — thtons ic. : Cktinguishing tng Jives from met, Yestilying tn the fact that
[sektmb166 “nobcdy knowe: -Jt.. is the-ond- and ee ok on the aes “Ho will gave wil Who'truly repent.
doubtful If even the most’ seute Hminaries, ‘ wre tb venfeaa ther enn” After this
ear. Outvide the -- jnil--coul have. ot Pe AE SS 3 m plat Mer tia teorvent SUDPli--
[hédrd” the ester: of the death trap, | - Lee -Desles “hesting__ pe which 4. flowed hy a
In that ‘assembly wae dozens, While'Eddie Lee went to bis death arueaver ty Used himaelf, which
yes, scores of boys, both white | withou: admitting dircetly that he Tee ned Sith ihe Lord's Prayer
{ana colored,—detween the ages of pbad -@-hand-dn the shooting at Bol- TAs prayer’ wis uttered after the
eight and sixteen year ° One [tion-on that fstefur (irlatmas Eye cap had been adjusted, and while the
jWondered why they were not in night in 192%, be die not deny that Sel wan romew Rat muffled. the
wchoolk a he ‘was present with Hurd and ohne At ieee Nere quite dintinet,
: ks whem ~~ «| OLHEF negro when the trouble broke, eter nail heritt Wells sprung the
. X-Ray Pictures Taken. He could not reall the identtiy of che-tinre then Fecnty minutes from
} Alter..the bodies had been: low- [the tira negro, but in @ general St ee wre declared dend
ered__ang the nooses removed: 4s Kersey of [U7 the physicians, eater Hurd went
pp recnne made X-ray photographs! land F inrowed apne hands, but TP cage rity, with che namo of the
of the necks of the” condetmnad! Aid rot ah A y Savior. on Pio the
é & oot. I got shot in- the After the AULODSiog and the m-ray

men, for the purpose of sttidying fo0¢ myaelf; and wag crippled wu
bok } ‘ Pte; el eG Up Portraits w :
the nature of fractures inflicted when Mr. Simmo A’ Sh Steck . were made by Dr, Hens
Whe. ig aired oo tae ‘ Serebn, both beds were taken in

oy ns neem nthe, sonlringtiee agape: charge be Tat,
® medical aclence Se MeL fi Me this 6. you rem, \pow ni a1. & negro under.
jmay not, be of value The. X-ray; | rdaier asked Eula Thppntba ace taker, and the grim chapter closed.

machine bad beech carried tata-fai)! (air, hate tee feevh as I go to‘my

fpr this purpose. A Lane Tea,” WATE LOW; Dat tiemiy~uge, OF rere ‘TORRE

peaghe Conn ck bodies sc me peapane. WN ae ce es, ' Acting un < 7 nia — t t

aphs wer ® id ‘Near the colored pastor stood Ate Seip at statemen

placed In cheap pine cavkets-care leracy Stuart Broom, wlio had Jac’ wae heats ye Mia the wenn

riad into the jail during the night, bored. "9 earnestly tor..his ‘client, county set] roe pe ay in the Mindi |

and this afternoon will be turned | and thie alterance on tha az, ta Lanecneter Volt n aeebor wien nd
‘ * " ° a a;

overs to relatives for burial. A col-. | euatained his theory upon which he Pistol “he han when fret a aj
rreste

ored. undertaker -looked after this! [had pr dicated '

hes, dabei nage the, pre ted the defenne, 2 had been coneealed tn the cell he

lower floor after dtrups and nooses | Heed Dice Came of Polite nie ana nee
cone: “rene and Officers

