Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-13
BAYNTON'S GRIMES
Expiated on the ScaffOld
Yesterday Afternoon.
DIED AS STOLID AS HE LIyEP
His Last Moments Execution Of
the Judgment.-His Crime
Graphically Told.
DIED AS STOLID AS HE LIyEr

Yesterday at 2:l0 in the afternoon a man
was hanged in the county jail whose unpaf'
alleled nerve was only equalled by the
atrocity of his crime. From the moment
that Baynton was arrested, few minutes
after the dreadful tragedy, until the mo-
ment that he expiated his crime upon the
scaffold his Indifference and stolidity never
departed, except for few brief moments
OF the day OF his examination before J IS
tice Austin, when be silently wept during
the course of short conversation with Mrs
Martin, friend Of both himself and his
wife, and again on Thursday afterh ,oh
when talking to Major 1ard; then some
teats coursed down his cheeks, but his grlei
was neither loud nor long. On Thursday
afternoon he received the visit of his young
est child, a baby nearly eleven months old.
As to the three DINERS ne deciineo 70 see
them. because he believed that IL would
leave bad i'm pre- .sion upon their minGs. He
daudled the litt.v one n nis knee and played
with it, just as any tather woulu, but there
appeared to be no more afterthought III
what he did than If the day that was to sue
ceed would only be recurrence OF this
one, and not his last upon earth. This ex
traordinary nerve has as s'onished every one
VINO witnessed 1t. 1t was not braggadocio
or put OMIT was the mans natural condi
ton. DR.. McCarty, who had medical charge
of him several mouths ago wnen he was
taken with deliriuin tremens, says tnat hls
demeanor at that time, even when suffering
violently, was similar to that whlcn ne uis
played in jail, and that at all time, Tue nal
was stolid aud inaccessible to sentiment;
On Thursday night She if Gard and Dep
uties Martin Aguirre, Viii Hammel and
Darcy remained with the prisoner
who had been removed 10 the same
ground cell where silvas., aud Mar
tinez were conhaeo, until miuhisnit !
Bayntou was then sleeping soundiy lie
remained in charge OF Aguirie and lam
me- until this morniug, WnSn he dressed IL
q new suit OF black clothes. AT eign
O'Clock he partook OF hearty breakfast
At $50 Captain Darcy returned accompa
tleman remained in communion with Bayn
| ton TOR about twenty minutes After ina
he read the Bible eli and on or engaged III
| conversation with his guards. lie was ho'
naturally talkative and would talk ohil
when drawn iuto conversation. Thougt
| his fortitude never depar.ed for a momeh
| he appeared more reconciled to his late Oh
Thursday than he did yesterday. Du ing
| conversation upon re i5ious topics ne wa
approached by Capt. Darcy upon the sap b
| he would glad y have made statement hac
| he thought thai it would be OF benefit tht
pubic, bat, he added, he could not max u
statement as it would asperse the characte
OF his vile, and he was uotw ling todot nv
| Only one meaning could be attached to Ina
| and that is that he meant to impugn the
| chastity OF the murdered woman. AT It hai
| b,en proved beyond all doubt that Mrs
| Baynton's character was pure ana u9blem
| ished, this implied Sur was u horrible pias
phemy on the lips OF a dying man. Up te
the time of leaving the cell Baynton Ieiter
ated that he didn't mind dying, that \
was only matter of time and that we all
| had to 60 His tone Of voice was as indlt
| feren. as ii he alluded to quitea mother per
| son than h imself. At l: 30 the Sheriff read
| the deata warrant to the prisoner and nj
| teen minutes afterwards his irons were
knocked of, A few minutes after two
o'clock Sheriff Gard asked the prisoner ii
| he was ready and he replied firmly tnat ne
was. He took drink of water ana the
march to the scsffold was begun. he pris,
and Da-cy. followed by District Attorney
| Holton, Under Sheriff Fields, Capt. Thorn
ton, Chief Davis, and Police officer
Lemon. Baynton walked up the steps
unsupported. aud made a few remark
which could net be heard. Major
| Gard repeated them. He said: Gentle
men, Bayuton wishes me to tell you all that
