Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-05-26

aAAsa82
si3allgs Nigfaasss:
Murasr PunlShsdfBy Five YsaIs IN
the PsnItsntiE SS.!s ssatSaes OF Rob.
EFT Ierss's'tx.55 x5,IYsl,s j:5s Z. $sIi q
g. - ol .s --istl iiitRHAR DBPER1MkaF5a ~
= .. 5ias3A : 3AnJ6rI4F GEHEa lLls ofEfcR, Us
WAsHIRaFoN, d. c., Nay 9, 1851 lri
GRMRRElD lDeIGEalaR4IGE 0RDEas, NJ. .ssS
III Before q Military Commissiep, cong
SistiDg ,ofla Captain @. EThompso6+ 1Rth
4iehiEaG Volunteers Capt. Owen Gfif nth!
4 i!22d. Wisconsin npteeFs;. Capt Il james
Mutt eth sIudianas Volunteers; Capt. B!tR.
| Me.y, S22d Hissenstn Volunteers; iFirsl
/ ILieutensut George iBSnmGpi 22d Wibcol.
SIM Volunteers;Ia and (which convene ed,f faI
Il AtartfeesboFo, Tenn ssses, Sept. ! g 1854
Post sHeGdqu6EterSg Murfreesboro', Sept
9. 1893, was aFFatgaed and and tFied4sR Robert
0aatse=F1 1EurasE, = ssss.
Spseif q dis, that he. tht said
Issssst % uQlles eoit5s5
tn1lh6 Statslol Tennessoe, did h6at b a6s
1 gro woman named t.R eItet,, IL such mar.
neF, that she died from tle Setfects of Ihe
wounds thus inflicled,s This, ON or about
EtheG 31st day of August. 1868. at or near
the residence of said Robert Taylor. about
three miles from The town of Hillsboro', In
Coffee county, Tennessee. -'iaa
Rot1hich teh4Fg aud pscifcation the
accused, Robert Tay ylor, . citizen, pleaded
Not guilty. Ss'7 @ - g, do f59
r.9' s'at't-1 ass TIHDIHaI1l la .s,is
The commission. having ,natarsly cso,na con.
sidered the sieTidence addueed, fnds, the
secpsed, Robert TsylOE, IalSltIEsu, a6 fol-
% 81 ,bs spssiaJ.tiobl lqadihys ~.
OF the cbarge-"Not guilty as charged,
bat guilty of manslaug 49,
g y I sENfEN5iE.. .1o9 : = -
And the Commission does therefore sen.
tenee bin, Robert Taylor, q citizen, ''to Be
eoEfHed IN the Stg:s PenitsHtFary.fo for thsPs
cd Of are gears" -, 7al.,
II. The proceedings, findings, and sen.
tenee in the foregoing case having been
approved by the Msjor General, command-
I ing the Department. and laid before the
President of the United States, the follow
ing are his orders: q f'4t'
The testimony In the case, as found in
the record, is brief and free from all dis.
crepancy of contradiction. The. prisoner!
it seems, alleged that an amount OF money
had been stolen from him-hoW much was
not sIated-but there -waslno proof any
snch theft, still less suythipy tending to
connect With the murdered woman, on
whom his suspiciousfell. Probably, how
ever, from apprehension Of punishment,
this woman whom he claimed to own, made
an attempt to runaway was. putsned BY
the prisoner and 'his neighbors, captured,
and brought back. In 49,. .r..E
The prisoner.then procured airope, aud,
addressing bimseifrto the bystanders, asked
II there was any one present who could tie
sta hang knot, when, man named Womack
stepped forward and tied its- Tho pFisones'
then adjusted It around the neck Of the Rso1!:
man, and, throwing It over the limb of
were his wife and daughters, the work of
murder began. - a. tSi ssr
Finding that the woman protected her.
self by steztnR the rope with her hands, it
was ,slacksnsd and her handsi tIed, and
Sgainsshe was drawn up, so that her toes.
barely touched the ground, aud In this
position she was held by the prisoner IN.
ill from suRocation and exhaustion her
head fell on. one side. Through the inter.
position of the prisoner'swtfe aud the by
ISLANDERS, rope was then loosened, and
m opportunity given the woman 70 revive.
While this torture was going on; the pris.
oner declared, his object to be to compel
the woman to confess the theft charged
upon her, but che stoutly denied any khowl-
edge of the money alleged to have been
lost. z- '.,I ~, 5t'ls' = - -
She was now taken BY the prisoner. to
his lanyard, distant two hundred or two
hundred and fifty yards, and was there
stripped BY him Of all her clothes except
her chemise. -idT o-.s1s=
In the language of one the witnesses,
she was 'then confined by, crossing her
hands and tying them together; then put
ting them over her !kuees with . stick
thrust under, holding them in that posi-.
,ion." Thus pinioned and lying alternate
Il " on her face and on her side, Us the pur1
poses of her tormeutor required, forisome
two. hours and q half, with brief intervals,
she WAS whipped by the prisoner with a
leather thong, two inches wide andlthree
feet long, having knot on the end! SAT
the expiration OF this time "some neigh.
bors present said they thought he had
whipped her about enough That time,
and he thereupon desisted. Y She was then
united and assisted BY one Of her neigh.
bors towards the kitchen, staRgering aud
falling several times from exhaustion on
the way. 'sz,. ~ i'' 'rl5a :.
She spccseded, however, in reaching
the kitchen, on the threshold of which che
fell, In the presence ofshe prisoner's wife
4 aud few minptesi thereafter expired. The
shameless character Of the defence was IL
keeping with the crime lit was insisted
! in the defense, that the WomRn's death wal
!, produced by some cold water, of which, il
her heated, add = exhausted condition
, she had drank; Hand, sinfattempted palIiA
lion of,the prisoners mnrderouS brutality
it }was proved BY several Of his peiehbeE
that he bore good moral character, AM
clothed and fed hiss slaves well; and 70
. himself he stated that he had once before
!. on 9 similar cheFgs given theI womal
sysn E, XoFes Whipping Than that OF Whic