The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-12-23

was tried n it never failed. Inside
the death cell Carr sat with his face
turned toward the east wall.
Ministers sat with him constant
ly, sometimes talking to him,
sometimes reading from the
Bible. but most of the time sitting in
silence. Men whispered and walked
on tiptoe around the room. They went
over TO the window from time to time
and looked out at the sheriff and dep
uties working at the gallows. In the
tense stiffness a knock sounded at the
door and then the sheriff, holding a
pink paper in his hand. entered, fol-
lowed by a line of deputies and other
officers, some with black straps in their
hands.
Carr moved never :. muscle. His
head was bowed to his knees. The
sheriff opened the paper and began
reading the death warrant in a hasty,
nervous way. Carr seemingly did not
hear a word. He had but one fixed
idea, and hat was that he must die;
that he must walk down a fight of
stairs, then up a fight of stairs and
have straps put around his body, be
dropped sever feet, when a rope would
strangle him to death.
When Carr was asked to rise he did
Sc. He CROPPED about like a man in the
dark, and seemingly had already lost
his senses. The officers caught his
two big hands and bound them to-
gether with the straps. Then his arms
were bound fast to his body and he
was hurried out. He staggered on the
stone steps, but the officers supported
him.
When the doomed man was led up
the steps to the gallows he seemed
stronger. He stepped out quite firmly
over the trap door n stood on ii
with his heels together and his body
slightly stopped. The strap around
his knees and that around his ankles
were quickly adjusted; the. moose vas
put down over his head; the black hood
was slipped on. At 1898 o'clock the
trap was pulled and arr was hanged.
His neck was broken with a sharp snap
from the drop of seven feet. The head
was drawn sharply to one side, the
body twitched systematically for a mo-
ment and then a shiver ran up and
down the frame bound in thongs and
straps. Then all was quiet.
Two doctors unbound the hands and
began feeling the feeble pulse beats,
and putting their ears over the heart.
The crowd scrambled and pushed and
shrieked. Twenty men tried to force
themselves up the gallows steps. They
struggled and slipped and two of them
fell headlong to the ground. The mob
outside in the courtyard clamored to
be admitted. They cried and booted
at the sheriff. Finally, in their ex-
citement, they attempted to bea down
the barricade.
Sheriff Hymer rushed through the
crowd inside of the stockade and stand
ing before the openings shouted that
no nan should enter, adding: IF any
attempt it, let it be at his peril" He
left the place a moment in charge of
his deputies. Suddenly the crowd
screamed again and surging forward,
they swept back the guards at the door
and burst their way through h frail
stockade.
While these disgraceful scenes were
in progress, the physicians were qui"
city continuing their examination of
the hanging body. After the body
had been hanging for IS minutes the
physicians pronounced life entirely
extinct. Then the crowd scattered
slowly and after all had gone the
corpse was cut Down.
The story of the Crime.
on the morning OF Sunday, October II last,
Tom Gillespie and Brownie" Owens. OF Shelf
field, were hunting ducks on the banks OF the
Missouri river near that place, when they saw
a peculiar looking object rolling with the cur
rent in the shallow water over the sandoar.
They found that IL was the dead body of n girl
three years old. weighted down with a stone
tied with rags and a rope to the breast, and the
scalp lacerated. The body was brought 10
Kansas City and the little ones clothes exhib-
tied in the hope that by this means she could
be identified
In the mainline a week had passed and the
newspapers dwelt ut length upon the mysteri-
Gus death of the little one. It was learned that
Belle Carr. daughter OF William Carr, was miss
ing from her home near Liberty. Cars arrest
followed. HI was brought to Kansas City, and
\ after hours OF sweating" by Chief Hayes and
Thomas Mastin. assistant prosecuting attorney.
made a full confession.
Two Important stations FILLED.
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