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- DP Agsees Sd bene eases Sel eee bee bane which | cel}
bay thine? @ihere as weg ge me and ob’ tet | y,>:
were oe@ira@! ye: fe reniemem ihe fate which A
tae aictadhy iy eee See and proftthy it. f trot
fat ne Out ln fice seeee as the sign-pest, | wo:
ware here from the 9 fot Into the right
ee aod perlnd ny these, oc die to en.
gnye te eieslian acto, of awaitthem. . 1 }
By the yromintens h J am to die
end by the D alata hear Say which 1 and |
hy Companions have siure you all to x
fiy from the desde whiek = end sinful. the
1 wieh, fn eonsineion, § ay Uoanka to the | nec
wanton and his deputy f iindness, and to | cro
Al: Jamra Prior and Re paey who have j ho:
been fm my oell four ¥ ime. Finally, } nea
good Dye to allGed bisad > Maxton Crop. 1
THE BIN STATEMENT GE. BSSEY C. GamEgitrt. | the
The folleverny statement wae madeataiate hour | the
om Thureday night by ry C. Gambrill to a | Mi
friend, whom be eepecinily requested to visithim | Es
Le late voll far auch oy reg Th
Py faomorrow , and time will have arrived | an
“@theb P shail euler an tgnominions desth; and | the
pew in ful view of that fret, as well as of a deep |
here Of the terrible rea ae ity resting upon my —
lapnagial apisit if Teh o into the presence of j an
Ged with any ether than the niked truth upon my | pa
ant, 1 fee! lt due to my amicted family, to myself | ap
a" to the public, to publish to the ‘world. my | -Ar
ity statetnent “tof all my conmections with the | ch
pivfortunate teurder of officer Benton,’ }
hn tbat night | left my house, in company with | ing
is ae Starrs. Houck, Davis, McPherson and | vie
others withow! baying the least Intention of com- : ob
niftting Vinienre syoinst any one, and without any } Ot
nbbderstanding of Browledge whatever with any | we
of the partire to do wrong—having no firearins | am
myself. and not knowing that Any Of he party had [vic
me We wi nt to James Morga Aftet a atayit
\ & short time eeitee ( Frith, ‘Mr, Baer and |
tere sh ‘we el! lef Morgan's together, and 7 4),
stopped at Mr Devid Cross’, In Biddie street, and meee
fhiy 6 fiw Bone We then went to Mrs. Green's. | 1),
and commenced singing there, when Richard .
Heinle went Into Mrs. Green's house. I re-
member or the pavement talking with Heary Lan-- ry:
caster & bott ting Harris and the others to go Linh
away, whir » intended to do. In a moment or 4
two John leenberdt got into Mra. Green's house | .,
thro the window, which so alarmed the in- roy.
mates that Mra. Green's gen ren into the street and [ .)°
calle? for the watch Officers Burk and Handy ple
‘vee by went at once Into the house and ar- | 2.)
. Foot leembardt and as they were bringing him — i
+} aut eticers Benton, Taylor and Brown came from} 4;
1 the dire Ven of the avenue, which is near to Mre°7 4),
T Gsreen's Officer Benton caught bold of Isenbardt, | on,
whep Pevid Hour k interferes whereupon Benton 1
8 Ais hald on Inenhardt and tele Houck: a ee
te Brown shen aaa\p ated Benton, and these two | a¢
“oih: pes wete ch him oway when Richard | wy, |
i Slarrie came out ab pre. treen's voriee, bare-head- we
ed with a pletal in bts hand, which he was about fo.
in ele vote, when Tran np binPand said, ‘‘what |
hau ‘Tnt + do with that wea t itnesy pa
lyn inte be Bones for hg pi done
pe fy, at el get ibe. pistol bebind him ond went ite
sargstin heft aA: + Green's ferement, went along od
=F tide sipeet Ligh geet em Penneylvania Avene. | 1,
err which T tires kept on y the right band |).
mae, OW ben en pasite Orchard street! | 16
dirt ate tine wane tows in
#e. aR : oe . ii
of bbe’ its.

setae Meme came She ae cei: oma

- Ay pet ; Bee hi ef Pe nt. Tee hax} ani
ee ee, We Be oY Fa oer, Were att thet
feet Grmm Ube tra Rh

Sie

B team deca premed gece nad bly, with be feoe up
oecqunt swwneche tee ee vens ibe ethare could be

Pome Hee ing Cede bege Larter egypemrral maorw ial!
Pug See pe other gad mever apbe Th ae Qui Bie
eee oe She a ena : ere cee Seer ae

5 Pek oh a joel fond propel alhee rhe Ce wees pint
ve ee ee Ete ag pera fhm e be baw ent

nie bow % fweeg eho of eeene at tn the crowd, i
wo tee park wat aol en be eC
enti ead feeb hi bowl Reel Crop

conde meee dow ptreant than @ thet af bt others

} ewes ~ iow’. tend; Te white cape were
evan @ the Pete A ; ett SS

trae > eee eae lier “ret peewee nt the eae

ved of Ve fermen wedge wae stalhene mast, Crap

ri inirtes puma!
gprentes) the iil of

As. ewsbd Oa Giyttiacti,
ot eeaet fie ated * is

le the wimdows ip the female department of the |

eves be oe tet of femalr pt aewere -~ hite and
ew et oe fa Atay fell Ueit tiles atal @& rears
raat tou boned Thrrnag beret The F
few bs i ed (cette ote ogg He
os ect Comp Seere ef!) eax
goo tea tect: bee fee bh dentin
24 woah F 7p we
ate oe thee 81th
Te drop tee tepe wee shemi two and 8 half
tuet 5 2 Bt! Powe epepomrert te digvery Quichiy la
nee ch te laarhem me ened iam £ bp obaer ved.
ko tee Were thes haag ing, the cofhing were

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Bo a minute or tw
thee mee ular mo

erg gid fr echee Ove win.

Pot omeagy Tet oe griows cand acadl remy
ee ee Eg Dart part

amar pliter Ol va tmebowe tie ere@ubd @: weenl fur fone it

Tn ol peers enmet The pa enmens an Ulaey caheree OF
boos Nn ee as tbe te ee
Et ne quet li striert having bung treater Bre
miowes Guo bet an were berwered mens the ov
tea tine tone t» *& Fob taeabarg ais i of
om tt FPN pwtrwnnd In Uw ihgs Mean,

jcormer' x
‘Qechbard etreet, end ret.

pee, they
mted, leenherdt ie drank. 1 then ett)

the exception of the Cid |

and gn inte the house for.your hat’. Harriemade | |
ne reply, hut pot the pistay behind him and went | |

i Peenestrvania nyvennie
Beri on the right band
. malte Orchard street |
Bp the srenue toward»
speed | and within a
fori of & pleini, and

few {ret af him, | heard | cca
4 Gee noticed that. W's.

immediately turned roe
teve bad also plopped. 7.
rupning dewn the av
the Curb-stane. Sergent
Harrie anewrred, (atilh
} saw flarris

Balled him,when
-Sast,) Up at the
: the everiue into
Uwaet = tMergeant
Waters they continued | =
on My Course s he
band pide of the avenue Ge a0
eae when | eromed evir & &
into Prankiin street fromm fhe arepur, along
the north aide of Franklin street, and vot Sg
tureen and Pace streets fell in with Benj. Holt? |
apd Mr. MePi.creon, whe were a litte ahead of
asked what the noise meant, aad | re-
over to
he south elde of Pare street in company witb Mr.
McPhereen, amd whilst crossing epodieg at ite
intersection with Frankiin street, | called out to
Holts, whom we bad just lefi, and who was stil
onthe orth aideof Franklin street, when Holtz
eeme over nud joined weagaln.

l continued towerds harne, and when arriving
at the career of Frentiin and Eutew streets, Me-
I’beraon and Halts left me, and | went imto my
own hanee, @ve houses from tha. point in Franklin
street oon efter reaching bome, and whilst ent-
ing a piece of watermeion in my barroom, officers
Wethine. Brown, Norwoed, hic Donald and Malo-
ney rnicred, and some cenrerestion took place be-
tween them. when Woathing ssked Brown ‘Sf be |
pond sweet te bim, te which Brown replied no. |
\\ athina onid, then we have no business in here,

and theg el! lett.
Afict esling my plece of watermelon, and {rel-
ing aniings to know what bad ha , i put on

wiy contend rap and went eut. Un the carner of
Peenkiip aod }.wtew streets | saw McDonald and
Maloney. who hed bute little while before left my
pener, evidently ia earch of some one, and | ask-
rd thee whet meant by coming into my house
in the manner they did. Mec d replied that

hepton had bren killed whic wae the fru | knew
af apy Wurder having beer committed. | then

ar.

© ae mig quilas fue se: exh them who had dose !t—they enewered teat they
ok ds * . agied 414 net know. | pot thisquention to both of them
ngele : as wo Gepll | and (ypues being and they teeth gave the sere answer. ++] then said
WP Fe te tects toet oe were mg o . ag dyed pol ae me, let us go te

. oe ob te tee exten provided toy the vee oor gre tive @yemt 1.7
Ls 0% met attorney aid ee When we got to Morgan's} sew Richard Barr is
oe rn. the copes vemeved and | and others. end st once said to Harris, of believe
Fe vabare! pewitign Phe fares | yeu hillev) Lenten,” te which be replied, ‘'1 kee
ee oe oth Ametiner eyeeer | dan wetl 4 did, fori wem beck and re
a Sg eS | bins ad then pointing toe ye bce “se a
ee i hove Gince my trisi discovered was ® Mr. as
ed i tes.( ood, Ceres 8 Man whe will ewes’ fata

ere vce, oma oe

¥ if ee Poe oan :
3 ns ices sos 9 Ree aay es ae - wees on cai Pesan ae af “s +
a gen ESD, oe Basic, Gites gis Sap esatteetoe 7 ier i kee eS BR tig.
Rice ™ t ¥3 whee —
. | : {PRICE ONE
ae re 4 si Pie ee shh naieg” acai ty ive Ps Rash aig se ik ‘
WP aati.

| PeDaniata that Crop) and Corrie did not

hefaee nine o'clock with the :
opened til he was ee eS

The crowd beger te lesve e

moos, pearly all opted, -

pedi il lad ha
On Wedeusa oF tet | v. Mr rT, Esq. bad josti § 2 ahyfons 2. Seidanels eH] ee,
Big Bae on mee. re aig haps hop requested] te i fectly piain that I wee convicted solely apes fee
aoe the ‘Sean's maceey 1 . Whitaey, to make | testimony of ony witnes, Mr. Rigdon: amd sew
—_ revel ree ty oh i ¥, State's that he has gone te his ei Gil cilcs ee berek
wed _— ba: of Bir. Whit | words against bis; J ve me disposition wiht.
ronditione for himself ‘but be wan told ther | ever #400, bot will only declare that the
eelt, of eternity, at least, will the minds of
pone could be promised—that what he made | that Mr f’ ars ieteeahen: And te

tount be free end volar and that it would
be submitted to Bir, , a2 the superier
office of the Btate, and be could determine wheth
oe there was any thing tn ft to create any change of
opinion relative to his guilt. >
Crop then eald that on the night of the poe Fong
Rigdon he and Corrie were at o house on H y
street and went from thence up town—that ano-
ape deh whom he named,gave Corrie the
if Saath ar sarcange po oc on
PT bey went np, and twe other men were in com-
1y—one formerly a police officer, and the oth&

Ai vd a i

fre fant tea wees Hide while Y shall pave
to Son ie wt te ber of 8 jus: and rig nt.
eour G06. i eal die Gor the erizne easmanst-
ted | another, it zat @aly well keepers be
but wise a friemtis and. @mocieies | aerer

beeve relleerd ine inaas been foe | |
orec bt beer pon him. But, & . oa

for his deed, I forgive him,
Ged aiey alec terxive bia Bla ise

I dewire to ony, that | have mo tte ecemplate

net the court and jury, In view of tae ert.
Flap a oe yal Aa gad Bloom

oni acted conscientiously, anf weeald beve

entirely without my knowledge or aprechating
No Page pr ee that SO
tee ay im ions have rie

my friends say, that Ft wee billed bece
upon his evidence the ite of nd re fe tame

metobesuch..

eleventh hour,
And just bere] wish to reture my gratefai me:

coremit the marder—that the other two men did
it; and that nelther he nor Corrie were in the alley

i of 6t the bouse when the murder was done. .

up ‘The pietei Oorrle carried up was taken by ano-
twill | thee—one of the men be named—who fired it. Crop
o.. | oeidé that afer the murder he and Kitty Chambers
mt | went into Rigdon’s houseand sew the body, but they
‘nd | bad nothing to do with the killing. Mr. Pink-
i the, | ey tokd bim the statement would not, in his s0gg-
gre | teowt, afer! hieraae at all—that it was inconsis-
ee .| bent, ond be (Mr. vieeneyt would be doing him
af t i He te say that he could bave any hope of his
* : n “a treat I ai Silas EA igi Shims laadila cas : Rain Me ERE? SENT, ea aR AHR: OF Bysshe
3 * and his father stipn feted thatthe statement
a af | Should not be given, aa written down by Mr. Pink-
Pthe | ney, fut publication, nor anything said abont it till
ely | after al! bope of exerntive clemency bad fatied .—
|. The @uabeenent wae evidently mace for efoct—toob-
met | tat n-ne honed tlie er ong ge oe
oo {Mtr Pinkney, with Captain James, the warden,
an peers at meet ik pelt till Bont 2 o'clock ren pan j
“eet | Maroing, Knock at the iron door to get ouf,
oe ft asd the depaty not hearing them for several min--
nit i ielarv Crap broke out tte a lond laagh, and said
S| te Mi, Pinkney - Why, you are ® prisoner too.”
: oo LETTERS FROM CROP. q
: Thia was @titien with bis ows hand sey
a soning. etAresmedt to Rev. George Hildt

fe ~~ Bpiriteal Advisers wey

frre tian, *e o Uright Heer OF going to that
inode heer Fd ting hate ‘perks takes: and

at,

commendation—because, ag | believe, and 2 m@
friends believe, of the influence of e few gentie-
men broughtto bearupos him. Why fow

pra cmap ye pahe that 1 should 3 will
eave them to refiect u Be :
the uneven walks of Celie. Twill ast, in wy

ead Carers fe tieg

: a

In regard to the mew eridencs discovered giace -
my conviction, coming thengh it dow ai the = -
fe ees of such a chetectes co
and so truthful, that it ought to have relieved me

was to be taken sway, oe my amotices kacw wanes:

knowledgments to (hose jurors, who believing in = = -
this testimony, have joined in ans for Graces
tive clemency; and I only regret tual the Geverner..
could not be prevailed upon to sct apes their re.

last hours, harbor any evi! thoughts agatnet thea Sith

I feel it my duty to give a word of advise aad

counsel to thy former emociates and oompentemi, —- -

which |s to avoid eri/ compeng, aa te

than any other circumstance, is to be sul eolon ane :

lamentable end, Avoid intempe

some lawful and legitimate pursult in life—better =
otn the church, than join the clube—erd seek fer _—|/

ppiness, where It alone can befound, tn serving

Nfe was {n opening the restaurant, contrary te ©

sree wate with me, and faithfully
me in

ance of all my sins—having first frit a decp cee pte-
tron and sorrew that | te long viciated the
commandments of God. Aud now, by fxith =
my slorable Redeerser, | have the most &

confidence that God, for Christ's

: ota. ty od

ie wit

(od. Perbapa!l onght tosay, the great error of may
wishee and entreaties of my deer father. ae) Sete
And new, az to my spiritual conditt PEE:
a sinner when I came into this prison—re ——
visited by the seevants of God, who bare —

the things that belong to m 2,1 have
j been Induced make 8 a! ncere

a pants 1h

: “he
bes jh
haves
i Sh Ree

wate “9 4 ne A ee RE IRE Pe aR —* WIR MW give
gore etvire, and ob* that % mer he ppt
and compe

at 2 Yoice from the grave exhort
: iy 8 them to avold Shakes 4 hee tgp at
?

gues @at bad aspen! batige
bag cular? dhe as we

a mer to thie.
bed "the bane which
e me, and ob' tet

we spire! yeu te ree ihe fate which

bas fcliovwst my Wauagee cand promt by 1t.
iat it etopd ul te efter ae the sign-poest,
wart treme from the . food Into the right
ee, and reminding thea & disposed to ‘en-
page tn eiioniier acts, of tthem.-

¥ the ignominiour depts I em to die

ena by the tieending :
vy conipanions have #8
ft; from the dowds which

i with. Inconrinaion, ee
warden and his deputy far
Air james Prior and Ke
been fp my cell four we,
youl Dye te all~ded blest , Mamion Cror.
“(ME PLING STATEMENT OF BERRY ©. GAMBRILL.