Bad been removed. Unlike hie companion on the seat. kk
Poe ee “es vn me ce ae. | | LONd, Lemter Murd, who wag'to bave nt son and Holden evarched the
Ne Lest Minute Hope. been first tu the trap, but was ine —- wna fauna i%e gun tn the Jay.
No-last MiIhUté “Nopen” were—held] ladvertently tele for ine lant by the} {nj Mater box
out for the {wo * condemne men, ebutics wha ». ere in charge of the 1 well-k Plated ia a ~=S.callbre ane, of;
gGavernor Whitheld made his. final Processional, died without any quib- b Bown wake, and all chase
| teciston--Thateday-—afteracon,_tols! | bling or effort to gloss over hia part | Roar meth feed loaded, ;
lowrag a two hour geesion with at- in the crime, Like Lee. he $00, wae oy a eink piaced tn the
sorneys whe plendid eardestiy but! | queried by Pastor Thornton, and be beaponns is ven aca +
: treat}:

vainly that“the wentence of Kadle stood tall and erect, a
Lee b6. commuted to lifa imprixone ones towards him acroen the meet: Notes nistel was fou
-ment, as there was serious dnube Li whilst. Oicers were adjust. ried pay “That—tthrr- NeSrTo+-ere_,
concerning Kis part in the murder, ‘Ing the fastenings of his wrists oad with th rer bun, he was. jailed
But the Governor wae firm, and legen, ON the weapon In hie pocket.
made it known that his decision : Since tezeat WAY mAde by Officer
WA + was station officer at}

4was final, and it would be useless
(o fenew the appeals during the that thine, and ¥. oo Cook, a citi.)
forenoon t om ' ,

a
Pherite: Welle ‘and hie deputies
took. ithe! Governor at hie word,
and no ‘last-minute Interfcrence
Was looked fof.

‘Welle Dees Good Work a
“AMOng thone few persons who
witnessed the..execution of, Hdd 16 |
L.ée Lofton amt Lester Hurd during
Friday. futenogn, there Were none
but who were ready and prompt to
eXtend hearty . congratulations to
Sherits Wil @\ Wells, Jailor Rucker

-
°

he walked to the trap, his ceil mates!

HURD CONFESSES MURDER" —
OF BOLTON OFFICER, AS -

DEATH TRAP IS SPRUNG:

NEGOES TE. SGI

Double Execution-Over-ia:

> Peetmete ee)

18 Minutes; Eddie Fea
Vague About Part In
Killing Marshal.

The last prayers had bea i;
the jast farewalls sekea, Th.
black cap had deen Placed over hig
bead, arnms and legs securely straps.
peectggst ae hopse adjusted with the

Og snug! i ; :

— Sly under his Tele
-Lester Hurd, stayer of Olle Lan-
Caster, town maratal of nth
vende to dle, - =
rom beneath the {60M of the,
diack cap came a muffled char’. The
condemned man burst into were

anne a low, crooning melody.

“1 am coming home to

tam going home— —

panioa tn erime, had been hurried, —

Met Death Wh howe Pear :
Tha double nanging in the Hinds:
county jail waa pulled off. wit
2 hitch between the hours of tea,
and eleven o'clock this moruing. ~'
Both negroes went to their death |
Without fear, and with the calme
Hess characteristic of the race. Be
made statements, and Lester Hur@
nfessian, saying

while resisting arrest. mie
And both had the Benefit lersy.
UP te the last moment, posh fore
on for their sina, aod had ali
© outward ‘demeanor of true pent=

mties Porter Wells j
Witt Sandell, at which stood Sherith
tls, read to do bis pare. Hie

ing directly shead, |

[dress. “uring thy qubfies-Hy
| Pestar, and while Les Was ve:
jimg in low tones, Hurd éallet“¢
‘from the cell: “Tell the trath Efi
leans knDws tt-all’ _

| The black cap was adjusted, 7
. prisoner showing no trace of fear ax
‘nervousness, but just before the trays
‘Was sprung be said: “Tel! mothex.
‘to take care of father and ‘Baby,’
‘and then, “Tell Mr. John Simmons.
'! wold like to shake hands with
| Bim and sorry he ain't here.” —_
‘God have mercy on your soul;*
said Sheriff Wells, anad with that, he
pulled the lever, the trap worked
[ smoothly, and fhe body of Eddie Lem

un ° .
| Wheré' & moment before hie-fect—hats:
and-at 10:43 he was declared dead

pbs. Org. VC Marmilton—and—N By
Currie, and the body was cat cowie

Ureed Po Tel Trach =.=
Eddie Lee admitted that he wag:

te companion. :

Whlle Lee was standing oo—the
‘| gallows, mumbling bie story of tbe.
‘jerime, Leater Hurd, the dearth.
‘}oell nearby, shouted: : eo
] “Tell the truth, Eddie” oe.

