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Show a nocnr.i: ha.ici. Ilawallmbtndna, I'nl UnloXlhr xrmt LcOCASTEK, b. (.'., Aug. 2. At the execution of Roche C'ateo aud Wm. ClyLurn. colored, the murderers murder-ers of August Hennls, a w bite man, there were present Hhcrlft Uuntt-r and hi" avlstants. Cairo broke down and cried on the scaffold, but recovered and ohe to the audience, audi-ence, exrreIng regret for killing Hennls and ayingthat whisky liad mado blm what he was. He thought the verdict of the Jury and uiesenieDreol the court lust, but said that It might have been different dif-ferent If he had had money. Mrs. Hennls, he said, urged him to commit com-mit the deed. He lelt n written statement with the sheriff" to 1 mado public after the execution. Cljburn was calm and collected, aud raid that he was ready to die. The trap was sprung at 1:30 and both necks were broken at once, death cowing lntatiLincou1y and being a parently painless. It was rumored this morning that an attempt would be made to lynch Mrs. Hennls, but no such attempt has been made. By the governor's orders the military were on guard. THE CRIJ1K for which these men were hanged was the result of the depravity of the young wife of the man rnurdefd. Mrs. Roxies Hennls bad secretly loved Cateo for some time. There Is every reason to believe that she Slotted tne murder of her husband, ne night In March last Cateo and his chum, Clyburn, went to the house of Hennls. Clyburn stationed sta-tioned himself In the rovl some distance dis-tance from the home and Cateo entered. en-tered. He chatted with Hennls for a time and gave him some whl.-ky. He succeeded in getting Hen ni to go out on the read with him, and while there Clyburn and he murdered mur-dered the white man. Cateo returned re-turned to the house, washed the blood from lib bands in the presence of Mm. Hennls and stopped there over night. The next day Mrs. Hennls told the neighbors that her husband had gone to the Brewers' mines to get work. The neighbors became suspicious when Cateo was found to have Installed In-stalled himself in Hennis's place, and a search was made for the missing miss-ing man. On the third day the body was found in a gully, covered with bruh and dirt. It was terribly mangled. The pbysldaDs who made the autopvy say thatHennU was first choked by bavlnggrassaud lirt stuffed into his mouth, and white suffocated was hacked with knives and clubs. Cateo and Mrs. Hennls fled, but were raptured and brought back. Mrs. Hennls la now in Jail awaiting another trial, the first haviDg re. suited In a mis-trial. |
