St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 29, 1896

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Losier of Carroliton was closeted ‘with the Governor all morning, but he was unable to do anything for his client. The Governor early to-day received a telegram signed by about twenty-five citizens of Browning protesting against any executive interference, j Special to the Post-Dispatch. CARROLLTON, Mo., April 29.—Bill Tay- lor sits in his cell cold and silent while waiting for the end. The lines about his face are deepening. His hands look drawn and clammy and the muscles twitching about his nose tell too plainly the strain that is bearing him down. He realizes now that every sane hope is gone, and if there be one vestige left it is because the human heart cannot give up until it ceases to beat. ea The final blow to the tortured man came this morning in a dispatch from Marcy K. Brown, telling him the Governor had re. fused a respite, He received it coldly, and as he read its contents only an expression of the bloodless beard-hidden lips geve evi- dence of its fatal import. The exact con- tents of the message are not known. Taylor refused to gtve it out; but he d- mitted that it was from Margy K. Brown, and that its contents were disappointing to his hopes. Immediately upon its re- ceipt he sat ‘down to the table and began writing in a fine cipher. To whom his message was addressed he refused to state. When Taylor was searched last night by . Sheriff Allen of Linn County there was found in his inside vest pocket a small card which contained some pins, four locks of hair of his children, a powder of white pul- verized substance, which was analyzed by Dr. Cook and Flay Williams and found to be 1% grains of crystal sulphate of strych- nine, a sufficient quantity to kill a human There was also found on his person ye a steel saw, which he claimed he used to clean his finger nails. Affidavits stating the result of the search were for- warded to Gov. Stone. Taylor slept well last night and under a — that at least must have flattered his vanity, even though it did annoy him. ; Three Linn County deputy sheriffs were with him constantly to see that no more saws or poison got to him or that he had a chance to use them if already concealed in the cell or about his person, The first thing done to him this morning after he had his breakfast was to dress him in an en- tirely new outfit. Sheriff Allen of Linn Coun was the valet. The prisoner sub- mitted without a murmur. very stitch was taken from him, and then the new out- underwear and outer garments, ut on him. His cell was searched, the bed- | examined, new pillows furnished him an Sheriffs Stanley and Allen breathed easier. Sheriff Stanley received a telegram from Gov. Stone last night warning him to take no chances of either suicide or escape on Taylor's part, and the Carroll County man is minding his knitting. The Post-Dispatch correspondent visited Taylor in his cell shortly after the change ot wardrobe. He lodked as sleek as Sven- all after success had come to his song- i, and there was something, too, in the an's general make-up that was remindful of Du urler s creation. There was the same death-like pallor, 2 black hair and beard shining and ustrous, the cold y eyes, the prominent bold forehead. Surely i nose, and the hig gali as he sat there he seemed another Sven ed in somber black. “Have you anything to tell me?” he was asked. “No,” he said calmly, as his ii crept back into @ smile «and his white teeth is — more to be At that time Brown, and manifestly still had hope. one here doubts that the execution will take place to-morrow and what is worrying about of the is how in ane e ren, ives, The peg is pulled ith rise up from the crowd. * These le do not mean to be cruel, but 4 . the — man can hear them as they Ra that trap. The jail windows open ; —— e yard and the voices of the crowd ti thro h 1 bars to where Oe site’ thinking 58 K t˖ of the end. It must be a terrible feeling to know that your ; fellow men are i which — * with the instrument * ng er circle of the sun will . ou thirating for . But no sign of He is like a marble n, as mes is a Üttle dubious that | he wil) tatue in this, the is in the pallor os 13 n 0 1 4 bing. 3 1 ee totals e r 4 a 4 r . VY 1 f ’ 72 * * it > LTNVLOR'S name she eit tell, either does Few people ey rescue. It would be madness. All Stanley is afraid of is that the crowd will be so anxious to see the hanging that they wWIII tear down the stockade. At 11 o’clock to-day Sheriff Stanley tested the rope with which the hanging is to be done. It is seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, a trifle longer than that ordinarily used. It was brought from Kansas City by Marshal Kashtear of that city. It was put to a test of 160 pounds. A bag of sand weighing this amount was shot through the drop several times and the rope stood the strain. The scaffold is built so