Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-12
Suicide OF Amasa Stone, the Cleveland
Millionaire.
LONG LIST OF. EXECUTIONS.
A Convict Murderer Hanged in Sing
Sing Penitentiary.
A WOMAN MURDERER IN ILLINOIS.
The Trial Of Jere Dunn for the Murder
Of the PugiIist Elliott.
HANGED For MURDER.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. /

HANGED FOR MURDER.
Special Telegram to the Globe.
CAMBRIDGE, ILL.,, May 11.-Sylvester X. |
Makinson was hung in the northeast cor
ner of the Jail yard in Cambridge by |
Sheriff Goodell, who executed Glenn Gal |
lion last September. Makinson was
brought to the scaffold at LOO p. m. and at
1:3O the drop was sprung and he fell seven
feet, breaking his neck instantly. He was
pronounced dead at 1:47. He died game,
and said he was innocent and that he hoped
to meet his friends in better world. He
showed no signs of nervousness whatever.
The hanging was private. Makinson
charges Joseph Cole as the murderer.
Makinson slept we'll last night and danced
a Jig before he retired. He arose early
this morning and ate hearty breakfast,
and just before noon disposed of large
dinner. On the Goth of August last, and
while the excitement arising from the Ke-
vance bank robbery was at its highest,
a rumor was started that a woman
had been murdered south of town.
number of citizens at once left for the
place indicated, and Mrs. Maggie A. Cope
land was found lying outside of the back
door of her home dead. 1t was at first
supposed to be the work of tramps, and
the fields were secured in every direction
Suspicion, however, fell upon Sylvester X.
Makinson, a farm hand who was at the
time unemployed, and was known to have
been in the vicinity during the forenoon.
He was found in Kewanee and taken back
to the scene of the murder and placed
under arrest. His accounts of his where
abouts during the forenoon were very con-
Trajectory, and he was locked up. The
coroner's inquest showed that Mrs. Cope
land had been struck over the head with a
billet of wood, which was found, and that
while trying to escape she had been also
shot twice in the back. A bullet taken
from the murdered woman was found to
fit exactly revolver of unusual pattern
which was taken from MakInson. The
fact also came out that about $50 in money
and Makinson's note for $50 had been
taken from the trunk of Thomas Bell, who
was working for Copeland, and So from
the clock shelf.
GENEsEo, Ills, May 11.-Sylvester X.
MacKinson, for the murder of Mrs. Maggie
Copeland, near Kewanee, August &c, 1882,
was hanged at Cambridge, the county seat,
at l o'clock this afternoon. He protested
Joseph Cole.
THE DEFAULTING PAYMAsTER.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
Dies MONIES, Ia, May 1.-THE parents of
Maj. WATSON, the defaulting army pay
master, live near this city. His bondsmen
are wealthy men of Warren county. He
was the special favorite of President Grant
and thus secured the appointment. He
was highly esteemed here. His wife is
| the daughter of Hon. Jno A. Bingham, of
Ohio, at present United States minister of
Japan.
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
CLEVELAND, O., May 11.-Amasa Stone
died suddenly this afternoon. He was the
founder of Adelbert college and was extern
sively interested in railway and iron inter
ests throughout the country. He died by
his own hand. He had been in i'll health
a long time, and late losses in the iron and
steel business, and multiplicity of fnan-
cial cares, 1t is believed, produced mental
arrangement, and during fit of aberra-
ton of mind to-day, he shot himself.
Mr.. Stone had been suffering for six
weeks from insomnia and indigestion, and
growing steadily worse and more depress-
ed in spirits, though seldom complaining.
He often obtained not more than two
hours sleep all night. Gradually he be-
came possessed of the conviction that he
could not recover. He did not leave his
bed this morning, having passed restless
night. At noon he complained of feeling
exceedingly distressed, and indescribabIy
so, aud was left alone about o'clock to
try to obtain a little sleep. About O'Clock
his wife went in to ascer-
tain how he was, and found
he was not in the room. She went to the
bath room. and the door was locked A
servant climbed through the transom and
discovered Mr.. Stone already dead, partly
dressed. 1t is supposed that after bathing
he was seized with sudden impulse and
fired a bullet through his heart with accu-
rate aim. Death must have been instan.
taneous. The report of the revolver was
not heard by any one. He leaves a widow
and two daughters, one the wife of Col.
John Hay, recently assistant secretary of
state, and the other the wife of Samuel
Lather. Col. and Mrs. Hay sailed yester-
day from Liverpool, after protracted alb
sence abroad. The others of the family
are ut home here.
THE DUNN TRIAL.
CHICAGO, May 1.-THE trial of Jere Dunn
for the murder of the pugilist James Ell
lott was resumed in the criminal court
this morning. Charles White was the first
witness called. He was a waiter in the
Tivoli restaurant where the tragedy occu r
red, and saw Elliott and Plaisted sitting at
a table the night of March 1, south of the
aisle, Elliott facing the door. Witness was
in the back room, but on hearing the shot
fired turned around and saw Elliott throw
up his hands. There was nothing in them,
Elliott then grabbed chair and raised il
so that it struck the chandelier Witness
then made for the door after the shooting
to run out, and did not see the final strug-
gle between the men. =.
j. 81. Mice was in the Tivoli restaurant
on the first of March last. Had known
Dunn for two years, and had seen Elliott
later. He took supper in the front room
of the restaurant at the south side OF the
aisle. He was sitting about ten feet from
the partition between the front and back
rooms at the east side of the table. Wit
ness saw Dunn come in directly thronob