Show UNDER THE BLACK CAP CAT the notorious etire pay pays the penalty of a life of infamy history story of ills crime A southern criminal punished chicago Clil caRO news cincinnati 0 may 2 wm was hanged in an inclosure in in tho the rear of the courthouse this f forenoon forenoon ore noon the death warrant was read re ad at 1005 and he was con cone ducted to the scaffold at 1015 tho drop fell at 1018 and tho the body was cut down fifteen minutes later father brady a catholic briest priest was with the condemned all I 1 the morning followed him to the fulda fol 1 d administered tho the last rites at of the ie church while on the way from froin the jail to the gallows he ile knelt and made a short prayer about two hundred persons in addition to the police were present and the most perfect order was ob obi served after the body fell there was a movement of tho the crowd toward it but at a word from the sheriff they fell back and none but physicians and tho the coroner approached pro ached the body the noose was adjusted loosely and the knot slipped to the back of the neck mchugh Afef fugh was perfectly calm and composed his last words nords were nvere goodby friends on the night of july 23 issa sixth street market was crowded gitil with peddlers and bt buyers ivers tho the sultry air air was filled with noise bustle and confusion as the hucksters hawked their products going west on tho the south side of ath Street picking her way through the crowds was a woman with a basket on her arm she was a stout fleshy blonde with blue eyes light hair and a flabby face showing the tile marks of beauty dimmed by dissipation sho She laughed and chatted with the loafers and the hucksters until she reached the corner of plum street it was dark and in the flaro flare of tho tile casoline torches she paused at a stand to examine some green corn in this same hour a man with red hair bloodshot blood shot eyes high cheekbones and dressed in dark clothes entered a hardware store on race street he Ile wanted a butcher knife from several shown him lie selected a long eight inch knife sharp and bright testing its edge on his thumb ho lie said ill tako take this dont mind about wrapping A up XU for it soon he ile went out and started toward the sixth street market Reach reaching inz ath street lie locked about him hin like a wild beast prey he went down plum street following tho tile same path taken by the woman iio ile held bold the knife from sight under his ills coat with a nervous clutch he ile forced his way through the people who jostled him and many were almost scratched by his unsheathed knife ho ile drew near the woman she had decided to buy the corn sho she hesitated as she handled the green husks slie she beard heard the tile confusion brithe crowd behind her and slightly turned her elieud site saw the man with red bair advance he ile stood by hercide her lier side his ilia right arm was lifted above tho the crowd and it was the tile ion long gi gleaming caming blade it hashed flashed in lie tile gasoline glare for a moment 0 thrust I 1 rust it into the womans comans breast lie ile withdrew with diew the knife it was dripping with blood the woman fell back against a woman who had seen tho the achand who cried out murder murdo I 1 somo some one arrest that man but ho lie walked away through tho the S stupefied tupe fied crowd and reached the corner another woman addressed him kill her B yes 11 bo be replied and mingled wit with 11 tho the peo people le who were rushing ru shine to the scene odthe of the crime the woman he lie had stabbed bad had only said ile cut at niel me he lie cut me an and then the lush rush of blood strangled her speech celi and slid died in the street her iler body was taken into the drug at longworth rho physician placed his hand on lie the tto maus pulse dead was nil all bo lie said and laid held tho the hand down on the flower tho the body was then removed to morgue lu within a few ferr steps of tho the scene of death hero it was din eXin ice even while vet et warm the roan man who had killed tier her walked down toward central avenue threw throw away the knife and moved about aimlessly soon after two officers arrested hm lim what for ho s said tid do you tiko take mo me for a greeny when told tali of his crime he denied it and declared lio lie bad had no knife soon boon after a boy picked up the bloody knife wiped off the human blood bloo with a handkerchief and carried it I 1 homo home pleased with his 1 find this is the story ot of the horrible horri blo murder tho tile woman was sophia hand her slayer was william mchugh her husband and to days victim of tho gallows sophia zurilla was bornman born may 20 1851 ou on bremen street cincinnati her father died when sit sho was quite young and her mother and brothers sent her tier to school she was a bright sunny faced little girl and much admired in 1861 her mother moved to parlor grove on tho the ohio river when sophia was 14 Capt bosworth a boatman was often at her tier mother house shouse lio was a big rough man and conceived i an unholy adi ads mi ration for thia this little litto fatherless child sho was poor he lie was rich rieb but by a tempt ilig gift of bo lie led her astray when she was yet a mere child in once under hia his control controls she be bet be amo we accustomed to this enri unrighteous union and for some months she wai his mistress unknown