The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-07-01
Three Negroes Swung Into Eter
nifty at the Same Time-A
White Murderer Objects
to Dying with the
Blacks and is Ac-
corded an Indi-
vidual Hang
ing.

Memphis, Tenn, June 23.-Par-
ker Harris, Ed Car aud Hardy Bal
lard, colored, and Frank Brenish,
white, were hsnged yesterday morn
ing, the coiored murderers taking the
plunge into eternity together at l1:24
and the white man dropping alone at
1922 Arrangements had been made
to swing the tour together, but Bren-
ish objected 10 being hanged with the
negroes and MS desire To die alone
was gratifed.
The execu ions took place in the
rear corridor of the jail and were wit
messed by about 80 persons, includ-
ing the friends and relatives
of the CO. d -mned, dupu Y
sheriffs and members Of the press.
The three blacks walked up the
steps of the sc itold with firm tire I'd
and exhibited no signs of fear. ALI
confessed their crimes and said they
made their peace Wi b God.
A delay Of FIR Y minutes occurred,
and then Brenish, supported by two
deputy sherifs, half walked and half
staggered up the s cps onto the drop.
When asked if be had anything to
say, he attempted to speak. but the
wound in his thr at prevented him
speaking above a whisper and he soon
gave it up. He WIS Supplied With
whiskey and exhibited no concern.
The drop fell at 1922, and two min.
utes later life was pronounced extinct.
His neck was broken by the fall.
Brenish killed bis wife, July 5,
last. He had been separated from
her some time and wanted her to re-
turn, threatening to Kill her if she
refused. July 5, Mrs. Breuish, &C
comparied by her sister and child
by former marriage, was waylaii by
trenish, and upon her refusal to 60
home with him, he drew long, keen
bladed knife and buried il TO the hilt
in her neck. She never spoke and
death WIS almost instantaneous. Then
the murderer, backing against the
wall of building, drew the sharp
blade of the knife across his own
throat, inflictiDg a wound the recov-
cry fr1m which constitutes one of the
most remarkable ses in the annals
of surgery. The windpipe and
oesopha us were severed, and as it was
thought by the physicians that he
would die in half an hour nothing
was done far him beyond administer
irg op;ates. His remarkable cOnsti-
tuition, however, pulled him through,
and with tie aid of a trdcheOtomy
tube he thrived and grew heavier
than ever.
On Sunday, August Is, murder
sni attempted suicide occurred which
so closely resembled the Brenish trsg-
ely of SIX weeks before that the first
might have been taken as a pattern
for The second. The facts in the case,
the results and causes that led to the
second tragedy were exactly the same
as in the first. The victim was Lee
the Harris, an octrroon of more than
Ordinary beauty, ard the murderer
Parker Harris, her husband, a mu-
Iatto. The woman was instantly
killed, aud although the slayers wind
pipe was partially severed, he was out
of danger in few days.
On the very day and the very hour
when the jury returned verdict of
murder in the first degree agains'
Harris for xii ing bis wife another
negro was preparing himself for the
gallows by the commission of
similar crime. At 4 o'clock on Sat-
urday afternoon, November 9, Ed
Carr, a negro, entered the station
house, pistol in hand, and announced
that he had killed his wife, Sallie
Carr. He gave as reason that his
wife was unfaithfsl to him. He made
no defens. the trial lasted only two
DAYS and conviction was the result.
Last Christmas WAS signalized by
the commission of two foul murders.
In the morning the police found a
coIored man who had been murdered
for his money under the bayou bridge
on Elliott street. He was never iden.
tilted, nor were his murderers ever
captured. The second murder oc-
CURED at s o'clock in the evening,
when NJ. z. Pinkston, a street car
driver, was stabbed to the heart by
Hardy Ballard, negro. Ballard
boarded Main street car near the
South Memphis terminus. and upon
being requested to deposit bis fare, adj
vanced to the front platform, and,
l.