And then Hurd burst into a low
dgoletul ‘chant— se Team oe ca4

“Jesus died for me, =

Lord, I-am coming home.” ot

A deep groan Istued from Hurd’
cell as the trap fell with a siéken
ithud, He was sereened from a view

|panion was dying Hurd continuet
to aing. :

— . ~

rested. This was by 10:38 o'clock,

et +<

‘Lord, Jesus. T am coming Beme.~
While the body of Lee remati

Jextinct, Leater Hard, ia the .
Jeontinued inp clear tones of volon

the eae -aad retrats
4 that.” hi ad been siagtnEe~ “tor
weeks eat, the—tburmdien of whigr
was: “Lord, 1 am commg home” :.

At ene point hé called @ut frost
the windew Toverloeking Peart:
street, (g & women. whe was one.
‘of a group who stood merbidiy
adeut: “Good-bye Anabel, I got
rome pictures for you. Rev. Therna
ton will give them to yon” .

-Finally, when at 1045, the body
af. Lee was cut down, Lester. wag
led forth. and Iike his companios,
was arrayed tn neat sult of black
clothes,- with white shirt, but die
vested of collar, for obvious reas
sons, Hur® was probably five er
six inches taller than Lee, but like
lwo, he went to the trep witheut
faltering.

After his frank -confesaion ef
ihaxsmeg done the shooting thag
night at Bolton, .and after B& fuse
Vent prayer by his pastor, pree
if{aced by a reading of comfortiag
passuges from the new testameniy
Hurd hiagmelf engaged th prayers
in- low, almodt inaudible ¢t
except to thuse standing at hie @}+
bow. This supplication he coma
{cluded with @ recital of the Lerd'®
| Prayer, ‘in which) those on bevel
jjoined fervestiy: aad with q
if acmele, wed
} Just after the rap had been
Ned over bis head by Jailer Ruc
ister again aetarted .the Te
}that was in his mind aad with
ijjery: “J am going home
jeus'*—there came the align
fthud, and the bedy kad dro

the length of the rope. This |
tmtpli:@4 a. m, aed tn less than |

(Centinesd Oa Page F) _y

HUMPHRIES, Charley, black, hanged Columbus, Miss., 1-7-1870

‘ THE CONFRASION.
rm few momenis Delore two sos oe privenst
naa oy | N “3 mate o confersion to bis spirivzal ndvisers, t
A £23 SCAL FOLD. Which he signed @ desire that Cuonel Baker an4
bit. Adauia Loght be sent for to take it duowo ler
SE eH ee puplicatiun. We found him sitting C1 asmall box,
gutronnded by Dr, shamer anu two colvored ministers,

'
s}

yn ig i i] an) , a « “4
uxecution of Charley Huinpisries, Color, ee aoe tk ee ae regio’ iB os
ni Columbas, Miss.—Ilis Cozfession— substance that Mr. McDaulel was unxoown to dim,
; -_ : that he had only seen bin once before, and that wad
| Vhe Gallows a Yree Lint on the worming of, the killing: thas he had beco

ALAM. ;

