Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-18

hlhu them "A reporter for The Journal,
Marshal chiles and Deputy Marshal Cast
mer Welch. of Kansas City. and Sheriff
Peter kerth, of St. Louis. THESE We're all
that Were on the scaffold. Carr was halted
III the center of the trap
Don't delay il: 20 straight ahead. said
Carr 10 Deputy Ed Cave, who stopped and
liz a moment had the broad strap buckled
around his ankles. While Cave was doing
that another deputy was drawing the moose
tight around his neck. The black cap was
tossed over his head. and pulled down. the
Hymer reached and pushed the lever and
Carr's BODY shot down through the trap,
1t was not more than a minute from the
time Carr halted on the trap till he Wa3
dangling at the end of the rope. The
sheriffs from other counties said II was the
best hanging they had ever seen. Dur
ing the minute that he stood on the gal
lows Carr did not look up He kept his
head bowed and looked at the floor of the
scaffOld.
UnruIy, Disappointed Mob Outside.
There were not more than fifty people in
side the stockade when Carr was hanged.
1t was expected that the hanging would
not take place before IL o'clock, and in
front of the main entrance to the court
house several hundred people We're clamor-
ing to get in, but the man at the door took
up the tickets slowly. Surrounding the
stockade were several hundred more people.
pressing close up to it. peeping through the
cracks and passing the word of every
Here he comes!" they yelled when Carr
was mounting the gallows. They heard the
ciang of the trap moment later and they
shouted:
Hes hanged! He's hansed!''
The yell waes taken up and the crowd
shouted; and surged against the high
then they began tearing at the boards.
From the scaffold Il hundred hands We're
seen pushing In between the cracks of the
boards and tugging to tear them loose
Boards snapped and ripped all along the
fence and dozen openings were made
through which the people, men, women
and children. scrambled and tumbled over
each other yelling like wild men,. At the
same time the front doors to the court
house were thrown open and in rushed the
crowd there pouring through the corridor ,,or
crowd coming in through the rents in the
fence. They swarmed up over the gallows,
squabbling and wranSling with each other
for chances to see. Children Skinned up
the gallowS posts and peered down through
the square hole in the center at the body
swaying at the end of the rope below. They
ing mans body TO steady 1t, while he
pressed his ear close to his breast to hear
the lessening heart beats. They saw. the
hideous black cap. bulged full by the head
within it which was pushed over by the
hangman's knot till it lay fiat on the shoul-
der. And the children who saw it laughed
merTlly ana Cdlleu 10 OtueFS 10 COIue dIlu
see ii, too.
Carr's body was cut down and carried up
to the little room he had lately left. There
doctors dissected the neck while a brother
of the dead mans wife clamored on the
outside for the body to be delivered to him.
1t was not taken to Mrs. Carr's home till 3
o'clock this afternoon.
Crowd Follows the Body.
Then the undertaken. who had dressed
It neatly in an alpaca suit of clothing fur
nished by the sheriff, hauled the coffined
home.
A great crowd saw It leaving the under
takers and ran after it, almost breaking
their necks to get near 1t. This same
crowd was the one that had torn through
the stockade and had waited in front Of the
court house with tickets and been disap-
pointed. After the body was cut down,
this crowd. made up mostly of people from
out of Liberty. had swarmed after the
body as it was carried UP to the jury
room for the autopsy. 1t stood there for
hours. choking the courtroom and corridors
till the body was carried out and across
the street to the undertakers. 1t stood
then in front of the undertaker'S. block
ing the street. IT ran bowling after the
dray and followed it to the home of Mrs.
Carr. and did not stop even at the gate:
Many leaped over the picket fence and
when the coffin was carried into the house
they tried to follow it, but were met at
as a woman could very we'll be. She
slammed the door viciously and the crowd
skunk away.
Cars body will be buried Tomorrow aft
ernoon at Randolph. not far from the very
spot where he stood and threw his baby
girl into the river. Religious services will
he held, probably at Mrs. Carr's home.
by Rev. Mr.. Ewing. and the body will be
taken to Randolph on the train.
Kinctoscope Fiends.
kaleidoscope, which was rigged up in an
angle of the gallows inclosure. The opera
tcrs of 1t said they examined the films after
it was over, and they We're perfect. They
gave consecutive views of the procession to
the gallows from the moment it appeared
coming out of the court house door till the
body was cut down. 1t shows the wild rush
of the crowd into the stockade, and they
say that when this is thrown upon screen
it will he exciting TO see as the rush of
Spectators into the prize ring at Carson
City after the Corbett-FitZsimmons fight.
1t Is the intention of the kaleidoscope own
ers to show the pictures at opera houses in
country towns if the authorities will permit
il. which they probably will not do; The
owners Of the picture machine got the en-
be a good thing to engage Mrs. Carr to ap-
pear on the stage during the exhibition of
the moving pictures. They actually went
10 her home this afternoon to make the
proposition to her. They got no further
Than the door, which she slammed in their
faces.
The disgraceful actions of the mob at diff
fcront times to-day caused n revulsion of
feeling in Liberty which was akin 10 pity
for Mrs. Carr. There is no longer Il proba-
tility of danger that violence will be done
Mrs. Carr.
The actions Of the mob were freely con-
to-day and tonight The dissraceful scenes
were due in part TO the excitement of Sher-
if Hymer, which caused hitch in the
proceedings The sheriff had placed dep
nty TO guard the front entrance. with or
ders TO not let those in who had tickets till
he had tested the gallowsj The galiows
trap and rope We're not adjusted until this
morning. and Sheriff Hymer was assisted
in this by Sheriff kerth. of st. Louis. The
hanging was rehearsed. and this was all
over at 1915 O'Clock. Then. instead of de-
laying for IL half hour until those waiting
with tickets at the front door Were let in.
the sheriff went at once to Carr's room,
read the death warrant and led him out,
and the hanging was over IN n few min
utes The disappointed people were an
sered at Sheriff Hymer. Some OF them had
driven miles TO see the hanging. one man
drove all the way from Blue Springs, Jack
The rope that hanged Carr was cut in
pieces and distributed by Sheriff Hymer as
| One of the sheriffs who saw the hanging
was Frank Woodbridge. Of Cass county. who
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