low, however, that there is not room enough for the victim’s legs to swing if he receives any kind of a drop. hortly before noon Taylor submitted to having his beard trimmed. It improved his personal appearance and relieved him of his savage look. Col. John B. Hale had a long talk with the prisoner this morning, but refused to dis- cuss the purport of it. Virgil Conkling is not here. He is ex- pected to pass through St. Louis to-night at 6:30 on his way from Washington to Jefferson City, where he will make a final appeal to the Governor. In any event, whether he succeeds in postponing the in- evitable or rot, he will probably reach here to-morrow morning in time for the hang- ing should it take place. The hour is set for 11 o'clock. Russell Kneisley, Conk- ling’s partner, declares that he will not give up hope until Conkling has seen the Governor. “If Gov. Stone refuses a respite,” said he, “it will establish a precedent in Missouri. From the time Missouri became a State un- til the present day, if you find a single case in all the Missouri reports where a Governor refused to grant a condemned man at least one respite, I'll give you my whole law library. That much has been hitherto recognized even by Gov. Stone himself as due a man about to die. “Bill Taylor up to this time has thought of nothing but the disposition of his case in the courts. This hope is gone now and he should be given time to think of the salvation of his soul, to which he has not given one moment of thought.” Sheriff Stanley had a talk with Taylor about noon. He wanted to.know what the condemned man wished done with his body. Taylor said he would tell him to-night. He said he did not think any of his relatives would be present to-morrow, although it is thought that without doubt they will take charge of the body. He sent a letter to his wife this morning, and by mistake it got out of the jail unopened. Sheriff Stanley was in- clined to be angry about it, and he is paying more particular attention to what comes in. After dinner three ministers called at the jail and asked to see Taylor. They were C. Bolen and Ben F. Lake of Car- roliton and C. Allen of Linneus, all of the Methodist faith. The prisoner consented to see them and shook hands with them cor- dially. In geply to questions from Mr. Lake he said that he realized he was soon to leave this earth, but that he desired no spiritual consolation. He was firm in this. When the ministers went to leave him he declined even to join them in prayer. HOW THEY BSCAPED. Bill Taylor ‘Details Events After the * “Meeks Murder. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 29.—In jail here before being taken to Carroliton Bill Taylor told for the first time the story of how he and George escaped from the blood- hounds and 2,500 men who hunted them during the exciting days following the Meeks murder. He laughingly said that the hounds caught rabbits all about them as they hid in the bushes and that they re- mained in the vicinity of Carrollton, sur- rounded by men and dogs, for ten days, finally escaping in a box-car. The night the bodies of the murdered family were found he and his brother, he said, went to their brother-in-law's house and dodged in and out of hundreds of men. The pursuers caught but one glimpse of them, and on second thought decided they were of their own party and did not give chase, e said they were in Springfield three days at Decoration Day time, and later sat unnoticed at Laclede, Mo., where they took a train for Kansas City. SUPREME COURT ACTION. — The Justices Positively Refused the Writ of Error, Special to The Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29.—Before starting home last night Virgil Conkling, attorney for BiH Taylor, exhausted every effort to save his client. After being re- fused the writ of error b Justice Brewer he tried Justice Harlan. The latter called on Peckham and both decided not to grant the writ. Then Conkling tried Brewer again, who called on Chief Justice Fuller. They in turn declined to grant the writ. Then Conkling abandoned hope and started West to be present at the execution. CHICAGO'S SHAM CENSUS. A Decrease of 60,000 Inhabitants Since Two Years Age. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, April 29.—Supt. Sanford of the School Census Bureau feels hurt that it falls to his lot to report that the Chicago census shows 1,493,000, a decrease of 60,000 since two years ago. Sypt. Sanford is learning more and more evefy day of the culpable incorrectness of the last school census. He explains it on the ground that in some parts of the city that census presented every single man with a wife and every single woman with a husband, and that all the transients in the city were counted as resident inhabitants. A GIRL CHILD'S SHAME, Fifteen-Year-Old Minnie Washbura Found in a Disreputable Negro Dive. Patrolmen Maher and Kilcullin entered 706 Clark avenue early Wednesday morning to investigate a report, which proved to be — that a negress had attempted sul- Lying on a quilt on the floor th ey found a Washburn, a white girl, who looks claims to be Tue tay night she was with a man, not know took her to the — to call for her Wednesday oF e a frail litt) tght.. She will 1 — fear any attempt at | DONTE Tht M Knife. fessed his crime. He pleads self-defense. Last Wednesday,” “we quarreled. out of the house. liked her. She refused. and did not see night. thought of killing her. I tried me. a table and choked her. me. 8 “I seized her again, over on the deat 91 9 posible and left the house. until daylight. Then I night I was arrested.