Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-29
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=. Younger, j. Evans aud X. King, who
suffered death upon the soditOld al
Chatam, KY Friday, were three bold,
bad men They were raised there and
were all born iu slavery. They were owned
by well do tobacco planters. Since
they attained the age of mauhOpd the
negroes worked Us tobacco hands in fac
tories aud on tobacco plantations II
tho country. All of thcm were more or
ie.s addicted TO drinking. Evans and
King were especially So. Both these men
loved drink to an excess, aud the crime
which they expiated upon the scaflOld was
| no doubt attributable to their fonduess for
whisky. Evans and King, for some days
before tho murder, were out Of employ
| meut, spending their time IN carousing.
| They sobcrcd up about the 10Th of August,
aud whilO wandering about Dauyille heard
| that W. L. Sheppard, an old farmer who
| lived about ten miles from town, WAS to bO
| in town tho next day with load of tobacco
| The two negroes were Joined suOSo
quSutly by SOnuey Younger. They de-
| termined upon Shepplrd's murder and tho
| robbery of his person. All of the details
| of the conspiracy were carefully arranged
| \ place about four miles from Danville,
on tho road which Sheppard would have
| to travel to got home, was selected for the
| crime. He was met, killed aud robbed.
| The murderers were captured, tried and
sentenced to be hanged. Soon after their
| conviction Younger and King made pro
fcsSInu Of religion and expressed u perfect
| willingness to die. \ few days ago King
aud Evans sold their bodies to physicians
| for ten dollars each. Younger would not
sell his he said he considered ten dollars
too little. King and Evans upon recetv
ing the money gave q fine dinner To u few
friends in Cauter's hotel. Roast pig aud
roast beef constituted the first course. An
officer and guard sat near the fOstal
| board. The condemned mon confessed
their guilt at the banquet, but afterwards
rcclnted and on the ScatfOid protested
their Innocence.
The coudcmued men werc deserted by
their relatives. Several cOlOted ministers
attended them, but not one went to the
! gallowS with them. They were apparently
indifferent to their fate. They slept peace
| fully during the night. At noon Sheriff w,
|. Ogerbey announced to tho doomed men
that their time hal como aud they were
led from they jail and placed in front of a
| detachment Of militia. The scattold was
| in an enclosure Que hundred aud fifty yards
| from the iail TO which the procession moved,
! followed by large crowd, mostly negroes.
Ca the galiOws all reiterated their luno.
c,uce, saying they had lied when they
| confessed their guilt. Ths prayed IN a
dluunC tone and calculated their willing
ness tO die, and that they were going -
God. The trigger was pulled, but the
trap failed to fall. The defect was soon
remedied aud at l2:3l the trap WAS sprung
After the fall Ot over six feet Younger \
neck was broken aud be did not struggle,
but the struggles Of the others lasted 10
minutes. The bodies of King and Evans
were given to the agent of the Richmond,
Va, medical college,
MorreII sentenced to rive Years
Robert b. Morrel, ex-auditor of the
gas trust in Philadelphia who was charged
in six bills Of indictment with the embez
Element of 81, 900, and who pleaded guilty
to two Of them charging the misappropria.
ton Of 800 was brought Friday before
Judge Hare for sentence. The witnesses
examined were Cashier J. VI. White, his son, ,
assistant auditor, 5. 5. White, 4. I.
| Goodman, IA receiving clerk, who had
pleaded guilty, and several accountants
who had examined the books as experts
They detailed the system by which Nor
> rell : thefts were perpetrated. The clerks
made false entries in the bill books which
were made up from the returns OF Tho
meter inspectors, and the cash books
contained the record Of the bills paid. IL
order 20 make matters straight, Morrell
who was tho principal in the fraud, wOulC
, alter the consumers book kept by him Sc
as TO agree with tho other books. The
exam nation Of the books has not yet beer
completed, and the full amount Of tn,
thefts is not now known. Goodman tcsti
tied that he had stolen about $4,000, o
which he had paid Morrill, some $500. II,
produced two letters from MOrrel II
which the auditor demanded money frou
, time to time.
, Some serious Accidents.
Yesterday afternoon freight train
= consisting of two engines aud fourteen
a cars, went down through the paint trustl
near Shippenville, ou the Pittsburg aut
Western railroad. killing brakema
named Mccoy, and seriously injuring thre
c other persons.-Four men were killed by
I collision yesterday morning, between tw
4 freight trains on the Minneapolis and 81
4 Louis railroad, near ShakOpee, Minnesota
= "A Northern Pacific engine collidod wit
a st. Paul and Duluth freight train, on
q down grade, twenty eight miles frOr
:. Duluth, on Thursday afternoon, Bot
n engines and several cars were wrecked an
y several persons were injured. q
: Dorfs' Inter oceanic circus" was throw
q into ditch, on the Missouri Pacific raj
road near Bonneville, Missouri, on Thuri
i. day. The band wagon and chariot wer
a demolished, and two attaches, broths.
Q named Thomas, were badly injured.
, The first OF the Season
It Yesterday morning about 8 o'cloc
e there was heavy snow fall throughol
j. Minnesota, but the storm lasted only fy
minutes, aud the snow melted as it fel
n Snow fell also at Cheyboygan aud S
:, lgnacc, Michigan.
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