The following statement wg made at a late hour
‘am Thoredoy night by ¥ C. Gambrill to a
friend, wlnwh be eepectaliy requested to visit him

and sinful.
ey thanks to the
“indness, and to

‘28. Finally,

Gre coment
Beeler the

¥ eases cucrmraveiinerse see |
* if »

temmortel apirit if TP ehall into the presence of
: Sete: an | Vet with any other than the naked truth upon my
pat ie 1, 1 feel it due to my ait icted family, to myself
‘aor ey M1 wnt te to the public, to publish to the ‘world my
en ers ley Statetment ‘of all my coneections with the
Pe te Suferiunate murder af officer Benton.” :
& 2 ¥ | di that wight | left my house, in company with
men te 9 | Richard Mesris. Honck, Davis, McPherson and

eer, i

A opoke ’

im bie pel! fer ouch p bine
ia etperrew, and time witl have arrived

when } sha auffer an
phe, in full view of that |
sere of the terrible rea

others. without having the least Intention of com-

| ntitting Violence s

ae “a ire @ short time convers|

ainst any one, and without any
understanding or
of the parties to do wrong—-baving no firearinus
my wri, and not know ing that al of the party bad
Wewrnt to Jamee Morgs After staying
ai ‘Mr. Baer an
Milter we ell teft

sinned al Mr David Cross’, in Biddle steret, and

weoy who have.

nomigions death; and
as well as of a deep
bility resting upon my

owledge whatever with any

lorgan's toyether, and

saieiad

wary 6 few soniye We then went to Mrs. Green's.
4d remmenced ainging there; when Richard
lierrie went into Mrs. Green's house. I re-
, 1] Met ber on the pavement wot tes, 4 with Heary Lan-
— easter abort ting Harris and the others to go
ae. mpewey. which | intended to do In a moment or
EE two John lenbardt got into. Mre. Green’s house
threngh the winawa which so alarmed the in-
| es | motes that Mre Ureen's eon tan into the street and
| “butter bby called for the watch Officers Bork and Handy
ae M8 T elm close by went at once into the house and ar
ee eee | reste leenbardt, and as they were bringing him
| ont, eficere Benton, Taylor and Brown Cease trom’ :
& a very | the diree tion of the avenue, which Is near to Mrs.
ey aunt al treen's OMieer Benton caught hold of Isenbardt,
¥ " we) pee mei thevid Hourk interfere , whereupon Benton
a Prew'nea » hie held on Inenhardt t and ae! Houck .—
| een i cot Beorwn ae assisted Benton, and these two
ee Tianeher Te, pes werr carryin him ewa when Richard
Meet efter | paris came out ra. Green's house, bare-head-
bf Mem be Tee with o Fae in hie hand whi-b be was about
ete oy ~ be skerate, ran fi - : infand Lesid, a bat
vie a oy o with that weapon’ away
<Bherit and” toes ips unis your hat * Harris made
- atl Stat | gee reply, boat (ibe. peo, Jabind him and went.
= teeth tate the
* vee = 1 thy Yer? Mire Dreen's pavement, went along
pce ; le etreet- 11 E-epaee Peaneylvania avenue, .
3 eee Fall wma Which! turned ou. Rept on the right hand
Oh aed! Wie wae Mh hen ut nears alte Orebard street |
= Mevgbont 4 atone prinue towards
spe rt po ete) i, and within e
ates ‘i te Tie et) foot # pietnl, and

“Tees

Dlaleh, and «@ sharp pete

We- beck ef See bees

teous attention.and the pains they have takoa te .

make me comfortable,

Also to the regniar “dDoard of visitors” I am Ga
der man obligations for having ofec ealerrd my
cell, and desired meto make known my ware,

that they might have them suppired.
And now, ut Gn to witness the entire
truth of this, my ‘dying statement." 1 bid this

world and its sifairs 8 long and fna! farewell
- §tewer U. Gameens
Witness: Wa 8. Brooas.
ao Lact City Jail, April Th, SB

. THE POLICE ABBRARUEMENTS

~ Notwithstand! ing the Immense throa

he 280 yee a Ice Interference was ai ne time

After the badien were cut dowr the

crows ons bacen to disperse, and short!; after the

hour of noon the sate bla aireamed ie ale fall were
nearly deserted.

To guard ayainst any informality or comb agemry
that might arise, Sherlf! Creamer req weetrs sea
the State should be repr — by les eficm
Milton Whitney, Faq ., thi Fret’ h Pinte:
Faq., the deputy State's A toraey, end onsale t,
Thomas, nesistant proseruting attorney o

and were present: at the captetion wl the cele parc scuatet

the offenders
THR rirw or tee exer A oy wi ProRT

Ativy o’clack the crowd bed tet reeeed tenia
and the bigh hitis to the m af the jail were
pereee With people. waiting tmpatientiy fie the

ce of the sclatnate wr os the qtatvid
yi bebe the throng were many feems hes, gamer woth
chiidren in their arms.

Persons could alac be seen eocnpy ter fe Wark
ingten monument, from the g@tmeonii af Oi &
view of the fatal ynilows and the reer
obtained. though an ly bth of a mile
Other potits more distant,
were availed af b
apy -glomses and te
view of the abt scene.

INCIDENT? OF THE FER 1 tis
We understandg that Creep conf-meed bie
ri Mth of Marchte the Rev Wa 8 of Dew
y, Who had, enscveral orrasions given bebe fe

ile Asie advice,
Pather Freeman, the well ksown Bert Ps BET rina

visited the
present yesterday and arcempani them te the
scafvld. ;

After the bodies hid been taken dows there @ or

we —-
and not ee pore
Persons *& ho, with the

Opes, copes, olnalned 2 twiereete

ry, who has frequ soir

oupage

ihe

: rush by thoee inside the yerd fore piers of the
rope with which the parties nas in @
short time s!l four of them were ext inte smal!
pleces to satisfy the eager crowd. A ow thts
exists with joey * that the oe ee pe:
piece of the rope * which & persen =

acts as ® charm Ml protect them ae Pes
the cords with w nicks the hands end aren of
men were bound were carried of

~ Outside of the well of the prison, efter the eee ;

cution, there was some erctternent A man gu’ ity
of disorderly condurt was observed by tee

whe started to arfest him, near the meis wee
Heran towards Madison etrect, te ee
course knocked down severe! women, 656+ for

a moment considerable esctterment

That eet 3
ever, was soon calmed, and the jarge eter 5, # iaiistal

persons retired im goud ordet :

"Elie aliens Honey Lee wee con tants int otis
which overiooked the scaffold. W bes the sad
the scaffold ral it a deter treen bis ust hes

Jus a
ren band became abdaals Bink wel thet

leaving it, the finger cominesced Coe eping -
lem at inky
in a few moment, the pe.

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_. this method has been used far more extensively than in your own State of Maryland, oH
~ there have been regular horror stories, Often times, the condemned will attempt

‘Rrankly, the thought of death by lethal injection frightens me as it will eppeal

-you that I am glad that I was able to provide it to you, If I may be of further

~ * c

“Hon, Gary Christopher 2/16/1982.»

Death by lethal injection, while perhaps an improvement over death by hanging, |
death by burning, death by decapitation, death by shooting, death by electrocu- .
tion or death by some more bizarre means that have been legally used in this ;
country since colonial days, is by no means instant and painless, For instance,
Lipscomb was placed into the death chair at 10 asm, the péllets dropped seconds
later, but he was not pronounced dead until 10:06, In many instances, where

to hold his breath, but when he finally breathes the deadly fumes the result is

. that they sear and burn his respiratory, system until he is dead, His eyes bulge

and he froths at the mouth, I suppose that death by asphyxiation is all that

could be expected of such a regime as that of the Nazis, but surely wex are

capable of better than that, I might add that once the deadly pellets are ree
leased, there is nothing - absolutely nothing = that can be done for the condemnéde
The case of Burton Abbott, asphyxiated in California on March 15, 197, is a good
example, Just as the pellets were released, the tclpphone rang and it was a

call from the Governor's secretary granting a reprieve, but, even though Abbott ae
was still alive, it was impossible to open the door and clear the chamber and : te
he died, Ga eres oy a

to the more humane instincts of jurors and, I fear, make it easier for them to ag
return a death verdict, [ven thcsezwho must die by this method are not relieved 4
of the horrible misery of waiting for death on an assigned date and while the Fe
method of punishment is, perhaps, less painful, the end result is the same «
the deplorable spectacle of the state taking the life of one of its citizens,

pee)

I hope that the foregoing information will be useful to you and I want to assure

assistance, please let me knows

‘ith best wishes for the success of your cause, I am,

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pureean’ to sentence, the extreme penmeity Of tie
jew wue erecuted on the petsous of the four mes
recenUy con vic tec of murder in the ceurieof on:
chy snd vicinity. The appalling deialie cf the
crimes for which tbe? suffered bevs been familie,
ko our reoders through the regular reports of te
court pwoceedings, And now in our colunime t&
day, tbe awful history of the final scene is minute
ty recorded. The subject invites tie remark fe.
o Uansection In fulfillment of the demande of the
inw, yet itiein other respects fruitfel of sage
tien. We have not emice at present to advert to

the matter atlengtl.. It ¢s due to Gov. Fels,
a ply to recoyzn!ze lis filellty to th

how ever, prom
obligationvor his office, under Circumetances of

the mget sevépe and trying nature,
ee tt averse. however, to the use of the Jon

wuage of praise towards any public officer fur the
inere meformance of duty, fur it iss virtual cos
scasion that it lean exception toageneral rate. In
tie case. itis known thatthe Gevernor has been
erpoed to the most urgent. [incessant and azron:z

Lay entreaties te swerve from the rigid exactions
of Lis office, and has stood firm by the violate!
‘awountil it was vindicated ly the procéeses it has
tel f provided and approved. And thus the out

royes against society, andall that was essential for
"se protection, so far as the matter was coniaiittes!
to kisisards, have been disposed of. What lina been
efecied really in LehLat? of society, of ctwilriphts

oud towards the maintenance of uw and ode: wer

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Spacer ayy erie low was executed on the fe
sii ioe RENE See recently convicted of murder in the courls of om

ae ally ret) vicinity. The appalling Getalls of the
crimes for which the? suffered hevs been fim/iie:
te our resders through the regular reports of the
court proceedings, And now in our colunita ®-
eo diay, the awful history of the final scene ia minuee-
¢ ty recorded. The subject invites litte remark Be
ee epapotion tp fulfillment of the demands of the
: inw: yet 18 is in other respects fruitfol of suge®
tien. We have not space t present to advert to
the matter atlength. It ‘s due to Gov. Fiche,
omptly to recoguize lis fidelity to the
his ofBce, under Circumetances of
e and trying nature. ‘
are averse, however, to the use of the ion-
_. yuaye of praise towards any public officer for the
Tiere performance of duty, for it isa virtual con
yeasion that it is an exception tos generalrale in
tite case, itis known thatthe Governor has eon
exposed to the most urgent, incessant and aon:
tag entreaties te swerve from the rigid exactions
of his office, and has stood firm by the violate!
i yw until it was vindicated Ly the processes it las
‘teelf provided and approved. And thus the ont
pogee against society, end ail that was essential for
ty protcction, 80 far as the matter War Couiniitterd
45 wishards, have heen Aisposed of. What haa been
elected reaily in behatt of society, of civil rights
“and towards the maintenance of ‘aw and order wer
pond ieormhercafter ae ? lesa

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Ministry. es :

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12 History OF QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY

e two hundred acres of land covered deep witir oyster
shells, among. which have often been found Indian weapons, buck-horn
and the bones of the human skeleton. It is perfectly evident,”” he adds,
“that a great body of Indians must have been employed a great while to
collect all those shells.” This raises a strong supposition that the seat of
the Ozinies must have been on this spot, which is on the south side of the
Chester, and about fifteen or sixteen miles from its mouth, The * sixty
men” belonging to them, mentioned by Smith, must have meant the number
of warriors; so that, upon the principle before stated from Mr. Jefferson —
of three warriors to ten souls — their tribe, comprising men, ‘women, and
children, would have amounted to only two hundred. But by the more
modern rule (as stated by the superintendent of the Indian trade in 1820)
of one warrior to ten souls, their tribe would have amounted to about six

hundred.

peninsula there ar

The Susquehannas, a branch of the war-like Iroquois, also “ had
dominion over a considerable portion of the Eastern and Western
Shore,” says Scharf (History of Maryland, vol. I, p. 137), “and in
their treaty with the Commissioners of Maryland, in 1652, they
ceded the territory including the site of Chestertown, Centreville and

Easton.” From this it would appear that the Ozinies yielded alle-
ance to the Susquehannas, who indeed made frequent incursions

1
‘own the peninsula, and often attacked the white settlements at Kent
Island and elsewhere. In 1634, for instance, we are told (Allen
Mss., p. 20) that the Kent Islanders suffered both from the Susque-
hannas on the north and the Wicomeses on the south, three of the
Islanders being killed by the latter.

In 1669 the Wicomeses lived a small day’s journey from the head
of Nanticoke River. (See Alexander's Calendar State Papers, p.
237.) ‘In the same year a message was received from the kings on
the Eastern Shore, near Choptank, asserting that the Wicomeses were
enemies of the province, and had drawn into league with them the
Materhas, and others, much too strong for the Choptanks. They
added that they had never sold any lands of the Choptanks higher
up than Stephens’ Creck, yet the English encroached upon them.
They asked that as high up from Stephens’ to Sewell’s Creek no
English may seat, and that they be protected and furnished with
a boat. Their request was granted, as appears from an Act of
Assembly, May 8, 1669 (sce Bacon's Laws), for “ the continuation

of peace with and protection of our neighbours and confederates,
Indians on Choptank River.” This act provides that, on account of
the fidelity of the Choptank Indians in delivering up some mur-

derers, there should be settled on them “all that land on the south

INDIAN TRIBES OF QUEEN ANNE'S 13

ae
costes Ut Wane bounded westerly by the freehold now in
enipgaies oh = Dorrington, and easterly with Secretary
woods,” to be held ivi he ae a a ares i
arly rent of six beaver ski
souly ria nae lands to the Indians. They hal =
lord Get be fe commission composed of Col. Philemon
Re tae - Richar Tilghman, of Queen Anne’s, and Col
ath lr 7 Ward, of Talbot.
Ga Sa hpaitaes Creek referred to is the present Secretary
Medi Sy Renard only, and descendants of the Choptanks
zee Bia dat ms sere within the memory of persons now living
vention the an e: t, in early times roamed over a considerable
Smee xP : i Queen Anne's, Talbot, and Caroline Counties
- Fides ug t aa of the Choptank and the Tuckahoe.
Hues ie mA , 1669, the Chancellor informed the Upper
evr ieere jan murderer of Capt. Odber, named Anatchcom
sien ous ad meiaites to St. Mary’s. The Chancellor’s com.
age mpanied by a letter from Governor Calvert
Poet aan re Prisoner was the ° Rogue that Caused our Late
See bev ae e = been brought in by the Ababcos Indians: and
ao Aude entitied by Mr. Henry Coursey and “a little
ae one no ; 7 executed on the following day. The Governor
for bis sood as at the king of the Ababcos should be rewarded
lode tv ce which will Encourage the Rest of our Friend
St. Mary’ saat Like Service.” The Indian was brought to
aus Howe a sabe Shore in charge of a guard, consisting
lee A ori da Jenings, John Stephens and Thomas
stated that he in a Wiest oe ae lene
‘oleae WN an, the rest of the Wiccomi
ip Memon roe journey from the head of Nala
= ast r : it was his wife that was killed at the house of
then ie hes albot County,’ and that he w
killed Mir, Ane “pt Odber, but denied that he was the man who
eects, 7: ae he testimony of another Indian had been taken
eens Perk smc = the murderer, it was ordered that the
oth setters Aisea igs at St. Mary’s some time before three
S the result of this transaction, a icati
on , 2 communication was forw
ak e he Kans ae pee ta maenae Hatsawap nee
ne Lastern _
that in return for having delivered up emia ce

as 1n company with

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Captain

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78 History OF QUEEN ANNE’s COUNTY

people, who would drive all the inhabitants out of the country.” This
statement was confirmed shortly after the landing of the colonists.
“ While they were building habitations for the coming winter,” says
Scharf (History of Maryland, Vol. 1., pp. 105-6), “ still occupying
the old Indian town jointly with the natives, they perceived in these
an entire change of demeanor. The supply of provisions was sud-
denly stopped, familiarity ceased, and their previous open bearing
was changed to suspicion and distrust. The English became alarmed,
abandoned their building, and set about providing for their defense.”

It has been charged that Claiborne was at the bottom of the dis-
affection on the part of the Indians, but the evidence in support of
this theory is mainly inferential. That he was hostile to the colony
at St. Mary’s may be taken for granted, and his opposition was, in a
measure justified by the action, not only of the Virginia authorities,
but of the Lords of Plantations, who, on the 22nd of July, 1634,
wrote to the Council of Virginia as follows:

After our hearty commendations, we have thought to let you know that his
majesty of his royal favor, and for the better encouragement of the planters
there, doth let you know that 'tis not intended that interests which men have
settled when you were a corporation, should be impeached; that for the
present they may enjoy their estates with the same freedom and privilege as’
they did before the recalling of their patents; to which purpose also, in
pursuance of his majesty’s gracious intention, we do hereby authorize you to
dispose of such proportions of lands to all those planters, being freemen, as
you had power to do before the year 1625.

The King himself declared in a letter to Lord Baltimore, that it was
contrary to justice and the true intent of the grant to the Calverts,
that the inhabitants of the island should be dispossessed of their
trade and possessions. Notwithstanding the patent, added the King,
the petitioners should enjoy freedom of trade, and Lord Baltimore
and those under him were prohibited from disturbing or molesting
the Islanders.

In the face of this prohibition, Lord Baltimore sent out orders to
his representative in Maryland — Leonard Calvert — to arrest Clai-
borne if he refused to submit, and to “ take possession of his planta-
tion on the Isle of Kent.” It was not so easy to arrest Claiborne,
who was still Secretary of State for Virginia, but Lord Baltimore
exerted his influence in England, and brought such pressure to beat
on Governor Harvey, of Virginia, that the latter promised to do all

-he could in aid of the Catholic colony in Maryland. At the same time

ARRIVAL OF LorD BALTIMORE'S COLONY nS ed be,

Harvey represented that there was a strong party in Virginia, which
was hostile to Lord Baltimore, and that there were many “ so averse
as that they cry and make it their familiar talk that they would rather
knock their cattle on the head than sell it to Maryland.” One of
the malcontents, a Captain Matthews, the Governor added, upon
receiving certain disagreeable intelligence from England, “ threw his -
hat upon the ground, scratching his head, and in a fury cried:
‘A pox upon Maryland!"”

Notwithstanding Governor Harvey’s unfriendly course, Claiborne
persisted in his opposition, and prepared for armed resistance. In
the meantime, the Islanders were confronted by another foe — the
Indians. They were attacked on the one side by the Susquehannas
and on the other side by the Wicomeses. Three of the Islanders were
killed by the latter, and the savages were repulsed with difficulty.

For their better protection the colonists built two forts — Kent and
Crayford; the former near Kent Point, the latter near Craney Creek
—and these served afterwards to protect them from white as well
as red assailants, for it was not long before the two parties — the
Lord Baltimore settlers on one side and those who supported Clai-
borne on the other — proceeded to actual hostilities.

Early in 1635, Captain Claiborne, provoked by the seizure of one
of his vessels, granted a special warrant to Lieutenant Ratcliffe War-
ren to capture vessels belonging to the colony of St. Mary’s. A boat
was fitted out, provided with arms, and manned with a crew of
fourteen men, under command of Warren. The St. Mary's colonists
had, in the meantime, equipped two boats, which were placed in
charge of Capt. Thomas Cornwallis.

