The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-05


( band of vigflantes, who have been OF
the crime was discovered. A force O
men set out to find him, and about
O'Clock last night he was found fou
miles north Of Rector. When found b.
. was asleep under a tree. He was tolC
} that he must die, and made no protest
In fact he said he was willing anC
, ready. He had done nothing he haC
cause to regret. His wife had beer
untrue to him and he had killed bel
lover and this he regarded as justice
Regarding the shooting of his wife hE
said he could offer nothing in the way
of a defense. He was then hanged
on the tree under which he was fonnd
His wif0's stage name was Julia Ben
nett before her marriage.
FATAL ARREST.
| ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 30.-Ben Shep-
pard, marshal of Midwife. received in
formation that an escaped negro con-
vict was in the vicinity. Last night
the marshal discovered the wherea-
bouts of the convict, and with his
brother-in-law went to the house, and
on arrival instructed his brother-in-laW
to stand at the rear door, while he event
around to the front door and ordered
the negro to come out. AS soon as the
front door was opened the negro fired
his pistol at the marshal and then
sprang out with the intention of escap-
ing. Mr.. Sheppard fired three times
and the convict fell mortally wounded,
with leg and arm broken, The third
ball penetrated the body. The aim of
the negro had also been true and the
body of the marshal was found at the
| door, shot through the heart. He had
| fired three shots after receiving his
mortal wound.
MISTAKEN FOR A BURGLAR.
/ EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 30.-At
O'Clock this morning Joseph Zeigler, a
policeman, shot and killed Abraham
was patrolling his beat when he saw
two men leave a residence in the north
eastern part of the city, and upon see
| ing that the officer saw them they start
ed to run. The officer pursued them
into an alley, firing a shot into
the ground. This caused one of
the men to stop, and Officer
Zeieler thinking that the man was
about to shoot him fired and killed the
stranger. Going to the PROSTATE man
he found him to be Officer SmOck. The
other man. Officer Cohill, then come
up and explained that they were
off duty and on little lark and did not
want to be discovered. Officer Zeigler
has not been arrested.
PAYS THE PENALTY.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 30.-A special from
Marienna, Ark, to the Post Dispatch
says: Albert Peters was hanged here
at IL o'clock this morning for the MUIR
der of William Johnson near Trenton,
this county, in April, 1885. Peters es-
capped twice, but was recaptured. The
execution was private. Peters was
very religious, resigned and frightened,
but nervy. The death warrant was
read at 1870, and then the doomed man
was led to the scaffold i'll small bnild-
ing just big enough to hold the twenty
five spectators present. Sheriff HOr-
rington sprung the trap. The con-
demned man dropped seven feet and
his neck was broken.
BOLD ROBBERY.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 30.-About II
O'Clock last night four armed masked
men entered the postoffice and general
store of @. F. Thompson & Co., at Full
leyville, fifteen miles from here. on the
Baltimore s. Ohio Railroad, and at the
point of revolvers compelled the clerk
to open the safe which contained 5000
in cash and $50 worth of postage
stamps. After emptying the safe the
robbers bound and gagged the clerk and
then rode away. The clerk was found
some time later in an exhausted cOndi-
ton. About $40 worth of stamps were
this city this morning. There is no
clue to the thieves.
A JUST RETRIBUTION.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 30.-A dispatch from
Wichita, Kas., says: Charles Green,
cattle dealer from ''No Mans Land"
mas arrived there, and gives some de-
tails of the capture and lynching of the
Kelly family, whose horrible crimes
were published widely few days ago,
as equally atrocious as anything COM
mitted by the Bender family. They
Kelly family left their ranhc near Oak
City, going south. A posse of citizens
started in pursuit and found them fifty
miles in Texas. The old man escaped.
but the son, Bill, was hanged. and the
mother and daughter were shot while
the posse were endeavoring to capture
them.
GOT HIS DUE.
HARRIsONBURG, PA, Dec. 3d.
William FInchum was hanged here to-
day. Religious services were held in
his cell just prior to the execution, but
there were no services at the scaffold.
The condemned said to the minister
that he was willing and ready to die. at
the scaffold in reply to the sheriff's in
terrogation, Have you any remarks to
make?'' He replied: II have not"
Thirteen minutes after the drop fell
Finchnm was pronounced dead. The
body was buried in the Pottersfeld,
the family being too poor
to take charge of it. The
miliatia were on guard for a square
each way from the Jail, and no one was
permitted to pass without written per-
mission. No unusual incident occur
red, and all is quiet. Thh crime for
which Finchum was hanged was
the brutal murder of his own brother,
Preston Finchum. He attributed his
crime to his criminal intimacy with his
dead brothers. wife, and conceived the
idea of murder and carried it out so
that he might be more secure in his
intimacy.
BENT. GOES BLIND.
ELDORADo, Kas., Dec. 30.-Thomas
Benton Murdoch, editor of the Edo |
RADIO Republican, was taken with Sc
we're cold a week previous to Christ
mas. About 8 O'Clock On Christmas
night he had an attack of violent pain
over his left eye, which continued
during the night. By morning he
had entirely lost the sight of
right eye. He is now in total dark |
ness. A number of physicians have |
called to see him, and are divided in
their opinion as to the final outcome, |
some claimidg he will regain his |
sight, while others maintain that he
will not. He has been confined to a |
darkened room since Christmas night, |
and has held out very bravely until to- |
day, when he seemed to lose all hope of
recovering his sight.
FEELING THE OLD BUCKS POCKET
BOOK.
Fl. SCOTT, KS, Dec. 30.-On or |
about the Goth of November last J. K. |
Rice & Sons, of this city, publishers of |
the Monitor, sent one Howard L. |
Ross out through western Kansas
as a travelling salesman, on a |
short trip, supplied with accepted |
drafts for the payment of his expenses. |
They have been unable to hear from |
him for three weeks, except brief tel |
egram stating that he was married |
in Wichita on the 18th, and that |
he would be in Fort Scott the |
18th. He should have been here |
On, the 0ntfn In the rnaantirraa he had