Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-30
A DOUBLE DROP.
EXECUTION OF STEWART AND ELLIOT

EXECUTION OF STEWART AND ELLIOTT.
Fort SMITH, Ark, Aug. 29.-At s minutes
past o'clock P. M. Stewart and Elliott ascend
ed the scaffold with firm step and fearless
mien. They were attended by their spiritual
adviser, Rev. Mr.. Sample, and number of
deputy marshals and guards. Mr.. Sample
made few remarks expressing perfect salts
faction with his intercourse with his prisoners
and with their spiritual condition. He then
offered up fervant prayer in which he was
earnestly joined by the condemned. On being
asked if he had anything to say Elliott declar-
ed he was innocent of the crime for which he
was convicted and had killed Brown in self
defense. He did not do the killing on account
of woman. He acknowledged that it was
wicked in him to be at such
bad place and was ashamed
of it. He said he freely f,rgavo
everybody, had made peace with God, and was
willing to die, and shook hands with those
around and babe them good bye. As the black
cap was being drawn over his head he said ''Be
sure and
BREAK OUR NEcKs, BOYS,
and don't punish u.s.
Steward said that he had not intended to
speak on the scaffold, but would avail himself
of the privilege to say few words. Instead of
regrctting his present condition, he considered
it blessed privilege. He was confident that
he had found grace, and would soon be happy
in a better world. He instanced the thief on
the cross, who found forgiveness at the last
moment of his life. He retained malice against
no one, and babe all farewell; Jerking the rope
with his handy t'thank God for giving us such a
speedy means of
PASSAGE FROM THIS LIFE TO ETERNITY
At just 2:30 o'clock p. NJ. the marshal, G. Nj.
Barnes. signalled the jailer by wave of the
hand. and the fatal trap fell. Elliott's neck
was broken by the fall, and he died without a
struggle, his pulse ceasing to beat at sixteen
minutes. Stewards neck was not broken, and
the limbs twitched convulsively for five min
utes. Pulsation ceased at just nine minutes.
The bodies were cut down after hanging
twenty minutes. Stewards remains were taken
charge of by his step-brother, Arthur j. Stew
art, of AtchisOn, Kansas, and will DO inferred
in the city cemetery. Elliott's body will be
buried on the military reservation. The exc
cution took place privately, in tho United
States court yard, and attended only by the
the medical fraternity, tho press and few in
vited citizens.
HISTORY OF THE MEN AND THEIR GRIMES.
LITTLE Rock, Aug. 29.-Henry Stewart and
Vim. Elliott, each convicted at the May term
of the United States district court at Fort
Smith of murder in the Indian country were
hung at Fort Smith to-day. Stewart was one
sixteenth Cherelaw blood, 20 years old. At 10
his parents moved to Hartford, Conn.,, where
he attended the medical department at Yale
college. At % he was surgeon on the steamers
between New York and the Ithmus and Cali
fornia. Later he travelled in South America
and in Europe. In 1873 he married in Kans
and shortly returned to this nation to live.
His crime was accessory to the muir
der of Dr.. Jones, of Caddo,
whom he accused Of causing bis
arrest for Introducing liquor in the agency.
Elliott was of fine appearance, but has COM
monplace history. He was born in Ohio in
l847, had limited education, and entered the
union army in 1868. Several months ago he
arrived st Muscogee and took up his residence
at the house of a prostitute, where, in Febru-
airy, he murdered in cold blood man named
Brown. in drunken carousal at his mistress
den. Stewart was captured in Missouri, Ell
lott in the woods asleep near the site of his
crime. Elliott says his correct name is Wiley.