Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-13

at her was diverted and spent by y steel in
her corset, and foe wound In the hip which
she received, though 1t kept her cophned TO
bed in a precarious condition ior very
nearly month. failed to add q third vic.
tim to the list of the dead, After having
done all the damage he could to the women,
the miserable assassin sized upon Mr.
Kipp, an old gentleman 62 years old,
drag led him out OF the house into the gar.
den, and with the butt OF his pistol ciuboeo
him SO violently on the head that it fract-
ured his skull Not safisf ID with that he
shot him in the body afterward. The poor
old man died of conoussion of the brain
tire e.quarters OF an hour afterward. Bsyn-
ton was Immediately placed under arrest by
F. Baker, a neighbor, and taken to the
police prison, where he remained that
night but the next day the Sheriff. In anti
cipati0n of mob violence, removed MN 70
| the county jail. At frst Baynton tried to
exculpate himself BY saying that he had
two whilst firing at Newfoundland dog
that was annoying him, but the
evidence produced against him at
! his examinations before Justice Austin was
so overwhelming that he could no longer
keep up that de ,eption and then ana there
he avowed his Intention OF pleading guilty
| to murder in the first degree in both cases
In accordance with that determination,
| BayDton refused to stand trial ana was al
| lowed to plead guilty to the murder OF his
wife in Judge Cheney's department of the
| superior Court on the Sth of october.
| few witnesses for the people were exam
ined and their testimony established IN the
clearest manner that the ASSASSINATION OF
the woman had been premeditated, and
\ that it was unaccompanied by a single
| mitigating circumstance. The court ad-
| judged Baynton guilty of murder in the
first degree, and the prisoner. waving time,
was sentenced to be hanged. The death
warrant, setting the time of the execution
| for November 18th, was signed on the same
evening. From the day after his arrest un.
til the moment of his death Baynton kept
s,olid indifferent face, and If he realized
at all what contemplate. hateful brute he
was, no one ever knew it. No sign OF re-
morse was allowed to crop out. and the only
trepidation he ever manifested was the fear
of being summarily dealt with by an indig'
nant MOB. During his incarceration he
decided to his children the house and Let
where he resided with his wife and family
| aud which was his own property. The
children are now in the Orphans Home
and Messrs X. G. Van Nuys ana ID. u. ste
phens have been appointed their guard
ians., The execution OF Baynt1n Yesterday
has done justice to one OF the most afro
cious and repelling marders ever perpe
trated in this county.
| THE FUNERAL.
The body of Mrs. Baynion that had TEN
porarly been placed in that part of Ever
green Cemetery called the Potters field. ha!
| oeen dug up and transferred to lot b0ugh
| by Baynton during bis imprisonment. To
| day at 10 O'Clock the funeral of himsel
takes place from Orr & Sutch's undertaking.
parlors. His body will be laid 10 rest be
sides that OF his martyred wife. 1t is safe t
say that no less than three thousand person
| viewed the remains of Baynton from the
| time of their removal to Messrs. Orr 4
Sutch. until they closed up for the night