The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-03-03
FULL CONFESSION OF THE MURDER.

by his "old master and mistress and his
young master Shepherd :" that the old and
young man said they would pay him for it
and sold mistress showed him some yaller
money" she would give him after the muir.
der was committed.
He went TO the house Sunday morning to
kill her, knowing her husband would be at
church. When he first went in he preten-
ded that he was hungry, which he had fire.
queotly done before when nearly starved,
and asked for something to eat. Mrs.
Raines kindly gave him some pie, and told
him to help himself. This disarmed and
melted the iend for a time and he almost
determined not to kill her, but knew If he
did not the lash would be numerically laid
upon his back. After eating he got up and
went around the house and Mrs. X. laid
down by an open window. He went TO the
window and grabbed her, she .jerked away
from him and said sin the name of God,
Sam. what would you do?" He
then went around to the door
and passed into her room, and
here considerable struggle took place.
She got out of the house, all the time pit
eously
BEGGING FOR HER LIFE
and imploring Sam not to kill her after all
she had done Tor him, but the black fiend
with his hellish spirit had no pity or graft
tude in his soul and continued his struggle
to Kill her. Although in very delicate
condition, being about to become a mother,
she resisted to the last and got away from
the negro and ran to the wood pile for an
axe, he In close pursuit, knowing what she
was after. In chasing her he observed
forked stick that had been placed under the
limb of an apple tree to support it this he
snatched out, and as she stopped to get the
axe
HE STRUCK HER IN THE HEAD
with the bludgeon, telling her to the ground
q corpse. He now made sure work of his
murder and struck her several blows 10
make assurance doubly sure, and while do
ing this his victim gave a premature birth
Thetwo little children were trying to
follow their fated mother and the incarnste
demon turned upon them, striking the lit
tie four year old in the head with the club
he had retained in bis grasp, and striking
at the one still younger bat not iDjuring il.
He then went home and told them his work
had been done.
Alter the confession the cries for the life
of the negro, and the Frances were terrible,
and again there was work for the cooler
heads, who begged to spare the lives OF toe
negro and his masters, as the confession
was made under such circumstances. 1t
was a difficult mstter to restrain the turbu-
lent mob, but the case was compromised by
sentencing Sam to be
BURNED IN THIRTY DAYS.
He was returned to the Jail and the mob
to their homes. having the time for the
burning thoroughly fixed and understood
by all.
Several days before the execution was TO
take place, people from a distance began to
assemble at Georgetown. They came on
foot, GU horseback, in horse wagons and OK
wagons, and some brought tents and went
into camp, awaiting the scene 10 be enact
ed.
1t was bright morning in the latter
part of June, or the first of July they had
fixed for the execution, that q column of
one hundred mounted men formed by twos,
slowly filed into Georgetown, from the
north, armed with the inevitable rifle and
bowie knife. All knew the work they Lad
come upon. The column was headed by
John s. Jones and Robert Williams,
brother of the murdered wo-
men. They filed once around
the court house and dismou3ted
Then they demanded of the jsilor, old Bill
Rutledge, the negro man sam. Rutledge
offered to give up the key, but was told "no.
We want you to bring the Niger" which
he did and turned him over to them. Sam
was told they had come to burn him and
tbey.at once started 10 the woods with
him, where
STAKE HAD BEEN TRIMMED
and the ground prepared for the occasion,
about three-guarters of mile from town.
By the time the crowd got to the place, the
trees surrounding looked Ike an immense
orchard bearing heavily, living fruit
Every negro man in the county was there
aud many from adjoining counties, and
they climbed the trees 10 the topmost
limbs to get good view OF the sight. The
fruit would sometimes get too ripe and
would come tumbliDg to the ground,
striking the limbs In Its fall, bruising
badly some mans niger.
Sam was taken directly TO the stake, and
a thousand knives cleaned in the sunshine
as ne was bouEd by chains at the head and
feet 20 the stake. He still seemed 20 think
they wouldn't burn fifteen hundred dollars
up. The funeral pile was built around
him by negroes, and consisted OF the slaves
from hogsheads and shavingS from the
carpenter shops, stacked within q circle
around him of about six feet.
Finally ali being made ready, upon the
command Of Jones, Robt. Williams and
Doctor Riley
APPLIED THE TORCH
to the pile, and the negro commenced
wriggling.
As it grew hotter for him and his feet
began to burn, he told DIR. Riley to come
closer and he would tell all. The doctor
warding off the heat with his hat, approach
ed as near as he could. The negro gasped
out ''it was old marster and young msrster
too" when q sudden suction of the wind
ENvELoPED him IN FLAMES,
and he dropped, only being held I'D bv the