Negro Murderer Hanged Today at the County Jail

NEGRO MURDERER FARMERS TO MEET HANGED TODAY AT AT COURT HOUSE THE COUNTY JAIL Dr. W. E. Hinds Will Speak o Methods of Exterminating Worms. Frank Richardson Pays Pen- alty For Murder of A mass meeting of the farmers o White Men. Tuscaloosa county will be held at th court house next Wednesday mornin COMMUTATION REFUSED at 11 Dr. W. E. Hinds o Auburn, state entomologist, will b present and will deliver a lecture o: After Singing and Bidding Friends the best methods to use in fightin Farewell, Calmly Goes to the army grass worm, caterpillar an His Death. other destroyers of crops. Talk will be made by several other agr cultural experts, and an instructiv For the first time in eight years, and valuable meeting is assured. I the death penalty was imposed in is hoped that every farmer in th Tuscaloosa county today when Frank county will be present, as this is Richardson, a negro, was hanged for critical time with all of them. murder. Richardson killed former Deputy Tom Cooper and Brown Hor- Mr. W. Turner, assistant to Dr ton, who was a member of the pur- Hines, is still in the county. He ha suing posse. prepared a receipt for poisoning th Richardson was hanged at noon worms and the board of trade Is send today and 17 minutes later was pro- ing it to all the farmers in the coun nounced dead by the physicians at- ty. Following are the poisons pre tending. The execution took place in scribed: the county jail and was witnessed On Corn-Spray with arsenate o by a number of people. A crowd of lead or Paris green; getting the 1 several hundred remained on the out- quid into the bud. side while the execution took place. On Peas-Cotton, grass, etc.-Dus The negro was extremely calm, and with powdered arsenate of lead o held his nerve to the ‘end. He was Paris green. attended by several ministers, and The composition of the differen expressed his readiness to go. Two mixtures advised are as follows: songs were sung, in which the con- Arsenate of lead spray-2 pound demined negro took the lead. He ex- arsenate of lead; 2 pounds freshl pressed his thanks to Sheriff Palmer slaked lime; 50 gallons water. and his deputies for their kindness Arsenate of lead dry-3 pound and consideration. He said that he arsenate of lead; 5 pounds of lime regretted the killing, but claimed that to be used to each acre. , he was forced into it. Paris Green spray– pound o Richardson was attired in the Paris green; 2 pounds freshly slake usual black suit of clothes. He greet- lime; 50 gallons water. ed all his friends in the crowd and Paris green dry-1 pound of Pari smiled most of the time. His com- green; 5 pounds of lime; to be user posure was perfect, and as the noose to each acre. was adjusted on his neck, he re- marked that it choked slightly. As the trap was sprung by Sheriff Pal- GRAND DUCHESS AUGUSTA IS 90 mer, he called good bye, The execution of Richardson fol- Berlin, July 19 -The little city o lows a hard legal fight. Convicted of Neo-Strelitz, capital of the gran the murder of Brown Horton and sen- duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, war tenced to hang on December 22, a re- the scene today of a notable gather prive of sixty days was secured by his ing of royalty assembled for the cele attorneys, Rice and Vandevoort. An- bration of the ninetieth birthday an other reprive was secured later. niversary of the Dowage: Gran When a new trial was refused, an ef- Duchess Augusta, mother of the fort was made to have the sentence reigning rand duke of Mccklenburg commuted to life imprisonment. Strelitz. The English roya Every member of the jury signed family as well as the imperial family petition that the sentence be changed of Germany was at the to life imprisonment, and the three celebration, for the venerable grand members of the pardoning board rec- duchess was before her marriage the ommended the commutation to Gover- English Princess Augusta, dau ter nor O’Neal. Judge H. B. Foster of of the late Duke of Cambridge and the county court and Sheriff W. 0. wn cousin of Quesn Victoria She Palmer wrote letters tò the governor is the oldest woman of the English asking that the death sentence be royal family and was always spoken carried out. County Solicitor Verner of by the late King Edward as “our and Mr. Robert Cornell of the sheriff’s doyenne. In spite of her 90 years office and Mr. James Walker went the grand duchess is active of mind over to Montgomery last night and and body. She is extremely fond of held a conference with the governor, social gatherings and an indefatig recommending that the sentence be able patroness of the theater. carried out. Attorney James Rice presented the petition of the entire jury and a number of eitizens of Tus- killed Brown Horton, a member of caloosa, together with the recommen- the pursuing posse, Tuesday after- dations of the pardoning board, that noon, October 24, he was etptured and the sentence be commuted to life im- lodged in jail. The grand jury re- prisonment. The governor declined turned an indictment and the trial to interfere. and conviction followed quickly. He The crime for which Richardson was sentenced to hang on December paid the death penalty was com- 22. A hard legal fight was begun by mitted about nine months ago. On his atorneys, Rice and Vandevoort Sunday October 22 last, he killed In an effort to get a new trial or former Deputy Tom Cooper who went have the sentence commuted, but the to Richardson’s house for the purpose refusal of the governor tó interfere of borrowing a saddle. He escaped last night ended the efforts of the de- and early the