, 1881-04-30
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
Roya1 s.. Carr. Who Slew ,lll
Indian, Hanged ut Wind
sur, vt.
The Indian Had a Wife Whom
Royal and Chester Carr
Coveted.
Execution at Towsontown, Nd, OF
John Gothard, Who Killed Jo-
aeph Woods,
The Murderer Negro, Who Was
Wrought into Fury by
Quarrel.
How Marshall Bnxtor Dccoyed Husband
from Home aud Murdered
How Marshall Baxter Danglod at the End Of
Rope Yesterday, In Char
1otto NJ n
How Marshall Daxtcr Dccoyed Husband
from Home aud Murdered
Him.
How Marshall Baxter Danglod at the End of
Rope Yesterday, In Char.
lotte, N. @.

ROYAL s. GAlsks
Wtspson. Vt, April 23.-lsoynl &. Carr, con-
victed Of numbering W. ". Mureomtnuck. Dec.
7. 1873, WIS hanged hero to-lny. The oritnc for
which 1toya 8. Carr to'tlny suffered the cxtrct,e
penalty Ut tho law was tho killing Of Il half
breed Indtnn In Decrnbcr, 1873. In iB'l. Cur
was srclcascd fruni tho Vorm''nt Stato Prfsou at
Windsor. where be Ind been serving ten years
sentence for an1thor murder WHICH ho bud com.
tntsted. lie went to live With bis cousin Chester
Carr In Worcester about ni,,c miles from s1ont-
pulIcr, the Capital Ut Vermont. WORKING ~ a
common lnborcr III tho Vicinity. At TINT tlnn
fherc lived In tho ucighbDrhool Que William
Wallace Murcomuluek II htlf-6reel 1ndlnn, md
n b,skct. maker hy tratio. whu hAd vito OF
preposscssne nppcarnttec, tiatto KenEoy, OF
yeurs Of age, Alurcotnmucw WIS 10, nrl
Carr IL. np.h Royal ant Chcstcr Carr whnted
70 OBTAIN russEss1uy or THE WOMAN.
md tho lest way to yet her appenred to bo to
put her husband ou. Of tito way. III December,
1B1Y. tho sturcomlnltcks wcre Visiting tho Carrs
On tho llth Ut thnt nlunth Royal Carr induced
Murcon,tnuck to ~ or hunting expedition
With him. Just before they started Cluster
Carr filled tho Indians gun with wuter. lioyhl
and Murcor,lnuck having reached IL 1onely spot
Inn denao forest. tho sortner dropped oeh!nd
tho jattcr nnd shot him through tho shoulder,
subsequently, us 1t appeared, dlspAtchtng tho
Indian With revolver which he carried. Chrr
itr finn hrH1 1Fffh
ut"seer ~ o1"s ..s a...sa. h',,,.1 ,,.,a
r.s,,.',. ~ eu" 't l., ,,
CONTINUES t"Ii.ns W put ~ "l M'pea'nuo'' s'o-
picion WIS directed ngninst 7soSnt Cnrr, VINO,
when Ititorro1utcd by bis cousin Chester. re-
., ~ x.,, .,"u ..,.ran t,teSter s,,,s
anu Eaess ny VIM beas .eeto. saee.1l eo.~
municatcd this Information 70 the uelghborss
and
r,trr er7rrer o,rr
1hES ,.'..l'...,s.,. sNli.u W.. @ ,..,....,
search 1of Mnfconnuek Was 'nstltutea'
aud tho fourth dNy utter tho murder bis boly
was discovered, lsoyal CMrr was Indctch BY tho
t1ra,,,, 1,rv an, NJ thn aenk,,hcr t1a,n tnr,n ot
au ~. a..a =. .as ~, 49, 1890 ..'t ~
tue washington Coanty court h9 WIS cohslctca
o. mnsr IN the rst degree Tho IN
counsel. md. on OCT. ". 1850, Curr was sen.
u.'st4 ,.."; ~. ~. -. ~ ,,ss @ ~. su % sS,, So
tcheca TO be nunE Oh tue s"th Ut april 1eoi. q
frultless appcai was made to the Legislature,
md also to tho Governor. In tho l1onHr,n9 LA r.
confessed his crlnln to his counsel. Sheriff Tut
tlo, the 1atcr ut soutpelter. and to tho LcRlsia-
tive Committee which Investigated his case. it
seems thntaftnr hu y!.s lodged IN Jul. Hnd be-
f'ro tho trinl Carr told hts fellow prisoners that