The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-29
NOTICE

. NUIALE.
= The process ct the law is a little =
! = slow, SO this is the way we have 10 =
/ = do. Murderers and thieves be- =
/ . ware. Peoples verdict.
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Woodw8rd's last words were prayers
\ for his wife, for himself and for the
men who were lynching him.
Tell her won you, boys he said.
/ meaning his WIFE, that my last words
and thoughts were Of her"
! No answer was given this pathetic
ana last request
The lyuchirs IS regarded as cold
/ biooded affair. The body was viewed
at the town hall By hundreds Of peo-
/ pie today. Mrs. Woodward. widow Of
/ the dead man. came several times.
went uD % the body and with te,l.s
! streaming down her face muttered,
/ Poor Charlie
/ No local efC-t viii he made to ap-
/ prehend The lyneheTs, The jury viii
/ find that Woodward came to his death
al the hands Of persons unknown. The
/ town is quiet
Acting Governor Chatterton has in
/ structed the county attorney to in
| vastiEate tn affair
Woodwar5's brother just before the
/ iynched man was captured. pleaded
/ guilty and asked to he sentenced for
3 larceny right away so he would not be
Z in the jail when his brother got there.
Z "a he believed his brother would De
I lynched- Had 10 not been for his plea
/ OF guilty he would probably have been
I IN jail last night and might have met
/ Charles Woodward's fate
Early this morning Sheriff Tubbs
took the body down and removed il to
I the city han. where the rope was cut
\ from the neck. II was then turned over
/ TO the coroner.
Was a Brutal Crime.
When a verdict was rendered find
Ing Charles Woodward guilty of muir
] der in the first degree. he sent for a
R0man Catholic priest and immediate
! ~ embraced the Catholic religion. Rev
4 Father BRYANT become his spfrftua
/ attendant and made MIN daily visits
during tht lgst thirty days of hiS stay
/ on earth.
Woodward was at all times curious
! 20 know what the newspapers were
saying about him. Newspaper men
were not allowed TO see the prisoner.
who said be did not care to see the
"scribelers, but he read everything
F. they wrote eagerly he dreaded a
! roast from the newspapers and cot
/ worked up over the articles more than
. he did when he talked about his trip
I 10 the galiOws and falling into
4 eternity.
! During WOOdWaTd's confinement in
F the county jail awaiting the day of his
s execution. it was alleged that he spent
4. his tine In singing songs. whistling
ana telling tories when not writing,
es1 in mn et 4
that he did nothing of the sort and
that instead Of taking a pleasant view
of his future he looked upon his short
stay on earth with many misgivings.
When not iting letters to his wife
ana other RELATIVES, Woodward put in
his time reading the Bihle. and long
I before the day of his execution he was
saying a morning and evening prayer
/ and Offering blessing over his two
I meals per day.
The crime for which Charles Wood
ward was hanged today Was one Of the
. most Cold-blOOded murders ever COM
II TIED i'm the state. That the muir
derer was deserving Of the fate that
overlook him is admitted by all, for
/ the details of the killing Of the sheriff
and the refusal of the murderer to aid
he officer when he lay on the ground
MORALLY wounded and calling for help.
show that Woodward was at the time
void of any sense of pity. His sub
sequent actions after escaping from
The scene OF the crime and the remarks
attributed to him also showed that he
was deserving of the severest punish
mont that could be meted out ID him.
Woodward's Flight to Montana.
After making his escape from the
county Jail here on Dec 30. 1901
Woodward subsequently went to his
ranch, which is located seventy five
miles west of Casper in Garfield park
and near the Rattlesnake mountains.
where he expected TO receive assist
ance from his brother. Harry Wood
ward, and his wife who he sgprosed
would be there ready to assist him
IN getting out of the country He
reached ire ranch on the evening OF
Jan. ,, 1902. but instead of finding
. friends ready to help him. he ran onto
Sheriff Kicker and two deputies at
the house. Woodward did not 20 10
the house upon ais arrival al the
ranch, and it was probably an unlucky
, thing fur him that he didn't. for if
, he mad he would probably have been
arrested and taken back to iail and
would not have committed murder.
! He went straight 10 the barn and
2 there found Sheriff RiCker's and his
deputies horses. II was about
, o'clock in the evening. Woodward al
S once made up his E-,ad to leave the
S horse at the barn that he had stoler
h from a rauchman near Casper the
S first day out of jail and which was
e badly faded. and steal Sheriff Kicker
e horse and ride out of the country
e He mounted the officers horse and was
{ ( about TO ride out of the barn. wher
% he heard Sheriff Kicker and one oi
his deputies come out of the house
, 3 He knew it was If no use 10 attempt
q to make a bold break and escape fol
S he would be shot down, so ne moved
D back into the barn and dism0unted
s Sheriff Kicker advanced TO a pOin
e ten feet from the open door. The dep.
S uty had in the meantime returned q
e the house. Hearing noises IN the barn
Sheriff Bicke- called. rs that vol
] Harry2" The sheriff thought It wa,
WoOdward's brother. Harry who wa.
Q expected to reach home that evening
o / Woodward said:
n No, it's not Harry" Sherin Rick
2 er then said
s oh; it's you. Charlie. Throw u
r. your hands
e Woodward replied: 'Go back" an,
= without a warning of any kind. n
y shot the sheriff through the body.
$ The gun used by Woodward was
I IS caiibre cots revolver. which Ia,