National Republican., 1881-07-14
A TERRIBLE VENGEANCE.
Tied 10 stake and nurncd to Death I'm
Georgia.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 13.-Last Thursday
night in Heard County near Albania, occurred
one OF the most horrible instances Of popular in
dignation. Jesse Wadrop was burned to ashes
Three months ago, in Randolph County, Alabama,
DR.. John Mitchell, a prominent young physician
married Carrie knight, famed for her beauty and
accomplishments on the Goth OF June, in the JOY
ofthelr honeymoon, DR.. Mitchell was walking up
the road near his country home when he bcheld
what almost paralyzed him with horror His
lovely wife lay before him
CHASTITY CORPSE.
Her throat was cut from ear TO ear, and her body
was torn with the fearful clutches of her murderer
II was discovered that she had been violated and
murdered. The ncighborhood was at once afame
with excitement, and search for the guilty wretch
was begun. Jesse Waldrop had not long been In
the county, but there had followed him rumors Of
his bad character He was seen on the road near
where the corpse was found on the day Of the
murder in the death struggle the murderer had
bitten his victim severely on the cheek and LEFT
signs that one ofhis front teeth was out. Waldrop
had this peculiarly, With these evidences search
for him was begun at once and twas found that
he had fed.
TRAINED BLooDHouNDs
were obtained, and from the scene Of the murder
they tracked him several miles into Georgia. Here
the pursuing party heard that Waldrop had passed,
Gradually tracing him they arrived at Newman,
thirty miles from Atlanta, where a fcrryman de.
scribed man who had crossed the night before,
and the pursuers knew that waldrop could not be
far away. AT midnight OH the 50 the party reached
a house where they learned man calling him
self owen had stopped They demanded to be
shown to his room, and, rapping on 1t, waldrop
came out. He was seized, and, after desperate
resistance, Bound. He denied all knowledge OF
the crime, and was taken to Jail, though the fury
ofsome of the crowd demanded
HIS INSTANT DEATH.
Next day circumstances were collected so strongly
and presented 10 him that trembling with fear
he confessed all, and. after detailing his damnlng
story told of life of crime which few police an
nails can equal. He confessed to having FIVE living
wives. When ho confessed passion rose so high
that he was about to be swung when some one sug-
gested that he ought TO die on the scene Of his
crime, and that hanging was too good for him Ac.
cordlngly he was LEFT In jail until night before last
when fifty men, armed, but not disguised, went
there and demanded him. The Jaior gave him
up, and
THE PROCESSION STARTED.
All along the route people came out TO look at the
prisoner and demand that he should die Several
times the excitement grew so great that 1t seemed
It would wreak vengeance on the wretch at once !;
but riding by his side were relatives of the MUIR
dered woman, who guarded him and declared
they had reserved him for special fate Late last
Friday afternoon the scene Of the murder was
reached, Nothing was done rashly; preparations
for the execution w5:e mado with CHASTITY cool.
ness Waldrop was firmly tled and bound with
wire to stake driven on the spot where his victim
was found, when for the first time his dogged cour.
age failed.
lie PLEADED PITEousLY,
not for life, but only to bo allowed to die by the
gallows or bullet; but he cried to men Of stone;
and at midnight one OF the relatives of the unior-
tunate woman applied tho torch to the pine, which,
saturated with oil, had been piled around him,
His screams rang out on the quiet country air, and
the flames lit up the scene with lurid glare. The
death struggles were hoIrd but not man stirred.
Standing In circle around the human sacrifice,
they looked with stolid indifference at tho horrid
expiatlon of his crime. From first to last the
officers made no effort. to save the prisoner foI q
legal DOOM lfthey had itwould have been futile
for popular passion was frenz!ed Wadrop was
twenty three years old, and man OF good address