Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-09
Henry A. johnson Hanged at
Emory, Tex, Yesterday.
HE MURDERED WIN. SHUMATE
In April, 1890, and the Affair vas One of the
Most Brutal and Cold-Booded.
He Never Faltered in the slightest Up TO
he Time the Last 80 ood- Bye>" Were
Uttered. ana was Pronounced Dead
" Nineteen Minutes.
He Paid the Penalty.

Special 70 the Gazette.
tNoEY. RAtNEs COUNTY. Ten. June s
Henry W. Johnson. who murdered William
Shumaje On April - 1890, was executed To-
ddy N ! ~ p m. In nineteen minutes he
WAS pronounced dead and cut down. He
spent quiet night. reading until i o'clock,
and awakened ~ {, p; he ate hearty break
fast II ; 30. Al that time his spiritual ad-
wiser Elder J. !. Luc!ihart of GreeuyiLe,
entered the Iajl aud never left him until ~
ecujCU. lie received many visitors aud uis
CalmneSS and courage Gid not IL the least
forSake him. When his minister expressed
Il surprise Al his nerve aud courage he re-
piled. You ought MOTTO be surprised.
learned il from the book which YOU gave
me II saiu, Lei not your heart Oe troubled,
neither De afraid.
Three devotional exercises were held u
the jail. A lG:i5 Sheriff Montgomery 20
the death warrant Ia HIM which Inc received
without tremor. Al j. o'clock ne ate q.
slight dinner. Al 30 Sheriff Montgomery
entered The Jail with his attendants. when
he was taken 10 the scaffoid Elder Lock
hart leading. followed Immediately ny
johnson walking between Deputy SheriIfs
Moore and AlcMIhdu. Following them
were Sheriff Montgomery and Sheriff
Mason Of Hunt county. Johnson assembled
the SraHold with a firm step and g.Iled
quietly on the crowd before him. Elder
Lochhdrt then sang Jesus, Lover Of Ny
Soul read three verse, Of John. NV chap
ter, anu offered prayer. Those on the
scIffeld shook hands with him and told him
goodbye. His hands, arms and legs were
then piuioncd aud Sheriff Mont gomerA cut
the rope and the drop fell. He tiled with
out struggle.
He was asked on the Scafold If ne had
anything 10 say, and he said no.
THE CRIME,
johnson was hanged to eXpilte one of the
foulest and most cowardly murders il has
been our misfortune 10 know of. He muir
dered William Shumatc, au old man far up
in the sixties, while he sat doing before the
fire on Sunday night. April =, 1870. by
driving a hGtchet into his brain. ana after
wards beating bis brains out with an AK
And after the body had become rigid and
cold Johnson. assisted by his wife. put him
upon i horse, got up behind the body and
carried it to clump OF timber 400 yards
from the scene of the tragedy and dropped
it on: then took charge of all the effects Of
the murdered man, and on the night of the
2Sth of pril, 1890. left the country, and at
tempted 70 escape into the Indian Territory,
but owing to the swollen condition Of Red
river at that time his progress was retarded
till the sheriff OF Rains county could get
upon his trail ami OVertake him.
Our jail not being constructed for the ac-
cOmmodation OF such affairs. the execution
took place in the jail ward. and was public.
The condemned man protested religion and
was baptiSed a few days since By Rev.
LocIIhart of the Christian church at Green
Vile
He was to have been hanged on the 21th
Of April, but was reprieved by the COVER
nor.