The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-08
RIVAL MURDERERs MEET.
The Iron Bars OF the Cell Door Pre-
vent One From Killing the Other.

vent One From killing the Other.
From the Ne1 York World.
| WISE COURT HOUSE, VA, Aug. 3.-Two
OF the most notorious outlaws and murderers
| in Southwest Virginia and Eastern Ken
lucky are Tarlton Hall and "Doc'' Taylor,
the former soon to pay the penalty of his
crimes with his life on the gallows and the
other certain to follow him after the legal
! formality of trial
These men, who would rank as bandit
| chiefs in Italy, are sworn and bitter enc
mics. Behind bars and wearing chains they
met here on Thursday last. While at large
| in the border mountain their respective
| gangs had frequent conflicts with more or
less fatal results and it was settled that one
! or the other or both would die by each
! others hands had not the law stepped in TO
rave them the trouble. "Talt" Hall, as he
is Familiarity known, is the hero of no less
than nineteen murders and was the most
| dreaded desperate in this section.
His latest victim was policeman OF this
| town, who, from sense OF duty, was rash
| enough to avow his determination to ar
rest the outlaw if he ever got the Opportu-
! nifty. Hall heard of this and walked boldly
into town, and coolly and deliberately shot
and killed the policeman In the streets and
then fed. A liberal reward was offered
and he was captured some months after
ward in Memoirs, Tenn. Hall had become
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found to take the reQuisitiou papers and
bring the outlaw back for trial.
1t was at this juncture that ''Docn Taylor
came to the front and offered to undertake
the dangerous mission. His services we're
promptly accepted and he not only brought
his man back but, amid the greatest ex-
element, guarded him with large posse
In Jail and to and from the court during
trial that lasted over a week. AL this time
Wise Court House was in a state Of siege
by band of Halls followers and outlaws
from Kentucky who threatened to rescue
him. Taylor, however, headed heavily
| armed body of citizens aud by presenting a
determined front defeated the purpose Of
Halls sympathizers.
The latter was sentenced to be executed
| in June, and had to be taken to the jail at
Lynchburg for safe keeping. An appeal in
his case had been taken, but the court of
appeals sustained the decision of the Wise
county court. and it was only few days
ago when Hall was brought back here
under STRONG guard to be resentenced. In
| the meantime, however, and while Hall
was In the Lynchburg jail "Docn Taylor,
| proud of his heroism in the Hall case, and
with certain safety from arrest, had full
| sway over an already lawless border region.
With band of desperate followers he did
almost anything he pleased.
His last cruel and inbuman crime about
six weeks ago, was the massacre of the
Mullins family Ira Mullins, his wife and
two children and a driver were returning to
| Virginia in a wagon from Kentucky.
| Mullins had nearly all his possessions with
him, including some $400 in cash. The
! family were set upon in the neighborhood
of Pond Gap by "Doc' Taylor and his
| gang, and not one of them survived to tell
| the tale. Father, mother, children and the
| driver were murdered, their bodies riled
and the wagon robbed of its contents.
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and the people or the entire country sur
rounding the scene became first alarmed
and next united in determination to hunt
| down Doc Taylor and his gang. Every
man became law officer, and after pur-
suit which was close and marked by several
skirmishes Taylor was finally captured and
lodged in the Wise county jail
When Hall reached Wise Court House on
Thursday afternoon last he learned for the
first time that his old and deadly foe, Tay-
| lor, was prisoner, and, like himself, an in-
mate of the same jail This aroused all the
| hatred in the outlaws nature, and he fairly
wrlthed in his manacles with the desire for
vengeance. He asked to be allowed to see
| Taylor, but the guards refused. Halls eyes
| flashed and he swore he would see him :,
but the prison authorities were obstinate
and denied his request, though he promised
not to make any violent demonstration.
At length the commemorative attorney,
!
to stop at the door of Taylor's cell for few
moments. When he was taken there Tay
! lor, anxious to make friendly overtures,
thrust his hand through the bars of his cell
TO shake hands. Hall instantly flew into a
rage and struck Taylor through the bars
with his heavily manscled hand. He cursed
him, his face livid and white. and his eyes
glowed in the dim light OF the corridor as
| he shook his finger in Tavlor's face and Kissed
through his clinched teeth: ,,"Do you reckon
I'll shake hands with your
II never shot man in the back. l never
shot dead mans eyes out and then cut
him up as you did, Ira Mullins. l never
killed women and children. You had bet
ter be down on your knees praying to God
for morcy."
Hall was forced back to his own cell. Tay-
Tor was apparently unmoved by this torrent
OF abuse. Take him away, boys" was all
he said. The guards willingly did so, for it
was no pleasant feeling to be witnesses to
such a scene between two such men, all
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