Union County Courier

To Be Black Letter Day.
West Virginia Town to Have a Wholesale Hanging.
It now looks as if Fayetteville, the county seat of Fayette County, West Virginia, in which is located the town of Montgomery, lately made famous by its gang of forty thieves and murderers, will have a black letter on June 25. Three hangings are already provided, and the outlook is good for as many more at least.
In the circuit court at Fayetteville the trial of Clark Lewis, Albert Valers and Wilbur Slaughters, charged with the murder of Charles Gibson at Montgomery, was concluded and a verdict of guilty returned.
The jury recommended the death penalty for Lewis and Valers, and life imprisonment for Slaughters. Judge Brazie, of the criminal court, sentenced the guilty ones at once, making the day of their execution June 25, the same day on which Jerry Brown, a rape fiend, is to be hanged. Monday the trial of John Hudson and Virginia Gibson, the latter the widow of the murdered man began. They are charged with assisting in the killing of Gibson, and have against them the same evidence that convicted the trio already sentenced. There are twenty eight members of the Montgomery gang, and four more murders are charged against its members.