The New York herald., 1879-08-09
EXECUTION.
JACOB HAINLINE HANGED FOR THE MURDER OF
PETER MADDox-No CONFESSION OF GULF
HISTORY OF THE CRIME.

PETER MADDox-No CONFESSION OF GULF
HISTORY OF THE CRIME.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, August 8. 1879.
Jacob L. Hainline executed here to-day for the
murder Of Peter Maddox. in February. 1878. The
drop fell at quarter past eleven A. NJ. with q six
feet fall. instantly breaking his neck. His pulse
beat for twelve minutes. There were commissions of
the chest and shoulders for minute and half
later He pronounced dead In eighteen min
utes, when he was cut down and his body placed in
plain pine coffin. painted black. and delivered to
relatives Of his wife and taken to Ataskoss county
for interment. Hainiine rested well last night and
was baptized by the Catholic priests Fathers John
son and NeraE this morning. They bid him
kind of farewell on the scaffoid. but no religious
ceremonies were had there. He protested his inno-
cence up to the last moment before going the scat
fold and when asked while standing it if he had
anything to say, said he had nothing. Deputy
Sheriff Stevens read the death warrant and Deputy
j. A. Bennett sprung e.trap. Hainline. when the
moose was adjusted. asked to have the rope short
that his neck would break. Fifty persons Witnessed
the execution. The condemned man calm and
collected and died So The execution took place in
side OF the jail on the same scaold and spot where
Cordova was hung There excitement but
the interest created drew a crowd of negroes aud
Mexicans who numbered three hundred around the
Jail. who followed the wagon containing the corpse
when driven across the military plaza.
ON THE scAFFoLD.
Hainline was the first white man hanged by legal
process in Bextar county. Two Mexicans were hung
in 1853. one negro-Jenkins-in 1878. Cordova and
Hainlne the only men hanged by law. The
black cap put Hainline by Deputy Gleason.
He white pantaloons white shirt. black alpaca
coat and polished shoes.
| Hainline made statement yesterday that he and
| Maddox found the body of man, named Reed, who,
| with Patterson and Compton, was hunting
them in the Panhandle vicinity. supposed to have
been murdered by Patterson and Compton. Hahn
| line told Maddox not to tell them about
finding it when they all reached San An
he came by the iron bridge, and saw Compton. Pat
| terson and Maddox on the bridge. He says he saw
carry his body down to the river bank. They dis
| covered Hainltne coming up with the wagon. and
came up and wanted to murder him, but he offered
would spare him. He says they took the money
s4o-and let him go with the wagon and meat This
statement published in the Herald here yester-
| day. but is disbelieved.
| HAINLlNE's CRIME.
Jacob Hainline was born and raised at Brandons-
vile, McDonough county, III, and is the SON Of
Jesse Hainline. who now lives there. Jacob came to
Texas nine years ago and settled in Ataskosa county
where he married Miss Long. He was thirty years
Of age. He states that he went with elderly man,
named Peter Maddox. toward Fort Concho. Maddox
| He and Hanline left Ataskosa the LIST OF
| October. 1877. They formed partnership and
this pursuit for buffalo hunting on the
Plains, west OF Concho. After having procured
could haul. and, having cured their meat, they
started south in the direction of San Antonio. They
were met several times on their route by William
Patterson, whom they knew in Atascosa. and who,
with his family and two other men. McChesney and
Compton. was coming in the same direction. The
persons comprising the two parties frequently
camped and travelled together both having OK
wagons. They camped on Johnson's fork of the
ville and were together according to Pattersons
statement. near the Leon Springs. about eighteen
nas Ul nd On %
left early next morning and came to ward San Antonio
and reached point about two miles above the San
Pedro Springs leaving Maddox and Hainline behind
them. On Monday. 23d, z. Van Ward met Maddox
and Hanlne within three hundred yards of Patter-
them to where they might find him. Maddox offered
to sell Van Ward some buffalo meat at eight cents
pound, and Van Ward said he would come in to town
| to examine it on the following day This was the
last seen of Maddox alive by any of the Witnesses
This was at dusk and the evening was drizzly
| and bitter cold Next morning two printers
OF the San Antonio Herald. Herman Patchusky
and Herman steppenbock. boys about eighteen years
theirs upper mill. found the body floating in the
water. There was deep cash about two inches
wide and three inches long in the skull top
| Of the head, above the temple coroners inquest
failed establish the identity OF the body and it
were seen in stumbere' wagon camp Yard and Hahn.
line went to get his breakfast at Eugene Dietrichs
restaurant adjoining coming in at the hack gate in
| stead Of the front door. and retiring, af-
| ter his meal. the same way. Stumberg
offered meat by Hainline on Tuesday morn
| ing, February 25. Patterson came in to
town and met Hainline with the wagon, the contents
| of which he disposing of on Wednesday on the
| military plaza. He shook hands with him and in
| quired after old Maddox. Hainlaine replied
looking around the plaza as though he expected to
| see him m:-"Why the old man is right around here
| somew here" Patterson waited some little time,
but Maddox not coming he went of, but before
| ing told Hainlne to tell the old he wanted to
see him when he did come around. Patterson, not
seeing Maddox all that day, made inquiries. which
led Marshal Dobbin to suspect that the body found
in the river that OF Maddox, and that he
had been murdered. warrant was issued
against Hainlane, who was taken to the poor house
burial ground to view the body. When the coffin lid
was raised Haniline did not acknowledge that he
recognized the body but being pressed admitted
that he thought il to be Maddox. The identity was
positively proved by Patterson. who accused Hani-
line OF the murder, and he committed to Jail.
In the wagon found small axe, which tied the
wound on the head OF the murdered man. On being
tried Hainline was found guilty Of murder in the
first degree. the finding affirmed by the Court Of
Appeals aud the cuprit sentenced to be executed
August (. 1879.