Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-04
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
INTENSE EXCITEMENT OVER
THE BOND CASE VERDTCr

( AA-A04 ELN1ELNT OAER
THE BOND CASE VERDICT
Lynching Not Entirely Improbable-Ap
Embezzeler's Fast Life in Chicago
Ends in Arrest and the Recovery OF
Part of the Stolen 500, ,OOO-A GhouI.
ish Confession.
NEWARK, n. j., Jan. 3.-Robert Martin
was hanged here at 1926 O'Clock this
morning for the murder Of his wife and
baby. Martin was cut down at 1850
O'Clock.
James B. Graves was hanged at :O4
! O'Clock. He had to be carried to the scaf-
iold. He murdered a little boy lamp
lighter.
/ NEWARK, Jan. 8, 9 P. M.-The execution
/ OF Robert Martin and James B. Graves
this morning took place quietly i'm the
Essex county jail. The prisoners sIept
well during the night. and this morning
Graves ate hearty breakfast. Martin
received the communion and refused
stimulants. He babe his family farewell
and welcomed the execution hour. being
much distressed by suspense. At 1913
O'Clock Sheriff Wright appeared and
read the death warrant to Martin.
his arms were pinioned with astrap, and
ne was conducted to the gallOWs attended
by Revs. IL. H. Goodwin and A. L. Wood.
VINO SAID the prayers of the Episcopal
church. At 1922 O'Clock Deputy Sheriff
Davis drew the black cap over his face
and gave the signal Sheriff Wright be-
hlnd screen touched a spring, and Mar
tlns DOdy shot up to the crOss-arm, fell
back feet with thud and spun around.
The left hand was raised to the moose and
then dropped. The convulsive movements
las9eu almost hYe minutes, and at 10:40
ft.r v,lxw
dead from strangulatiOn and without ap-
parent suffering. The body was delivered
to his friends for burial.
Inc Sherlff and his deputies immediately
went Tor Graves, who was in the hospital
room, where the death warrant was read.
and he was brought to the gallows. Ho
sobbed and grOaned piteously No reli-
glous ceremony took place. He was pin
Toned, and at 11:04 O'Clock the trap was
sprung. The body flew up to the cross
beam, and he struggled hard for an instant.
HIS pulse ceased to beat in five minutes,
then revived and beat irregularlv for six
minutes, when it stopped and fiuttered
again for moment and at 11:1S ceased.
at which time he was pronounced dead.
Martin gave his counsel a short address
10 the public, expressing deep sorrow for
tne shedding OF innocent blood, attributing
the crime to the influence of disease
medicine and liquor, which had an un-
sound effect on him, setting forth that he
bore no malice, and hoping that he should
die IN peace with God The address
closed with extracts from the Episcopal
litany.
AN ABSCONDER's DISSIPATION.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-About Christmas a
detective agency received a telegram
from Speery g. Barnes, of New York, the
American agents of the Liverpool com
mission house of Bamford Bros, that
their exchange clerk, E. H. KObbe. had
absconded after forging and converting to
his own use 100000 in exchange. The
agency soon discovered that Kobbe was
here in company with a man named
John X. Van Arsdale, and that they
were spending money very freely. While
the case was being worked up Van Ars-
dale returned to New York, where he was
arrested. Kobbe was arrested secretly in
house of ill-repute with one
OF the inmates, of whom he had
become enamored and with whom
he was on the point of starting for Mexico. /
-Four hundred dollars in money was found
in his possession, and 81, 200 worth of furs
and silks which he had lavlshed on the |
woman were also taken possession of. 1t |
appears that KObbe forged bills |
of exchange on Bamford Bros, which |
were readily disposed of to Jesup, Pstten |
Il Co., he being recognized as the ex-
change clerk of the firm, and had the |
ehe"l-s iaodo payable to his own personal |
order instead of to that of the firm.
ne opened an account with another
9ank, collected the amount Of
Jesup, ,Patten e. Co.'S. checks, invested the
seconded. He was taken to New York the
same DAY he was arrested, and last Sun
day took the detectives to the upper part |
OF New York, where they recovered from
a dry clstern encased IN an hermetically
sealed drain pipe, and wrapped in oiled
SILK, government bonds to the amount of
$780, 600. Going thence to BROOKLYN aDotb
er piece of drain pipe yielded $25, 600. 1t
not known here whether any more of
Tie money has been recovered. Hobbe is
WEI connected and once occupied a re-
spolsible position with the Inman line.
office. - ''''''
THE BOND CASE VERDICT.
HILLssORO, ILL, Jan. 3.-The verdict
u III Tue JuE in the Emma Bond case was:
we, tHe jury, find the defendant not
guilty. OF TN crime"
a nleeCibg.Vas held tonight, at which
a prominent ,itizen named GIvnn Dre-
sided, ana rsolutIon was adopted de-
cIaIlhs thdC IL '1y of the defendants are
III uoMh IO-inOIrOv a public meeting will
De caIied ana theyyill be notified to leave
az ~, once. a noVeihet was on foot to hang
ta sne JIl ~ eAlsy ~ the court house.
Sheriff seems very ner0us i'm regard TO
the situation.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 3.-D.natcbes from
Hillsboro, Ills, say that mSters ara Ierv
quiet there. There is sOmI hitter taIi
against the jurors in the Bot case b1ft
no violent feeling is manifeted. lee |
Petus left for the West this moline ond
(fIoO0nnfG n IpUinor ~ eN--NN ]
six miles away, where he has friel1s A
dispatch from there says that wheiit be-
came known that he was in the Iaoo !
be was given five minutes to leave. Mi
gOmery's whereabouts is not known.
A dispatch from Taylorsville, ILL.,, II,
home of the Bond family, says that when
the verdict became generally known there
this morning the sentiment of the people !
was that justice could no longer be OBJ
tanned from courts. The friends of Mont
gomery and the other defendants land
they have some friends) indorse the Yer-
dict, of course, and talk more freely than
they have for a long time. The Bond
family arrived at TaylOrsville yesterday to
attend the funeral of their relative,
who committed suicide Tuesday, |
and the grief over this loss deadened them |
to the effect of the verdict. Col. Bond
said this morning that the alibi was too
strong for the jury, and that he had not
counted on conviction since that testi- |
mony was given. The funeral of Abner
ID. Bond took place this afternoon from
the Christian Church. Notwithst standing |
the intensely cold weather an immense |
crowd was present.
GRAVE ROBBERS CAUGHT.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-Thomas Caffee, one !
of the men arrested yesterday for desc |
Grating the grave at Sycamore, ILL.,, and |
selling the body to a medical college, |
made confession to-day. He said that |
he and his companions were regularly en-
gagged in the traffic, and that the body of |
the lady resurrected at Sycamore was
sold to the College of Physicians and Sur. /
geons, of this city, and he implicated DR..
Hoadley, of that college, in the trans
action. DR.. Hoadley was sent for
by detectives. and he admitted that the
lady's body was in the dead-house Of the
college. He said it was custom IF the
college, since it was no longer allowed
to use the bodies of paupers or unclaimed
bodies, to purchase corpses without ask
ing questions. That the rule was to keep
bodies six weeks before dissecting them:
that the Sycamore lady's body lay un-
touched in the dead-house, at least he
supposed hers, and that if her relatives
would identify the remains the college
would bear all the expenses of renter