Cortland
Evening Standard, Monday, August 10, 1896.
TRIPLE LYNCHING BEE.
Citizens of Louisiana Hang Three Murderers.
THEY WERE ALL ITALIANS.
One Charged
With the Assassination of an Old Planter Out of Spite—The Other Two Murdered an Aged Spaniard
Near New Orleans.
HAHNVILLE, La., Aug. 10—There was a triple
lynching in this town and the bodies of three Italian murderers were
found swinging from the rafters of a shed near the courthouse.
One of the men is Lorenzo Saladino, who so foully assassinated Jules
Gueymard at Freetown last Tuesday night, and the other two were Decino
Sorcoro and Angelo Marcuso, who murdered an old Spaniard on the
Ashton plantation near Bouttes station some time ago.
Ever since the murder of Gueymard this parish
has been at a fever heat of excitement over the affair, and even on the first
night after the murder it was with great difficulty that Sheriff Oery prevented
the lynching of Saladino. He spirited him away in the woods and kept him there
overnight and then the next day took him to the new jail in Hahnville. In the meantime
the evidence grew against Saladino and feeling correspondingly grew in
intensity.
About 11:30 o'clock at night the mob, which
had concentrated on the outskirts of the town, began to move on the jail. They
captured the old negro guard and by the vigorous use of axes, with which they
were well supplied, soon demolished the jail and cell doors and took the
prisoners out and executed them.
Lorenzo Saladino was charged with the murder
of Jules Gueymard, one of the prominent planters and merchants of that section.
The murder occurred at Freetown in St.
Charles parish, a short distance from the river bank. Mr. Gueymard was on the
gallery with several friends playing cards while awaiting the arrival of a boat
with some freight.
When the whistle of the boat blew, Mr. Gueymard
arose to go and meet her, and as soon as he was a few feet away from his party
a shot was fired.
It was from a shotgun loaded with all sorts
of missiles and the load struck him full in the throat, almost tearing his head
from his body, killing him instantly, besides wounding Robert Espenard, a New Orleans
engineer.
Search for the murderer was made, but he was
not found.
The shot was fired from behind a tree at the
edge of the road and the assassin escaped through the thick growth.
Suspicion pointed to the Sicilian, who bears
a bad character. He had threatened Mr. Gueymard's life because the latter
testified against him in a suit brought because Saladino endeavored to defraud
New Orleans creditors. A visit to his house revealed his shotgun, which he said
had not been fired in six months. One barrel was found freshly discharged.
While he was not told of the charge against him he disclaimed the killing.
Later on an old Italian woman arrested at
this place confessed that Saladino, when he returned home that night, said:
"I got him."
Saladino would have been lynched but for
Sheriff Oery, who hid his prisoner in the woods.
The crime for which the other two Italians were
hung was the wanton and cowardly murder of an old Spaniard on the Ashton
plantation near Bouttee station. The incentive to the crime in this case was
that the old Spaniard was their rival in the business of gathering moss. They had
frequently threatened his life.
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| Clara Barton. |
Clara
Barton Coming Home.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 10.—Miss Clara Barton,
president of the American branch of the Red Cross society, has started on her
return to the United States, her mission of distributing relief to the Armenian
sufferers having been ended.
AFFRAY
IN AUBURN PRISON.
One Negro
Convict Slashes Another Fatally With a Knife.
AUBURN, N. Y., Aug. 10.—Two negro convicts
of the state prison here had a savage encounter and as a result one lies in the
hospital seriously injured, while the other is in chains in a dungeon.
Thomas Johnson, the victim, is a Kings
county man, convicted under the habitual criminal act, serving a penalty of 40
years. He was received from Sing Sing on March 1 last and put to work in the
foundry.
William Hall, the assailant, is a 5-year man
from New York; he also working in the foundry.
Hall and Johnson had quarreled and the
former laid in wait for Johnson and made a vicious attack on him with a
razor-edged knife having a 5-inch blade. The attack was so sudden that Johnson
hardly had time to raise his hands before the infuriated New Yorker was upon
him. Johnson defended himself with a 4-tined coke fork.
Johnson has a terrible cut and received an
ugly wound in the side and one of his fingers was nearly severed from the hand.
