Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-12
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
A NEGRO MURDERER HANGED
AT BARNWELL, 5. c.

he Expresses Repentance and Warns
His Hearers to Profit by His Ex-
perienee-AnOther Murderer Meets a
Similar Fate with Similar Confidence
"A Noted Desperate Shot Dead.
CHARLESTON, s. c., Jan. 11.-Isaae
Anderson, colored, was hanged to-day at
Barnwell Court House for the murder OF
owen Williams, white, in October last.
The cause of the murder was the killing
OF Anderson's dog by Williams. The
murderer expressed his willingness to
die. He was allowed thirty minutes
70 speak to his friends from iaIl window.
He eXhOrted his race to take warninG
from his example. He then ascended The
sca1old without assistance, and after the
black cap had been adjusted confessed his
crime. The drop fell at 12:40 O'Clock. but
AndersOn's neck was not broken. and he
dled from strangulatiOn. His BODY was
given to his friends. The execution was
private.
HUNG IN A JAIL YARD.
NORFOLK, Jan. 11.-John Jarvis. the
murderer of CIaudius w. BOnney. was
hanged at l 80 O'Clock to-day at Princess
Anne Court House. He passed quiet
nlgnt, slept well and ate his breakfast
time OF the murder he felt an uncomfortable
desire to kill BOnney, which he could not
resist, and expressed sympathy for his
victims widow and children, and regret
for the deed. He went to the scaffold
calmly and cOllectedly, and when asked
II he had anything to say, replied, sNo."
lie then asked bystander to pray for
MN, which was done. His neck was
broken, ana his death was painless. The
xrrlf fnEr
yard, was private, only about thirty per
sons being present.
MURDER MYSTERY SOLVED.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE police TODAY
cleared away the last shadow of the mys-
terry investing the Elmira murder. Mrs.
Lssen, of East Eighty-ninth street, in
whose service the girl Kate Bradschotf
had been, fully identified iewelry found in
the possession of the prisoner, Meinken,
as having been worn by the girl Kate, and
gave description of her that tailed
III the minutest detail with that
OF the murdered girl. The lady remem-
bers that when Kate left her house on
New Years eve she had on her hat red
bird corresponding to that on the hat
worn by the murdered girl. William
Melnken, the alleged murderer, was
handed over to the custody of officers
from Elmira and was taken there.
NOTED DESPERATE KILLED.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. ia special from
Fayetteville, Ark, SAYS: EsIn quarrel
between JEFF Gilliland and John Malone.
while on their way home from this city
last night, Gilliland fired shot at Malone
without effect. Malone then fired and
killed Gilliland. The latter, who
Is noted desperado, was known
as the Jesse James of Arkansas"
MULE THIEVES DEAL DEATH.
GALVESTON, Jan. IA special from
Laredo says: Fifty mules were stolen
yesterday near New Laredo. Mexico. The
corpse of the lad herding them was dis
covered to-day in the same vicinity. He
had evidently been shot to death. The
mules were recovered near COutella.
Texas, this evening, but the bandits es-
capped"
RESENTENCED TO HANG.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. n.-A Baton
Rouge dispatch says: ''The Governor has
signed second death warrant ordering
the execution of VIM. Moore, i'll st. Mary's
parish, on January IS. Moore broke Jail
soon after the issuance of the first death
warrant, but was recaptured on Janu-
ary s."
A COTTON swINDLE.
GALVESTON, Jan. 11.-A Dallas dis
patch says: 'Joseph Lohnstein, under in
dlctment for huge swipdle. nernatratnd
by means OF TeXas Pacific Railroad cot
ton way bills, was allowed to give new
bonds to-day in thirty-one cases pending
against him-$750 in each case.'
HUNG SMOKING A CIGAR.
AUBURN, GALA, Jan. 11.-Stepben
Richards was hanged here to-day for the
murder of Thomas Nichols. Richards
treated the affair coOlly, and mounted the
scatfold smoking a cigar.