The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, November 19, 1897, Page 1

If it’s Truie ' io m= ‘THE advertisers are the Sun ij the best med You'll Find it in Lhe Sun by which ot ach the peo ————— a a = - —— ; panes VOLUME LI—NUMBER 59 PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, Noyn MBER 19, 1897. TEN CENTS A WEEK HE MET HIS Femoral aon ey [at inl wat tet oul TOMDQN | g , rreeeersees weseseseees | . | houses, asa ter of course. He red 6! The hour for the hanging was 7:05 }no reason why sentence should not al | t e jand those with tickets did pot hogin jbe passed upon him, when Judge \ ‘ ! m e lo arrive until 6 o'clock and later, | Bishoj asked btm, and never since - a in | Doctors, officers, and newspaper men | ¢ nga 1 that the sentence was un- Sie 3, although he once said that Mc- y were admitted to the jail, jai Winston talked. prayed and preach- | Gillought Lave been hanged with him. | phe Biggest Fire fi the History “Devil” Winston Died Game in Expiation of the Horrible eaten, le wns ashore sis acy ue | ofthe city Raging. Los i Stoves {have time to talk about it then, that] George Winston was born i Will be Untold Murder of His Mistress {his life was too short. Crockett, Oblon county, 4 | Actowd. of prisoners pushed up| May 2, 1550, and was 52 Millions, : ¢ We have them in more than |the bars and Winston began giving | He went south early in lif y sixty sizes and patterns, for | them good advice. gan his career in’ New Orl a3 f me \ | One youth began to cry. cabin boy on a steamboat, afterwards | ; ; rere) oo The Last Hours of the Wretch’s Life, aud the ‘And Ldon't want any of you to] becoming a rouster. He afterwarls |The Competitor's Crew Mas at] —~ ; s AL W D i jsny you see me after I’m gone,’’| Went to Georgia, where » : jsteast ‘ e 8s Tragic Details of His Untimely End. fe Boe eat te lad Ieisatten: bat lived wiih| East Been Released —Bi gl wi GAS IL z ; ’ Winston said significantly, I go to heaven I won't want to come] his wife but six mouths eo sot Pleased With Wack: Laim’t got anything here to} He leaves a mother, sister and Affairs in Guba. ~ f ‘i é The EXKCUTION, stoa’s body shot like an arrow stven| stay fot. { won't want to tome] brother in Obion county, but has not a € are the only pecple who “Devil? George Winston, colored, | feet t As be went through the| back, and I won't! If 1 go to the heard from the in over ten years, ~ | AS ; eee you vibip 8 par: hanged in the south jail yard at] trap he gave a most harrowing, blood. ‘bad place, the devil won't let me I f ne ted but tibdbe:. Nov. 10'The bi 4 7 - ee ar, a8 to style, quality ‘ this morning, in the presence | Carding ery. os it he had attempted} come back, and so I'll not come | ouce in his life before he came to} rete t Se hel ra tio ; s y Ts 2 and price. bf fifty spectaters adaitted Lo the ens (0 say a last good bye, and his voice}back either = way, = and =f | Puducab, and that was in Georgia for] "re 1 ndon is no closure and scores who. oceupiet {failed him, ‘The spectators began|don't want any of yon — to/carrying a pistol. Judging from 7 ine stores have a! B ~ b gq COAL BUCKETS (H seats in. trees. on louse tops god| immediately to crowd around him, |say you saw the, either, if I come} what he said of the subtle power |teady Been destroyed. Ail the street BEST QUALITY barns, His neck was not broken,{He ¥as motionless, and at first no | back 't will be with my crown, golden] Vina Stubblefield exerted over bin, [slong ite Thames is, ablaze, The A death resulting frou strangulation in| muscular contraction was visible. | slippers, robe ang wings, do you}she must have been a ‘hypuolist. eleven minutes Presently bis flogers began to twitch, | heat ?"” ; FIRST HANGING €ixeh 99, PREC AT LAST. | * . as ime q _ Winston, as generally anticipated, {aud his limbs ty slowly draw up and] ‘Then he would relapse into bis! sp qayis hanging was the first sin sais : ‘s