Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
TAYLoRs SENTENCED TO HANG.
Judge Rucker Overrules the Motlon
of the Brothers for a New Trial
October 4 the Day OF
Execution.

bODSF 4, 1870, EOf tuF h'uAuSA -"
Meeks.
The arguments and counter-argu-
ments in this case began early this
morning and lasted throughout the
day, and it was midnight before court
adjourned. The first step
taken to-day was by Prosecuting At
Bresnehan, who filed III the
Circuit Court eighty-one af1idavits
opposing the motion for a new trial.
The papers included affidavits for
each of the jurors assailed by the de-
tense, signed by from two to six of
their neighbors. The regulations of
Deputy Sheriff Snow and Henry All
were vouched for by from four to SIX
of the best citizens. The remainder
of the afiidavits were i'll the line of
Impeachment.
Judge Rucker said it was needless
to say he had listened with patience
to the arguments, and hoped he mad
conducted the case as free from
errors as possible; not that it was he
who had conducted the case, but that
he had had the corporation OF the
attorneys for both State and defense,
and O thought there was never Il
case in which more errors had been
committed. He then referred to what
he considered Il few misstatements
Of the attorneys and gave his inter-
probation of the obligation of the mo-
ton, continuing with the statement
that he regarded as the most serious
question the qualifications ofthe jury
men. Yet he had an abiding opinion
that these defendants had had a fair
trial. He had leaned toward the de-
PENDANTS, if he had leaned either way,
and he had done SO knowingly, as it
was his desire so 10 do if there should
be any differences. In conclusion the
Court commented on the diligence of
the attorneys for the defense and
then overruled the motion for a new
trial.
Sentence was then pronounced upon
ldC dSiClHdiitS SSPd4 btSiN ~ iA'i1; 10
follows:
at is therefore ordered that the
Sheriff of Carroll County take you
into custody and keep you, William
P. Taylor, in a safe place, until Fri
day, the 18th day OF October, 1895, and
on that day, between the hours of 6
o'clock in the morning and ) O'Clock
in the evening, hang yOu by the neck
until you are dead"
The sentence of George Taylor was
the same.
During the pronouncing of the e II
tence neither of the defendants show
ed any signs OF excitement or emo
ton, the attorneys again being the
ones most evidently affected, for
though they had expected this action
of the Court, it was a blow which
they keenly felt and could not con-
ceal.
\ motion for an appeal was filed
and the defendants were taken to
their cells to await the result of the
battle in the higher court.
III LAWS DELAY.
CARROLLTON, Mo-, August 1.-THE
developments in the court room last
midnight go to show that the Taylor
case is not SO near a termination as
one reading the sentence might i'm
agine, for the case is far from a set
Element and the gallows yet some dis
tance from the condemned brothers.
After the sentencing Of the defend
ants and the filing of q motion for an
appeal TO the Supreme Court, which,
under the law, acts as a stay of exc
c~ution, they proffered their inability
to pay for the transcript of testimony
upon the Court ordered William Bal
lenger, the court ste~nographer, to
furnish the abstract of testimony, in
Guiding the opening statements and
the arguments of the States attor-
neys, and J. W. Higginbottom, the
Circuit Clerk, to furnish an abstract
of the record to the defendants at the
cost of the State, as by law in such
cases is provided. 1t is estimated that
the expense in these two items to the
State will be no less than 81, 900 or
$1,000. Stenographer Ballenger is of
the opinion that it will require sixty
days to transcribe the testimony in the
case.
BY order of the Court defendants
have until during the November term
of the Carroll Circuit Court to file
their bill of exceptions. The case viii
be ~returnable to the April term of the
Supreme Court, when it is the hope
of the defense that the case will be
reversed and a new trial granted for
the July, 1896, term of this court.
Sheriff Standley to-day received an
other letter purporting to have been
written by Albert B. Wilson, an in
mate of the Missouri Penitentiary,
who says he was near the scene of
the murder of the Meeks family, and
on the morning of May II was asked
by the murderers for some clothes,
as those they wore were covered with
blood.
Fooled the Old Lady.
a girl found a package Of love let
tiers that had been written to her