The record-union., 1897-12-18
A RoWIing Mob Rush Under the GaIIoWs
After the Drop Has Fallen.
Not Satisfied Until q Close View of
the Hanged Man Was Reveal
ed-Try to Force Themselves
Upon the Gallows and Hoot the
Sheriff When He Attempted to
Preserve Order.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 17-Wm. Carr,
the child murderer, was hanged at the
Clay County Courthouse at Liberty
this morning
Carr passed a restless night. When
breakfast was brought to him he turned
from it with disgust. lighted a cigar
and stood for long time looking out
from his window. Presently the un-
dertaker arrived, and asked Carr what
disposition he wanted made of his body.
Let my wife take care of it. Oh, let
her take care of it," he exclaimed with
a sob.
His spiritual advisers followed and
! urged him to face his fate like a man.
I'm try Carr sobbed, that's the
best l can do"
Passages of the Bible were read to
the prisoner followed by the singing of
hymn, during which Carr sobbed and
trembled like child.
Carr presented pitiable sight as he
was finally led to the gallows, but
braced himself spasmodically .and went
through the ordeal with a comparative
show of strength. The Sheriff pulled
the trigger at 1874, and two minutes
later the life had gone out of the child
murderer. The neck was broken,
cracking like whip cord
Following the first momentary lull
after the drop had fallen 500 spectators,
as if moved by single impulse, rushed
forward calling, crying, shrieking and
laughing as they surged under the gal
lows, and packed close around the dang
ling corpse. They would not be salts
fled until a close view of the hanged
man was revealed. The men were an
cry and cursed one another; tried to
force themselves up the gallows steps,
and cried and hooted at the Sheriff. FL
nally 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 Sheriffs deputies ranged about
him, and the crowd halted for mo-
ment. Then suddenly with one accord
mighty scream was sent up, and,
surging forward, the crowd swept back
the guards and burst their way through
the frail stockade Once in the street,
the crowd gave vent to it's feelings with
further shouts, but finally dispersed
without trouble, and what for a few
minutes looked like small sized riot
ended quietly.
After the execution 1t became known
that thrifty photographer had been
admitted to the inclosure with a cine
matograph machine, and that he had
been permitted to photograph the clos
ing incidents of this revolving tragedy
in all its horrible details. The machine
was in operation from the moment Carr
appeared in the inclosure until the body
was cut down, and it is claimed that on
film 1000 feet long 1.SOO pictures were
taken. An attempt will be made to ex
hibit these pictures throughout the
country. When Carr was a prisoner in
the County Jail at Kansas City the same
parties persuaded him to recite his story
of the murder into phonograph
William Carrs crime was one Of the
most brutal and unprovoked in the his
tory Of the State. His capture and
execution followed with fitting dispatch.
On October 18th last the body of Belle
Carr, a three e-year-old child by the
murderer'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 a lynching, broke down and
confessed.
Later Carr, who is a gaunt back
woodsman. 81 years old, told, without
the least show of emotion, how he had
carried the child from its home, tied it's
arms and limbs securely, corded a
heavy stone to the little ones breast
and then, not 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 bru-
tai to Belle, but Carr maintained stout
ly that his wife had no hand in the
crime.
For time Carr delighted in his no
toriety, and talked glibly to his visitors
of the crime. This was followed by
spell, during which he begged to be
done away with without delay. AT his
trial on November 10th Carr was con-
victed promptly, and since then he
weakened perceptibly, and only a week
ago Sunday tried to commit suicide by
swallowing pounded glass.
DOUBLE EXECUTION IN GEORGIA.
ATLANTA, Dec. 17.-Grady Reynolds
and Bud Brooks We're executed at JEFF
ferson to-day for the murder of M. c.
Hunt of Belton, Ga. Robbery was the
motive.
Brooks and Reynolds were moon
sinners. Reynolds negotiated with
Hunt for the purchase of his stock of
goods. Reynolds told Hunt the money
was in the bank at Harmonville, and in
vited him to ride in a wagon with him.
Midway Brooks Joined them, and the
two committed the murder, robbed their
victim of 81 200 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 mile, they
were robed in white and permitted to
speak to the throng Of 1000 people whS
packed around the gallows' inclosurea
On the gallows the two men held a brief
conversation with each other inquiring
after the others spiritual condition
Among the twenty men who saw the
execution were the three brothers Of the