Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-15
THE GALLOWS.
Muron A. Buell..

CooPERsrowN, N. Y, Nov. A.-Myron A.
Buell., aged 20, was hanged to-day for the mur-
der, on the 25th of last June, of Catherine
May Richards, aged Is. The execution took
place in the Jail yard. Buell. was very weak
and was supported on his way to the gallows.
When being pinioned and the cap placed on
his head and the rope around his neck, the
sheriff asked Buell. if he had anything to say.
he answered no. The rope holding the weight
was cut and Buell. shot into the air. He re-
NAMED suspended thirteen and one-half min
.utes, when the physicians pronounced him
dead from strangulation. Wednesday, Sheriff
CLARK informed him he was about to begin the
erection Of the gallows just beneath Buel's
not wish his quarters changed. Buell. replied
to the sheriff: .'Do as you like; don't care"
Dre,rs and .SticlIer.
LEBANON, Pa, Nov. 14.-Chas. Drews and
Frank stichler were hanged to-day for the
murder of Joseph Raber at Indiantown Gap.
Drews, according to previously arranged inten-
ton, remained awake last night and ate only a
light breakfast. stichler slept three hours and
ate very hearty breakfast. The men seemed
Indifferent to their fate until the colonel of the
99d Pennsylvania volunteers called upon Drews,
who burst into tears as he spoke of the war,
and of
CARRYING THE CoLoRs OF THE REGIMENT
in battle. When the men reached the gallows
prayers were offered by "a clergyman and a
hymn was sung, in which the prisoners joined.
At los they were manacled and stripped.
After the white cap was pulled over their faces
and lust before the drop fell, both men trem-
bled perceptibly, Stichler in particular, and
Drews' voice was heard remarking in German
to Stichler,
CRANK, NOW WE GO TO HEAVEN
Immediately after this the sheriff touched
the spring and the large cross piece fell to tho
ground, but both men remained trembling on
the gallows. They were evidently additionally
distressed by being ignorant Of the cause of
the delay. Beth their bodies shook violently.
The mishap in the work of the drop did not,
however, cause delay of more than one min
ute, and at eight minutes past II o'clock the
drop fell, their bodies having a fall of about
three feet. The. struggles of Stichler and
Drews were not violent, and both seemed to
die easily, although directly after the drop fell
tors pronounced the cause of Stichler's death
to be strangulation. Drew's neck was broken.
The bodies were placed in collins and taken
away from the prison, followed By an immense
crowd. The men hanged are two of the six
tried and convicted of the murder of old
Kaber upon whose LIE tney nad taken neavy
insurance policies. Sichman, one of the six,
was acquitted yesterday on his second trial.
Wise, who confessed the first, has never been
sentenced. Hummel and Brandt now have
their cases before the supreme court, and
Drews and Stichler are the only ones yet
brought to the scaffold.
JORDAN SHEATs.
ATLANTA, Nov. 14.-Jordan Sheats, colored,
was hanged to-day, at Danielsville, for the
murder of John Ledbetter, white, on the Oath
of February last. Sheats was cursing his en-
ployer, John Williams, when Ledbetter at
tempted to interfere aud Sheats killed him with
shotgun. An immense crowd was at the
said he was ready to die. The drop fell at 80,
and in twelve minutes Sheats was dead, after
violent sfrnopea