The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-08
ATTEMPT UNSUCCESSFUL
The Condemned Man Was Granted a
Weeks Reprieve.
he IS 80 YEARS OLD, WEIGHS 1870 POUNDS
}. c. Herring, the Man He Killed, Weighed 1870
Pounds. It Is Claimed the Fight Was
Over Politics, But This
is Denied.

Rther than meet a felon's fate on
the gallows, Archie Kinsauls, the
Sampson county murderer, on Thurs
day night attempted to take his own
life. With his own hands he cut his
throat, and is now lingering between
life and death, with chances, the at
tending physicians think in favor of
death.
On yesterday morning Governor
Russell received the following tele
gram from Sheriff Marshburn, of
Sampson county:
"Clinton, n. c., Sept. Z, 1900.
Governor ID. j.. Russell, Raleigh,
n. c.:
"Kinsauls has cut his throat Sc
riously, and doctors think fatally.
Wire instructions.
81. NJ. MARSHBURN.
Sheriff"
Governor Russell then wired to
Sheriff Marshburn at Clinton, as fol-
lows:
Execution of Kinsauls postponed
till Friday, September Fourteenth,
1900 Reprieye by mall
The news came as a surprise to
every one, as it was said that Kin
sauls was bearing up remarkably well
under the strain, and would meet his
death without a shudder.
He was thirty-three years old and
weighed only 1870 pounds. j. c. Her
ring, the man he killed weighed one
hundred and ninety pounds, and was
a Populist. Kinsauls was a Democrat,
and it is claimed that politics was
the cause of the disturbance. Solic-
itor Duffy, who prosecuted the case
says this is a mistake.
The murder occurred during the
heated political campaign OF 1898 and
Herring was killed by the cutting of
II knife in a horrible manner after n
Dig speaking at Beaman's Cross
Roads, October 81 of that year, Kin
sauls made no effort to escape after
the murder and few days later was
arrested at his home near Beaman's
Cross Roads and committed to Jail
at Clinton. On the night of Decem-
Der Goth, following, after remaining
in jail two months, party of his
friends went to the jail and by force
of arms liberated the prisoner. The
jailor was subsequently tried, but not
convicted of completely in the re-
lease. After his liberation Kinsauls,
it is said armed himself, defied the
law, and remained in the county for
nine months On Sunday, September
18th, 1899, he was captured by a
posse, but not until he had received a
wound from % buck-shot in his BODY.
He was convicted of the murder
charged against him on Wednesday.
October 18th. after a trial lasting
nearly a week before Judge Henry II.
Bryan. He was defended at the trial
by Col. John ID. Kerr, eX-Congress-
man John +. Fowler and \. II. Coop
err. ESQ, members of the Clinton bar.
The prosecution was by Solicitor RO-
dolph Duffy, Geo f. Butler and II. e.
Fason, Esqrs. He was sentenced to
be hanged in November goth, of last
year. An appeal was taken, but the
Supreme Court refused to alter the
Judgment of the lower court and an
other date was set for the execution,
but on account of the campaign then
pending, he was given respite UNI
til yesterday, when he was to have
been hanged.
Kinsauls remained in Wilmington
for safe keeping until last Monday.
October 30, 1899 His wife sought aid
on the streets of Wilmington to pay
his lawyers fees.
The execution which was to have