The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 3, 1889, Page 7

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Corbin, Ky., March 26.—There was considerable excitement here | when Sheriff Hargus of Pineville and two dey muties stopped off between trains on their way to Stanford, Ky., | where they were to place Gen. Sow- ders in the brick jail, all the other } ; | i | | simple | | | fee 1 jails in this section being frame structures. Albert Turner, | the louder of the arresting party, and whose father Sowder is accused ‘iilup. sas one of the deputies, but | notwithstanding these relations, Par. ,2 itil: fellow with white h mat bb fuzz onhis face, was | ~ as friendly to Sowders as if they |) re ai The peo- | ple here ¢ y with them in / “Bitters,” likewise his to- ; re bot 4 labeled and Turner's bottle, bacco, frequently found its way to} , Sowder’s mouth. tas It was a rare sight to see a pris- oner, particularly one who has the reputation of having killed eight men, being taken to jail unhandcuff- ed, but to all appearances Sowders as free as anybody. The sher- s. however, were walking arsenals, and to a person unused to such sights, the careless display of their murderous-looking Colt started shivers up and backbone. i revolvers down his Your correspondent was introduc- edto Sherif Ha hearing that Sowders wasin the par- ty asked that official vus, and before where he w as A six-footer, a rather well-dresed and mannered, replied: low, “Oh, just going ona little hunt.” uirrel Afterwards, however, he said that he was taking Sowders to ford jail, and asked the yp the Stan- oner if he wauted to have a talk with the reporter. General Sowders—the “General” is not 2 title; that is his given name—a tall, blonde man with a careless air, said it didi’t makeany difference to him, and the cireum- stances connected with his arrest were mentioned. INTERVIEWING SOWDERS. “T) over y've been trying to get me for a year,” said Sowders, but I've managed to keep out of their way. Sometimes I had tolerably hard times, I can tell you, sleepin’ in the mountains and only slippin’ home now and thea between days. You see. both the Tennessee authorities and those of this state were after me, and Thadto wateh boih sides. Once I had just left home when a dozen men surrounded the house. I was within sight of ‘em all the time, but I knew the mountains bet- ter than they did. Ive had ‘em ride right by me, so clear I could hear "em talk. I didn't need to have been ar- rested when Iwas. I had my pistol ready, and I don’t doubt but that I could have fought my way out, but you see I was stoppin’ at Mr. Birch’s and his sick wife and two children were there, and some of them would have been sure to be killed if we had got to shootin’, so I just gave up when they promised they wouldn't take no advantage of my being dis- armed.” “Are these stories that you killed eight men, true!” “No, I didn’t kill! Lee Turner, though that’s what I'm arrested for. I don't know who Killed him. We and I don’t s would whichever had got the drop; | | He hain't | have to, | nOW didn’t know he was in night he was shot.” ey “EH is ther. ou killed y Is that so?” “Yes, I shot him; but I | He shot at me and threatene me, soT thought Td rather i] had to. ~You Pineville the} | eggs with me ‘lives in Pineville. and who ha: five or six men. belong to your set?” “No, sir: Andy Johnson don’t be- long to no s s I know Hes got a bad reputation, and there's lots £ the drop on him, but he’s a good fellow. led nobody he didn’t and he won't. He don't owe no oue, and he’s a nice man “Why, he’s | He is blind asa result of a shootin of. “ ple as would like to get ev- ery way. 4Ot SEV- eral times. in one eve by one of the men who he afterwards killed. | Bui you won't tind a kinder-hearted tan Or u squarer one in Pineville.” ETTY GOOD FELLOW. DU RIE pretty and that he don’t beeve you ever shot any- | ee ly w ity cation.” “And he’s seat I don't say T hy sut I never pr about that, t shot several men, noted a gun at a man first time he got a chance. they was lookin’s for me. oWe ho man nythi ng 10body ie. can say I harmed first ever them in without any way they nness. “General, ca you tell meanythit of about apy of those riots several SIX or sey ago when were | ? I don’t know anything about therm only by he yo ago there was a number of people killed up at a meetin’ house on Yel- low Creek; about 12 miles from Pine- ville. Meetin’ was bein’ some men—I expect they were about half-drunk—shot