Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-11
FAMILY THAT KILLED.
peath of a Monster Whose . Three 9T,'ol brosn-
- - Were Hanged and Whose An
tors Wore Assssslns.

..n ~ "A Monster whose Three Broth
rs were Hanged and Whose An
M ,e.tors Wore Asssssins.
Fyo,a no Nelo York Journal.
,,,sorics Sanderson, better known as
,'er.r,oset Rod" who was fatally In
VA m washington Square on election
.3,ol q little before midnight on Fri
~. 4, Green street dive. Though the
u't - his exploiting has been done in
nv. liz is not altogether unknown IN
Tsst He was an associate OF jim
ain the wild, lawless days When moo
.I, was the sole law OF Kansas, ana IL
ruiz a., that time that SandersOn made
was an rnenviable reputation during
...ordpr-rutiian" massacreS by roast
lH +ba severed head OF most beautllul
~ ,,irl in his campfire after he had
yUu|et omitted the entire contents OF his
a..li,.s,. MIC her bosom. He never saw
.E3s fortunate gul until hall an hour
sdyora she and her eleven companions
ra dragged from their home and
Nels scred by the gang of which
.'Iorsou was a member. The only
a,s1, he ever gave for his tendlsh deed
moi he was "full of Missouri whisky"
al the time. .., 1..4.,,..
II = stated that his natural brutality
ana dauraYity has never eVlnced ltselt In
non "A shocking manner since the Kansas
-isoda inst narrated, but the statement
Inns TO be merely based upon opinion.
Tora than a score OF murders have been
.aii IN hlm. though he never was tried
49,. ,7,,rdpr in his life. He was a terror
ali neacaf;ll and law-abiding people
3yTing his whole stay in Kansas, and
,ras fnaIy run out of Lecompton for in
disoriuinate hOrse-stealing by an armed
POSSE OF men, -,
Trom Kansas Sanderson went to Call
forniA. but there Judge Lynch was hold
no lawlessness in check and so he went
DOWN into Mexico, whence he crossed
VITA Texas. At that time Texas
was synonym for every descrip-
fon of crime and vice, which made
~ all the more cOngenial for san
\ derson. He at once united himself with
a lot Of desperadoes and u was win them
that he won the name--Marmoset Rod-
s hv which he was best known. For six
vars sanderson and his rufianly asso-
81 riates inflicted outrage after out
a race upon the people Of West
81 er9 Texas, and successfully re-
N sisted every attempt which was made to
81 break the band up. Rapine, murder
"a and theft were their watchWOrds, and the
81 Nexicsns were frequently punished tor
s. crimes which were really suffered at the
q bands of Marmoset Sanderson and his
81 tollowers-he, by reason Of his superior
Nj brutality" being leader.
After time the settlers became too
numerous and the outlaws had TO disband.
81 From the Mexican border Sanderson
a went to Galveston, where he maintained
III himself as a gam bier. and became some
what enamored Of beautiful female
barber who was known as Adeline Ray
S This Ray woman was as vile as she was
Whaudsome. and she and Sanderson soon
81 entered into a partnership as general
III windlers. They soon became too well
81 known in Galveston and bad to seek some
M other field for their operations. at nrst
81 they went to New Orleans and then to st.
outs, Louisville, Cincinnati and Chicago.
DE- From Chicago they came here last
December, and misfortune has followed
hem ever since. Sanderson got full of
whisky on election day and was run over
# accidentally on Washington Square. He
got up, said that be was mot hurp and
went back to the Green street dive where
he was living with the Ray woman. He
WAS fatally injured, however, and on Fri
day night he died. Miss Ray took his re-
mains yesterday morning and started
with them for Galveston, where she says
sandersOn is to be buried.
1t is generally supposed that there is at
east a spark of humanity in the bosom of
the yilest brute, but SandersOn seems to
have been a decided exception to this rule,
" as ne W as never KIM even W LIS A1lGIub
and associates. The same atroclous dis
position that manifested itself in the
awful butchery of the inoffensive and de
enseless Kansas girl seems to have con-
tnued in a marked degree all through his
lite. Even Miss Ray, whom he protested
10 love, was constantly being subjected to
bis brutality, and he never met any one
ln a friendly way except as matter OF
Personal convenience.
n rg1n pf u 70 mi
snd three Of his brothers were hanged for
murdeT-twO of them at the yardarms OF
ships where they attempted to STIR up
nutlnies. Another is now a convict in
British prison-mIne, where he is working
bat a life sentence. Another, who was
eaegade chief in Sitting BULBS command,
vas burned at the stake as traitor ana
0r the murder of two brother chiefs just
before the massacre OF the gallant Custer
snd his 800 brave followers, while the
sixth and last is a notorious Scottish free
booter at the present time. Their father,
grandfather and great-grandtather were
pnuEderers before them, and when their
mother was seventeen she sti1ed twin
On and daughter whom she had by the
pan she atterward married. Miss Ray
Bays that none of the SandersOns except,
ossl0iy, the Scottish freebooter, left any
lidren-sO the murderous race will soon
run out. 1t is stated that they are Of the
same family Of SandersOns who committed
many murders IN the name Of the last
p the Stuart kings.