The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-19
JACK KEroHs VICTIMS.
Those Swung Off and Others Awaiting
the Same Fate.

! bell tonight consented to another reprieve
! for Isaac Smith, who was to have been
executed tonight, together with two other
murderers. The governor had refused a
reprieve last night, and it was considered
! so certain that Smith would be hanged to-
night that his grave had been dug along
| side of his two companions in crime. The
other two were executed according to pro-
! gram.
! Smith was unconcerned about the re-
prieve and seemed really sorry that he was
TO undergo another long incarceration.
Elmer Sharkey was hanged for the
murder of his widowed mother in 1889
having crushed her skull while she was
sleeping. His motive was to get possession
Of bis mothers farm. and remove objec-
tions to his marriage with girl of the
neighborhood.
Henry Ropp, the other murderer exc
cuted tonight was a German. He killed
Norris q. ROther, saloon-keeper, at Can
ton, by stabbing him with a penknife,
after he had been thrown out OF the latter's 5
saloon.
Elmer Sharkey was hanged first. He
stepped on the scaffold at 1879 and in fiji
teen minutes was pronounced dead. He
died from strangulation. He did not
weaken. Henry Ropp was led TO the scat
fold at 1899 and minute later had been
launched into eternity. His neck was
THE FRENCH sTRANGLER.
PARIS, Dec. 1s-The trial of Michael
Eyraud and Gabrielle Bompard for the
murder of Touissant Gouffe, was contin-
ued today. The physician who made the
autopsy testified that Gouffe's death prob
ably resulted from choking with hands,
and not with the rope. Mile. Bompard
thereupon declared that Eyraud threw the
rope over Gouffe's head, but it slipped,
and EyTaud thereupon seized GOuffe by
the throat and strangled him TO death.
Eyraud said that was not so. He had
hanged his victim, be said. He said he
lowered the body into sack. feet fore
most. The physician who had examined
Mile. Bompard said she was perfectly re-
sponsible for her actions, but was one of
that class of people kdown as nearly de-
ficient," being person who would COM
NIT crime with indifference. The Bonn
pard family physician said he had very
frequently hypnotiZed Mile. Bompard and
believed that Eyraud might have done SO
too.
DIR. Bruardel, who had examined Mile.
Bompard, was recalled, and denied hypnot-
ism. Then a scene ensued. DIR. Noisin,
of the police department, swore that he
had hypnotiZed Mile. Bompard. He
declined TO enter into details on the
ground of professional secresy The coun-
Bompard had made important disclosures
to the DOCTOR and that the court should
remove the seal OF secresy. The president
of the court decided that the matter ought
to drop. This brought out loud pro-
tests from the spectators, and the court
was cleared
A WIFE MURDERER.
WELDON, Ont. Dec. 1S.-Arthur Hoyt
Day, who murdered his wife by pushing
her over a cliff at Niagara Falls, in July
last, was hanged at Sol o'clock this morn
ing. The condemned man walked to the
scaffold firmly and with a smile on his
face His death WAS easy.
THE MONTANA QUARTETTE.
HELENA, Mont, Dec. 1S.-GOvernor
Toole has refused to respite the four In
dian murderers sentenced TO be hanged at
Missoula Friday a petition was pre-
sented which was signed largely by
women.
A FINE RECORD.
CITY OF MEXICO, Dec 1s.-The Antonio
Guerrero, alias Chalequeaot (the Jack the
Ripper" of MeXico), trial ended at o'clock
this morning He was convicted
of eight murders and fourteen
rapes, and was sentenced to death.