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HANGMAN’S DAY.isImined step, ana never flinching when the rope was drawn about his neck. Some in the crowd cheered lustily when Yarberry dropped through the trap.Milton Yarberry is about forty years old, has a tall, lean body, a small, poorly-de-velopod head, keen gray eyes, and alto-jrether does not make a prepossessing appearance. He is a native of Texas, and spent most of his early life at Decatur, Wise County. Here Milt, wm a cow-boy, rough and gambler. Here he got into a difficulty with a freighter, killed him and fled to Fort Smith, Ark. Here he met the notorious desperadoes, Dave Rudabaughand Dave Matthews, and joined them in the robbing and hold-up business. Near this place Yarberry shot and killed a drover, who refused to he robbed. The trio then parted, Yarberry fleeing to Texarkana. Here he dodged from one State to the other, sometimes sleeping in Texas and at other times in Arkansas. Finally, on the Arkansas side, he killed a man that he thought was a detective, hut who proved to be an inoffensive traveler.Nothing was done about the murder at the time. The town was full of cutthroats and thieves, and life was held cheaply.8\IMTI.TON YARBKRRY.Ai.BCtjt'krquk, X. M., June 10.—Milton , Yarberry was hanged here this afternoon for the brutal murder of Charles Campbell. The execution took place in a vacant spot out of town, and was witnessed by thou- ssands of people, consisting ol Mexicans, railroad hands, cowboy^and miners, who indulged in a few lights, nut did not interfere with the hanging. Yarberry died with the same bravado that characterized his j j life, marching to the scaffold with a,deter-1 lt;1tE11It1(I(I(tYarberry, as usual, commenced boasting of his crime—the authorities began to inquire about the killing, and he again fled— this time to Dodge City, Kansas. From Dodge City he went to Canon City, Col. Here he operated a variety show, got in debt to everybody he could, and jumped the town. In 1879 Yarberry came to Las Vegas. Here, in connection with a Mexican woman, who went by tlie name of ‘-Steamboat,” he run a dunce hall, which proved a financial failure, and Yarberry moved to the front of the railroad, which at that time had not reached Albuquerque. About the time of his leaving a freighter was killed and robbed of several hundred dol-ars about twenty miles from Las Vegas. Yarberry was suspieioucd, but there was no proof that he had committed the crime. The next place we hear of Yarberry he turned up In Albuquerque, with money in his pockets,At that time the new town was just being organized, and Yarberry oame to the front as a politician and was appointed the constable of the precinct. In a short time he killed Henry Brown, of Nashville, Tenn., but through the incapacity of the jury lie was acquitted. Having gotten off so easily, he thought it would be no cause of complaint if he killed whomsoever he chose, and soon after his acquittal for the Brown murder, he shot and killed Charles Campbell, a curpenter employed in the Atlantic Pacific yards. There has never been a reason given why he killed Campbell. He did not even know the man. He shot him in the back, and soon boasted of the devilish deed. Had it not been for a strong movement on the part of the business men of the city, Yarberry would have been hung at the time of the murder, hut the better judgment of the people prevailed. Thus another one of the gang of Billy the Kid has run his course and passesin his cheeks.virnitv
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Weekly Cincinnati Times
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Jul 22, 1882
Page 3
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