Evening journal., 1892-12-09
ANKED INTO ETERNITY.
our Murderers Expiate Their
Crimes on the Scaffold.
|HE SEQUEL OF FOUR CRUEL ACTS.

Ewo White and Two COlored Men
Hanged in Louisville, KY, This Morn
IiDg-A Small Crowd Present and the |
Execution Quietly aud scientifically |
@Conducted-sI of the -Four Crimes.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 9.-The four
urderers in the county Jail were hung
bis morning at 754 o'clock. The exc
Sltion was witnessed by only small
/ i'owd and was quietly and scientifically
7 Eonducted. Dennis Mccarthy, who
filled his wife, and Stephen Hite. who
Eew Albert Baurmann, were white;
rant Thomas and Nelson Lewis were
olore6. Thomas killed Birdie Coleman
I nd Lewis shot George Dean, both vic
inns being negroes.
At 2. 40 o'clock the four men entered
. he Jail yard and marched up the steps
( f the scaffold All but Thomas stood
NTH bowed heads. He looked about the
rowd and bowed to men he knew in the
rowd and at the windows of the jail
The deputies arranged the nooses- and
iDinioned the men at 7.4S o'clock. Hite
While being pinioned kicked off the slip
|bers he wore. The priests talked cOntin-
.lally to Hite and Mccarthy and the col
bred ministers spoke occasionally to
Thomas and Lewis.
At 7.51 o'clock the cap was adjusted
'Dver McCarthy's head and then quickly
|over the others. All stood firm. Nc
'Carthy yawned as the moose was ad
Hustled At 7.54 the drop fell. Hite
|struggled from the first. Grant Thomas
'arm drew up and McCarthy's hands
moved convulsively. Lewis hung limp.
lat z. SO Lewis had not moved, and to all
appearances his neck had been broken by
THE drop. The struggles of the others
grew less. At 500 all four were pro-
|nounced dead.
The -Four Crimes.
Almost from infancy to the gallows
the life of Dennis Mccarthy was a record
of brutal crime But it seems he re-
served the most terrible act of his wicked
career to commit against his wife, Ella
H. Mccarthy, whom he shot ON the even
ing of September z, 1891, while intoxi-
Gated. Mccarthy confessed that there
was not the slightest provocation for the
deed Mccarthy was "a years of age.
Stephen Hite was sentenced to the
scaffold for committing deliberate mur
der at 2. 80 o'clock on Sunday morning
September 20. 1891. The Saturday even
ing previous Hite and Albert Baurmanr
started out together ' TO have a night o
it." Hite began drinking heavily early
in the evening while Baurmann wa'
more temperate. During a game of dic'
in a saloon, the men became involved in
quarrel. They were elected from th'
house when Hite renewed the quarre
striking Baurmann over the head with
cane The men then clinched and Hit
drew a long sharp knife from his pocke
placed the point against Baurmann'
abdomen and slowly pushed the bladl
into his stomach. Baurmaun died al
\ most instantly
Nelson Lewis, colored, was hanged 70
the murder of George Dean, also colore'
at a dance near Middletown, Ky. Tn
tragedy occurred on the night Of Novem
ber 2s, 1891 The negroes had been to
dance, which was given at the house O
Carrie Gibson, a negress. Lewis an
Dean began quarreling in the hous
and Lewis left the premises. After
short time Dean walked out and Levi
shot at him with pistol. The ba
missed it's mark and Dean ran toward
the door AS he reached it Lewis fire
again, The ball entered Deans bac
and passed into his heart. Lewis sal
the shooting was done in self-defense.
The crime for which Grant Thomas
colored, paid the penalty was the murdC
of Birdie Coleman, colored woman,
years of age ON the morning of Februai
8, 1891. Thomas was convicted on ci
cumstantial evidence. He was see
leaving the house of the dead woma
shortly after o'clock and from certa
other disclosures made at the coroner
inquest, Thomas was arrested near Il
scene of the murder He had notified Il
dead woman's husband of her dea
while the inquest was in progress al
was arrested on his return. Thom
was only 10 years old.