The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-17
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The 'E Result g suit Of a Hanging ,' Bee
Held bythe Government.
A BUSY DAY AT$Fr. T SMITH, 1T
When Six Dusky Murderers Arc
Made TO Pay the Penalty For
Brutal Murders = Stories or Y
n Their ,Crlmcs-Dicd Game.

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ders committed in Indian Territory
They, bore the ordeal with much nerve
standlng on the scaaold fully tweut.
minutes while preparations were bcinl
. made. The work, however, went Will
precision and despatch, and when th,
, fatal drop came there was but a Sigh
groan from one Of them, a gentle swing
Of ak black bodies, not a twitch7 or {
shrug. All were dead In from three te
eight minutes. George Maledon, who
had hanged scyenty.lye persons before
performed the work. gi 81 &. ". q. S,,
Tho murder for which Austin paid &c
dearly to.day was one OF a. most un.
pardonable nature atrocions and unpro.
voked.i On the 25th OF May, 1883, III the
town Of Tishomingo, Chickasaw Nation,
he killed Thomas Elliott, a white man,
under the following circumstances: El.
liott had only been In the Indian coun-
try about two months and was a stran.
| ger to IAustin. Jonas Pearson, a half
brother to Austin, was under the intlu-
ence Of liquor on the day Of the murder
and Elliott accused him OF having stolen
some whisky from him. The two men
were sitting in the front porch Of a store
talking, Pearson being armed. Austin
approached them and took Pearson's
pistol from him. Tho. two walked Off a
short distance, conversed few minutes
in the Indian language and then Austin
turned, and approaching Elliott, shot
him In the! breast without a word OF
warning. Elliott fell from the box on
which he was sitting, when the murder
er shot him second time In the body.
.;s3S5Si RlLLY, WILLIS AND JAMES.
John Billy, Thomas Willis and Madi-
son James, were all iull.blooded Choc-
taws. and were convicted jointly Of the
murder Of a white man whose name was
supposed to be A.. 3. Williams. The
principal witness was another Indian
named Graham, who saw the murder
committed Graham testified that VIII
liams tell In with the three condemned
men and himself in the Kimichi meun-
tains and sold them some whisky, all
getting drunk. Williams had more
whisky hut the Indians had no more
money, and he refused TO give them any.
Williams finally accused them of steal
ing some of his whisky, and Graham,
anticipating trouble, started OF
without h HIM. When short dis
tance away, the y three defendants
started after them and when in about
seventy.6ye yards Of them Willis took
deliberate aim and fred at Williams with
Winchester, shooting him through the
body. They all ran up to him and one
OF them drew six shooter from his scab.
bard and fired every chamber of 1t into
the breast OF the PROSTATE man. Il They
then stripped the: body Of every jyestige
OF clothing and Willis Z divided =, the
money, about Sl2, with the other three,
Graham also getting share. Willis ap-
propriated the six shooter, a iorty.five
nickeI-plated Colt, and the coat Of their
victim. Then they buried the body in
shallow grave, felled tree over It and
burned leaves and brush over the mound
to obliterate their work. The murder
was committed on the 18th OF April, 1888.
4 Madison James sentence was commu-
ted to Imprisonment for term Of fifteen
years. sit; !: 4 3.
Z CRIME OF COMMAND DuRRIs.
Sam Coin and Jim Burris, full blood
Choctaws, were tried in October last,
Jim Coin also being a defendant in the
case, but he was acquitted, while the
others were found guilty. The victim
of these men was Houston Joyce, Of
Franklin, Texas, who had fled from bis
home on account Of some trouble he had
gotten into. On the eth of November,
1888, he was travelling through the In.
dian country and stopped at the house
Of Jim Coin, an uncle Of Sam, In Towson
county, Chiokasaw Nation, Tor dinner.
In paying for the came be exposed bis
money. q On leaving he was put on a
blind trail by Jim Burris, and alter be
got out Of sight Jim Coin gave Burris
and Sam Coin his gun and pistol and
told them to follow the white man and
kill him, They were soon iYin pursuit,
and coming up with their victim mur.
lerel him in lonely and unfrequentetl
spot, took possession Of bis horse and
hat money and other property he had
aud left the! body TO tie mercy Of the
wild beasts Of the forest. y; MI;
Jefferson Jones, "a iull.bloodel Choc.
taw, was convicted on the l4th of ,Octo:
ber Of most foul and dastardly murder,
bis victim being an old man sixty.fiye
years Of age named HenrysWilson. y On
the 18th of March last 4 the old !: man
started on foot from point near LAHORE,
Choctaw Nation, %his destination being
Polk county, Ark, where he was to get
a horse for a party and return in one
week. His way lay through the Wind.
, ing Stair mountains 8 The week went by
and then another, but no tidines came
I from the! old man. His sonB then went
in search OF him. They could trace him
as far as Isaac Winton's, where he stop.
ped the first night, but alter leaving no
trace Of & him could be found. The
mountains were secured with like re.
suits. Then the! case Swas reported ia
the United States authorities here and
Deputy. Marshal Barnhill was sent out Ia
search for the missing man. He found
the gun carried by Wilson at the house
OF, George Beams. # He procured the ar.
rest Of Beams, who said Jefferson Jones
had killed the white man and left the
gun at his house. I effer0on was ar.
4 rested and acknowledged to the whole
thing. n N / (
Il ;s 4; a POIS0NE In IRONS. 4 ssii
\ a Ships Steward Attempts to Murder the
Entire Grew. y \, "a. fl!.l
BALTIMORE; Jan. The steamship
Furndale, Captain VIII. Garter, arrived
. . later yesterday afternoon from Cuba,
with the s.eward, wv. W. Walker, in
irons, charged with attempting tS poison