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was afterwards tried and acquitted. He was taken back to
art enworth where he was in an attempt to desert a see-
ond time.

THE EXECUTION,

Mr. Clark Brown of Union, Mo., who has compiled a History of
Franklin County, writes: “There is no loeal newspaper giving an
account of the hanging of Worrell, I have, however, the report of
eye-witnosses. After the conviction in our cirenit court he was taken
to St. Louis for safekeeping, Sheriff R. R. Jones assigned the duty
to Deputy Sheriff Amos W. Maupin. George Holtgriewe, who is
yet living, says that as a livery boy he drove Maupin and his prisoner
to Washington, a distance of ten miles, to take the train to St. Louis;
that an ordinary two-seated spring wagon was used; that he sat on
the front seat alone and Maupin and the prisoner on the back; that
both were dressed in ordinary costume, but Worrell had a light
duster thrown over his lap to conceal his handenffa; and that no one
meeting them would have sup that they were carrying a erim-
inal condemned to death. Tete saya that when Maupin
brought him from St. Louis to be hanged they came the same way,
and be draws a contrast of this old-time sheriff's officer bringing a
waurderer to his death and the large number of detectives and spe-
cial officers which are now considered necessary to take a convict
or suspected marderer from place to place. Worrell kuew that any
attempt to escape meant instant Geath and that Maupin was a quick,
accurate shot, fearless and cool.”

Worrell was oxeented in June, 1857, by hanging in an open field
in Union in the presenee of 1,000 people, his parents standing at the
foot of the gallowa as the drop fell“ Beash and Bar of Mo.” (Bay)
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