Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1887 — JACK KETCH’S VICTIMS. [ARTICLE]

JACK KETCH’S VICTIMS.

Kx«cute«l Felons, and the Crimes for Which They I’itlil the Deatii Penalty. • JANUARY. Charles Williams (colored! was hanged for criminal assault at Cambridge. Md., on the Bth. The gallows bore fruit on the 15th as follows : Noah Merriman, a colored wife-mnrderer, at Louis. Mo„ for slaying the mate of a river steamer; Rev. Wn, George, a colored minister, at Lake Providence, 1.a., for the murder of. his mistress: Henry M. Stair, at Nevada, Mo., for the killing of Jacob Sewell and son ; at Reaumont, Texas. Win Madison, who killed Albert Smith because of jeal' usv—both colored. Henrv Jackson, while singing hymns on the scaffold at Mitiden, La , on the 22d. was rudely interrupted by the dislocation of his neck ; ho killed It, A. Britten, a grocer. FEBRUARY. Two murderers paid the ponaltv on the sth Dennis W. Dilda at X’rescctt, Arizona, for the killing of llepntv Sheriff J„ M, Murphy, and Cyrus Miuich. at Leadvttre, Col. ( h-is. Hormahn, .who murdered his wife at Buffalo. N. Y., and for three nights slej t in the bed where the gory corpse lav, was lunged on th > 11th. Wiebre’n Witrtena, a Hollander, murdered John Divgbor, who liaxl befriended him, and expiated hiscrime at Rensselaer, liid., tm the '1 th. MARCH. On the sth. Clarence Gray, alias Isham Collins, xvas hanged at Wiunemucca. Nev., for the murder of ,Rl H, Scott, while attempting to rob the latter's store. Patrick Ford and John Murphy, New Orleans politicians, were hanged kt the Crescent Cite on the 1-tli for the murder of Captain A. H.. Murphy ; the Louisiana Hoard of Pardons refused to yield to a petition of sin,7Bo c-tmens for the release of the -eiilnrits, who sought to escape the gallows by taking poison, but w eropartially revived and worked off by the sheriff at the appoint® l hour. Louis O Neil suffered the de&tn penalty at Jacksonville. Oregon, for the murder of texts McDaniel. On the •JCth. Frank Mulko.vsky. the mur erer of Mrs. Agnes Kledzieck, expiated his cr me in the jn.ilyard at Chicago, protesting his innocence to tho last moment. A negro named John Drake was executed at Thomaston. Ga , for the murder of his wife and the cremation of her corpse. APRIL. Jeff Wilson, a colored man,-was worked off by the Sheriff at Lexiugton,, Mo-, on the 2d. for the murder of his mistress. Robt. J. Phillips, a colored wife-murderer, was executed at Indianapolis on the Bth. On the loth Sheriffs worked off Allen J. Adams at Amherst, Maes., for the inuivier. in iS.'o, of his employer, an aged farm- j er—Adams spent ten years after his crime as a dissolute tramp, confessed in a drunken brawl, and was convicted ; Csmilio Gonzales, a Mexican robber, at Bracket. Texas, for the murder of Peter Johnson, a ranchman; and Cbas. Robinson colored! at Newcastle. Del., for outrage. Pobt. Smith (colored), aged 19. suffered death at Nicholasville, Ky.. for the murder of his stepfather, James Sea; tiie culprit sold bis body to surgeons for $25. which he expended for fruit. On the 23d Robt. Fowler was hanged at Morf onfield, Ky„ for the murder of Miss Lydia iurnett, who had refused his hand in marriage. On the’ same day the gailows at Fort Smith, Ark,, was used ''seventy-first time in twelve veursl in the execution of James Wasson and Joseph Jackson, for murders committed in the Indian Territory. On the 3ith and last day of the month the hangman closed the earthly career of J. M. Armstrong at Perry ville. Ark., George Carroll at Searcy, in the same State, Richard J. Lee and Lonis Somerfield at Washing on, D. C.. and James Walker at Augustine, Fla. Giuseppe Scorns, an Italian, convicted of the murder of one or his countrymen, cheated the hangman by suiciding in bis cell at Hudson, N.T. . 3 MAY. George Young, a negro wife-murderer, was hanged at Galveston. Arthur J. Grover, who murdered Granville G. Loomis in 1885. suffered the law s dread penalty at tne Columbus tOhioi penitentiary at lam, of the 14th. Other exoentions during the month: Laois Willet, alias

