Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-24
ROPES FOR FIVE.
Mccoy, One Of Sheriff McKinney'S
SlayerS, Hung at San Antonio.
The Execution Was Perfect Success in
Every Particular. Death
Coming Quick.
Four Women Killers Jerked Into Eternity in
New York City with Some Horrible
Accomplishments.
Three of the Men Die Decently, while the
Fourth is Given to Blaspheming-'I
viii Die Like a Man,
Mccoy Hung.

Mccoy Hung.
Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, Aug. 23.-Jim
Mccoy, convicted of completely in the
murder of Sheriff Mckinney of Lasalle
county in 1886, was hanged IN the Jail
yard in this city at 1870 this morning.
Mccoy mounted the scaffold unassisted
at ILLS. The drop fell at 1888 and in
twelve minutes Mccoy was pronounced
dead About fifty people including the jury
tatives of the press and few curious
spectators, witnessed the execution.
After his baptism according to the rites
of the Catholic church yesterday by
Father Maloney, the prisoner was
SHAVED AND TOILETED
by Gus Taylor, colored barber. Then,
after the final parting with his wife late
in the evening, he ate his usual supper
and was left alone with his Waterman.
Then came the dark, dismal, sill ent
night The prisoner lighted the lamp in
his cell and read until u CLOCK, con-
yersing occasionally with his guard on
general subjects and at other times re-
manning perfectly still for some minutes,
as if in deep meditation. About
midnight he fell asleep and slum-
bered until O'Clock this morning
when he prepared his toilet and ate his
breakfast like an ordinary man. There
was nothing IN his demeanor or language
to indicate the least diminution of the
Il ha ma M N a .
all along. During the forenoon he was
visited by his attorney, Mr.. Haltom, MIR.
Jesse Laxton and other friends who babe
him goodbye His voice was firm and
his actions unmarked. He remarked to
Mr.. Laxton:
''They are determined to murder me
and l can stand it.
During this time and from early morn
ing miscellaneous assemblage
of men and boys were con-
gregated in the street outside
the Jail peering with morbid interest at
the outlines of that gloomy structure and
eyeing curiously everyone who passed in
or out of its portals. Between 10 and
ii the prisoner was taken into the front
office and arrayed in a neat black suit in
which he was to die, provided by Sheriff
Mccall. The crowd in front iostled and
surged to catch a glimpse of the doomed
man through the iron grating OF the
big front windows. Several min
utes later the thump on
the iron floor of Mccoy wooden leg
told that he was being led back to his
cell By permission of Sheriff Mccall,
Photographer Rothwell from Barr's was
admitted and photographed the prisoner.
At 1O:37 Rev Father Maloney made
- nnh ha n
being lett alone with the prisoner in his
cell until he was led forth on his march
to the scaffold.
At II clock Sheriff Mccall, Deputy
bruce and other officers repaired to the
cell, where Deputy bruce read
THE DEATH WARRANT.
A brief conversation ensued, in which
the prisoner named certain friends to
whom he wished his photographs given.
About this time the spectators were ad-
mitted and conducted into the run
around in the main department of the
jail They quickly surrounded the black
scaffold on the east side of the cages,
and breathlessly awaited developments.
At lI:l5 Mccoy walked unassjsted on
his crutch and accompanied the officers
TO the platform, being preceded by
Father Maloney. AS he proceeded he
babe the county physician and others
whom he recognized goodbye,
stopping to shake hands with them.
Reaching the scaffOld he walked firmly up
the steps, being slightly assisted by Dep
utv Druce He then laid his crutch
away and resting on one of the beams,
babe others good bye among the specta-
tors, who stood all around the somber
structure looking upward. Father Ma
l, Il not
the prisoner to repeat after him prayer
which he did in a low tone of voice. Be
ing asked then if he had anything to say 4,
the prisoner in firm voice and without
any sign of emotion other than slight
QUIvERING OF THE LIPS
and some hesitation in speech, proceeded
in substance to say:
mckinney had no business to perse-
cute me. He was a good man to his
friends, | reckon, but he treated me
wrong. We never were good friends
and when he got to be sheriff he en-
ployed lot of outlaws to fix up a scheme
to kill me, and they shot my leg off in
CotulIa. While | was sick he made his
talks and called me murderer
a thief and a ID S of b.
81 never was called murderer
untfkI got with Mckinney and Edwards
and the only cold blooded murder l ever
| did commit was with them near Cotulla
| I NAV be a hard man; ! know l have
| been in some WAYS, but, - Here Father
! Maloney asked the prisoner to confess his
sins and ask God to forgive them. The
| prisoner evaded the injunction anu con-
| tinued: 81 know I am. not a good man
| but we been good to my friends.
The prisoner closed his remarks with a
message to his wife to live with the old
man and raise their boy right, and after
some irrelevant remarks, he cody
stepped upon the trap. He asked that
| some one
| HOLD HIS CRUTCH
| or else hold him He then babe final
farewell to Dr. Johns and the officers
and at the solicitation of Father Maloney
| he repeated after him another prayer.
| Officers Bennett and Krempkau ad-
| iusted the moose and black cap, which
| Mccoy complained was smotnering him