through the win- dows. couple of years Of course there was more or less excitement, anda regular tight say. The in the church, bein’ the biggest nuim- ber. got the best of it, so faras whip- pin’ was concerned, but I. guess five or six of “em were killed, while only of the attackers got hurt. I guess that got in the papers; but there’s been a lot of trouble like that, only not always quite so bad, that never got in the county papers, ever, let alone get telegraphed to the city papers. followed, so they people one “It will go hard with you to be shut up inside a brick jail after be- ing so much in the open air, won't it?” “JT don't think Til have there long. to stay I will try to get a hear- in’ right soon, and don’t believe they can hold me for killing Lee Turner. Some of my enemies started that story. There’s always folks that don't tike men who stand up for their own rights, and some of them started the report that I shot Lee Turner, but I didn't. Some of them, too, shot holes through the windows of my father’s house and bothered his stock and crops so that he had to sell out and move to Knox county. I suppose some folks might say he was a bad man, but Ill leave it to Sheriff Hargus or any other man whose word’s good if my father was not as gooda man as there was in the county. He was a ‘squire, too.” “Well, General, here's our train, I guess we had better get aboard,” said the sheriff, and the uncouth and rough looking, though withal genial party, boarded an L. & N. train for Stanford. HE ATE THE EGGS. Sowders really bears a fair repu- tation, though at times when under the influence of drink, he has com- mitted some violences. A story is told of his going into an eating house along the line of a new rail- road in the Cumberland Valley not long ago, and ordering some eggs. A man named McCabe, der Contractor John merly of Bergin. Ky., ville, was in the place. Sowders end, come working un- Nichols, for- at Pine- Turning to} now and eat ~My some MeCabe had had : two, he was ad- e replied: entlemar a eat all of > leveled one MeCabe. em, the rem “TouessI am egg hungy too. | s I didn’t know el drop me the |, I knowed | I don't | id there ain't | held when | SrX ¥ RS OF SUFFERING. ie e outlaw lead id Bureh, te Mable MeGresor Dies ot a Bullet Wound in the Head. one of the men cae w has died. The Chicago. I March 25.-—One Ww been de- morning. six years ago, when the prived of their death or snow lay deep on the ‘round in a telephone ~ at Ore- information that ver MeGregor, who lived in ein a lonely district of the and no apprehended. capture, trouble is Ogel county, this state. message to the Sheri Pid it Elect Harrison. eon convercd the The folk Wing ¢ “Me . : : county, had been murdered. Oft- arty have been using 5 5 cers and neighbors went to the to account for their over- place and found the old man in bed with six bullets in his body. He defe: unlierous ; was dead. Up stairs » searcher; “I was talking with several of the | , ag ee) MRS CR anit . a found the 4-year old Mabel Me- on Four eet the ; i z rwith a builet im her head. other day, opposite a bill board and ito \ nt 4 yveared to be at the i | one of the party exclaimed: “If it oe Ae beeaa ae but eareful nursing and a re- had not been for the closeness of the ‘ A eS teenie “narkable vitality pulled her through ittee in the expendi- 4 . 1d) Re Nor Swartzell worked for the We Would have ele ° Me He was a slender fel- low xbout 30 years old. He became Reet IN hath passionately found of little Mabel. ced that nol, ¢ 4 res : ; He followed 1 it the farm, to it and one night the girl oe press rust the win- dow of her room. Old) man Me- informant. |, | Gregor was annoyed at the atten- uta us az $ ; | tions Swar Ml paid to his daughter. port zn tweive snee * L ae i | He reprimanded the fe llow, but this ‘ine poster ou the bil board, a j havi g no effect, he was discharged. ring the cuts of Gen. Harrison | ae ;On the Saturday night before the and his grandfather. | 1 Swartewall t to Rock zs : murder, owartzwe we CK “If the democrats had advertised | : ‘ 7 ba ieee en | ford to a dance ike that, Cleveland would have been |” ae re elected. ! He was accompani ed by several friends. About ten o'clock that night Swartwell left the ball room, and af ter taking several drinks of whiskey, The poster referred to was one of | the familiar Dbl: and white Log | Cabin Sarsaparilla posters sent out by an enterprising firm engaged in old log cabin home cures, under the name of War- Log ‘Cabin Remedies, among other equally valuable articles started through the deep snow to He hours. i i old man MeGregor’s farm house. the manufacture of in three When the maddened lover reached the house he rapped boldly at the covered the distance ner’s and : a door. Old man MeGrego efused includes the famous Log Cabin Sar ee meses a Z oor ana to admit him. Then Swartzwell saparilla, which is everywhere recog- | nized as the best of all spring medi- ites the Gace epee ee ee and shot at the aged farmer until his revolver was empty. Little Ma- bel, who had been awakened by the rapid firing, ran down the stairs to rival for disorders which are the results of impure blood. The spring time of the year is the eines. and stands without a the cure of all cAANaa aap an NaN nS the room where her father lay. She season : e systen 2eds reno- : met Swartzwell at thedoor. He shot vation; the long winter has caused the blood to become filled with purities. There exists no better means to aid and strengthen the system at her in the head and supposing her to im- be dead fled from the house. There were no lights in the room where the shooting occurred. Mable recogniz- ed the murderer by the flashes from his revolver. When she regained consciousness the little girl told the ofiicers that Swartzwell had done the shooting. Two weeks later, after one of the most famous man hunts in the history of crime in the west, caught in St. Louis while on bis way to Indian Territory. He narrowly escaped being lynched in Oregon. He cheated the rope and the law. His death was a mystery until the post mortem examination the fact that the liberately such an urgent period than the use of Warner’s Log Cabin Sarsaparillay which speedily restores the blood to a pure and healthy state, which in- sures health and happiness. The reputation of the firm putting out the medicine is above reproach j the man was andis the same firm which manufac- tures Warner's Safe Cure, the stand- ard remedy forthe cure of those dis- eases pculiar to the kidneys as well as those which are the results of dis- ease in those organs, and which has met with such phenomenal success revealed murderer had de- committed An old pipe had been allowed him in his cell and he had slowly poisoned himself with the nicotine from its bowl. Ile did not rest in death. Hie post mortem career was as sensa for the past ten years. We understand that the posters referred to made their appearance in many parts of the country sometime prior to the Chicago convention which nominated Gen. Harrison 2s a} candidate for the Jpresidency—hence the use made of the portraits of the | tional as his last days on earth. His Harrisons, father and grandson— | relatives never accepted his body, was either the result of remarkable | ty. yas buried in Potter's Field. Ten political fore’ ght or in accordance | days later it was discoeered that with the historical association of the grave-robbers hed emptied the old Log Cabin with the name of Har- grave in which he was buried. Lo- EOD: cal physicians were suspected. Then | Chicago medical students were shad- |owed as the body-snatchers. Five weeks later a naked, headless body was cast on the shore of Rock River, a few miles below Oregon. A coro ner’s jury was about toreturn a ver- suicide. Beechers Castle in the Air. Boscobel, the beautiful country retreat of the late Henry Ward Beecher at Peekskill, has been dis- posed of by private sale through | Phillips & Wells, real estate brokers, | to C. H. Butler for | dict of death of an unknown man by 5.000. The property covers thirty- | some unknown means, when the un- s of ground, on which is a) dertaker w ho had probed Swartzwell | beautiful three story mansion of | to inject fluid while the body lay in afew | the jail, testified that the remains 3 years before Mr. Beecher’s death. were those of Swartzweil. What | It stands in the midst of one of the was left of the was carried ie most charming spots on the Hudson back and a second time buried in the of this ci | SIX ac gothic architecture, built only out anding a view of sure!) same box. ; rour for nearly twe Little Mabel McGregor lingered | give miles ; in intense agony until yesterday. oe The bullet had lo aa in her brain, Palard’s Snow Linament. ahd aha kannada seloame errors dine suffering u Medical ve her an anas- thetic preparatory to performing an It heroie operation to recover the bul- ae | let. She r awakened. The is Wege g s Democrats e nominat- Noonai for mayer- vD at