following morning, fense. NEGRO MURDERER FARMERS TO MEET HANGED TODAY AT AT COURT HOUSE THE COUNTY JAIL Dr. W. E. Hinds Will Speak o Methods of Exterminating Worms. Frank Richardson Pays Pen- alty For Murder of A mass meeting of the farmers o White Men. Tuscaloosa county will be held at th court house next Wednesday mornin COMMUTATION REFUSED at 11 Dr. W. E. Hinds o Auburn, state entomologist, will b present and will deliver a lecture o: After Singing and Bidding Friends the best methods to use in fightin Farewell, Calmly Goes to the army grass worm, caterpillar an His Death. other destroyers of crops. Talk will be made by several other agr cultural experts, and an instructiv For the first time in eight years, and valuable meeting is assured. I the death penalty was imposed in is hoped that every farmer in th Tuscaloosa county today when Frank county will be present, as this is Richardson, a negro, was hanged for critical time with all of them. murder. Richardson killed former Deputy Tom Cooper and Brown Hor- Mr. W. Turner, assistant to Dr ton, who was a member of the pur- Hines, is still in the county. He ha suing posse. prepared a receipt for poisoning th Richardson was hanged at noon worms and the board of trade Is send today and 17 minutes later was pro- ing it to all the farmers in the coun nounced dead by the physicians at- ty. Following are the poisons pre tending. The execution took place in scribed: the county jail and was witnessed On Corn-Spray with arsenate o by a number of people. A crowd of lead or Paris green; getting the 1 several hundred remained on the out- quid into the bud. side while the execution took place. On Peas-Cotton, grass, etc.-Dus The negro was extremely calm, and with powdered arsenate of lead o held his nerve to the ‘end. He was Paris green. attended by several ministers, and The composition of the differen expressed his readiness to go. Two mixtures advised are as follows: songs were sung, in which the con- Arsenate of lead spray-2 pound demined negro took the lead. He ex- arsenate of lead; 2 pounds freshl pressed his thanks to Sheriff Palmer slaked lime; 50 gallons water. and his deputies for their kindness Arsenate of lead dry-3 pound and consideration. He said that he arsenate of lead; 5 pounds of lime regretted the killing, but claimed that to be used to each acre. , he was forced into it. Paris Green spray– pound o Richardson was attired in the Paris green; 2 pounds freshly slake usual black suit of clothes. He greet- lime; 50 gallons water. ed all his friends in the crowd and Paris green dry-1 pound of Pari smiled most of the time. His com- green; 5 pounds of lime; to be user posure was perfect, and as the noose to each acre. was adjusted on his neck, he re- marked that it choked slightly. As the trap was sprung by Sheriff Pal- GRAND DUCHESS AUGUSTA IS 90 mer, he called good bye, The execution of Richardson fol- Berlin, July 19 -The little city o lows a hard legal fight. Convicted of Neo-Strelitz, capital of the gran the murder of Brown Horton and sen- duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, war tenced to hang on December 22, a re- the scene today of a notable gather prive of sixty days was secured by his ing of royalty assembled for the cele attorneys, Rice and Vandevoort. An- bration of the ninetieth birthday an other reprive was secured later. niversary of the Dowage: Gran When a new trial was refused, an ef- Duchess Augusta, mother of the fort was made to have the sentence reigning rand duke of Mccklenburg commuted to life imprisonment. Strelitz. The English roya Every member of the jury signed family as well as the imperial family petition that the sentence be changed of Germany was at the to life imprisonment, and the three celebration, for the venerable grand members of the pardoning board rec- duchess was before her marriage the ommended the commutation to Gover- English Princess Augusta, dau ter nor O’Neal. Judge H. B. Foster of of the late Duke of Cambridge and the county court and Sheriff W. 0. wn cousin of Quesn Victoria She Palmer wrote letters tò the governor is the oldest woman of the English asking that the death sentence be royal family and was always spoken carried out. County Solicitor Verner of by the late King Edward as “our and Mr. Robert Cornell of the sheriff’s doyenne. In spite of her 90 years office and Mr. James Walker went the grand duchess is active of mind over to Montgomery last night and and body. She is extremely fond of held a conference with the governor, social gatherings and an indefatig recommending that the sentence be able patroness of the theater. carried out. Attorney James Rice presented the petition of the entire jury and a number of eitizens of Tus- killed Brown Horton, a member of caloosa, together with the recommen- the pursuing posse, Tuesday after- dations of the pardoning board, that noon, October 24, he was etptured and the sentence be commuted to life im- lodged in jail. The grand jury re- prisonment. The governor declined turned an indictment and the trial to interfere. and conviction followed quickly. He The crime for which Richardson was sentenced to hang on December paid the death penalty was com- 22. A hard legal fight was begun by mitted about nine months ago. On his atorneys, Rice and Vandevoort Sunday October 22 last, he killed In an effort to get a new trial or former Deputy Tom Cooper who went have the sentence commuted, but the to Richardson’s house for the purpose refusal of the governor tó interfere of borrowing a saddle. He escaped last night ended the efforts of the de- and early the following morning, fense.