Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-01-20
MURDERER HANGED.
A Negro Who Shot Three Persons
Dies on the Gallows.
SPURIOUS MONEY MADE IN PRISON.
Entombed Men Rescued -Maa Drops from
y Bridse-N-grOes Killed In right
Walls OF New Houses Fall
Deaths In . Hotel Fire.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. B. - Archie
Lockeley (colored), triple murderer,
was hanged at King and Queen court
house yesterday. There was large
crowd at the courthouse, and the sher-
if and his deputies had to produce
pistols to prevent some OF those pres
ent from forcing their way into the in
closure around the scaffold. Lockeley
made full confession. lie had been
living for several years with Ellen
Chapman, and on October ", last. went
to her house, and quarrel ensued,
which ended in a fight. When the
womans nephew, George Lee, started
for an officer, Lockeley seized d gun
and shot him; then shot at Charles
Chapman, but missed him. He then
shot Eddie Chapman, and, when he
saw the woman trying to escape, shot
her.
BOGUS MONEY MADE IN PRISON.
topeka, Kan, Jan 15.-J. B. Nc
Kibben, charged with making counter
felt money in the federal penitentiary
while serving term there for coun-
terfeitng, was arraigned in the federal
court yesterday. He intended to plead
guilty, but changed his mind and
pleaded not guilty. His case was con-
tinued until the next term Of court and
he gave bond for his appearance Nc
Kibben was travelling photographer
when he was arrested In Texas and
pleaded guilty to making counterfeit
money and received two years SEN
tence in the penitentiary. He was
made prison photographer and it was
while acting in this capacity that he
turned out at least one new, crisp IS
bill and was discovered. He operated
through two prisoners who were on
parole, who have already been resen-
fenced for five years each.
ENToMBED MEN RESCUED.
ANACONDA. Mont, Jan. 15.-At noon
yestesday, after 40 hours of imprison-
ment and anxiety, four Of the five men
who were in the tunnel near this city
that caved in near its entrance as the
result of dynamite explosion, crawled
through hastily-constructed exit into
the light of day. An improvised tun-
mel had been driven through the debris
that closed the entrance to the tunnel
itself. Jack Mcleod, one Of the five
imprisoned men, had died several hours
before from the effects of the powder
fumes, which troubled all Of them for
about 10 hours.
DROPPED FROM A BRIDGE PARAPET.
New YORK, Jan. 10. An unknown
man threw himself or accidentally
fell from parapet on the Washington
bridge over the Harlem river at One
Hundred and Eighty-First street yes
terday-a distance Of l47 feet. This Is
10 feet further than the distance gone
by the Brooklyn bridge jumpers. The
man will live, as he is only suffering
from wound over the righteye.
FOUR NEGROES KILLED IN A FIGHT.
BARBoURsvILLE, KY, Jan. l5.--News
reached here yesterday morning Of o
bloody fight at a "blind tiger" on
Sandy Hook, in which Robert Cald-
well, Smith Helton, John Williams and
Tom Wilson, all colored, were killed,
and will Burgess mortally wounded
Whisky was the cause of the fight.
WALLS OF NEW HOUSES FALL.
BALTIMORE, Md, Jan. 15.-The walls
OF new houses being erected on Twenty
Second street, near the York road, fell
in yesterday afternoon and seven men
were injured, two probably fatally.
TWO DEATHS IN A HOTEL FIRE.
New YORK, Jan. Is. In fire which
occurred yesterday at Thomas Roberts
hotel in West street, and which did
$4,000 damage, Leslie Stanley and his
wife were suffocated by smoke,
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