The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-09-04

ENDING 1T ON A GAsLL0Ws WITH
"CoLORADO BIL1."
Born In the ChOctaW Nation tudying Medicine
in Yale Surgeon on Pacific Coast Steam
ships-At the Earthquake in Arlcs-Prac,
ticIng Medicine in Indian TerritOry.

Born In the ChOCtsW Nation stu dying Medicine
In Yale Surgeon on Pacific Coast Steam
ships-At the Earthquake in Arics-Praci
ticIBg Medicine In Indian Territory.
Little Rock, Ark, August 29,-Henri Stewart
and William Elliott were hanged in the Court
House yard at Fort Smith to-day, for murders
committed in the Indian Territory, Stewart was
convicted for the murder Of DR.. Jones at CaddO,
indian Territory, on August 9, 1878, and Elliot,
alias Colorado Bill" whose real name s said to
be VIM. E. Wilder, Of the murder Of Mr.. Ounn-
ingham at Muscogee. The hanging was conduct
ed privately although crowds Of people assem-
bled near the Court House to get glimpse Of the
awful spectacle The galloVs from which the
doomed men were hanged has a remark able his
tory, as, previous to these two, twen ty-fve muir
derers have been launched from 1t into eternity
Stewart and ElliotWere in the prime Of manhood,
and took their fate very coolly. They were sem
fenced by Judge Parker and when he asked
Stewart whether he had anything to say why
sentence should not be passed upon him, the con-
demned man said he had nothing TO ray. Elliot
said have nothing to say, Judge but If 1t was
to do over, would do the same thing again"
The circumstances of the murder Of Or. Jones
Dy hSuTl oleWhIl us tebNlllSu W Wy WllbSenSh ~
the trial, are as follows: AS DR.. Jones was walk
ing up and down the railroad platform at Cf ddo +,
waiting for the postoffice to open, Henri and VII
| ley Stewart, cousins rode up on horseback WI
| ley who was somewhat intoxicated, began curB-
| ing Jones, charging him with informing on Henri
| and himself for introducing whisky into the Ter
ritory. Jones made some reply, which in the
| confusion was not understood by any OF the wit
nesses, and Henri raised his revolver and fred
on Jon es the shot takirg effect In Jonees hand.
| Wiley Immediately drew his shotgun and lodged
| a whole load Of bGCkshot in the Doctors neck,
| and he fell dead. At the report of the gun his
horse jumped and threw Wiley 10 the ground but
he caught and mounted his horse and the two
| rode off making circuit around the town. Being
reinforced by a desperate known as Texas
Dick" they came back within forty or fifty perds
of the scene of the murder, brandished their
weaI Ons, and defed the v hole crowd 10 tempt
| their arrest. They then rode off in a westerly
| direction. Soon afterwards an tticer of the
Chickasaw Nation gathered pose followed,
and coming upon them the next day. a fight en-
sued, in which one of the horses Of the Stew arts
was killed. The party, however, successfully re-
sisted the officers and escaped. That night o.
horse was stolen in the neighboThoOd, and the
same horse was afteIward traced to Vinita, where
Henri had sold it and then taken The train for
| Misso uri. Wiley has never been apprehended.
Henri went to Alba, jasper County, Mo-, where
his ia amily resides and was soon afteIwAId ar
rested tried ard convicted of murder. The trial
took pl ace at the May term of the United States
| Court, and he was sentenced to be banged on
August 20 His relatives and friends went to
| work o secure PARDON or comm utattOn OF sem
tence. They obtained the signatures Of eight
memb ers of the jury which convicted him to q
petition to the President for bis uncOn ditional
pardon. The President however, refused to in"
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