The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11
WITH TIL Err LIFE.
-Four South Carolina Murderers Pay the
Death Penalty Friday.

-Four South Carolina Murderers Pay the
Death Penalty Friday.
Spartanburg, S. c., October 7.-(Spe-
cial John Williams, the man who took
the life Of Major John A. Henneman, Of
this city, and Milbry Brown. at whose
hands little Geraldine Carpenter died,
today left this world for the next, The
law of the state was executed and the
two descendants Of Ham leaped into
space and their lives left them in the
tWinkling of an eye.
The jury that convicted this girl did its
work in q short time and the evidence
that did the work was overwhelmingly
conyicting, but the convicted was a mere
child, fourteen years OF age and was gen
orally thought to be an imbecile. She
was considered as too weak of mind and
too young in years to be responsible for
her actions, but the governor thought diff
ferently and refused to interfere with the
to the sheriff to execute her today and
this he did
The Brown case was one of the most hor-
rible in the history of crimes. On the 9th
of June 1892 the girl went into the room of
the infant where it was asleep and poured
into its mouth two drops of carbolic acid.
She confessed the crime and said that her
reason for doing the deed was that she
was mad with Mrs Carpenter the childs
mother She knew of the fatal effects of
the acid and had been cautioned of its pois-
onous qualities. She said she thought Mrs.
Carpenter had too many children. Melbery
Brown was the next youngest criminal
ever executed in the United States. Her
age was Il.
A Woman Hanged at Newberry.
Columbia, S. c., October 7.-{Special.}-
Of FNrihhla hnra today
is the first official hanging that has taken
place in this county since 1876. Annie was
an unmarried colored woman. Last Eebru-
airy an infant was found drowned IN wa
ter hole near u branch and the mothershlp
was traced to Annie, and it was ascer-
tanned that she had thrown it while alive
in the water. She was sentenced to be
hanged last month but was respited for
thirty days.
During the morning Anna gave evidence
of insanity by the manner in which she
went on raving, talking at random and
tearing her clothing. She stoutly refused
to go TO the scatfold and she had to be
forced by the sheriff and held until the
rope was adjusted She made no state
ment on the scatfold except a continual pro-
testation of her innocence.
At 1:15 o'clock the death trigger was
pulled and in the remarkably short period of
one and half minutes life was pronounced
extinct. Her neck was not broken, but she
died without a struggle.
A white Man Hanged.
Anderson, S. c., October 7-(Special y
William Wilson, a white man was executed
here today for the atrocious murder of his
wife i'll Erushy Creek township. AT the
time OF the murder his neighbors We're with
difficulty restrained from lynching him. His
wife was the daughter of the Rev. Thomas
Garrett of Greenyille.
To Die on the GnIIOws.
Columbia, S. c., October N-(Special y
Wade Haynes, seventecn-year-old cOlOred
boy, was today sentenced to hang oil the
18th of December. His crime was the muir
der of Miss Florence Hornsby, a rural belle,
who lived in the KilIian section of this
county. Haynes first tried to assault Miss
Hornsby and falling in his purpose he cut
her throat to prevent her informing on him.
The country people were terribly incensed
and were preparing to lynch Haynes when
the coroner and several deputies arrived ON
the scene and promised them that justice
should be done. The first trial was a mis-
trial. The country people came in town and
We're preparing to storm the Jail when the
sheriff got wind of it and removed Haynes
to the penitentary, where he has been ever
since. Haynes was convicted on the second
trial and an appeal was made. The su,,
preme court decided against Haynes and
today Haynes was re-sentenced.