Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-03
ERNEST FORBES HANGED.
The Maryland Criminal Executed ss A
napolls This Morning.

Ane Moryianu Nrtntnni fNecuteu N ADr
napolIs This Morning. :
Special pispstch TO The Evening Star.
ASsAroIls. M, April s-Ernest Forbes thu
negro sentenced on February Is BY the cireait
court at Baltimore for criminal assault upoAs
Bertha Phipps, a white girl OF sixteen years, az
West River. Nd, on the 9Th Of las
November, was hanged in the counts
Jail yard az 1905 today. Forbes had beeri
visited several times during the last few day,
by Rev. Montague, the colorcd Baptist minis
ter Of Annapolis, and Was almost fansticsll :
religious, avowing that be had seen angels ID
his dreams coming from heaven. His last hours
were occupied in PRAYER and in drawing on bis
cell walls rough pictures Of himself on the gal.
lows. Up TO the Last he was confident that his
sentence would be changed and freqnenti
said; II wouldn't be hung II was q whits
man."
At 10 q m. Constables Small and Duvai les
him from his cell 10 the gaiiows erected unse.
q temporary shed IN rear of the Jail. A too
sheriff read the sentence of death the negro
brutal face drew into hard set lines; he rai-esss
his hand in a doprecating way and his lap
moved in q mutiered imprecAtive manrerS
When asked what he had 60 say. he said; INK
sorry did il; God forgive me. All you nigsort
take warning OF me. Goodbye"
The sheriff aud his assistants tied his arms
and feet and adjusted the moose and death cap.
Rev. Montague read benediction and repestes
q prayer FOR forgiveness; and exactly az H. OF
the trap was sprung by the sheriff. His neck
was broken BY the fall and Coroner Hammond
pronounced him dead at 1916. he viii b..
buried by the county. <
The streets and walls Of the Jail yard yer I.
lined with a muttering, inquisitiye crowd,
mostly negroes, who seemed 10 think tine sfiai !
was a special affront TO their race rather than I
justice done.
THE CRIME AND THE CRIMINAL
Earhas triad nd t.a l..fora Iu.l0A
Wright, in the criminal court Of Baltimore, OF.
January 2s last, on the charge Of committing
felonious assault on Miss Bertha b. PhiTrf
on the farm OF her uncle, in Anne Arupdei
county, near Annapolis, November 6, lsso. Vie
testimony against him was Of the most do me
aging kind, closing with an account of the Az
sauiI by Miss phipps, in which she positivelf
identified Forbes as her assailant States Al
torney James Munroe Of Anne Arundel cont
Quoted the prosecution, assisted by States Az
torney Kerr Of Baltimore. The colored lawyeIt
E. J. Warning, defended Forbes who showed nt
interest whatever in the proceedings until Miss
Phipps identified him. He then sullenly sh9Os
his head from side 10 side and mumbled sOtlet
thing 10 himself under his breath. The del
Tense tried TO prove an alibi, but the testim 2
was very weak, and the jury found forhes
guilty on the first ballot and without being Gus
i've minutes. In Miss Phipps testimony she
said that il had been her custom to go down TO
the pasture to milk the cows every morning
and evening While there, on the morning *
November 8, Forbes approached her from be
hind and pulled her backward She struck
him and screamed, and then he forced rags
into her mouth.
Forbes was a tail, slouchy, se-jointed fell
low OF about twenty years, with low, re-
ceding forehead and big pop eyes His mother
Is Ph9bs Forbes His reputation In the neigh
borhood was anything but = good one. since
his conviction he made full confession
Owing to an expressed determination Of the
people of Anne Arundel county to hang Forbes,
he was removed from Annapolis Jail TO Bslti-
more. After his trial there and conviction he
not only unmolested, but well cared for since.
The people were satisfied that executive Glenn
ency would not be interposed in his case.