Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-07-02
Crnmpton's Tate-A warning TO Young
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Men.
FoRT SMITH, June 30 -Boudlnot
Crumpton alias Bood Doris, was
hanged by the United States authori-
ties in the jail yard hero this morning.
AT an early hour the condemned man
was shaved and thea dressed 10 new
suit OF clothes Relatives called and
bade him goodbye and at 10 o'clock the
death warrant was read to the prisonet
in his cell
About 200 people witnessed the hang
ing Crumpton made statement on
the gallows, saying that whisky had
brought him to his present condition.
He warned those present, when they
took glass Of liquor, to look into II
and they would see there the hang.
mans Moose. He protested his inno'
cenco TO the last, saying that his enc
mics had sworn his lie away, and that
the real murderer would some day be
apprehended. His spiritual adviser.
the Rev. Mr.. Williams, pastor Of the
M. +. church, read few verses from
the New Testament and offered fer
vent prayer for the doomed man.
The black cap was adjusted and at
tins neck was broken, and in six min
nounced life extinct. The body was
taken down and placed in cheap pine
coffin. The relatives then took charge
OF the body and will inter IL at Braggs,
|. T., in the family hurying ground.
The murder for which Bood Crumpton
paid the,penalty was committed Novem
ber 3, 1889, near Muskogee, Creek ma
tion, The evidence against him was
all circumstantial but very strong. The
prosecution established the fact that on
Sunday Crumpton and Sam Morgan
started on horseback TO visit some
young ladies, several miles away Both
werelriding horses belonging TO Morgan,
who had large crop in the neighbor-
hood Late Ia the evening Crumpton
returned. leading the horse riden away
by Morgan, and also having in hossess-
ion the gun and overcoat of the de-
ceased He stated that he and Morgan
had met a man in a buggy who had en-
ployed Morgan to go with him TO Paw
nee Agency to work, and that Morgan
had instructed him to take charge OF
his horses and crops and other prop
erty and take care of 1t until his re-
turn.
Seven weeks later the dead body OF
Morgan was found some distance of the
road travelled by the two men on the
Sunday morning above mentioned, in
deep mudhole made by the upruoting of
a large tree He had been shot in the
head, and from the position OF the body
and the renge Of the bullet, ii was evi-
dent that he had been shot after he got
into tho hole. on this evidence the the
DRY was advanced that Crumptou had
induced his companion to go down
into the hole by representing that there
was some whisky concealed there, and
tn a. shot him.
As soon rs the body OF Morgan was
discovered, the friends OF the dead man
caused the arrest OF Crumpton, and he
was lodged in jail here the latter part
OF December 1880 AT the trial the
prosecution traced Crumpton and his
victim all the way along the road to the
killing, and from that point in a round.
about way back te the place of starting.
The only defense brought out was the
bare statement of the defendant, with
no evidence in support Of IL. He
was convicted on June 8, $780, and SEN
fenced TO be hanged August OF the
same year but he took an appeal TO the
supreme court of sthe United States.
After considerable delay the judgment
was affirmed, the mandate being filed
here April l6, 1891 He was resen-
fenced April q, and his attorneys then
sought executive clemencv, but failed
TO accomplish anything.
After this the young man began 10
make preparations for his doom and
has conducted himself in such man
ner as to gain the sympathy of all con-
nected with the jail. He has at all
times modestly asserted his innocence.
He says he is the victim of a peculiar
chain OF circumstances which he had
no means Of overcoming. After re-
ceiving his last sentence he prepared a
statement, which was published in the
papers here, giving an account of him
self during the entire day on which the
murder was committed.
He was but - years Of age and a
splendid specimen OF physical human
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