Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-16
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

Other Executions Bold Robbery in the
Streets of New York--A Clerk on the
Way to the Bank stopped and Relieved
Of Disastrous Fire at Bradford
Pa.-Several Firemen Injured.
HORRIBLE HANGING SCENE.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, July 15.-The Ga.
sette's Van Buren special gives the follow
ing account OF the hanging to-day OF
Willis Reeves, colored, for the murder Of
niger boy on the streets of Van Blu
rem few months ago The town was
crowded with vast crowd made up ot
men, women and children. At O'Clock
the procession started to the gallows
erected upon high hill near the GENE.
terry. The doomed negro was about q
years of age, clumsy, muscular, dark
brown. He had malignant countenancc
Not long prior to the hanging he said hi
would bet 81 900 he would never be hung
His desire was to be shot, Upon the pre-
vlous day, when the sheriff had him out
of Jail, he attempted to run
SO he could be shot. He was undaunted
and said on the gallows there was no re.
ligion and niger was not afraid to die
Before the hanging he sang song which
was not as usual a hymn, but about his
girl The preliminarles being over the
sheriff advanced and tied rope around
his body and arms. This aroused him
like tiger. In desperation he burst the
knot and a vigorous struggle begun and
the men bumped around in wild wonder.
The sheriff dropped through the trap upon
the eve of jumping off the gallows. The
criminal was cought just in time to keep
him from plunging upon the bristling
secured and the moose 70 placed
around his neck, the 5 trap was
sprung and he dropped, but not to his
doom. By horrible carelessness the rope
was too long. The unfortunate struck
the ground ann rebounded, to dangle un-
til drawn up again through the trap. The
moose was released, and reeling, trem-
bling, bruised and weak, he gasped re-
proaches for the cruelty that was perpe-
trated upon him. It was a sickening
sight. The rope was again fixed and the
trigger sprung, and this time with fatal
result Being cut down the body was
buried in the cemetery near at hand, and
thus ended the career of Willis Reeves.
HANGING IN ARKANSAS.
MARRIANNA, Arkansas, July l5.-Isaac
Green and John Hardin, both negroes,
were hanged here to-day in the presence
of 5000 persons, four-ffths of whom
were colored Green was convicted of
the killing of John Richards in Council
Bend last April. Hardin killed VIM.
Brown in Phillips county. Both were
convicted at the spring term of the Lee
county circuit court Green's case was
carried to the the supreme court, but a
new trial was refused. Hardin's friends
petitioned Governor Churchill for COM
mutton to life imprisonment, but the
governor refused to interfere. Full con-
fessions were made by the condemned
men on tho scaffold. Hardin, just
before the drop fell called in front
the stand, negro named Bassett, and
half brother of the man he murdered,
and implored his forgiveness, saying that
another negro named McGroves was re-
sponsible for the killing. Two colored
preachers attended the prisoners on the
scaffold, and nearly two hours were taken
up with singing. Several colored women
made themselves conspicuous by shout
ing, while half a dozen others tainted
from the extreme heat. The trap doors
of the gallows, which we're both worked
with one lever, fell at the same instant,
and Green died in eleven minutes, but
Harden's pulse beat for fifteen minutes
after the drop fell This was the first
judicial hanging which ever took place
in Lee county.
BIG ROBBERY.
NEW YORK, July 15.-Word was re-
ceived at police headquarters this after
noon, from the Grand Central depot, that
three men apparently peddlers, had stolen
$40, 600 in bills at the depot and escaped
The men were licensed venders and their
numbers are supposed to be known to
the police. Particulars are not given,
but it is surmised that the money stolen
was from the express safe or Office A
general alarm was sent out and detectives
are at work.
The robbery investigation was found to
have been committed boldly in the open
street. At noon Charles Messersmidt,
clerk, in the employ of Jacob Rupert's
brewery, drove in light wagon from the
brewery at Ninety second street and
Third avenue to deposit some money in
the German and Nassau bank With
him in the wagon was G. A. Kirlon, Of
flee boy. They carried $500 in bills
done up in a package and bag filled
with silver dollars. At Forty-seventh
street the wagon was run into by Ven
der's wagon, in which three men were
seated. The supposed peddlers sprang
from their wagon, two attacked the
clerk, while the third cut the reins of his
horse. In an instant they had seized the
package of bills and jumping back in
their wagon drove furiously down Lex
ington avenue, the bag of silver failing
in the street.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, July 15.-News
of desperate murder, in Crawford
county, committed few days since, has
reached this city. James Erby, hard
working, though dissipated fellow, has
for some time past been in employ at
Kirk & Bros. saw mill, about 8 miles from
Alma. His sprees were source of great
annoyance to the proprietors, and they
had agreed 10 bounce him as soon as
a man to take his place could be
obtained They soon found man, Lafe
Washington, and Erby was discharged
and Washington installed. Erby became
very much incensed and swore he would
kill the man who had taken his place.
He left the mill and but little attention
was paid to his threat. In about an hour
he returned with double -barreled gun
in his hands and unseen by anyone about
the premises, crept up close to Washing
ton and emptied the contents into his
body, Washington dropped dead at his
feet Erby made his escape and has not
been captured yet.
CARS DITCHED