In April, 1635, the boats met in the Pocomoke River, and a battle
ensued. William Ashmore, of Captain Cornwallis’ party, was killed,
and, on the other side, Lieut. Warren and two of his men were killed,
and the vessel captured. Subsequently, Thomas Smith, of Kent
Island, was arrested by Cornwallis on a charge of piracy. Smith was
one of Claiborne’s Tieutenants. He was tried, after three years of
imprisonment, sentenced to be hung, and executed on the 20th of
June, 1638.

When the affray in the Pocomoke occurred, Claiborne was at
Jamestown, Va., attending to his duties as Secretary of State. Having
failed to effect his capture, Governor Calvert demanded his sur-
zender of the Governor of Virginia. But the latter, however willing
he may have been, was unable to comply, for a rebellion against his

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sent to James River and sold to the Virginians; a portion was placed in the
possession of his brother Mountjoy who was placed with the Chief of the
Patomecks, to trade and learn the Indian language, and such articles as would
prove saleable in St. Mary’s or available in “ setting up”’ his plantation were
without scruple, transferred to Maryland (i.e. to the Western Shore). Nor
did he content himself with articles of merchandise. Articles of houschold
use that had been left by Claiborne and even the ornamental fruit-trees
from the garden and orchard that had been tastefully laid out by him,
adjoining his former place of residence were without scruple transported to
Evelinton to furnish out the new establishment of the Lord of the Manor
and ornament and improve his newly planned grounds. Finally, a supply of
servants was wanting to enable him to keep up the dignity of his new position,
and to cultivate a portion of the territory of which he had become the pro-
prictor; and John Ayscue, Edward Deering, Andrew Baker, Thomas Baker,
William Williamson and wife, John Hatch, Philip West, John Dandy and
John Hobson, servants, indented to Clobery & Company, to serve them for a
term of years on Kent Island, were withdrawn from their occupations there
as carpenters and field hands, carried to Maryland and employed in erecting
buildings, cultivating the soil and other labor on the manor of Evelinton.

The effect of these proceedings upon the settlement upon Kent was paralyz-
ing and ruinous. Nearly one-half of the effective laboring force on the Island
was lost to the service of the proprictors, by being freed from their indentures,
transferred to other employers, or transported to Maryland for his own
benefit; the greater part of the goods belonging to the joint stock had been
sold on the Island or distributed for sale in Virginia and Maryland; there was
no trade since there was no merchandise with which to obtain corn or furs
from the natives, or, if there was, Evelin would not allow it to be used for
that purpose; he who had been appointed in Claiborne’s place to superintend
affairs and carry on the usual trathc, was absorbed in his Maryland business
and neglected the settlement, or thought of it only to consider how it might
be most readily annexed to the Maryland government, and thus his care of
it and his responsibility to Clobery & Company, taken off his hands.

As a natural consequence of his mismanagement and neglect, the affairs of
the settlement not only fell into confusion but the people began to fecl the
want of corn, which they did not raise in quantities sufficient for their own
supply and of other provisions so that they were at times on the point of
starvation. Yet, while he was refusing to use the merchandise in his hands
to barter with the Indians for corn, or to place it in the hands of the people
of Kent for that purpose, he did not scruple to sell to Governor Calvert, for
beaver and gunpowder, pieces of trading cloth and other goods with which
Calvert went among the Susquehanocks and obtained a good supply of the
corn for his colony. Urged by the people and having deprived himself of the
greater part of his means for obtaining supplies from the natives, he did
at last ask of the Governor a share of the proceeds of his trade, which was
unceremoniously refused. He then placed in the hands of Thomas Smith, who
had the charge of Claiborne’s advanced trading post on Palmer’s Island in
the mouth of the Susquehanna, fifty or sixty yards of damaged Dutch cloth,
a few axes and other articles with directions to deliver the corn he might

KENT ISLAND UNDER LorD BALTIMORE 87

obtain in exchange, at the mill. Smith promptly obeyed and soon delivered
to Robert Turtle, the miller, forty bushels of corn; but scarcely had the supply
been ground, when an order came from Evelin for fifty bushels of meal,
which, instead of distributing to relieve the wants of the people of the Island,
he sent to Maryland, where also a great scarcity of this essential article of
food prevailed. Remonstrances and appeals from the inhabitants were of no
effect; his only answer to their complaints was “that they must get oysters
and shift for themselves; he had neither meat nor corn for them, and knew
not where to get any.”

There must have been great suffering, if not an actual famine, upon the
Island, had not some of Claiborne’s friends stood by his people in their
extremity. By the efforts of Thomas Smith and Mrs. Gertrude James, both
devoted friends of Claiborne, supplies of corn were, from time to time,
brought to the Island, and the people kept comfortably, though not
abundantly, supplied with provisions.

Evelyn appears to have met with small success in his efforts to
seduce the Islanders from their allegiance to Claiborne, and now
“urged Governor Calvert to try the effect of force.” Calvert, how-
ever, preferred more moderate measures, and having appointed
Evelyn commander of the island, sent him with a commissioner —
Zachary Mottershead, of St. Mary's —to take possession in Lord
Baltimore’s name. Evelyn caused the inhabitants to be assembled at
Kent Fort, and addressed them in favor of Lord Baltimore’s claim,
but failed to convince them, and then returned to St. Mary’s. Gov-
ernor Calvert, induced by Evelyn’s importunities, finally consented to
lead an expedition against the Island, which, in December, 1637, was
surprised and taken possession of. A new commission was then
given to Evelyn, who was empowered to appoint six or more able
men to act as a Council.

Scarcely was the new government established [Streeter, p. 30}, and guns
of the detachment from St. Mary’s withdrawn, when the unfortunate inhabi-
tants were exposed to a new annoyance. The batteries of the law were opened
upon them, and a large number were assailed by warrants of arrest for debt
to Clobery & Company, or for the possession and detention of cattle which
belonged to them. On the same day on which Evelyn’s commission was
drawn, orders were also directed to him as commander of the Island, to
procure the arrest of Matthew Prior, John Glantham, Robert Lake, John
Russell, Nicholas Pollentine, William Tabor, John Pinwill, Thomas Smith,
Samuel Smith, John Abbott and Richard Thompson, to answer the suit of
Clobery & Company, of London, in an action of account before a court to be
held at St. Mary’s, on the third of February following. Six of these persons
at least, were Claiborne’s own servants, hired by him in Virginia, and left
on a plantation called Craford, belonging to him on the Island, when he
departed for England, and in no way responsiblé to Clobery & Company;

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84 History OF QUEEN ANNE’s COUNTY

Kent Island was represented in the Virginia assembly bya nay
Captain Nicholas Martin, in 1631-2, but notwithstanding this fact,
and the vigorous resistance of Claiborne and his fellow- Virginians,
it passed into the hands of Lord Baltimore through the oo
tality of an agent sent out by Claiborne’s employcrs, casete 7 .
the London merchants, who seem to have become dissatisfie oe 1
Claiborne’s management of their affairs. On the 30th ae
1637, while Claiborne was in England, Captain George Eve ae t ne
agent referred to, was appointed by Governor Calvert oppependes
of Kent Island. By accepting this appointment Captain eee n
brought the Island squarely within the jurisdiction of Lord Baltt-
more. In thus acting he seems to have transcended his powers. :

The character of Evelyn is represented by the late Sebastian F.
Streeter in a very unfavorable light. In his pamphlet, The ee
Commander of Kent Island, he states that Evelyn who had arcive
on the Island in December, 1636, while pretending to act who y in
the interest of Claiborne and his partners, Clobery & Co., was
secretly aiding and abetting the efforts of the Calverts to obtain
possession of the island. Evelyn was in possession of a pow et °
attorney from Clobery & Co., by virtue of which in the ——?
Claiborne he took possession and assumed control of “all the p wn
tations, houses, goods, mills, servants and whatsoever else pay
to Clobery & Company” on the island. Mr. Streeter seems to be in
error in stating that Evelyn took possession in the absence of Clai-
borne. On the contrary from the proceedings in the case of Claiborne
vs. Clobery et al., in May, 1640, (P. R. O., Colonial Papers, Mat.,

1677), it appears in the testimony of Thomas Sturman, a ent:
who had come over from England in the ship Sarah Elizabeth pe
a supply of goods and servants sent by Clobery & Co. to ee
Evelyn asked and received Claiborne’s advice and assistance on ci ing
charge of the Island, that Claiborne asked Evelyn to give bond that
he would not sell or assign away the Island (the very thing |
Evelyn afterwards did) or carry off the servants which Evelyn aoe
to do; that Evelyn’s authority was submitted to as being valid an
that he was free so far as Claiborne was concerned, to act as he
leased and was under no obligation to serve Claiborne’s interest.
Mr. Streeter, however, proceeds:
By this measure the various plantations laid out by the freeman and others

were subjected to his supervision; the servants, thirty-six in number, were
placed under his orders; the mills, one of which was completed and two

KENT IsLAND UNDER Lorp BALTIMORE 85

were unfinished, were to be kept going or to be completed, the manufacture of
Pipe staves was to be prosecuted, the inhabitants were to be kept supplied with
provisions, and the manifold details of the trading Operations were to be
attended to from which the means of subsistence and the profits of the
enterprise were mainly to be derived.

Evelyn did not personally superintend the affairs of the island but

appointed John Walker overscer of the settlement and John Sturman, Jr.,
keeper of the books; set John Sturman, Jr., and Thomas Keyme, coopers, to
work at making pipe staves, assisted by Howell Morgan, Thos: White, John
Sturman, Roger Baxter, William Porter, Samuel Scovell and Matthew Royden,
servants, and made Robert Turtle, a millwright, superintendent of the mill
which was adapted for grinding corn. Turtle was soon after superseded by
William Porter, who was withdrawn from his work on Pipe staves to act as
miller in his place, and he, in company with Philip West, John Hobson and
William Williamson, was employed in the erection of a new mill.

Evelyn now opened negotiations with the settlers of St. Mary’s
and soon determined to transfer his allegiance from Claiborne and
Clobery & Co. to the Calverts. “ His first step,” says Streeter,

after his course had been decided on was to secure the good will and influence
of several of the most popular among the servants on the Island, by giving
them their freedom or setting them free before the expiration of their period
of service or transferring them to other hands on the payment of a moderate
amount in tobacco, almost the sole currency of that period. Original Brown
received a full discharge from service; Thomas Audley and John Scarbrough
were transferred to Sergeant Hugh Heyward for six hundred pounds of
tobacco a year, Edward Parry was released from his indentures for three
hundred and John Walker for four hundred pounds of tobacco yearly, and
Vincent Mansfield’s remaining time of service was transferred to Nicholas
Wright, for two hundred pounds of the same currency,

In return, presumably, for his effort to secure Kent Island to Lord
Baltimore, whose cousin he was, Evelyn was made commander of the

island by Governor Calvert, and lord of the manor of Evelinton, in
Southern Maryland.

Now that his interests were so closely identified with those of the Maryland
colony, [says Streeter], his attention to his duties as the agent of Clobery &
Company, to the business of the settlement and the wants of the servants and
people, diminished day by day, while his anxiety to improve his manorial
ground, and to gain credit in the eyes of the Marylanders, by bringing Kent
Island under their jurisdiction visibly increased. The goods which had been
entrusted to him for the purpose of maintaining the trade of the Island with
the Indians, were diverted from their proper purpose. A part were sold to
such inhabitants of the Island as were willing to purchase them, others were

Two blacks supposed to have been legally hanged in RXAM#&#XXKHAE Somerset Co., Mdey 1863

"The people of PrincessAnne, Cresfield and other parts of Somerset County, Md., are
excited over the reported confession of a woman who is now on her death bed of having
murdered a man 18 years ago, Two negroes were executed for the crime in 1863, The
murder took place in the latter part of 1862, the victim being Azariah Dougherty, who
was found dead in his store,

"As was then supposed his money was the incentive for the crime, €@ Suspicion
rested upon two colored men who were arrested soon after the murder was perpetrateds
but no money was to be found in their possession and none could be found about the
premises of Mr, Dougherty, It was generally supposed that some other party or parties
were accessories to the crime, but time failed to unravel the mystery, The men
arrested were soon after placed ontrial for the mrder, and were found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged,

"The evidence upon which they were convicted was purely circumstantial, All efforts
to show directly that they had committed the crime failed, The strongest evidence
connecting the two men with the crime is said to have been the finding in the pocket
of one of them a knife that was shown belonged to the murdered man. On the scaffold
both men protested they were innocent down to the moment when the fatal drop fell and
one of them, in a speech on the gallows, declared himself innocent of the terrible
crime and said that the perpetrator would be discovered in less than 20 years and
that he would not be found to be a black man,

"The story of the crime and execution had for a long time been almost forgotten, but
the reported confession made public now has vevived it and aroused the combous interest
of all familiar with the tragedy and the tragic developments,

"The woman who is reputed to have made the stabtling confession is Mrs, Patty A, Ward,
living a few miles from Cresfield, She is suffering from a terrible cancer, which has
placed her beyond the fear of all human laws, and her confession is believed to have
been caused by the knowledge of her approaching death and the fear of entering into
the presence of her Maker without having confessed the crime. It is understood that
she has given to her relatives a full account of the horrible affair, in which she dis-
closes the fact that she, togethergwith her son, mrdered Mr, Dougherty forhis moneys
The son died a few years ago and a short time before his death, it is said, he ex=
pressed a with to tell something, which is now believed to have been his share in the
crime, but Mrs, Ward prevented him by placing her hand over his mouth,

"There are many rumors in circulation about the whole affair, one being that the friends
of the dying woman will not allow the confession to be given to the public until
after her death has taken place,"

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western district, who was sesassinated In the bo-

som of bis family, No. 465 West Balti more street,
the night previous, out of revenge for his testi-
mony delivered in the case of Gambrill, conclu-
ded e the Criminal Court on the same afternoon
for the murder of officer Benjamin Benton, a
Lrother officer of the deceased [he unparalled
atrocity of the deed, and the excitement in the
mind of thiscommunity because of the crime, has
induced us to lay before our readers this morning
the facts adduced at the subsequent examination
before the mayor and coroner, but excluded from-
our last issue. which went to prese at midnight
on Friday. The assassination sppears to have
been’ one of deliberate premeditation. Officer
Rigdon, after answering roll call at the station-
house on Green street, retired into the petra
ishome. During the evening, snd while Mr.
Rigdon was {n the back-room of his dwelling, a
man (since recognized as Peter Corrie) entered
the sture-room, which is in the front part of the
house,and looked at some undershirts and other ar-
ticles displayed. In the store he conducted himself
iMke a drunken man, buttbat was evidently feign-
ed. His actions becoming repulsive te Mrs. Rig-
don anda female attendant, she called on her
husband to eject bim frem the premises. Fearful
that the thing was a ruse to draw him within the
reach of bis enemies, Rigdon besitated, and said
to bis wife, who stood in the doorway leading to
the store room, “I don’t attend the store—tel! him
to go ovt,’”’ or words te that effect, At that mo-
ment, while resting with bis elbow against the
mantel of the fireplace, where he had laid his
Bader beit, the wespon of the crouching assass!n
n his rear ‘Was fired through the little window
which o
Rigdon, who, from the position of the mantel,
nust bave been but three or four feet distant from
the weapon, received five sluge in bis back, near
the left side His get exclamation was, ‘‘My
God’ I’m shot'’’ and attempted to reach the sofe,
but sank on the floor and died after heaving an
andible yroan. Persons passing wpon the etrect
and the residents of the nety bbvorbood alarmed b
tie shot. hastened into the house, where they stoo
vorrtfied and trembling at the deed of blood br.
fore them, for a moment transfixed and unable to
His wife te guid te have acted heroically.

with srooinees and self.
rmotkeble Officer J Cook being fa the vicinity
hastened? tn the direction of theshet, and fell upon
Peter Corrie as be was tunniny mway from sue

; alley af Riydon’s bouse,
‘Doe efecer gare chase, when another man (since

rerugpiaed ns Mal Croppe.) followed, ane
slong @@ the other side of the street. Cook #in
gied wet Corrie, and came up with bim on «tun.

bin: to atop RRP aie:

pens into the yard from the sitting -room. |

on Penn etreet, near Cider alley, officer Jamison
laid hold of Corrie, and witness
pistol; didn't know who beld the pistol. There
wasa crowd followed; the pistol was snatched
from witness’ hand; didn’t see who jerked it
awey.

