Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-13
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK
ouADRupLg MURDER
Followed by "A Quadruple Hanging of tn,
Mnrderers.

MuruererRs
HALIFAX, N. s., Oct 3.-Particulars
have been received here of the hanging
at Shanistown, Jamaica, last month, of
three men and woman for the murder
of John Aller, his mother and man
named Gofaden. The executed criminals
were two coolies named Panhanzing and
ibillic, the latters wife and Creole
named Robert johnson. The last
named, according to the story told by
Hbillics wife to a man named Richard
Bennett, in the hearing of detective,
was employed to commit the murder
and was to be paid G6 for the deed
The crime was caused by John Aller
having given information upon which q
bailiff made levy on some of libillic's
property. John Aller was decoyed from
his house by johnson to alonely spot on
a road where the libillics rushed from a
hiding place and struck him terrific
blow on the back of the head with
large stone, telling him to the ground.
As he fell, Punhanzing dealt him another
blow upon the head with stick and
then dragged him from the spot where
he fell short distance, and then they
finished him. johnson knelt upon his
stomach, PrGhanzing stood upon his feet
and Iibilic cut his throat,
Iibillic's wife and johnson were then
sent to call Gofaden, who was doing
business in that locality. The woman
left johnson with Gofaden and rejoined
the other two, and all hid themselves as
johnson and Gofaden come up to where
they were. They pounced upon him,
felled him to the ground and then
dragged him into Hbillic's rum shop,
where Punhanzing cut his throat. They
then went into John Alters house and
slaughtered Kunzile, his wife, and
Patarula, his mother, whose bodies
johnson cut up in a frightful manner.
The bodies were left lying on the floor,
where they were subsequently discov-
cred, with the little girl of Aller sitting
between them, covered with the blood of
her mother and grandmother. The
lives of the two women were forfeited
simply because they recognized Johnson
when he called John Aller out CT his
house, and the murderer thought they
would testify to this fact.
The reason why the baby was not in
cluded in the slaughter seems to have
been because it could not talk. although
the woman distinctly said 1T too should
be disposed of with its mother and
grandmother johnson said that the
pickaninny could not talk and must not
die.
The accused spent the night before
the execution fairly we'll At $3.50 Rob
ert johnson emerged from his cell, chat
ted cheerfully for few seconds and
then walked up and down in front of
the cells apparently praying. Then
Punhanzing came out of his cell, and,
sitting down by the side of the wall,
rested his head in his hands. At $40
the woman, Agnes Hire, commenced to
wall and cry, and did not cease until
the arrival of the clergy.
libillic suffered first. Agnes called
upon God to witness that she knew
nothing of the crime, and her husband
mad scarcely finished similar declara-
tion when the drop fell. Agnes died in
stantly, but Iibillic struggled terribly
for two minutes. After Hbillic had been
cut down Punhan zing and johnson
mounted the scaff Did and fell together.
Not a muscle of either of the men
moved.