The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-03-08
SENTENCED TO DEATH
hnusns Murderer. Sentenced 10 be Hunz, but
Who Still Breathe.

! The following is list Of the persons who were
/ sent TO the Penientiary under death sentence
Though there Is law upon the statute books niict-
ing capital punishment there has never been an ex-
ecution under il. The law has been in force eleven
years the I'd day of March, of the present year Tn
DER ITS provisions any person sentenced TO death is
hrst imprisoned Tor one year in the Pententary and
H. nt the expiration of that tpis, the death warrant
Is signed by the Governor. they are hanged and if
not their imprisonment continues The list shows
the County from which the prisoners came, when
they were Imprisoned. sher color those transferred
10 insane asyinms. those whose sentences had been
committed, and those who have died during confne-
ment IL was kindly furnished The Times by Major
Hopkins, the Warden. The date of imprisonment
Is only given, it being understood, of course that
the time at which they were to have been hung was
one year later:
John Blunt. Douglas County. sentenced February
\ 1870: cOlOred.
Henrietta Cook. Osborn County. June %. 1885,
white
john Drake. Dickinson County. September -,
1879: white.
Tim Hi.hlman. LlLettc COUNTY November q
los: white.
William Hurst. Donphan County. September p
1870: white.
Alfred Hardin. Montgomery County. March %.
ISIS! roiured.
Martin JarJbers. johnson County. Novemer 20,
lSsS: white.
Willis jackson, Sumner county, November L. 1880;
white.
Z; b. Curley, alias Charles, johnson County. March
-, 1851 white.
Theo. Munsterman. Labette County. March ). 1879:
white
CharieS Marshall. Mitchell County, June 10, 1879;
cOOret.
Hugo Mahn Atehison County, November -. 1880;
white.
jos. W. McNutt, sedgwiek County, June %. 1874:
white.
J: F. Mccormack. Cherokee County, February II,
1876; white.
Gee" W. Petty. Greenwood County, May -, 1853:
Louis 4. Rose, Ellsworth County. March c, 1882;
white.
Arthur Winner. sedgwiek County, June 20. 1871;
white.
Andrew Wyatt, Norton County. January -, 1880;
white.
Ma Mary Isabel Martin, Lyon County, December -,
John Yorli, Brown County, February 9. 1888;
white. -
Rot Robert Simpson. jackson County. November ),
hung and transferred from the Peniteptiary tn the
Insane Asylum at Topeka:
AriSta Webb, Ford County, January 81, 1880; !
,o John i. Wells. Leavenworth County January 81.
1882 white.
al Alexander Harmon Greenwood County, April 30
Transferred to the Asylum at Ossawatomie:
II Msl3rd Jones alias TrPlett Montgomery County,
red TO IN The Times of the llth inst
Inc following is list of those whose death sent
ehce mas been committed. the date OF the sentence
anu The number of Years of the communication being /
given:
Samuel Ashmore. Usage County. January :. 1855:
to 10 years white.
liiliiari Monow, Davis County. June 10. 1888: IL |
years colorcd.
Henry Goddard. Cherokee County November .
lS2; 10 years: half Indian
The following shows tn. deaths during eonfne-
ment under death sentence:
strawder Hines. Douglas County. April % 1850:
lied January D. 1873: eoIored.
lhe entire list shows thirty convictions under this
aw twenty eight of whom males. and two r. |
males Five are cOored, two Indian. and the rest |
Times. |