Onticer Jamison deposed that he was on German
street near Pine; saw Corrie running towards him,
followed by the crowd; thought it whe a meb;
stepped aside and let him pass; tooka second
the ug ht. and ran and Isid hands on him on Penn
street; was immediately azsisted by officer Cock,
who never lost sight of him, (Corrie,) and officers
Higginsand Dennison. Sergeant Hough, of the
western district, exhibited the weapon with which
the deed was done.
cut down to about eighteen Inches or two feet in
length with a butt partly broken. It was found
} lying beneath the window inthe alley of Rigdon’s
bouse. where the assassin hed dropped i{t, after
doing its work of death. An exploded cap was
titted on the nipple, butthe bmrrel was empty. —
The witness explained how aman might have
concealed the weapon by running it parallel with
bis arm up his coat sieeve. Said he saw Capps
and Corrje about 5\ o'clock on Friday even! n
the Lexington market. carried hie arms
down awkwardly.
thing sticking outof Lis sieeve; thinks it was a
pistol,

: At3K o'clock on Saturday morning, the jury
adjourned to 4 o'clock on ieptiae J afternoon,
when they re-assembled at the western station,
where the evidence was continued, Witttam
Moulton. a lad, deposed that he wae standing on
the pavement of the eighth bouse from Rixdoa's.
Saw Mal Freres and another man come down the
atreet, and looked through the window of Jobr
Hlank’s restaurant, No. 471 West Baltimore etree!
Otticer Rigdon bad just gone in, Lhe giase of
the window was @tained below, and the tsllet'
looked over. Croppe was at qe window. anc
his accomplice, (enpposed to kare been Corrie

at another Rigdon came out tage into his house
and one ran up the alley, buf Crepps wae ho

was over st court, came Up toms ‘and met Higdon

Far Met bim again at 5 oo cloge Both went t

Faunper at @ @elukks Cie out and hear:

the jury fi | pee ricted Cinantertih; heard of fi:

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John Cook. @ he wae en officer of the |
western dic * near Baltimore street at
the time; hed. ae go tothe theatre, but wos
turned back oct. Baw two men running
from Rigdon: Stevred. Was within fifteen |
feet of the pe Spomms) when he turned his
head over h ead Ered two barrel@pfare- |
volver at bim, “Get “ritnese returned the fhots. |
Officer Higgiee Gegeced he wasan officer of the |
game district; Sras ip a house near Rigdon’s,
beard tbe sbot, and ran out. Cook was running
about fifteen yards in advance of witness. When

grabbed hold of 2

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quick, and talked to him: On@@bad one glared
exp. the other a slouch tat, anckgee ht dregs
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«bis final preparation. Gambrill, whe was
‘knees, arose quickly and put on his soat

mtaid.
ked pale. yet very calm, and stog@ with
ntel’ Lisnaaiding
e gaid to the sheriff! —‘‘Shertff. this ts one in-
nian you take out of the world.” The she
replied that he reyretted. {iit was his stern
perform tt. Gasmbrill remarked—''! die
sof the murder, or of shaving any connec:
it. F die tanocent. God's will is my

toads were placed around his wrists by Mr.
M. aud both arms were pinioned together !n

oA, cord was then ced around his back.
ee of his elbows firmly against his
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WGambrill's pow ket and saturated Fh with co-
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usbrill’s forehead and nostrils, to relieve
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STATEMENT OF CROP ¥. PINENEY, xs

On Wednesday night } on Crop faatasiel to
See the State's Attorney, Mr. Whitney, to make
certain revelations. Mr. Pinkney, de uty State's
attorney, called, at the r wef of Mr. Whit
ney. to see him. Crop evidently tried to make
conditions for himself, but he was told that
none could be ised—that what he made
must be free and voluntary, and that it would
be submitted to Mr. Whitney, as the superior
officer of the State, and he could determine wheth
er there waa any thing in it to create any change of
op!nion relative to his guilt.

Crop then said that on the night of the killing of
Rigdon he and Corrie were at u house on Holliday
street, and went from thence up town—that ano-
ther © las whom be named,gave Corrie the

visto.

; They went op and twe other men were in com-
pany—one formerly 9 police officer, and the oth
8 constable—that he (Crop) and Corrie did not
comnut the murder—that the other two men did
!t, and that neither he nor Corrie were in the alley
or at the house when the murder was done.

The pistol Corrte carried up was taken by @no-
ther. one of the men he named —who fired it. Crop
anid that after the murder he and Kitty Chambers
went into Rigdon's house and saw the body, but they
had nothing lo do with the killing. Mr. Pink-
ney tokd Lins the statement would not, in his judg-
ment affect biscase at all—that it was inconsis-
tent, and he (Mr Pinkney) would be doing him
eyes r to say that he could have any hope of his
life

Crop and bis father stipninted that the statement
should not be given, as writtendown by Mr. Pink-
ney for eon pra hor anything aid about it till
aller all Lope of executive clemency had falled.—
‘The statement was evidently made for effect—to ob-
tath conditions or alipulations relative to his fate.

Mr Vinkoey with Captain James, the warden,
remained Inthe ce!l Ul about 3 o'clock Thursday
mootn'ng. Knokiny at the frondeor to yet ouf,
Ail the caput bot pean them for several min-
rtee, Crop broke out Into g doud langb, and sald
teMr Plakhey Why. you area prisoner too"

LE LT RR AROM CROPS coe

Plus Waa written with ble own hand yesterday

moring addresses) to Rev. George Hildt and
Jivs Kenjianitn bd Hreohke:

“Te my Spirttwal ddrisers.—DBy your kind tn-

ate Pont have @ Mtight hope of potng to that.
Jando tere the parting band le never taken, and
ih alent fi; tenaed» “f you what ever Happen to are
any Of ay old x om panions, tell them to turn to God,
for He te tetiitat and ates and “now farewell.
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Te my Pelle Mertinis — Peet Friends: Within
afew heures of tir mibiicpt when Ife and 1ahali.
fetling Bhs awful position iu which |
now Mand apd keowing tha: | atsl! soon appear
ba dt be reeompeoch-dbae Alusighty, 1 demire to ony 2
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Cemcted with the murder of afiee Benton us
wines} have said first and inet. and new Aerlare in
my life. and thet. toc. with 2 ful!

kag: tre tittle while I shsl! hess
to feet ths geeton he ber of 6 just ead right
cous God i shall die for the orime compan it
ted by another, ls wet ony wei! hnewn te myne™,
but to my friends and smuocizws | mever
covid have belleved tha: Harris wit whem |

have alway: been on terms of t }
could have acted towards me i‘. the cana &.
has, and | heave rensen to beliewe tna be wane
heave relieved me, bad it met bees fram ‘ee Bi mscate eae
breugbtto bear upon him Hat though | gsi
for his deed, yet will ! forg! ve him, i prey tat
et aany wipe f twe him nan

eeire lo way, that! have ne right te campietn
againstthe court and jury. in a i of the evi-
dence as developed ai the trial | beliewe the
urors acted conscientiously, an@ weald haves

Blad to have acquitted ‘me If the eridmmce
had justified Ae to the evidence Itecl{. it ts
fectly plain that I was convicted ealely © the
testimony of ome witness Mr Rigdos seal sow
that he has gone to his ve l will utter ae harsh
words just bi: I have ne dispustiion what
ever tedoso, but will only declare the! the day
of eternity, at least, will eatisfy the minds of aff
that Mr. Rigdon was werstaben And th
to the lamentable murder of Mr- Rigdon, tt exe
entirely without my knowledge or: apprebation
No one regretted that unfortumale affal; mare idamn
I did. My impremions have albrady bene and
my friends any. that Rigdon wae billed becenee
upon Lis evidence the life of an tamocte! mame
was to be taken awsy, os my associates baow
me to be such.

In regard to the mew eredence dieorered giace

My conviction, coming though it dors at the

eteventh hour, {s nevertheless of such a character

and so truthful. that it ought to bave relieved nee
And just here] wish to return my grateful
knowledgments to those jurors, who miteving in
this testimony, have joined in an appeal for eae uo
tive clemency; and I only regret Usal the Governer
conld not be prevailed npon to act upem thelr re
commendation—becnuse as | believe and es my
friends believe. of the influence of a few gemiie
men broughtto bear upon bim. Why these tew
have been so determined that] sbouid die, ¥ will
leave them to reflect u , as they journey throng bd
the uneven walks of this life | wil notin my
last hours, harbor any evi! thoughts againgt (heen.

I feel t my duty to ylve a word of advice ead
counsel to my former ameociates aad companions,
Which is to aroid erti company, asto thie more
than any other circumstance, |s to be attr! buled my
lamintabie end. Avold intem peranca—foliow
some lawfuland legitimate pursuit {m life—hbeteer
join the church. than join the clubs—ard seek for
happiness. where it alone can be found, im serrwag
(rod. Perhaps! onght toeay, the great error of my
Hfe was in cpening the restaurant, contrary to tag
wishes and entreaties of my dear father.

And new, as to my spir!tual conditian—! e
a sinner when I came into this peri cing
visited by the servants of God, who hare daep!
sympathized with me, and faithfully tostroc’
me in the things that belong to my peace, I have
been induced to make a sincere and hearty repent-
ance of ail my sins—having first fett a deep coarie-
trom and sorromrr that I had so lo violated the
rommandments of God. An@ now, by faith to
my adorable Bedeemer. T have the most xbtdtng:
confidence that God, for Christ's sake, bas torgiy-
en me for all my sing, and inspired me with &

strong end unwavering hope of eterns! life beyond

the grave. And even as! stand in full view of the
cold waters of Jordan, and the bis in upon me
of this mighty tide, bearing on its

the awfnland unhallowed instrument which is te
eatinguish my life, feel acaim and settied peace
—prace with my God— with my fellow-men:
I realize that all js well, I freely forgive al! eed
any Who may havedone me any tajury, and best

siconianhind 1 emp ges nig emer a op
omy beloev mrents,” sisters, brothe of

jotives. eny od hn He CON ef ratte
at mei only for a Brief period for

¢c tion, tn this dey ef sorrow, in thrist alone
To my spiritunl adviser,the Rev. Mr. Hed.
alao te Mr. Higgins and Sir. Minner, and
VWiivatt, as well as te some i

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sidan han Jnana sss aeons
BEPPE ik Ao pig Oh MO Br ba ee tes ae pry eds Cache 4 hs MM a |

Wal sorrow. and, ina few minutes iooked

. addressing the sheriff. said: ‘Are you

: air ‘

ogaberiff replied that he was 7”
Werilissid—--fwantte go as quick & pos-

» Rs

Setar Vayine bis hand upon bis shoovlders

--lienry. the same prace: which has susiainel

fy ‘So stain you; Ele has promised never to
ur dying hours °° amen

i LEAVING THE CELLS.

t three minutes of eleven e'ciock, the four bode

Pwere brought from the cells to the corridor,

formed in procession.

Scien headed it, Gambrill-came next with

uty Sheriff Daneker and the Rey. Mr. Hedges.
‘orrle next, with Deputy Sheriff Pontier and
ste. Foley and Father Hickey. pati
‘Gp next. with Deputy Sheriff Woolen and Rev.
’ Brooke and Hilat. ;
mus came last, with Deputy Sheriff Sparks
Rev. Mr. Hoff, and Rey. Messrs. Webb and
@hbase, colored.
ey proceeded ont the cell atairway to the hall,
@€out the back door across the yard to the
be and directly up om to the drop, the prison-
sl maintaining a great deal of nerve and com-

wand apparently sustained by & hope ground -

the ministrations of reliyion. | -
we teporters and others followed inthe fine trom
“ellis, and were sdmitied within the enclosure
gd the scaffold at Shia opt ti RA :
the procession passed out into the yard the
dened exhibited a wondefal degree of com-
fe Gambrill appeared weak and suffering,
ne sill fron Cropand Corrie looked less hag -
oy phus appeared to feet his situation leant
Ham! smiled us he greeted several parties us
ised along. See ;
“Hey the cortege reached the yard the large
er of persons there simultancously raised
fe liats and opening away. allo it to pans
atly and solemnity onward

a ON THE SCAFFOLD

e-prisoners took their places under the ropes
‘Yealrop Amid breathless silence, Gamobrill
pied torward and sabds og cme vig
keliow citizens foam now abet golng into
“ity. bit am Innocentof the murder of ofticer
tei f having any thing to-de-with it —
ey vee this trap fall under me, you wil! ase
ay men launched into-eternity: Farewell;

iad mtb: oh Ue Rt
Teatiad stepped forward on the scaffold apoke
ud nnd very firm vores, andavhen he ceased
Mepped back ayzoin to his position vader the

gpiue then stepped forward apd ania ~
(ruattell you Ahat.y ou are. going to bang ane)
Minoentanan DP hnoew nething of Uiat neue
Piuey pave me a nate d never went by 1
en | fons pets home to trod TDhaee

Bd
gpics tesamed bis place having spoken ins

Pr MN 22 BL COROT Ue PREGA Owe!
iid desdasia, Yio We PAU? CBT A Sill,
See Seer pea ne pM ee sige
tar Hivaven Lhe peta giset you,”
0S CS ee eee wet her pert doe grates eee
Wren @ be ey ann te nooo le hall weled osu,
BA et Wid Tine er Oe get RE

B. 3 ete Bdeae ied th w! griell r@ lania!
SPCC eae

tas ncetersea|

Par y wre Of ife’® Pantin ng

Misty) te) eet pn erdinge icp by
maad. $0.90 21 gee my patie ail ba.
7 eter ded Mas dos Posy dahtnth insane
PR LU a A Rd

rat Cy ees

. s eR rh er weT
Pars sey pied Heiter.
’ nsbesorardese cy wot
nA wre turd by
are egy Fe RT

ORT FRA BE weet

My) be iy te @. deel week

$ Sticte the sreetrltst iat 3
4 teed {he : ;* vf Ae
< Bie
sab Pape rt

Die Voy teary: hee MIE pore =

cleee af thecbyorn Crisp cried ovbaery
“Sito SET TM ae tee alat th 8
Kevere: pete

Pe iim the vee lee Tvdaishar ily rebar
or sae Sore URE Rg eRe me eye 5
ce were them adiusted OMe Dane ber.
eet. Recall tht ee eal ar.
SE WH esi ee beet af A gargs ated abs. Sgn
es

Cyphes Mieri@ 4 remases od reek ag Hie
a9 os he ee Lo Re Bang Lor et
jee d ey lett pare

4 ¥ teriled ft Pie eher it and
PORE Oe NN Dae po iaterere warerall that
Mier the woe Ted

a We tea chs pour cal qulie aca Ey SEs Tare op
eS Seis the stiaws cami Fe

Habre to ep) that thet GGod-by al or you, wy |

“wey wd

at <

owhe: David Mowe k biterfer

i Dol INE i te i ka OAR TN a ala ac a CE

8 en Aer ala aha Yd errr ae neem ee oe eee

land Where the parting dud le never lakeu. aad
my dear friends, if you should ever happen to see
any ef my old companions tell them to ture te Gad
for He fg merciful and good and now fareweii
farewell HU we iect in Heaven

April Sth. 189% Serle AM
ANOTURE LETTER FROM CROP

The follow ing dette: wae writlen soi days @ ice,
and ia tbe banda of Dr Los. Diuetas ta be
made pobli: after Crop s death

Te wy. Beliow Mortais:—Dear Friends MM ithin
8 few ours of ibe Moment when Life and 1 shall
part, and. feeling the awful postiien to which
now #trad, and knowing that | Bell Boon appear
in the gresence of the Almiiyhty t desire to saya
few Words in taking final leave of you, by way o!
ex tiag gincere sorrow for past acta end adi
nition tewerds those with whom I have been asso

ciated.

WV ith peqzard to the causes which impelled me to
yield to the grosser sione of my nature, P west
to my nothing. Let the vell of ebarity cover them
as itshould cover my sis. now that [ am atsout
to expiate therm It is scarcely mecemary that |
should remind you of the necessity to avoud the
inflnences which Jed me into tay present pos!i.on
but to my former companions, 1 wish to pive
some advice, and ol that it may be considered”
ae a voice from the grave, exhorting and compe:
ing them to avoid what has brought me to ths

Tincar and bad associations are the bane which —
has ruined others as well as me: and oh’ let
me entreat you to remember the fate whib
has followed my transsreasione. and profit by tt.
Let it stand out in after years as the sign pest,
warning others from the wrony road into the right
one, and reminding theron, when disposed to en
Bape in similar acts, of what may await them.

y the jgnominious death which 1 am to dis,

Marion Caur

my companions have caused, 1 ae pro you all to |
fly from the deeds which are illegal and sinful

I wish, inconcinsion, toexpress my thanks to the
warden and bis deputy for thelr kindness, ant to
Mr. James Prior and Robert Ramsey who have
been tp my eel] four weeks with me — Finally.
rood Dye to all—-God bless you. = Manion Crop)
THE VYING BTATIOMENT OF TIENRY ©. GAMBAILS

The folowing statement was made at 5 late hout
on Thursday night by Henry C. Gambrill to a]
friend, whom he especially requested to vieit bin,
tn his cell for such pur :

On to-morrow, and
when T'stinil auffer an iynomintous death:
now. jnfull view of that fact. as well as of a deep
sense of the terrtbhte responsibility resting wponimy
fmmortal spirit if Pshall go into the presence of
God with any other than the noked trath npon my
soul, P feel it dete my attiicted faintly, to uiyseli
and to the public, to publish to the world my
dying statement “of all my connections with the |
unfortunate spurder of otticer Benten ’: eo

On that niybt 4d deft my house, inecompany with
Richard Parris. Houck, Davis. McPherson and
others. without having the least Intention of com-
toltting violenceaypoalust any one, and without ans
onderstand tape or hhowledve whatever with any
af the parties to do wrony—bhaving no Hrearms
myaerii, and not knowing that any of the party bad
any Weawcnt to James Morgan's. After staying ©
fiere 8 short time conversing with Mro Baer
Mio Millets. we all left Morgan's together, and
stopped at Mr David Crosm’ in Biddle steeet. and
sary: afew songs We then went to Mrs. Green's.
ond commenced singing there, when. Richard.
Uris went fnte Mere Green's house, re-.
menberor the ee talking with Henry Lan-
raster about petting Warris and the others to go

Lad Bie 48 ul ditended to do In a moment or
two John Teenhnrdt pot inte Mra Green's house
thronph the window. which so alarmed the in-
sates TA Mya Giteen ston ran tote the street and:
ralled for the wath Officers Burk and Handy.

mia fihae by went at once Into the house and -
reste! dacnhardt and se ther were bringing him

out officers Benton, Paylorand Krown came from
th: direction of the avenne, which ja near to Mra.
Green's) Omtrer Benton caught hold of Isenhardt,
whereupon Benton
Phiehold on feenhardt and seired Houck —
Prowh Mir aseited Heuton, and these two
were cerrying him mway, when Richard
Bartle caine ont ot Ale tireen'® Petts doare- head -
‘ed with epetolin tiehand which he was about
teelevate when bran opto hinfand said, ‘what

de you intend bode with Gia weapon’ put if away

anit go bite the house for your hat’ Harris made
ne re bat pot the plete! Gebind him and went
Yom: . fito the heuse 4 ch se be
Fg left Mra Green's pavement, went along
Biddle sweet 111) | came eo Pennsylvania avenue.

