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with Ills clothing covered with blood from tho


Correspondence Ntp rert Herald,
noNE, Ga, July 14.-About Eve months ago
y small building Rt plainvillc, uscd a q store
and dwcll!ng-housot was burned. A negro
nkmcd Haywood Grant was shortly aftcrward
Arrcstcd aid tried for Tho crime. lie was con-
sictcl mud then confessed. Ills bearing Was cx-
ceedIngly insolcnt and hardy, and when the
Judge put his day Of execution on The 14th Of
July ho arose nnd asked, Wouldn't you put
tic dny sooner Mr.. Judgca 1am going 70 he'll
anyhow, and the sooner I get through with 1t
tho better would like II you could make Il
sooner" lie was taken 10 jail and there con-
fined until to-day. Ito Inns been utterly
callous md unrepentaut and tays
"he's seen 700 many niqge5s gw,ns
i.c's gs,nu straight 70 hcli.S Yesterday La
shocked The iaIlors and others by telling thpm
the story of Ills life, In which lie confessed that
l,o Ind committed four murders aud burned six
houses.
These crimes nro as follows :--1n 1906 lie killed
white deck hand OIL tho steamer Putufnnc with
billet OF wood. Iie was nevcr suspected aud
escaped punishment. Some months afterward
h. kl!lod ANOTHER deck M band on thc Bostoeian'
cd in stcalug and discharged; then to the Darsl-
anellc, where he got Into row and sar!oualy
stabbed ono Of two men. He esGapcl from tue
bout whllo she was under why, His next murder
AUST for iuil,',' and robbed him Of 500. Ho Of
oncc left thu city and ngatl, escaped punishment.
Lie won't 10 steainboattng again after tNis. Ia
The lattur part Of 1872 ht went to work on Gen.
TO Memphis III 1873. Here was arrested for
stealing mule, convicted and sentenced 10 ten
years Imprisonment. III tho fall Of 18i13 ho wis
sent 10 work On the Elizabetlitown & Falucah
Railroad at1 escaped. Going to Helena he eI,-
ted. But ho was rcarrested for tho murder Of
negro named uousboro In Memphis. liz was
sclt 10 Menpbie, tried and convicted,
but lle got q new trial and was subsequently,
Next he killed q policeman in Memphis, and
was sentenced 10 fifteen yc0rs' imprisonment
therefor. but be escaped ia lcss than year. In
1903 he claims TO havc killed Gun. Hlndman.
Sunday night, the ml.zzlo Of tho gun being
placed against tho window-glass." nindma1
had previously hung hia cousin, Leo Norris ana
left him hanging from Saturday to Monday.
ls established Ills hsaquatteTs here In sep
on all tho adjoining towns, aud confcsscs to
four incenalafies mud lftccn or twonty robbcc-
tes Ac served % thTeo 3eoy ycars In tho Fprty,st1th
St. LonIs in 1896. lie WIS born IN Ohio. OF froo
parents, In 1871, but became u Blnyo when he
was Of 9 ycara Old by h!s father selling him
self md family 70 CO.. Quarlos, Of Kentucky,
Quarlcs sold Haywood TO Gen. Forrest and For
rest sold him 10 Gen. Grant, Of bolivar County,
Miss!ssippi, from whom hc takes bis nnme.
Ho slept but little lust night, and:did not cat
anything. At 8 o'clock this morning, when your
correspondent saw him, lie was excited and
badly frightened. Colorsl ministers had
sung mud prayed with him all night.
were given him. Tho gallows waa Greeted QUO
milo from tho Conrt~H0uso On plateau sur
rounded by hlls, from which 5,009 Or {, 900 pco-
plo Witnessed tho execution. uostopped on tho
confirmed tho confession Of bis csitucs, aud
urged n!l present to beware Of his doom. At q
aunrtur past II tho trap foil, and ho dropped
about 7 feet. He WIS dead IN stx minutes,
nt qS Thirty 1nT Tls e Fst