The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-08-26
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special Dispatch to the Giot'e- Democrat.
Tsylorsville. N. C., August 49,
Bob Mex orkle (colored) was hanged
berS today IL che murder Of J.
wycoG: The crowd in attend:
- csnisssaehout 500. and good
order prevailed. Last nigh the con-
aemped man was visited BY his
polored spiritual adviser. Who remain.
ID With him until IL O'Clock. Nc
Cockle begged not n be alone. Aiter
he departure Of the minister Mo
Coskle walked up and down his cell.
singing md praying, until z O'Clock
thi1 morning. He slept few hours.
A few minutes before IL O'Clock the
Sheriff came in and
HIN TO THE scAFFOLD,
lust outside the Jail yard. He Vas 80
frightened that be had to Be helped on
fhe sca6ald, and, while the Sheriff
vas reading the warrants of execution,
hin knees shook, and he seemed barely
able to stand. He followed the
in . rambling speech of ten
minutes. in which be acknowledged
his crime. He said be owned it to biz
peniou after women, and especially
sfter white women. He warned oil
prsesnt to avoid evil company.
especially bad women. He said he
had already suffered the torments oi
he'll. In closing he said: "Good-by
brothers and sisters. Remember me ia
your prayers tonight, for I don''
know where I viii BE-" This speech
produced quite . commotion among
the cclored people in the crowd, some
of whom ocried out, you'll be IL
hell!" and others. "You1l be il
heaven, brother" The Sheriff the'
adjusted the black cap, and spruni
the trap. The body Of the doomet
man shot through. and when the rop'
tiebtened around bis neck be began
series Of horrid contortions, which
lasted ten minutes. His neck va
broken, and be was pronounced deaf
IN ten minutes.
HCoRKLE's DIABOLICAL CRIME.
There Vas no mawkish sympathy 70
Bob McC orkle. The sentiment every
where was that If any man eve
deserved 10 die be did. His Grim
ma ono of the most deliberate 40,
deeply premeditated ever known b
| The law. A. in many another case o
crime, 20 In this, . woman Was th
| evil angel that fitted around an
hslped the man on in HE hellish work
The seory Of Bob McCorklss crime
one Of tho most revoltingj and di'
eustinx rad ofin the criminal caller
dar. Bob McCorkle, . black negro
aged sixty, and his accomplice, Sara
WycoG, . white women, aged thirt.!
Eve, and she biz paramour and par
ner in the damnable plot to murde
her husband. 1t 10 one Of the stranl
ct Of stories, and one reading can b.
think Of the hackney expression
'struth 70 stranger than fiction
About eight years ago, when Sara
lWyeof wAs still
A PRETTY COUNTRY LASS.
she Was q belle 10 the circle in whic
e.r.nor had lAld nlB uearI auu sVrSut
let her feet. She was very pretty
indeed, . fair type Of . Southe,
blonde. She 10 pretty nov, althoug
that deep carmine which mantled h
cheek has faded into . dull BROW
and the innocent, flashing eye, whic
once did havoc among the youu
farmers, nov sinks beneath the gaze ,
the honest and pure women who vel
once her companions. About eigl
years ago she married j. Wesle
lWycod. . respectable farmer, wi
lived IN her own County Of Catawb
For one or two years they seemed
i've happily. The husband Vas kin
and a&ectionate, and was devoted
bic wife long after she had show
that she did not care for him. n
children blessed their union, and
may b that this was
A SOURCE OF UFHAPPINEss
to them. and in Q manner served
estrange each from the other. An,
how, tie wife grew less a3ectional
every day, and L was plain that q
was tired Of her husband. About II
years ego Bob McCorkle moved on
email farm about . mile from Il
place Of J. Wesley WycoG. WycoI
IN addition to being . farmer, in
snall way carried on the trade
carpenter. This necessitated his beiu
from home often for . week and som
times two weeks ut . time. II v,
during one Of these trips that M
Coekle was sent for to do some plov
ing on The farm. and be made th
acquaintance Of Mrs. Sarah Wycoi
From this time the neighbou bees
b remark that the negro was ofte
lemployed On The farm Of Wyco6 du
ing his absence. Mn. Wyco6 di
charged the only woman On tlp Plae
Who did The cooking. ostsosibly o
Tie store Of economy, but really
order to ct her away from tho faru
SHE WANTED NO WITNESSES THERE
But the cook had already seen enoue
tojustify- her in spreading the repos
amoce the DeighboFs that tho negr
land Mr.. Wycod were crimisally int
mate. At fryt no one believed Il, bu
finally Bob McCorklsIs visits becam
20 uotorious that there Was no ROOF
for doubt. Not only did be speu
his nights IN Wyco6s chamber whe
b Was away. bat actually when tb
innocent husband was ct work In th
Geld the guilty wife Vas holdin
asngnatie1s With her negro paramou
u tie woods near BY. About . ysa
lego IN old white haired farmer wh
had kssvs both Wyco6 and bio IN
worthy sife from childhood went 3
him and. told him Of tie rumos
aboet ln Wyco6 and The negro, an