. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . and empty wagons. Two or three of the wagons were found nearSulphur Springs. It was also discovered that Tator had started for Denver with one of Neffsteams and wagons. Circumstances went to show that he was the murderer. He was overtaken inColfax county, and brought back to Omaha, where he was tried, convicted and sentenced to case was prosecuted by
. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . and empty wagons. Two or three of the wagons were found nearSulphur Springs. It was also discovered that Tator had started for Denver with one of Neffsteams and wagons. Circumstances went to show that he was the murderer. He was overtaken inColfax county, and brought back to Omaha, where he was tried, convicted and sentenced to case was prosecuted by Charles H. Brown and Judge Lake, and defended by Hon. A. and William A. Little. The object of the murder was robbery, it being supposed that OMAHA ILLUSTRATED. Neff had upon his person considerable money. The place of execution was near Sulphur Springs,not far from the scene of the murder. It was witnessed by fully two thousand persons. Theprisoner was attended upon the scaffold by Rev. T. B. Lemon, Sheriff Sutton and Marshal Riley,while forty soldiers from Company C, Seventh Iowa Cavalry, acted as a guard. Tator maintainedhis innocence to the last. He was born in Chatham, Columbia county, New York, in 1833, and was. a lawyer by profession. In 1856 he located in Kansas, where he was twice elected Probate Judgeof Lykins county, and also served a term in the Legislature of that State. In 1S60 he went toColorado, and in 1863 came to Omaha in company with Neff. The second legal execution in Omaha was that of Ottway G. Baker, who killed WoolscyD. Higgins for the purpose of robbery. The murder was committed on the night of Novem-ber 21, 1866, in the grocery store of Will R. King, at the southeast corner of Farnam andTwelfth streets. Higgins was book-keeper, and Baker was porter of the establishment, andthey slept together in the store. After banking hours Higgins had received $1,500 incurrency and put it in the safe, the key of which he carried. Baker, who was aware of t
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