The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-01-19
GIVEN SPEEDY TRIAL
Nathan Montague Sentenced
TO be kIecfrocgted on
February 18th


Negro Who Assamlsed and Anrsser~d
Miss Matte sansarr~ and Aarxi~r~si
Her Father. =. L. Sanders. and HIS
Little Grzmssaaaxht~r. irrns Over
ton. and Harmed Their Bodies In
the Sanders fsome Near Oxford.
Was Tried ansa senseneed MoadAy
Prisoner Esougias Hack to Ral-
efgh-Sansxs Co-Murxierers.
Oxford. =. g.. jar. 1E.-SatnEn
Montague sent e speedy condemna-
ton to-day when ne vas arraigned.
tried and convicted OF killing Miss
Matte Sanders December 18th. lie
wlil be eieetrocuted February 18th
Lawyers declare that IL Is UMPIRE
oedented for so aggravated an of
tense. When Montague came here this
under GatlIn guns and seventy sol
diers OF Company b. OF Raleigh, and
was met by forty Of GranTiiie's Greys
under General Beverly Royster. He
was accorded all attention that be-
longed to such brute. These were
here 10 save his wretched life. The
utmost order prevailed throughout.
Though a crowd three times too great
10 enter the courtroom was here, II
wasn't murderous body. They were
onlookers. They wanted to hear the
testimony, which Of itself was tanned
to prevent any possibility Of out
break. There was no chance of the
murder of Peyton Sanders and his lit
tie granddaughter, Irene Overton.
The poor, outraged girl alone was re-
venged.
The care exercised by the court
took out all possibility OF trouble.
There was nothing to do, and the
more than one troops with rifles, bay
onets and Gatin guns could have
stood back Japanese invasion. Mon
tague was brought here on special
train from Raleigh, and at every turn
the gathering crowds were discomfort
ed. There is general satisfaction
here. Nobody asked for the blood OF
the brute.
; Judge Ward congratulated the
county upon it's spirit of repression
Montague was sent back on the
special train this afternoon at five
!, o'clock His case went to the jury
was decided, the death sentence read
the crowd cleared and the train dis
patched within an hour, and haste
:, wasn't unseemly. The sum- total o
the testimony developed, all element
, of criminal assault being assiduousl.
avoided in the extravaganza Of care
was circumstantial, but conclusive
The first witness, Mrs. H. H. Overton
sister of Miss Matte Sanders, CAV
the dead girls age at %, describet
her hair and clothes as being thos
found in the possession of Montagu
S at his home the night of the murder
Her father-in-law, Shuman Overton
introduced to show similar testimony
u declared that Montague could no
have gotten bloody from the worl
that he did with the hogs because h
;, did so little. A white cravat wa
y found near Montague's house. 1t be
. longed to Legion Sanders. Nose
Overton, the third witness, probabf
unearthed the circumstances that en-
4 veloped the murder in mystery unit
: he appeared. Montague had loane
Overton his knife that day. Whe
found in the light of the burnin
: house, it was recognized. That lie
q to the arrest and to the discovery c
q the clothes that completed the strin
. of circumstances.
n Melville Hunt, John T. Milton az
Ie Frank Hester were examined to sho
s. the burning of the house, the fndin
/. of the charred bodies, the discover
s. of stray hairs and the evidence of
D. throw the girl into the well seem
r irresistible The chain was blood
n and all about it were seen patches {
% hair, blood and tracks that told {
et the struggle.
u Until Montague confesses complete
y, ly there will be no way to find o,
ID how old man Sanders died. The b
lief is general that the child We
In burned. without being murdered. TIL
ID oldest and the youngest were foun
lie near each other.
al Ex-Sheriff s. A. Fleming's evident
TO tended to prove the identity of til
lie three dead people. He was preser
ie when Montague was arrested. Il
Oh said the prisoner laughed an idiot
lie laugh when arrested. r. e. Staynt
completed the circumstantial test
10 mony by bringing out the fatef'
CT skirt which no reasonable man ca
lie account for. Robbing the dead 81
s. of her clothing, throwing her into tt
IN house and carrying away the only &C
ual evidence furnished against hin
LII rather than burn, was the course
e Montague.
: Sheriff Wheeler strengthened tt
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