The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-03-26
ARTHUR PERKINS HERMAN, THE
ASSASSIN, HANGED.

From the Gold Hill News Extra of yesterday
a short time before l o'clock this
morning. a small army of about sew
enty armed men-armed with guns,
bayOnets and pistolS-preSentcd them
selves in front of the County Jail, on
b street, a portion of them being de
tailed who stood guard in the rear of
the Jail, on \ street. Thirty mel en-
tered the iron door of the main en-
trance, and forced open the wooden
and glass sash door which led into the
Office of the Jail. This door was locked
but sprung open with a little force.
As soOu as this door was open, the
Committee appeared at the door of the
small ~bed-chamber where the Sheriff
and Under-Sheritf slept, and giving Il
knock, it was Opened-and Il dozen
men entered the bed chamber. pre-
senting weapons at the Officers, re-
marking that ''thev came for Perkins,"
and demanded the keys to the cells.
This demand was made of Under
Sheriff Stoner, to which he replied that
he would not give them up, a> he was
a sworn officer of the law, and could
not do it. Some ofthe party then COM
menced searching the beds, the Off
GERS clothing, desk, etc, while a
portion Of them stood guard over the
officers with drawn weapons. tSheritf
Atkinson evidently Struggled with
the guard, as We noticed that he had
his left eve in mOurning)
The VIgiiantes at last found the
keys, and a portion of them Wen for
the prisoner while sOmeo of them stood
guard over the officers. They evil
IDENTIFY knew the cell Perkins was in,
no thnx- nntn.lpI n,,,a af tth, ,rI,r.
Perkins we presume. was ordered to
dress himself, which he did, and. sur
rounded by the Nigilantes. all of
whom are said to have been masked,
they left the Jail. Where they took
him We are unable to state: but the
street report is that they took him into
the old ArFnory Hall. on b street. OPP
posite G%earhart's livery stable, and
gave him a short trial. and condemn
ed him to be hanged within an hour
the charges against him being muir
der and incendiarism. We give this
report as street rnnnor, but whether
correct or not we cannot tell.
THE GALLONS.
The Nigilantes took the prisoner Il
short time before " o'clock-about
an hour after they took him out of
jail-down TO the old Mexican works.
" here there is aOne-Storv frame build
ing standing, formerly used for mining
purposes. y beam extends some ten
feet ont from this building. attached
to which is a thick rope with a short
chain attached to the end OF it, and
under this beam and rope is a cut or
trackway through the earth about six
feet in depth, these fixtures being for
merry used for mining purposes. ON
top OF this cut or trackWav is another
c~ar-track, and immediately under
the dangling rope.
On top of this track a board was laid
upon which the victim was made to
stand, while the Nigilan:es a Ijustod
the rope to the u attached 10 the
beam, and also to Perkins neck. The
board on the track was then evidently
knocked from under him, and Perkins
swung into the track-wav, hanging bv
the neck, and passed into eternity
perhaps as quick as his poor victim,
William Smith. recently did with the
bullet crushing through his
brain.
At the early dawn of day his body
was cut down by somebody. and a
coffin obtained, in which the dead
body was placed, and carried 10 the
undertaker's on b street, a few doors
south of the County jail, where We
It at Q o'clock. The features were
pale in death, and did not indicate
he was chOked or strangIed. but |
that his neck was broken by
The fall and hat death was in>lanta-
nc0uS.
b street, in the ~neighborhood of the
undertaker's and the County Jail has
been ,rowded with people ever since
, ~o'clock-the public curiosity to view
The body of the victim and find out
I'll about the circumstances being in
,en>e. As far as we have heard any
opinions expressed, however, it was:
Served him right
Whatever may be the sentiments Of!
he a of the community rs regards
his act of netting out summary Justice
to this assassin and incendiarV, we
cannot but deplore this outrage upon
law and its officers. We inter
viewed Sheriffs Atkinson and >toner
1t an early hour this morning. and we
tannot help believing that the commu-
nifty will hold them blanIelesS. as they
resisted the Vigiiantes the best they
could under the circumstances.