Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-05-22
THREE ON ONE GALLONS,
Two Brutal Murders by Negroes
Legally Expiated.

GREEsyILLE, S. c., May 16, 1SS4.-Gover-
nor Thompson having refused to commute
the sentence OF Alfred and James McCul-
Tough, convicted of numbering Ephraim Sax.
ton, and Of Riley Anderson, who murdered
his MISTRESS Lou Griffith, the three negroes
were hanged IN the jail yard here o.day.
During the entire morning they sang and
prayed in their cells with their clergymen,
refusing Dourishment. When the noon
whistle sounded they marched to the gallows
with firm tread and mounted the scaiTold
without tremor or fear. Religious services
having been performed, Riley Anderson said,
Il am going to swing for killing Lou Griffith
and her baby, but | don't know anything
about the murder. l am to be hanged
because other folks swore my life away, but
forgive them all
When asked if they had anything to say,
the McCulloughs trembled. James said, 81
am going home to Jesus" and Alfred said
~ am ready to die James was quite a
dudlsh negro, who parted his hair III the
middle, wore stylish black suit, white collar
and necktie and white gloves, and was about
20 years OF age. The others were shabbily
dressed The drop fell at 1890 and Ander-
sons neck was broken. James and Alfred
died from stranguation, the blood streaming
from their noses, mouths and ears and being
visible through the black caps. The bodies
remained hanging for 25 minutes
when Sheriff GllreAth ordered them cut
down. They were put In cheap pine collins
and carried away by relatives for burial in
the suburbs. Two detachments OF the Green
Vllie Butler Guards maintained excellent
order outside of the enclosure, and every
thing passed of quietly. Under the laws Of
this state but II witnesres are allowed to
each man hanged, and the spectators mum.
bered about so, including clergymen, doctors
and reporters During Sheriff Gilreath's
short term Of office he has hanged seven men
in Greenyille.
MOST brutal CRIMES,
The crimes for which the three suffered
the death penalty were Of terrible brutality.
During the fall of 1882 Anderson had a
quarrel with mulatto woman, who was the
mother of his child, then aged about IA
months The woman became provoked and
declared she would leave him. He told her
that il she did so he would kill her and hack
her into small pieces. She believed he only
said 1t to terrify her, although she know he
was desperate ruihan. A few days later she
started away, on foot, to go to her mothers
who lived 20 miles away. Anderson missing
her from the house, gave chase. When he
overlook her she had the child in her arms
Without speaking word he knocked the
woman down and jumped upon her with his
heavy cowhlde boots until she was crushed to
Jelly, and life was entirely extinct. He
took the chlld, which WAS crying at its
mothers breast aud deliberately killed it in
the same way, after which he fled
The murder for which the two Nc
Culloughs, father and SON. were hanged were
cold-blooded, deliberate and premeditated.
In January last some OF the Greenyille
colored people had a ball. and among the CAV
jewellers were Alfred Mccullough and his
two sons, SANDY and James During the
evening Ephriam Saxon,a young colored man
who worked in livery stable, and who wore
good clothes, paid marked attention to James
McCullough's sweetheart. This enraged the
old man Mccullough and ''Sandy," and they
advised james to black Ephraim's eye. James
undertook to do 30, but Saxon gave him a
sound thrashing and took the girl home from
the ball. The next morning, while the victor
was engaged at his regular work in the livery
stable the three McOulloughs came down to
where he WAS at work, distance OF some
miles and without saying a word James
pulled out big six-shooter and blew Saxon's
brains out. The young man died instantly.
Paymsster Attach ed by Road Agents.
CHICAGO, May ia special from
Glendlye, MoUiane, says, while United
States Paymaster Whipple WAS On route
from Fort Buford to Glendive on tn ,s.
day, he was attacked by rosds age ts.
Sergeant Conrad was killed and two
privates were severely wounded. The
mules attached to the wagon in which
we're the pay master, his clerk and the
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