Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — MUROERER SMITH HANGED. [ARTICLE]

MUROERER SMITH HANGED.

Fays Extreme Penalty for Kill lag His Daughter and Sis ter-in-Law. Decatur, lll.,,J\'ov. 30. —C. N. Smith, known in professional baseball as “Pacer,” was hanged here at noon Friday for the murder of his little daughter, Louise Smith, and his sister-in-law on September 28. The crime was deliberately planned and executed. Smith went to the home of his father-in-law, where his wife and child .were living, for the purpose of killing them, but his wife escaped him, and he killed the child and his sister-in-law. The eXeeution was promptly at 12 o’clock, and the murderer’s neck w as broken byJ.he fall, lie was pronounced dead in five minutes and 34 seconds. Smith, who was 38 years old, was a well-known ball player. He was a pitcher for the Decatur White Stocking club in 1886 and afterward played with clubs at Memphis, Bloomington, Effingham, Elkhart,. Fort Madison, Ottawa and Muncie.