: auout the Barry place fur two or turce days, and bad
\ ET made or Was going to make, arraagemsnis, to farm
1 OP pe wah ola Tom Barry, 8 freedman;: that they were
The rom the Colnmbns (Mies) Index. Jan. 8.1 potug to rent. land gud bay wules; that Tom Barry
murder of Jobo MeDenial last yearig fies) on en bim that he could buy the mules tf he could col-

the minus of man :
: sany of thu readsraef the lets x : thers W Yao-
Ol v i : n legt what waa owlpy Dinas’ that there was @ 310
ht mnan universally eateemed ty encryoau woog ep fur whom he Kad worked, who 9wea him and

quleuy returning to his home froma thls city
h : WI CU WH oe who paneed tus road, and whom he tended to Kul
tidy Ae a hy to some Disincss—4 Dan yo be e did not pay him; that the mao would of bad
Was snot in the b pave Se See 18 tho wor! — pabaed that morning, and thas they wnat go out on
the pubite ack while riding in tis bugzy az Pe road. «1m the «evening aa he retarned
tug roadstd hehway, the murlerer watening + from town and seo him; thas he was 0
ing be Webra Whe, aaa cee i | méeet Tom Barry as the corner of the
he! pasted stcactuu © amultiug, and win feace atver dinner; that he had a pistol and Tom a
| bogey (a top read Pag | Bare behind : AQduble-barretied shotgun; tuat Tom gave bim
right and then the jaft ri ey yi Poh arbmiunition to load the pistol; Tom quit werk a
going immediately iehtea cae tate ate Ginper and sat at the corner of the fence snd —
stop It, unbdnttoping t and seizing the waes watched for his victim; that when they saw him
pistes against ous bark oA cartain and placing 9 cobaing ‘they went down the road aad took tear
ito his heart. He w and discharging the conte 4 pieces. he occupying ® position near aD old guin beg
: “as found lying in his vig: vd Tom one adout thirty feet below Dim; tnat he »
ere Te nT Sans et $0 Ris pock of|him; that whem he he fired, aiming at (he

ba ke them.
‘om Karry was arrested. and @ gear
mony agiinst him developed the fart a Mag
sinmobries nad been lying around the neiant
poh He Was arrested afler sume difMuulty uy © >.
aif Fa Dancey aad Bob Donnelly. Tne blo 7
cla ck prcetBae me oe nis presence near ia
f ening and many other circumstar
| ee pipes: ag guilty party. .
~~. igned for trial one ortwo white r ¢
sectned to take especial 1oterest tn hts acquittal, '
pile by ever consulting with lawyera for s
cfence. The samepurty attempted tu get on a ler making these statements & bisck gown
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few hours afterwards, his horse having been tur: 1 ‘wha to fire and if he missed, Tora was to make sure —
| ;

ie was interrogated a8 to McLean’s connection
th it, and sata tmat Mcl4an had sone mules std
bid out there, and knew aoot it, and i.

to help Dima veut of tet he would not te
and cLedh were i pees

jury, and notlung bat the searching Inguiry of

iat, Guarwebmatitaee ie cate ee ae set OB a page Be. Mea a |
‘ ‘ 8 bad he :
ego toa, he had not formed or 6xpressed an op - pty erika: Le acecd 7am os :
Sat regard tw hig guiit or innocence, when th 9 i Daniel, sor of the aahered man, to fergrre bi :
bani members of the barin his presence to whor 3 sé ail sould be under the ct: '
previously made the statement that Char + - we ad cient wad
]

Inust be Lung, that he was lobecent
prdve ap aitvt for bain. ane

Qo Jost Thursday Charley told the reporter of :

tances, :
he prisoner waa how marched down to tas acal-
folu, wuere the rope was placed around his neck

