The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-04
SOUTHERN NEWSGLEANINGS.

wife's home, shot her in the mouth, inhict-
fatal wound. Wilcher broke Jail
month ago, and this makes the second per.
son he has shot since that time. The citi-
zens are searching the woods for him. .
AT GAINESVILLE, Ga, Rebecca Samuels,
girl twelve years old, has been convicted Of
the murder Of Lucy Graham, a six-weeks
old infant whom she was nursing. She
soaked the child in pot of concentrated
lye. The only theory of the remarkable
crime is that the prisoner killed the child to
escape from the duty of nursing it. This is
the second crime of the same kind she has
committed within the past two years. She
appeared to be totally unconscious of what
was going on during the trial, and twice
went to sleep with her head resting on her
hands in the dock. She has an Innocent
looking face and is not apparently in the
slightest degree affected by the result Of
her trial.
THREE negro men, Thomas Gee, Joe
Howard and Albert Lawrence, were
hanged on the 25th for murder, all from
the same scaffold and at the same time
The same string was attached to each drop,
and all three men fell dangling together.
Gee murdered Mary Hughes, a white wo-
man. Howard murdered G. F. Blockman,
and LawrenceImurdered negro. IThis is
the first triple hanging that ever occurred
in Fayetteville, NC, and that section of the
State, and the event created great excite
ment among the negro population. Only
limited number were admitted to the Jail
yard where the hanging took place.
ANTON MILLER, the negro who was to
have been hanged at Halifax, N. c., on the
25th has been respited.
LEEcE SHEPPARD, of West Liberty,
West Virginia, was seriously shot in
quarrel, by his cousin, Harris Sheppard.
FIRE at Richmond, Texas, recently
destroyed property to the value of $4,000
or 100000. Insurance aggregates $4,000.
AT Mariana, Lee County, Ark, Rufus
Dortich, colored, was hanged for murder
ing another negro last winter
ROBERT Mccoy, colored, was hanged at
Sylvania, Ca, for numbering James Miller,
white Constable, on November 20, 1884.
JOHN McKEEvER, colored, who shot and
killed VIM. ]. Trainor, four miles south of
Memphis, Tenn, on the 18th of last Decem-
Der, was hanged on the 26th within the in
closure of the County Jail. The condemned
man attempted to commit suicide the night
before by cutting arteries of his arms aud
leg with rough piece of tin shaped like a
hui oh ha out Of live
box.
ON Lookout Mountain two cattlemen
named Ellison and Taylor have had con-
siderable trouble over the ownership of
cattle. They agreed to settle the feud
when they next met, if some amicable set
Element could not be reached through
friend. Ellison met Taylor, and terrible
struggle ensued, which resulted in Ellison
stabbing Taylor to death. Both are we'll
known and wealthy.
ROBERT DIAs, living near the Trousdale
County (Tenn.) line, who was bitten by
mad dog some days ago, died on the 25th.
Shortly after being bitten Mr.. Dias went to
Mr.. Bratton, of Lafayette, Macon County,
who applied small maidstone that stuck
to wound in Mr.. Dias' right cheek, show
ing that it worked WELL 1t failing to stick
to his lip he determined to visit Mr..
Fletcher, which he did, applying that gen.
tleman's maidstone to his lip and cheek
several times, showing that is was working
all right. Dias, believing he would be cured,
returned home and while at work he be-
came very thirsty, and walked to the house
for water, and could not drink it, He soon
realized his condition and was taken with
spasms, and suffering intensely, begging
piteously to be killed. Medical aid was
usmmoned but for some time no one would
venture in the room where the unfortunate
man was. Finally he was tied with ropes
to the wall and large quantity of NOR
phine injected in his arm, but without
effect. He tore his flesh horribly against
the walls, and in this condition he died.
The deceased was a gentleman we'll con-
nected, and had a large family.
FRANK GRANEY, of Piedmont, W. Va, q
freight brakeman, was instantly killed
near Altamont few days ago. He fell
from the top of car and was horribly
mangled by his train passing over him.
He was about fifty years of age, and leaves
a family.
Two NEGRO convicts named Warner
Stovall and VIM. Robertson are doing time
in the Georgia Penitentiary without war
rant of law, it is claimed. The prisoners
were convicted, and afterward granted q
new trial and change of venue, but pre-
ferred the sentence already affixed to the
uncertainty of further litigation. Final
sentence was, therefore, never formally
passed. a
The celebrated case of Edward Bean for
the murder of Stevens, at Marshall, Tex,
has come to dramatic ending. On o
former trial he was found guilty and sen.
fenced to be hanged. The case was taken
to the Court of Appeals, which granted a
new trial. On the 23d, when called upon
to plead, young Bean arose and said
"Your Honor and gentlemen of the jury, I
plead guilty as an accomplice of the MUIR
der of Henry Stevens, and humbly appeal
to your humanity and mercy" The scene
became tragically more intense when the
widow of the murdered man came forward
and pleaded that the prisoners life might
be spared. The District Attorney yielded
to these appeals. The court charged the
jury, who retired, and in fifteen minutes
returned with verdict of guilty, and fix
ing his punishment at hard labor in the
penitentiary for life.
j. L. LANGsToN, white man at Macon,
GA, attempted suicide for the third time
inside of three months by stabbng himself