The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-01-20

WASHINGTON, January 1o.-The negro
boy Charles Shaw was hanged here Mt 1916
+. NJ. to-day for the murder OF his sister,
Susan Ann Carter, on the night OF January
1G, 1881.
sHAw's CRIME.
Shaw had induced his sister to leave her
home. on Louisiana avenue near the City
Hall, and accompany him, by stating that
her grandmother, who lives on the Oxen
Hill road just beyond the District line, was
dying and wanted to see her. The next
morning the woman was found in the
road beyond Uniontown, insensible from
wounds about her head. Three days
afterwards she died. Meanwhile Shaw
was arrested on suspicion OF theft,
and circumstances gradually became
known which led to his being committed
on the charge OF the murder. Shaw was
tried before Judge Wylie in March last, the
trial beginning on the 18th and ending in
conviction on The Goth. a motion for q
new trial, made April 3D., was overruled
May 9Th, and the prisoner was sentenced
TO be hanged Friday, January 10, 1888,
between the hours Of II VI. and p. NJ.
In November The judgment was affirmed
by the Court in General Term.
The evidence against Shaw al his trial
was all cIrcumstaDtial, except that relating
10 his conflicting statements. He ut one
time denied that he had gone into the
county with his sister, and at another
time claimed that she had been knocked
down and robbed by two men. who gave
him dollar to say nothing about it.
his CONFESSION.
ON November 10Th, Shaw, however,
made confession. in which he stated tina;
he did get his sister to go with him by
saving that her grandmother had sent for
her. Shaw said: "When we got near the
old fort-Pleasantcn, | believe they call
it-she asked me il her grandmother had
sent for her, and / said yes. Then she
asked me about it again, and seemed TO
doubt my word, and got angry with her.
She then said her grandfather had been to
see her the day before, and he
had said nothing about her grandmother
sending for her. When we reached Swal-
low Hollow. rather Just this side, picked
from the side OF the roada stone. was then
mad with her, and had been thinking OF
her for some little time. She then asked il |
thought my grandmother would live. This
was about III O'Clock, and | went up be-
hind her and struck her somewhere on the
back OF the head. She fell and groaned,
and then ] struck her several times about
the head; but / could not see well, for
where she fell was in a deep cut, and the
moon was hidden. / was angry because
she had Intimated that | he'd" He then,
he said, took the basket his sister had
carried. aud walked back to the city.
The next morning he heard people
talking about his sister having been
found in the road and removed to
the hospital. "NeXt morning." continued
Shaw. ~ got into some cross words with
my grandfather. had letter in my pocket
which he wanted to see, and threatened to
shoot him, and then left. then came back
TO the city to my cousins, on street, and
after | had stopped there about an hour
went with some boys TO Thirtcen-lnd-a-
hall street. then went with another fell
low TO my broihCr-iu-hw's about 3 or !
O'Clock IN The afternoon, and he stayed out
while | went in. got the key from under
the mating and opened the door, and got 4
suit OF clothes. These | TOOK down on ID
street to sell, when was arrested
Shaw's age is variossly stated at from
sixteen TO nineteen.
THE CLOSING SCENE.
At 1890 o'clock the warden and guards
entered the south wing and announced the
time had conc, and the prisoner was gotten
ready and escorted TO the gate, where the
death-warrant was read. Rev. Fathers
Cornelius and Hurley. Of the Catholic
Church. were with the prisoner and accom-
panied him 20 the scaliOld.
Shaw showed but little emotion when the
dcath-warrant was being read, and ialtered
but little on the way TO the scailold. and
with fairly firm step assembled the plat
form.
After Tcciting the prayers his legs were
pinOned. and as the rope was being adj
iusted he kept his eyes upward, repeating
the prayers Of the Church.
The black cap was drawn over Shaw's
eyes, and the signal given at 1916, the
trigger rope pulled, and Charles Shaw was
no more. lie quivered and struggled q
little, and there were a few SpasmOdic con-
WILSON'S. In three minutes he was low
cred and examined by the physicians.
Al twelve minutes after the fall his heart
ceased to beat, and it WAS found that his
neck was dislocated. At few minutes
past I O'Clock tie body was lowered in the
coffin, and subsequently was taken to the
chapel, where it will he kept n little time
in expectation OF MS friends asking for it.
The scailOd is the same one used for the
execution OF Guitcau. the assassin Of Pre-
sidcnt Garfield, and several other crimi-
pals