to tocci her mother leaving bosworth ehe she cacao came to cincinnati cin nati and became a domestic next acx tile mistress of jim walker then sho she became a woman of the town and became aa an inmate of a fashionable luvanar lu hi ho was born at brand branch hill near cincinnati in 1854 1834 his father mi chad was born in ili ireland as waa w as his it mother iother the father was a s rf prosperous section boss on the little miami railroad but lie died while william was a baby in arms mc me bluh became a newsboy and beat his way to now york by under a car seat hero here lie sang and bancod at the old bowey bowery theater blacked boots slept in dry I 1 r goods boxes and then beat his way b back home next ho be went to st louis where lie gained the medal for A a hining ining boots beats beat inthe ing famous fatty a st louis character in 1870 reddy mchugh became quite a tough kid and had his first experience in petting getting drunk in 18 71 ho lie left the streets learned painting and pen penciling tiling with murphy nt linn and Li liberty betty he ile worked off duj ad 0 on n until the fearful night of july 23 1881 while painting at elm street in 1879 1870 ho lie first saw raw belle walker val kep alia SO sophia I 1 a Zur wella and k knowing her ber tot to ye e a woman of tho the to town n ho paid be her i attention she was still handsome 11 and some well dressed and was pleased with tho the young painters attentions tent ions they intimate and together they drank and reveled about town with thorough infatuation this was the be beginning inning of an crain era in the life of red reddy X mallu 11 lie ile was rather proud of being tho the lover of another 3 mistress and of a handsome woman who though degraded and disgraced was war yet attractive they never thought of legalizing their plea pleasure in 1879 a marriage endowment as was organized by mr des de beck beek then mayor moores clerk and ather politicians some of whom are today to day prominent and prosperous the ostensible object of the 0 organization was vas to encourage matrimony and start young couples in life who were members odthe of the association in reality it wasa was scheme to make mons ey for the organizers on august 10 1879 the society gave a picnic at inwood park tickets sold for cents the special attractions advertised were t three ree public weddings of couples not named of course this was enough to attract a curious crowd sam pollock who had been a bootblack companion of mchugh was a solicitor for the asso cia tion just before the picnic he came to mchugh and said red a couple that was to be mair picnic has backed out no now here is a chance for you to make some money if you and your girl will stand up and get married we will pay you well yes but will 1 I bo be lawfully mar ried asked red of course not said is only a farce tou know just in fun at that time reds girl was belle bello walker alias sophia Zur wella he ile took her to the picnic drank heavily and danced gaily ilia ills friends heard heard of his proposed in marriage arriage and said look gutred out ou tRed red you dont want to t his iro woman maii 11 then he be w went e nt to debeck him bim if tho the cere diony wi ra debeck assured is him not and promised him 75 if ho lie would go through the ceremony but red backed out he ile left the grounds rounds was followed and caught at fath ath and vine by ft a policeman was jammed into a streetcar street car and was taken back he ile talked the matter over girl said 1 l red cd if you marry me I 1 will bo a true wife and you will never regret it he ile soon became drunk they laid him on two cli chairs airs with his head in his girls lap and lie he soon fell asleep soon debeck came around shook him and said for gods mac alac brace cupl up when his face was washed his girl combed his hair bair and when the signal trumpet sounded he lie was ready for fora a doom of which lie knew nothing he ile led sophia before a multitude of drunken laughing and jeering people and was tri married arrie d to herby her by squire wright Vr ight just before frank moyer and louisa louira dwyer frank knowl and elizabeth cathoir had been married in tho tile same place and manner the they are all dead the girl diz died in a longworth street assignation house and mrs bleyer i in r the hospital after an all unhappy existence the october grand jury returned an indictment of murder and wm 11 pugh and aud E potter dustin were appointed to ta defend md him his ilia trial cowmen commenced ced dec 1881 before judge F M moore ills 1 lawyers I 1 rw made a noted defense and alio jury I 1 u ry wen tout at pm dec in twenty five minutes the signal bell rang ranz they had agreed on a verdict mchugh Mc Hugli manacled mana cled and nervous was brought from froin tho jail and the jury men filed iia in the room was crowded it was dark gloomy and foreboding the verdict read guilty of murder in the first degree the prisoner was euph agitated and went back to his cell crestfallen and uneasy As is usual in cincinnati a motion I 1 was granted for a new trial this trial resulted in it the same way as the first the criminal lawyers defendi defending ug mchugh mch H ugh again bucce succeeded eded in setting aside the second trial and a third was granted 1 in spite of all ed 0 rt to thwart justice however the verdi verdict ct rendered d in this trial was carried 0 out t tills this morning mor |