The herald., 1897-12-18
.CARR'S CRIMES
Expiated by Death on the
GallOWS
A THRIFTY PHOTOGRAPHER
TAKES vITAscoPE PICTURES OF
THE SCENE
Disgraceful Behavior of the Brutal
Attendance-Other Murderers
Hanged



j Carr passed "a restless night. Whel
breakfast was brought to him, he turn
ed from 1t in disgust, lighted a cigar an,
stood for long time looking out from
his window. Presently the undertake
arrived and asked Carr what dispositio,
he wanted made of his body.
Let my wife take care of it. oh, lie
her take care of it," he exclaimed, will
sob.
His spiritual advisers followed, an,
urged him to face his fate like man.
III try" Carr sobbed. That's tn,
best I can do"
The Bible was read to the prisoner fol
lowed by the singing of hymn, durin;
| which Carr sobbed and trembled like q
child.
Carr presented pitiable sight as h,
was finally led to the gallows, but bracet
himself spasmodically and went through
the ordeal with a comparative show o
strength. The Sheriff pulled the trig.
ger at 1924 a. m, and two minutes later
the life had gone out of the child-mur
derer. The neck was broken, cracking
like whip-cord.
Following the first momentary lull aft.
er the drop had fallen, eight hundred
! spectators, as if moved by single i'm
pulse, rushed forward, calling, crying
| shrieking and laughing as they surged
under the gallows and packed close
&ound the dangling corpse They
would not be satisfied until close view
of the hanged man was revealed. The
men were angry and cursed one another
tried to force themselves up the gallows
steps and cried and hooted at the Sher-
if.
Finally the crowd attempted to break
down the barricade surrounding the
scaffold. Sheriff Hymer rushed through
the first breach and excitedly warned
the crowd against any further violence.
The Sheriff's deputies ranged about
him and the crowd halted for moment.
Then suddenly, with one accord, a
mighty scream was sent up and surging
forward, the crowd swept back the
guards and burst their way through the
frail stockade. Once inside, the crowd
gave vent to their feelings with further
shouts, but finally dispersed without
trouble and what for a few minutes
looked like a small-sized riot, ended
quietly.
fAltOI tllt ehcCutlOll IL DecdIIle KNOW Ii
that thrifty photographer had been
admitted to the enclosure with a cine
matograph machine and that he had
been permitted to photograph the clos
ing incidents of this revolving 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 on film 1000 feet long 1900
pictures We're taken. An attempt will
be made to exhibit these pictures
throughout the country. When Carr
was prisoner in the county jail at Kan
sas City the same parties persuaded him
to recte his story of the murder into a
monograph.
CARR'S CRIME
William Cars crime was one of the
most brutal and unprovoked in the his
tory of the State. His capture and exc
cution followed with fitting dispatch.
On October 18th last the body of Belle
Carr, a three-year- old child by the muir
derer's first wife, was found on a sand
bar in the Missouri River near Kansas
City. The case remained a complete
mystery until October 25th, when Carr
was arrested at his home in Liberty. He
at first denied his guilt, but when
brought to Kansas City to prevent
lynching, broke down and confessed.
Later Carr, who is a gaunt backwoods-
man 81 years old, told, without the least
show Of emotion, how he had carried the
child from it's home, tied its arms and
limbs securely, corded heavy stone
To the LITTLE pna'c hrpa CT md then
needing her query, What are you going
to do, papa?" threw her into the water.
He admitted that Mrs. Carr told him to
get rid of the child, and it developed that
she had been brutal to Belle, but Carr
maintained stoutly that his wife had no
hand in the crime. For time Carr de-
lighted in his notoriety and talked glib
ly to his visitors of his crime. This was
followed by a spell during which he beg
ged to be done away with without de-
lay. At his trial, on November 18th,
Carr was convicted promptly, and since
then he weakened perceptibly and only q
week ago Sunday tried to commit sui
eide by swallowing pounded glass.
MURDERED FOR MONEY
ATLANTIC, Ca, Dec. 17.-Grady
INcy anu ioub coho Wei I CASCuttO
at Jefferson today for the murder of NJ.
c. Hunt of Bolton, Ga. Robbery was the
motive. Brooks and Reynolds were
moonshiners.
Reynolds negotiated with Hunt for the
purchase of his stock of goods. Reyn-
olds told Hunt the money was in the
bank in Harmonville and invited him to
ride in a wagon with him. Midway
Brooks Joined them and the two commit
ted the murder robbed their victim of
$1,000 in his possession and buried the
body. Reynolds was arrested, confessed
and implicated Brooks
The execution was remarkable in
many respects. After the ride to the
gallows, a distance of half a mile, they
We're robed in white and permitted to
speak to the throng of 1000 people who
packed around the gallows enclosure.
On the gallows the two men held brief
conversation with one another, inquir-
ing after one another's spiritual condi-
ton.
Among the twenty men who saw the
execution We're the three brothers of the
murdered man.
A NEGRO HANGED
CONVICTION, Tenn, Dec. 1.-THE
crime for which VIM. johnson today sur