The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-12
Five Men Visited With the " ath
of the Law.
Makinaon Swung OF at. Cambridge.
nL--His Crime.
Execution of C0Rmeffa at sing
sing. new York--To the Gal
lows Laughing Other
HnngEngs

III ua"1A heaftuy H1s morning One Of his rela-
n tives from Ohio was present There was q
I'll large crowd IN Cambridge, but all was orderly
e, The murder for which Makinson paid
,, MS NE was committed on Saturday, August &C.
s. 1882 on the John Dustin farm. i'm Wathersfeld
% township, in this (McHenry) county, his victim
being Mrs Maggie Copeland. The murder
{ was committed in the forenoon of that day.
= and the murdered woman was found at >
= O'Clock in the afternoon by her husband Sus
g pieion was directed against Malinson. and
he was placed under arrest and a de-
tectlve locked up with him. to whom he
made confession of the crime, which
III his own language was that son
the day OF the murder / went N
t the house and found Mrs Copeland alone
e she asked me to bring armful of wood
dld 80 and throw all bat one stick into the
wood box With that stick struck her blow
on the head when she stopped to fix up the fire
After struck her She ran to another room, and
lmplored me not to kill her I followed her
and fred three shots with a revolver at her
s Two % thehn hitting her, and killing her in
Soo N money, and note for $50
that Mr. Copeland held against me for
money l had borrowed of him. then
seemed a blank to me until was arrested and
placed IN jail Makinson said that both Mr.
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70, 20 nm, and thar he cOnsideredit home He
had worked considerable for Mr Copeland. and
/ neYar mad word with him about anything At
/ the 0ctobersterin of the Henry county cfrcnit
court, his case was caIled 4up. ana Jud@e
| wilson, of Kewanee, was appointed bv |
the court to defend hun, and States Attorney
s the a psoge t sGr's n,En
son was OF nnsOund mind, and that he was sub
bect 70 eplicptlc fits, and, upon these grounds
ne was granted a continuance until the Feb /
| fhary term On the 9th OF February his /
case was brought up again, Judge Peasants
OF hock Island, presiding. Makinson then
asked leave TO withdraw the plea of mot |
guilty, as previously entered that he might |
plead ~guilty, as charged in the Indictment
1 ne niuFaerer was given fair and impartial
trlai, ana numerous witnesses were examined |
upon Doth sides as to his SANITY the evidence
DeelnS wholly against him. It was left for Judge
.Leasan y NJ. TO pass sentence. On Tuesday
Mafch D, Maklnson was brought before judge
fieasants, and asked If he had ANYTHING tc saw ,
why death should not be passed upon him He
answered answered IN a broken tone: Nothing; do any i
thing you please, Judge but spare my life t !
Inc Judge then sentenced hfm to be hanged On /
FRIDAY May H. Guilt and confinement had /
to,q upon nm and to-day it required all his
pletely On the day upon which sentence was !
passed there were men in the courtroom pre- I
pare IT,, 70 lynch him in ease he received other
hanging That has taken place in Henry county c
ANGELO coRNErTA.
h = AIMS, " l., MAY 1l.-AR- o
geio Cornetta, the italian murderer of Daniel \
Cash. feliow-convict at Sing Sing, Dec. 81,
1891, was hanged IN the prison yard at 7:34
thiS morning. The execution passed off with
Out accident There were about three hundred h
present Z
Soon after O'Clock on the nnornino of 10. -
II, 1881 Angelo Cornetta killed Daniel Cash in C
ne mess-room OF the state prison at Sing ~
oihSs n l. 1t was three weeks and n day | VI
liter, and In the same room. and almost upon Oh
ne same spot, where OrnOtrio Mangano muir SC
cred Charles Williams while cornotta was a.
