Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-09-11
A wuOLEsALE EXECUTION.
SIX CRIMINALS HUNG In ARKANSAS.

SIX CRIMINALS HUNG In AnAANSA''
LITTLE Rock, Sept. S.-A dispatch
NV oonrier from Fort Smith to Altus,
for,v miles distant, the nearest tele-
uranbic station, that the hanging OF the
air men at that place, to-day, passed OH
ou;etly. The condemned were brought
ont at 9: 80, and assembled the scaffold
at 10 o'clock. AL showed nerve and
refused to make any confession. Mos
es said he was game man and would
die game. Fooy said he was as anxious
TO 90 as the spectators were to see him
90. Wilmington said nothing. Evans
said nothing. Campbell and Mankiller
said they were innocent.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, September s.
The six men hung to-day at Fort Smith
were sentenced at the last term Of tho
Federal Court. There were eight SEN
fenced at the same time. One was XIII
ed while attempting to escape ana 'ne
sentence of the other was commuted W
;mprisonment for life The names OF
the meu~who were hung, were James
H Moore. (whitc) Daniel Il. Evans
Iwb;tel Samuel w. Fooy, Quarter Che
rotee5 Smoker Markiller, "a full blood
ed Cberokee;) Edmund Campbell, !coi-
oreSa Jobn Wilmington (white.) The
oallows was erected inside the walls of
tSe old fort The platform is IA by IL
feet and 10 feet inches above the
Ground. The trap door is IA fee: long
and three feet wide. Smoker Mankiller,
the full blooded Cherokee, was but
Is wears old and he lived in Flint dis
trict, of the Cherokee Nation, and could
read aud write in his own language but
could not speak English. He had a
wife and child. On the 1st of Septem-
Der. 1874, he murdered white man
named William Short. He stoutly as
serted his innocence. In written
state ment he charged the witnesses who
testified against him with perjury. He
had black hair, stout built, low forehead,
and stared his fate in the face with the
usual indifference of the Indian. A
few days since he professed religion and
Joined church. James II. Moore was
twenty-seven years old, tall and fine
looking, bold and daring. He was
native of johnson county, Missouri, but
removed to Texas when child, where
he grew upon the frontier, as murder
er, highwayman and horse thief: His
equal could hardly be found. He was
connected with a band of outlaws in the
Indi;n country, stealing some horses in
Washington county, in this State, in
connection with confederate. They
were followed and overtaken, when the
thieves fired upon the posse, killing one
and wounding another. They escaped
but afterward were overtaken, when
Moores partner was killed while at
tempting to escape. Moore was after.
wards captured. lodged in Jail, tried and
sentenced to be hung. When captured
he boosted that he had killed eight
white men and Indians aud negroes too
numerous to mention. He claimep to
be the best shot in the West. He had
wife and one child living in Texas.
AS desperate and outlaw, he was the
best representative of the lot lie was
baptized in the Roman Catholic church
last Sunday. Samuel Fooy, quarter
blood Cherokee, native of Fort Smith
is % years old, well educated, married
and has three children. His family re-
sided near Webbers falls. In July
1872, he murdered a young man named
John E. Neff, near Tallequah, for $500.
Knowing Netf had the money, he
followed him along road nc was travel
ing, and shot him through the head and
threw the body over an abyss where it
was aferward discovered by hunter.
Fooy confessed to the crime.
Daniel H. Evans was a handsome
young man of 20 years, and native Of
Tennessee. He had respectable con-
nections in Tennessee, Missouri and Tex
as. He murdered man named Scabolt
in November last, Eufaula Creek Ma
ton. The two were riding along the
road together, when Evans shot his
companion, hid the body, took his
horse and money, and proceeded on his
Journey. The body was discovered
and Evans arrested three days after, ri
ding the murdered mans horse and wea-
ring his clothes. Evans admitted that
he associated with outlaws, and in con-
nection with two others robbed veal
thy man in the Creek Nation of $50, 600;
$4,000 of which, he says, is buried in
Bosque county, Texas. He says he
stuck q pine stick in his victims flesh
and set it on fire to compel him to tell
where his money was. 1t would be
hard to find one Of his age so stepped
in crime. After his sentence was pro-
nounced by the Judge he smilingly
arose and thanked the Court for the
courtesy shown him. He embraced the
Catholic faith.
William j. Wilmington was native
of Georgia, Taylor county,wa 80 years
old; had wife aud three children, who
now live in the Chickasaw Nation.
Wilmington murdered man named
John Turner, in February last, in the
Chickasaw nation, and while riding
home one evening from a groggery
along with Turner, an old man and
neighbor, he dubbed the latter, knock
ing him from his horse, and then cut
his throat, rihed his pockets and start
ed of. The son of Turner appeared
about this time and gave chase to the
murderer, overtaking and capturing
him in Red River. Whittington's
knife, covered with blood, was fonnd
near the body, and when captured, his
hat and hands were bloody. lie at