The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-03
MURDERERS MUZ2LED.
South Carolina Varies the Monotony
by Choking White Man.
Jack Prather Strangled for PerfOrat-
ing the Hide Of an Enemy.
Three Criminals at Fl. Smith Trans
ported by the Moose Route.
A Maryland Murderer Takes His
Leave at the End CT a Rope.

ST. LOUIS. ApTll ia SpOCld1 " JuS
Post-Dispatch from Columbia, South
Carolina, says: Jasper Davis was
hanged at Anderson, South Carolina,
at 1910 to-day. He was the second
white man hanged in this state in many
years. All the morning he appeared
to be in abiect terror of death and pite-
ousIy spoke of the torment that
awaited him. He said he appreciated
the enormity of the crime and admitted
his guilt. Many people assembled
around the jail, endeavoring to get
sight of the doomed man and were
kept out with difficulty. The hanging
was witnessed by only very few per-
sons.
Jasper Davis is the second white
man hanged in South Carolina in
many years. He was convicted Of the
ing her. His brutality was believed
to be the result of insanity caused by
Indigestion and he was sent to an in
sane ASYLUM for six months where he
apparently recovered. Returning to
his home, his wife and five children
who had been well cared for by the
courageous little woman, were so
brutality treated that Davis was COM
PEELED to leave the home. In Septem-
Der 1886 he tried to induce his wife to
allow him to return to her home, but
she refused and he threatened
to kill her. On the 25th of
execute his threat and so removed her
five children to her brothers. Davis
evidently visited the house that night.
and next day lay in wait for the return
of the faithful woman. His plans were
well laid, for early next morning the
mother and children walked unsus-
peetingly through grove near their
home and the husband shot her dead.
He set up plea of insanity, but not
withstanding the fact that it was a
white man, the jury was influenced by
the fact that it was murder OF
thrifty woman, leaving five helpless
children, and there being no plausible
cause, convicted him.
a special to the PoSt-Dispatch from
Columbia, South Carolina, says that
Jack Prather, cOlored, was hanged at
Orangeburg this morning. He main
tanned his innocence to the last and
was very weak all morning. Many
people gathered around the jail, desir-
ing to see the execution, but they were
not allowed entrance to the court. The
JO1hOA "4OAA O4O "AAAOSc
in their efforts to convict the man, and
are in hearty sympathy with the sup
porters of the law in this instance.
The crime for which Jake
Prather was hanged, was
the killing of Andrew Jackson negro
on the 14th, of July 1885. Shortly
after dark on that night Jackson and
his family were in his cabin in Orange
burg county when charge OF buckshot
was fired through a hole in the cabin.
The full charge struck Jackson and
killed him Immediately. Several stray
shots severely injured child. Three
negroes were arrested soon after or
suspicion and out of three Jack Prathel
was convicted, the testimony going
to show that he had said dur
ing the day that he intended tC
kill Jackson because he haC
appeared as witness against
him in a trial the day before. He waf
traced to the scene of the murder anC
afterward tried to intimidate men tt
compel them to swear to an alibi fol
him. The clinching testimony was al
admission said to have been made by
him on the night of the murder. IL
his defense he made a bungling at
| tempt to set up an alibi. Prater was &
negro.
FIT. SMITH EXECUTIONS.
ST. LOUIS, April 27.-The Post dis
patch special says three men, Jacl
Crow, Geo. Moss and Owen D. Hill
were hanged at Fl. Smith Arkansas
this morning for crimes committed il
the Indian Territory. All the mel
were negroes with Indian blood
Seven men were sentenced to hani
there to-day, but consumption re
moved Sunday Smith and the sentence
of the three others were committed b,
the president.
ANOTHER MURDERER LESS.
| LEoNARDTowN, Md, April 81
John b. Bischoe, colored, was executes
here to-day for the murder of Captain r
| p. Dixon, on the Potomac river at tn
close of August. 1886. The execution
was private, as under the law onl
twenty persons are permitted to b
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