The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 20, 1886, Page 1

= A jo. VITI. BUTLER, MISSOURI, A RA IN and stair joine EXECUTED. WEDNESDAY a lin sing lear | road tt nto the Marmaton river r prisoners took the train ‘or ae , tone without at hotto } about a mile from vada, arriving in this city about si : SINGING AY ‘THI si No doubt their in- ok th i three W esterh Men As the deputy sheriff wa it to | tent os odies | en Suffer Deat h adjust the ees cap St Wee n t r lriver, as they made > person was found a pocket N 4 . was granted per make | inquiry as to the depth of the rnver ning $16—one $:o0-bill, Sgt as j further remarks and spoke a few | at that point. But their plans were and $1 in silver. It was minutes, making another appeal for | trustrated by finding Nannette Osborne and « that they had Henry Stair, Charles Wilson | and Noah Merriman with r two prospectors, Jaco j the words **God bless you wil.” As who were, ns, St. Louisand Belleville. THE NECK WAS BROKEN. proven that old man Sewell had that amount in the denominations de- scribed a day orso betore the killing. them? | Han ved | the black cap was being adjusted he J hyging tor a reasnre which had A receipt was also found in the S 3 began singing “Tam yoiuy to join ween buried there during the war. | pocket book for ringbone spavin, on s0ooe—— 5 the angels” and: was sug! wher That evenin t Stai - hottor Nee See ae } Zz } 5 setae a | evening, wt Stair was t om ot which was whiten: , Ne-| a ocak | : eee ty Law's Penalty Paid in the cap was placed over his tace. pwns from camp, the woman noticed | ‘*Do you think it sate to try to kill old man Sewell’s dog licking blood | trom the bottom ot one of the wagon \heds She screamed and Stair heard | it rand came back. About the time! somes With a deep sigh the condemned man braced hiniselt on the trap, and jat 1:28 Sheriff Hull sprang the trap | and Stair was hurled into eternity. | Mis neck was broken by the fal! and Henry | ‘ a Mo, Jan. 15 Nevada, ’ a] | hte was pronounced extinct in e1 | ‘ Stair paid the penalty of his 2 meee er pe : ; | minutes, chars i e murder ot the Sewells,by | : aan |} Stair was born in Wayne uly One Neck of the Three broken by the Fall. aia he arrived one of the prospectors put | ii an appearance to find the cause | of tl told scared 1 seen that iaoging in this city to-day, Last On breath A ona Se big black dog and was atwas spent in a restless mood, | tio, and was 35 years old. His) stil! nervous. He also told him that | y om : father bid hit ood bye at 10:30'| he had some fresh t eae deep not coming to the condemned | i him good bye at 10:3¢ ad some fresh beef in the wagon 1 Ih Tell the whole truth, Stew- art, and nothing bur the Lis body at 6:30 this o’clock this morning wads } hed sooled and <nieliel tad qountil 5 o'clock in the morning. | 4 ies AG SpoBed cae Sater cs URC- Hethen slept sound} y until 8 o’clock | when he arose and partook sparingly ii treakfast. were: PHE TWO BODIES FOUND. | mh. Ihis aroused the suspicion of the! | father lett with the man and he told a young man by the evening for h ye Piymouth, re ait Tt endri ab t Although the day dawned gloomily Ind : . 1¢ of Thomas Hendricks about it. } , ie lto me ne » lly 8,000 people had assembled, to | . yagreed to meet near re that ness the execution | ON THE WAY 10 THE GALLOWS. wand watch the Stairs. Arriving | . At 12:40 St accompanied by Ministers of the different churches \ yo Stair accompanied b | Sheriff Hill and his deputies arrived | at the scaffold. there that mght they found every- | ent the morning in the condemned thing still and went home with the | a's cell. At 12:15 o'clock the procession | wrted trom the jail, arriving at the | affold at 12:40. | }man in the jail just before 1 Just previous to his | agreement to meet there the next! ri arrival a wagon drove inside — the ropes with his coffin. warrant had been read to the doomed Stairs The death When iepped torward and began a speech deputy sheriffs on horseback. Judge | hatchet : with gray hairs matted in| wich lasted for forty minutes, in| Burton and Prosecuting Attorney | the blood and a bloody pair of shoes. | which he accused Sheriff Uill and ; Blanton were with him in the bus ,; A further examination revealed aj tosecuting Attorney Blanton ot and on the scattold. Me ascended | track in the leaves where some heavy aproper intimacy with Nannette | x . | the latter with a firm and easy step, | object had been dragged. Follow- | horn, and also complained severe- My anne and was then pimoned by the sheriff. ‘ing this about fifty teet they came to, yof his prison treatment. A prayer was then offered, during | 4 mound several feet high, by the Stair stood upon the scaffold per- | which Stair maintained a dignified | cde of which wss a large pile o itetly composed, holding in his hands | composure, throwing an occasional | Jeaves, atoll of manuscript to which he | glance upward teward the repe. head of a man appeared, which made frequent reterences during lis FOR A CRUEL CRIME. afterward proved to be that of Mack | geech. Deliberately and ina calm} On the night of August 5, 1885, 8 | Sewell. { voce he began by asserting that be-| most cold-blooded double murder fore God, neither he nor Nannette | was perpetrated near here. Usborne were guilty of the murder ot the Sewells, but both were victims 7 Raking them away the| | Thomas Hendncks was sent to} Jacob | town to give the alarm and the coro- | | Sewell, aged 55 years, and his som! ner was at once notified, and gather- | , 2 Mack Sewell. aged 17 years, who at | ing a jury started tor the ghastly | ot circumstances; that Frosecatings the time were camping near the fair | spot. In clearing away the leaves a Attorney Blanton and Sheriff Hill) grounds, in the western part of the | ..-ond body was discovered. that of did all in their power to convict . city, were the victims. Suspicion | 614 Jacoh Sewell. Both bodies were y — | dhis w * persons whom they knew to be 1m- soon fell on H. S. Stairand his wite. | £5 mutilated that they were hardly Nocent, | INDULGING IN A TIRADE, | or paramour Nanette Osborne, who | recognizable, but were identified by | were frequent visitors at the Sewell | James Jones ot this city. This assertion was followed by a | camp. While in this city old man FOLLOWING THE FUGITIVES. tirade against both Blanton and Hill | Sewell was taken sick and the Stairs! Ty the meantime Sheriff Hill. and was clesed by an appeal to the | had often sat up with him, giving yfarshal Brady, Deputy Sheriff people to be careful in the future to | him medrcme, and in this way had | yw hite, ex-Sheriff Fisher and a large elect officers who would fill their | gained his confidence. The murder | posse of deputized citizens started in places with honest iftegrity- | was deliberately planned. Stair then asked it one ot the jury- | to the kilhng and on Wednesday | men, who had brought in the verdict | night, August 5, Stair was seen to of murder against him, named Eaton \ depart trom home and wend his way Was present, and a voice in the {toward the camp. Previous | overy direction after the murderers. | Eariy that same morning, while | day was still distant, Stair deposited | the dead bodies of his friends in lite! Amwing there | 444 started to make his escape. wudiey veri he affirm: he waited until the boy had tallen | , Audience answering in the afhirma- , a i the doy nh: ~ traversing the same road back by ny > - ee } le ur tem at . ier 5 te, he said: “Mr. Eaton, did you | asleep, when he stole up to him and) \ hich be had entered the bottom | not say before my tral that you! struck him a terrible blow with 1 uti? about one and a half miles trom h shing eee = ae fet 20 yon en Nevada he took an easterly course, could hang me?”? Eaton answered | skull. which he traveled for several miles. emphatically,**No!”? and Stair said: | The groans aroused the father,who, “T heard you did; and, if so, it was | although in a very weak con very wrong.’? n, He then asked for) attempted to crawl! trom the wagon another juror and was not answer- | near by in which he was Iving, but | ed. main rozd the dense underbrush, going about : he turned: from the | he was dealt with Stair terrible blow jthe already bloody hatchet. a APPEALING FOR NANNEVTE OSRORNE. | then returned to where the senseless ‘town and made hasty preparations his wife. STAIR AND WIFE ARRESTED, , to leave Th ee The woman was washing when ¢ speech was wound up by an WHERE THE MURDERERS WENT 7 5 A a a 1 N ihe officers arrived and did not notice Ppeal to the people to clear Nau- Stair and his it hem until they were close to her. nette Ashorne as they loved justice. to th Stair was sot visib th hey asked her where he was she screan and when He said that he was ready and wil!