Jee eee RA te ean

Inder that tus man (McLean) procured . - Mie PYRE R
¢ : @& ne >
roftunpunenwastanoeasios nee ome Ie: ee AR atu the ian hime Wat By
.: % all thia as it may, alver overy form of the) +» vdice will be raisea in your hearing. Some of ;
| cuain WaKetn Ris Toobe! “3 ie Ghee hpe dpa only taki chat which I Seve igarkea lor, wil
Wan wekthoked Usk MEL aditenAN oreo tol-you alrthat there ls but two piaces to dread; |
tinh yestera ee ae ee ee Cae: 7 tsto rt th he |
uy tn the jail yard. oo a jcrcen at may masee Se encimasclt vo appeal
THE DAY . '
Was chilly and disagreeable, teavy gray clouds »- fore Uod, where I am guing to dwell 10 immortal
a aE AOA A oa Yo abutter cot kepe me tu a
a large adcuee ae collecting to wituess the sce >, u civianst witgas ba wodieuent i getty A ;
Wilu conamencud to come l jabs tenecicn. ies W geen open and others escaped I bad to say ;
H T11B PRISONER to ee God. xes, my friends, 1 am gvuing to Le ;
atq but little breaktust. At ten o'clock the repor r I ged orthe glory of God. I am going die, ;
ae be tyes Mn coeur nat uae ach ei ok? Sar Sa an
eke : ac (a3 begy: t :
Py dm Yin igo abeut ae parent tie: . % reguerigenenpt ints rg rigor oe wane oA
ear. Upon being interrogated he again 9 folks must obey the law. ave seen while :
nig comaniti tue deed and uechined iexiog 1 _ fojks put tev adore bad igi =~ who _~ ye ms i
wikia & rezard to it until the “time caw ' money. every Jy serv ad, serve God, serv i
n he would Dave much to teil , and let my friends Jook out for those thas I |

+ THE OALLOWS
eo erected in the yard in rear of the jail—ther «
ae thrown over toe limb oi @ iree Dear the | i
r. The prisoner had to atepout upena pia.

onp end of which rested on thy platfora ut the: 9
Qf (ce jai stepe, the Uther resting Upousn uprkh it

"hag to leave behind me.

. Mr. Scott, colored, here interrupted him and |
fe out tho following song, Which waa sudy by tue!
ored portion of the vast crowd:— 4
Why do we moarn at death's alarms’? . i

While the song was being Au he louked quite:
cheerful and conversea earnestiy with oife of tne:
adgro my ys sherit by bis =. Alter the sung .
was over he called Captain Humphries and spoke W ;
hiju, but we could not hear his remarks. ‘|
At the request of the captain he stated to the crowd :.
po ns he had killed Mr. McDanie! to get money (0.
carry on alarm, He also requested sume one tw teil;
bis wife that he released her irom all obligations (6°
him, and that ane was at liberty to marry Whom 286
paaed. He refused to let tbe physicians Dave bis
y bat wished bis wife to get iL. i
fter offering @ silent prayer, at two minutes te.
three o'clock the trap fell and he died without 8:
atruggie. Ais body was cut down lx, tourty minoler, :
iufe being extinct. 8
| ARREST OF THE INPLICATED ACCOMPT.ICE. :
Hmmedtately after the execution of Chariey-Hum- ;
phries, yeaerday eveniog, Tom Barry, coléred, Wa#:
atreated and confined 1n jatl upon & charge of aldig ;
ahd abetting in the murder ol Jobu McDaniel £

pi4nk to which was a‘lached a rope: ti ap
this rope caused the d Arope: the pains
Was to stand to ms upun watch the prise

= aT IRTIO Mat- i

Nise York HERALD, New eK
[-13-1972 C4: @

ewe

HUGHES, Samuel James, white, electrocuted Vicksburg, Mississippi, on May 19, 19hh.

"Vicksburg - (A P) = Two of Warren County's most sensational murders were avenged here
early Friday in a double electrocution which took the lives of a middle-aged white man

and a negro woman. The woman, Mildraéd James, went to the chair shortly before l:15 aeme
and she was pronounced dead four minutes after she had taken her seat. She had been con-
victed of slaying Miss Nannie Con klin, aged spinster who lived alone in a rambling old
house near the city limits. James Samuel Hughes, convicted slayer of Deputy Sheriff S. Je
Luckett, followed to the execution chamber at 4:25. He was pronounced dead at 4:35. The
woman had no statement as she sat calmly in the chair. She gave a fleeting smile to a
Catholic priest as eye guards were made fast. Hughes asked mercy on his soul ina

brief profession of faith in Christianity. He was a member of the Holly Roller faith."

DAILY NEWS, Jackson, Mississippi, May 19, 19h (1/36)

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