The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-01
GOODNESS ON EaR sOAPrOLp.
A Double Hanging Rt LOuIsvilIS-A Bung.
lug Execution Taken Good NAturedIy BY
. APFiAoner.

A Double Hanging Rt LOuIsvilIS-A Bung,
lug Execution Taken Good NaturedIy By
aPFiHOnsr.
LOUISVILLE, KY July ST. Charles
Dllger and Harry Smart were hanged at
siO4 o'clock this morning in the jail
yard. At $3.50 o'clock Father Brady and
Father Nicholas gave way to the Deputy
Sheriff, Henry Bell, who read the death
warrant to each Of the men, They stood
In their cell doors, both handcufFsd, and
listened attenhYely 10 the reading, The
line OF march 10 the scatfold was formed
at SAT O'Clock, Both Dilger and Smart
walked firmly up the steps, Dilger lead,
Ing the way IinassiHted, Father Nicholas
read the service OF the Catholic church,
the crowd maintaining q breathless si.
leRce. Deputy Sheriff Ragland took his
place near the trap rope, Both men
were very patient during the reading.
AT the GonCluslon OF the services Smart
and Dilger bRde goodbye To all the turn
keys. They then took their position on
the traps. Smart laughed as he stepped
upon the fatal door. Deputy Sheriff
Hikes pinioued them with leather bands
at Q O'Clock,
The rope was cut at 8;O4 o'clock ex.
actly, and both men shot down through
the traps. Smart turned round and
probably died instantly, but Dilger alp.
ped through the moose, the rope catch
ing him over the chin at the lower teeth.
He was seemingly unhurtand was drawn
up by the rope until his shoulders came
through the trap, when the deputies
took him by the arms and pulled him
upon the scatIold. A new rope was
brought into service, and when the
moose was adjusted lllger asked
whats the matterV" When being told
the rope had slipped It's knot, he said,
"This shows | should not die." He
placed himself upon the trap by taking
two hops. The drop was again sprung
at 600 and he strangled TO death.
THE GRIMES.
The crime for which Charles Dllger
pays the severest penalty Of the law was
an especially brutal and revolving one,
the double murder Of two policemen
officers Of the law who were acting In
the discharge OF their lhtY, Thursday,
August ~, 1883. At . o'clock In the
morning Officers James W. Jones and
Joe Rosenberg were startled by cries Of
Murder" Help" in q female voice.
The cries came from the house No. 9S
Lafayette street. The officers ran In and
found Charles Dilger In the act Of beat
ing Mary Barnes, with whom he was
living. The officers disappeared within
the door THEREON, but whattook place
In there has never been discovered. A
lew minutes later man hatless and coat.
less ran down the street with blood
streaming from his head. II was Ohas.
Dilger. He was arrested two hours
later. In the hall wayo the landing on
The second floor was the dead body OF
Officer Jones. He had been killed with
a knife. Inthe room occupied by Dill.
ger and the woman, Officer Rosenberg
was found insensible from knife wound
on his right temple. He died the next
afternoon. III
The crime for which Harry Smart was
hanged was the murder on the fifth OF
July, 1883, OF Meisner Green and an
lbandoned woman named Belle Ward.
The murder was committed Ia row boat,
and the conviction was upon CirCum!
itantlal evidence.