died game He movnted the scaffold, |relex, Drs, Brothers, Robertson chaut, and some of the prisoners] 19.9 when..daek Brown, edlosed 4 3 | aN OVS s With Nberiff Holland on ove side, and] Holland, the two former from the| continue to shed tears. Pres. reco fee tis: indelae. of LEE cs eee ’ MG kS a, . y ps evers pporters and id Spaniar e} q ‘ Deputy Sheriff Tobe Rogers op the] ity, aud the latter of Grahamville. |eutly he saw several reporters avd] "fy.0 Laurie. He was eft on By Spaniards, After a | t i , other, with unfaltering tiedye dust) who were appointed to pronounce hogan to tell them not to say aby-) Jon 15, early in the morning, and it Pardon at Madrid, : 4 ar ees. HARDWARE AND STOVE CO, a8 he placed his foot on thé steps,{Meath, stepped up and two felt | thing untrue about him wih Chal coldest Snel 2 | however, his hands began to tremble | Lis pulse. — Winston's feet were! _ ‘Here they came up bere once and | ri cd hore, the thermometer be-|_, Havana, Nov. 19.—In pursuance) Ps 303-307 Broadway w 509-517 North Third eiaie:, ‘ +S I received Wednesday, Capt. General | \ 22400 | 7 en i re Spain Violently. He was attired ia a neat] Within two inches of the ground when | talked a little winle and then went off |" itlow coro, -Notwiths of cabled instructions from Spain hit new ‘ot ‘ kinkey tor kicked a rock out from un. | seen © haunt in my life, goutien ‘ 7 ye “1 Blango yesterday f Diack suit, black tie, black gloves, | bis body was entirely relaxed, and a/and said 1 seen ‘haunts.’ I never) (it) e rising| det one foot, which touched it, In} he said. “I've been away back in} {ORC A Cabana fortress Alfrede Labor : — eereiey —— ed rays of in, and endavced the ghasily pa'lor]eleven minutes Winstoa was pro- j thi jail, and when I was out 1 used |* ; Charles Barnett. Ona Melton and Of ble Inky fs His eves protruded | nounced dead. His neck was not| to sleep in old, broken down houses WINSTON’S FALL. William Gi ineml PCCW | a w nl glistened with af broken, e the fall of seven or] away off from anywhere, snd LE never] One of the doctors present stated | Ofthe American schooner Competitor ‘ —— strange, — helple rh! As heleight ant be diet of strangula- | Saw one yet, I'd feel a little funny. tig way of explan > of why Wia- {captured ia April. 18 . Span. | stepped upon the ses he gazed | His struggles. however, were | but then I never did see a ‘haunt.’ | .¢, vas not broken, that it]! guaboat Mesagra on a charge of around him at the crowd, with hands {Hot violent. | The worst ‘haunts’ they is, gentle-} ya he-anse the knot slipped around | illibustering. ‘They were dehvered ‘ clasped behiod hin, aod murmured} After be was pronounced dead, | men. is live ‘haunts,’ ”’ back of his neck, and because his |‘ the American atid British consuls| ——s and have tuken passage on the steam- < a : #01 g that could not be heard, [Several lifted him up while the rope Winstoa at times appeared to be} feet struck the ground when be]® er Saratoga, of the Ward Line, for Sheriff Holland aod Depaties Rog- | as cut, temporarily insane either with the] dropped, bres to some extent i ers, Utterback aod Yoong. and Rey,| Sheriff Holland retained the knot | dread of his doom, or from religious | however siig Newt ork. ; G. W. Burks, of the A. M, B.]95 a souverir, and part of the rope! fervor, But he would soon, by his A nur a fan ilies be I ‘ SOME Ib SPECTATORS, be ‘0303 the | church. stood on the scaffold with| — - him, Ina fe nits, each one of A - Among the spectators were Mayor| centration’? order will be removed at whi 1 hour to some of . } telser, City Plysician Willfamson, | the e of the mun the Lators Barks read 0 Lometd many of the city and county offic pri . There is no diminu- | For the past thirty-nine years this familiar sign has been seen on =e ll Cather rte ‘Thhh ! sion Seay aie poke idee Se" Broadway. Every schoolboy or girl in Paducah knows the name of PS ui ne Nie in ective bn Lehobard, o vans y s 1 ' errr acelrenees tet the pest. j f Mar Jollins declined to go. BLANCO WAS DicEIven, | BOCK. ‘ : A deat sinner about to pey the extreine 1) ' a We carry the same quality of goods today that we did thirty-nine ! me of murder And 1g Pha ‘ays That Gen.