The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-08-18
PEOPLE Els TELEGRAPH.


KNOXVTLLE- Web, she murderer, pays
tie penalty-A Past IfltJtitu7o HTtaess
the E!racutton-E People rs. Editors Cues
tsoa, Who is Which?
ROGERS VILLE-Co tncjdence: Berry, tie
Wife Murderer, pays the a61jtg-Largo
1fyo1Ity Of the People present
| T,fZE WE'LL Remarkable Co53ecidence /:
Hoaeyc,tt, the Murderer, SsoinQs III tic
Presence Of q Fast 3fu5atude-No at
tolnpt Nude to Talae him Doecr until Life
soas Ertiact-Ii Papers Silent on tie 1for--
atty Question
KNOXVILLE, Aug 14-Webb, the muir
derer, was standing in q wagon near this
place yesterday evening speaking to a
vast audience of ten or twelve thousand
people, when the wagon suddenly moved
off and left him hanging between two
! uprights and a cross beam. He died
from strangulation before his friends
| were allowed to make their way through
the crowd and release him from this per-
| ilous situation.
All of our daily papers, after publish
ing the details in high colors and double
loaded head lines, indulge in sickly,
pale-faced seniimentaiity, doubling the
wisdom of public executions, almost
doubling the wisdom of capital punish
mcnt.
On the other hand, the people-and
they were largely in the majority at this
| eXecuGon-are for capital punishment,
and for public executions, and intimate
that God made the law long before lie
made an editor Of n daily paper. Some
| go so far as to doubt whether the Al
mighty could gain much Information
from Knoxville editor, anyhow. Twelve
thousand people and six editors witness
cd the execution of Webb. The six ed
itOrs are the only ones who object to the
proceedings as demoralizing, and the
people would like to know if their pres
ence at the execution, and their high
colOrcd, densely shaded and over drawn
publication of the details, with q rnerce-
nary view to selling their papers, de-
tracted any from the general demorali-
cations.
NoAcuIc LAW, GEN. KS Whose
shcddeth mans blood, by man shall his
blood be shed: for in the image of God
made he man"
RoGERsvILLE, Aug. 14-Berry, the
wife murderer, was standing in the hind
end of a wagon near this place yester-
day evening, when the wagon moved off
and left him swinging to a rope between
two uprights and a cross-beam. Seven
or eight thousand persons witnessed the
proceeding from the hili-sides, but no
attempt was made to cut him down UNI
til life was extinct His body was de-
livered to his friends, who placed it in a
walnut coffin and inferred it by the side
of his victim.
NUMBERs XXXV-33-'' $50 ye shall
not pollute the land where ye are; for
| blood it defileth the land: and the land
| cannot be cleansed of the blood that is
shed therein, but by the blood of him
that shed it,
TAzEwELL, Aug. 14-Honeycut, the
murderer, was seated upon coffin in the
| hind end of wagon near this place yes
! terday evening, shaking hands with his
acquaintances. The wagon moved from
under, leaving him suspended between
two uprights with cross beam. The
scene was witnessed by four or five thou-
sand people. Twenty-six minutes eIaps-
ed Before he was taken down, and life
was extinct. The daily press at this
place make no comments rs TO whether
or not public executions are deInoraliz-
ing bat leave 1t toatlic people 20 decide,
nearly all of whom were present