The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-09-09
SAM FOOY.
The Execution in the State OF
Arkansas, Day before Yes
tcrday, was Terrible,
yet Just.
One Of the Unfortunate Criminals
Hung for killing u Leay-
enw0rth ScEOOlmaster.

Sam Fooy, one Of the men executed a
at Fort Smith, Wednesday, was q half
breed, and isIerhaps with the exception o.
Evans, the hardest in the six. lie wa.
raised in the Indian Nation. When you
correspondent called on him he prudentl,
said that he would no: make any state.
ment at all; he was leaving some boys be
hind, and he did not want them to know
or hereafter to read, his confession, that hi
had lei wild, rowing, reckless life from
his earlies: boyhood. He said that he had
but few short hours to live, and at the
same time laughed and talked as though
nothing was going to happen to him.
The following is the account of Sam. E
Fooy's crime, which appeared in the Net
Era: Fooy killed a young school teacher,
John Emmett Saff, OF LeavenwOrth, Kan.
sas, in July, 1872. The murdered man
taught school, near Talequah, from Feb
ruary to July, 1872. On July 18th he was
paid 500 by the trustees, and started
the Salt Works Oh the Illinois river. On
the night of July IL, he.staid all night at
the house Of Captain Henry c. Stephenson,
United States Deputy Marshal, whose wife
i a sister Of FoOy. Next morning Nai
rendered five dollar bill in payment for
his meals and lodging, but Mrs. S. not hav-
ing the change, Mr.. Naf promised to leave
the amount due, fifty cent?, at the store 1T
the Salt Worksl and departed.on foot, carry
ing small satchel, in company with Sam
Fooy.
Naff was seen no more; but some six
weeks after his disappearance, Sam Fooy,
imnclled no doubt by the
ToRTUREs OF CONSCIENCE,
impaired to a brother-in-law Beattie, the
dreadful secret OF having killed the little
school-teacher, but begged Beattie to keep
the secret TO himself.
4 few weeks afterward Sam, in an I'M
guarded moment, disclosed the secret again,
and this time to woman Of easy virtue.
Eut both Beattie and the woman kept the
secret for the time being.
About year after the murder, a negro,
named Roach, while hunting, came upon
the skeleton under high BLUFF, near the H.
linois river, Roach gave the alarm, and
became rife as to whose skeleton
il might be, and soon L chain Of evidence
began to point out the zeal murderer and
his victim.
Fooy had confessed where he had hid
the body Of Deattie, that beaides the money
taken iroIl Naff he had hid lot of pa
rers ard a book under some rocks near the
body. In the spring OF 1874 an Indian
boy, while hunting, approached with
dread the spot where the skeleton lay, at
tracted by the peculiar fascination such
places have. As he looked down from the
cliff, he saw something projecting from I'M
leT the rock. Descending to the spot he
found the object to be a leaf from book
partly burned. Making further inyestiga-
lions he discovered the entire book under
the rock. On the fly leaf was written, in
elaborate German text, the name OF
JOHN EMMETT NAFr,
LEAvsSwoKTH, Kas., February, 1875.
Underneath was the following quotation
rom Horace, 70 apropos OF the late Of the
victim:
raiiida uors aequo pulSat pede pauPeruin taba- |
las.
Eegumque turres
Other papers and articles were also found
the skeleton rs being that of the
Naif. lie had been shot from be-
hind and the bullet was picked out from
he bone near the nose. All the testimony
pointed to Fooy az the murderer
md he was accordingly convicted last Fri
lay. Sam Fooy Is 4 native OF this city,
having been born here during temporary
-esidenoe Of his parents, his father being
Shitc, his mother part Cherokee.