| years ago, That means the best goods you can buy for the money. We Win c in the prayer in a eg Coroner Nance r ? samba niotelligible manner, and | S mains in potter's fi epler Did It. jare upto date in style, color afd price _ Se ihieghed) doarg ian | | mining. Pee en poteae, York, May. 18K. dlapatet A picture free with every cash purchase. he desired to say ything. He re- { Loh 1) nG lan yet of the full plied that be did, and stepped matte ) ‘ 2 . text.of the pron reforms, and in ently clasp his bands just in front | a he threw open the}, utonom a dwindli J of bim, then bebiad. He spoke five establishment and let ‘ “ iets: “Clee. 321 BROADWAY ~ Bljeates oF more. ; = them view the body. ‘Thaks Ur estoy remson.t0 be In a rambling, wesultory manner be , 4 A large number of people visited] oy. qh 5 rocsieds spade said he wanted to warn everybody to ; the jail du the day and to is fate, look at the scaffold. ene ose, = apes a ; g Gen. Weyler had decelved | arts ius ot, some Yane Oia f 43 to the condition of the army] zealot—an uncanny souod that sent DARREN DP RE B. WEILLE’*® SO Six Pass Through En Route and the gorernment had misted bin} | ; Fi A 8 € tie io 4 2 See display in outside Case... 4 momentary chill of horror through ] | , b New Orleans, those within reach of his voice. y Once, when acrowd of boys on the 3 }ui4 4 cy inillt ‘ & 2 Mo Hip ; a e "ee vy outside began jo laugh and shout at ! Wi tl aking Their Regular Annual] town i e- of something that had transpired with- I | ea : R hetvedahy ve ding the ex-|] ¢™mt % SO ep er eearee, Site of Trip of uspection From BS te Res iad gazed out towards the street. tHe I Pittsburg. then told the officers that he knew they were only z their duty, and remarked to the cros This is only | —— The following Ohio river pilots e P In Stripes, Cents Spots, Dots and Figures, Each . i , said he hopel | was cut up by Oficer Orr and dis- common-sense remarks, convince his}making their yearly trip down the I ring forever in the} tributed among those who desired the | hearers that he was perfectly sane, | Ulii» to inspect the channel, p rs sruesome rel'es. Along other statements, one was {through the city last night en ro tfor Della Allen, af Undertaker Nance then took that he had not seen his mother nor|from Pitts! a thence t colored tra who has been in jail] of the remasias, and placed | sisters since 1881, and that he never | New Orleau ty consisted for some time on a charge of maii-{them in a cheap coftin which was’ thought about them now of Mesers, -fious shooting ata Christmas fesii. | brought in after the execution. At7 o'clock the jail enclosure| Ky Henry Doss, ¢ val near Maxot Mills two years] The face, when the black cap was was thrown open, officer Sherman|ter $. Connor and A ago. There was a quick movement | taken off, was covered with perspira-| Pbillips taking tickets, Sheriff Hol-| any; Howard Fe of the sp involuntarily} tion, and horribly distorted. land and deputy Rogers produced | Stewart Connor, Ciuciuia'i. casting some direction to] Gradually the crowd dispersed, | the rope, and attached it to the beamy These pilots, with many other gee Who it cou the doomed man{those from the inclosure mingling jot gallows. They then went | pass down from Pittsburg to New Or- wished to sce with those who had been on the out- | after the condemned man. leans every year, to tind w Allen proved to be in the upper de | ##le. | Sheriff Holland read the death] ve been made in the chay partment of the |, and a crowd of Wabhdatsciuh nites: warrant tohim, there was hasty THE GOURTS boys who were hanging out the win. hs | prayer, and the march to