One of the keepers, who was attracted to the
scene, dealt Hall a blow on the head with a loaded cane, causing the latter to
drop his knife and flee to his cell, where he was captured.
The
County Treasurership.
There promises to be a field of candidates
for the Republican nomination for [Cortland] county treasurer this year larger than has
ever before been known. Besides County Treasurer Foster, who is a candidate for
renomination, Messrs F. J. Peck, Adelbert Fuller and Dr. H. C. Gazlay of
this village, and Lee Johnson of Marathon, have for some time had their names before
the public. To-day the friends of Mr. Adnah T. Baird, the Republican warrior of
Harford, announce that he also has buckled on his armor and is in the fight.
With a few more candidates for the
treasurership and one or two more aspirants for the assembly, our coming county
convention would develop an amount of enthusiasm which would do honor ever to a
presidential year. The more the merrier—in politics as everywhere else.
For
County Treasurer.
To the
Editor of the Standard:
SIR—I have seen two or three names mentioned
for the Republican nomination for county treasurer, and I have nothing to say
against either of them. They are all good men and would undoubtedly make
competent and obliging officials. We have another candidate, however, whose
name I have not seen in your paper, who, I am quite sure is the equal of any
candidate mentioned in point of ability and integrity. As a faithful, consistent
and lifelong Republican there are few if any men in the county who have a
better record. He has voted and worked for the Republican ticket ever since the
party was organized and if such a record is of any value, he should certainly
be rewarded for his faithfulness.
Where others have at times proved faithless,
he has always proved true to his convictions. If the Republicans of this county
appreciate long and faithful service, they will nominate Dr. Henry C. Gazlay of
Cortland for this important office. He has time to spare for the discharge of
the duties of the office and no one can doubt his ability or his integrity.
Is there any reason why the party should not
reward him for the many years of good work he has cheerfully done while
laboring in the ranks? I sincerely hope the Republicans of every town in the
county will send delegates to the county convention, pledged to support this
honest, consistent and able Republican veteran for the office of county treasurer.
REPUBLICAN.
Cortland, Aug. 9, 1896.
A CLOSE
GAME.
But
Cortland Defeated Oxford by a Score of 12 to 11
Over four hundred people at the fair grounds
Saturday afternoon had the
pleasure
of seeing the Cortland baseball team add another one to their already long list
of victories. The Oxford team was defeated by the score of 12 to 11 in a close
and exciting game. Interest was kept up throughout the game for each team
worked hard for the victory. In the eighth inning Oxford made three runs,
getting a lead of one score. The ninth inning resulted in a goose egg for the
visitors, while Cortland by pretty work put two men across the plate and won
the game.
An especial feature of the game was the
batting of Lovelock. Corliss, the new pitcher recently signed from Troy, played
his initial game in Cortland and gave a good account of himself. He struck out
six men. Gallaher was substituted in the box in the fifth and held the visitors
down to two hits the remainder of the game. The score:
A
PERILOUS RIDE.
Holdback
Strap Gave Way While Going Down a Steep Hill.
Mr. J. H. Seeber of 34 Homer-ave. was
returning home Saturday night from superintending some work at his farm in
Freetown when he met with an accident which came near proving very serious. As
he was descending what is known as Hoxie's Hill, which is very steep, the
holdback gave way letting the wagon strike the horse which started to run
rapidly down the hill. Mr. Seeber clung to the reins and with difficulty staid
in the wagon which was quite badly broken up by the rough road when the horse
was brought to a standstill at the foot of the hill. He received several
bruises about the limbs and received a bad shaking up. Although quite lame from
his perilous ride, he went back to the farm this morning.
BREVITIES.
—The Junior C. U. of the Universalist church
will picnic to-morrow afternoon in the woods on South hill.
—One carload of lumber has arrived and also
some other material for the new Samson
block. Work will be begun at once.
—Mr. L. D. Miller of 89 Tompkins-st.
received on Saturday a box of fine pickerel from Mr. C. R. Doolittle, who is
spending a few weeks at the Thousand Islands.
—A young man from Dryden was arrested Saturday
night on the charge of cruelty to animals in overdriving a horse. This morning
he was fined five dollars by Justice Dowd.
—The Cortland Hospital association has
received the legacy of $100 left by the will of the late Mrs. Orissa A.
