The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-21
E4RTTCUzARS O. TIE MURDER
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The New York Sst1ts Fort Smith
correspondent. Of the s0th June.
gives the following particulars of the
trial and conviction Of Samuel Fo0v
I. for the murder OF John Emnet Nalg
formerly Of Washington county. East
Tennessee:
On Monday afternoon Judge Par
ker pronounced the sentence OF death
upon Samuel Fooy, an intelIigent
young nan fDOsa tie Cherokee coun.
try. nearly white, Ger the murder Of
John Emmett NaR : young school
teacher Of Leavenworth, Kansas IN
July, 1872. The circumstances sRr-
rounding the case prove the truth Of
the old adage that murder viii Oat.
Young Naf taught a school near
Talequah from February to July.
1872. On July 16, having been paid
5000 by the trustees. he started to-.
ward the salt works on Illinois river,
The night Of July IL he spent at the
house Of Capt. G. r. Stephenson. u.
S. Deputy Marshal, whose wife Is a
sister of Fooy. -
Next morning Naff rendered five
dollar bill in payment for his meals
and lodging, but Mrs. Stephenson
not having the change. he promised
to leave the amount due, fifty cents.
in the store ut the salt works, and
departed on foot, carrying a small
satchel, in company with Sam Fooy.
Naf was seen no more; but some six
weeks after his Disappearance Sam
Fooy, impelled no doubt by the tor
lures of conscience, confessed to q
brother-in-law. Beattie. the dreadful
secret of his having killed the little
school teacher, but begged Beattie
to keep the secret TO himself. A few
weeks afterward Sam, in an unguard-
ed moment, disclosed the secret
again, and this time to a woman.
But both Beattie and the woman
kept the secret for the time being.
THE MURDERER's SECRET OUT.
About a year after the murder
negro, named Roach. while hunting.
came upon a Skeleton under a high
bluff near the Illinois river. No one
could at first identify the remains,
but soon chain of evidence began
to point out the murderer and his
yictim. Fooy had confessed to Beat
tie where he had hidden the body.
and that he had also hidden q lot of
papers and q book under some rocks
near the body. In the spring Of
1874 an Indian boy, awhile hunting,
approached with dread the spot
where the skeleton lay, attracted by
the peculiar fascination which such
places have. AS he looked down
from the cliff, he saw something pro-
jecting from under rock. Descend
ing to the spot, he found The object
to be a leaf from q book partly burn
ed. A little further on he found the
entire book, the back patty burned
off. On the fly leaf was written, in
elaborate German text. the name Of
John Emmett Nafs Leavenworth,
Kansas, February, 1872. Under
meath was the following quotation
from Horace, SO appropos of the fate
of the victim
Palliaa mors aequo pulsas pede pauperum taber-
nus.
Regumque turres. 24
Other papers and articles were
found, identifying the skeleton as
being that of NafE. He had been
shot from behind and tho bullet was
picked out from the bone near the
nose. All the testimony unerringly |
pointed to Fooy as the murderer,
and he was accordingly convicted
last Friday.
Sam Fooy Is native OF this city, |
having been born here during q tenn |
porary residence of his parents. his |
father being white. his mother part |
Cherokee. A sister of the Young
man, pretty Alice Fooy, went to |
school bere il 1860. Judge Parker,
before sentencing Fooy. addressed
himsin the most solemn manner, and
then sentenced him to suffer death
on Friday, Sept. 5, the same day as
those previously sentenced. Fooy
took his sentence very cody, and on
bis return to prison was received ups