The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-09-10
1 W'O NnUnUrIo- uUIyu.
THEY ExPIATE THEIR ATRoCIoUs
CRIME AT A ROPES END
The Fall Of Charley Large Broke the Rope
and He had TO be Hung Over Again.
Al Onlooker Falls from House
and is Instantly Killed,

LAKE CHARLES, La, Sept. 1.-The
murderers, Charley Large and VIM.
Dial, both colored, were executed to-
day within plank enclosure twenty
two feet high, constructed within the
Jail yard The prisoners were visited
by large number during the morn
ing and up to the hour of execution.
To all inquiries the two expressed
themselves as being ready to die, and
were willing and ready to go at any
time. At O'Clock the death warrant
was read to them by Deputy Sheriff
Morgan. They received it with the
utmost self compOsure, and at once
began to prepare themselves by
changing their clothes, arranging
their collars and DOMINIC white
gloves. They then babe some of their
fellow prisoners goodbye, and mount
ed the scaffod with the greatest pos
sible degree of self composure. On
being asked if they had aught to say
why the penalty of deash should not
be fixed they uttered no protest, but
expressed themselves as being at
peace with their God and the world,
and their willingness to die, and eX-
horted the witnesses to meet them in
heaven.
They willingly submitted to being
hancuffed and piniOned. The
black caps were then drawn over their
heads and ropes adjusted.
At 1:50 the trap was sprung by
Sheriff Reed. Dial's death occurred
by strangulation and at p. NJ. he
was pronounced dead and his body
cut down. Large's rope broke and he
fell to the ground, apparently uncon-
sciOus. He was quickly taken to the
scafold, the rop De repaired and the
body again dropped. During this
time no perceptible amount of pain
was manifested. The rope had prev
iously been tested by weight of 2OO
pounds and it was thought to be emf
nently strong. At PIG Large was
pronounced dead and cut down. The
bodies were then placed in collins and
turned over to friends under the
charge of Rev. North.
During the time of the hanging, Mr..
Joseph Voltz, a timer and an old res
ident of this place, fell from the top of
the Lake House, whittier he had gone
to get view of the execution, and
was instantly killed, his skull being
fractured.
The execution was to have taken
place Aug. 10, 1891, but owing to nom
conformity with the state law govern
ing executions, it was postponed in
definitely by the governor. The law
requires that criminals sentenced to
death shall take place in presence of
not less than four persons nor
more than fifteen. The scaffold on
Aug. 10, stood facing the public
square where 1000 people could wit
ness the execution they if wished
Governor Nichols was informed ofths
| fact, whereupon he granted reprieve
and issued orders for the scaffOld to
be enclosed so as to completely hide
the execution from public view. This
being done, he issued the warrant by
virtue of which Dial and Large were
executed today.
William Dyal was 10 years old, and
a coal black negro. He was born in
louisiana, where he lived nearly all
his life, never having left the parish
except once or twice previous to his
last fatal trip, when he went to Texas.
Dyal said his parents had, since he
| could remember, been christians,
members of the Baptist church and
tried hard to give him the proper
! training. He said that his parents
were Frustrated over his calamity and
would probably never recover from
the effects of the knowledge Of his
awful doom.
Charley Large is man very much
like Dyal in appearance. He was born
in Louisiana, and was nineteen years
old. His parents are natives of
OpelOusas and are now living there
Large said he left home about four
years ago, up to which time his father
and mother had done all they could
to make him good man, but he, of
his own stubborn will, went off into
bad company and to doing wrong, and
does not blame them at all for his mis-
takes.
The crime for which these men
paid the death penalty was the
whose name is unknown, whom they
murdered in a box car on the South
ern Pacific railroad near the Sabine
river in the western part Of this parish
at about o'clock on Friday morning,
Dec. II, 1890 They learned that the
murdered man had little money and
being in want and depraved killed
him and divided 81, which they found
on his person, Large taking charge of
the mans knife and pistol.
Charlie Large first struck the Mex
lean on the head with a heavy iron
bar, crushing his skull, after which
Dyer assisted him under threat
Large having the knife and pistol
and they hung the dead mans body
out of the car door while the train was
in rapid motion, allowing his head
and body to beat against the
ties, after which they swung him I'M
der the wheels, where he was hor-
ribly mutilated.
Dyal in conversing with a STATES
MAN reporter made the following
statement in regard to the murder of