The New York herald., 1876-07-15
HANGED FOR ARSON.

THE NEGRO FIEND HAYWOOD GRANT Exc
CUTED-A CRUEL MoNsTER-HIs CONFESSION
OF BRUTAL MURDERS, RoBBERIEs AND HOUSE
BURNING.
ROME, Ca. July IA 1879
In this little city for tho first time In Georgas his
tory, far can learn, man hanged to-day for
the crime OF arson. About five months ago small
building at Planville, used o store and dwelling
house, burned. negro named Haywood Grant
was shortly acrward arrested and tried for the crime
He was convicted and then confessed His bearing
was exceedingly insolent and hardy, and when the
Judge put his day Of execution the 14th of July he
and asked, "Couldnt you put the day sooner,
Mr. Judge2 I am going to he'll anyhow, and tho
get through with It tho bettcr I would like
II you could make it sooner"
JAIL
and there confined until to-day lie has been utterly
caous and unrepenant, and says "hes seen too many
nggsrs gwino straight to heaven from do Ralows and
he's gwine straight to hell" yesterday he shocked
the jnilors and others by telling them tho
story OF his lie. in which he confessed that hc
had committed iour murders and burned six houses
HIS CONFESSION.
These crimes are as iollows:-In 1865 he killed a
whito dcckhand on the steamer Potomac with billet
OF wood He was never suspected and escaped pun
shmcnt Some months after he killed another deck
hand on the steamer Bostonan After kiiliLg HIM he
threw him overheard and tho was supposed to bc
drowned from the Bostonan Hc then went on board
tho Alaska was detected In stealing and discharged
then 10 the Dardinelle, where he got into row and
seriously stabbed one or two men. He escaped from
the boat whie she was under way. His next murder
IN Memphis. There he killed an 1rishman. '.just
for iun" and robbed him OF 5000 He at left tho
city aud again escaped punishment lie went to
seamboating again after this. In the latter part Of
Lac ,1nc ne I. Rock SenI1a ,ra rS~s
10 Memphis in 1874 Hero he was arrested
for stealing a mule convicted and sentenced
to ten years Imprisonment. In the fall OF 1873 he
sent 10 work tho Elizabethtown and Paducah
Railroad and escaped Gong to Helena he engaged IN a
riot was again arrested and acquitted. But he re-
arrested for the murder OF a negro named Housboro
Memphis. He sent to Memphis, tried and con-
vcted, but he got new trial and was subsequently,
acquitted
HE SAYS HE KILLED HorsBoRo
In 1874. Next he killed a poi ccman in Memphis and
sentenced 10 fifteen years Imprisonment therefor
but he escaped in less than year In 1859 he claims
to have killed General Hlpdman. He says-'I shot
him with an Enfield r1c on Sunday night, tho uzzle
OF the gun being placed against the window glass;"
Hindman had previously hung his cousin Lee Norris
and left him hanging from saturday 10 Monday:
Hc established his headquarters here in Scptcm-
Der, 1875, from which point he has opcr-
atcd on all the adjoining towns and con-
fcsses to four inccndiarics and nftecn
twenty robber,cs He served three years in tho Forty
sixth regiment Colonel Woods) Company /, of the
United States Army, but was mustered out In 81 Lous
IN 1866.
Hc was born in Ohio, OF FREQ parents In 1874 but
became slave when he FIVE or six years old by his
Kentucky. to defend him Uhc fnthcr) in criminal
SUIT Quarcs sold Haywood to General Forrest and
Forrest sold hm 10 General Grant, OF Bolivar county.
Mississippi, from whom he takes his name.
HOURS
He slept but little last night and did not cat any
thing. Al Dne o'clock this morning, when your
correspondent saw him, he excited and badly
Coorcd ministers had sung and prayed
with him all night He asked for toddy and a cigar,
which were given him. The gallows erected one
mile from the Court House. on plateau surrounded by
hills from which q, 900 or 900 people witnessed the
execution. He stepped on the trap ten minutes after
clevc and In few minutes confirmed tho confession
Of bis crimes and urged all presen. TO beware Of his
doom. At quarter past eleven the trap fell and no
dropped about seven feet He dead In SIX minutes
but hung thirty minutes This u tho first hanging in
this county for twenty-five years