New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-21
Hanging of n Former kentuckian in Ne.
braska-Catalogue of His Grimes.

1ASKTOS, Dakota. MAY 1i-From an
eyewitness | learn the following additional
particulars relative to the hanging of the
| murderer OF Jameson, at st. Helena. Ne
| braska. yesterday. He began by confess
ing TO the murder of John Caffrey. at Fort
| Butord, but said that his comrade, Smisder,
shot him. He denied the murder of Locke
TIL about two o'clock, by which time the
crowd had increased TO two hundred A
vote had been taken, and he had been in
formed that he would be hung He then
| confessed to the murder of Locke, and, on
| being taken to the porch. said:
| "Fellow-citizens-I have come TO makea
free and open confession of the crime have
| committed. | know that will have to be
hung. and only ask TO be hung like a man.
| Il have received a good deal of abuse for
a murder committed at Fort Buford the
! principal part of which was done by the
man himself who testified against me.
| killed the man Locke down here. had
| quarrel with him the day before. but that
was no excuse. had time TO reflect. but
| Killed him. We were going through the
| timber together. and | had some angry
words with him. when caught his axe and
struck him twice, killing him instantly
The murderer's real name was John
McBeanth; he was thirty years old, born
in New York afterward went TO Ken
'.
TO DacOta in the Twenty-second infantry.
He had sister at Bowling Green, Ken
lucky. He made will just before his
execution, and bequeathed 10 her a house
and four acres of land. and then confessed
10 killing man in Kentucky before leaving
but says accidentally. On Saturday night
after being taken across the river from
here. he took a heavy dose of strychnine,
given him by some prisoners al Sioux City,
-.AN In 70.
covered, though sick yesterday from its
effects.
The first dispatch from Yaukton said that
James Jameson. alias McBenrb. was hung
by a mob at Helena, Cedar comfy. Ne
oraSka, nine miles east of here. on the south
SIDE OF the river, about four o'clock vester-
day afternoon he was arrested near Omaha
last week, Tor the murder of Henry Locke,
German woodcutter living in Cedar
county, IN October last. and was brought to
Helena tor trial, and arrived there yester-
uaE. mere seems TO have been no doubt
as 10 his identity, nor of his guilt: and
knowing OF his arrival at Helena Yesterday,
quite large crowd, few from this side OF
the river was there TO meet him. He con-
fessed the murder. which was a cold-bloOded
one, and three other murders of which he
was accused, he having escaped from jail
here on a similar charge a day or TWO be-
fore the murder in Nebraska was committed.
He objected to being hung because he
was unprepared TO die. but not because OF
his innocence. He was once strung up. but
the rope broke and it is said that he coolly
smoked his pipe while they were getting
the rope ready again. The whole affair.
however, though reprehensible, seems TO
have been conducted with equal GOODNESS
and elaboration on both sides, the plea
being that he was deep dyed and slippery
scoundrel, and the only safety was in hang
ing him, as no ordinary Jail would hold him.
The murder with which he was charged,
when in Jail here, was that of killing a com
rade near Fort Randall, when coming down
The river. He denied having done so yes
.erday, but afterward said that a companion
irst shot the victim and he afterward cut
lis throat.