Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-10
LIKE A SKY ROCKET.
that's How NavertO Greigo Was Jerked
10 the Hereafter on Sunday Night.
C0lorado's First Execution Under the New
Law How an Old Men Was Murdered
in Cold Blood.
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| Special 10 the Gazette.
! THE EXECUTION.
! CANNON CITY, Colo, Nov. Gust
as the huge bell in the belfry of the state
penitentiary tapped the hour of six TO-
night the soul of one of the inmates of
that institution took its fight, and in q
few moments the legal record was re-
corded that the first execution under
the new law had taken place within
the massive walls OF the state
bastile. The most intense interest was
manifested in the streets. Great anxiety
was felt to know Just the hour that life
would be taken for "a life. Around the
prison the most intense quiet prevailed
and the very walls seemed
to resound with solemnity while
the officers and others who paced
back and forward through the halls and
corridors of the prison hung their heads
in solemn contemplation of the fact that
one within a stones throw of them was
In the throes of death. Soon IN
officer announced that Noverto
Greigo had been hanged by the neck
until he was dead. that he had paid the
penalty of his foul crime in taking the
life Of an inoffensivs old man. All this
evening the throng of people upon the
streets was eager to grasp the
least morsei possible concerning the
hanging, and all sorts of questions
were propounded to every man or
penitentiary official who came along that
was thought to know anything about it,
and it was midnight before any of the
particulars could be learned. A few
minutes before the hour set Warden
Lsmping approached the dungeon door
and directed Greigo to prepare to meet
his doom. The Mexican replied
with smile that he was
ready. The heavy iron door
swung back and Noverto Greigo stepped
out as calmly and gravely as though
starting to his midday meal. With his
spiritual adviser, Father Depalines, at
his side, he followed the warden with
firm step to a position just
under the moose. Without any
further ceremony the warden adjusted
the moose and the black cap and then
asked the doomed man il he had eny-
thing to say. He replied that he had no
more than he had already said, only
that he would die happy and his soul
would go to heaven TO meet
lte STehtoT. hS tEcu pdsSeu
few words in low voice with
and then Strengthened himself up to
the signal aud the officers concealed in
the trap box threw the trigger and
the heavy weight shot down and
the manacled form of Naverto
Greigo shot heavenward like 3
sky rocket. A few commissions and all
was over. In nine minutes the physi-
clans pronounced him dead, and
in fifteen minutes the body
was cut down. The remains will be
shipped to Trinidad for burial.
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TRINIDAD, COL, Nov. 9.-On the
morning of June 4, 1890, w. L. Under
wood an old man who had n little gen.
eral merchandise store on Carbon street,
near West Main, was found lying behind
one of the counters in his store in a great
pool of blood which had issued from a
number of horrible wounds in his
head. The work had been well
done, and as it was in an I'M
frequented place the murderers had
ample opportunity to get away before
their crime was discovered. One little
clew, however, they left behind, for
held with death grip in one of their |
victim . hands was little scrap of pa |
per bearing notation of goods |
purchased by one Noverts Greigo, |
a Mexican living several miles up |
the river and who bore very bad name. |
Acting on the clew, Noverta and his two |
brothers were arrested by the officers |
and placed in Jail. Their house was |
searched and evidence in plenty was
found to fasten the terrible crime |
upon them. A few days after the arrest |
OF Griego q negro named Jones was ar
rested and found to have in his possess
sion silver watch that had belonged to
Underwood. By telling the negro that
Griego had confessed and accused him
of killing Underwood, he was in
duoed to own up and made
gone to Underwood the night of the
murdered the old man. Griego had
gone in the store and asked
for some goods he knew the
Did man kept under the counter.
When his uususpacting victim stopped
DOWN to get them he reached over and
struck him on the head with q hammer
be carried in his hand. Going behind
The counter he flushed his diabolcal
Iced, intiicting nearly q dozen wounds,
anyone of which would have caused in
slant death. Jones was then called in and
hey then searched the store for money,
and emptied Underwood g pockets of
what they contained. The books con-
aiming an account of nearly 500 against
ireigO were taken by him aud destroyed.
The fact that this bill would
ZONE due in few days was
what melted Greigo to commit the MUIR
Ter. The negro was to have their VIC
I'm . watch and money for his part i'll
he crime. When Griego was confronted
9th Jones' confession he broke COM
,letely down and acknowledged every
hing. He exonerated his brothers, i'm
only Jones and himself. As
here was no evidence against his brothers
hey were released at the preliminary
rial and Noverto and Jones were bound
,ver without bail. At the close Of the.
district court on the l1th Of October last,
he death sentence was passed on Grelgo
~ Judge Gunter, aud Jones was SEN
enced to life imprisonment.