- thei ing to die, and wished his old tather ams, two wagons anc a Tew Would not mourn for him, as he t camp utens ed out, ; soe men, what a no fears for himselt. He then : ae what have we done? Wested that a prayer be offered vons by ‘hymn sung. The Rev. W. | r McClure offered prayer and started | Caton tord raa ching Wrap them up in cloths and say they went off 1m the buggy.”” Stair, when arrested stepped up to his paraniour and said, ‘*‘Nanmie, keep your mouth shut. ’’ CHARLES WILSON HANGED. : Jan. 15.—Charles Wil- St. Louis, who colore steamer mate for retusing to pay him t lis wages ged this mornin $55 for the crime He was calm and brave and emphatical y protest ed his innocence of murder, claiming that the deed was committed in self defense : The body x *, But soon the Imbs began to lung motionless tor a jerk and contortions of a most hor rible character followed. During the struggle for lite by the swinging man his hands became loosse, and atter sever: attempts succeeded in grasp- ing the rope above his head a with death grip. They were. however, NOT A SIGN OF FBAR. | to the gallows, and he had | final } : “od soon disengaged, by the attending wi s, and h i his) firia ia it! hey ‘ounc Pep eo A oe oy as ers 4 P ‘ > physicians, who held them by the Suir mounted the scaffold with @/ interview with Nannette Osborne, to Sis rone. Following the | : { f the stru ti 1 fe runtil A iy , > . ra) ig de 0 e strugghing forn 1 imtread. The Rev. Dr. Messer! which was very affecting. He was) wagon tack down the nver unul 4 I 1 é . ay ee death ensued. hen read a passage of scripture and | conveyed to the scaffold im a closed | they came to where they had stopped : dlivered a short prayer. Stairthen| bus duly guarded by a corps of eye sccond tune they tound a blondy | Many murders were more cold | blooded and more brutal than that of William A. David have been ex- | piated by short terms in the peniten- | iary, and despite the decision of the | | JANUARY killed a mver) 1886 20, NO. and causing concussion of David THE OLD RELIABLE Was picked up, une carried to lat ro0’cl le Gies that night. out to Officer Taytor by the crowd. Wilson ran away. atter or He was placed under arrest and tak- | S. J e GROVES | throwing the rocks and was pointed en to the Third district police station. | The murdered mate was 27 years | NORTH MAIN ST. | old, and resided in Cincinnati. A | ax wee . | Keeps more meats and mere hinds ew months before his death he mar-} and the best that can be procured ;Mied a girl named Annie Dwyer, of | both tresh and cured. Also tresh Memphis, and shortly afterwards se- | Fish and Ovsters in their season, cured a Hie | When you want anything in my line | give me a call, S. J. GROVES. ARVIS, CONKLIN tk CoO. diyorce from her. | mother was quite wealthy and resid- | jed at Kising Sun Ind. He was a} /nephew ot Captain David of the! United States packet ot Cincinnat, j and had been mate of the Tiger and ; Calhoun. meng ENE “rai He joined the Tatum six weeks betore his death, he | would as soon fight as eat, he used and, \ ; to take upon himself the settlemen the dec hands told him that some ot the ne- groes would kill that he! j nad better keep Dav | | vomy smile | jot all quarrels. One of 1 iim, and eyes open ) 1 id looked at him with ag and replied: “LT expect to get killed | on the d 1 x < eck of a steamboat. j A WIFE MURDER’S END | Belleville, Ml,, Jan. 15.—Noah } Merriman, the negro who brutally | j killed his wife April 10, 1585, was | | hanged at 11:30 this morning. He confessed the murder of his wite and | Por Cen None | | } stated that he had _ killed woman In East St. Louis six years | ago. another Siete Shorily atter noon on April 10, | Merriman went to his houseon Jack | 74 Loan in Sums from $500 up. Lowe son street and not finding his wife at | home went shortly after to the house | oi Ann Jackson on High street in| search of her, finding her there. He | est Rates of Commission. Call and see us. Office west Side Square, second mate of the steamer Fanme | Noah atter her. Hs wife ran around Tt. i MANAGER. Tatum, and Wilson was a roustabout | the house to the front gate and just on the boat, which had been plying | as