Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-11
PACIFIC SLOPE NEWS.
Two Indians Hanged for Harder Weather
Reports ROarling-h0use Burned at
Eoaie-ReiOicings Over the Passage of
the chinese BIli-Items from British
Csiumbia-suicide and Attempted 8ur-
der in OregOn-Etc.


LAKEpoRF, March 10th-Marcus and JEFF.
two INDIANS, have just been executed. An
Enclosure was built adjoining the Jail some
eighteen feet high. Within this was erscted
the double gallows. The entrance to the iD-
closure was from the Sheriff s Office. At 1870
p NJ the drop fell. It was square fall for
both bodies, and death seemed easy Marcus
aud Jeff belonged to the Sulphur Bank aud
Lower Lake tribes, and suffered the death
penalty for the murder, on December 9Th
last, of John Henry, 81 old resident of Lake
county. who lived about FIVE miles south of
Lower Lake. Early in the day these Indi-
ans had obtained just enough liquor to make
them boisterous and savage, and late Ia
the evening started on horseback for the
rancheria in Coyote valley. On reaching
Henry's cabin they held consultation Of
some minutes as to whether or lot they
should kill him, and after deciding upon the
bloody deed. called him out and asked for
matches. While in the act Of granting their
request they aprsng upon him, one holding
white the other did the cutting, aud vice vera.
The encounter lasted two hours. and the
scene afterward showed signs of desperate
struggle of the victim for life. When dis
covered the follow morning his body con.
tanned twenty-four ugly gashes, the head
nearly cut off, and the body severed almost
in two about the abdomen. As horrible
piece OF batcheryits details are almost without
a parallel, and the perpetrators of the awful
deed would have received justice without law
had not some days elapsed between the act
and their discovery. Their summary judg-
ment is hailed with general approval.
SECOND DIsPATcHI
LAKEPoRT, March 10th.-The town was
crowded with people, many of whom were
anxious to view the execution. Many In
dians were also present, gazing with curiosity
at the high walls Of the Enclosure, which shut
ont everything they were so anxious to see.
About forty whites and probably fifty In
dams were admitted. At 1:23 the doomed
men, accompanied by Sheriff BURNETT,
Father Louth, passed through the Sheriff's
Office, and by a window from which the sash
had been removed stepped upon the first
platform of the scsffold. Tbs prisoners were
well and neatly dressed and firmly mounted
step after step, seemingly perfectly unmoved
by the surroundings, until they halted on the
trap. After a speech in Indian of about
three minutes by Marcus, JEFF spoke in the
same language Tor some two minutes. They
then knelt and repeated the Lords prayer
after Father Louth. The straps were
then adjusted, and all being ready, at 1:33 p
n. the trap was sprung, and the murderers
dropped a sheer seven feet. A few struggles
and witches of the limbs alone told that
death was not instantaneous. For about five
minutes the struggles were observed at inter
walls. At five and half minutes JEFF made
the last movement. At ten and hall min
utes no pulse was felt in either, and at twenty
minutes they were cut down dead. While in
Jail each confessed to the murder. Up to
within few days both seemed firm and uu-
moved, but lately JEFF has given away very
nnph tJt Marpus hoe for
shown any nervousness. Rev. Father Louth
has been in attendance on the prisoners for
some time, and both prefessed faith. and, by
baptism, became members of the Catholic
Church. Their conduct on the scaffold was
not defiant, but firm. The scene at the exc
cution and afterwards by the relatives was
mouruful, as well as hideous. the mothers
and other relatives tearing their hair, clothes
and flesh, while uttering the most heartrend.