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A BRUTAL MURDER
Avenged by tho Hanging of Courtney
and Taylor.
THE STORY OF THE CRIME RETOLD.
Arthnr Courtney and llcnry Taylor
itiuiirod ut Princess Anne, Mary
land, lor Clio Killing of Their Employer
On ft Vessel In Chesnpeuke
jjuy Last Juuc~How the Crime
"Was Committed and the Murderers
Deteotod?Captain Cooper Doiio to
Death While Pleading For His Life.
Pia.scEsa Annk, Md., Dec. 15.?Tho nonces
Coartnoy and Taylor wore hanged
at 11:50 a.m.
The murder for which Arthur Courtney
and Henry Taylor wore handed was
committed on Juno 11 lust. Tho murdered
man was Captaiu Cooper, of a
nnall vesuol plying on tho Chosapeako
bay and tho murderers wero his crew,
(jn tho night of June 11, the three men
retired as usual, but when tho captnin
had fallen aplcep Courtney and Taylor
{nemo and ono securing a sounding lead
and the othor a "black jack" Btruck tho
captain a stunning blow on tho head
and proceoded to rob hiin of his money
and valuables. Their victim was not
killed at lirat as they had thought, but
rovived and showed fight. The three
wen struggled up the hatchway to tho
deck. Captain Coopor was unarmed
nnJ quick ad Hash Taylor eoized a quilt
and threw it over the hcvd of tho dazed
wan. Tho blows wero continued and
iTabbin^ at the rigging to hold himself I
up the woakened man begged for lite, I
railing on his assailants to save his life |
for tl?o flake of his wife and children.
Tho brutes paid no heed to tho piteous 1
appeal, and with a still more powerful
U ,?r Courtney struck Cooper, knocking
him overboard, lie then jumped into
o yawl boat and struck tho unfortunato
i; , another blow before ho sank be-j
i, at tho waves.
.i.e.- securing tho kova to tho captain'e
desk thoy got the money, amounting
to over fifty-fivo dollars. Not in
the least disturbed by tho awful crimo
they had committed, and thiuking to
ward off suspicion, Courtnoy and Taylor
wont to Captain Cooper's house on
the following Wednesday, and seeing
bis wife, told her that her husband had
left the boat on Sunday and had not
been soen since. On Thursday the
murderers went to a storo koot by Wallor
J)uin man, when a Mr. Blake came
?.?fl mnntinnml tlinfe fJnnf.iin flnonnr
had been murdered. Hearing this the
iru:lty wretches slipped out and were
making oil when Uummau called to
tncin. Tliev returned and were locked
up in an oyster house until Sunday.
W heu tliey were taken to jail at Lancaster
Court House, Va., a doaporato
but unsuccessful attempt waa made to I
lynch the men.
Both negroes wero of a cunning and |
ugly nature, and while imprisoned in
the old stono jail at Princess Anno
made two daring attempts to gain their j
liberty. _ i
ESC API-JO SIBERIA,
Only to JDIo by Ills Own Hand Among
Straugera lu Chicago.
Chicaoo, Dec. 15.?Sigmund Massakowflki,
a Russian refugee, committed
Filicide in the Lincoln park last night.
I John Woyesinski, a man claiming to be
an agent for a society that extends aid
| to eullering Kussians, loiu tno coruuur
to-day that the suicide had been an olliccr
in the czar'a army, but boing implicated
in apolitical plot four months
ago he had boon forced to flee the
country in disguise, lie loft a family
in Russia, and fearing detection and being
without funds he killed himself to
escape the terrible fato which the agent
said awaited him should ho be captured.
INDIGNANT FAlOlbliS.
They Comlcnii) President Cleveland's
Secretary of Agriculture.
Cincinnati, 0., Doc, 15.?Ohio stato
grange, Patrons of Huabandry, meeting
at Sandusky, and the Indiana grange
meoting at Seymour adopted caustic
resolutions against Secretary J. Sterling
Morton for his attack upon the arranges.