the scaifold dow, were ordeed aside that he} Winston's last night was a sleep-|ijegan, He walked, bareheaded, be- might get within sight of Winston, | less one, Yesterday a‘ternoon the|tween Sheriff Holland and deputy sare avd hear what he had to say, When} Ja'l was throwa open to those whose | Rogers, with others in the rear. he protruded his lead, Winston, in] Morbid curiosity prompted them to |‘The crowd pressed closely, but was his own d’alect, b view the murderer in his cell, Seven | kept back by policemen, Each one the Federal, Mella, tem what 1 tolg| 2umdred and eighty-five people called ! strained himself or herself to see the you. Take warning! Let whisky, {t2 8 him before the doors were} prisoner, who looked straight ahead ) vlosed to visitors i a 4 gambling sod bad women alone . ¢ most of the time, Nothing of Interest in (hoe Police ‘ A so oF ene: 1 He attempted to sleep last night, siabalew . is : : Vast } 13 , To have a comforta’le and handsome b We arrange that it won’t cost you much, bat could oxly dose ovcasionally. CRIME HE EXPIATED, oF Cleeult Court, R . , ad | and surprised at our stock, with our low prices, with our reason- epaty Jailer Charlie Bonnin and Mr. Charles Hart acted as death t watch. Whenever they passed near] Mane j } vs 8, covnT. ector Yand t the cell Winston was always praying. | DUtvheries ever committed in the eet a 9 vext t = i R , “Wate Aliout 8 ololock the prisoner sues; | states ; ghia Wrowpan! ia ia bie f 4. ahs ndsome Bedroom Sets, Lounges, agedt to sleep a little, He was awak-| OH the night of April 22° Winston |) © ¢i ened at 4 o'clock, and the firet thing| Went to the ome of his mistress, | Morning ia the Heleral co ; en ‘ Rockers and\Folding Beds, Latest ; Y Mg : Ae wy. | this afternoon several witnes navrds tS t he did was (to drink the last of the. ¥ iva Stubbl id, a notorious neg- BAPTIST CONGRESS AiO! re Same quality for which other houses ask you 40c and 50c. We carry the finest line of Neckwear in the state. Neckt Damage Suit Dragging Through Look at me, and see what they have brought me to,” In this vein he continued for what seemed several m nutes, althor it was doubtless much less. A listened with rapt attention, and tears were visible in The crime for which Winston was — I er Our store 1s crowded with hanged was one of the most horrible the eycs of several pirsoners who sur rounded the lower grating in the jail After a few more vomarks in (ie same trend. Winston bowed io Deputy neviff Regers and Sheriff Holland, iadicating that he was ready to die The sheriff and deputies assisted him ‘on the trap, with his face towards the south, and all shook hands with him, His arms were pinioned bebind him by Deputy Rogers and another de- puty securely fastened a rope around his legs. Sheriff Holland stepped », drew the black cap from his i . ; the defen heen he : - - wine he had in a bottle. He dressed ,t% liviag in Dunnoi’s alley, and|'° ae ‘4 R M and when breakfast was Hensi de. { “nding her absent went to sleep on} © ¥ y be A Olosing Sessions Devoted Patterns or Carpets, ugs, attings. clined to eat, saying he was not hun. | ber bed, nach al mY i ee bgiine vey, Bawcelt \ cussions By Leading y» AtS o'clock his spiritual ad.} Woman returned to the house and). iy‘ an, for viol ht Chu: Viser, Rev, Burks, arrived, and Win-{®¥oKe ion by striking a match, Jan NV. Hy Werraman fox atin aa ig », Rev, , arcived, ; ‘igarette [revente Liws, were flocd $100 4 ae Pra irae ee oe ; 4 stop§was turned into th» cori tor. hi ety saked her for a cigarette. given 50 days in jail, Chicago, Nav. 18-—Tbiy wae th Oor promises have been fultilled in the past, which inspired public confidence in us, Several policemen were placed inside | She replied that she did not have one 5 Baptist Congr tataalag Gua ay’ alanes 1a 4 shortly afterwards,and Winston spent and he became angered. They quar- emevit court, ng aud ‘ ssi We promise mavy