The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-11
'HUNGAT NOON TO-DAY
Sam Wright Who Murdered
Lon Carr Pays the
Penalty.
A PRIVATE EXECUTION
TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED PEG
PIE WERE IN GOLDSBORO TO
SEE THE HANGING.
A PRIVATE EXECUTION
THE MURDERER MAKES FULL CONFESSION
The Execution is Case of Swift Justice The
Murder Was Committed lust lhirtya
Nine Da"s Ago.

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Sam Wright, the murderer of Mr.. l..
Carr, was hanged mere today. At 1908
o'clock the drop fell, and in six minutes
life was extinct. His neck was broken.
He met death bravely. Some Of the col
ored clergy were with him IN his last
hours. His last words were: alright,
goodbye, my friends. Meet me in Jor-
danw He was a man of bad record and
according to his last confession had
/, killed two men, one in South Carolina
and the other in Georgia before COM
hitting the last crime in Ford's town
ship on Saturday night, October Ind.
Quite a number of people were here,
despite the known fact of n private exc
cuton. Only those saw him die who
were in the enclosure and few who
climbed trees near the Jail yard.
The sun was shining brightly as the
drop fell and the murderer was launched
into eternity. The Goldsboro Rifles
made a Gordon around the enclosure.
and not one of the $500 people who
had come to see the hanging got
glimpse of it.
WRIGHT'S CONFESSION.
81 had been drinking heavily. I was
clerking that day for Mr.. Carr and sell
ing wine for him. AS soon rs l got my
supper ] went back to the store. |
met three men coming from the store.
The store was locked up. / called Mr.
Carr He came and he was in his night
clothes. He had gone 10 bed. | told
him | wanted a pound of cheese. He
got that for me. | told him | wanted
some wine, and when he went to draw
the wine / struck him with a stick |
carried with me. / had no distinct in
tention when ! went there except to get
his money. My mind was unsettled.
when he was stoopin" down To draw
the wine | struck him with the stick over
the head, and he jumped up and grab
bed me in the collar with one hand.
tried to get him loose from me and |
could not. and / ran my hand in my
pocket and got my knife and cut him
loose from me and he fell. He did not
strike me at all. | do not know how
his finger was broken. He never hol-
Tered or cried out at ALL The men | met
did some shooting. / do not know who
they were. / stepped into the bushes
and let them pass by.
"The lamp was kicked over in the
scuffe. l commenced hunting for his
money in his clothes hanging OF the
wall / got his watch out of his clothes
and his pistol off of the bed and his
money from the store. he had noro in
his clothes / went on back home Ny
clothes were not very bloody. There
was a little blood on my right hand. |
did not have on the vest shown in
court at the time of the murder.
r
know that it was pokeberry juice that
got on my shoes and blue Oyeralls be-
fore the murder when I was staining q
gun-stock / went down the side Of
the branch and hid the pants IN
stump hole beside the branch. / threw
the knife away in a piece of woods. 1t
was an ordinary sized knife with a blade
about 21h inches long.
II came on to Goldsboro and got
| breakfast at a restaurant. l paid 20
cents for two lunches, which was my
| breakfast. | bought pint of whisliey
| for 25 cents. Another man got it for
me. / bought 90 cent bottle Of cologne
and two cigars, 5 cents each. | went 70
the postoffice and got % cents werth
of stamps. I went to the Centennial
pump to get drink Of water and saw
the chief and another policeman sitting
there talking. They arrested me.
"They said: Then we will have TO
search you and / told them MI right
to do that. They asked me if had n
pistol. I told them I did. They told
me they would like to see it. / pulled
it out of my pocket and handed il TO
the chief. He asked me if had another
pistol. and / told him / did. pulled
| it out of my pocket and handed it 10
him. He then asked me something thar
did not understand. and I said, sir
and he said: Yes, you have got watch
for ! saw it just a minute ago when
you looked at it, / told him yes had
| a watch and handed IT to him. The
pearl-handle pistol was Mr.. Carr's and
the black-handle was mine.''