he thanks the Sheriff and his officers i0r
their kindness to him. he al o thanks the
| jailo- and his assistants and all those VINO
nave been kind to him. He trusts that MS
| fate may prove 4 fearful example to those
who, as in his case. would allow their pas
sionate temper to get the uppermost Hen
ry Cline, OF Chino, oan Bernardino, VINO
superintended the nangings OF McDowell at
San Bernardino three years ago and OF Sill
vas aud Martinez year ago last March In
this place, then commenced the prepara-
tions of the execution. Baynton was PIN
ioned. His hands whicn were defined clearly
against his black coat showed not tIemOr;
his dark face and his black beady eyes gave
neither twInge nor sign. The rope was put
around his Beck. and the black cap drawn
over his head. At this moment he grasped
with a May the Lord Jesus have pity upon
my soul said quite audibly, the trap was
sprung and his lifeiess body was dangling
at the end of rope seven feet and six
inches long. 1t WAS just 2:l0 then. The
neck was broken and not move or atremOr
indicated that the swinging mass was ought
but clay. Drs. Cohn, Maynard, Will Lindley
and McCarty Immediately surrounded the
body. At 2:26 they pronounced life extinct
and the BODY was cut down. The following
were the pulsatiOns as taken down by the
medical men: First minute, lo4; second, ";
third, 50; fourth, 81; fifth, 6o: sixth, 60;
seventh, 40; then tremor came over the
body; eighth, A; ninth, 30; tenth, 70;
eleventh. ~; twelfth. GA; thirteenth, is;
fourteenth, 6S fifteenth, 72; sixteenth, 40;
then the pulse stopped. Immediately after
the body was cut down 1t was removed for
few minutes to the cell where he had re-
mained during the last few days OF his life
1t was then taken to the undertaking estab-
lishment of Messrs. Orr K Sutch, where the
doctors held g private examination OF the
body. The invitations issued by the
Sheriff were not as numerous as on
the occasion OF the takinS-on OF Mar
tinez aud Silvas. All the buildings aud
hills adjacent were covered with people
anxious to witness the execution, and, be
1t said with praise toward womankind. very
few hard hearted females could be detected
attempting to get a glimpse OF the sickiy
spectacle. The scatfold was protected I'M
perfectly by canvas, no better arrangement
being possible. The execution was perfect
in all its details. no hitch being discernible,
and everything was done with an expedi-
eucy and per, ,ection OF detail for which
Sheriff Gard is entitled to the greatest praise.
THE CRIME.
Albert George Baynton, native OF Somer-
setshire, aged 81 years, resided at 623 olive
aud four children. He was a violent man,
not over-industrious. and fond OF drink.
His wife, on the contrary. was hard-work-
ing woman ekfng out subsistence for
herself and children by doing washing.
Baynton illtreated her very often, and kept
his children also in terror of him. He had
been street car conductor, but was dis
missed for his brutality to the horses he
drove. About year ago ne nau peen ar
rested for maitreating his wife, ahd ne re-
in a .rutal mood After his discharge as d
car driver he became j0uIneyman gar
dener. His abuse to his wife and family
was well-known by the ntighbors, who
pitied the poor woman very much, and Oc
caslonally harbored her. His brutality be
came at last SO unbearable that she deter
mined to Ieave him, and the anticipation
that she would no longer remain the willing
druid ge and martyr he had for so long made
her, SO n iuriated the brute, who could moi
govern mis- passionate temper, that he de
liberatcly planned to kill her and the people
who were mporarily shielding her from
his violence. On Friday evening, the Oath
OF September. Baynton came home II
an angry mood, after having taken
Considerable liquor during the day
and imediateiy started his us
ual course of abuse TO his wife. She fiec
with three of her children 10 the house ol
/ r. Kipp. gentle man who resided witt
his vile and only daughter. Nettie, at "a;
olive street. The other child had previ
ously ran away when he saw his father
nc..fnr and ~ rs fotl nd the ext dav at thu