The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-06

SIoKENINa Story OF CRIME The teIe-
graph has previously noticed the case of
man who was detected near MeryvilIe.
Mo-, driving an emigrant wagon contain
ing tho decaying bodies of five murtlored
persons. His second confession, .x.ort-
ed from him at the end of roy, we
copy as follows, from the correspondence
of the st. Louis Republican,:
LIE gave MS name rs Annzey, aud said
1t was not Coburn, rs stated in his first
confession. Tint his home was ut Mount
Ayr, Iowa, where he had 1t vito aud one
child. The parties he had murdered
were hve In number nun with his
vile aud two children, and another man
who was un nmarried. He said they were
travelling in u lumber wagon, and that
they were returning from Kansas to their
home In Minnesota. He met them first
on Thursday, the 18th. Having no
money and travelling in the same direc-
ton, they kindly asked him to Join them,
which he did. Fhe wagon being lurge.
they all, six in number, slept in 1t. The
married man, his wife and two children.
slept on platform raised on the front of
the wagon, while the remaining two
slept in the bottom of the bed below.
Last Sunday night they camped within
half mile of a house near Burr Oak
Grove. at this place the wretch con-
ceived the plan of numbering them and
making way with their horses aud wagon.
their cu'he, three or four in number,
and what 7er money they might have in
their possession. After having murdered
them, he intended to secrete them in the
brush on Clear Greek, near by. That
Sunday night, little dreaming of the
blnck hearted wretch they had taken
under their shelter, and the awful fate
that awaited them, they laid down in the
wagon for the night, and all save the
murderer were sound asleep
Satisfying himself that ull were sleep
ing, he took a loaded pistol which lay in
the wagon. and placing it at the head of
the man who was sleeping by his side
fired. He instantly killed him. The
married man being aroused by the re-
port of the pistol rose up, and. thinking
Ianzey had fred ut u strange dog which
had been annoying them during the
night by barking, said Good! Good!"
The assassin Immediately turned and
SHOT him. and then jumped from the
wagon to the ground. The wounded
man attempted to follow him, when
Ihnzey seized an axe aud despatched
him ut once. The ngonizod wife of the
murdered man was now running around
tho wagon, uttering fearful cries, nnd
fearing that she would alarm the people
ut the farm house near by, he also killed
hcr with al axe or club, inst which lie
does not remember. The two inf.nt
babes, aged three and fifteen mouths.
NV alone remained living, and it seems
that hn did not dispose of them until
S,ln fID,ka A ffar t,o l, -
When asked how he could have the
heart to kill the two helpless children.
ho replied that he did so with reluc-
tance, but that when he had murdered
their mother they annoyed him with
their piteous cries, and being alarmed
lest their noiso should lead to his detec-
tion, he cnt their throats from ear to
ear, aud thus completed his work of de-
struct0n.
After the confession had been made,
200 determined men collected at the
place wheru the prisoner was confined,
and it was plain that they intended to
take tho law into their own hands, aud
mete out to this inhunan wretch the
speedy justice he 80 richly deserved.
The prisoner, having finished this con
fession, was bound hand and foot and
taken to II black walnut tree, the place
selected for his execution. Arrived at
the fatal spot, Tanzey was cool and col
lccted, perfectly unmoved. proving him
self to Ge man of iron nerve und one
of the most hardened villains the world
had ever known. A rope was then PLACID
around his neck, one end thrown over
the limb Of q tree, when Tnpzpy was
told his time had come. and that ten
minutes wonl,l bo given him to make
any last request. He replied that he
would like to live until he could see his
wife. aud when told that his request
couli no: be granted, he said he had no
further remark to make.
DEATH OF CLARK, THE SEpucEn
special telegram to tho Richmond Dis
patch, dated Brentsvjlle. Va, September
3, says james L. Clark breathed his last
ut p. NJ, yesterday. His dissolution
was apparent to the physicians in attend
anco from about midday on Sunday,
though to those who called upon him he
appeared to speak with the same degree
of nationality and vigor which one would
expect from no one but al unipjured
man until within several hours before his
death, when he became delirious ut in :
ter walls, and was seized with tho ,nOat