Cater ng. Heels Je tie erie ot wore fee
oy » tae others med convert Speke ie Me a
eH, btn aaa ae EO

Agacehio lh the right band
i agen Let ast nearty’ i

¥
-_— ae ee |

Ek Webs Chom sate ae?

and by the bleeding hearts of agony which I and T

he time will lave arrived
And”

sca pCR a NN ORME TTY

jo te < i a a A wh pa haa ey = @ tne
Sich @ > mee

Ary whoratle Betlertper
con Gleam e Vaal Gol fo i hirist s sabe Las tags
en mie fie all my ate SUR feactret ge ef i
svong ahd Grweverioyg hope af eterna” Uf be ya
tle “pean Aftd #s@r ge} ated in fa). tem ol tbe
mol dowatere at Jeeta eed tise rams cp Le pes tee
CF AF te Ti ghty oF Lama Tage 43 tj Aaatt «ahs
tie eet asl ee eee Sreal ouk pAgO4e aepare pel We been Eb =
eating uieh teydeie 2 feel waa wld Settled mee
appar eth fay tod geee with my ictives tar
ftenlice that ell oa vee? ifreeiy Hoegive act am
fi; whe teeny bave don: wr any aud we
el ow 1 tend terme alee for pee ene

To saa he akg pagal alelece
hatiwes Pea Ne Been Peer es
mi trowt. wo: we ania fir at

i hheve ther eeiceee

tire

id Wiehe D 2B 26
+ tet Qecgee eat us
a trict pets rem tie

Cofectalian 31) elas ef petrow AT Yye Lagt te cvert
Tew emnitaed malstien the Mes OR): tient gow
mime to Mr orgie and Air Miuwes and 3a
Vast Cre wril ne thf @ane dea- and sai-csite
friends berturn sy gig ome Utsasks fiw demir & ee

and unser tte! aliesnstiom be tie. aw
(nterest (hey Lave fin fredent Fat. 0 0 Pomme 9 iF
future welfare. $ dca) eid eile Rt ower 858
Meet ayain in a bry hi: ait bette wort tear ie

Yo Capt Jamee aii a, the eff cote uf Use pe cee:
lan. eatremels prahfit for tart, Boad ay
teas afieytion ond tie peut the, beaee BAe be
beware

Als cto the tepitar Bearers Te twee oT ane #
de oinany obliy stone fio having often embeted any
eee ae cbeelred third take kibooe b

so Lit, Fiend eee

¥ ahent

3 aie

fust thes gig ht base Denisa pepsi ical Seiad
Atd bow, Calling diet to ow item toe geet’
iatiool Ue ay So, HORE Bialesivemso 1th tire

word and tts affairs aiong and fae) larrwel:

: fir we 0 trae we ct
OT NT ei ee essa
Rsitinore City Ja Ape TL Te

me TER Mepis
nat Notwitltand ong ive Jin senee . Livt * teria de
thedaityard oped oe diterteme wee al om ft re
ROCERAaLY pes tie tend jes were cat slew tee
crowds beg ty Aianerer and @)enet)
hour of noms toe belg ble eurround ng bine Jat were
neariv desetted :

To pun‘ apeinet an: informality ef cant ges ¥
that might arise Steel Cremer pepiewied That
the State should be criweacntesl i) Fe other
Milton Writes Tay beta i reat) Tiakoes”
Bag Wie deputy State Altormeg end Jone {
Thorne ces staat promes nt atlorney a pgeemren!
and Were preeent at tar csplation of the cronies of
Sie OTe Te anes

(ST BR AEN OEP RE PERE Fa Mi pier et
eer, & ei
Anel tie hid Ghia Ve Pie hott wf 4) ts
par head with perry Wen Usage leergmet emote ye
appearance of the ccimiesie npay the ead
Aipong the throna were many formate, eens With
Chifdren in thelr arte

Persom conid aise be ener accu ing Une W aah
Ingten montmnent > fram thr saci ef whet #
view of Cor folai paltows and tae com notion wes
ohtijned thaugrh an eiphthonf «a mile dietant
(Mther pou feonoredietan’? pod tat sty" Ter mem} eT
were availed of by persone who, woth Ce eid ef
ap) gloat and Velew ope. bite pede tnierebhe
Siew Chtie tray le acene ig

ahRar Oe Te

alten Plas

ree

bhre

a “INCIDENTS OF THR BOR 1008
We noderttand that (rep oonfmecd bose guilt en
the Pith of Murch te the Rew We | Dow
ney who tad, eneboveral oe asions coven bie re
Higieurmnbviee mae eye

se Father Freeman, the vel) Known tract missvore
ry, Who hes frequentip: wailed the prisoners we
present yeaterday and accompanied them te the

scaffold oo

arush by these inside the yard fre 2 piere of the
ope with which the parties had beep bn in @

“short time all four of them were cot inte sere)!

exists with many ] ¢ that fie pomeemioe of @
piece of the rope with which ® person te egeeetod
acts asa charm to protect them from ey) Pires

_pleces to aatisly teople crowd. & superstition

“the cords with which the hands and eraw of the

men were bound were carried off.

Outalde of the wall of the prison, afler the eae
tution, there was some cacitement A man gt’ fr
of Msorderly conduct was observed by the polire.
who started to arfest him, near the msip ecirence
gate Heran towards Madison street, ent in bi
course knocked down severa) women, causing for
a moment considerable excitement That
ever “was soon calmidd. and the lange crowd of

retired tn good order

a ie aline Ronry Lee wae confined in 8 teem
which overlooked (he scaffold. W bes the trap
the scaffold fell {t caused bim to treen ble with %, «2
ny. Just asthe wap fell the fourth —~—% id
left band became saddenly dend et wos!

Aig bard street] tice i: the Sneer commence! shyiweling SP

OIRO Sw beet eae te Tae

esses nadia ccbatdicicin- gi ot

~After-the bodies hnd been taken down there wee

w
a eeresnrner + acti

Biddic atre iis atrect. and just as } pas me and within ‘. in afew Epomente, ths a
few ieet of hin, | beard the report of 2 pistot, and | wht gis Orci & as big
ith it hi ‘Pamediately turned ronnd, and noticed that Wa. :: rt 1 jel meters

afd. with 2 smile on bis face. $ex: had also stopped. I then sew Hicherd Harris ack of the head wi

egand Gambrill closed their eyes - Crop T pen: ‘ ¢ rp | moned as quickly a pong
.: downward than efther of the other: BY eoqegies down the avenue on the other side, neer

Ie He Om Rh tea a

po eye Bevee tee Peps Was erry

eck, looking upwards. Once he bow!
iin recognition of some one in the crowd, .

| : rurb-stone. Sergeant Waters batled Lim.when | "rere i
a cena theme care werd $e Answered. (still running fast.) “‘I'p of the CREMT To FR
MBs Yatel Aiea cree the four men mood | corner.” isan ferris turn —_ the fyanne Into oo wot eur ee
. x ing k _ . § Orchard street, and run up t eu eet eant greatest precision eng
at is und et t first noose at the east, arma then continued opine arenue, and ‘gy ( | Qrrangenients of Ble f &
| * 1. Corrle was stationed hext; Crop q iny Course towards home, olng down the right w ith the recat erup: loud
“@ Cyphus at the fourth neose, at the west 70 side of the avenue till iffte above Si Marys | and those deputive who #
tg. beam — . prt, when | crossed over to the other side turaed | is due for the fartifu! did
(Franklin street from the evenve. kept along | No erection that ever of
arth side of Franklin street, and when bet ween ormed with more stri
and Paca streets fell in with Benj. Holty umenity. and net s sing?
pir. McPherson, who were a litte abead of | Which could cause reg
ney eeked what the noise meant, and Ire. | the stern demands of the
eS, igenhardt is drunk. I then croesed over to | gimat bisroe:tion or rE.
“7 wrath side of Para street in company with Mr CCrepce
tee ercon, and whilst crossing Paca. fost at its As acon at the fect been
or tien with Franklin street, I called out to 5

| TRE VATAL DROP... ne %
Teputies reached the ground, and as Sher!
Stepped from the last step of the scaffal
fouc bed the trigger. and at 5 minntee nat
& the drop fell, amid asuppressed thrill e
ad four Luman “T were dangling |

Ippreased emotion of the thousands eute |
ud be distinclly beard within the yard, ag j
‘rom many lips, q
windows jn the female department of the po the north side of Franklin street, when Holtz | the families of the uaf

thatthe execution had tek
liz, whem we had juat left, and who was stil! beyen tr collert shout the

“SB humber of female prisoners—white and f came over and coined us ayain. f the ar?ivel of t)
aa nips drop fell, their cries and screams : a Thos Gunbell tart

throug hout the place. o et the corner of Frenblin and Eutaw streets, Vic- t of Pime aad &
Mand Corrie strugyied fora minuteortwo | Pherson and Holty left mer,and | went {ato m al

3 I continved towsrds haine, and when apr! ving

Y | dred persons were wot
int were still, except the muscular mo- | own bonse, Bye houses from: tha: point !n Franklin cove : -y
‘tf. ;

foe

B covered Wagen was dris
fal to such deaths, : Street. Soon after reaching bome. and whilst emt- | and the cofin conta! ning
nd Cyphos strnggied for some ve min-

¥ a,

ing 2 piece of watermelon jn my bar-+room. officers | was carried therefrom }
cig tie the exception of the muscular Wotk BR, pres. Norwood, ating gore dry a renved family. i.
rer ) 3 : *y entered, some centersation piace The scene that follow
Op of the rope weg about two and @ half teecn thern. when Watkins asked Hrown if be Cor pee te bcovtted 0s ne
all fours eto die very quickly. In | conld swear te bim, te which Brown replied no ents of the decemsnd gi vii
Minutes no m conld be observed. Watkins ssid, tben we Lave no business in bere, | jn loud Issnestrtine: rh
they were thus banging, the coftine were | and they allie. " ee

ners

mat onder the gallows, and placed ready | after eating my piece of watermelon, and frel- net tae waittnes
reception of the bodies. Fhey had not | jag antions fo know what had ha pened. | paton | from the dwelling. The
“ed under the ecaffuld, es usual, for fear it thy coat and cap and went out. m the corner of | {linea and it wes found’
‘ot sberve the prisoners as they came out. | Frank}in apd beutaw streets | saw McDonald and restoratives. 4

ae WEBING THE RODITS. _ | Maloney, who had but a little while before left my Atthe dwelling of D
‘past 11 o'clock, having hung twenty-five | boose, evidently in search of some ane. and Task- | street peer Pine, where?
ae toxties were lowe near the ground, | ed them what tiheant by com! into my house wae crtried. = similar pt
ped by Dr F 8. Thémas. physician of | in the manner they did. McDonald replint thet | Tae Het Le mere
oy. H. t P Yeatesand Dr. Owings Mann, | Benton had been killed which waa the @rst 1 knew

and children bad collerte

‘wthber any life remained. of any murder having beem rommitted. 1 then anived wilb the comes
Wes a faint pulse perceptible in the heart | ask them who had done !t—they anawered thatthey | mos turternse desire was &

wi—the others were stilied in death. did net know. 1 put this question to both of them .

al it.

Aipnics more ols .@nd Cyphus being | and they both gave the same answer. ‘1 then said The coflin wet remev
> fol their bodies Were lowered dewn | to Howard Davis, whe wus with me, let us go to quickly me possi ble apt ¢
“@ in the coffins provided by the fr.cnds Morgan's and laguire about it. cham bert, aad ont —

ES : W ben we got to Mergan's I sew Richard Harris | gad relatives ef the femil:
‘gots were drawn, the topes removed and | and othery, ané@ at once said to Harris, ‘+1 believe
fee laid im a natural position. The faces | you killed Fentoe,"' te which be replied, #1 kaow

t were much disfigured ther eyes or | d-—n well 5 aid, lor { went back and looked at
Mretrad tng. ae hit; ’’ 9.2€ then pointing tom young man, (whow

brief examination, the peck of Corrie | | have o! 1 dis bs a Mir. U bene
pet aid cae i wee iny trial discoveced w

wels.( said. “there is a man who will swear 1 was
etic inetamtly almaort—the breaking of i tke Weck ade bee § then told Barris thst
ree the oP ers bed been to my beuse in erérch of som
Sopra in wont Romana pd Ln ee 086, when Davis spoke and esid, “Yes, pep aligh:
‘ares The tide were screwed dows. and | are about the panne ize, let us cbange ¢ :
bE along W hilet they were changing elothee ont
sae

1¢ wes undiersioud Tass -

rep-
i nt the and 1 oppaed it and went ectand
Piss Innes nerabed by ofeers Bennison sad

master or mistress an offense of petty treasone He stood mute at his trial, ree

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ss | Hon, Gary Christopher 2/16, 1982

fusing to enter a plea to the charge, and he was convicted with the sentence he
should be "egsdrawn to the gallows at St. Mary and there hanged by the neck until
you are deade,e" Accordingly, he was dragged to the gallows, tied to the tail
of a horse,yaand hanged later that same month, ie |

This method of using the cart on which the condemned person was transported to the
scene of execution as the platform from which he was hanged was cruel in the extreme

in that there was little if any fall or drop, the cart merely being driven from une {oe
derneath him, and, consequently, the neck was rarely if ever broken, The poor
wrétch would die of slew strangulation, sometimes lasting for extended periods of
time and usually to the great enjoyment of the spectators, The first execution
where a platform and drop was used in Baltimore was on September 10, 1818, when
the neLobretsdJoseph Thomoson Hare and a man named Alexander were hanged as highe
wayilen,

Public executions remained the general rule in Maryland until around 1873, Even ~~
when they were conducted in jaileyards which were walled in, the platforms were
raised to such a height that they could be seen by anyone whe wished to see them
-and the trees and roofs of surrounding buildings would always be covered by the
morbidly curiouse 3 i / -

PY nasa

I might add that, during the colonial period, at least, indignities were frequently
committed on the bodies of the exkcuted. For example, I would cite the following
cases: (1) in 1739, two slaves of Anne Arundel were hanged, one for burglary and
the other for rape, ."hile the body of the first was decently interred it is
supposed, that of the second ",.,,a notorious offender..." was hung in chains at
some distance from the gallows; (2) A death warrant issued in 17)9 specified that
a black condemned in Cecil County for burning his master's houses was ",,,aftere
wards to be hung in chains."; (3) In 173, two negroes who had murdered an Indian
were hung in chains; (}) Another death warrant issued in 179 for a negro who

was convicted in Calvert County for rape specified that he was to be hung in
chains; and (5) the sentence passed in 175) on a black who had murdered an over=
seer specified that he ",,.,should be hung in chains as near as possible to the
scene of the murder," . Sime

Now, the substitution of the drop for mezely having a cart driven from under the _
condemned person was undoubtedly a more humane form of execution as it did not
absolutely guarantee that the person would die of slow strangulation as did the
method formerly used, In many instances, but certainly not all, the new means .
resulted in the neck being broken and unconsciousness ensuing almost immediately,
even though some time would elapse before the victim would be pronounced dead,

I might also add that in virtually every case, the scene was sickening and could
only bring out the very worst instincts in men, as the person executed would,
whether unconscious or not, lose control of his bodily functions and in some

cases would actually be decapitated by the fall, proper measurements and weight
allowances not having been made. I shall cite a few cases of execution by hanging
which should show the inhumaneness of the processes

«
y

On August 5, 1853, Thomas Connor, a l9yeareold white youth was hanged at Baltie

more for the murder of Capt, William Hutchinson of Accomac County, Va,, which

had occurred in the early part of October 1852, ",.,To the horror of all, the eee
rope, which was insufficient tobear the weight of his body, broke, and the :

oe =e my : Hon, Gary Christopher | 2/16/1982

(Sha

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miserable man was precipitated with considerable force to the ground, He struck ,
the ground on his feet, and fell over on his right side, sustaining, however, very pe
little injury beyond being slightly stunned, The officers gathered around the ae
fallen man and raistd him to a sitting position when he exclaimed in a full, 4

aoe clear tone: ‘Gentlemen, I am innocent of murder in the first degree,g' He wept

bitterly, syaing that he did not wish to live, He begged over and over again to
‘take him up there' where he just came from, Another rope was procured, and when
all was fixed the trap fell, and Connor, swung in the air, having fallen about

three feet, The awful sight was witnessed by an immense concourse of men, women =

and children, It was estimated there were 20,000 persons collected on the vacant
lots and the roofs of the surrounding houses, oneethird at least of whom were

females, On the breaking of the rope a feeling of deep regret pervaded the

immense crowd; large numbers, whose curiosity had been fully satisfied by wite

nessing this awful catastrophe, returned 3 ther homes without waiting to

witness the further execution of the law, whilst some few unfeeling and ignorant He
persons commenced shouting and clapping their hands," et

Episodes such as this ‘Led to the decision in the State of Maryland to provide

_for private executions, These, of course, did not subtract from the horrors of

the death penalty and sufferings of the condemned, On August 23, 1873, James
West ",,,.a young black laborer,,," was hanged in the yard of the Baltimore City
Jail before 60 witnesses, On March 13, 1873, while in a drunken stupor, he had
killed his mistress of 5 years by striking her over the head repeatedly with a
hatchet as she lay sleeping. A strong effort for commutation was made, including
a petition signed by eleven of the jurors, but Governer Whyte refused to intere
vene, West went to his death calmly and with no evidence of fear, Contrary to
general practice, his lower limbs were not bound for some reason and, as his

neck was not broken, he strangled conwulsively for six minutes, with blood flowe
ing freely from his mouth, nose and earSe

—

On the night of April 23, 1892, Dr. James He Hill was waylaid and murdered by a

cand of eight blacksJoshua Benson, Lewis Brainerd, Buck Brooks, Moses Brown,

Frisbtie Comegys Charles Emory, Henry Eurtt and Fletcher Williams, All were
convicted at Chestertown and sentenced to be hanged, Because of the youths of

Benson, Brainerd, Fmorty and Eurtt (three of them were 16 and one-was only 13),

and because he thought that the octette hanging would be ",,.a blemish on the
“tate's historyese', GovernorBrown commuted their sentences to life imprisonment,
letting the other four death sentences stand, ",..Fletcher Williams and Moses Brown ~~
died almost without a struggle. Their necks were broken, Brooks and Comegys went
through the most appalling contortions, The latter died from strangulation and

the former's death was due to dislocation of the back, Comegys, the youngest of

the cuartette, was conscious for at least five minutes while dangling from the

ropes He twisted his legs, struggled with the handcuffs, and drew his knees to

his neck, Brooks went through similar movements, He died hard, His frame fist
Swayed several minutes and when the crowd thought him dead, he started the most

desperate contortions, His body wriggled within the straps about him, and his

determined efforts to get the handcuffs off pleased the crowd greatly, Old fare

mers (these and tthe crowd" were official witnesses as this was a private execue =

tion) who gathered about the dying men laughed and some even cursed the negroes,

The men died in from 10 to 18 minutes, The heard of Williams beat for 17 minutes
although he acted as though he had died from the firste. e"

