Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-16

crowd would surely get in and hang him
''clean out of the jail" and implored
them to s'help to fight it out. keeney
told him that he would pray for him,
and he did so, he says, McCrory lying
down and giving himslf up dogedly to
his fate. A rope had been prepared,
and, as he refused to walk, the moose
was put over his neck and he was drag
ged out. AS the moose was being put on
his neck he made some resistance, strik-
inc with his hands and kicking, but not
attempting to stand. The crowd
now probably numbered 200, Dozens of
men seized the rope and he was dragged
to the Court street bridge in moment.
All his clothes were dragged off him
down to his ankles. The end of the
rope was tied to the railing and the body
rolled off The fall was about four or
five feet. No motion of the body was
perceptible after the fall. 1t hung there
for some time after he was dead, and
was taken down and delivered to an I'M
dertaker. The crowd raised twenty
dollars ~ bury him, as they were deter
mined not to allow the country to be
put to any further expense on account
of the desperado.
We say $ we'll done" to our citizens
who executed this devil incarnate. AL
len was the fourth man he had killed in
Visalia He had killed at least two OF
them in cold blood, without the slightest
cause or proyocation. A couple of years
ago he shot and killed a Mexican in the
Fashion Saloon here, whose back was
turned, and who was not even aware OF
his presence, and with whom he had
never had single angry word. He was
allowed to plead guilty to murder in the
second degree through his attorney, and
on being brought into court, before
Judge Bradford, for sentence, he denied
that his attorney was authorized tOmake
this plea. He was sentenced, neverthe-
less to Imprisonment in the penitentiary
for fifteen years. After being in prison
a few months he was granted new
trial on this technicality, and, on account
of the removal of essential witnesses anC
other reasons, he was allowed to &C
scott free. He had shot at various
/ others in this town, besides those he sue
ceeded in killing. After this trial he
| left here and went to Arizona. He got
into a shooting scrape, it is said, killed a
| soldier and had to leave. He had fam
/ ily in Stockton, and was on his way
/ there, he said, when he reached Nisalia
on Tuesday The men who hung hin
were among our best and most intiuen
/ tial citizens. They thought that there
/ had been about enough of wholesale
/ cOld-bloOded murders in this community
The law had failed to protect us. The
county had time and again been put tC
( thousands of dollars of useless expense
/ in trials which amounted to nothing
And they had Just seen n man convicted
/ of a cOld-blOOded assassination, and the
! Judgment upon whom had been affirmed
/ in our Supreme Court, have his sentence
Commuted TO simple imprisonment by
/ the Governor. In a couple of years be
may be pardoned out to kill somebody
else. No man was safe under such cir
! cumstances. Human life has been held
/ too cheap here by desperadoes, and the
/ good name of our entire law-abldlng
/ community has suffered throughout the
/ land in consequence. But the worthy
/ element in our community has spoken
/ (aud taking our whole population into
/ consideration, there is none more peace
/ full and respectfully, and we hope the
/ lesson given desperadoes in the hanging
( of McCrOry will have the effect to rem
/ der such a course entirely unnecessary
in the future. We are earnestly opposed
to mob law, but in the case we have
chroniclcd it was assuredly the quickest
cheapest, and best way Of accomplish
inc the desired end But the closing ac
/ Of McCrory's career was certainly shOr
and striking. He arrived here Tuesday
morning from Arizona, after long ali
seuCe, murdered Il man in the afternoon
/ and was hung in the evening.