astonishing bargains, and we always live*up to our preises—we moet of his time praying and talking, |" Hled a few minutes and then, with-] ‘The case of R. LL. against 1 y | will never disappoint you, Remember our stores are open every evening until 9 oclock. pacing the loor constan:ly and {Uta word of warning, Winston, in} p, G. Murre!l is now on tril, uf nfolled it, Winston’s| thinking, m a manner true to his namesake, the A motion was today made for a | version’? aud ket pfoldec . q 8 ce e' rew 3 ife e 7 ‘ ’ i pockets ved in, prayer, He asked| Last might he informed those pres- | ‘levil, drew a kaife.and stabbed the) new hearing in the case of C. E. Jen] Cross im the f | ont that he killed Vina Stubblefield] Woman in full view of Ed Morton, | pings amittee, sgoiast MMre.|six of the sus to forg've dim, When Sherif lecanaad is loved het, ‘Teas ohw bal taadore Herron and a woman named ? rel were a) ; ihe 7 INSTALLMENT COM PANY gs rs head and face] sme irresistible attraction for bimthat} Ray. After stabbing the woman he , the two qt . JON the man's face quiver with| "© unce told her himsclt she would] threw her bloody body on the be« aii th © In Judge| of Conve rsse by t of him, | {om which he bad just arisen and}. ‘ P Prof. N y ‘ CCRNER THIRD AND COURT STR ETS he stool on the brink of slashed hi in a dozen different |> ws t Virgi \ Butler, Presi- ’ atecnity. He théa adjusted thet oir Tu speakiog of ther womer |places, cutting arteries with every y t of Colby vy Water | eeeeeenannmn men me noose. ue often lapsed into tenderness, and | ow of the knife. After finishing} oo ting a coun , Wy * ¢ } lent Ry lav , ; ; ‘Tho sheriff motioned his deputies |" Gi lapsed into lanl {his hellish work Winston took bus va Siihad Mire Russeliville, Ky (2 Pl a9 \ away {rom the trafyp aud walked overtt tet e ns ee nee TeHslES | 40. witeh was lielog in. the room,| 2c and at Rasa on ster, ; s Lewise da {0 nh all ease OU rested. He was flaed $59 anal nore pee thane a Te C Tailor-made suits to order for less moneysthan ready Belivv Our Stoves for both cooking and heating are unsurpassed for beauty and quality, See Our Ranges, our Trunks—in fact, anything that will furnish your bouse, sooner or later be the death ause him togo the peniteatiary | ; be buried beside her in Pofter’s field. ? pee to the woodsd lever, which projected | a eenee , eld. | snc walked out, shouting words off He bad the | hi out to t jerture that formed the | defiance at the astounded witnesses to entrance to the gallows {Wien @ proof was showa him las’ the horrible butchery . Winston murmured another brief) night. He went ia the direction of the] ‘The Span'sh sieamer Monserrat, | was discussed in pa : A y made suit at the prices charged by F bea ached Corun- nson, of Orange, } ‘ WT OT Cc Yesterday be had his photograph taken, and appeared to be pleased aot Agee tn iat eS a pe Utah Mica cel a “1 mode ones of same quality. Everybody can wear a taifors Power of the Cros prayer, the movement of his lips b trailroad, but a careful search of the eu. Weyler, 1 4 ae . ‘ng discernable under their sable coy-] PREPARATIONS FOR THE EXKOUTION, | yards and + Y Hed to reveal the} na, Spain. yesterday. will not go} Rev. Donald D, M ! e- 2 D li an . , ] ing Before daylight people began ar-| murderer, He was captured hy Mar-[ashiore uutil Barce is reached, | t The latter , he ° alecns #al Org ering, and Sheriff Holland said, | ‘Good bye, George,” and pulled the! riving at the jail. A number of]shal Jesse Walker, at Fulton, the fol-|aud meanwhile Spaia is reading itself | preset avd his pa) Jever. ‘The support fell noiselessly, | small boys climbed in the trees ad-|Iowing Sunday, and. hroneht # +" 9 aged controversy as to the subsume, No Mage. was acioctor 333 BROADWAY Establishment put likea dash of lightning, and Win.’ jacent, while boys and men vied with} wi er he had been e¢ A. of rerepticn to be ) | t EM. “RE , 7