she was opening it Noah picked | _ = —- jin the Paducah trade, although her | up a brick and hit her in the back of | |last trip before the muraer was to | the head, rendering temporarily un- | NEW NEW! {Cairo and return. On_ the trip| conscious. While she lay on the | .) ° the river, near Chester. lreturn. In the morning he came in- | but “ine he ma ‘ . the boat, but being a rather old man to the city with the object of deliver- | Pete David took charge of the men and jing himself up to Deputy Sheriff Al ruled them with a rod ot iron. On He then turned in a northeastern | 4). afternoon in question he was half | direction, traveling thus unul about ; drunk and very abusive en miles from Nevada, bie Wilson was driven trom the boat he | into | 150 yards intoa small clearing where | criminal court, it will always be aj} question whether Wilson’s crime was murder in the first or second accused her of inconstancy and with ; cohabiting with various men and threatened to kill her. She becom- | degree. The victim, David, was ing tightened ran out the back door, | Over Lansdown Drug Store WwW. L. POWELL, ground he took his revolver from his | hip pocket and shot her in the back | near the ninth rib, the ball passing so close to her heart that she died in afew momenis. He then stood and | 0.5. LEW! Ill., and about eighty miles below the city: Wilson had a dispute with David, the latter accusing him ot shirking his work. The dispute was tertuinated by the mate knocking Wilson down with a heavy stick, oe looked at her tor a moment, then | made a motion to strike her, but tin: | the blow cutting him over the right} ally finished his cowardly work by} eye leaving a scar. The negro then | administering to the dead woman | demanded his pay for two days, | several kicks. He then cooly walked , amounting to $2, and the mate re- | off down the street, left Belleville in | tused to pay him, whereupon Wil-| a southwesterly direction, and wan- | KEITH'S - OLD STAND son left the boat at Chester and came | dered around in the woods for sev up to the city on the Emma C. Elliot. The Tatum landed at the foot of Cherry Monday morning. ty and Fevers Has Pareh Has so hanged it That it is New { Entirely NEW eral days, begging his meals at adja- He his way to Nashville, il, about twenty- July 31, and about 4:30 o'clock that | ix miles trom the city, stayed there afternoon Wilson went down to the | 4 fey, days and then wandered back boat and again demanded his money. | tg Belleville and slept near the Wes- David cursed him and drove him ‘tern nail mill the first night of his ashore. mate of | jcent tarms finally made Grocery & Restaurant COMBINED. Charles was first ment at al thing hy ; Dawson, but changed his mind and | You started out again to the American any ; haly : When | bottoms where he had been raised, | Don’t fail to give him call and after a stop of a tew davs in the | Second Door South of Arlington. p the levee toward Cherry, ! bottoms, made his way to East Car- , C. B. LEWIS. e way picked up a rock. | ondelet, and from there across the LACE RRR RECESS REESE IDE POTS OTIC PEGS I EA ts cence A RIESE IEICE A CREE I walked and on 5 pl but did not use it as the mate was/yf.ccouri, where he was captured | then gave a detailed account boy lay and cut his throat from ear} vat s nye seme ye ~— | following him closely. One of the about then weeks after the murder | ry tnal <abage ig ee: 7 en ad the murderer made sure that the old | j¢¢ White of Nevada, and Gisarice | Wilson say: bile é te ee seve | He was brought to Belleville and n- aly and time and again asserted | 1 was dead. He then came to! yg: : ‘ty | you if it costs my life.” Halt an! corcerated in the county jail, was in- his innocence and the innocence of } Miller, marshal of Seneca City. } | hour later Wilson returned to where! gicted by the grand jury at the May the roustabouts were handhng treight term, tried on October land it was observed that he had aj, nd, and David, who! pany with Capt. William | ye It cle: hair fall at 7, and found guily of the murder with sentence, t rock in ea hanging. twas in ce Bronze Turke s. \ a | Bruner. a leevee clerk, asked what ' f - ] asked of ; 43 blood eve Can : Jot of pure Bron Have added tres son threw one n. W truck David in ve to stagger and fall, Ww tt nson Trew } David ruck