Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-09-08

fall. Hall spent sleepless night, and
when he was called for breakfast he
appeared very nervous and broken. He
refused to eat anything at breakfast,
but called for whisky. Father Luckie,
his spiritual adviser, remained with
him from o'clock till the sheriff was
ready to take him to the gallows.
There were 5000 people in and around
the village, but they were very orderly.
1t was expected that Halls friends,
who had exhausted every legal means
to secure Halls release or mitigation
OF his sentence, would resort to vio-
lence, and guards were on duty around
she jail and in the vicinity of the court
house all night. Outposts of three
men were stationed on each road
leading into the town, and every
man who came in was searched, and if
found to carry rifle or a pistol such
weapons were coniscated. The same
plan was followed all morning, and be-
fore II o'clock the guards were in pos
session of a sufficient number of weap-
Ons to equip a regiment A picket was
stationed in the tower of the court
house, with instructions if the out
posts got into trouble to notify the
regular guards. Strenuous attempt
was made during the night to keep
moonshine whisky out of town, but
despite the vigilance some of it was
distributed, and every drunken man
was promptly arrested By 10 o'clock
Friday morning there were from 1000
to 1000 people in the village. But
there was no attempt to release Hail.
When on the scaffold Hall called for
| his sister, Mrs. Bates, and said to her:
Don't take this to heart. l may have
killed the policeman, but did not vio-
late the law, so let the thing drop and
don't have anyone killed.
To this she replied: 81 can't stand
this without revenge. There are men
right here who deserve hanging more
than you do
After springing the trap Sheriff Hol-
brook left the scaffold crying like
child.
Sensational correspondents here have
credited Hall with ninety-nine muir
ders, but of course this is an exaggera-
ton. His record is bloody enough,
| however. He himself admits that the
number will reach five, not counting the
men he killed during the war; He was
in the confederate army and once said
that he killed six or seven men while in
the service. Two Of these, he admitted,
were messmates who had disagreed
with him over a game of seven-up. A
number of the crimes laid at nall's
| door he is probably innocent of.
Little Talt Hail." of Kentucl1y-no re-
lation of the man hangcd-conmitted
many crimes in that state and is
probably responsible for a share of the
ofenses credited to the Virginia des-
perado.
The particular crime for which Hall
was sentenced was the shooting of
Special Policeman Enos T. Hylton, at
Norton, Va. Hylton was taking pris-
oner to Jail, when Hall demanded that
he release the man, and upon the
officers refusal shot him in cold
blood. Hall had eloped with Hylton's
sister after numbering her husband
and Hylton is said to have sworn to kill
the man who murdered his brother-in-
law, and it is pretty certain that Hall
heard of it and took advantage of the
fact Of Hylton having prisoner under
arrest to pick a quarrel with him and
! kill him
STATE HOUSE DESTROYED.
Fire Makes Quick Work of an Old Land
mark at Des Moines, la.
Dies MONIES, Ia, Sept. 3.-The old
brick state house, just south of the new
capitol, was destroyed by fire Thursday
afternoon. The flames originated in
the senate chamber, in the northeast
corner Of the rickety old structure.
The statehouse was built i'll 1856
and first occupied in 1857. It was