The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 15, 1889, Page 1

<a XL. - THE ae sm anne = & i ue | es aay i BEOAUSE — yaar ens ways the LOW bai Her CENT LOW! which is by al Haz roi the Bald Kivbbers an Unparalleled Scene of Clumsy ¢ ruelf Young Will Walker Recains Conmnicte Consciousness the | nd Talks Ghrougis Cap. ais Ozark, Mo., May 10 pathetic religions servic attending the baptism of Walker, yesterday afte: months ago young Wal r \ ti g W ali Four ssed religion, but had uever church. The baptism: made of an old bath tub which was placed inside the coll a ihe father and son, with the prisocers, filled it with water. venerable | Thomas H Hanks. pastor of the Baptist church six uules cast of Ozark, was i perform the ceremony. i he did not appear and the Rev b. Horn, of the Methodist church con sented to imineise young Walke: JOHN MATHEWS PRAYER. John Mathews, the third of the condemned men, was asked to pray. He had watel the baptism with evidence of great emouon. allingr on his knees in the cell door, the poor creature offered a frantic pray er. While he passionately 1 the tears rolled down his cheeks. He asked God to forgive all his ene mies. He said the Almighty he was innocent, and he was afraid to die. Before hi had finished he was shou knew not that he could be heard two blocks away. The jail yard was surround- ed by a large crowd. A MOTHER'S AGONY. Again at night religious services were held, conducted by the Rev Messrs. Hank, Grayson A number of ladies and Horn. rere present. As the last lines of “Neaer My God to | Thee” died out on the clear moonlit air, the mother of John Mathews, 87 years old, blind and helpless. ing in a house across the street from the jail, cried and moaned loud enough to be heard in prison. Her son, who had so fervently prayed in the afternoon, heard the cries of the old mother, and, as if inspired, he broke out in another prayer. His words were louder and wilder than in the afternoon. Inside the jail stood the praying man’s wife and | two sisters. Mingled with his prayer were the sobs of the women in the jail and the cries of the feeble old mother on the Reli rious services were : clock this men ate their After suy “Home “S'wanee River” on a ast night about da ith Winchesters gi twneonlight and with id their belts began outside. ed Sweet w p about the Johnson was wel an attack. He w Vv in the ev tbreak was en the! TTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY NI avh AY 1 merpemnng eee fl funny AM ICAN | HWEST MISSOURI 76 Wi o). ». L&s9. 25 NO. CLOTHING HOUSE. | 'Y GLOTHING AND 4 ‘S FURNISHINGS. we PARGES? STOCK in Southwest Missouri to select from no handful. BECAUSE our PRICES are al- Never veena wo had the same suits as our competitors but what our prices on them were from 10 to 25 rood Servi suits from $2.00 up. BECAUSE we carry “BALTIMORE TATLOR-ADE clothing, he best made. Hitting clothing that comes to our town. Be sure to see our stock aye buying, crc ae a EE for What is leep i Im eudy t troubles me san do something from suffering, 7! believe we we uld t have made some thing to sell here for their benefit. Goed bye; God Mess you!” AWFUL SCAFFOLD SCENE. The seoffold was « of the jail, but no direct nection with it. it was inter take the prisoners into the j and then into the enclosure. ade of boards eighteen feet closed the dina eighteen feet by tourteen. was a henvy de and the drop was | the beams above d jmooses, the ile r Dave Walker. wita his son the right and Mathews to the left. Dr. W. H. Miller and De. W. N. Howell tried the.knots last night. The trap door is very he and the spring whi rected Just pack con- ito yard A stock- h spa The wap nine feet by three, even feet. From neled th h fii en one I held it up broke during the experi ment last night and a new one had to be made this merning ALTERED PLANS. Bringing the prisoners out into the jail to go to the scaffold was discovered te be inp icable and at the iast moment Sheriff John- son cutahele in the rear of the brick wall large enough to let the prisoners through. It was 2 wise } precaution for there was but ove entrance and that the front door. The crowd about the gate would have made the trip that way extreme- ly hazardous. The crowd was not ;as large as was expected. They knew there was no entrance except the front door and they gathered there. on the scaffold before the crowd knew it. At 8:30 o'clock Sheriff began to When the reading was finished, | white shirts, clean collars and black ties were taken to the condemned men. Mathews had no collar but- ton in