St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-10
-FOUR DIE TOGETHER.
Quadruple Execution Of MUIR
dererS in the Louisville
Jail Yard.
Two of the Condemned Men
We're White and Two
Colored.
Accounts Of the Crimes for
Which They Suffered the
Penalty.
Malta Held Responsible for a
Triple Tragedy Near New
Orleans.

LOUISVILLE, Dec. 9.-The four MUIR
1erers in the county jail were hung this
morning at 7:54 O'Clock. The execution
vas witnessed by only small crowd,
and was quietly and scientifically con-
tucted. Dennis Mccarthy, who killed
lis wife, and Stephen Hite, who slew
Albert Baurmann, were white; Grant
Thomas and Nelson Lewis were col
bred. Thomas killed Birdie Coleman,
and Lewis shot George Dean, both VIC
inns being negroes.
Almost from infancy to the gallows
The life of Dennis Mccarthy was rec
,rd of brutal crime. But itseemed that
le reserved the most terrible act of his
wicked career to commit against the
woman whom he had vowed to protect
his wife. In her murder he commit
led double crime, for III very short
slime the wife would have been the
mother of another child. The confess
sion of Mccarthy himself was that
there was not the slightest provOcatiOn
for the deed. About 7:3O O'Clock on the
evening of Sept. Z, 1891, Mccarthy,
while intoxicated, shot his wife, Ella
Il. Mccarthy. three times at his home
on Portland avenue and Nineteenth
street. Mccarthy was thirty-four years
Of age.
Stephen Hite was sentenced to the
Bcatfold for committing a deliberate
murder. The murder was committed at
2:3O o'clock Sunday morning, Sept. 20.
1891. Saturday evening Hite and Baur-
mann started out together ITO have
night of it," Hite
Began Drinking Heavily
early in the evening, while Banrmann
was more temperate. During a game Of
dice in a saloon the men became in
volved IN quarrel. They were elected
from the house, when Hite renewed the
quarrel, striking Baurmann over the
head with q cane. The men then
clinched, and Hite drew long, sharp
knife from his pocket, placed the point
against Baurnann's abdomen and
slowly pushed the blade inI0 his stom-
ach. Baurmann died almost instantly.
Nelson Lewis, cOlOred, was hanged
for the murder of George Dean, also
colored, at dance near Middletown.
Ky. The tragedy occurred OH the night
of Nov. %, 1891. The negroes had been
to a dance, which was given at the
house OF Carrie Gibson, a negress.
Lewis and Dean began quarrelling in
the house, and Lewis left the premises.
After a short time Dean walked out
and Lewis shot at him with a pistol.
The ball missed its mark and Dean Tan
toward the door. AS he reached it
Lewis fired again. This ball entered
Deans back and passed into his heart.
Lewis said the shooting was done in
self-defense.
The crime for which Grant Thomas,
cOlofed, paid the penalty with bis lite,
was the murder of Birdie Coleman, a
COlored girl eighteen years of age. The
crime was committed between the
hours of Z and o'clock on the morning
of Feb. g. 1891. Thomas was convicted
on circumstantial evidence. He was
seen leaving the house of the dead
woman shortly after O'Clock, and,
from certain other disclosures made at
the coroners inquest, Thomas was ar
rested near the scene of the murder
He had notifihd the dead woman's hus-
band of her death while the inquest
was in progress, and was arrested on
his return. Thomas was only nineteen
years old.