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After the turn of the twentieth century, two executions occurred in Maryiand nich ee
laid the groundwork for the eventual moving of all executions to the confines of te

the Maryland Penitentiary. On the night of Dec. 21, 1905, Isaac Winder, black, —

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and his l7#yeareold nephew, William Charles Winder, killed Frederick T, Rinehart,
the toll-keeper at the gate on Dulaney's Valley Pike, two miles north of Towson,
in a robbery, Isaac Winder, who admitted firing the shot that killed Rinehart,
was convicted in Towson and sentenced to be hanged while the nephew received a
change of venue to Bel Air where he was convicted of second degree murder and
es , sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment, Because of the fear of mob violence, Isaac
\.... Winder was taken to Baltimore and held in the city jail there until the date set
“for his execution, March 30, 1906, A stockade had been erected at the county ~—
jail and only 00 tiékets were issued for the execution (quite private}), The ~~
‘lahge crowd that had gathered outside the stockade proceeded to break it down
‘and enter while others perched on rooftops and in trees and 2,000 persons wite
nessed the execution, Winder struggled with his executioners on the gallows for
18 minutes before he was finally subduéd and hanged, © . 2

~ On June 10, 1906, a transient black man named William Lee raped two white women
in rural Somerset County a:d mede his escape into Virginia where he wes captured
at Cape Charles a few days later, Because of the fear of lynching, he was taken
ag to Baltimore, held in jail and tried there, Because Maryland law at the time
. provided that he was to be hangédgin the county where the crime was committed
_and the fear of violenceagainst him was so great, he was taken on a boat, under
ea sealed orders from the Governor, to Smith's Island in a remote part of the county
v and there hanged from a portable gallows on July 26, 1906, | / )
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On January 3, 1913, Philip Gibson, a black laborer, became the first person to
be hanged inside the Baltimore jail, all other executions having previously
taken place in the jail yard as heretofore indicated, first in the open and then
behind an enclosure, A trap had been cut in the floor cf one of the second ;
story rooms in the jail's bakehouse and it was from there that he was hanged _
at 9:5 a.m, (One of the sheriff's jury fainted when the trap fell, but he
was soon revivede) 7 ; es , } |

In 1922, legislation was passed and approved by the Governor requiring that =
the executions for all capital crimes committed in Maryland on or after January |. _
1, 1923, should take place at the state prison, The last person to be hanged ap
outside of the prison was a man in Baltimore on April 6, 1923, for acrime . =.
committed prior to 1923, As I have not researched this case, I can provide |
you with no information on it. hide acess

A bungled hanging that occurred within the confines of the prison was that of + —
Eugene H, James, a 3leyeareold black man, whe was convicted of the rape-murder — -
of Marsha Brill, an lleyearsole white girl in the Pimlice section of Baltimore
is where James worked as a janitor and handyman, As he was in a virtual state of
cellapse when he was hanged on August 12, 1919, it was necessary for the prison ~
physician to administer him morphine, and it was necessary for him to be :
supperted on both sides by guards on the short trip to the gallows, When the re
drop fell, the noose slipped, and he slowly strangled to death, being pronounced ._
dead fifteen minutes later, In April, 1955, the Legislature of Maryland, seeke
ing a "more humane" means of putting to death a fellow human being passed, and
; the Governor subsequently signed into daw, a bill providing that all executions
Ly (rm Vig take’place after June 1, 1955, should be by asphyxiation, Only tHour persons
i" have been executed by this means in Maryland (EddieDkaéeDaiiieksonnJdunar?831}957 5
Carl Daniel Kier on Jmuary 21, 1959; Leonard M, Shockey on April 10, 1959; and ~
Nathaniel Lipscomb on June 9, 1961, RO e Ge Vine

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/Yion, Gary Christopher, Assistant Public ‘Defender,

800 Equitable Building, __ , fs

_Baltimore, MD 21202, rs a eee . Cav

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Dear Mr. Christopher:

I enjoyed speaking with you over the tele, one tnis morning and I sincerely hope
that I can supply you with some information-that might be of use to you in the
Thompson case€e Ce ee. :

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Maryland is one of the few older states - dating from the colonial period e that
never seems to have used burning at the stake as a form of execuimpe a condemned

criminal, The most horrible means ever used by your state appears to have occurred

in 1781, an account of which appeared in the FREDERICK NES of April 19, 1901, as

follows: "On July 25, 1781, Peter Sueman, Nicholas Andress, Yost Plecker, Adam
Graves, Henry Shett, John George Graves and casper Fritchie were sentenced to be

.. hanged for high treason (Note: They were convicted of having recruited and sworn

in troops to fight for England and Judge Hanson imposed sentence, ‘“E), They
were to be carried to the jeil in Fredericktown and hanged therein, They were
then to be cut down to the earth alive and their entrails taken out and burnt

while they were yet alive, their hands were to be cut off, their bodies divided =

into four parts and their heads and bodies placed where his execellency, the
Governor, should approve, ‘These sentences were carried out on three of them,
The others were pardoned," :

I have found a record of only one person's having been legally executed by being
shot. Anatbhcom, a Wiccomis Indian was tried by the Upper House at St. Mary's ma
on May 7, 1669, for the murder cf a Captain Odber. He was convicted and, under
sentence, shot the next day, , cS Vee Des

The remainder of the executions in the State of Maryland have evidently been by
either hanging (295 confirmed) or asphyxiation in the lethal gas chamber. This
is not to say that all of these were carried out in the most humane manner possi= |
bleg ‘The Act of 1751, Ch, 14, provided that a condemned felon was to have his |
right hand cut off before the execution, Evidently this was carried out in only
one instances In 1770, where three slaves were convicted of murder, one being

the actual slayer and the other two as abbetors, the two latter were spared the
ordeal of having their right hand cut off prior to execution though this was
done to the former, seh
In the early days, sentences generally provided that the condemned persen be
"drawn" to the gallows and this meant being drawn there by horses while seated ©

on the cart which served as the actual platform for the execution, it being =
driven from him after the noose had been placed around his neck, However, in —

at least one instante, a more literal interpretation to the word "drawn" was
usedg On the night of Oct, h, 1665, Jacob, a slave of Col, Nathaniel Utie of
Spesutie Island, stabbed his mistress in the arm, inflicting a wound from which oe
she bled to death. Jacob was tried under the statute making the killing of a

Thomas Davis

Henry Luckett
William Plater
William Henry James

All executed at Upper Marlboro on Nov. 2nd 1866

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 11-3-66
page 1 column 3

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FOUR MEN HANGED.
| peath Penalty Paid by the Hill
| Murderere at Ohestertown,

| THE PROMPT BKROUTION OF THE LAW.

| Two of the Prisoners Straggle Fright-
fully and Die Hard—Daclarations of

1 Some. E t Among

» the People, bat Ne Disorder—Gov,

Brown Commended,

[Snecial Dispatch to the Baltimore Bun.)

Cursterrown, Mp., Jan,” 18. — Charles
Brooks, Fletcber Williams, Moses Browa and
Frisby Comegys were banged here today for

| the murder of Dr. Jamos Higho Hill, which
oocurred near Millington, April 28, 182. The
execution of the law touk place at half an
bour after mid-day. The four murderers
died stoutly maintaining thelr ionocence.
It was intonded to hang eight persons for the

| murder, but Governor Brown commuted to
Ng the ot the four
younger prisoners, :

‘An hour before: the banging the corridors
of the jail were cleared of al) persons except
the deputies and the spiritual advisere of the
condemnod men, “Those who were privileged
to be ‘present. went .into, the yard) and
stood about the sonffold, They bad no intima-
tion of when the foal moment would occur,
and noone in the yard could seo what was
voing on in the woper part of the scaffuld,

} which was inclosed with rough boarde,
| At 13.96 o'clook Sheriff Plummer ‘and
| Deputy Dugan walked out of ‘the passage
door and mounted tho ecaffold, The pris-
onera were brought out baudcuffed and were
told to ascend the steps, Fletcher Williams
was the first to put bis foot on the platfora.
He was followed by Charigs Brooks, and
then came Frisby Comegyr. Moses Brown
| came last. With thom were Rovs. A. A. Mur-
| ray and B. 8. Quecley, both colored, and Rev.
| H.R. Sargent, of the Protestant Episcopal
| Church. Deputies Thomas Storkes, John
| Pate, Frank 8. Plammer and W. i. Stepbeng
| accompanied the prisoners. Euch deputy
placed one of the condemned men in position
upon the gailows and put the rope over
their necks, The black caps were then
drawoon, after which the lege of the prisoners

‘were strapped, Williams was ovor the trap |

farthest from the stops, Brooks was next,
Comomys uext to Brooks, and Brown near
the steps,’ —* ;

During these preparations the clerrymen
were praying. It took only a few minutes
to get everything in réadivess, and as Sheriff
Plummer took positiou by the lever, Brooks, |
who was the onlyone to make any remark,

said; “I am innocent,” Then all wad quiet. .

The next instant the sheriff pulled the lever,
the traps fell tothe ground and the bodies
sbot down the op s ly and
into full view of the spectators. below. It
was exactly 12.30 when the sheriff spruog the
traps," ’ ’
. As the bodies recoiled from tbe launch
through the traps, Frisby Comemva struggled
and twisted, bis knecs were drawn up to his
chin and then flung out several times, shak-
ing off the shoe.on his left foot, He died bard
aod by strangulation, according to the state-
ment of. the physiciais, Moses Brown and
Fletcher Williams died without a struggic
except that the body of Williame sbivered
slightly, Moses Brown's form was rigid as
sovun ag it shot through the trap.’ Charles
Brooks "went through contortipna similar
to those of Comegys. The necks of Brooks,
Williams and rown wore broken. ‘These
three died inafew minutes, while Comegys
was ten minutes dying. :
The bofies were examined at short ister-
vale by Dr. W. Frank Hines, the jail physl-
cian, Dr. C. W. Whalen, of Chestertown,
Dr. J. Horton Kelly, ot Chestertown, and Dr.
Frank Wethered, of Philadelphia. After the
bodies had hung twenty minutes they were
taken dowr, Williame's body was the first
lowered, When the black caps were re-
moved it was seen that Moses Brown's eycs
were open. The eyes of tho others wore
closed. The face of Comegys showed the
fearful death be had died, Eactr body wae
placed in a plain coffia that lad been
brought to tho. jail-yard at 11.85 o'clock by
Birney Carmichael, colored. The bodies
were put in the coffins by Bailiff T. J.
Joiner and others, and the coffins were at
unoe conveyed to the almaboure, several
miles in the country, and buried.

Prior to the banging @ large crowd col-
lected outaide the jJall, and so anxious were
the people to witness the same that tt re-
quired every effort of the apecial guard to
keep them from breaking down the yard
I tance and forcing their way to tho soaffold.

Aa it ways, a number of boards were torn
} away, and when the bodies of the murderers

tell through the traps the fiupaticot and
| anury crowd could nut be controtied. They
awarmed through and over the fence and
gathered around the swinging bedies, The
guards, supposing their duties = to
have ended with the’ apringing of
the trap, became spectators. Although
only a limited nomber of — persons
weve adinitted to the yard before the hang-
ing, yet a number saw the evene from the
upper windows of tbe houses and from the
branches of trees, It was pretty cold and
the fellows in the trees looked as if thoy
were frozen.

The sheriff's guard, composed of promi-
nont oitizeos, were commanded by Vol. Thos.
1k, W. Crew. There wasa alight clash in the

morning between the town authorities and

the sheriff's guard. Mr, Thomas Jefferson

Joyner, who was acting as @ town bailiff,

thought that bis rights were being usurped
i by one of Colone! Crew's privates, where-
| bag om is alleged that Mr. Joyner attempted
| to ult the guard. Colonei Crew came to
| the rescue and arrested Joyner, who was
| committed to jail. He was afterward re-
| leused aud in a few moments he returned at
} the jail door with one of Colonel Crew's pri-
| vates, Joyner charged the private with
} being disorderly.. He was locked up in tho

game cell’ which bad just been vacated by
his accuser. Colonel Crew bad the man re-
leased, As both town and county had by
this time had an inning the war was declared
off. "\ ; ree
Every effort was made to gata dontession
from the murders, but without avail. ev.

B. A. Queeley, colored, wrote the following

statement for Taz Sun a few minutes before

goiug on the soaffold with the condemmed:

“None of the condemm prisoners made any

confession of their guilt, but, on the contrary.

Buck Brooks

Moses Brown
Frisbie Comegys
Fletcher Williams

All hanged at Chestertown, Kent Co. on January
13th 1893

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 1-14-93
page 6 column 3

Nearsy all of Thursday night and,all of
Friday morning the condemned men were
occupied with thoir spiritual advisers. Kev.
A. A. Murray, colored, of Eadsville, re-
mained with them all night. Other ministers
wero Kove. F. 8. Dennis and B, A. Queeley,
both colored, of Chestertown, and Rev. H. R.
Sargent. . The last mentioned stated that
each of the men had made confcesions of
their lives to him, but breathed 00 word of
complicity as to the killiog of Dr. Hill, All
four of the condemned participated heartily |
in the religious sevices, which were kept up

until 1 o’c.ock. ° i " ie |

About 2 o'dlock Friday morning, while the
prisoners were in bed and soundly sleeping,
Mr. Samuel Hilland Walter 8. Hill, father
and son of the murdered physician, came to
the jail, Mr. Hill went to the oeils and asked |
euch of the men to tell him the whole truth |
about. the murder, All of the men denied
knowledge of the crime, When Mr, Hill wont |
to the cell of Frisby Comogys ho was fant
asleep, the guard cailed Comegys several
times but was unable to awaken bim, The
guard shook Comegys and told bim that Mr.
Hill wanted to see him. Scarcely awake Com-
egys walked to the cell door and spoke to Mr.
Hill without the slightest hesitatiun, telling
the same ol4 story of higinnocence, Mr. Hill
told the prisoners thet he would come and
see them again, and he hoped they would
then be ready to give bim a complete confes-
sion. Mr. Hil) and his son bad hardly left the
jail before all of the mea were again in bed. |
‘All siépt well except Comegys. About’ 4
o'clook Brooke awoke and prayed aloud for
several minutes. Williams got up ‘at 5.90
o'clock. He told Rev, A. A. Murray, who
had stayed all night at the jail, that be wouid
Mee to hear him talk. The ministor’
prayed and sang. Brown said he bad
slept well during the night and had
no fear, as he felt that be was saved, Mr.
Hill and his eons, Walter and Harry, made
another effort about 11.90 o'clock to geta
confession, but were unsuccessful. Mr, Hill
said, when he came out, “No, (bey say they
are innocent, and now I'am going bome, as 1
don’t want to be bero when they are banged.”

Brooks, Williams and Brown said they saw
Dr. Hill in Millington the night of the mur-
der, but did not see him on the road after
they left town. They admitted being in a
crowd that night. Comegys denied seeing
Dr, Hill in Millington, but said be went out
the road with the crowd. Brooks sent for
Mr. Thomas Donobue, with whom he used to
‘live, and when the iutter came asked bim to
take some clothes and things to bis family.
Brooks cried during the'interview.

The iast meal the condemned ate was at 9
o’clook 10 the morning, whea breakfast was
served them. I¢ d of beef
chicken, ham, light bread, biscuit and honey
and coffee. : Srown ate beartily and said he
enjoyed it, Williams and Brooks did not eat

muob, saying that thoy bad eaten too many |
cakes during the night, Comegys scarcely
touched his food, .

Browh aud rooks wrote fatewell lettors |
to Watchinay Greenwood and bie little boys,
Benny and Frank, Williams wrote the fol- |
lowing letter to Mr, Harrison W. Vickers,
who assisted in the pr jon at the trial:
“This is my dying statement that te the truth,
I have a just God in Heaven and I want to
meet Him, I know that I cannot meet Him
with a He on my tongue. So by that I
have to tell nothing but tbe truto. I
know nothing about it.any more then I bave
told you. I don't think I have anything in
my beart against you or anybody. It is all
right. Iam an tonocent boy aod God knows
it. I did not do it nor did not see It, nor I
nover heard no talk, eo [ don’t know nothing
about it, so 1 oan only tell you or anybody
the truth. I am toneocent of it, but itis all
right. I hope to mect you in Heaven. Good-
bye.” é

The motive for the murdbr of Dr. Hill is
said to havo been revenge. Meo had devlared |
that a colored man who died suddenly
was not killed outright by some white
men, a8. supposed by colored residents |

of Millington, but had died of heatt disexse, |
superinduced possibly bya blow. Dr. Hull
was thirty-two years old, young, hundsome
and popular. Ho leaves a widow and baby
airl. My
The G 10" ‘ae
Governor Brown hae received letters from
all. pufts of Maryland and also ff>m others
‘commending bis action in commuting tho
sontence of the four boys implicuted in the
murder of Dr. Hill, Some of ‘these writers |
are strong in tholr expresbiona, and intimate |
that Guvernor Brown bas by his action made
for bimself a warm place in the hearts of all
humane people.’ Among the letters was onc
from. the Maryland State Baptist Conven-
tion, in which tho convention pledges ‘itself
to render tho Governor material seryice for
bis action in this matter sbould it ever bp
called upon, A letter from a colored woman:
warns the Governor that thorg ie talx of
lynebing bim for bis exoroise Of clemency.

rt ded.

bave pe y dtheir i

tothe end, Thcy said they never shw Dr.

Hill on the road on the fatal night. It

caunot be that these men would die with a
i eon their tongue ‘aod acknowledge their
pardon from God of all their sins of which lL,
as their spiritual adviser, have no doubt
whatever.” ° ‘

The writor sayd abe was told this and fouls it
her duty to put the Governor on bis guxrd
as he bas done @ setvico to her race: Mrs.
Hill, wife of tbe murdered doctor, wrote to
the Govornor protesting against his com-
muting the sentence of any one concerned in
the crime. ne '

“oe.

‘ &pecial Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.)
i" , J i “J td ’ .

