The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-07
ALL ON ONE scAFFOLO.
SeventY-TWo Criminals Hurled Into
Eternity From a Single
GalloWs.
Blood Crumpton, a Murderer, the
Last Victim of a Service
able Structure.
A Remarkable Record Which Covers Less
Than Twenty Yenrs-A List
of the Victims.

FoRr SMITH, Ark, July 6.-The old scat
fold which stands in the United States Jail
yard, and from whose massive oak beams
seventy one men have been landed into
eternity, was again called to do duty yes
terday. Boudinot Crumpton, alias Blood
Burris, who was shot through the death
trap, rolled the number up to seventy-two.
Tho execution of Csumpton makes seven
ty-two men who have been hanged on this
same gallows since the 1st of January,
1874. Tho record shows hat during that
time there have been 125 convicted of cap
ital crimes and sentenced to be hanged. Or
this number thirty-seven have been COM
muted to life imprisonment, foul have
died in Jail. one killed in trying to escape,
one committed to twenty-one years, one to
fifteen years, one to ten years, three to tive
wears each, two granted an unconditional
pardon, one granted a new trial. and two
now have their cases before the supreme
court at Washington.
The following is q complete list of those
executed:
The first execution that took place was
that of John Childers, convicted of murder
lux -. W. NcAoihk, - 1NAAoeet
creek, in the northern part of the Cherokee
nation. Oct. ID, 1870, by splitting his head
with a Ratchet while they were alone In
camp. The object was robbery. Upward
of 5000 people witnessed this execution.
The second execution took place Oct. 10,
1873, when Young Wolf Si1-killer and
Tu-Ni, two full-blooded Cherokees, paid
the penalty of numbering two trappers on
Grand river. in the Cherokee nation, their
object also being robbery, but they only
procured the trappers' outfit for their
bloody deeds, consisting of a few steel
traps and some other worthless plumber:
On the Sd day of April, 1874, John Billy,
John Pointer and Isaac Fillmore were swung
off. Billy. while under arrest near Musco-
gee, shot and killed Perry DuVal, a guard.
wounded Deputy Marshal j. G. Wilkinson
through the body and Deputy Willard Ayers
through the wrist, being in return shot IN
the head. He was brought down. cured up
and then hanged for the murder of DuVal.
John Pointer was q young Seminole, who
was convicted as accessory to the murder OF
a drover in the fall of 1873, on the Canadian
river, Choctaw nation. Isaac Fillmore was a
Choctaw boy not more than II years old,
who murdered an unknown white man near
Fishertown, Creek nation, in June, 1873.
On the 18th of January, 1876, a young In
dian named MoClish Impson WAS hanged for
tho murder of an unknown white man in
1878. He confessed his guilt. and said his
fathers teachings was what brought him to
the gallows. This was the first man Judge
Parker passed death sentence upon.
On the Sd of September, 1875. William
Moore. Sam Fooy, William Wilmington,
Dan Evans Gall white except Fooy, who was
part Cherokee) Smoker Mankiller, q full
blooded Cherokee, and Ed Campbell, a
negro boy, all performed the "dnll thud'
-.AA znn L,a M1@rn Hi1ln} Will G,iro-
on November 8. 1874: Foov killed q man
named Naff near Webber's Falls on the 18th
of July, 1872: Mankiller was convicted of
numbering William Short in Flint district.
Cherokee nation, September /, 1874, and
died protesting his innocence. Dan Evans
Eufaula, G. N; Wilmington while drunk
cut the throat of an old man named Turner
in Pickens county, Chicasaw nation, and
robbed HIM; Ed Campbell and his half
brother, Ed Butler, killed a negro man and
woman in the Choctaw Nation; Butler was
and, when being taken from the court
room, made a bold dash for liberty, but
was shot and killed Just as he had nearly
reached the gate opposite the court house.
The sixth execution took place April 21,
1876, when five u~nfortunates were shot
through the death trap-Aaron Wilson, ne
gro, for the murder of an old man named
Harris and his little son, in September,
1875. near Wichita Agency: Isham Seeley
and Gibson Ishtanubbee, for the murder
of an old Indian doctor called FUNNY, and
his cook, a colored woman called Mason:
Orpheus McCfee, for the murder of Robert
Alexander in tho Chickasaw Nation ON the
Goth of April, 1873, and VIM. Leach, a white
man, for the murder of Henry Watkins in
March, 1875. in the Cherokee Nation.
On the Sth of September. 1876, Osev "a
ders. Sinker Wilson (alias Flyer Wilson,
oJiD, kn~rr\ Gor, Jofprc ,rJ JaI,, X,11..
all Indians, were hurried to the happy hunt
ing grounds. Sanders murdered Thomas
Carlisle in the Cherokee Nation on the 18th
of August, 1875; John Valley, for the muir
der of Eli Hatchett, in 1873; Sam Peters.
for the murder of Charity Hanson, near
Springtown, Choctaw Nation, on October
Is, 1875; Sinker Wilson was convicted at
Van Buren,, on November 30, 1877, for the
murd er of Datus Cowan. and sentenced to
be hanged Dec, 3 of the same year, He
escaped from Jail (being only lG or II years
old at the timel, and was at large until
1875, when he was again arrested, tried on
his identity and paid the penalty.
JOIN Postoak, a Choctaw, and James
Diggs, a negro, were launched into eternity
on the Goth OF December, 1878, tho latter
for the murder of j. c. Gould, in the Cher
okee Nation, near the Kansas line, Aug, 3.
1873. and Postoak for the murder of John
lngly and his wife. in the Creek Nation.
On August -, 1879, DR.. Henry Stewart
and William Elliott Wiley, alias Colorado
Bill" were hanged, Stewart for participant
ing in the murder of DR.. Jones at Caddo.
on the Sth of August, 1873, and his com
panion for the murder of Cooke" Brown
at Muscogee. February %, 1878. Both dis
played extraordinary nerve and GOODNESS
on the s%catfOlG.
The next wholesale hanging came off on
the 9th day of September, 1881. Georye
Washington Padgett, Patrick MeGowan.
William Brown, and the Manly brothers,
Amos and ADLER, being the principal actors.
MCGOWAN, an lrishman, killed Sum Latta
on the 18th of July, 1880, in the Chicknsaw
Nation: William Brown, white, killed Rob
ert c. Tate through mistake. near Fort Sill,
on the 10th of AuQutt, 1880: Padpett, a
Texas cowboy, killed n drover named W. III.
Stephens, on the 18th of July, 1880, and the
two Manly boys. Creek Inuians, II and 10
years respectively, brutallv murdered Eli
McNey at his home III tho Creek Nation, for
no reason on earth except pure cusscdnesB.
Ed Eul6OLn was hung on the 18th of June,
1882, for holplnG a white man named Hobbs
murder John Stewart and VIM. Massing-
dale in the Choctaw Nation, near the line
of Scott county, on the night of August
II, 1881.
Robert Massey, a Texan, was hung on
the 18th of April, 1883, for the murder of
EG aond =. Clarke, December l, 1851.
20 the Goth of June, 1889. Martin Joseph,
W. H.. Finch tnegtoesJ and lee, o-lit ga, n
full -blooded Creek Indian. paid the penal
ty OF helnous crlmes-Joseph for tho muir
der of Bud Stephens and his wife on April
20, 1882; Finch for tho murder of two sol
diers near Fort Sill Auvust / 1890 aud tbo