The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR.

The following particulars of an extraordinary affair
are front the I:kilo/ins Arius :--
At an early hour the other morning a rumour circulated
through Cheyenne that two men hat been hung derit.g the
night by a baud of reel, calling themselves the Virtilanres
This rumour was 50.111 after substantiated by the loodits of
the victims Icing brought to the City Hall. One of them,
named Charles Martin, was found hanging to a temporary
gallows constructed at the eastern Citretnity of Six, tenth-
street. The other, who was known as Charles or John Mor-
gan, sets found hanging to another rude gallows corstructed
at the back of the Eleptoant Corral.
1 prie'v"iOuletyliaPt'll'ehitistiic't'c'o"u'rit ef"odr ‘Nlienitotten'ild:rdooyf orAtjl;
1 Harris, the evidence going to show that Harris had first
drawn his revolver and threatened Martin's life. He was
warned by Mends to leave the town, m they considered his
life in dao.ger, hut he refused, and some say he made threats
against other persona To one man who cautioned bin, be
said he considered himself free as the air, and nobody 01.0111
. scare him. At any rate, after his release Martin Dyed a free
and easy life, utterly ignorant of the sword that was
I hanMng over him. on the night of his murder he called in
1 at the Keystone dance hull, on deventeenthatreet, at eleven
o'clock, and was the gayest of the gay. Ile wore white
gloves and what is known as a "plug,- hat, and danced

nearly every time with the girls present. At about half-past
twelve o'clock a knot of men, numbering shout .20. were
observed standing in the road between the Keystone Saloon
and the Post Unice. Shortly afterwards a man name into
the viont where Martin was daticlog and said some one
wanted to see him outaide. Martin at drat took aia dotage..
but at length went to the door and looked out, when he arse
immediately seized by four or five torn and dragged into the
middle 01 the road, where the neon body of the gong sur-
rounded and hurried him up the sir et. The door sit the
dance.house was then shut by °them, and the persons inside,
Uleinding a policeman, prevented trio getting not. Martin
was heard to say while being carried away. My CA men,
what are you going to do with me I" but the leader of the band
gave the word, "Double quick," and the crowd soon vanished
in the darkness. The only man who heard Martin afterwards,
except those concerned in the deed, wits the night watchman
at the railroad depot, who heard a Ulan crying 'ill and ap-
parently beggingfor mercy. He did not go neartheapot There
is no doubt that Martin strum:led desperately with his
captors, ais wounds were found on his head evidently in-
flicted by blows from • revolver. When the body was found
the next morning it was suspended by a amt two teet of wipe
and death had evidently ensued from strangulation. Charles
, Martin was originally from Lexington, Mo., where histamily
is well connected, and where he has left a wife ant two
' children. His career on the plait, first commenced as
waggon-master for Russell, Major, and Waddell, ant until
the list eighteen months or two years he had a i ay • liii suet
that business. Lat. ly he had ly tVI
ways, spending Lis time in gambliug ant minking. Ile ale
acquired the reputaa di of a thorough desp, roil°, ready to
sho.it at a moment'. notice. We kayo',, t 'elem.t that lie
killed any other men besides Harris, lon last summer at
Jul, shurg he shot at C:ipt lin O'Brien without the slightest
provocation, the ball grazing that gentle imit's body. veil
tho,ie whose nature rebels against secret ini.ii.ight
lion, in any shape or form, cannot but be to I at the euintry
being rid of such a dangerous character.
Tine second victim, who went by the name of Charles or
Jelin Morgan, is supposed to have been hung fir the crime
of hone or mule stealing, Hint he created ivinsiderable in
diguation it. the city, many persora who knew Into steutly
maudaining that he was innocent.

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