Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Fayette Hudson has gained additional notoriety and caused another sensational feature in his case by escaping from the United States jail hospital at Fort Smith, Ark. He was convicted of conspiracy and assault and had been in jail ever since his conviction. Phillip Norman Nicholas was hanged at Richmond Thursday morning. He made no confession. Nicholas murdered William J. Wilkerson and James Mills by drowning them? He induced them to cross the James River with him in a boat in which auger holes had been bored by Nicholas. The boat sank and Wilkerson and Mills could not swim. Martinez, the escaped Trinidad, N. M., murderer, and a companion held up a Raton saloon Tuesday morning, compelling eight men to stand in line while l hey swept $550 off the faro table into a sack. They backed out, keeping the gamblers covered with revolvers, and escaped to a part of the country whore Martinez has many friends and the ollieers are afraid to follow them. George Robinson, keeper of the poorhouse in Meade County, Ky., was shot and killed Thursday morning by Bland Shacklett, one of the commissioners of that institution. They met on the turnpike and Robinson began firing. Shacklett rushed upon Robinson and took the pistol away from him and shot him through the heart. Shacklett is not seriously wounded. He is a prominent farmer.