The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-03
ON 4 GALLOWS.
Six Murderers Pay the Penalty
of their Crimes.
Executions in Georgia, kentucky,
Tennessee and Arkansas.

Dispatches from various sections of the
country record tho hanging of six men, as
follows.
AT Hopkinsville, KY, Jordan Taylor (col-
oreI, was hanged at 1870 practically in pub
lie, as several thousand people, mostly col.
ored, could sec into the inclosure from the
surrounding hills. He was baptized in the
river on the previous day in the pres
ence of hundreds. He passed a rest.
less night, but laughed and jokel in
the morning. He talked calmly on the
scaffold. he died in nine minutes after the
trap was sprung. The crime for which Tay-
lor was executed was the murder of Saliie
Sanders, on the Sth Of October, 1884, near
Casky Station, on the Louisville and Nash.
vile railroad. On the night of the murder
Sallie Sanders, who had been working for
Mrs. Eliza Bronaugh, started for her
home. For several months, on account of a
quarrel, she had not been living with Taylor,
who, finding that a recon citation was impoS-
sible, determined to kill her. On the night
in question he followed her to her home,
o~vertaking her shortly before reaching
there. The quarrel was renewed, and
Taylor, enraged at a remark she dropped
as to another lover, crushed her skull
with an ak, killing her instantly.
To make sure of his work he struck
her two blows after she had fallen. He then
took her 10y the feet and dragged her, face
downward, to some willows q hundred feet
ulSOdnU, WIeTe Jue DOuy was concealed, TO
be discovered two days afterward. TAYLOR
was arrested on suspicion, and being confront
ed with the evidence against him confessed
his guilt. He attempted to implicate an
acquaintance named Lee, an oil colored man
noted in the neighbCrhood as a "voodoo doc
tor but afterwarl retracted the charge, con-
Tossing that he alone had done the killing.
The scaffold on which the execution took
place was situated on the river bank in q va
can't lot near the jail.
At Memphis, Tenn, John McKeever tcol-
oredl, who shot and killed William j. Train
or, four miles south OF that city on the 18th
of last December, was hanged at 12:3O o'clock
within the inclosure of the county Jail. The
condemned man att empte1 to commit sui
eide at midnight on the preceding night by
cutting arteries of his arms and legs with a
rough piece of tin shaped like a knife,
which he made out of a tin snuff
box. When found by the night turnkey at
4 O'Clock he was unconscious from the loss of
blood. Medical aid was and he
soon rallied. Two Catholic priests attended
him on the scafrold, and administers the
last absolution. When asked by Sheriff Can
non if he had anything to say, he replied:
Yes, | am no murderer Seeing his at
torney among those who were pres
he called to him saying, Good,
bye. Mr.. Moss; You bet your life 1 am
going to die right" These were his last
words and five seconds afterward the trap
was sprung. Mrs. Trainor, the widow of the
murdered man, occupied a seat on the seat
fold.
At Fort Smith, Ark, James Arcine and
William Parchmeal, full! -blooded Cherokee
Indians, were hanged for the murder OF
Henry Feigel, an old Swede, thirteen years
ago. On trial both denied their guilt
and endeavored to saddle the crime on
each other. They were represented by
different counsel. Arcine denied having
knowledge if the killing; Parchmeal admit
ted being present, but said he was there under
duress, and Arcine did the killing. Arcine
made a statement denying the killing, but
duplicating another man. When death drew
near, he made a full confession. He said he
was only a boy then II or II years old, and
was in a house at Tah!equah, Cherokee Ma
ton, with other Cherokees playing cards
Parchmeal came there, asked him to go.
with him, and they went through a prairie
half a mile, then took the road. They saw a
man coming. Parchmeal gave him a pistol
and said, That is the man; shoot him.h He
shot him six times, then both took rocks and
mashed the mans head, then dragged the
body out of the road; Parchmeal took the
mans boots and twenty. five cents he had in
his pocket. That man was Feigel; he
did not know why Parchmeal wanted
Feigel killed, and being only a boy
at the time, did not know it was
wrong. Parchmeal admitted his guilt in a
few words through an interpreter, and said
he was ready to die. Both men died without
a struggle, and swclled the number who have
been executed there within the last eleven
years for crimes committed in Indian Terri.
tory to sixty six.
At Mariana, Ark. Rufus Dortich (colored)
was hanged for numbering another negro last
winter.
Robert Mccoy Ccolorell was hanged at
Sylvania, Ga, for numbering James Miller,
{ white constable, on November 20, 1884.
Two thousand people witnessed the execu-
tion, the gallows being erected in an open
field. McCoy's speech and the religious ex-
ercises We're similar to those usually incident
t. such occasions. McCoy's neck was broken
by. the fall and his death was apparently
painless.