The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-18
Murderer Induced to Talk Into a
PhonOgraph, and His Execution Lat
err Taken by a CinematOgraph.
END OF TWO MOONSHINERS
DRESSED IN WHITE, TAKEN TO A
HILL AND LEGALLY HANGED.
A Tennesseean Who Died with "a Smile
on His Lips-NegrO Boy Executed
-Luetgert Jury Complete.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 17.-Willam Carr,
the child murderer, was hanged at the Clay
county courthouse at Liberty, Mo-, at 1924
this morning. Carr was an ignorant BACK
woodsman who sought to please his second
wife by drowning his three-year-old daugh-
ter by his first WIFE Carr presented plta-
BILE sight on the gallows, showing remark
able lack of nerve. After the drop had
fallen the mass of six hundred spectators
as if moved by single impulse, rushed
forward calling out, crying, shrieking and
laughing as they surged under the gallows
and packed close around the dangling
corpse for a close view. The sheriff and
deputies had great difficulty in clearing out
the mob.
After the execution it became known that
a thrifty photographer had been admitted
to the Enclosure with a cinematograph ma
chine, and that he had been permitted to
photograph the closing incidents of this re-
voting tragedy in all it's horrible details
The machine was in operation from the
moment Carr appeared in the Enclosure
until the body was cut down, and it is
claimed that film 1000 feet long $4,000
pictures We're taken. An attempt will be
made to exhibit these pictures throughout
the country. When Carr was a prisoner in
the county Jail at Kansas City the
persons persuaded him to recite his story
of the murder into monograph.
Dressed i'm White and Hanged.
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 17-Bud Brooks and
Grady Reynolds. who together murdered
Merchant M. c. Hunt, of Bolton, Ga, were
taken frsm the county Jail at Jefferson at
noon to-day and hanged on a hill from the
same gallows. The execution was remark
able in many respects. After the ride to
the gallows, a distance of half a mile, they
were robed in white and permitted to speak
to the throng of one thousand people, who
packed around the gallows inclosure. On
the gallows the two men held a brief con-
versation, each inquring after the others
spiritual condition. Among the twenty men
inside the Enclosure were the three brothers
of the murdered man.
The crime for which Reynolds and Brooks
We're executed was the murder of M. c.
Hunt, a prominent merchant of Bolton, Ga.
Robbery was the motive Brooks ana
Reynolds were white moOnShinerS and had
made great deal of money. The ease
with which they made it led them to hatch
the conspiracy by which they could secure
$1,2C0 known to have been in the possession
of Hunt. 1t was just before the Corbett-
FitZsmmons fight in Nevada when the
murder was planned. Reynolds negotiated
with Hunt for the purchase of his stock of
goods. When the trade was cOnSummated
Reynolds told Hunt that the money was
in the bank at Harmony Grove and invited
him to ride to that place with him, dis
lance of twelve miles. Midway between
the towns at a creek, Brooks met the pair
and the two committed the murder, robbed
their victim of the money in his possession
and buried the body in the water. Reyn-
oldS returned to Bolton, displayed a forged
bill of sale, took possession of the store
and sold the stock below cost. This reck-
less procedure aroused suspicion. Reynolds
explained In the meantime, however, that
Hunt had gone to Carson to see the fight.
Hunts brothers from South Carolina were
not satisfied with this statement and had
Reynolds arrested. He confessed to the
murder and implicated Brooks. who had
escaped to South Carolina, but was arrested
a few days subsequently.