The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-06-19
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ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO THE DAILY LNTELLIGENCER



TERRE HAuTE, June ls.-Two exeGu-
tons transpired in this vicinity to-day.
At 1880 on the evening Of August Goth,
1874, the body Of woman was found on
the bank Of Big Sugar Creek near Elk.
ridge, Edgar county, Ills, the throat cut
clean across. Search was instituted for
the perpetrator, and after many trails
had been worked. John Casey was arrest,
ed at Charleston, Ills, Tho woman had
been his wife. He was taken to Paris,
the county seat Of Edgar, in which the
cTime had been committed. Atthe March
term Of the Criminal Circuit Court the
jury, after being out just twenty minutes,
returned q verdict OF murder in the first
degree, assessing the penalty Us death,
He has been kept in jail ever since the
crime, Strenuouset efforts have been made
to secure Communication Of the sentence,
but Gov. Beveridge was firm and refused
to interfere. To-day being the day set
for his hanging he was executed at l:37.
An immense crowd filled the streets Of
Paris and surged about the Jail yard, but
were kept at bay by the militia, AT
twenty-seven minutes past l o'clock he
was taken out and assembled the scaffod
with firm step. lie addressed the crowd,
saying hO was dying happy that he was
an innocent man, and that the people
were to blame for numbering him. At 1!S7
Sheriff HolColJ cut the rope and the body
fell. The neck was dislocated by the fall,
lie struggled but little, and at l:6G was
cut down and his body turned over TO his
attorneys. lie made confession shortly
after his arrest, but afterwards main
tained his innocence, and declared 1t to
the last. He said that he was going to
God, whOis just,
On the 20th Of October last, Joseph
Robbins, watchman employed by the
Vandalia Railroad Co. at the Kaskaskia
bridge, on the Illinois river, was mur.
derel, and Nathan Burgess was convicted
Of the murder, and to-day suffered the
extreme penalty OF the law at EtIlngham,
Illinois. 1t was proven thut Burgess
had committed the crime for a twO.fOld
objeCt-frst to revenge an imagined
wrong, and second to secure money which
he believed Robbins to be possessed Of,
Having obtained a change OF venue from
FayetIe county, Burgess was tried at
Eilingham, the county seat OF an adjoin.
Ing county, on tho 10th day Of March
last, and on the 9th Of the same month
was sentenced to be hung to-day. MI
merous efforts have been made to secure
his pardon or Communication OF his sen.
tence, but they proved futile. The doomed
man slept soundly from TO 9 o'clock this
morning, when he arose and at o'clock
partOok OF breakfast lie persisted all
day in denying his guilt, although he has
heretofore published II confession. lie dc.
MED that he had written II or caused II to
he written, denounCingi as a forgery. lie
was visited during the day by ministers
of the Gospel and other friends, and he
refused to Join any sect, The execution
took place in an enclosure adjoining the
Etlngham county jail shorty after p.
and was witnessed by probably 90 per-
sons. lie was led from his cell at lao
p. NJ. lie walked up firmly though not
in n brave spirit and took a seat on the
platform. A short prayer, reading Of the
death warrant, an interval Of ten minutes
for leave taking, the pinioning Of hearmS,
adjustment Of the white cap and moose, and
Burgess was launched into eternity, Ills
neck was broke and pulsation ceased In
l2l minutes. He died game, protesting
innocence TO the last and without pre-.
tence OF religion.