+ THE SCHOONER BRAVE TRAGEDY,

Excention of Four Colored Men at

Princess Anne, Somersct county,
- Maryland.—Terrible Scene on the.
Gallows. ; é eon
PRincRes ANNE, SOMERSET County, March 6,

1869.—The execution of William Wilson, Wm.
“Welle, Frank Rounde and George Bailey, tho
four colored men tried fu this couuty and con-
victed of the murder of ‘Capt. Bon}. F. Johneon,
of the echoover rave, and Henry Canaoon, the
‘Date of the same vusecl, took place here to-day.
The men had, since thelr sentence, been con-
} stautly attended by ministers of various depom-
i inations, and fully confessed the crime.
}. At one P. M. the four prisoneis, in their
shrouds, were brought on the schaffold by Sheriff
Miles, in the presence of about five thousand
i} Spectators. They were very solemn, save Bailey,
who appeared bee ;

Their mivisters, Mcserg. Heéalton and Carrol),
sung a hyinn, in which the condemned joined.
The Rev. A.C. Ucalton then rcad several pas-
eages of scripture and offered an cloquent praycr,
iu which they joined with audible groans. -

The prisoners then, all in turn, addressed tho |
crowd, confessing their guilt, and waruing their
hearcrs not to imitate them in their condnct.—
They also thanked those who.bad had charge of
them for thelr treatment. Bailey eaid his true
bame'was George C. Bryan, ‘ :

The rope aud black capa( were: then adjuated.
The sheriff siiook hands with them, and for a
few secouds they ,were teft, and the drop fell pre-
y cisely at forty minutes past one o'clock.

-- Rounds, Wells aud Bailey dicd aluost Instant-
ly, but Wilson atrogaled and groaned fearfully,

aud getting hie .hande and legs frec, while yet

hangipg by. tho neck, caught bald of . Kouuds,

then of his own rope, and drawing bimeelf up’
“potpn the scaffola again. Whe jailer ascended,
} tightened tte nodse i and pushed the
} wretched man off, jerking the rope violently as

he fell. The culprit continued to strurgle for

five minutes, ome of tho crowd yelling “that's,
right, you ought to suffers” The execution oc-
cupicd 45 minutes. Towards thoJast fuur or Ave
thousand epectators were present. ‘

The circumstances attending the crime for
which these four men are to be executed were eub-
stantially av follows, as brouzht out on the vari-.
ous trials:—On the afternoon of Monday, March
30, 1868, the schooner Brave, used as an oyster

ubgy, Was observed by eeveral -pereons cruise
‘ing in the waters of the Chesapeake, with ewery-
thing all right, at leaet to all appearances. ‘Tlie
vessel. was iu command. of Capt. en}. F. Jobn-
son, who was half ownerofher, Capt. Johnson
was & whito man, as was aleo Henry Cannon. his §
mate, but his crew was rine of four colored
men, William Wileon, William .Welis, Frank |
Rounds, and Qcorze Bailey. hes veesel bailed
from Crisfleld, Maryland, and atthe time men-
tioned was engaged in dredging for oysters.

As clicited on the trial, fully corroborated by
-tho confessions of two of the condemned, while
thus employcd the whole of the four men as-
sailed an reals Johnson whilet in his cabin, and
after mutilating him inthe most horrible man:
uer, threw the body overboard. They then
} turucd their attention to Cannon, the mate, who

was on deck at the timo of the murder of the
captain below, and quickly disposed of Lim, but |
without the use of deadly weapons, aa whenthe
body was found there were uo marks of violence
upon it..As goon as the two white men had
been put out of'the way, the condemued men
procceded tu rifle the vessel, tearing open every:
thing that could have been used asa receptacte
for money or other valuables, They. euccecedcd
in finding over five hundred dollare in moneyand |
& quantity of clothing, with which they eliected
their escupe. Rabies yh"
} -DISCOVEN¥ OF THE MURDERS—THE ARKESTS AND f

vif *. @Rtans, : .
“From the Monday on which the murders were
y conianitted up to. the Thareday evening foilow-
fitz, the wind was bigh and the weather ex ered:
inviy rouch along the shorck of the Cheeapeake.
f and the murderers remained’ on board the
H Schooner until that time, when they ran her
aground on the bar. at the mouth: of Cage's
Straits, in Suniereet’ county. and then Jeft in a
sinall row boat. which they found on board. Sub-
seqnentty the Brave was fonud in her etraaded
position, deserted, ‘but with maineail and jib
still flying. ‘On boarding her the evidences of |
the terrific encounter between the captain and
hie murderers were seen on every side, the cabin
‘and detk belug covered. wih blood. Ae the
colored bauds had. shi ete &t Baltimore, it
Was at once eupposed that they would returu
thither, and the intc!ligence of tho murder* was
at once Comuunicated to the Baltimore police
authoritics, snd a force was at once detailed tu
watch fur’them., However, two of the mn.
Whigon und Wells, piceere South, aud ou the
Cth and 7h of April they were both captured in |
Accomac county, Va., one in aud (he other near
i Drummondtown, Thesotwo men at once cou:
fessed that they, with their companions, had
} committed the. murders. They,were taken to
| Princces Anne, Somereet county, ard lodved in

Jail to await trial, Whilst awaiting triai these

men mace scyeral desperate attempts. to cscane
H from custody, but failod, although a eubseqacut
attempt,.as will be shown, proved more eurcess-
fulon the part of two of them, but only for a
Nery brief period. :

Whilst the trial of Wilson and Wella was in:

‘progrese, Rounds was captured in Baltimore
and taken on to Drincesa Anne, aud with the
Other two was eastly convicted of the piratical
Outraye, auc: scutenced to death. Ronuda was
only captered after making a desperate resist-
ance to the police, who wero obliged to dirable
him by lodging “a bullet in hie back befure he
could be takeu intu,custody. Rounds had been
detocted in an effort to involve an innocent cul.
ored lad in an extensive robbery he bed in con-
tempiation, and this fact led to his identification
a3 one of the murderers. The death warrants of
Wilsofand Wells were signed by the Governor,
and their execution fixed for Friday, Dec. 4, 156s,
but 1» order to give Rounds time fur preparation,
aa well a8 to bave the executions allat one time, |
the Governor. grgnted a respite until the Sth of
} Jauuary, whi! ye three were to-have becn hung.
ESCATE AND RECAPTURE.
H On Wednesday, Novemder 11, Wilson and
Wella made another veperate Attempt to escape,
| And this time-with better success than in their
] Gret cfort. ‘They performed the wonderful task |
i of filing off their frone with a tick, then burned
} & hole through the inner wall of the aie Which
} 18 of wood, and picked an apertare through the
outer stone wall, On Sunday, 15th of November,
Wilson was again-captured by two citizens in |
the woods belunszing to one of them, who found
him sitting by a dre eating parched corn, in an- |
almost starved condition, and suffering much |
from & wonnd in the foot, which he bad sustained |
in effecting his cscape.

He was at the tline Jn sucha pitlable condition
‘that he made no resietance whatever, but quictl
submitted to be heavily ironed and taken bac

} to prison. A week lator, Wells, the other fuyi.
tive, was discovered in the woods ncar Seaford |
Sussex county, Delaware, by'some citizens. He
started to run, but a threat to ehoot brought him
to a stand.and he was also,carried back tothe jail
at Princess Anne. Wilson, on oeltig taken back
to jail, stated that the wind was blowing very |
hard. and'that it was raining, and tho day was
just breaking when he got outzthe last stone of
the prison wall-from which ‘he escaped. He
jumped out firat,and got ecared at a hobgoblin
(au old ram) and cut his foot when he started to
run. Le, however, waited for Wells,and they
started and struck the railroad over the Bombay
Hook bridge. He reached the woods near sun-
rise, and obtaining metches from a darkey, built
a fire, around which they etayéd all-day, aud slept
in a fodder stack next night, feeding on parched
corn the while. He crossed Tony ‘l'ank railroad
bridge on ‘l'hureday in the daytime and passed
through Salisbury that- night, throngh Main
street, while the band was playing, and Wells left

im hin iv that town,

The three men then remained in the Princess
Anne jail, awaiting and preparing for their exe-
cution, when Dailey, the fourth and last of the
murdercre, was arrested in Baltimore, on the 6th
of Deceniber, by Captain Frey, of the southern |
police district. He was found in the Baltimore
ae A where-he had. been confinitted on the
18th of-Uctober last, on the charge of being a |

} thicfand vagabond. He was identified by Cap-
tain Blake, of a Chesapeake bay schooner, with
whom he had sailed for yeare. Upon being |

} Drousht out he denied. hie identity, stating that
his name was Williams. ’ A release being obtain- f
ed, he was removed tothe southern police etation. |

} Where, after some convereation, he acknowledged

B that bis name was Bailey, that he was present |
when Captain Johneon was murdered by Kounda,

} and that he saw the captain's body thrown over. |

H board. He asserted ‘most peer eys bowever,
that he took no part in the killing. lle wae

brought to Princeas Anne by Captain Frey, and

ae soon asthe other prisoners saw him they all
recognized him as their’ companion in crime.—
The last of the murdercrsohaviny been secured,
the Governor further fond Wileon, Wells and
Rounds until the 6th. of March, in order to allow
time for the trial of Bailey.

On the 12h of January Baile was put upon
| bia trial at Princess Arne, and the ‘evidence of
i bis complicity in thé crime being conclusive, he
im wae ip aod convicted of murder iu the firet
| degree and sentenced to be banged. Gov: Bowie
H Mined hie death wareant, fixing Friday, the 3th

of Marchvas the day of execntion, the same day
named by ex-Governor Swann for the execution
of Bailey's three companions in crime.

~ The following are the birth places and ages of
each of the criminals: Frank Rounds was born
in Birche county, North Cdrolina, and was.the
} slave of Right W..Wond, 2% years old; . George
} Bailey was ns Talbot county, Md.,-wae the

} Slave of Nivikn Pinkuoy, and 21 years of age.—-
Charles W. Degby, alias Charles W: Wilson, was
} Dorn in Ba‘timdsc, lived-with Mre. Jane Hum »h-
reyes, aud aged about 90 years. Linsey C. Wells,
alias William Welle, wae born in Buckingham
connty, Va-, was the slave of R. G, Morris, Kich- |
mond, and 21 years of age, ' y

| , Pur MD
3-ly- 1904 (ED

= bt CYPHYS CRIME |

"Stephens, alias Cyphys, was convicted of the murder of another negro on account of.a fe#

male whom Cyphus had picked up in the streets and taken to a house of assignation, when he .
was interrupted by the man, and Cyphus stabbed him, He has constantly declared his inno-

cence but his conviction .wuld have been more certain than before, had he had a new trial,

He was a fine looking man, pleasant expression, of face, about five feet, six inchesKAXXf

in height and ~~. about 170 pounds, He was engaged as a drayman about the wharf,"

TIMES, New York, N, Ye, 4-9-1859 (81). ‘

CORRIE, CROP AND GAMBRILL, hanged Baltimore, Md., on April 8, 1859.
Murder of Officer Rigdon = from Baltimore Sun of Nov,6, 1858,

"About 8 o'clock last evening, Robert W, Rigdon, an officer of the Western police
district and one of the principal witnessesin the case of Gambrill whose trial was
concluded in the Criminal Court yesterday, was shot through the window of his own
dwelling house, No, 168 West Baltimore St., and-died almost immediately. The bhoody
deed was perpetrated by a party of men who approached by an alley in the rear of the
house. Rigdon, warned by threats made against his life,-had.retired to his home
after roll call, and was standing with his coat off, conversing with his wife, when
several shots were fired, and several heavy balls or slugs entered his side, about
the kidneys, and one above the shoulder blade in his neck, Rigdon, who was leaning
against the mantle=piece, moved several paces, and fell at the feet of his'wife
where he died before medical aid could be summoned, ‘ .
"Officers J, Cook and Hudgins, attracted. by the reports, readily conjectured the cause,
and running’ to the house, encountered a man named Peter Curry with others, The
officers attempted to wrest Curry, when he fired two shots from a revolver at Cook,
without effect. He was arrested and confined in the station, The rumor of the
shooting immediately spread through every quarter of the city, and a large crowH
assembeld at the house where the body lay and aroun the sister-house on Green St. .
"Marshal Herring was soon at the station house and ordered several officers, who, by
their testimony in Gambrill's case, had made themselves obnoxious to his friends,

to be recalled from their beats,

"The people ds well as the police insisted as soon as Curry was- brought to the
police station on hanging him without delay, and were about to proceed to the work
when he pleaded for his life and said he would tell all he knew of the mrder, He then
stated that Marion Cropps and himself, went to the house of Rigdon, and going up

the sidé of the: alley, found the back door open, when Cropps fired the fatal shot.

"Information of the complicity of those parties was at once sent to the middle district

police station and Lt, Carmichael and Sgt. McComas started in search of the parties.
They found Cropps at a drinking house on Holliday St., and at once took him into

custody and conveyed him to the middle district station where he was locked up, Sgts,

Love and Cook also went in pursuit of the parties charged, and they arrested a man

named William Befeitt at the corner of Fayette and Holliday Sts,, and he too was taken

to the middle district police station,

"A considerable crowd of persons assembbéd there and there were strong mrmurings of

at once visiting vengeance upon them, Throughout the city the most intense excitement

prevailed, and everybody seemed appalled at so cold-blooded a mrder, while their in-
dignation reached well near up to violence, -

WCoroner Greentree at 9 o'clock lastnight was notified of the shooting and prepapred

to investigate the case, : ‘

"At 11 o'clock a jury was obtained with Caleb Douty, Eso., foreman, and the body was
examined, The examination revelaed five wounds in the back. at 11:30 the jury ad-
journed to meet at 12:30 at which time, we presume, theinquest proceeded, but the demand
of the press precluded the possibility of our waiting for the reassembling of the

jurye In the meantime a post-mortem examination was to be made, and from

yhe facts already before our readers, the result both of the autopsy and the inquest

may be surmised. ;

"Rigdon, the second victim, was the only surviving witness against John Gambrill,
brother of Henry Gambrill, charged with arson, and this coupled with the murder of

Officer Benton, leaves no witness against him, :

"T he mayor was at the middle district police station when the information of the mr-
der of Officer Rigdon was brought down and himself, and Marshal Herring at once proceeded

to the western station, together with Capt. Brashers. The police were all directed to
arm thesmselves and he# prepared for any emergency that might arise,

"At 11 ofclock last night, after committing Curry to jail, he went to themiddle district
and committed Cropps to jail on the charge of mrder, While on the way to jail, without
any previous intimation of the cause of his arrest, he asked Lt, Carmichael if he had

been arrested for the mrder of Rigdon. He was told that he had been arrested for

that, after which nothing more was spoken, Curry was committed not only as an accessory

to the mrder but for attempting to take the life of officer Cook, The officer re=
turned the shots of Curry and one of his balls passed through the capy of Curry without

doing any harme

"About 9 o'clock last night informtion was recived by the Mayor that the house of
Milton Whitney, Esae, the prosecuting attorney, was threatened and the officers in
that part of the city, fully armed, were wamed to be in readiness for action and
charged t6 go thither as soon as summoned. A portion of the crowd followed the
hack in which he went to his home and violent threats were uttered against him,"
RICHMDOND ENQUIRER, Richmond, Va., 11-8-1858, :
"Marion Cropse''The Washington Star, in noticing the brutal mrder of officer Rigdon

in Baltimore City by Marion Cropps, says: 'Marion Cropps is the same person as

‘Mallory Kropp' who headed the mob that attacked the fourth ward.polls.in this city

in June, 1857, armed with a large tomahawk, which he brandished among the terrified x
voters in a manner to drive many from the ground, Under the last mentioned name he

was indicted by.the grand jury here for being engaged in the riot of that day; but

so far.as we can learn no requisition was ever issued by the criminal comrt with the
view to having him brought to trial, He will be recognized by most of our, titizens

who were present on the occasion above referred to, who will never forget his bull-
head, short-cropped hair,-iron-toed boots, long legs, and the devilish weapon with
which he,clove his way among the legal voters of Washington, scattering them before him
like so many affrighted sheep." ENQUIRER, 11-9-1858, .

"Baltimore, Nov, 5, 1858-Henry Gambrill, one of the notorious gang of MEMMMM rowdies
who infest the southern part of this city, and who murdered police officer Benton

about a month since = one of the best officers in the city - because he was the chief
witness against his brother on a charge of incendiarism, was this afternnon convicted
of mrder in the first degree,...e.e" MOBILE DAILY REGISTER, Mobile, Ala, 11-12-1858(2=3).

