The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-17
|GlA WOMAN TO HANG.
rli,obcth Is. Mobiles. White,
|,iIl Expiatc Her Crime,
|upDERED HER AGED HUSBAND.
.,by n Negro, who struck the
u,,y. hut She Completed
the Awful Work.

M
\. United States supreme court not
mo STAY of execution, Mrs. Eliza
.,,es n white woman, would have
,sed next Friday at Jeffersonville.
,ounty. for the murder of her hus-
,shteon months determined effort
N made to stay the execution End
T,eorpia the stigma, as 1t has been
N tho legal execution of n woman.
"a has been fought through all the
Of the state and in tho United
kupreme court.
n Mobiles is hanged, she will be the
woman to suffer execution in the
NJ the South. and, strange to say,
er case is likewise recorded in the
Of Georgia. This first execution
the latter months OF 1872, and
n distinctive page in tho history Of
tie. being the indirect cause of a
Of political complications that af-
Is took serious shape.
THE EBBERHART CASE.
special term of Webster superior
held in May, 1872, Enoch L. Spann
RS. Susan Eberhart were indicted
murder OF Sarah Spann. The In
t contained additional counts
Susan Eberhart, charging her as
al in the second degree and as an
nv before the act. Mrs. Eberhart
hyicted and sentenced to he hanged.
diately following the sentence
was inaugurated by the women,
rceeded in enlsting a large majority
influential male population of the
fighting the sentence of the court.
20 was appealed and went success
through the usual course of the
but, as in the case Of Mrs. Mobiles,
D. and the only alternative was an
to tho executive.
as during the administration of
pr James NJ Smith He considered
Zeal and declined to interfere. In
refusal OF Clemency he declared
sympathy for the doomed woman
great as any who had fought in her
but that he had a duty to perform
Id not be swayed by popular clamor.
Jared that the law made no distinc-
the sexes when a crime was com
and as the woman was self con-
criminal, he could not do otherwise
the sentence be executed. Mrs.
fdt was hanged in seven months
|e date Of her crime, her accompllce
her fate.
fnor Smiths position was by many
but the sentiment of the large
who condemned him worked dis
Ny In the following campaign, and
defeated for denomination.
)nly other similar instances Is the
case, now at issue, and it is rea-
certain that the second execu-
white woman Is now only a
b Of six days.
MRS. MOBILES CRIME.
erlme for which Mrs. Mobiles must
Jas committed nearly two years
June, 1895. The Mobiles place was
Twelve miles below Jeffersonvillc.
lie family, consisting of Mr.. and
piles and their two children, Debby.
and Jack, about 10, lived. They
rlcal Georgia crackers of the most
ced backwood type, knowing and
nothing about the world outside;
rse Of their life revolving in its
orbit, each day reproduction OF
before. with the drudgery of work
Yields beginning before sunrise, con-
all day long, and rounding up with
ing OF The sun.
family life may or may not have
armonious. Opinions on that point
dely at variance. as Mrs. Mobiles
her, while tina neinbhors maintain
.aGtly the reverse was true. She
ana ' i. her HUSBAND .n IN ,, etals ~ te
alsagreemenntte9' e we ena" ,bo I oY,tcome oS
assortment of the pair.
fs on the place in the capacity of
lands were Gus Families. a former
hackman, his wife. Mary FAMILIES.
Plton Joiner, all negroes.
r were the participants in the hor-
Fsgedy Of that June morning.
Mobiles was accustomed to labor in
lids as common hand" One dav.
working by the side of Gus FAMILIES.
Eah 10 COMPLAIN most bitterly of her
Us III treatment. when Gus. with
fahkness. asked why she didn't get
her trouble by putting the I'D nan
him with her nnos,ion no to bow
= be done the first step toward The
|ssion Of the crime was taken.
ne The three weeks which followed
Ems for killing old man Mobiles We're
! Of those plans Mary Families he
\ Gus. materially assisted tho ,mo
fonsp!rE.rs. ~ WV
FNDAY MORNING rp.c,-nv
ear,y o1 ''t e' i"Auhpf'
| VIOLA one sunday morning, While
1 "o'la was stlil dark. Mrs. Mobiles
her husband. telling him that soma
as stealing the corn f,or, th" h""a
Eeral OF these robheries h, ,ae , Ddtn,
en his farm tho 1 o,J r,,n m .ao,,,' AHen
Pc trap and started o"t ~ hum hun, , ,ha
b UNPROTECTED by any weapon, Mrs.