The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-01-22

Who Was to Have Boon Hung.
What q Queer Old Fish He Is.

John Ables, who was to have been hung
1t Carthage, NO., last Friday. was lespite,.
~ the Governor ON Thursday night. 4
oi ~. Louis paper gives
he following account Of the case, which is n
strange one:
la 1874, AMI for some time previous, John
Ables lived in the western part Fl Mellon
AID county, Missouri. We WIS u farmer,
and by harl work succeeded in making a
moderate living. lie was liyias with III,
wifc, the latter being much MS Junior il.
in years-Ables bein. then about iiitv-ive
and was rather pretty aLI buxom.
Stranee men enticei the trail w,i- away
from the path. ii yi:tue. ani finally she
clope9, in company with one by the name
ri Doi,on. Able< inIrie lately sold ali he
Possessed anil started Ia PurSuIt ci the
runawdy-. For some Zine previous 10 the
elopr;ner: Il WIS community known among
the neishbors that .tbies' wa not what a
faithful wife ought to be, and this Tact
would have been apparen; o. any husband
save one who WIS 81 completely iniatua.ei
IN her "a To- be
BLIND 70 EVERY EArLT,
a Ms the case with Ab!eS. The elDpemen,
caused the scales 20 ial! from Lis ewes, and
'.outtleSs the lion w,s aroused III MS
heretoior, passive bosom. and il tool, but a
short time for him 10 decide a. 10 what
course to ruIsue. He inveigled into the
deaih-trap the man whom he first picked
gu, aS the next worst 10 the one who had
stolen from him his happiness. Among the
clauleStine admirers Of Mr.. AaltS WIS q
man named John Lane. IL il to lie sup
posed that a. soon - the terrible Truth wa
known 20 Ables that then, ii not before, he
al-o saw I.ane'- guilt. He kept the secret
~ himself. After di-po,ing Of his property
ne Hired this same john Lane 70 aid him in
oyer;akin. the fugi,iyes.
THEY STARTED TOGETHER
in the pursuit, having but one horse be-
tween them, that being L,ne'>; they rode
and walked al,ernatively. Travelling east
they reach Pincv::le. the county seat q:
Mcdonald. From thence they preceded
in a northern course aai travelled up Sugar
Creek some seven miles into the northeast
ern corner I'll the county, which
Is by far the rorghest section IL
the the Southwest The country l. gerry
~parsely settled, and the rocky hill,
and ravine- are covered with timber. Oh
Wednesday evening April -, 1874, the tw,
men reached John Fergusoa's. on the bank
81 Biz Sugar Geek and asked t. be pa
across the stream. Bnt the creek bein.
very high Mr.. f. refused TO pass them over
and there being no fnriable csos-in.
near, they stayed all night At Fercuson's
They were ea:h armed with y large revol
yer hanging from their belts.
THE NEXT MORNING.
about 10 o'clock tie stream had So falle,
that they were enabled To cross, and pro
ceede,. on their journey They went OF
east about Il mile further and then ;urne,
up n stream called Granny's Branch by al
dnirequented path into one Of the mos
deSola,- holl,ws in that part Of the conn
try. One mile further up this stream they
again made another turn up little ravin,
, not more than twenty PAGES wide. AZ F.;
| distance OF half mile before entering thi,
ravine is TIE las; time they were seen to
geiher. This was Thursday, April Ii, an,
the next afternoon the body of John Lam
was found by some hunters, lew rods NJ
. this lone and desolate rayine viii, two bul
let holes in it, telling the cause Of death
Lanes scsbbard was empty, his pistol hav
ing been taken away by the murderer
Near by was founl his memoranda bcol
which had been looked through wit
bloody fingers. This was all. The mex
that was seen Of John Ables is between 1:
ard o'clock ON Thursday afternoon
something over two hours after he an
( Lane were seen starting
UP GRlSNY's BRANCH.
, lie appeared at the house of Wash Dbl
! lon on Big Sug,r Creek alone, and ridin
/ Lanes horse. He was then travelling bac
| in the direction Of Pineville. and was seek
/ ing ioriing place to recross the creek
/ Dillon persuaded him to eat dinner
Two or three men abou, the place were pre-
. pairing To go on, hunting, and one of then
remarked that he guessed they would go NJ
Granny's Branch. Ables heard the rewarl
and instantly dropped his cup OF coffee
having scarcely tasted his dinner, and a
once left At . o'clock he appeared at an
other ford Of the creek. not having a. We
got across, and asked William Holiday t,
take him across. The horse was swan
/ over, and Ables sat in the skiff rowed b,
Holiday. While crossing Ables took iron
his bosom large revolver and laid it oil
the scat of the boat he also had one in hi
belt. This same revolver he afterwarC
tTleu 10 Sell W WHO itt'-usLct ~ "
be Lanes. and the-eupon the evidence fast
ened upon John Ables rs the murder o
John Lane Ables made his escape to tn,
Cherokee Nation, where he was arrested b.
the Mcdonald County officers a few day
afterwards and brought back to Jail a
Pineviile.
TIE CASE IN THE COURTS.
On the II os June following an indic.
ment WA found against Ables by the Crane
Jury Of Mcdonald county for the murde
Of John Lane On the 9th of Octoher o
the same year a change Of venue va
granted by that Court to the Jaspe
County Circuit Court. The first tria
was commenced on the 18th of March
1873. and continued until the 18th
and resulted in verdict OF guilty. Sen
tence was passed on the 2Sth Of April, and
Ab!es WAS sentenced to be hung on the Iith