“ 11 o'clock. nesses, mostly Chinamen. nese gambler, Belleville. dle of clothes. to do so. important testimony. prisoner before woman's death. in Waukesha, Wis. claimed the body. the Kers green. Wakes? agement of that. will be gushing like know where you're at.“ to play the roue Nellie in a rich they'll give the groom a In the are there. n the al dizzy, a flaw? see “jolly ante-nuptial folly and remar married he had best take in . his s morning when you meet you humbly stop to greet him, he will be 80 absent-minded that he won't know you ~ With a lover’s reckless ardor e wih swing his club the harder, and he’ll smash the curb to pieces while his chin is Special to the Post-Dispatch. Smith, the negro gon last summer, has . ~! 4 } 8 9 * ee $s Nebel 2 Ree 0 * * LEXINGTON, Ky., April 2. here at noon for assaulting Mrs. been ¢ : A 1 on 1 ; N * 2 1 * a . 2 ri A * Spe n > 4 a. + Va a” * 23 * * 7 to Morris VADER. Jeu Jung Tells How He Killed Dora Wagner. CHOKED HER TO DEATH. Says He Acted in Self-Defense, as She Tried te Use a Butcher Jeu Jung, the Chinese murderer, has con- At 10 o’clock Wednesday morning Jeu Jung made a brief but comprehensive state- ment to Chief Desmond and Capt. O'Malley. stating the manner, and occasion of the murder of his white mistress, Dora Wagner, sometimes known as Maggie Meyers. 2 said the Chinaman, I had been in hard luck, and had but little money. She ordered me “I was not jealous of anybody and still I went back Thursday morning to try to get her to live with me again. “After some conversation I left the house her again until Sunday “We parted on good terms, and I had no “Sunday night I went back to the room to get some clothes I had left there. She cursed me and ordered me to leave. to get the clothes first and she picked up à butcher knife and started at “I caught her and threw her back over “She dropped the knife and I let her up. Then she grabbed it again and started for forced her back table and choked her to h. did not intend to kill her even then, but I was greatly excited and must have choked her harder than I thought. laced her on the bed as quickly gs “After that I walked around the streets’ went over to East fi St. Louis and remained in a laund an hour. I decided to go to Belleville, and hired a negro to drive me over there. That ry about Shortly before 11 o’clock the prisoner was taken from the holdover to the Morgue to be sworn over the body of his victim. As he neared the gloomy structure the Chinaman shivered with apprehension. When brought into the presence of the dead woman he trembled with abject fear and was supported by two police officers, while the oath was being administered. The inquest over the body of Dora Wag- ner was commenced by Coroner Wait at A large and a curious throng surged about the entrance to the Coroner's office, hoping to get a glimpse of the mur- derer and hear the testimony of the wit- The first witness was Lup Kay, a Chi- for whom the dead woman is said to have discarded Jeu Jung. He also stated that he was in the com- pany of Jeu Jung until 9:30 o’clock Sunday night, but did not see him after that until the time of the prisoner’s return from Carrie Smith, colored, of 19 South Seventh street, a washerwoman, stated that on April 18 she went to Dora Wagner’s room in the rear of 718 Market street to deliver a bun- The woman was not there. Jeu Jung an- swered the door. He told Carrie Smith that Dora was tired of him and wanted with somebody else, but declared that he would kill her before he would permit her live Other witnesses were called and gave un- Ex-Gov. Charles P. Johnson, the great Chinese advocate, had a brief talk with the e entered office, and Attorney Thomas mained with him during the inquest. Jung declined to make a statement. The case was given to the jury at noon and fifteen minutes later a verdict was re- turned holding Jeu Jung responsible for the Coroner's re- Jeu The parents of the dead girl are sald to live They have not yet HOORAY! HOORAY! Policeman Kavanaugh Is Happy, for Tis His Wedding Day. Wednesday morning at 11 “Baby” R. will be in heaven, for the contest will be ended, and a prize he'll surely win. nuptial rites are over Kavanaugh will be in clover, and he’ll bless the day that brought him to the gaze of Nellie Flynn. All the little bells will