Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-24

psssed sentence on all but seven Of these
murderers. Two were hung a. van bu-
rem before the court was moved here.
1 Arkansas gets credit abroad for all THIS
crime. when the fact Is she Is not re-
sposible for any Of II, as the criminals are
/ all brought from the Indian Ierrltory'
where their crimes were committed,
many Of them nearly on the ooruer Vi
Texas. -
Blue Duck, a Cherokee, was TO have
been hung to-day with the Others put tne
president respited him for some reason
nntIl August Is. He stands convicted oil
a cold-blooded, brutal murder.
The following is complete list OF all
who have been executed go
Tobn Childers, hung August 10 1875,
for the murder Of j. w. Wedding OF
DEXTER. Kan, on October IA, 1870. He
confessed his guilt on the gallows.
Young Wolf, Six-Killer and Tu-ni, full-
blood Cherokees, were hung OCTOBER IN,
1878, for the murder OF two white trap
pers, the object Of the crime being rod
berry.
John Billy, John Painter and Isaac
Fillmore. were swung of together, April
h, 1874. Billy murdered Deputy Marshal
Perry Duyal; Painter helped murder
Texas drover, who was passing through
the Territory In 1873; Fillmore murdered
an UNKNOWN white man In the Greek
nation, June, 1873. All three were
Indians.
McClish Impson, young Indian, was
hung January 10, 1874, for the murder OF
an unknown white man In 1870 lie
confessed his guilt, and his last words
were that his fathers teachings mad
brought him to the gallows.
On the Sd day Of September, 1870,
William Moore, Sam Fooy, william
Wilmington, Dan Evans, Shaker Man.
killer and Ed Campbell, all performed
the "dull thud" act at one time in the
presence OF some 5000 people. The three
first mentioned were whites. Fooy was
part Cherokee, Mankiller was full-
blood, and Campbell was negro. Moore
killed William Spiyy November 3, 1875
Fooy killed man named Nan ID July,
1879; Wilmington cut the throat OF an
old man named Turner, In Plckins coun-
ty, Chickasaw nation; Evans murdered
companion named Seabolt In the Creek
nation; Mankiller killed William Snort IN
1874; I'd Campbell and his halt-brother,
Ed Butler, killed negro man and woman
In the ChOctaw nation. Butler was SEN
fenced TO be hung with the others, but
was killed IN trying to make his escape
while being conveyed from the court
house TO the jail after receiving sentence.
April 6, 1876, five more murderers were
dropped through the death trap-Aaron
Wilson, for numbering white man and
his son in Chlckasaw country Isom Seely
and Gibson Ish-to.nub-bee, murdered an
old Indian doctor, named Funny, and his
cook. negro woman called Mason;
Orpheus McGee, killed Robert Alexander
in the Chickasaw nation in April, 1875;
William Leach, murdered Henry Watkins
in 1875,
September g, 1876, Osey Sanders,
Slnker Wilson, Sam Peters and
John Valley, all Indians, were
hurried to the happy hunting
grounds; Sanders murdered Thomas
Carlisle in 1876; Valley took the life OF
Eli Hatchett in 1875 Peters murdered
Charity Hanson in 1875; Sinker Wilson
was convicted at Van Buren, in 1867 for
the murder OF Datus Cowan and was SEN
fenced TO be hung December OF the
same year escaped from jail and was at
at large for nine years; rearrested in 1875,
tried on his identity, resentenced and
hung John Pastook Choctaw, and
JdlllHb ltiEEHt utEiOg nNlN W. ~
cember 20, 1873, the latter for the muir
der Of Texas cow-man named j. G..
Gould, near the Kansas line IN August,
1873 Pastook for numbering John Ingley
and his wife ia Creek nation. Both were
horrible murders.
August 29 1879, DR.. Henri Stewart
and William Elliott Wiley, alias "Colo-
RADIO Bill" were hung, Stewart for par
ticipating in the murder of DR.. Jones at
Caddo In 1873 and Wiley for killing Cooke
Brown at Muskogee in 1879. Wiley
Stewart, Henri's cousin, who did the
actual killing, is still at large, supposed
70 be In Texas.
September 8, 1881, George w. Padgett,
a Texas cowboy, Patrick McGowau, an
Irishman, William Brown, a Texan, Amos
and Adler Manly, Greek Indians, were
executed. Padgett killed w. II. Stephens,
a Texas cowman, In 1880; Brown
killed Robert G. Tate, near Fort
Sill, in 1880; MCGOWAN killed
Sam Satta in the Chickasaw ma
ton, 1880; the Manly brothers killed Eli
McVey in the Creek nation.
Ed Fulsom, young Choctaw, was
hung June l3, 1882, for participating in
the murder of John Stewart and VIM
Massingale In the Choctaw nation in 1881
Robert Massey, Texan, was hung
April IL, lSsS, for the murder of Edmond
=. Clark of TEXAS, In 1881.
On the Goth of June, 1883, Martin Jo-
seph and w. ii. Finch, negroes, and Tel
o-lit-sa, Indian, were jerked to Jesus
Joseph for the cruel murder OF Bud
Stephens and his wife, in 1882; Finch for
the murder of two soldiers near Fort Sill
in same year, and the Indian for murder
ing white man named Cochran, July,
1881.
JULY IL, 1884, Thos. l.. Thompson,
white, Jack Womankiller and John Davis,
Indians, were hung. Thompson killed
James O'Haleran in the Chickasaw nation
September, 1883; Womankiller murdered
an old man named Wyatt In the Cherokee
nation, May, 1883; Davis murdered VIM,
Bullock in the Choctaw nation, June, 1883.
April IL, 1885, William Phillips stretched
hemp for numbering his fatherin-law,