The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-02-18
PANGING IN TEN As.
~ louisiana bcspc-ndo EApintiMS the
Murder of ~ Young Englishmnn.
New York Sun.l


pNaLAs, Texas, Feb. Sd. c. White
was hanged in Canton, the county seat
Oh \an Aandt county, at . y, IN. to-
gay, Tor the murder of George Con-
quest. The hanging was a public ono.
OUT the heavy rains and almost i'm,
passable mud kept the country nconic
away. About tive hundred townspeo-
PIE We're present. White died bravcly;
protesting his innocence.
White and George Conquest werc
about thirty years OF age when they
nrst met in Shreveport, La, In 1875.
White was resident of Minden, and
conquest had but recently emjrratetl
from England. White, though belong
ing to one of the first families of North
Louisiana, had been virtually dis
owned by his relatives on account of
his wicked conduct, and spent but lit
tie OF ms time among them. His early
training had been such that he could
assume the gentleman in deportment
when it suited his convcnieuce or r,,r.
pose. This made it an easy matter for
MIN to play upon the unsuspecting
nature OF the young Englishman. Tho
result was that White induced Con-
quest, in the winter of 1866, to pur-
chase Il team and stock of miscella-
neous merchandise in Shreveport and
START westward, pcddling overland
through Texas. White had no money,
put his services and experience were To
De compensated by division Of tho
profits. The outfit left Shreveport in
December, 1875, and in January, 1876.
1t had proceeded westward about l75
miles, and was doing nice business In
Van Iandt and adjoining counties. On
saturday evening, toward tho last OF
the month, White and Conquest ssstruck
camp in tho timber skirting a small
branch OF the Netchez river, about is
miles from Canton. \ few days later
the dead body Of Conquest was found
by party Of citizens who were pass-
ing through the timber. lie had becn
shot through the back of tho head. In
one of his trousers pockets was found
$500 in money. Official inquiry soon
furnished Il clue.
Search was Mt once instituted for his
partner. 1t was learned that hc had
taken tonquest's team, outfit, and stock
of goods, lad doubled back over tho
route they had come, and that no was
selling the goods much cheaper than on
the trip west. White wes traced to
LongView, where it wns learned thnt no
disposed OF the team, stock and outfit
in February mt such u low price as to
! excite suspicion. From Ionxview ho
returned to Louisiana, where he was
arrested In the summer of 1880, and
brought back und incarcerated In tho
Van Landt county Jail In Canton. An
indictment that had been found in 1876.
soon after tho crime, was quashed ut
tho fall term OF tho court on account of
some technical defect, and the cnse con-
tinued to tho spring term of 1881, when
now Indictment was found, and tho
prisoner tried, convicted, aud sentenced
to death. All tho testimony was cir
cumstantiaI, but clear and wtll con-
nocted. During th. trial, though not
produced rs part of the testimony in
the case, II was established ns Il fnct.
that White had murdered u man in
Louisiana following the close OF tho
war between tho States ti,nt no was
sentenced 10 lifc imprisonment, served
several years, and was partloncd out by
Gov. Yarmouth.
After conviction, White prepared n
statement to tho effect that Conquest,
before they became acquainted with
each other, had participated In train
robbery on the st. Louis, Iron Noun
tain and Southern railroad, near Little
Rock, Ark, in 1876; that Conquest was
made the custodian of the money
obtained by tho train robbers, aud
deserted tho party, taking tho money
with him; that after the peddling trip
through Texas had commenced two of
the train robbers, Henry Underwood
and "I'u,W Hal! afterwards prominent
members of the Sam Bsss gang), over
took himself and Conquest at their
camp, identified Conquest, and took his
life for revenge on account of his trea-
son that they took all the money he
possessed and instructed White TO take
the goods, team and Quit fit to Long view,
Texas, dispose of the property, and re-
port to them at that place with tho
proceeds. This, he SAYS, he did. Jfc
says Underwood and Hall were at that
time con the road' on their own
account, and that they joint Sam Bass
two years later as mcmbci of his nOtO-
| riou5 band OF train robbers. Under
| wood ard Hall are knoWa to have been
with Bass, and they and Frank Jack
son and James Tyler Uhc latt ,r recently
escaped. from tho Dallas jaiiD are the
only ones alive, the remainder of the
gang and their chief having been killed
in variors fights in 1878 " ith the Texas
Rangers, except two, Albert ierndon
and Sam Pipes, who are serving life
sentences in the Albany, N. Y, pcni-
tcntiary. Whites statement, however,