The New York herald., 1872-08-10
Robbing an Aged Father and
Running His Daughter.
THE CULPRrTs CONFESSION.
How He Became a Ku Kux and
Learned the Grips and Signs.
HIS REPENTANCE.
Solemn Death Scene i'm the
Jail Yard.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., August 0, 1872.
The felon's fate, always metcd out to the vioator
of female chastity IN the South, was met to-day by
Newton v. Chandler, notorious criminal and
lesperado who, though his hands were red with
Ihe blood Of a human being, had escaped the ven-
geance Of the law until he added rape to the long
and black list of
HIS CRIMES.
Perhaps amongthe demoralized and lawess class OF
men who perpetrated the most foul deeds on record
in this State since the close Of the there were
none, notcw,n excepting the Swamp Angels sof Robe
son county, more desperate and atrooious than the
gang OF which Chandler was member. I can only
give, however, brief ana meagre history OF his
career frgm his birth to the day when he paid the
terrible penalty of his crimes with his life on the
scafYola Newton v. Chandler was born
IN Cle.veland, one OF the alleged Ku Klux
counties In this State, on the 10th of
May, 1s47, Of obscure but pious and re-
spectacle parents. His father, John Chandler,
q miliwright Of Industrious habits, by which he
realized comfortable subsistence for his family and
accumulated little money before his DEATH IN
fortunately for Newton his father died when he
was only twelve years OF age, and he was sent to
an uncle living in Dallas, EastOn county, while his
poor mother went to reside with an older son near
Burnsville, in Yancey county. Up to the time OF
his father's death Newton was boy OF good habits
but having nothing to occupy him In Dallas he fell
in with bad company and dissolute men, from
whom ne acquired the perm icious vices Of
DRINKING AND GAMBLING
70 an excess at an early age, and he began
20 show unntstakable signs Of vicious and quar-
relsome disposition which was prelude to the ter
rible career that terminated his earthly existence
to-day. When between thirteen and fourteen
years OF age he playfully
SET FIRE
20 the dwelling of Jacob Fronepargcr, Of Dallas,
the night after II had been vacated but at the time
he was never even suspected Of the crime. From
that time TO the close Of the war he was regularly
arraigned before the county court charged
with petty offences, such as assault and
battery and drunkenness for which he
was repeatedly forced to accept the
hospitality OF the jailer at the county's expense
Owing to dcformity Of his left hand he was never
In the Confederate army or Union army, and, being
. bad and worthless character, his depraved inc
nations found full sway and ied him into the commits
sion OF crime in those days Of decentralization and
trouble. The period succeeding the war chroniced
q new era in the life OF Newton for he apparently
reformed and was employed as bookkeeper and
commlssary by Messrs. Wilks, Luce & Co.
ior their iron mines In Lincoln county.
At the close Of the year 1867 he resigned his
his employers for steadiness sobiety aud integrity
and went to Alabama, where he remained the
greater part OF 1sUS, acting as overseer on the
6elma and Memphis Railroad. In the winter Of
1858 he returned to North Carolina and was en-
ployed BY General Martindale, VINO had grading
contract on tile Atlanta and Richmond Air Line
Railroad in CASTOR county, as superintendent of
gang OF laborers. Newton worked there about
eight months when the contract was finished ana he
then went up to Kings Mountain gold mine, where
he again met with set OF his old companions In
crimc and he resumed his former reckless course
nf hrtn inO 1nlf fnn nvn1 rlt trA h..o
was discovered that colored individual OF African
descent, living across the border in Africanized
South Carolina, had become
roo INTIMATE
with the white wife of one OF the desperadOcs who
belonged to gang OF which Newton was mem
the gay aud lasclyioqs sanoo was at
negro lived IN YORK. YORK county, s South Carolina, e
where the fran wife ana her husband also resided.
mined upon than it was quickly put into execution,
and on the night Of the 10th Of January the party,
with Chandler accompanying them, disguised them:
the white mans wife. Here they discovered the
negro In the room a with the guilty woman,
and this but whetted the appetites Of the blood
Thirsty gang for vengeance. Without any prclim
inary ceremony the negro not being even allowed
70 put ON his clothes, he was dragged out
by The crowd all OF whom observed a solemn
silence. The negro alone spoke and he pleaded
riteOusy for mercy, for he soon discovered In the
terrible but silent demeanor OF the disguised forms
about him. that terrible rctribution was about to
hor ey % oo 0f him ms sfe but s eos
from the house and roughly placed q halter, with
running moose, round his neck The other end of
the rope was thrown over Il limb, and in a moment
more the unfortunate negro was
HoIsTED INTO MID-AIR
riDle agonieso death. his dead body % was aa found
aa1ngnng sn1 next morning where the gang had
,e1t , IT, s,o and the radical papers Of south Caro-;
sensational account OF another ku Klux Outrage
ln YORK County-A Negro Hanged to the Limb OF o
Tree" The gan2 then dispersed for fear Of detec.
ton, most OF them returning to this state, and
Newton went over the mountains to pay visit to
his mother at Burnsvile, in Yancey county. He
renamed there 4 considerable period and. return
Nng te Kings Mountain, he roamed about the country
u nth me spring oi ISL when he made another trip
ma de the acquaintance ofa
CHARMING YOUNG LADY
Of hwonty daughter Of Mr.. J. c. Byers a well.to.do
farmer and man OF excellent standing In the
conn 1unijy in which lie liped. Newton wooed and
wtst ,ding the Serious remenstrance % OF nUs her
pareafs, she married him. -Four days after his
wedding Newton borrowed horse and buggy from
his iaiher.i in-iaw, In Which he drove 10 North
Caroliia and there disposed Of 10, pocketng
!Le naonty and ,sg taLiag care not to re:
piece OF rascalIty he became terribly 10.
censed against Newton and forbid his wife
TO LIVE wirn HM
warning Newton also never TO come on his pre-
misses TO zee her. This he did not dc, and from that
time forward he seems to have abandoned himself
latter part Of March he returned to his old haunis
Lincoln county and fell IN with one OF Ills former
O. npa mons, Charles Miles Cash by name. On the
Il, o. April fbey saw farmer from the lower
ort, on OF the county pull out roll Of money In the
own l.ncolpton and pay small debt. instinc
yeIy a. MOS. these two angels Of darkness con-
eiyed IL e idea Of
RoBBING THE FARMER,
nd they T. ccordingly laid their plans That very
,cht these we're not only put into execution but
lc fiendsh riIne for which Chandler to-day suf-
rcd the exu eme penalty OF the law was com
,ittsd In conn any with Cash, Newton proceeded |
tnc residence o. The farmer, jacob Bradshaw, an
I, fesi,le crav-h aired man, long since past The
a een e. r who lived in rustic simpcifyivei
''le reace g and nd happl ness with his family The
tier consiated OF a bed-ridden wife and two |
aaabters. apparently about twenty-eisht pRa