Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-26

Wisconsin, not Texas. We subjoln the ac- '
cunt and the comments of the Chicago Press. .
Japital punishment is, it will be recollected, }
bolshed in Wisconsin.
rr tremendous Excitement in Jaynes- I
villel--Seutence of Mayberry.
Prisoner taken from Custody Of the Oficersn
Dragged through the Stretes by a Rope, and !
Hung on the Public Squareu
BELoIT, July II, 1855
We have just received the following dis
patch from our obliging friend, VIM. 7. Wat
son, telegraph operator at GAINESVILLE, and
hasten to lay it before the public:
EVANSVILLE, July II.
This morning at half past g O'Clock, the
prisoner Maybeny was taken to the Court
House to receive his sentence. A greatly ex-
cited crowd assembled around the prisoner,
but the officers succeeded in getting him to
the Court House, where he received the sem
tence of Imprisonment for life. The mob
stood all round the Court House, ready to
take him the moment he should be brought |
out and were beautifully supplied with ropes
wherewith to hang him. Il
The officers, krNring the mind of the peo-
pie, kept the prisoner in the house until half
past one, when the crowd were gone to din
ner; but the most desperate of the mob re-
NAMED. At that time they brought the
prisoner ont and started toward the Jail, sur
rounded with officers. The mob rushed
simultaneously, and desperate struggle en-
sued. The steps Of the Jail were torn away
to preclude the possibility of his entrance
aud then the fight commenced. They fought
about two minutes and the mob succeeded
/ /. .,
and then he was dragged through the streets,
and then taken to a tree on the public square,
where they proceeded to hang him. 1t IS
said that about two minutes before he was
raised, he said he was Innocent and in about
two minutes more confessed that he murdered
Andrew Alger. and was immediaa dtayn
up. An immense crowd witnessed the awful
tragedy. When first raised, the moose was
upon the back of his neck, in which position
7 he was held for about minute. He was
then lowered for the adjustment of the rope,
and again raised and held there until dead.
The body was badly bruised and covered
with blood, consequent on being dragged
through the streets by the mob. Thus ended
f the most horrible tragedy that ever occurred
in Rock county.
: THE TRAGEDY AT JANEsvILLE-PoPULAT
IDEAS OF JUsTIcE.-The tragedy enacted a
! GAINESVILLE on Wednesday last, while it thrills
! us with horror, bids us to pause and reflect
In quiet town of quiet country region IL
r Wisconsin, near the borders of our own State
in the broad light of midday, adeed has beer
done rvaling in fearfulness anything that w
read of as occurring in the lawless settlement
q of California. Law has been trampled unde
: foot by an Infatuated mob. A prisoner VIII
: had Just received the seyerest sentence of tn
e law, has been taken from the hands of tn
q officers and summarily executed fore tn
Y face of the shuddering citizens.
: Are we then to infer that the people G
J, GAINESVILLE and the surrounding country VIII
;. participated in this tragedy are naturally
{ lawless people; that they ever deliberatel
# made up their minds to set at naught the cor
i, stituted authorities of the land? We do nc
4 think so for moment We believe thu
IS neighborhood to be as quiet and peaceable q
/ anv other in the country. We may adm
r. that those who composed the mob are deepl
e guilty; that they executed a terrible vengeanc
but we must at the same time admit that the
n acted from crude sense of natural Justice,
- which, kept within due bounds, would hay
1f been highly honorable to them. Letus glanC
il at the causes of this excitement and exasper;
= ton.
e, Andrew Agar, an old and respected citzol
as the head of an interesting and afiectiona
al family, and, from his pursuits, known to
E. wide circle of friends and aquantances,
10 found foully murdered for q few hundred do
lr lars which he happened to have upon his pc
ID son. But even before the body is found-te
at ribly hacked and mutilated as it was-th
er murderer, in drunken recklessness, makes
e full confession of the deed to ut least tire
E. persons. He shows no more conjunction f
L. it than if he had slain some wild animal. II
TO speaks of the mode of its Accomplishment
re and the EXPLANATIONS of his victim with th
so most cold hlnoded brutality. Had he NJ
re been utterly depraved he never would hav
5 conceived of crime so enormous; but th
lie devilish recklessness with which he relate
% and almost boasts of it when done, exhibits
e still darker deprayity. He even went so ia
ir as to declare his purpose to murder a well
3 known citizen of Rockford. At least, so
J. was stated soon after his arrest. This fac
o does not appear in the evidence upon the tria
/ but the report of it probably had its effect M
b on the public mind Is it any wonder thu
e the friends of the murdered man were "mov
: ed in the extreme" when this deed of bloc
4 came to light, and felt every human sent
r ment that binds man to man outraged to til
/ last degree.
t But they waited quietly to see what justic
d the law would mete out to the perpetrator.-
e They made no threats. Apparently, and W
believe really, they had no purpose but to lie
D justice take its course. They perhaps did no
remember that capital punishment had bee
2 blotted from the statute book of the State
5 When the verdict was rendered they doudtles
began to reflect "Shall this human tiger,
= they asked themselves, "who has cruell,
r butchered our friend and neighbor, be suffer
, ed to breathe the common air of humanity
{ with the possibility of his escape to commit
fresh murder? We will not suffer it, Tn,
wretch shall diel" We know the result. -
Need we greatly wonder at it?
OSrCan anybody guess who was the MAJ
selected by the delegates from this District t.