The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-19

bareheaded and surrounded by half a dozen Of
his deputies. stood upon the topmost steps ana
addressed the crowd thus:
Ladies and gentlemen. this hanging is
good place to see you'd better go right out there
now. Don't wait. cause those that get there
now there's about two thousand out there. You
better hurry up Il you want TO sec ,,.ios
He went bSck into the Jail win MS deputies,
and the greater part Of the crowd swung down
the street and out toward the gal!ows. Five
however. aud the singing Of the fakirs and the
cries of the, man who was to furnish the show
were again intermingled. ..o i,r a.. shor;ff
was practicing on one of his deputies with
rope. He had never hanged 9 man before lore ana ne
business. SO that he could acquit himself with
. credit. He had, a rope that had already taken
four other murderers when their lives we're
taken. These were the instrumen's that ne WAS
and again hc put this moose over the dcpnty..s
head and frightened it and l9osened 1t. ma tlsnt.
Gned AM, and l loo so%,d d. Il; I me io hs QUICKEN wts saet than a n 1T It
takes to tell it.
ABOUT THE GALLONS.
Leave the Jail now. with the Sheriff still
lively while the preacher prayed. and the fakirs
bawling their songs. and go out to The galiows
lot was at the junction of the Ripley and
Charleston turnpikes. As stated before. me
ssa aa bssn hui Snilt on ten nh feet d distant from it, a heavy
barbed.wire fence. Within this fence the jurors
and and n nroxG mss, Tfbp p Etcf v WfrS to % Se II o'e.oef
there were not fewer than 1000 persons, gath
cred around tho fence: pushing, hauling; laugh
ing, shouting ana raising Cain generally. On
the outskirts of the town. there was the same
sort Of fakirs as about the jail in town, and IN
some monte men. Here and there You could
bear the voice appealing. Come YOU seven;
come seven. come eleven" as some crap player
The trees in the neighborhood were filed with
m nisbf an she SUy told S TmE Sun g s' reporter naa oe% The e"e crowd I'd
stretched down the mound from the bnrhcd-wire
fence into a s ~ liz lend and hI2 " tEmn.tS on al mee and ~
one.third women. There were hundreds who sat
In their saddles, women as well as men, and some
sat in The big farm wagons: There were families
with eight or nine children in one wagon. children
sixteen or seventeen years. Along the fence on
the far side Of the field there were by actual
on the other side there were 800 rigs of various
descriptions; and scattered oil over, the Held
Snd ta as sitheT siaes o SSplR15fS snd the on SCENE ene
there were horses hobbled or horses and
riders, Any spot in tho neighborhood
as Sheriff Shinn assured THE Sun reporter,
Itch you. my boy. when you see thai place
its z rsgHlar, amphiiheatre. That's what you
In this crowd the women pressed as close te
tho front as the men did. Those who had come
early hAu arrived tlpT6 DeIOTC UHyilsUI. III
some Of them we're within Ave feet OF the barbet
wire fence. 1t was fortunate they were not any
closer, for every. man who stood next tho fence
was impnled on II, and when the crowd swunG
to the right and the barbs tore him one way. ane
when the crowd swung to the left the harbs tori
him the other. until every man in tho limo mus
have been in anguish; but these people were
stayers. ANGUISH and personal wounds would
; not make them g,Se up Their Pi ,orsi oro,nd III,
gallows the roads as far as the eye could SEQ II
, each direction werc still crowded with horse
, man and With vehicles loaded down with peOpll
! trying TO soc. Many OF these late, corners ha'
repcuiing rifles with them. They had been I,
: hangings in other counties where IL Is the Gus
! tom 10 Carry repeating rifles, but, as Sheriff SHIN
! said. 1.-THE people of jackson county are law
: abiding and there won't he any trouble a ina
all CARRIED their ",popguns" with them. as the.
reporter noticed n man and his wife Fnd daugf
ter N were astride. The man had q rifle Stun
), 70 the saddle In front OF MN There Mere we're
$ one horse. There were fifty where women cal
r risd children on the saddle with them.
y a TIE START FROM THE JAIL.
Q In this great crowd the fakirs worked withou
when the procession started from the jai
70 take up again the story OF INC scenes In an
0 Sheriff had made his first speech 70 tn crow
n he camo downstairs again. He said o The Su
y 'e1pSYoSuu' sec these people around here Well.
' would never do 10 bring that fellow out of ia
Q while they are here. I've got to get rid of tn
y Then he turned to the crowd and said:
!. Ladies' and gentlemcn. we arc goin' to leay
r. a chance to sec Ehis thing you'd, better get rigl
f" on, there, for we are g1in, laSi ..a,,oo Tho,
q wore still 400 left. som Mcclure, the chief
Q. the ury, also made a speech, lie succecdel
DRIVING away hitS nm @o ,Ssv E Eent 'h he t rss, Of N q
d crowd solid. the negro with his Punch and Jud
show had the most OF IT. The tremulous vOi'