jingle, and full many a heart will tingle with the touch of disappointment when they colleen. Oh! the night will be full merry in the famous Patch of Kerry, and there’ll be a celebration that will turn your whis- When the the fair Why, man, the news about the State Capitol, a it furnishes the theme for discussion about the hotels. RESENTED BY ZACARITZ. Burglar Bresnahan Grows Familiar Wink the Circuit Attorney. Circuit Attorney William Zachrits thinks that familiarity breeds contempt, but the sarcasm he uses when he wishes to im- press the fact is a trifle too deep for Burglar Bresnahan. . | Bresnahan came to trial ay morning, and was asked by Judge Edmunds if he had provided any counsel for his de- rest THE OTHER Several Americans, the American engineer; the mond. with the greatest hannesburg, and even source announced that death had been commuted. The President, in has only followed the expected to adopt under by his sense of justice e any fear of th ces ers. Ind i SS . his letter dec berlain’s invitation to visit assumed in order that there the act fense. Bresnahan leaned across the ta and called eut to the Circuit Attorney: “Billy, I say, didn't George Grassmuck speak to you about my case?” | The wiry little * eyed the bi jail bird_a moment; then he r repligd “No, George didn’t on ee oe ot South have n re e * but his impulse in the matter was “ alone and 5 COMMUTED. Hammond and His Three Com- ; rades Will Not Die, * course wh clemency ae 3 - ttt. a — — : . > PRISONERS. Banishment, the Jail and Fines for Fif- ty-Nine Men, Among Whom Are PRETORIA, April . — The sentences of death imposed upon John Hays Hammond, Col.. Francis Rhodes, a brother of the former Premier of Cape Colony; Lionel Philips, President of Chamber of Mines of Johannesburg, and George Farrar, proprietor of Country Life, of Johannesburg, have been commuted. CAPE TOWN, April 2..—Further advices received from Pretoria say that at the close of the trial of the leading members of the Johnannesburg Reform Committee, yester- day, the presiding judge passed the sentence of death upon Lionel Philips, George Farrar, Col. Francis Rhodes and John Hays Ham- A few minutes later the remaining fifty- nine prisoners, including Joel Barnato, a nephew of Barney Barnato; Mr. Pettiheim, the Turkish Consul, and formerly Attorney- General of Cape Colony; J. W. Lofard and Capt. Mein, J. 8. Curtis, V. B. Clement, J. Lawley, H. J, King and Mr. Bingham, all Americans, were sentenced to two years’ im- prisonmient, three years’ banishment and to pay @ fine of £2,000, in default of which they will undergo another year’s imprisonment. The news of the sentences was received t here at Jo- at Pretoria, test excitement e caused the even though it was generally — 2 — that the four men sentenced to death bt — aS ef the British 6 attitude o population was one of angry resentment; the Boers were sullenly defiant. Great relief was felt this when a dispatch from Pretoria from an official the sentences of : . r 8 ec * sm Tae 8 n | 5 9 a ee rr RAY 41 . * i 1 8 i IW THE THGK Special to the Post-Dispatch. | 1 CONVENTION HALL, SPRINGFIELD, — ; Republican — _ vention was called 2 order at high gates at large be selected from the * 7 * cy * OF E * 5 N ¢ * ＋ Buck McCarthy Inaungurates a Rict in ® Gongressional Meeting ande Gets a Black ye. \ III., April 29.—The Alderman Martin B. Madden of Berry of Hancock County has been - lected for Permanent Chairman. 5 The fight of the convention is upon the question “Shall Illinols instruct for Presi- dent or not?“ structions. and McKinley factions. signed a written agreement whereby the State officers be first nominated and then resolutions structing for Maj. William McKinley be allowed to be preserited, and four = * „ ry er g a a Kinleyites to the National Conventic was — will 2 over rsonally conducting — nds Governor, and eth, although a s&s up. Many delegates have them to vote agains | deal of Lampe — the machine he — whe Buck McCarthy, the from the stock yards, pound into headquarters to get some eker his constituents. The tickets were given him, whereupon he thrust K son to one side, picked up a bu ets and walked out of the room. was a big crowd in the room at and while every one was ind was no one who felt equal to 1 stopping the patriot of the s = Buck was not satisfied with this but — tes of the Twenty-second Ce — 1 Revolvers were dra 1 * * mn * * N N oR a oe ~~ wes am f un „„ Ge & +. * eee - —— — = 5 2 Pads ** » 2 „„ d 3 Y 3 * fee * * “af , 7 * * 4 » os CULLOM WILL SEEK DELAY, was Temporary Chairman and Hon; O. 8. Senator Cullom is in Convention Hall, urging the delegates to vote against in- — Late last night the Culem vt * * ’ 1 * hb 15 8 — 1 * — to raise a riot at the meett 2 42 t head. 29 CONVENTION PROCBEDINGS, — 1 a 4 7 * * * * ” * * 1 * + * eS * he + * Phd Y 7 ae . ite ww aes 8 Notwithstanding the Ba gt urged by Senator Gulienn — ft, the made to nets. * e eee * , . at — i * * ae |S 4 * —