The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, November 19, 1897, Page 2

If it’s Truie You'll Find it in The Sun THE advertisers are the Sun ij the best med by which wt ach the VOLUME LI-NUMBER 59 HE MET “Devil” Winston Died Game in Expiation of the Horrible PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, Novo MBER 19, 1897, HIS DOOM. Murder of His Mistress The Last Hours ofthe Wretch’s Life, and the! Tragic Details of Thr HXECUTION, ‘Devil!’ George Winston, colored was hanged in the south jail yard at morning, in the presence of fifty spectaters admitted to the en- closure and who oceupiet seats trees house tops god barns, His ne was not broken, death resulting from strangulation in eleven minutes, Winston, as anticipated died game He mounted the scaffold, with Sheriff Holland on ove side, and Deputy Sheriff Tobe Rogers op, the other, with unfattering t cone Just as he p'aced his foot on th 4 however, his hands began to tr violently. Diack suit bod new scores in on He was attired ina © rays of the ri ed the ghasily pa'l His eves protruder and glistened with Night. As Nohl, he gazed | wi, with hands of his in more than us stran, steppe around him at the clasped behivd hin 1 murmured eomething that could not | Sherif€ Hollaod aod Dey ers, Uuerback a G, W. Burks church. stood ¢ bim. Ina few s Which seemed like an hour to the spectators. Rey chapter from the bible, afier which sang r My Home.” He in voked Divine forgiveness for the peni- tent sinver about to pay the extreme penalty crime of marder Winston joined in the prayer in a rambling, uviatelligible manner, and said Amen" with the preacher, Sheriff Holinad then asked him if reard, ities Rog- and Rey A. M.E affold with nits, each one of ad Youn of the tt Cc ks read a | His Untimely End. stoa's body shot like an arrow stven eet below, trap he gave a most harrowing, blood- curdling ery. os if he had attempted last good bye, and his voice failed him, ‘The spectators began immediately to crowd around him. He was motionless, and ,at first no muscular contraction was visible. Presently his flogers began to twitch, and his limbs to slowly draw up and relex. Drs, Brothers. Robertson and Holland, the two former from the city, and the latter of Grahamville who were appointed to pronounce death, stepped up and two felt his pulse. Winston’s feet were within two inches of the ground when Lis body was entirely relaxed, and a spectator kicked a rock out from une der one foot, which touched it, In minutes Winston was pro- ed dead. His neck was not broken, despite the t feet, and he died of tion, His strug not violent. After he was pronounced dead several lifted him up while the rope was cut. Sheriff Holland retained the knot 4 souverir, and part of eleven ne strangula- however, were he desired to say anything. He re- plied that he did, and stepped tc ward © fow feet, He would impa- tiently clasp his bands just in front of him, then bebiud. He spoke five ~ Rupates of more. In a ramblieg. vesultory manner be said he wanted to warn everybody to take example from his fate. His w first were scarcely audible, but he p ved became louder, and changed ito a eort of weird chaut, something simi- lar to that of some insane religious zealot sound that sent a momentary chili of hoior through those within reach of his voice, Vace, wh crowd of boys on the outside beg shout at » that red with- used and He knew their duty, aad remarke: ‘This is only Jastice, jus said he hoped his words would ring forever in the ears of his hearers, Ile then called for Della Allen, Jored trasty who has been in jail of mali istmas festi Mills two years was a quick wement they an uncanoy laugh and ud tra: for somet out, he gazed then told t they were ~ cious sh val ago. of tl casting biseye in some see v could be the wishe © Allen proved to be in the upper de partment of the jail, and a crowd of boys who were hanging out the win dow, ordered that he might get within it of Winston, avd hear what he had to say, When he protruded bis iead, Winston, in his own aleet, Della, remember Take warning! — Let whisky gambling and bad women alone Look me, and see what they have brought mo to."’ In this vein he continued for what seemed several m'nates, although it was doubtless much less. Allen lisiened with rapt attention, and tears were visible in the eyes of several pirsoners who sur rounded the lower grating in the jail After 4 few more remarks in the samo trend, Winston bowed to Deputy Snheviff Rogers and Sheriff Holland, indicati at 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 bim by Deputy Rogers and another de- puty securely fastened a rope around s, Sheriff Holland stepped wthy black cap from his nd unfolded it, Winston's moved prayer. He asked to ‘org've him. When Sheriff Hand yulle | the somber cap down ry the nurderer’s head and face (elt the man’s face quiver with fearas he stool on the brink of eternity He then adjusted the Maxon's near The involuntarily ors, each direction ri joomed man were ide 1, what I told you. nis le up, di pooke in noose. The sheriff motioned his deputies from ‘he trapp avd walked over died lever, which projected syerture that formed the to the gallows, aw: to the W out to the ent raner Winston murmured another briet prayer, the movement of his lips be~ ing discernable under their sable o “y sai was cut up by Oflcer Orr and dis- tribated among those who desired the gruesome rel'cs, Undertaker Nance charge of the renmiains, and them in a cheap coffin which brought in after the execution, The face, when the taken off, was covered with perspira- tion, and horribly distorted. Gradually the crowd dispersed, those from the ioclosure mingling with those who had been on the out- | side. then took was WINSTON'S LAST NIGHT, Winston's last night was a sleep- less one. Yesterday afternoon the jail was throwa open to those whose morbid curiosity prompted them to view the murderer in his cell, Seven hundred and eighty-fve people called tosee him before the doors were closed to visitors, He attempted to sleep last night, hut could only dose occasionally, Deputy Jailer Charlie Bonnin and Mr. Charles Hart acted as death wat Whenever they passed near the cell Winston was always praying About 2 o'clock the prisoner man- U to sleep a little, He was awak- ened at 4 o'clock, and the first thing he did was (to drink the Jast of the wine he had in a bottle. He dressed and when breakfast was served de- clined to eat, saying he was not hua- gry. At5 o'clock his spiritual ad- viser, Rev, Burks, arcived, aud Win- stonjwas turned into th» cori tor. Several policemen were placed inside shortly afterwards,and Winston spent most of his time praying and talking, pacivg the floor constantly and thinking. Last night he informed those pres- ent that he killed Vin because he loved her. some irresistible at n for bimthat le once told her himself she would sooner or later be the death of him, or cause him togo the peuitoatiary for life, In speakivg of the woman be often lapsed into tenderness, and his last request was that his remains be buried beside her in Pofter’s Held, Yesterday be had his photograph | taken, and appeared to be pleased | {ivhen @ proof was showa him las night, That she had PREPARATIONS FORK THE EXROUTION, ering, and Sheriff «Good bye, George,”’ lever. ‘The support fell u put likea tash of lightning, led the clessly, | Before daylight people began ar- riving at the jail, A nember of small boys climbed in the trees ad- As he went through the fall of seven or} the rope| Stubblefield | ™ tists other for # good seat on tielgh | boring fences, house tops and out- | houses, he hour for the hanging w jand those with tickets did not Hosin jto arrive until6 o ‘clock and later, | Doctors, officers, and newspaper men he admitted to the jail, Vinston talked. prayed and preach: jad, SMuettety He was asked where he was boro, but replied he ditn't have time to talk about it then, that | his life was too short. | A crowd. of prisoners pushed up the bars and Winston began giving | them good advice, One youth began to cry. ‘And I don’t want any of you to jsay you see me after I'm gone," Winston said significantly, “It 1 go to heaven I won’t want to come back: Laim’t got anything here to stay fot. { won't want to tome back, and 1 won't! If 1 go to the "bad place, the devil won't let me come back, and so I'll not come back either = way, = and =I don’t want any of yon to say you saw the, either, If I come hack ‘t will be with my crown, golden slippers, robe and wings, do you hear?” Then he would relapse chant, and some of the prisoners would continue to shed tears, Pres- ently he saw several reporters avd began to tell them not to say thing untrue about bim “Here they came up here once and | talked a littie while and then went off and said 1 seen ‘haunts.’ I never {seen » haunt in my life, gonter he said, “f’'ve been away back in this jail, and when I was out 1 used to sleep in old, broken down houses away off from anywhere, aad I sever saw one yet. I'd feel a little funny but then I never did see a ‘haunt’ The worst ‘haunts’ they is, gentle- men, is live ‘haunts,’ ’ Winstoa at times appeared to be temporarily insane either with the drea’ of hisdoom, or from religious fervor, But he would soon, by his into his any- final trial he did at all, and seéimed to aces Aga matter of course. ho reason why sentence }be passed upon him, Bishop asked him, and c¢ mpplained that the sente inh, although he once At bi WINSTON Wine ' George Crockett, Obion May 2, 1855, and was He went south early in! gan his careerin New ¢ € boy on a steamboat, becoming a rouster. He went to Georgia was married in Butler, t his wife but six month Ile leaves a mother, brother in Obion county, heard from the He claims he wa’ ne ar ein his life bef he Paducah, and that was in € carrying a pistol. what he said of Vina Stubblefield exerted she must county, t in over FIRST HANGING SINC Today's hanging was the 1890, when executed ‘Babe’’ Laurie. 15, early in the mo e coldest days the tt Notwiths' however, for the was one of perienced here, ing below zero. cold weather, demned man pers} arose from h! WINSTON’S FALL: One of the doctors prese in way of ex; m of was be-ause the k back of bis neck feet struck the dropped however s ound to som the spectators ty DPhysicia many Fok the city and cou Sheriff Starks, of Benton, Marshall Cc THE REMATNS, Coroner Nance will int mains in jorning e of his ho atter today to ke ited to see the r is afiern he threw his establishment them view the body. A large vumbet of pi the jail during the day at the scaffolds found p th it p coroner of of rear look common-sense remarks, convince his hearers that he was perfectly sane. Among other statements, one was that he had not seen his mother nor placea | sisters since 1881, and that he never | New Orle of thought about then now. At7Z o'clock the jail enclosure kK cap was was thrown open, officer Sherman] ter S. Connor Phillips taking tickets, Sheriff Ho!- land and deputy Rogers produced jthe rope, and attached it to the beam of the gallows. They after the condemned m: Sheriff Holland read the warrant to him, there was ) prayer, and the march to the scaifold began. He walked, bareheaded, be- tween Sheriff Holland and deputy Rogers, with oth in the rear. The crowd pressed clos bat was kept back by policemen. Each one strained himself or herself to see the prisoner, who looked straight abead most of the time. then went THY CRIME HE EXPIATED, The crime for which Winston was hanged was one of the most horrible buteheries ever committed in the state, On the night of April 22° Winston wenttothe hume of his ,mistres: Viva Stubblefield, a notorious neg- ress, liviog in Dunnoi’s alley, and floding her sent went to sleep on ber bed, ortly after midnight the woman returned to the house and awoke him by striking a match Winston asked her for a cigarette. She replied that she did not have one and he became angered. They quar- relled a few minutes and then, with- outa word of warning. Winston, in a manner true to his namesake, the devil, drew a kuife.and stabbed the man in fell view of Ed Morton, Isadore Herron and a woman named Ray, After stabbing the woman he threw ber bloody body on the hed from which he had just arisen and / slashed h@ in a dozen different places, cutting arteries with every [blow of the knife. After finis | his hellish work Winston took bis va- lise, {and walked out, shouting words of pliance at the astounded witnesses to the horrible butchery. He went in the direction of the jrailroad, but a careful search of the Yards and “Y’? failed to reveal the murderer, shal Jesse Walker, at Fulton, the fol lowing Sunday, and branche + * 2 and Win-! jacent, while boys and men vied with] wi ers he had been c¢ a) a iave been an e which was lieing in the room,], He was captured by Mar-| Six Pass Through En ! New Orleans, Making Their Regular Trip of Inspection From Pittsburg. Che follow making their Obi» to inspect thro the city from ts! 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