The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-12
DANSY HANGED At OCALA.
The Murder Of Deputy Sheriff Bin
liCkeT Avenged.

The Murderer Alleges on the dibbst
That He Only Meant TO Wound the
ohcer So as to Effect His Escape.
The Story of the Crime, the Flight
ofthe Murderer and His Final Cap
ture.
ocals, Fla, Jan. lid L. Dansy,
mulatto was hanged here to-day for the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Binnicker.
Quite a number Of countrymen came in
early from the Pennington district,
Deputy Sheriff Binnicker's old home,
where he was a great favorite, and
sprinkling from the west end of the
county. Fully 500 persons surrounded the
enclosure and sought positions of vantage.
most of whom we're negroes. Small boys
were decidedly on top, climbing
into trees and looking into the
enclosure and into the gallows. The re-
ports sent out that if the hanging was not
public the county folks would tear down
the fence so that all could see, were not
verified. The crowd was orderly and
we'll behaved. Owing to the feeble ply
steal condition Of the prisoner few could
hear what he said. He also repeated his
words half dozen times. Referring to
said before his hanging he would a tale
unfold like this That he would simply
repeat what he had told the grand jury
and the court that tried him, the charge
being that Wideman had planned his
escape, and that his attorney shared in
the proceeds of his numerously forged
checks, for which he was originally i'm
prisoned.
PREVIOUS HANGINGs.
Dansy's execution makes the fifth in
Marion county since 1889. Then three
negroes were hanged for numbering
County Tax Collector Neal F'urgeson. Six
months after the act they were arrested
executed in July, 1887, for killing Capt.
RUDE Starke, OF Starke's Ferry.
Sheriff Hodge had printed ninety special
permits, seventy-six of which were used to
go inside the enclosure and upstairs in the
Jail into rooms looking east, where the
spectators could look down on the scat
fold.
The scaffold on which Dansy was hung
was erected for Wiley Single, who shot
Dick Gillem in Tuckertown, and whose
death sentence was committed to life
Imprisonment last April. The rope that
strangled Dansy was procured by Deputy
Binnioker to execute Single.
The doors were opened at II :25 O'Clock
TO admit newspaper reporters, and the
~
men altogether.
Dansy appeared at 70 10 O'Clock, led by
Father O'Riley, and assembled the steps to
the scaffold with a rather uneasy step.
but he reRained his self possession when
placed on the trap by Deputy Sheriff
Nugen.
On the scaffold with Dansy were Father
O'RHey, Deputy Sheriff Nugen. Joe Nc
Phsrson and VIII Harley, the stenog-
rapher.
joe Mcpherson adjusted the cap.
The death warrant was read by Sheriff
Hodge.
DANsY's REMARKS.
Dansy's remarks occupied twenty min
utes. He acknowledged the killing of
Deputy Binnicker. He said he did not
mean TO kill him, but only wanted to
make his escape by wounding him. He
said he owed a debt of gratitude to Sher-
if Hodge for his kind treatment during
the time he was confined in Jail, and said
that bad it not been for Sheriff Hodge he
would have been lynched. He also
thanked Jailer Smith, but thought Dep
uty Nugen did not treat him very we'll
while in jail, but he thought it was all
right now. He was prepared to die and
was not afraid. He asked the colored
people TO take warning and not carry
pistols. After saying that he be-
heved that he had had fair and impair
UNI bEldl, anu bndOhluB AlIOTneN NTcOFRe
Badger for his hard work in his behalf,
and making mention of his long acquaint-
anee with Judge Hooker, he was asked
II he was through. He said he was and
the black cap was then put on by Joe
| MCPHERSON.
The trigger was sprung at 1918 o'clock
by Deputy Nugen.
Dansy was pronounced dead by Drs.
l1lar and Hood at 1920 o'clock. He was
eleven minutes dying. His neck was not
broken and he died Of strangulation.
THE STORY OF THE CRIME.
In August last Dansy. a bright mulatto,
came to Ocala and passed forged check
on ". j. McGrath, securing 2 Jug Of
whisky and $50 in money. He pretended
TO live at Reddick, and by prompt work
he was intercepted on the train and ar
rested and sent to Jail to await the meet
| ing of the grand jury. While in Jail he
heard of the presence in the city of ]. w.
| Wideman, an attorney at Micanopy, who
on several occasions had befrended the
| accused in a legal way. Dansy sent for
Widemau and induced him to visit
him, and engaged his services to
defend him for forging the check.
| He told the attorney that he
| had secreted in the ground quite sum of
money, and assured him it was in the
neighborhood of Pennington. In little
while after this the attorney visited
Sheriff Hodge and asked permission TO
take Dansy with him to secure this
money, but the sheriff refused Suisse
quently Wideman renewed the request,
assuring the official that he was convinced
that Dansy had the money buried, and as
Wideman was in need, Dansy agreed to
let him have 500 of the buried treasure
If he could only get him out
| 20 show where it was buried
Wideman, with the sheriff's consent,
prevailed on Deputy Sheriff Binnacker
to go along to guard the pris-
Oner. On Sunday morning, Sept. "a, At
torney Wideman, Ed. L. Dansy, the
prisoner, and Deputy Sheriff Ben
naoker departed for the place where
the money was said to be hidden.
When nearing Reddick, Dansy in
sisted that they should not pass
through that village as Hoyle Dansy,
one of Sheriff Hodges county deputy
sherifs, would be sure to see them, in
| which "a So he Nuould insist in orOipr oIo,,rr