The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-14

Coroner of Kershaw County, charging him
with the killing of colonel shannon.
SENT UP FOR TEN YEARS.
CINCINNATI. July I2-Safn p. Bowles, ex-
week Of forging County bonds, was TO day sem
fenced by Judge Burnet to serve a term of ten
suspended for sixty days to allow an applica-
tion for a writ of error.
DOUBLE MURDER.
SAN Francisco, July I'm. Gardner, aged
twelve, and H. Fitch, aged eleven,
Valley. Mendocino County. one s6o,
through the head and the other
have existed between the boys, and 1t is
believed TO b9 a case of murder. mans
tracks were found ia the vicinity: There is
no other clue TO the perpetrators OF the deed.
DoINGs OF A CRAZY TRAMP
BYERs, Col, July l2.-Lsst evening at
O'Clock an unknown tramp came TO the depot,
and while engaged in conversation suddenly
drew large butcher knife and gave Samuel
Green cut over the eye. He cut John Nc
Glynn so that his bowels came out. and then
tor, probably fatally In the left side. McCrack-
en- ran across the street, followed by the
tramp. who was shot dead by Constable.
The tramp can not be identified, but is sup
posed TO be maniac.
Young WOMAN MURDERED BY HER BROTHER
D.NvILLE, Va, July 9.-Last night about
midnight ThOmas ID. De Jarnette entered a
bagnio, iDquiring for Mollie De Jarnette, and
Repeated pistol shots followed. The police
broke int" the room, and the girl was found
on the floor, her brother standing by with
pistol in his hand. He Immediately confessed
the shooting his sister, averring that he had
done 1t TO wipe out the disgrace of tie family.
The girl was shot five times; two shots were
fatal. She protests that her brother was right
in taking her life, and begs that he be not
punished. Before the brother was taken TO
prison, he and his sister embraced. The
brother is a telegraph operator, aged twenty,
and the sister seventeen years Of age.
DOUBLE HANGING.
MEMPHIS. July lO.-George Sanford and
Richard Mckee. both coored, were hanged
yesterday at Osceal, Ark for the murder of
Armlstead Penn, cOlored, on the 26th of No
vember last. In an interview the night pre-
vious to the hanging both confessed their
guilt, but said the Lord had pardoned them
At noon they left the Jail under strong guard
walked to the place OF execution,
| gallows was erected on the bank of
| the Mississippi River, under a gigantic
| in singing, clark, From the Tomb Doleful
Sound" and "Show Pity. Lord; Oh. Lord,
| Forgive" On the scaffold Mckee confessed To
numbering Penn. Sanford spoke for several
| minutes. His voice was clear and firm, saying
| that he was guilty, and he, too, was prepared
| to die. At the moment great feeling was ex.
| hibited by many of the crowd, and a number
| of men pushed their way through the guards,
| climbed the steps OF the scaffold, grasped them
| by their hancs and bid them good bye. The
| drop was sprung at O'Clock. McKee's neck
| was broken by the fall. Sanford's moose Slip
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left cheek. He cried out, "Oh, XIII me! Kill
| mel" and made many spasmodic twists at
| one time drawing himself almost double.
| Three thousand people witnessed the execu-
| tion, which was the first ever had in this
! County.
/ EXECUTION OF GEORGE ALLEN PRICE, THE MUIR
DERER, AT CINCINNATI.
| CINCINNATI. July 9.-George Allen Price, the
| murderer OF Willie Black, was hanged accord
/ ing TO law, in the yard of the Hamilton Coun-
| ty Jail, at Al IL. and cut down dead twenty
minutes later, this forenoon.
| On April 30, 1879, he shot and murdered VIII
| lie Black, in the office OF the latter in this
| city. He was found guilty OF murder in the
| first degree and sentenced to b. hanged on
i MAY o. this year. On representations that he
| was insane, Governor Foster gave him res
| pite until July 8. Price was colored, born
| slave in Kentucky 81 years sgO was f. eed by
the war, and came to Cincinnati, where he has
| since we'd. Willie Black was a tobacco mer-
chant, and for eight years up to week before
| employ. About week previously
he caused the arrest of Price for stealing to-
| bacco from him; then only day before the
/ murder bailed him out. Price went to Black S
/ office, demanded retraction of the charge Of
| larceny. which was refused, whereupon the
| murder followed. The conduct of George
/ Allen Price uncer the sentence has been de-
| scrIbed as cold, hard and unTeDentant. He
/ had particular adherence OF reporters. His
| redeeming traits were his intense concern for
his family, which, IL is said, was characteristic
OF him before the commission OF the crime.
/ Till twelve years old he said he was reared a
/ Catholic, when, through the influence of a
/ woman who became his wife, he joined the
| Baptist Church. That he abandoned years
/ ago and up to the moment OF his DEATH and
/ then to the last refused to have spiritual
| adviser. An hour before the execution the
Jailer asked him, 'Are you prepared to die?"
4 He answered, "1es; I've always been prepared
/ ever since was born" To his best friends
conversing with him this morning he said, u
| suppose man exists hereafter, and, If God
| made me of dust and breathed life into me,
| I'm His own, and I'll trust Him TO take care
of me, and don't want any nonsense about
| It on the scaffold." One of the most active in
| trying to get his punishment commuted to
/ imprisonment for life asked him If he thought
| he was sane at all times and he rephed.
lime He evidently. hoped for ,xa ex3
hours of the execution, when the Jailer
| disabused his mind OF such hopes
forenoon from half-past in the morning he
| drank q great deal of whisky, smoked cigars,
talked freely and cheerfully, sought out pris-
oners In the jail to ask their pardon In cases
| where he supposed he had given offense, and
| sent word to Judge Longworth, the udge who
| prounced the senter ce, asking forgiveness for
words used in a letter sent to him. He took
| occasion to express the most intense gratitude
to some ladies who had visited him in the jail,
| and to the wife OF the Jailer, coupled WIN the
wish that there might be hereafter in which
he would be enabled TO repay the kindness
which was SO dear, because S Teneereo wnSn
ragged against him. The enorm1ty OF n1s
crime and the justice of his punishment ne
fully realized, and frequently TOOK
occasion to remark that all disposition to COM
plain of the Courts and the public had van
ished. He requested the Sheriff TO delay the
hanging until III 80, and the Sherln acquiesced.
He was attired In new black suit and wore a
| slouch hat from the prison cell to an apart
ment In the Jail, where he listened quietly 70
| the death warrant. On his way 10 the scaf.oid
he called on a servant and some little CO lidren
in the jail yard, bade them farewell so hoped
| a better life and death for them than his. His
interview with his wife lasted two hours
His only daughter did not visit
him since yesterday. On the scat
fold he firm and composed. To
| several persons in the crowd whom he recog-
nized, he bsde farewell. Just before the black
cap was applied, he addressed the spectators
saying: I've tried to live well. and die the
best can" Though the execution was In an
| inclosure, the Court House walls formed the
wall of the inclosure, and many persons wit
| messed the scene from the windows. The moose
! was not drawn tight enough, and when The
trap fell IL slipped and failed TO break the vic
Tins neck. For ten minutes the pulse beat
| The body, when cut down, was taken to the
crowded streets and exhibited. By his request
, his funeral viii be private, and from hi
, | widows home, next Sunday.
One Lady Killed and Several Wounded by
Drunken Driver of a Carriage.