Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1880-01-20
WEBB.
So Called Gen. Webb Grows
Tired Waiting for Death to
Come to His Father
in-law.
Kills Him at the Age of &c.
The Orphaned Wife, Woman
Like Clings to Her Hus-
band to the Last.
Circumstantial Evidence of a
Dark Deed.
The Murder and the Execution.

The Murder and the Execution.
As stated In our last the notorious out
law, Gen" II. Webb, of Carroll, was
executed at Hillsvlle on the 9th, for the
murder of his uncle, and wfe's father,
a very old man aged SO years. A few
days before the execution, Webb seemed
to have gotten hold of some liquor, and,
while under its influence he acknowl-
edged having killed the "old man.
Under the gallows he denied 1t, and
said he was cup there for nothing
II Is said the old man Ncstor, whose on
" child he married was opposed to the
marriage, and that Webb ran away
with and married her. Since that time
there never has been complete friend
ship between them Webb had served
n term In the pcnitcntiary, and was re-
gardcd NJ a desperate. A large crowd,
at $500, was assembled Oh the occasion
OF the execution, which was private,
only II persons being admitted to the
enclosure. He had made profession
of religion, for even the most hardened
scoundrels, shuddcr before the open
grave that stands ready to receive them.
At nine o'clock he babe his wife good
bye, bidding her and their six children
to meet him In heaven. Their parting Is
said TO have been u heart rcndlng scene,
for womnn-liko, she clung to the bloody
man to the last. The authorities brought
his coffin and set II down before him.
This completely unnamed him. lie
was 45 years of age, feet o inches tall,
and weighed 100 pounds, and Is said to
have been man OF rather fine appear
ance. Within the enclosure he was
quite nolsy, and was disposed to put on
aomc airs In bidding goodbye To all
present, an exhibition, which the sheriff
put stop to, saying they had enough of
that, and bade him mount the scallold u
little before eleven o'clock. Standing
on the scaffold, he exclaimed 81 see
the sherinrs knife, he will soon cut the
rope and down will go." Announcing
no was cup there FOR nothing the drop
fell aud his neck broken. IN 10 minutes
he was pronounced dend
II seems he married His cousin, Ncs-
tor being his uncle. Thus Carroll coun-
ty gels rid OF her most dangerous man,
a man who, when other people had to
die, behaved like brute, but when mce
to faeo himself with death behaved like n
child. The following complete account
of the case is taken from the New York
Herald OF the 10th
wEnu's CRIME REVIEWED.
Tie crime Of which General" webb
suffered death on the scnil6ld here today
whs the cold-bloodcd murder Of Mr.
Joshua Ncstor In this county on June
20, 1870. The deceased was respccta-
bic farmer, clghiy.slx years old. The
father-in-law and uncle Of The dcccnscd.
Ncstor lived on a small farm which he
owned, about nine miles northeast Of
lllilsyllle, the seat of Carroll county -
In addition to the tract Of land on which
he lived, the old man was known to have
IN his possession SUN OF money
ranging form Al 900 to $4,000. Upon
the death Of Ncstor this property would
by due course of law have descended to
Wcbb's wife, the only surviving child Of
the deceased. Webb had patiently await
ed the death Of his fathrr-ih-law for scv.
sral years lhat he might, Though his
a