The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11
Especial to the Messenger.)

ring and was TO have been hanged
here today, cheated the Gallow.s by q
horrible attempt to kill himself While
iu mis- cell he cut two terrible gasnes
on both sides OF his throat Physicians
VIII oattended him. say the wounds are
very serious but not necessarily fatal.
AS a consequence of h Inurderer's
attempt at self-destruction, Governor
Russell sent a telegram to Sheriff ].
NJ. Marshburn r~eprieving the con-
demned man till next Friday, Septem-
Der Hth.
HISTORY OF THE CRIME.
The crime for which Archie Kinsauls
was condemned to die oil the gallows
today was committed in this (Sam2-
SOM county ON the 9th Of October,
1898. The scene of the murder was at
Beaman's Cross Roads on the occasion
of a joint W between the demo-
cratic and fusion county candidates.
He most brutality murdered j. c. Her
ring by cutting him with a knife. He
made no effort to flee after the killing
but remained at home till arrested a
few days afterwards. He was COM
mitted to Jail at Clinton. the county
site. but fter being in Jail about two
weeks, a party of his friends on the
night OF the 10Th of November, went to
the Jail and, it is said, by force of arms
compelled the jailer to admit them.
They then took Kinsauls from the jail
and set him at liberty.
WHO RELEASED HIM?
AS to Kinstuls' release from Jail,
some believe it was Ion by a party OF
his friends, while others believe it was
by a collision with the jailer. After
being liberated, Kinsauls never left
the county but staid around home for
nine months. He was nnally captured
near his home On Sunday night, Sep
TENDER 18th, 1893, when a sherif's
posse came upon him on the highway
and shot him down, filling his body
with Is buck shot. He fingered some
time between life and death. but slowly
recovered and at the October, 1893,
term of the Sampson superior court
was put on trial for the murder of Her
ring. The trial lasted from Friday,
October 13, 1899, to the following We'd
nesday, the 18th, when the jury brought
in a verdict Of guilty. Judge Bryan, be-
fore whom the trial was held, SEN
fenced Kinsauls to be hanged Novem-
Der %, 1899. He was ably defended by
the Hon. John D. Kerr. Congressman
John z. Fowler. and F. r. Cooper, Esq.
of the Clinton bar. Prosecution was
made in a vigorous manner by Solicit
tor RodOlf Duffy, George Butler, Esq,
and Henry z. Faison, Esq, of Clinton.
After kinSauls' conviction, Deputy
Sheriff Everett Turner. of Sampson
county, brought him to Wilmington
and committed him to jail, fearing
that his friends would again liberate
him or that he would esUap by the
same u~naccountable means by which
he gained his liberty sOon after his ar
rest for the murder.
CARRIE DTO WILMINGTON TO
PREVENT ESCAPE.
While Kinsauls was in Jail in Will
mington, the jailer Of Sampson county
was indicted and tried on the charge
Of liberating the murderer. kinsauls
was taken from Wilmington to Clin-
ton to testify at the trial but when he
was on the stand his replies to ques-
tiOnS by the prosecuting attorneys were
defiant and they elected nothing to
throw light upon tn means by which
or by whom he vas released from Jail.
VAIN EFFORTS TO SAVE KIN
SAULS.
While Kinsauls was imprisoned in
Wilmington his attorneys took his case
I'D on appeal to the supreme court OF
North Carolina. Able argument was
made before the court to AVE the SEN
tence set aside and the case remanded
for a new trial. The supreme court.
however, sustained the judgment of the
cour below. Pending the hearing in
b supreme court Governor Russell
staid the sentence Of the murder, but
after the supreme court had rendered
its decision. Kinsauls was again sem
fenced to be hanged. Since his last
sentence, everything that could posi-
bly, be lone has been done TO induce
h governor to commute the death
sentence to life Imprisonment. KIN
Sauls' wife has been desperately faith
full to him. and she worked heroically
In Sampson county n at Wilmington
getting up petitions to the governor to
save his life. She retained VIM. ]. Bel
lamy, Esq, of the Wilmington bar,
and together they made herculean eff
forts to stave off the doom which hung
over the condemned a The heroic
wife and her counsel even made trips
to Raleigh and personally appealed to
the governor. Governor. Russell re-
prieved the prisoner to have an oppor-
tunity to thoroughly Xamin the case,
the papers and petitions in which
made a great stack. 1t is understood
that he has recently gone over the case
every day. n it is said that if he
could possibly nave lone so, he would
have commuted the sentence. The
statement of Judge Bryan, before
whom Kinsauls was tried. n a review
of the case by Solicitor Rodolf Duffy,
placed before the governor, were
against the condemned man, and after
patiently considering all the phases OF
the case Governor Russell came to the
conclusion that it was mis- duty TO al
low the sentence of death to be carried
out.
The time set for the execution was
today between the hours of 10 a. m
and 2 2. m. and in order to have h
condemned man at Clinton for the ex-
ecution the officers of the law went tc
Wilmington n brought Kinsauls
away last Monday. Even up to the las
moment efforts were continued by hi:
wife and attorney in his behalf. AL
was, however, in vain.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE. EXECU.
TION.
All arrangements were consequently
made to hang Kinsauls today. His
friends hoped, however, up to las
night that the governor would still dc
something, and the streets were
crowded with people anxious to heal
the latest telegram to Captain Holmes