Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-04-04
MORE OF THE SCAFFOLD.

MORE OF THE SCAFFOLD.
A LYNCH SCENE IN Observation-Disclosures
EXECUTION VICTIM MAKES A WILL
AT THE GALLONS IN Favor OF HIS VIC
TINS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IN ALExAN-
DR1A-ANorHER IN KENTUCKY, WHERE A
WIFE SEES HER HUSBAND HUNG.
&C., &c, &c.
There seems to be vengeance in the air.
The country seems suddenly to have awak-
eped with the moose 10 its hand The ruff
fans cry Of changing played OUT and SEN
timeptalsts, cry for him have inceused and
wearied the public ear until now it is deaf
to anything but justice, and that stern and
quick In California one of the most des
perale ruAians 10 that State has just closed
his career OF crime under the ga!lows at the
hands of mob. His name was Tarpey,
and he had deliberately murdered woman
about a property difficulty, shooting her
while screaming for mercy in the road =
He had been arrested and put in prison at
Monterey. The account says ::
Early this morning, when the
lnrger crowds came Aockiug in and it be.
came manifest that ii was the quiet determi-
nation of the masses to string up Tarpey
without form or trial, Judge Breen tele
graphed Sheriff Wassno to keep tAe assassin
| in Monterey Meanwhile The first crowd
had arrived in Monterey, and this morning
WATSON with the warrant and demanded
that he bring the prisoner to Salinas for tri
al ut once The sheriff did not want to
obey the warrant, for he knew what the de-
sign probably was, aud he dilly-dallied and
tried to put the crowd off, bue the excite.
ment in Monterey ran higher and higher. -
The crowd of one hundred increased to two
hundred in two hours. By 3 o'clock to-day
pit had Increased to four hundred by the &C.
cession Of very large additional party from
Salinas, among them Mr. Nicholson
THE HUSBAND OF THE MURDERED WOMAN,
aud all this mob were hourdnug the poor
sheriff to start with Tarpey at once for Sail
mas, and if he apprehended danger they
would protect him At last the sheriff went
into the telegraph office and gotv Judge
Breep's dispatch, which he read to the
crowd This was the signal. A dozen
men stepped OUT, and with the remark
Sheriff. We are sorry to have to resort to
violence they seized hin. bound blm band
and foot, and carried him into store adjoin.
ing the telegraph Office. There they laid
him Gowa, and then the work began. The
following dispstch was sent to Salinas,
where it was received with intense interest
MONTEREY, March Is 1873
To the Public of Salinas Cig WATSON
is bound hand anu foot Look ont
No signature
The crowd went very quietly about their
work there Was 10 uolse. 10 con. uson.
BREAKING OPEN THE JAIL
About fifty men did the work; the others
completely surrounded them to keep them
from being iuterfered with. Sledge-ham
mers were procured. wagon and rope pre-
pared, and then tine vast assemblage made
for the Jail few hundred yards distant
A few vigorous blows 90 the outer door and
the lock gave way. To the raffian within,
who was SO soon to meet his doom, the
SOUNDS must have been horrible. When
the door was opened but very few of the
crowd we're permite ted TO enter. Those
made straight for Tarpey's cell, aud told
him to get ready to 60 to Salinas. Tarpey
knew what this meant and sfraighway his
craven soul gave way, and he begged pite
ously for his life on bis knees He implor-
ed them for the Ike OF 81, wife and chll ren
and because OF his wicked sinful life and his
want of preparation for death to spare him
and let his case go to the courts.
THE COWARD ON HIS KNEES.
He protested that he bad shot the woman
accidentally but the hard countensnces Of
| his executionets never relaxed Or soflened
Come Tarpey, get ready to go to Salinas
City," was all they sad, and then, while
| they were bidding him to prepare. tbs poor
! wretch began to nray He prayed ii. q loud
voice, contes-nG bis sins. calnug en- all The
saints in the calender aud the Holy Virgin
20 protect HIN Tbs cepe lastva several
minutes, but finally Tarpey Yves told hat
they had no time to waste if thov were 90
ing to Saiu4s before sbt. Half fsinsiDg
and more dead than alive, Tarpey was
picked Up and carried 10 the wagon. A
pine box and long hemp rope lay in the
bottom in full view OF the doomed man
The crowd at once formed in procession, 10
buggies and and OF horseback. and started
for Salinas. After the prisoner Was taken
from the Jail, Sheriff WATSON was released
and told that he might accompany the par
ty or not, as be chose He did not do So
THE WAGON WITH TARpEY
as, of course, closely guarded to protect
the prisoner from the mob. Fully FIVE
hundred people followed, includingT arpey's
mother, sister and brother iu law, and Mr..
Nicholson. The former did not seem to re-
ali re the state Of things; they l'arned it,
however, before long, and started back to
town in horror Three miles out of town,
just at time when Tarpey, perhaps. began
to indulge hope that after all they did not
mean to hang him, the wagon drove under
pine tree on little knoll, and the leaders
of the procession called halt. One of
them acted as spokesman. He told TArpey
that he had committed horrible murder
ard that it was the unanimous sentiment OF
the community that he should suffer punish
ment for it at once. For that purpose,
therefore, he had been brought there, and
he would lie given half an hour 10 which to
arrange his worldly affairs and prepare for
DEATH
AGAIN ON HIS KNEES.
Tarpcy again went on his knees, and in
o,on;n;nr to,es beuuad for hia Ii q hut he