Cbartea Crosby, a* Kings to a, IT. Y„ for murder. Peter Louts Otto at Buffalo. N. Y., f or tho murder of his wife. Lee Barnes at Dover, Ark.; killed Charles Holman and secured *tw; both sambltra. Louis Kilgrave at Raleigh. N. C.. for the murder of MatUe Henderson; both col-' ored Jamas Reynolds at Sidney, Neb., for tbe murderx>f James Ralston and son. John C. Henning at Crawfordtvllle, Ind; killed Mrs. Chtrlotte Volliner, who had refused to marry h’m because of bis intemperate habits. Antonio Nardello. in Washington, I). C„ for tbe murder- of Carmine Botuuuo, whom he robbed of *3O. r JUNK, Geo. McNair, colored, aged 19, suffered death at Ihe rope's end at Jacksonville. N. C.; bis offense was an assault ujion a white girl of 9. A double execution came Off at Winchester, Va., on the 4th l Wesley Honesty and Tabiey Banks) and a single one (James Baxter) at Winchester, Tenu.; all colored men and all murderers. Arthur Williams and a man named Drayton were hanged at Orlando, Fla.; Drayton was convicted of nfbrder and the other of a criminal assault, his victim dying. Alfred Taylor, colored, perished on the scaffold at Opelousas, La , for assault upon a white wc msn. Dennis Boyd, a negro, was executed at Bellevue, 1.a., for the assassination of David Haas. Geo B. Davis was hanged at Scale, Ala., for tho murder of Archb Reevos, and at Greenville, Miss , Hobt. Dillard and Jameß Emmett, both colored murderers, suffered the death penalty. JI’LY. Jenkins Wright, a negro, suffered death at the rope's eud for wife murder, at Hampton, H. C.; the culprit threw his victim's body into a fire. Other hangings noted during torrid July were: Frank Gaston, colored, at Salisbury, N. C„ for criminal assault upon a white woman. Dock Bishop at Coffeyville, Miss., for tb* murder of Detective Wise. Ham Archer, one of a family of desperadoes, at Shoals, Ind., for tho mi.-.-dor of Samuel A. Bunch; Ham Archer s death ended the career of the fifth of a gang of wretches who had been guilty of many crimes, futile Tombs at New York. Miguel Chacon, a Cuban negro, perished on the scaffold for killing his paramour while trying to murder her husband. James Pacey at WoOfistock, 111., for tho murder of Alderman Gay nor, of Chicago. Four Southern negro murderers were hanged on tho lfith—Samson Roland aud George Solomon at Donaldsonvilie, La., George Harrison at Hhrevoimrt, La., and Richard Townsend at Valdosta, Ga. Lincoln Hproln and Calvin James .wero hanged at Forth Smith, Ark., for murders committed in tho Indian Territory ; since IS7I, forty-six men have been banged at that place. A murderer named Joseph Jump was executed ntflallatm, Mo., in tho presence of 20,000 people. Andrew Green, xvlio killed a street-car driver, was hanged at Denver, confessing his crime on the scaffold. George Moore was hanged at Charlotte, N. C., for assault upon his daughter; be protested hie innocence to the las*. AUGUST. E. D. Bundy (colored, was put to doath according to law, at Spartanburg, 8. C., on the 6th, for tho murder of Annie Hickman, white. Other legal hangings during tho month were: Kit Ross, a half-breed Cherokee Indian, at Ft. Smith, i Ark. ; John Smith, at Gallatin, Mo.; Willis Hudson. at It. Gainos, Ga. ; Michael Merz. at Uniontown, Pa.; Nathaniel S. Bates, at Richmond, lud.—all for murder. SEPTEMBER. ” James Simpson and Patterson Bell were hanged at Marion, Ark., on the 3d inst., for murder. Irvin Murray, a wife-murderer, at Georgetown, Tex. Rev. Josso Cooke (colored), same crime and same penalty, at Butler, Ga. Frank 8. Humphreys, at Milledgeville, Ga., for the murder of his niece.and sister-in-law. OCTOBER. Chas. Edwards, colored, who killed his mistress, Hottie Refuge, in Algiers, La., was executed on tho 1 st. Other executions during Oct toberwere: Wright Weldon, colored, at Edgefield, S. for the murder of a planter in It-61. Henry Norris, who killed George Elliott, owing to a quarrel about a chew of tobacco, at Buchanan. Ga. Robert Evan Sproule, an American citizen, at Victoria, B. ('., charged with killing a mining comrade ; lie stoutly protested his innocence on the scaffold. NOVEMBER. Two murderers Buffered death on the scaffold jn British Columbia on the 2d—Albert Mallott; at Kamloops, and Ah Sweet (who killod a brother Chinaman), at llevelstock. Other executions during November were • William S. Wilson at Jonesboro, 111., for wife-nmrder; Albert G. Boynton at Los Angeles, Cal., tor killing his wife and J, B. Kipp, to whose house the woman had tied to escape ill-treatment; Fong Ah Sing at Han Francisco, for the murder of a Chinese woman ; Jones Spry at Natchez, Miss., for the murder of Ada Coleman, both colored. DECEMBER. Robert Gravor, colored, was hanged in St. Louis for the murder of a man who had whipped him in a fight. Louis Pash, a negro murderer, was executed at Bardstown, Ky, Bob Jeter (colored), murderer, hanged atSpartanburg, S. C,