The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-07-05

sued and again arrested In Texas, brought
10 Fort Smith and lodged In the govern.
msnt jall Finch swears this story 10 an.
true, and asserts that MoCarty killed both
men and gave him bis berry.
CRIME or TgE.o.LfT.sA.
Tee.o.llt.sa. as the name implies, IL an
Indian, and went from The whipping post
to the gallows. He was convicted at Fort
Smith on the 9th OF March last OF the mur.
der Of Il. II. Cochran. The crime was com.
mitted for the purpose OF robbery, and the
cowardly fiend WHO assassinated Cochran,
obtained only 81 49, He killed the man TO
obtain money to pay his expenses at a
green. corn Dance" an Indian jubilee.
The crime was for some time shrouded in
mystery, the brothers of the deceased offer
ing a liberal reward for the arrest OF the
murderer Officer Beck worked up the case
and was assisted by John Sinner, Creek
Indian, who wormed from Tee-0-litsa a
story of the crime. He carried the news to
Beck, and when that officer went into the
territory to make the arrest, he found the
Indian court had Just convicted his man of
demonstrating aud sentenced him to be pub
licly whipped. He waited there. witnessed
the whipping, and as soon as Tee:o.lit,sa
the murder and landed him in jail at Fort
Smith last August, one year after the MUIR
der. He made no attempt to deny his
guilt.
FoFr SMITH, ARK, June 29.-[Press J.
Three murderers named Joseph Martin,
William II. Finch and Tee-o .litsa, were ex-
ecuted to-day. Chief Deputy Barnes en-
tered the prison at II q; M, and through an
Tee-o-litsa, the Seminole Indian, after he
was handcuffed. The death warrant was
then read to Martin Joseph and Finch. AT
ILLS the condemned men, with their splr-
itual advisers and guards proceeded to the
scaffold within the courtyard grounds. At
the scaffold one of the min
listers offered wsa pray1FE Final after o Thdeh
In answer to the question If they had any.
to say, Tee-o-lit-sa replied that they had
not, and putting his hand on his breast
said his heart was "broke." Martin Joseph
replied in the negative. Finch made a
briet speech and said: II can't find words
to explain the feelings which overpower me
as stare at the fate that awaits me: am
ing is more just and light than should
make things right with my fellowmen.
killed those two men that might escape
rather than suffer the torture of the com.
manding officer. He then asked to see
photograph OF his sister, on which he i'm
printed kiss, saying it was all he had.
After shaking hands with the attendants,
plnioned, their feet also, and at 11:4S a. m.
the trap was sprung by. the jailor. Tee:o-
lis-sa's neck was broken by the fall and life
was extinct in IL minutes; Joseph died
in 6 IL minutes Finch in nine minutes.
After hanging twenty minutes the bodies
were cut down and placed in collins. Finch's
body was taken in charge by his brother,
Richard Finch. Tee-o-lit-sa, the Indian,
killed E. @. Cochrane, who was on his way
to Texas, by shooting him from behind, in
July, 1881. Finch shot and killed Burt
johnson and Washington Grimky, two
colored soldiers, in July, 1882. Finch was
tured but made his escape by killing two
men. joseph killed Bud Stevens and his
wife in April last.