Baker, the money having been paid by the executor, Mr. M. L.
Alexander.
—An interesting account of the visit of the
McGrawville hose company and a party which included some Cortland people to
Auburn prison is found in our McGrawville letter to-day.
—New advertisements to-day are—C. F. Brown,
Everything In Photography, Page 2; A.
S. Burgess, Men's All-wool Suits, page 7; Bingham & Miller, Children
Haven't Any Respect, page 8.
—Mr. R. C. Hollister rode his wheel from his
home on Lincoln-ave., Cortland, to W.
D. Andrews' bicycle store on Jefferson-st., Syracuse, Saturday night, in 1 hour and
59 minutes.
—On Tuesday, Sept. l, the new W. C. T. U.
building on the state fair grounds at Syracuse will be dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies. Mrs. Ballington Booth will be present and make an
address.
Daniels'
Big Dance.
"Happy Bill" Daniels has the rare
faculty of always drawing a crowd. Last
Saturday
night he gave the first of a series of weekly dances at the old armory, and the
building was packed to the doors. At 8 o'clock there were present about a
hundred ladies and three gentlemen.
Some of those who were interested in the
matter looked grave. "They will come," said "Happy Bill."
"They will come. Get the girls here and the fellows will come.''
And
they did come. Before 9 o'clock the floor was crowded and the dancing continued
until nearly 12 o'clock. The door tenders report that the crowd exceeded 500.
It was hot but a little breeze blew through
the open windows and the dancers didn't mind it a bit. The orchestra had about
the hottest part of it, but they were in their shirt sleeves and during the intermission
between dances they wiped from their brows the perspiration that flowed so
freely. M. B. Filsinger and A. G. Bosworth served ice cream and soft drinks. If
this first dance is any omen for the future the other dances will be highly
successful.
McGRAWVILLE.
Crisp Local
Happenings at the Corset City.
As announced at the time, the members of W.
J. Buchan Hose Co. left on Thursday morning to attend the Central New York
Firemen 's convention at Waterloo. The party travelled via the popular Lehigh Valley
route, the officials of which had arranged for a through train by way of
Freeville and Auburn. To those who had never traveled over the Auburn division of
that road, the ride through the beautiful scenery especially for miles along
Owasco lake was a treat. The train was loaded with firemen from Cortland, Dryden,
Moravia and other towns along the line and was switched upon the New York
Central's tracks at Auburn for the ride of nineteen miles from that city.
Upon their arrival in Waterloo the boys
found the village in full possession of the firemen and the business places and
residences literally covered with bunting and flags. Quarters had been engaged
for them by the advance guard at the residence of Mr. Edward Keeler on Washington-st.,
and they were right royally entertained.
The forenoon was taken up with races, the
results of which have been previously published and at 2 P. M. the parade formed.
Thirty-eight companies were in line, but none received more applause than our
own company, for every man was anxious to do his best and did it.
After supper a trolley party was organized
and a ride was taken to Geneva, where they saw the famous record breaker of the
Lehigh road, the Black Diamond Express.
At 10:30 most of the company took the train,
some for home and some for Auburn, where the next morning after the arrival of
the rear guard from Waterloo, they were admitted to the prison through the courtesy
of Prison Commissioner W. J. Mantanye of Cortland. They were politely received
by Warden Stout and under the guidance of Keeper C. H. Edwards, who won a vote
of thanks for his exertions to interest the party, were shown the hospital with
its kitchen, diningroom, etc., chapel, prisoners' diningroom, kitchen,
different wards of cells, execution chamber, condemned cells, etc. By permission
of the warden your reporter was allowed to take snapshots of the most interesting
portions and among them one of the execution chair with a victim strapped in it
ready for electrocution.
Mr. Earl Stillman of Cortland had the
distinction of being the victim. Although rather objecting, he was overpowered
by the boys and quickly fastened by a trusty who seemed to enjoy the sport. At
noon the boys saw the 1,168 prisoners marched to dinner and then they left to
secure their own dinner, but returned later to be shown through the shops,
bathrooms and the new kitchen, which is now being erected.
In the afternoon they took the trolley cars
for Norwood Park to witness a game of ball between Auburn and Corning, but the
rain prevented the game. At 6:45 that evening they started for home arriving at
9:30 well satisfied with their trip.
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