The Morning herald., 1875-09-03

in Grayson county, Texas. She is seventy
nine years old, and few years ago sht
visited her son, the youngest Of her larg'
family.
Among the condemned is Smoker Mar
Killer" full-blooded Cherokee Indian
His appearance is the reverse of progresses
ing. He is Of medium size, full-faced
thick-lipped, with coarse hair of intense
dull blackness, face pock-marked and vel.
lowish tinted, dark eyes and countenance
apathetic and apparently listless. His
victim was respectable young white man
named William Short and the murder took
!, place on the first of September, 1874, in
Flint District, about forty miles north of
Fort Smith. Shert was out hunting, and
Smoker, on meeting him, borrowed his gun
for a moment, then stepping backward a
few PAGES shot him dead: He was sent to
do the deed, and, moreover, boasted of
what he had done. ...
Samuel Fooy, ayoungm !. nearly W hite
but with Cherokee blood in his viens was
convicted of the murder of John Emmet
Naf, a young school teacher of Leaven-
worth, Kansas, in July, 1872, Young Naf
taught school near Taleplah from Feb
ruary to July, 1872. On July l6, having
been paid 5000 by the trustees, he started
towards the salt works on Illinois river.
The night of July II he spent at the house
of Capt. c. r. Stevenson, U. S, Deputy
Marshal, whose wife is sister of Fooy.
Next morning Naff rendered five dollar
bill in payment for his meals and lodging,
but Mrs. Stevenson not having the change,
he promised to leave the amount due, fifty
cents, in the store at the salt works, and
departed on foot, carrying small satchel,
in company with Sam Fooy. Naff was seen
no more; but some six weeks after his dis
appearance, Sam Fooy, impelled, no doubt,
by conscience, confessed to brother-in-
law, Beattie, the secret of his having killed
the little school teacher, but begged Beat
tie to keep the secret to himself. A few
weeks afterwards Sam, in an unguarded
moment, disclosed the secret again, and this
time to woman, But both Beattie and
the woman kept the secret for the time
being.
About year afterwards negro named
Roach, while hunting. came upon skele-
ton under high bluff near the Illinois
river. No one could at first identify the
remains, but soon chain of evidence be-
gan to point out the murderer and his
victim. Fooy had confessed to Beattie
where he had hidden the body, and that
he had also hidden lot of papers and
book under some rocks near the body. In
the spring of 1874, an Indian boy, while
hunting, went to the place where the skele-
ton lay, and found small book, having
on the fy-leaf in elaborate 1ierman text,
the name of John Emmett Nalf, Leaven-
worth, Kansas, February, 1873. Under
meath was the following quotation from
Horace
Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauper-
UNI tabernus, Regumque turres. 8
Other papers and articles were found, t
identifying the skeleton as being that of
Naff. He had been shot from behind, and ,
the bullet was picked out from the bone ,
near the nose. All the testimony uner- :
ringly pointed to Fooy as the murderer, q
and he was accordingly convicted. He 6
was sentenced on the Monday after the :,
other sentences had been pronounced. He !
his sentence coolly, and on re-
turning to prison was uproariously receiv-
ed by the men who had been previously
sentenced.