his shirt and asked for one. Sheriff Johnson took one from his | own shirt and gave it to him. The men then retired to their and _donned their white shirts. Young Walker tied the black neckties in Johnson cells neat bows for his father and Mathews. Each wore entire new | black suits and new shoes. THE WALKERS PORE UP WELL. Dave and Will Walker bore up well. Mathews talked piously all the time. Dave Walker said none of his people but his son-in-law Will Walker thing to Dave on hard for an honest n twe. Ive a rors. would be had 1 it Was presan Lp Cutting the hole in the wall; was a clever ruse and the men were | read the death warrant. | AVIERICARN C ls behind them. Dave first. then Will, and Mathews was put up: air at the window. He protested his innoeence to the erowd said: *Farewell vain world ~ Dave climbed the steps to the sez fold first, followed by his son. The fev. Mr. mm read a scriptural pa 1a scream frou WW vutside the eucios fossrs. Hanks and G the platform and af » of the seript ure they bh ed as es e surprising to all, did own. As the ministers s broke iu with Thank ie Rev. M forn read again from Job, and prayed: *Heay- enly Father rem 5 © inoeral friends. tamuilies. they do” We ask you tu aud christian faith to th Biess and remember their »} Our Father, our last request is to | 1 courage to tncet then es Mathews saic eT am prepare Thope to meet ‘you in Heaven.” The ister | {shook har with the priso | When Sheriff Johnson asked Math- ews if had anything to say he repeat- ed his declaration of innocence. Dave Waiker said he was fully prepared to meet his God. Young Walk :said: ‘We will meet you in heaver. The sheriff first adjusted the noose about Mathew Dave Watke Matthews “Oh God, did I ever think i die like this!” As the rope was ad- justed about Will Walker's neck he muttered a prayer with his eyes closed. The black cap was put Ss on Will tiest. then on Dave and then on | Just before this was done | Mathews. father and son kissed each other. Joha Mathews, just before he drop- | ped, would help his family it in need to} {hold up their hands. Every man’s | hand went up. He then requested ; Drs. Fullback and Elkins to adminis- ; | ter to them if sick. Both promised , | that they would. Mathews last re- | quest of the sheriff was that the} straps and rope be removed from him before his people saw his body. | \Wi hen Will Walker turned to his | father and asked that he kiss him | and when their lips met Sheriff | Johnson himself gave way. | tears streamed down the two men’s | faces as they turned and took their places for the drop. Mathews talk- ed piously up tothe moment thetrap | fell, frequently repeating texts for | his children to heed. A SICKENING SCENE. The trap was sprung and the men went down. Will Walker’ feet touch. | ed the ground, as did his father’s. Both struggled frightfully. were raised and gurgling sounds The blood came from their throats. trickled down their breasts. knot in Will Walker's noos way and the young man fell s ing on the ground. He 1 and groaned. His father dying but still strt sheriff and his depi up, shortened the rope the rope until a knot w Not feet loop knot i and lo Cie Dave = went up men, | neck and then about ' would | ber, 1886, William Edens, 2 respect- | pis body falling on his wife able young farmer living near Spar- | plood spurting out into h : ta, Christian county. shot and killed | The young wife se |adog that was trespassing on his | Walker, brutall asked everyone present who | The | They | is Ba OTHE ill was He sa f. for the } talked hurry. WAITING FOR HIS FATHER TU The sheriff held him fn this half e 3 condition the boy was laid oat Mthe platform until his DIE. up. p- father was dead or a noose had been tied The physicians pronounced Math ews dead in thirteen minutes. Dave Walker's hands had come uustrapped during his struge! He was pro- nounced dead and cut down in tif- teen minutes. When Dave and Mathews were stretched on white sheet on the ground lthe trap was again set. Walker was held up and again adjusted about nieek. He prayed eonetanties tar the noose was about his neck he choked and as he said “God, nat myself to thee” he pa | férward 2 beneath, Young the T com ially fell Walker: Nee GOUs fis abutier, Mo. Od shot me.” then seized and While one man with an axe an- the neck y now dead ved out, but Wily 4 gasp turned and lous trying to get up. la shot gun and sent into the wounded killed him instantly. R Kuobbers rode away. Char- mh. he Green and Will E were kil- ens ad arouse ed but old) man Edens and Mrs. ihe came