Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The mountaineers of Wayne County, Ky., gathered in great numbers at Monticello to witness the execution of William Pruitt, the murderer of Jarvis Buck and wife. Twe citizens were fatally injured by falling walls in a fire at Carlisle, Ky. By the legal strangulation at Richmond, Va., of Thomas J. Cluverius for the murder of his cousin, Fanny Lillian Madison, the last chapter was ended of a most sensational crime. The crime was committed to cover np Cluverius’ criminal relations with Miss Madison, who was a relative of President Madison, and the conviction was largely on circumstantial evidence.

Albert O’Dell, James Lamb, John T. Echols and John Stephens were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, for murders committed in the Indian territory. The execution passed off quietly. O’Dell and Lamb killed Edward Pollard in December, 1885, and at their trial each tried to convict the other. Echols was a desperado who had killed and robbed several persons. Stephens was an ignorant negro Since sentence was pronounced he had claimed to have talked with visitants' from the other world, who assured him that his name was written in the “Book of Life.” A Dutch syndicate of bankers at Amsterdam have purchased 900 square miles of timber lands in Florida. Abner Letcher, of Point Pleasant, W. Va., a lad of 15 years, has carried out his threat to avenge the murder of his father by Jason Borden. The corpse of the latter was found in the woods where the boy was hunting.