The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-01

a distance az Eve ana ouc-ralf foot % "a,
cenelng sound of the door arainsf fho
sioes or the cell as "a death iucll A sound
Ike Toe nrea King cf q stick told of me
urvdhlhg OF ihorpe's neck "a few CON
Nulslve movements followed. and
Cnarles Brinson's murder had been
As the noise Of the falling trap door
resoun02d through the Jail. am the prison
ers on toe main corridor ser up io unison
the song, "Jesus Keep Me Near THY
cross IL was sung i'm a plaintive stvle.
WIN considerable musical eject. and the
swaying Of Thorpe's body at the end of
the rope seemed TO keep time with the
tune
Drs Chisholm, Brandt, NJ. T. Davis.
Colburn and Bloodworth, each in turn.
examined the body and all agreed that
death must have been almost instantane-
Gus and painless.
THE BODY SHIPPED TO DARIEE.
When cut down, Thope's body was put in
a neatly painted pine coffin and quickly
driven by Undertaken Dixon to Thunder
bolt, where the Bellevue was hailed and
the executed murderer put on board for
Darlen, in accordance with the request of
MS mother, who desires to give her way
ward boy a decent burial.
A squad OF police kept the sidewalks in
front of the Jail clear during the execu-
tlon-and made the 200 negroes who
wanted to stand around the gate go back
to Liberty street. A large humble of the
women ran after the undertaker's wagon
TO wheaton street, but the horse was too
speedy and soon left them behind.
THORPE's CRIME.
The crime for which Thorpe suffered
death was committed at midnight of
December 81 last He was PLAYING a
game of 'skin" with Brinson and a
number of others, and lost fifty cents to
Brinson. Without saying a word to
anyone Thorpe arose from the table.
stepped to the back door, pulled his big
revolver, which he had been in the habit
OF carrying, and put a bullet intos Brin-
son. In making his escape from the
house he waved his pistol amidst the
startled negroes and cried out: "By -,
get out of the way; de Kids in town to-
night"
Several nights after the commission of
OF the crime Detective Morgan discovered
Thorpe in Tom Golden's saloon and
attempted to arrest him. He broke away
and ran toward the gas house only to fall
into Policeman Jernigan's arms. The
boy was tried January 81, and was con
victed by the jury in ten minutes. When
Judge FaIligant passed sentence of death
upon him, naming March 10 as
| the day, Thorpe said if he was
white he would not have been convicted.
This brought a stirring rebuke from the
court. The case was appealed to the SUI
preme court and the conviction was
| promptly affirmed. The final death sen.
| tence was passed upon him June 5.
DIME NOVEL HERO.
Thorpe shot Dolly Styles slightly the
same night he killed Crimson. The boy
was an intelligent mulatto, between Is
and 10 years of age. Dime novels were
the cause of his death on the gallows.
| He read them until be became imbued
with the idea of becoming a hero.
Thorpe started on a career of lawlessness
in Darien three years ago, and once broke
| Jail there. Finally he attempted to
! assault white woman, and had to leave
Darien to escape lynching. Then Thorpe
| took up the life of sport and gam
bier and called himself ''Sammyde Kid"
Railroad camps were his favorite haunts
until he came to Savannah, and he al
ways went armed with big pistol to in
timidate those who might question his
methods of gambling