The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-24
CARR rs HANGED.
CHILD MURDERER DIES ON
THE GALLONS.
Defiant at Almost tho End - Went to
His Death without Trace of Emo
tIon-An Unruly Mob Outside Broke

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yesterday morning for the brutal muir
der, Sunday, October 10, OF his daugh
ter, Belle Carr, who was years old
The hanging was done quickly ant
entifically. Carr's neck was broker
by the drop through the gallows trap
He died in eleven minutes. and eigh
teen minutes after the trap was
sprung his body was 81. DOWN While
the body dangIed 1T thc end of the
rope mob from the outside ripped
and tore boards from the high stock
ade hiding the gallows and rushed in
laughing and yelling. They surged
SO thiclxly against the scatfold that it
swayed back and forth, and looked as
| if it would be pushed down.
Carr made no statement before he
went to the gallows or while he stood
on the trap. He walked upright and
without apparent fear or nervousness
The last words he said were:
Don't delay; go straight ahead
This was in an undertonc TO Deputy
Sheriff Ed Cave, while his ankles were
bOullNl dS ilC SlOCtl Oil hl'N oNuA
fold Ten minutes before hc was led
out to be hanged he called = preacher
to him and said;
go and see my wife. and tell her
and the boy good-by for me. AnGtell
her l want her tomCct me in heaven.
Not word did he say about his
crime. He left 10 message for his,
own daughter, May, and did not even
mention her name.
Mrs. Carr sat ia her home six blocks
from the court house and awaited the
news of the hanging. 1t was carried
to her by her brother ~ soon us, it
was over Watcher she mourned or
not will never be known Her name
was spoken with curses and angry
threats, because the people of Liberty
believe she instigated the murder, if
she did not do it herself There is mo-
direct evidence that she killed the
child, and she IS not charged with
that; but she is uadcr indictment for
manning little Belle and crualiy treat
ing her, and she will be tried for this
III january.
Carr awoltc aS G O'Clock, after sleep
iug souudly for two hours, He re-
NAMED on his CO.., viii! His tacc buried
in the pillow, until = o'clock, wien he
arose. He locked wcarci and his eyes
were sunken and surrounded by blue
circles.
1t was 1915 o'clock when there came
knock at the door The sheriff
entered and with him were a dozen
sheriffs from other counties, among
them ex-Sheriff j. b, Nipp of Well
ington, Kan.
Mr.. Carr, I'll read this warrant to
you," the sheriff said. He unfolded
the typewriter death warrant. 1t
was rather long and the sheriff's
voice trembled as he read Carr sat
bowed over tn his chalr and a
preacher strolled his back. When the
sheriff ended Carr stooi up quickly
and faced him. There was not trace
of nervousness about him lie stood
erect with his head down. His eyes
were dry. The sheriff shook his hand
and said good-by Others did the
same. Then the deputies hastily
strapped his hands and elbows to-
gether. Bareheadcd, dressed in coarse
shoes, jeans trousers, blue shirt and Il
faded blue coat. Carr followed the
sheriff out of the room. Deputies
held Carr by each arm to steady him
down the narrow, winding, icy stone
stairway that led TO the stockade.
They led him cut into the crisp morn
ng air and up the stairway to the
yallows.
Sheriff Hymer led the procession.
Behind him was Carr, led by two dep
lties Behind them were Rev Mr..
Ewing and Professor Love, his spirit
nal advisers, Marshal Chilcs and Dep
lty Marshal Cashier Welch of Kansas
yity and Sheriff Peter Kerth of st.
Louis. These were al that were on
The scaffold. Carr WAS halted in the
center of the trap
Don't delay it; go straight ahead,
,aid Carr to Deputy Ed Cave, who
Itooped and IN moment had the
broad strap buclslcd around his
lnkles. While Cave was doing that
mother deputy was drawing the
loose tight around his neck. The
black cap was tossed over his head,
md pulled down, the deputies sprang
lway from him, Sheriff Hymer
reached and pushed the lever and
Carrs body shot down through the
trap.
1t was not more than minute from
The time Carr halted on the trap till
ae was dangling at the end of the rope.
The sheriffs from other counties said
t was the "best" hanging they had
.ver seen. During the minute that he
ltood on the gallows Carr did not look
Up. He kept his head bowed and
Jooked at the floor of the scaffold.
Suit to Gust City OficerS.
Fort SCoTT, Kan, Dec. ls.-Quo
Karranto proceedings were brought
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