Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-10
YOUTHFUL MURDERER
BOY FROM INDIAN TERRIToRY IN
REFORM SCHOOL.
Committed for q Term Of Two Years
for Killing . Play
mate.

Deputy United States Marshal Robert
Fortune and Amos Irving, messenger in the
court at South McAlester, Indian territory,
arrived here last night with Benjamin Sad
der. fifteen years old. who is under a SEN
tence of two years in the District reform
school for attempted murder. All the parties
are colored In May the colored boy had
some trouble at base ball game in South
McAlester. A base ball bat was brought
Into play and the skull of John Chambers
was fractured
The deputy marshal attracted some atten-
ton on his trip here because his revolver
and ammunition were carried in a belt
around his waist. At Salisbury, N. c., a
policeman called the colored deputy to &C
count for appearing on the street armed and
was about to arrest him when the deputy
showed his credentials and made matters
all right although the parting remark OF
the North Carolina policeman was:
But we don't like to see Niger on the
street armed, anyhow"
In conversation with a Star reporter the
deputy marshal said his trip had been q
long and tiresome one. He formerly lived
In Virginia and before returning to Indian
territory he will visit his father for the
first time in twenty-five years.
Irving Washingtonian.
Amos Irving was former resident of
this city. He was employed in the govern
ment printing Office. but lost his position
during the last democratic administration.
Then he went west and obtained a position
as court messenger at South McAlester
Deputy Marshal Fortune has gained con-
siderable notoriety during his twenty-five
years of residence in the southwest. He has
figured In many cases of Importance,
among them two murder trials, in which the
murderers were executed less than a month
ri Or hi
and Charles Barrett and they paid the ex-
IRENE penalty of the law at the same time
and upon the same scaffold. In the case of
the woman President Roosevelt was appeal
ed TO by lawyer who came all the way
from Indian territory to intercede for her.
She murdered a girl who had been placed in
her care and then mutilated her body. Her
story IN her own defense was an attack
upon the girls character. In the case of
the man 1t was proved that he shot and
killed man and took 81 900 from him.
The Double Execution.
The night before the execution the wo-
man remained awake and spent most of her
time praying and singing in so loud a tone
that people two blocks away heard her She
protested her innocence until about 2
O'Clock In the morning when she said a
presentment had come to her that she was
really responsible for the death Of the child
When asked If she wanted a breakfast the
morning of her execution she responded:
There is a breakfast waiting for me in
heaven" When the couple appeared upon
the scaffold and the ropes were being ad-
1usted the man said: You are getting that
a little too tight" The woman remarked:
Don't make that so tight
Only few days ago Fortune accident
ally shot and seriously wounded a man
while he was in search of another man,
who was wanted for selling whisky in vio-
lation Of law. The man he shot was a mem
Der of his posse and the injury was so seri-
GUS that he lost a leg.
The deputy and his assistant delivered
the boy to the reform school authorities
The officers will spend several days sight
seeing before returning home.