into che Green linaliy recovered A wave of urined to the teeth. indignation and horror swept over MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD. the country at this fiendish butchery : id snd the shenff of the county began At that moment both the casteriy lines for the murderers. © They and weste rly doors Were burst i were finally arrested and after long by the Knobbers. The ked trials and much labor on the part of fiends poured into the well lig state were convicted. room, Willand Dave Walker ing. “Upwith yer hands, Will Walker at Young That Tired Feeling - Promptly Ith ne Is were Afflicts nearly every one in the and after 1 faiza at h spring. The system having become med to the bracing air of is weakened by the warm ‘days of the changing season, and t down ot nd yelle here w W ay brought. hinpi ist a level with Edens bre “Now pop it to him.” accust winter, The trap was @@ain sprung and he | roar of gums and young Edens ! readily vields to attacks of disease. dangled in the air. his body riddled 1 bullets Hood's Sarsaparilla is just the med- ; After the adjustment of the noose | Knobbers then rushed on the fui cine needed. It tones and builds ‘the sheriff ordered the rope short-! firing advanced, and in the | up every part of the body, and also jefed so that his feet could not | front Will Walker, bis eyes | expels all impurities from the blood. |} téuch the ground again. This time | lit with the fires of | the noose did not give way and the | his neght hand dripping with hell itself und! Try it this season. jyoung man’s life went out with | gore of young Edens, in which he | twitches which shook his whole! had dipped it. Charlie Gre NEW BARBER SHOP. | pody. trying to carry his young w FRED W. DORN has opened up a HISTORY OF THE CRIME. Some time in the month of Octo- | pgound. He regarded it as a great ‘ter when in Sparta. ‘sent a joke, and so related it some days la- | head, ae Informed that | | seized Ws < Y's mask and screamed | the dog belonged to John Mathews | he remarked: “Reckon I done kill- ed a Bald Knobber then,” Mathews | being a well-known member of the | organization. The crowd Taughed at Edens’ remark and took it as a | joke, but it was practically Edens’ | death sentence. Onthe night after | the election in November a gang of | Knobbers went to Edens’ house and | | taking him out, whipped him unmer- | | cifully. He vowed vengeance and | bitterly denounced the organization. He was warned to keep quiet or he would be visited again. He paid no attention to the warning, however, {and on the night of March 11, the | Knobbers met in Smelter hollow, a ‘long, dark ravine and the regular i | Seeenree of the gang when any | scheme or deviltry was to be con- ‘eocted. After going through a lit- | tle routiue business Dave Walker | his pistol and fired at young Walker iber Shop opposite the post » Main Street. He has new rything clean and mod- in Ladies hair work, treated. All our old many new ones invited «© courteously treated. My sets large fand plenty of room for the room when “Bull Cree bullet erashin thr Green tumbled to th Nort ain. j Children kindiy { ad auned @ he side, yelled, “+ your ——| you'll wot it ne Bee Money to Loan. Deliberately he lower- On good security. We have mon revolver and placi ing the | €Y to loan at 6 per cent interest and muzzle to her _ breast fired, | 5 per cent commission for five years. |Old man Edens who at fir= ,.{ No other charges. Borrower can ed paralyzed with fright now rei | the louder. ed his ing time. cost abont 7 per cent. 48-tf Jas. K. Brvorer. The bullet took effect in Walker's leg, and he at once yelled: ‘Do the R. RB. BACON, HARDWARE - AND - IMPLEMENTS. TOP BUGGIES, SPRING AND FARM WAGONS. Buckeye =:- Force -:- Pumps. proposed to go down to Edens house | Qa ‘and give himanother * ‘lickin’ for not | ¢.H 6g leaving the country or keeping his |, qs = 8 mouth shut.” A number of the | szy Knobbers refused to go, but the} aZ2y 4 men already mentioned ‘heartily sec- | z & S og onded Waiker’s proposition. e AD 2 march was taken up for the E 4 > Oe homests ad. rly 11 oelock, = 8 = > r: whe fhouse c= a res consult = c st open, but no Fes] young Edens ° ng gone to his THE BEST MAKES OF fath er's house few rods away to! 5 spend the The Kucbbers | C lt : 4 & iit eat ald at ows, Cultivators, Harrows, &c. The whole family w the first they of the crowd had bro and yet out of he presen as if de mons “Get sle eping ona small | shake down in a up} Gas Pipe Fitting and Pump Repairing. PIECED and STAMPED TINWARE. | | | prensenar nie aesey