The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-03
TALT0N HALL SWUNG OFF
NO ATTEMPT TO RESCUE HIMMADE
BY HIS FRIENDS.


He Proved Coward IN the Face OF
Death and Fell Back From VIM
dow While Trying to Make Fare.
well Speech-Nineteen Murders in
Twenty Years His Record.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, Sept 2-Talton
Hall was hanged at Wise Court House to-
day. The drop fell at 1921 o'clock and be
was dead in seventeen minutes afterwaFd,
his neck being broken.
At IL O'Clock Hall was allowed to stand In
one OF the jail windows 30 address the null
utude outside, the hanging being privats,
but his fortitude forsook him and he fell
back. A second attempt was made, but be
| only succeeded In saluting an acquaintance
| whom he recognized. No attempt was
made to rescue him.
Talson Hall was one of the most noted
desperadoes in a region prolific in Iawless
characters He Is credited with having
killed nineteen men in the last twenty years.
which the papers maguified into ninety
nine. Hall acknowledges only four or five,
however. He said to reporter week ago
that he killed Henry Triplett in 1878 and
Henry Houk and Mack Hall in 1885, for
each OF which he was tried and acquitted.
These murders occurred in Kentucky.
HIS LAST CRIME.
The crime for which Hall was executed
to-day was the murder in cold blood OF
Enos b. Hilton special policeman Of the
town OF Norton, Wise county, Virginia, on
July q. 1891, Hall shooting the policeman on
the latter's refusal to release an arrested
| man named Miles Bates. He and Bates
then escaped 10 the woods, Hall wandering
around in Virginia for a month or more
and then going to Memphis, where his
family was He remained there unrecog-
nized for several months until he
| was finally discovered and arrested
by Policeman Pryde II that city. He made
no resistance Go coming back to Virginia,
seeming confident that he would be acquit~
ted when brought to trial on his usual plea
of self-defense. He was promptly convicted
on his trial last spring. A strong effort was
made by Halls friends and band OF senti-
mentalists &C Lynchburg, where Hall was
confined, to have Gov. Mckinney commute
his sentence.
THE FEARS OF RESCUE,
For weeks past grave apprehension was
felt that an attempt at rescue by his friends
would be made, and the jail has been
guarded by fifty or more men for some
time past, but no such attempt was made.
Hall spent sleepless night and when he
vas called for breakfast this morning ap.
peared very nervous and broken. He would
not eat anything, but called for drink OF
whisky. Father Luoie, his spiritual adj
wiser, remained with him from 8 o'clock
until the sheriff was ready to take him to
the gallows. There were 5000 people in
and about che village, but order prevailed,
and the officials feared no trouble.
KILLED MAN TO WIN HIS WIFE.
In addition to the murders named above,
there is little doubt that Hall murdered a
man named baylor in Floyd county, Ken
lucky, whose wife Hall subsequently
married. Hall fell In love with the woman,
whioh she seemed to reoiprocate. One day
Saylor was found dead near his
homo with bullet through his
brain, and shortly after Hall left the
country wish Saylor's wife and children.
and lived with them up to the time OF his
arrest at Memphis. 1t was q letter from
this woman to some friends In Virginia that
gave the officers a clew to Halrs where
abouts and led TO his arrest.
ONCE A SHERIFF..
Hall was once q promi nent man In FLOYD
county, Kentucky, he having filed the
Office of sheriff for part of two terms, and
| served as United States marshal for six
years. He was then regarded as desper-
ate man, always ready to shoot on the
smallest provocation. Since the removal Of
Hal TO Wise county jail from LynohburR
after the decision OF the supreme
court In his case, he has been
Some Of bis friends in the border counties
OF Kentucky threatened to attack the jail
and set him at liberty, but the sheriff de-
termined to hold him and summoned enough
men TO insure him against attack. Last
week the jail was surrounded constantly by
guard OF 100 men armed with Winchesters
and pistols