Daily Globe

NO ESCAPE FOR THE MURDERERS.

Louisville, June 9.—The court of appeals to-day affirmed the decision of the court below, refusing to grant a new trial to Craft, one of the Ashland murderers, charged with first outraging and then murdering a girl named Gibbons and afterwards setting fire to the house in which the bodies of the girl and her comrade and brother laid, who were also murdered. Ellis, Craft and Neal were arrested, charged with the crime. Ellis confessed and was sentenced to state prison for life. Neal and Craft were sentenced to be hanged, but while being taken from Catlettsburg to Lexington for safe keeping a mob attacked the steamer Granite State and attempted to rescue the prisoners, firing on the guards, who returned the fire, killing several persons. Ellis was taken from jail and hanged and Craft and Neal secured new trials. The last of February Craft was tried and found guilty in the Grayson court and sentenced to death, and a motion for a new trial was over-ruled and an appeal was prayed with the result abovenamed. The governor, under the law, will fix the day for the execution. Neal is still in jail at Lexington and will be tried next fall, and doubtless found guilty, as the testimony against him is equally as strong as against Craft. The result of the action of the court of appeals gives much satisfaction, as no doubt of guilt is felt. Neal and Craft, besides costing nearly $50,000 for guards and expense of trials, have been the direct cause of the death of nearly a dozen good people.