Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-28

murder. Crow remained a. large until
the winter CT 1856, and in the meantime
| his friel Gs had succeeded in having him
registered under the lsw as ci.iZ II. He
I continued to dodge the marshaIs until;
December, 1886. when Deputy Marshal
Charles B.rnhili and posse got on his
| trail and brought him to bay in log
house in the Poteau Mountains, where
his family were domiciled. He refused
to surrender, and the marshal held the
outside OF the premises until one OF his
feet became freq en, when he used extreme
[ measures to dislodge tie fugitive by get
| ting up next to the house and setting fire
to 1t. Crow seeing that the lives OF his
I wife and children were in jeopardy sur
rendered, and the fire was extipguished.
When arrested the pistol belonging to :he
J murdered man, CHARLES wilson, was
found In his possession. At his trial in
September, 1887, he endeavored to beat
the case on the ground Of Jurisdiction,
but the court held that as the ctine was
committed before he was registel as
I! Choctaw citjz sn the jurisdiction remained
win this court. The following fac .
were proven, among the government
| witnesses being joe Jackson and John
Slaughter, two OF the parties who were
present wnen Wilson wss killed. The
party met Wilson on the road and Robert
Benton had few words with him in re-
gard to some Misunderstanding that had
| sprung up between them, wnen Benton
shot him three times. Wilson fell to his
knees and grappled with Benton, when
Crow shot him in the back with q Win
Lob nenr hi ha Ao1lh III,
| murderers beat his brains out with their
guns and left his body lying in the road
| where he fell.
as a posse by Benton to arrest Wilson,
who WAS carrying pistol contrary to
law, and th.t Wilson WAS shot by Benton
while resis ing arrest; that it WAS Peter
| Johnson who shot him in the back with
Winchester and rot him. Crow was
| man Of extraordinary nerve and will
power, stubborn IS mule and non-com-
munlcatlve. At the trial he pretended he
could neither understand nor talk Eng
lish, and when sentenced 60 interpreter
had to be employed. After the Pfesi-
| dent declined to interfere in
his case last week he could
Talk good English, but displayed
not the least emotion when the telegram
WAS read to him announcing thst his lsst
remaining hope was cut of, saying In
| bragadocio tone, "that's all right" BE
| died as he had lived, wicked unrepsnt-
ent man, at whose door was laid many
other crimes besides the one for which he
| to-day paid so dear.
OWENS D. HILL,
an intelligent negro, murdered his
| wife, Whey Hill, and came near murder.
ing her mother at the same time, the
crime being committed on the
% b Of June, 1887, near
Gi- son station, Cherokee nation. Hill
for nerly resided in this city, and here he
| was married to the woman for whose life
he to-day paid the penalty with his own.
| While living here he wss for long time
employed in the Fort Smith Elevator
printing Office as jsnitor, ETC., and ap-
peared to think great deal of his vile,
spending his entire salary part of the
time In buying her delicacies and other
comforts during long spell of sickness.
Ia the spring of 1887 his wife went to the
Indian country on visit to her mother, and
few months later Hill also went there
.nd began farming. He qusrrellad with
his wife's mother and che moved to an
other house. Liter he becsms angry at
his wife for giving her mother plug of
tobacco. The result was he slapped her
jaws. The following morning Hill went
TO the field TO work, and when he came
in to dinner his wife WAS gone and no
dinner awaited him. He followed her TO
the home Of her mother and
endeavored to induce her to
return, but she rsfused, say
Jug she would live with him no longer
He left, but late in the afternoon again
went to her, and finding that she WAS de-
termined in her course he picked up
their baby and carried It home, thinking
she migat be induced to follow it. she
did not, snd after worrying with the
child all night he returned it to her next
morning, when he again sought recon-
Citation, but he met with more stubborn
refusals than before. He left, and
going to his field tried to work, but, using
his own language, "his mind was so up
set that he could do nothiug," and then
he decided to settle forever the whole,
business by killing his mother. in-law, his
wife and himself. He borrowed shotgun
and weat to his mother-inlaW's house;
the old lady meeting him in the door, he
struck her with the gun and followed one
blow with another after she fell until
he thought he had killed her. In
this assault he broke the gun and
threw it down. His wife in her
fright took refuge behind bed in the
room, and he rushed at her with razor.
she ran out into the yard where he caught
her and cut her throat from ear to ear, al
most severing her lead from her body.
he left her where she fell in the yard, and
taking their baby carried 1t to the house
of Jonas Brown and laying it on the porch
concealed himself in the tall corn near by
to see that 1t was taken in. The inmates
hearing 1t cry came out and got Il, when
Hill struck out through the woods for
Gibson Station, where he caught train
and reached Kansas City on June 27
Here he secured employment in restau-
rant, and might have remained there IN
molested had he not written to Jonas
Brown, making Enquiries about his wife
and CHILD, not knowing for sure whether
his wife had died Of her wounds or not.
These letters caused his arrest on the
25th ct August, and he WAS lodged in jail