hgsged IN quarrel with him The week
'reVlous Mangano tried and convicted
murder Cash was ono Of the nrinci- RAJ
al witnesses for the people, and Cornetta. the in
My witness for the defense, tried to save his We
ountryman by swearing to a totally different '"'
ory to that told by the other witnesses to the
agedy cornetta was in prison serving two
ears sentence for manslaughter in the fourth rag
egree, which was imposed June {, 1878. His in
'lme was the clubbing to death of a Young an.
oman named Emma Cornetta, and supposed me in
be his wife Cornetta was an organ grinder ten
Cash was sentenced June IL 1878. to six pn
ears imprisonment for burglary in the first |
gree He robbed house in Fifth avenue
2" York was captured by a servant girl but
y away from her and escaped to FLORIDA rae
nere he remained but-a short time Uponshis Iior
turn ne wasscaptured and eonyfctsd PHI,
On the morning of the murder Cornetta wo,
Ith Cash. Wenderlin, Mcdonald, and several Viz
ner convTcts, We're assigned to the apartment sell
Tween 1--WE the dlnlng-room and. the kitchen. Don
1rk of Cornetta's squad was the preparing of
,taIoes Tor the pot The murderer was not
ven knife, because of his reputation He
IS to carry the potatoes and not 10 peel them woi
the potato peeler was short 'Aiis
I'M nm man, and was furnished with sharp
lnted case-knife, three inches and half
lg, grorshd very sharp While The /
y were talking about tho quantity Son
d. quality sy of the potatoes, used. Wen paa,
RIM stuck his knife under a board pas
barrelhead, and went to get men
ne potatoes Cornetta saw this and moved A \
and leaned against the window near char
ch the barrel stood One of tl1s-con,,i. clos
cing this movement asked Cornetta what mon
8 the matter with him He said: INV life
III gone Wenderlin returned, and missing
knife, commenced raising a row about IL
meta moved toward the center of the room
Donald andCash. coming from the opposite
ecton' passed him. Az the two men A n
jumping behind Cash Drove drove OF Q"
nderlins knife up to the hilt in the right side 10
Jash,s deck Cornetta withdrew the knife n
made another thrust, but his victim threw
hls hand and received the full force In the =. 81
k OF it. Again the murderer made another strue
> put cash had sunk to the floor before it of &
md n inches long Nv ~ ;npc h,ang from stant
d about twenty minutes, although the and
1 ~, al t0TJ was conpiarely severed law
II that Cornetta would say about the murder | -
: Me no want to live here" There was siou
Iouble between the men, nor were anv have
DIS passed. The only explanation possible strait
that Cornetta was angered at the Testimony n.eta
N by Cash IN the Mangano trial r. :
LAUGHING 10 THE GALLONS. 10 20 :
'ITTsRURa, Pa, May 11-Ward Nc to pu
key was hanged here shortly before noon stand
erday for the murder of merchant named = cess
rye A. Mcclure near McKeesport, in this ~ 81
ATTY, August z 1881. The murder was oae sspee s
ne most brutal and unprovoked ever per ;aar 'ai
ated and created intense excitement Tho secur
!. VI eicConxey WAS commenced in the over stone.
seEnlhef court Feb r. 1882 and lasted nm reasol
he loth OF that month The latter date the | umen
returned with verdict of murder of | would
nfst degree The third day afterwards a | the re
lon for new trial was made and the same ton v
ruled February Is when Judge Bailey woule
lonneed the death sentence. The supreme examl
Z was next appealed to- but that tribunal centre
satisfied of the justness of the verdict and forth
sed 70 arrest the sjudgment OF the court be- 1914
Inc condemned man, rather boy for laid '
as only ~ years of age, rested well cnrin1 excar
iignt aud ate hearty breakfast YESTERDAY to a d
nlng About ten o'clock he said Il an, share
Ter The sheriff at any time and the will b.
er IT il over the better Al twelve min nearly
past Ii O'Clock hush fell on the 300 ner sonry
who were crowded in the iail rise to
moment later the procession | til at t
afeq McConkey mounted the scaffald the stf
hfm step and faced the crowd estaI
a smile Sheriff McCallin asked him ii he The "