The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-18
PAY PENALTY
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LING OF THE TRAP.

plain view the swaying, convuIsive
bodies.
FALLING OF THE TRAP.
h drop fell at precisely I2.eo O'Clock
n six minutes later DIR. L. 3. Evans,
county physician of Bladen, and DIR.
w. H. CT. Lucas pronounced Sellars
dead, but Brown did not die until two
minute afterwards.
WAS CHOKBD TO DEATH.
Brown died of stranguIation, though
in ali probability he felt no pain. 1t IS
thought that the drop rendered him un-
Conscious. hat his neck was not
broken is attributed TO the fact that he
stood near the hinges. which were on
enc end of the trap, and his prevented
a very sudden fall.
CROWD GATHERED SC.U vENIRS.
AS soon as the bodies of the negroes
were cut do In scores of people made
a rush for souvenirs and II was only a
Few minute before the ropes had been
cut in pieces and the sheeting, which
had surrounded the galfows. torn nto
small bits.
MURDERED WOMAN.S HUSBAND
AND FATHER-IN-UAW.
Both the husband of the murdered
woman and her father-in-law obtained
pieces of the rope. The latter, Mr..
John Packer. got possession of the knot
OF rope which was under Browns left
ear. They also looked upon the two
negroes after they had been placed in
their black collins. which had been
placed in the rear of the scaffeld earlier
II the day.
THE DEAD BODIES.
Sellars' remains were turned over TO
his wife and those of Brown TO his
brother and mother. The last mem
toned came from her home in Georgia
last week to see her son alive once
again. The bodies OF both negroes
were carried overland to Carver's
Crook, where they were inferred.
FIRST FOR FOURTEEN YEARS.
The hanging of Sellars and Brown is
the first that has transpired in Bladen
county in owe ten years. The last was
that of d negro, Jim Johnson, about
fourteen years ago. Att that hanging,
as the one today, Deputy Sheriff Bull
lard OBLIGATED in an important ca
Iacity-
CAPABLE GUARD.
The personnel of the guard hat rem
dered such faithful service at today's
execution was as follows:
Alex Smith, j. w. Smith, j. g. Bull
lard, A. E. Lair, DIN Suggs, l.. p.
Tatum b. A. Downing, 3. r. Tatu1n,
T. L. Davis, J. Wash Clan, w. G. SUIT
ten, w. II Butler, n. NJ. SIngletary,
a. J Evans, J. L. Roberts, Guss Bull
lard. ]. w. Shaw Charlie Jones, H. q.
Harrelson, J. H. S. ia and D.. j.
Skipper.
THE NEGROES CRIME.
The crime for which Seiiar and
brCwn We're punished was one Of the
most CHASTITY and brutal {i the history
Of unlawful deeds. 1t was the ravish-
ing and killing of Mrs. Blanche Pack
or. wife Of Mr.. George Packer, on the
morning OF September 3rd last. At the
time the young woman was alone al her
home, a milo from Clarkton. She was
in the kitchen of the hous baking pies
when she was seized and dTasged to
a nearby thicket and fearfully outrag-
ed Then she was killed in a most
brutal manner, Ter head being crush
ed in by a blow from a piece Of fence
rai:. Signs showed plainly how the de-
lGIlSSI0SS NOIIldu IldI lOuSuS OoSpCI olI-
~ for her honor and life. The subse
Guent arrest of the two negroes, the
evidence against them and the narrow
escape they had from lynchin5 in Viii
nl.ngton, while they We're beng taken
ID Raleigh for safe keeping IN The pen
itentiary, is too Well known To- need re-
flashing now. It is al still fresh il
mind, as the deed. arrest, trial and
n-,,SchT,nn+ hnyn oil nnpIlrrnI whit IN
TWO months and & half.
The negroes were tried !aSt month
and the execution today is the result
OF that trial
NEGRO BADLY CUT.
Shortly after the hanging & negr:
man and a brother of George Packer
husband of the murdered woman, go
into an alteration on the road jus
outside Elizabethtown and the negro
was severely cut with a knife. 1t L
said he was iKsolent to Packe.
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