Indiana recommends withholding all
reports until the secretary retracts.
Douiaml Their l*ny.
Los Corrkllos, N. AI., Dec. 15.?The
miners of the White Ash Anthracito
and Waldo mines, in made meeting
here, have resolved to make a demand
upon the Atchison, Topeka ?!fc.Santa i'o
ft 11. for November pay on tho 23rd inst,
and also prompt pay on tho Saturday
noarost tho 17th of each month. Tho
alternative is a strike.
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m
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Murdered Man. on the edge, and With no coat to the riinrukjn Opposition to the Chancellor.
t .. 1, owner whatever. They aro legacies T> ' , _
c. lo.?Interest m the left behiud worth preserving. Beaus, Dec. 15.?The debate on thB
r. Monaon, tho tutor third reading of the commeroial treaties
murder dl Lieut. Ham- PKIXCISSS COLON A. began to-day in the reichstag.
aont in August last, is Uer Divorce Proceeding* Siupendod for Count Uerbort Bismarck attacked tha
i ease procoeds. LarjiO T|V? tVeekM. policy of Chancellor Von Caprivi, saj?assembled
about the Paius, Dec. 15.?The lirat hearing ot fog that tho chancellor's recent utteri
few were able to ob- tho suit for tho leiml separation brought TOV0 t)10 ),onso tho imnroiaion
by Princess Colona (tho daughter of that ho had become a froo trader.
jf tho London, Liver- Mrs. John W. Mackay) against her hus- Continuing, tho count said that tho
nsurance companies at . . . . farmers had been loft in the lurch by
. Leeds testified that 1)nn 1 t,??k1 P'nc? ,ycatorday buloro tho tho manufacturers regard leas of the
>red to obtain a large sixth civil tribunal. necessity which both were under to
10 life of Lieut. Ham- Maitro Desjardin, the prince's advo- advance hand in hand.
insurance was refused cate, pleaded that tho court had no According to Count Bismarck it ia
was unablo to prove jurisdiction on the ground tiiat the the small farmers who have euSored
restin the young Lieut, princowaa an Italian and that ho ro- the most through the government's
ho Scottish Providence tained hia domicilo at Naplos, in apito commercial policy.
my teatiflod that Mon- of tho fact that ho habitually resided in ^
000 pounds insurance Paris. Tho caso was adjourned ror a Ono More (Wifnrtuoute.
lifo which was rofused fortnight in ordor that tho arguments Nice,Dec. 15.?A Parisian stockbroker
aeon as givon by tho for and against tho jurisdiction of ttio named 5orricueP, who had lost heavily
rnool compnniei. court may bo drawn up and uassed ,lf \rnn.? i->n?\n #kM?r u\man\t .
j'nploy of Kemp, Ford upon. ' ut Mon,? V. ' lhT '"T lrom. * .
at in 1892 Jlouaon waa o - tram near Villofranche railroad station
h assets of only '25 iiljj Iron rtiiinro. yesterday and waa kill d. A companion
ebta of 2,000 pounds. Philadelphia, Pa., Doc. 15.?Tho of tho unfortunate man was utterly un- g
^ Crane Iron Company assigned to Robert concerned at his friend a death and inii.MA
soLUIliKS F. Kennedy, of this city, and Leonard wsfced upon filtering-the very train
fcockitt, of Catasqua, Pa., to-day. The from which his associate had junt been
ato War?Medals Await- company ia capitalized ut $2,OOi),000. killed and Ioit a '<a?be address behind*
a at Fairuiuiit. ^
Another Sp?4Uli Outrage,
r- * i t "E nro the aole agents for Iiadanrs Uin?ln n? ? 1K A u_.-k
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Ihoy aro modeled after ? ? ? were greatly frigutoned. Tho author of
f the army hadK?. and U?? outrage ia not known.
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