St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-22
WICKED DOINGS.
The Jury in the Fora Burns Murder
Case Have Not Agreed Yet.
A Double Hanging for a Very Brutal
Murder.
Number of Shooting Cases and Other
Evil Misdeeds.
A DOUBLE HANGING.

A DOUBLE HANGING.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 21.LRudolph and
Champ Fitzpatrick were hanged this after
noon, at Columbia, KY, place twenty-five
miles from a telegraph station, for the brutal
murder of Milton Brewster. The execution
was public, and 5000 people witnessed it.
The condemned men were resigned to their
fate and died game. Champ claimed that he
was going straight to heaven. The scaffold
was double one, and was arranged so that
both drops fell at once. The execution
passed off quietly, and when the men were
pronounced dead, the bodies were turned
over to their friends. The crime for which
the Fitzpatrick brothers were hanged, was
committed at Nealsville, Affair county, on
August 6, 1883. Milton Brewster, the vic
tim, Rudolph and Champ Fitzpatrick had
been employed on the farm of James Perry
who made favorite Of Brewster This gave
rise to jealousy and hatred on the part of the
Fitzpatrick brothers, which led to
the murder of Brewster Champ Fitzpatrick
met Brewster in Nealsville, and charged him
with telling lies and talking about him to the
ncighbors Brewster denied the charge,
and then Fitzpatrick knocked off his hat and
struck him Brewster did not resent the
blows, and started away, saying, he did not
want to have trouble. Fitzpatrick caught
him by the hand and began to strike him
with a knife, inficting several painful
wounds. Rudolph Fitzpatrick, who had been
standing near by, came up, and drawing a
pistol shot Brewster through the body. The
wounded man fell forward on his hands.
Champ Fitzpatrick walked up to
him, placing the pistol at his
head and fired killing him. The Fitzpat-
ricks were arrested, tried, convicted and SEN
fenced to hang on December Z, 1888. but an
appeal was taken and the execution was to
have come off on February 30, 1884, but
Gov. Knott reprieyed them IT'LL to-day. The
Fitzpatrick brothers were born and raised in
Adair county. They were ignorant, noisy,
turbulent characters. Only one of them
could read, and neither could write. Rude
was thirty-three years old, while the brother
ives tWentv-three years. Rude was married
and has three children. Brewster came from
Tennessee and was regarded as peaceful,
inoffensive man. He left wife and four
children.
FATAL FROLIC.
WOOSTER, O., March 21.-A public exhibit
ton was given last evening at a school house
three miles west from here, and party of
young fellows of this village went there to
have what they called a racket. They dis
turbed the exercises, until put out, and then
stoned the building. The school boys went
outside to drive away the intruders, and in
the melee, Sheridan Flatz, one of the village
crowd, was dealt a blow by somebody, I'M
identified, which broke his neck, causing
instant death.
FATAL QUARREL.
PoMERoY, O., March 21.-The constable of
Lebanon township has brought to Jail Don
S. DeWolf, charged with fatally shooting
Abraham Webster, farmer aged sixty-six.
The two quarreled while riding home from
Racine. Webster defended himself with a
spear, which he said he was carrying to pro-
tect himself from his tenant. DeWof rode
ahead, got rifle and ordered Webster to
drop the spear Webster refused, and De-
Wolf fired, shooting Webster in the right
side. The wound was mortal.
TILLER AND McFADDEN ABRA1GNED.
ST.uLoUIs, March 21.-Prentice T. Tiller
and McFadden, the Pacific express robbers,
were arraigned in the court of criminal co.
rection to-day, and their case continued till
April 4.
ESCAPED FROM PRISON.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Last night while the
jailor at Erin was giving supper to the pris-
oners, one held him, while two fellow pris-
oners escaped. He then threw the jailor to
the floor and escaped himself. One of the
prisoners has sinch been recaptured.
THE CROUCH TRIAL.
JACKSON, Mich, March 21.-The crouch
murder examination was resumed this morn
ing. Warren Baker testified that Fay
worked for him much of the time for five
years between 1877 and 1882. He was a
good peaceable man except when under the
influence of liquor Mrs. Elmer Hatch tes-
titled that Galen Brown told her of the con-
tents of the letter he had obtained three days
before the murder, dated Chicago, in which
was this sentence, $50 on with that work
and I will be there' Several witnesses tes-
tilted to being familiar with Fay previous to
the murder, and never seeing him with a
pistol. Testimony was also introduced seek
ing to impeach the veracity of the girl Ella
Shannon, who testified to finding bloody
clOGneS III rays TOOlu.
GONE CRAZY OVER THE TRIAL.
JACKSON, Mich. March 21.-Lorenzo D.
Bean. an old citizen and prosperous farmer,
Of Spring Arbor, who has been paying great
deal Of attention to the Crouch case, to-day
appeared in the streets with a rope around
his neck setting in buggy and his horse
galloping through the streets. He has be-
come insane over the case. He was secured
and taken to place of safety.
A SENSATION.
DOVER, Me-, March 21.-At the time of
the Baron murder, strong suspicion was had
against @ travelling phrenologist, named
Allen, who had been in Dover and vicinity,
travelling from house to house. Detectives
were sent out at the time to find him, but
failed. Now, there is great sensation in
Dover, owing to rumors, that man belong
ing there, was associated with Allen, that
the mans brother has just died, and that the
latter's wife promises startling disclosures re-
garding the bank tragedy.
STEALING DRUGS.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, March 21.-J. B.
Johnson has been detected stealing quiz
nine, morphine and other valuable
drugs from the wholesale drug house
house of S. J. Smith & Co. Johnson was
formerly a clerk in the house but now has
two drug stores of his own where he spends
the summsSs. He lives in st. Joseph during
the wintefshnd makes Smith 81 Co.'S store
his headquarters. He acknowledges having
taken $4,000 worth of drugs from Smith d
Co. and shipped them to Colorado, and offers
to pay the firm that amount and hush the
matter up, but they say he has stolen much
more. Besides being druggist he is a
preacher of Christian denomination and
has an interesting family. He moved in
the best society in the city.
REESPITED.
RALEIGH, N. c., March 21.-Enoch Brown,
sentenced to hanged at Halifax, to-day, was
reprieved until April 18th.