Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-21

BLUES were Seuleu Ou the grass, ana tney
were happy Africans, to judge by ap-
pearanceS.
Il spec you feel mighty proud now,
Adam, an tonight you jes' bout make
dat gal Cindy tink yous de debbel his
self"
"G'long, Calban! How l gwine win
dat gal, if she tnk rs de debbel? | is
suah huff gwine blow my horn mighty
hard. is gwine tell her bout my trip
up to Baltimore, on de railroad wild Mars
Lang, an how 1 says in dat spress Office
OATS de man, Mars Lang"
"Glong, niger! You didn't do moth
in"
What you do? Now tell me dat!''
Adam, you's fool! Didden l keep
desc yere two eyes ON Herman Craven
night and day? Yes, even when he was
In ne bed. Whar is he now?"
Oats so, Calban. You's had more
sperience dan 1 is
Now yo' talkin'! Say, Adam, l spec
yo' misses will buy dat gal Cindy for YOU
now, an you ken mex her yo' lawfully
| wife,
Golly, Calban! Does you reckon SOP"
"Suah | does
wei, l gwine hint 'roun' bout il
NIGHTLY, directly she get ober dis fins
tration. l spec da hang Mars Herman
| now"
Fer suah da hang him."
"Da earn hang he daddy!'
long home an tell Hannah and Mil
| lie. L seed Unc Duke at de court house
1ous a fool! What da gwine hang a
dead man fer2"
Wlth what he intended as withering
look, Calban left his sable companion and
entered the house.
a. @'4o p. m. on the ninth day of No
VemDer, terrible scene was enactad
"1Ihih the county Jail at Wilmington.
twenty personS-the number allowed nv
ia"-Were gathered before a grewsome
structure that occupied position at the
cast emu OF the room of execution. The
ele"solne OBJECT was the galows and
"hen SherlH Cobb approached from an
.,oh uoor mat separated the room from
me In.1 io"er tier of cells followed by ,Jailer
nhya" ana an assistant, who between
lnehi were fairly dragging along n white
roDed, shrieking figure, a pallor over
spread the faces of those assembled
Two clergymen followed the main ao-
tors in this fearful drama.
1he scaffold was reached Tho fror+;o
snrouded form was bodily raised and car,
iieu upon the platform. More. he was
placed in standing posture on the very
center of the trap.
IF you have words to speak, speak
them now," said Sheriff Cobb.
Mercy! Mercy" screamed the alb
lect' horror-stricken wretch. "You all
Know L did not strike the blowp,
Inc condemned mans hands were
shackled together behind him with a
leather strap while he was speaking. and
MS lower limbs We're securely bound TO-
gether with another.
one of the clergymen stepped to tho
side OF the trap and uttered short. fer
vent prayer, closing the same with tbe
words: May God have mercy ON your
| soul!' '-
"A wild wall broke from the lips of Her
man Craven as a knotted moose was PASS
ed over his head Another! Still anotb
er. But the last, half muffled, came from
beneath the black cap that now concealed
his livid features
Jailer fllyaw was supporting the Grim
mai on one side, his assistant on the
other.
The clergymen had stepped back from
the prisoners side and the sheriff had dis
appeared within small enclosure TO the
left of the trap, and through which pass
eu tne rope that held the trap in place.
Mercy! My God, mercy l will not
| die! /"
The clock on the market tower sounded
the first stroke of the hour of three.
The blow of an ak resounded from the
box that concealed the sheriff.
The trap fell. The shrouded figure fol-
lowed it, leaving the jaler and his assist
ant with their arms extended over n va
cant space.
The taut rope creaked. The body spun
round and round. A movement or two
| Of the limbs, and then-a pendant figure.
| hanging lifeless.
The murder of Alvin DeRosette had
| been avenged.
John ID. Lloyd was appointed by the
| court as administrator of the late bank
ers estate and guardian of his daughter:
but the term of his guardianship was
short, for on the twentieth of the follow
ing June the fair heiress became the bride
| OF Robert Campbell and the same day
saw sweet Jennie Campbell the wife of
Arthur Dobbs, the young attorney.
The two weddings occurred at midday
in the DeRosette residence, and large
number Of friends were there present:
but the one whose good wishes to both
brides and grooms brought the most fer
vent pleasure, it is safe to say, was
certain detective, and tears filed the eyes
Of the two happy brides when they bade
him good-by to start on their wedding
trip.
May your trip through life be as hap
by as the one before you promises to be-"
| aaid Spllars "and rnar thnr1 ha .,a Al 49,