The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1890-02-10

CoLuMBus. Feb 6-Tae penalty Of
solitary confinement for .ifc imposed
upon Murderer George Jones at the
enitentiary Saturday calls 70 mind
tie wonderful experience Of Eilly Car
~ 4. the noted convict, who Occupied a
: living comb for nearly twenty years
Not since Carroll was pardoHed hy Gov.
foraker. on Thanlssgiviugday, l,s9 has
+ s.puqishment of solitary confinement
: ant length of time been inflicted
no lhio state prison Carrolis
, ,ts. ai Of the most dramatic and in
/, tens testing within the criminal
hunaz - Le state The crime which
brOught iEr behind prison bars was
the robOei ~ the treasury Of Brown
eouutg and 60 murder OF the watch
man, n old ma. named Adam Rose II
was committed L-tober 81, 1873. The
job was done by Sa,,ael Huling. John
| II. Benton. David jos and William
Carroll all desperate cro,jls TRev were
discovered in the act Il f',,owing the
safe by the old watchman md sbCt
him dead in order TO escape. T.sv ao5
70 Cincinnati. whore all but K,IiBo
| were captured few days later. Ar,,.s,.
of deputy shcEiffs started fjr C,sarf,.-
town with the prisoners. Peter Mo-
mick, Of New Richmond. b4ip, -
charge of Carroll McCorrnicli's nav,
eot away from him az New Richmond
ana every effort 20 retake him prov,4
iutilo The others were sent N, d.
terms ranging from fivc t6ffteen 49,
ana N the meantime large reward
~ "AN 'Ierei 'i, for Carroll. who .sEf5,,,,,,-, +
nHsra s. l1as- s--.-t s-f-''' smoothing
For about : year nothing was heard Of
him and then the authorities learned
that a man in Illinois answered tine de
seription Of the fugitive The suspect
proved TO be Edwin W. Smith. a pros-
porous citizen OF Joliet, and his arrest
FOR the Brown county murder caused
great sensation lie waived all for
ma!ities and came willingly 70 Ohio, as
he said, to show the people that he
was not the man Despite a strong u
fense Carroll was convicted and sen
fenced 10 life imprisonment for the
murder Of old Adam Rose
In Decemper. 1870. Carroll killed an
other man. HIS victim was james
Rothe. Hamilton county convict and
fellow prisoner with Carroll The
crime was the rcult 81 a quarrel over
the ownership OF patent that Carol.
had conceived For this he was taken
out Of prison and tried Upon convic-
tion he received the remarkable SEN
tencc OF ten years in addition 10 the life
term lac was already serving. When
he was taken back 10 the penitentiary
Warden Dean imposed the penalty
OF solitary confinement for life upon
Carroll. as il was feared his ungovern-
able temper would result in still an
other tragedy IL he was allowed to
mingie with the other prisoners The
cell occupied by Carroll for nineteen
years was about four feet wide. seven
feet long and eight feet high. He
never stepped outside OF this little hole
in the sto=e wall for nearly n quarter
Of century. Ho was an inventive
genius, and managed 20 while away
the dreary hours and days ard years
in works OF mechanism During his
he invented a car-heater
and several other valuable apparatuses
for railroads His cell was in the east
wing of the prison and almost in the
shadow Of the annex. Carroll used 70
say that he did not mind his confine-
ment so much as the executions going
on in the death chamber There was
always greA; doubts in the minds of the
public as TO whether the Edwin Smith
arrest ted at Joliet, Ills. was the Billy
Carroll who played the leading role in
the Brown county tragedy. and upon the
discovery OF strong evidence that it was
not case Of eDr. JekylI and Mr.
Hyde Gov. Fotaise- granted the ceIe-
brated prisoner mis- liberty. Mrs For
alSer had become deeply interested in
the case, and on Thanksgiving morn
ing Of that memorable day in CarrOlls
strange career, she drove mp to the pen
itcntiary gate in the gubernational car
riage. Alighting she carried to Warden
Coffin the pardon, and was the first to
congratulate Carroll when he walked
out a free man