A Double Murder.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 45, 17 January 1883, Page 2

A Double Murder.

A. telegram from a place called Chafctanoga, m Tennessee says:— A sheriff and deputy, were shot and killed to-day white. eh route toKnoxyilfe wjth ( a.pris-, oner. It is the most daring murder m the annals of crime. John Taylor, two years, t»go, killed Captain Fletcher on the Tennessee. He escaped at the time, bat was finally captured^ and brought to this city, where he had several trials, and at the last term of Court was sentenced to ten years ay hard labor m the penitentiary. He got au appeal to the Supreme Court,, and Sheriff Cote and Deputy Conway took the East. Tenessee train, having Taylor m charge handcuffed. Several men boarded the train at Sweetwater, and when between. Philadelphia and LondoD, shot and killed (Dote and Con way, wounded another . jman, released . the prisoner, and took cHarge of the train, running it th'rougn London. At Lenons Street, John Taylor and his brother Bob, and Andy got off and forcibly toot Horses^ and left for the mountains; ;. John Taylor, was wounded*, m the .arm:. The city is m intense excitement; and a posse of thirty men, armed with Springfield rifles, have left m a special train on tho Cincinnati Southern fpr Kingston Another posse will leave overland. A posse has already lett Kingston, and another London. Cote has been Sheriff • two weeks to-day, and was 6ne ; of the most popular mea m the city. He was - 50 years 'old, and leaves a large family.-. Deputy Conway was ; about 30 years of age and a prominent local politicanl Suoh excitement has never been known, m Chattanoga since tne war. '