People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — THREE TO DIE. [ARTICLE]

THREE TO DIE.

Wholesale Sentencing of Convicts at Fort Smith. Ark. Fort Smith, Ark., July 10.—Frank Carver and John Allison, white, and Eli Lucas, a Choctaw Indian, have been sentenced in the United States court to be hanged Tuesday, Oct. 1. Carver killed Annie Maledon at Muskogee, I. T., March 28, and Allison killed his father near Pryor Creek, I. T., Jan. 5. Lucas was convicted of killing a halfwitted negro near San Bois, I. T„ Sept. 30, 1894. He made a long talk before sentence was passed, protesting his innocence and accusing the witnesses against him of perjury. Thirty other convicts were sentenced tQ the penitentiary.