Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-26
JUDGE LYNCH'S WORK.
john Hei'h, One Of the Bisbee Murder.
ers, Hanged by n Mob.
lie Folds n Pocket Iiandkerchier-Rc.
quests to be Blindfolded,


Ton bstone, Ari., February o4.--At
nine O'Clock Thursday morning Judge
Pinnty sentenced John He,th TO con
iinement in Yuma peuilentiary for life
Tor completely in the Bisbee murders
Fwenty-four hours later the dead body
OF Heith dangled from the cross. bar Of
telegraph pole near the foot of Tough.
nut street, where it was suspended Inv
a rope. The following are The partic
ulars OF the occurrence as near rs can
be gathered
THE VICTIM SECURED.
About $40 this morning a crowd of
men, mostly miners, numbering about
100 proceeded to the court-house. Ar
irving there they detailed seven of
their number from Bisbpe, who enter
ed and demanded that Heith be turned
over to them. The seven men an.
pruacht d the door leading to the CORR
dor of the jail aud one Of them knocked.
Being about time for the Chiuamau
who brings food for the prisoners To
arrive, the jailer, Billy Ward, opened
the door unsuspici,, and was i'm
media,ely covered by weapons and
told to give up the keys of the iail.
Seeing that any attempt at resistance
would be useless. he did as requested.
and in n few minutes the deputation
was in the presence of the sOught-fur
man 1t is stated that the guards AT
the time were not present, having
gone to breakfast. A rope was soon
placed around Heith and he was
brought into the corridor of the court
house. II was suggested that he he
hanged in the court-house from bal
Ulster of the stairs leading to the upper
story, but this proposition was mega
tived and the crowd, which by this
time had filled the spacious hall, start
ed for the street.
THE PRISONER KEEPS Up WITH THE
PROCESSION.
Al the door they were met by Sher-
iff Ward, who, having been informed
of the occurrence, had fastened to The
scene and with uplifted hands, called
an them III the name OF the law TO de.
sist. The sheriff was picked up and
gently removed down the steps out of
he way, while the crowd started
Down the street on II run. Heith had
he rope around his body at the time
aud about twenty men had hold OF it.
1t never became taut during the run,
the prisoner Keeping up with the
crowd and showing no signs Of the
white feather.
Arriving at the place selected for the
execution, one of the party climbed u
pole and passed tie rope
over the cross-bar. Heith pulled a
from his pocket, and,
placing it on his knee, C oily and de-
liberately folded il, and placing IL over
his eyes asked some one u the crowd
10 tie it. This being done, he informed |
the crowd they were hanging an inno-
cent man, and would find il out when |
the Others, meaning Dowd and his |
pals. were banged, told them he had |
faced death too often TO lie afraid, aud |
had but one request To make-nanely: |
that they wuud not shout into his |
.dy. He was lid his last wish would
be respected, and told them he was
ready.
THE EXECUTION.
Countless hands gra-ped the rope,
run WAS made, and in twiukling
John Heilh was dangling between
heaven and earth. The news spread
about town like wildiire, and in Il few
minut,s an immense crowd of men,
and children congregited. on
the scene. The universal expression
was, "Served him right That this
Dpinion should be so prevalent is no
ioubt the result of testimony at the
trial, when was convincing TO any
mind of ordinary intelligence that
Heitn was guilty accessory to the
Bisbee murders.
THE INQUEST,
The body WAS permitted to hang
about an hour, and then taken in
charge of by the coroner and conveyed
to the morgue, where AN inquest was
held. The coroner's jury
+, ndeitd tho following verdict:
ave, the jury of inquest, duly I'M
paneled and sworn by the coroner u
lnuulre whose body was submitted t.,
our inspection, and when, where: and
by what means he came to his death,
after viewing the body and hearing
snch testimony as has been brought
ma find his name to he Heith, his age
40 that he was n native of Texas aud
,hat his death occurred in Tombstone
The sd of February 1854, from the eff
fects # emphysema, whlch hight
have been caused by strangulation,
or otherwise"
A PLACAHD.
placard was posted on the tele.
yranh mole where Heith was found
i,sprnded and dead with the following
,usrr,ptiun: "John Heith was hanged
To this pole by citizens OF Cochise
county for the participation IN the BIS
bee massacre, as u proved accessory, at
:. 20 a. M, Feb. -. 1884, Washiington's
&, advance Arizona"
THE SHERIFF coNDEMNEp.
The ey.nipg of Dec. Q last, party
of men, well mounted ana neavliy
armed. rode into the town OF b,soee,
Ari., and leaving their horses IN
'.harpe OF two of their number tbree
nj them entered store, ana Few
,,,inu,es aflerwars the sound OF rihe
.hnts rang ont from the neighborhood,
rha i,hnhituuts hasteped TO the scene
nd saw the men mentioned mount
'hsi, horses aud ride oil In the
from which they came. D.
q. TappeiDer, assaytr u. tne SopGI'
Queen mine, aud ID. L. smith, we'll
L uown rancher n san Pehro, Mnn
lad business interests In Bisoee, were
1, filed outright, two others were inh-
,aiiv wounded. All OF the parti-s
,,,,re n, the immediate vicinity of me
80, and IL Is supposed were assas',
na'sd in spirit Of pure deInoniacaI
,,."rdar The gang also robbed Cne
stnre of about 1900 in money ihe !