: MURDER OF OFFICER BENTON BY GAMBRILL
"From the BALTIMORE SUN of Friday: The Western quarter of the city on Wednesday night was
the scene of anaffray, theresult of which was the instant killing of Police Officer
Benjamin Benton of the Western District, by a shot from a pistol in the hands of a man named
henry Gambrill, thekeeper of a public house on Franklin St., near Howard St. It appears
that a dance or some other kind of amsement was going on in a house on Biddle St, near _
Pennsylvania Avenues <A number of disorderly characters were among those present and about
11:30 o'clock, officer Burke of that beat apprehending a disturbance, gave the usual double
rap for assistance, and was joined by his brother officers Benton (the deaeased), Rigdon,
and Brown who seized on two of the party - David Houck: and John Isenhart = at the reouest
of the proprietor of the house, and attempted to take them to the station-house, Benton
and Rigdon had hold of Houck, and while strugglins with him, Bambrill interfered, and, after
threatening to knock Benton down, stepped back several paces, and leveling a revolver within
threefeet of Benton's head, fired. ‘The ball entered immediately back of the left earn, and
passing entirely through the neck, came out at the right ear, almost in a line with its en-
trance, Benton released his hold on Houck, and fell dead, the ball having severed the
spinal cord and cut the base of the brain away,. Gambrill escaped, but was afterwards
arrested by Captain Linawéeaver, and locked up with Houck and Isenhart, The coroner's in-
vestigation was concluded about 2 o'clock yesterday moming, when the jury rendered. the
verdict that the deceased, Benjamin Benton, came’to his death from a ball fired from a
pistol in the hands of Henry Gambrill,' who was immediately committed to jail by Justice
Logan for the action of the @rand Jury, David Houck and John Isenhart were algo commited
on the charge of disorderly conduct and resisting the officers, Mr, Benton was connected
with the Police Department for 8 years past, and was retained through the several adminis-.
trations which intervened on account of his excellent qualities as an officer. He was abo
lS years of age, and leaves a wife and 5 children," TIMES, New York, N,. Y., 9-25-1858 aes)
According to New York TIMES 11-8-1858 (5/3), Corrie was a butcher

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"CONFESSION OF A MURDERER = AN Il}NOCENI MAN HUNG,

Y€ste rday a rumor wasrife in the Western section of the
city to the effect that a colored man named Yeorge Orem,
an oyster dealer, residing at No, 5, Union St., between
Pennyslvania Avenue and Ross Street, had died on Sunday
night, and that previous to his dissolution, he had con-
fessed to a number of persons in his bed-chamber that it
was he who had killed William King, one of his own color,
in a cuarrel on Wagon Alley, near Shroeder St, It will be
recollected that King was mrder.d in August, 1858, and
that John A. Cyphys, colored, was tried and convicted for
the mrder, During the trial, Sergeant Benjamin Hough,
at that time connected with the Western District Police,
testified to his belief that Cyphys was innocent of the
crime; but the testimony for the state was of such a
character that it left no doubt on the minds of the jury
that he was milty. After his conviction, application
was made to the Governor for a pardon, or to commute the
sentence, but ile application failed of success. Cyphys
washung in April, 1859, along with @ambrill, Crop and
Corrie, While on the Scaffold, he protested his inno-
cence of the blood of King, Orem, it seems, suffered
greatly from havin» committed the deed, and, after the
execution of Cyphys, became very much depressed in mind,
He souzht by Cvery possible means to forget his crime, but
remorse svill exercised its Sway over his mind, The con-
fession has created considerable excitement in our midst,
and his statement is believed to be correct." NY YORK
TIMES, 3-11-1861 (2/h.), quoting Baltimore PATRIOT, Mar,
6, 1861,

Notes: I have confirmed thehanging of Cyphys which
Occurred on April 8, 1859. His last statement from
vallows wast "Gentlemen = You see here another innocent
man who is going to be hung, They have civen me a false

name = one that I was never known by = and convicted me
for what I did not do," 4

ART, F974 —

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542 CHRONICLES OF BALTIMORE, CHRONICLES OF BALTIMORE. ° 543

Christian character. On the fact being made known to the
gregation, men and women wept like children, By his chang
faith, which came upon him after long deliberation, he certas
had nothing to gain in a worldly point of view. No clergymag
this city enjoyed more thoroughly the love and affection of bi
flock than Mr, Baker, and the desertion of the doctrines of tha
church he had for a number of years so successfully been teachiau
created as great a sensation in the religious community ag ba
occurred in this city for many years, ( hbate
_ On the morning of the 5th of August, Thomas Connor, ¢
victed of the murder of Capt. Wm. Hutchinson, of Accomac cong
Va., in the early part of October, 1852, paid the ponalty of ye: ;The corner-stone of the Union Square Methodist Episcopal
crime by death on the gallows. The ceremony on the gallows » Sen. wis-aid by, Tuceday, Ceptemier soba, 9k Se gern
short, consisting of reading a few prayers, on the conclusion gg: geyeeremonies, in which the Revs. T. B. Sergeant, A. A. Reed, John
which the sheriff and the Rev. Mr. Foley and Rev. Mr, Hiedae. ar, and Isaac P. Cook were engaged.
bade him farewell, and descended; a few moments after the ma meee connor tone) ob OG: tage) Jee one cae
fell. ‘To. the horror of all, the rope, which -was insufficient te fhaid on Sunday, September 25th, before a large assemblage of
the weight of his body, broke, and the.miserable man was eee ns. The,ceremonies were conducted by Archbishop Kenrick.
tated with considerable forts to the ground. Ie struck the romad Bee Pe cornerstone, of the Second Baptisy church, was ied on
on his feet, and fell over on his right side, sustaining hen aby donday, October 3d, the ceremonies being conducted by the Revs,
very little injury beyond being slightly stunned, The : offs Geo, F, Adams, Williams, Simpson, and Fuller,
gathered around the fallen man and raised him to a sitting pd ee. 1854. Nathan Towson was born in Baltimore County in 1784,
when he exclaimed in a full clear tone, “ Gentlemen, I am innoa gad was appointed Captain in the second regiment of artillery in
of murder in the first degree.” He wept bitterly, saying that gach, 1817. In a few days. after hia appointment he gathered
did not wish to live. He begged over and over again to take ie fygoand bim in Towsontown, a brave band of his fellow country-
“up there” whore he just came from. Another rope was wen, whoso hearts beat in sympathy with his own, and then and
cured, and when all was fixed the trap fell, and Connor swun i ‘skere was organized that company which soon afterwards carried
the air, having fallen about three feet. The awful sicht weed “eror into the enemy’s ranks, all along’ the Canada frontier. Ile
nessed by an immense concourse of men, women and children; Yexled Lieutenant Elliott, of the navy, in capturing the Caledonian
was estimated there were 20,000 persons: collected on the var Pgad Detroit, two British vessels, from under the very guns of Fort
lots and the roofs of the surrounding houses, one-third at | Ede in October, 1812, and for his gallant conduct upon this occa.
whom were females. On the breaking of the rope a feeli pee wes brovetedin Major. . We jist peak o7er ince eee
deep regret pervaded the immense crowd; large numbers, w gets in which he was honorably engaged ; his services at Queens.
curiosity had been fully satisfied by witnessing this awful: eq yoo, his brave detence of Black Rock, his gallantry displayed
trophe, returned to their homes without waiting to witnesy: Bere cepiure of Hort Gadrye iat the Celene eer nie ovea
further execution of the law, whilst some few unfeeling and ig : y Creek. In Fort Erie a bastion was named in his honor, after
rant persons commenced shouting and clapping their bands, * the Americans took possession of it early in July, 1814. But there
On Thursday, May 6th, the corner-stone of St, Matt ‘were two engagements during that war which the pen of Ameri-
Lutheran church of this city, on Central avenue, north of x pistory eloald. ever delight to. secant safe They covered tis
more street, was laid with the usual solemnities and in the Pesdnn merican name with glory, and first taught our vaunting enemy
of a large audience. The ceremonies were conducted by levis ast there still existed among our countrymen the same undaunted
Neuhaus, Rov. Mr. Schwartz, Rov. Dr, Benj. Kurtz, Rev, Mr 8 ee ‘tesvery Which they had displayed forty years before, at Saratoga,
Rev. Chas. Weyl, and Rev, Mr, Branden. aE ¥atsw, and Yorktown, It was on the afternoon of a hot summer
The Hon, John Glenn, Judge of the United States Dist

the 65th of July, 1814, upon an open plain on the Canada
Court of Maryland, died on Friday, July 8th, at his country ure, that the glorious battle of Chippewa was fought. There

near Catonsville, During his short career upon the bene hie pineteen hundred Americans, Whee, oe nceale, Seat nee
decisions were murked with an ability and impartiality that gs {rscounter, and vanquished twenty-one hundred of the best regu-
universal satisfaction, he Ion. Wm. Fell Giles was ap jes of the British army. ‘The only artillery under Scott's com-
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Glenn, Bi

Loudon Park Cemetery was dedicated Thursday, July 14th,
Jes F. Mayer, Esq., delivered the opening address.
‘Considerable excitement was raised in this city in July, occa-
ined by Mayor Hollins prohibiting “Blind Johnny” to preach
“the market-houses, A mass-meeting was held in Monument
», and addresses were delivered by a large number of citizens,
&eomiittee was appointed requesting the Mayor to resign, who
fined,

“The first “ Know-Nothing” mass-meeting was held in Monu-
eet square on Thursday evening, August 18th, and was attended
e nearly 5000 persons.

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When the prosecuting attorney was making his closing argu
before the jury, Hollohan made himself thie principal aster Tan
scene which, for a few minutes, produced a great panic in court...
Ife had obtained a short iron spike in-his cell, which he put in one»
of his stockings, and this was supplemented with a few pieces of:
coal. Having thus improvised a “slung shot,” he hid it in. his ae
clothing so that it was not noticed when he was brought into ig
court. IIe sat quietly in the prisoner’s dock until the prosecuting | is
attorney had got into the middle of the closing address to the -os
Jury, and then, when all eyes were turned upon the orator and 2%
away from the prisoner, he suddenly sprang ‘from his place and *.
dealt Deputy-Marshal Frey a heavy blow with his slung-shot.:
There was a desperate struggle in the court-room for a few.
minutes, at the close of which .Hollohan, ghastly and bleeding,
was forced into the dock again. The prosecuting attorney ine aa
terrupted in the midst of a brilliant climax, was very naturally Nal
indignant, and so were the learned judges, at this wanton contempt 1%
for their dignity and defiance of their authority. No further’
argument was needed, and the jury promptly brought in a verdiet -
of murder in the first degree, a
On the 23d of August James West (colored) suffered the °).3
extreme penalty of the law by hanging in the jail-yard of this city,
for the murder of Anna Gibson, a woman with whom he had eo.*s if
habited, having confessed the crime. si
The first train of cars passed through the Union Railroad»
tunnel on Thursday, July 24th; it was the fast train from Washing. *
ton for New York. t
_ On Friday morning, July 25th, the most extensive and destruo.-:9%,
tive conflagration ever known in Baltimore occurred near the heart “4%
of the city, and threatened at one time to rival the previous dis.”
asters of Chicago and Boston. The fire broke out at about 10:15 —
A. M.,in the shavings box adjoining the engine-room of the planing 3
mill and sash and blind factory of Messrs os. Thomas & Sons, on
Park and Clay streets. he large quantity of combustible matter

CHRONICLES OF BALTIMORK, °

gad

in the buildings gave the flames such strength and volume that a

they swept over the surrounding buildings in a very short space of ©
time, and the heat became so fierce that the firemen could not
work in Park street. In the meantime, the men who were
working up-stairs knew nothing of the fire, and were compelled to
Jump from the second and third story windows to save themselves:
in doing which several of them received slight injuries. The
greater number of the houses hard-by had shingle roofs, which had '™
been so baked and dried by the hot sun as to be inflammable in the
highest degree; and under the copious shower of blazing cinders”
that fell upon them, they were soon smoking and bluzing. A;
strong wind was blowing towards the northeast, and the gusty.
flaws swept the flames many feet to the surroundin buildings, »
While vast clouds of smoke and cinders were carried squares See
€

4 street, and extending to Clay street.
oe horses and carriages had been taken out.
4 stable was soon wrapped in roaring flames, sending up sparks and

: household goods.

701

beyond. Flames would shoot up in several places at once from

OHRONICLES OF BALTIMORE.

buildings in close proximity to the fire, and in a short time there

were cighteen houses on fire on Park, Clay, and Saratoga streets.

‘Thomas's factory was shaped like an L, and the flames roaring with
# uncontrolled fury throughout the whole building, streamed out

both into Clay and Park streets. In a very short time the row of
houses on the west side’ of Park, between Lexington and Clay
streets, were on fire. The buildings between Thomas’s mill and Clay
street caught fire on the roof, and in a short time so intense was
the heat that a lot of hose belonging to the fire department was

# burned up. The wind carried the flames away from the buildings

fronting on Lexington street, or else they would have been also
entirely consumed. As it was, a great number of them had the
back buildings burned, and great damage was inflicted by the

| water which the engines poured in from all available points.

The flames soon leaped across Park street and seized the ex-

tensive livery stables of John D. Stewart, No. 111 Lexington
In anticipation of this the
The rear portion of the

cinders into the air and spreading to the contiguous buildings. .

# Meanwhile those dwelling in the vicinity were in the greatest con-~

sternation. All along Lexington street, from Park nearly up to
Howard, people were Uaely ragging their furniture and clothing
from the houses, and the streets were soon heaped high with
While the houses on Clay street, between Park
and Liberty streets, were in flames, the sight was one that struck
terror to the hearts of the stoutest firemen attached to the Balti-
more fire department. The flames, fed from the material of the
stables, carpenter and paint-shops, united and twisted into columns
of flamo and smoke, mounting until nothing else could be seen
rolling along the street and above the house-tops. Men of iron
nerves shrank back from the scorching blast which met them.
Women ran to and fro, wringing their hands and moaning in hys-
terical grief over the destruction of their homes. Men with
wagons and drays were endeavoring to force their way to the
scene; some were carrying away articles by hand, and everything
was in uproar and confusion. Just about eleven o'clock the bells
of St. Alphonsus church began to ring, adding their clangor to the
noise, and with the varied cries from the restless mass of humanity
in the streets, the shrill whistles and hoarse puffing of the steamers,
the shouts of the firemen and policemen, and with the deep roar of
the flames, made up a babel of noise that greatly intensified the
horror of the scene. By eleven o’clock the flames had spread over
nlarge area. Park street, between Lexington and Saratoga, was
ablaze for its greater portion, Clay street, from Park half way up
to Howard street, was wrapped in flames, and the fire bad burnt
through into Lexington street in three separate places. Scorched

104 History OF QUEEN ANNE’s CouNTY

routed, and taken prisoner. Four of Stones’ associates — William
Eltonhead, William Lewis, John Leggatt and John Pedro — were
executed by order of the Puritan authorities, and Stone himself and
others were condemned to death, but at the intercession of “ some
good women” and the soldiers, were respited and finally set free.

Among those who accompanied Stone in his expedition was Henry
Coursey, who was sent on in advance with Luke Barber to deliver a
proclamation to Capt. Fuller's party, but was seized and imprisoned
until the fight was over. This Henry Coursey was one of the ancestors
of the Coursey and DeCourcy families of Queen Anne’s County.
He was a prominent man in the early history of the province in
various capacities, but chiefly as one of the commissioners to treat
with the Iroquois Indians and Chief Judge of Kent County. His
brother, John, was, as heretofore stated, clerk of the latter county
in 1653.

Vincent's History of Delaware (Vol. I, p. 365), says that “on the
2nd of April, a Mr. Henry Coursey, a merchant of Maryland, arrived
at New Amstel (New Castle), seeking for some runaway servants
of his. D'Hinoyssa at first refused to deliver them up, but finally
agreed to do so, and they were given to him at the Hoern Kill, on
the 11th of April.” This would indicate that he was then living
on the Eastern Shore. ;

On the 16th of September, 1656, the Commissioners of Trade
rendered a decision in favor of Lord Baltimore and Josias Fendall,
who had been appointed Baltimore's governor of Maryland, but had
been seized and prevented from exercising his authority by the Puti-
tans, succeeded in gaining possession of St. Mary’s, but could not
extend his jurisdiction to Providence or Annapolis, where Captain
Fuller and the Puritans still held sway. Fendall had been instructed
by Lord Baltimore to reward certain persons, who had remained
faithful to the proprietary government, with grants of land, and
among those thus rewarded was Henry Coursey, who received one
thousand acres, presumably ‘‘ My Lord’s Gift,” on Queenstown, or
Coursey’s Creek, afterwards the property of Henry DeC. Mitchell,
and now owned by Mr. Denison of Baltimore.

On the 30th of November, 1657, an agteement was entered into
between Lord Baltimore and Richard Bennett, representing the
Puritans, by which Lord Baltimore’s authority in the province was
restored under certain conditions. The agreement was ratified on
the 20th of March, 1658, by the Puritan leaders — Captain William
Fuller, Richard Preston, Edward Lloyd, Thomas Meares, Philip

KENT IsLaND CouNtTY 105

Thomas and Samuel Withers. Thus ended William Claiborne’s
pertinacious contest for the possession of Kent Island (which was
included in Lord Baltimore's territory), and the differences between
the Protestants and Catholics for the time being were reconciled.
Claiborne continued to reside in Virginia, having a plantation in
New Kent County, which is thought was given him. in compen-
sation for the loss of Kent Island. (Ethan Allen Ms. Kent Island,
p- 98). He remained Secretary of State for Virginia until 1661, and
in 1676 was commander of the fort erected in his county for defense
against the Indians. He was still living in 1677, when he was nearly
80 years of age. Neill, in his Founders of Maryland, tells us that
subsequent to 1657 Claiborne

lived at the junction of the York and Pamunkey ‘Rivers, on the site of the
Indian village, Candayack, now called West Point. In Herrman’s map, pre-
pared for Lord Baltimore, and published in 1673, the neck of land is called
Clayborne.

After the restoration of Charles the Second he was again honored with
the Secretaryship of Virginia, and in 1666 was chosen a member of the
Legislature. His son, Thomas, was killed by the Indians, and his tombstone
was still visible a few years prior to 1876. The Quaker preacher, Thomas
Story, speaks of visiting, in 1699, William Clayborne, of Pamunkey Neck,
who was probably another son of Colonel Clayborne.

In a petition to “ the King’s most excellent Majesty,” dated March
13, 1676, and headed with the designation, ‘ the Humble Petition of
Coll. [Col.} Wm. Claiborne, a poor old servant of your Majesty's
father and grandfather,” and signed “ W. Claiborne, Senr.,” it is
asserted that he discovered and planted the “Isle of Kent and the
Bay of Chesapeake, which then well succeeding, the old Lord Bal-
timore taking notice thereof provided a patent for the same, pre-
tending it was unplanted, and expelled the petitioner,” taking away
“his estate to the value of above ten thousand pounds sterling in
goods, cattle, servants, and many plantations which the Grand As-
sembly of Virginia hath lately instanced and presented to your
Majestie as a great &rievance of the country, and hath been neare
the utter undoeing of your petitioner and family, now in his old
age. His younger years being most spent in his Discoveries and
Warrs against the Indians as Chiefe Commander, Wherefore,” the
petition concludes, " your petitioner humbly prostrates himself at
your Majestie’s feet for speedy justice in so lamentable a case, and
he shall every pray.” (P. R. O., Col. Papers, Mar. 1677.)

What answer, if any, was made to this petition does not appear,
but Claiborne seems to have died in comfortable circumstances. His

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Sustain a great loss. He had left a young and rising family to lament his
untimely end.

The delegates chosen to the Legislature in 1807, were John E.
Spencer, William Sudler, John Brown and Dr. William Gleaves,
all republicans. In November of the same year Governor Wright
was re-elected and James Butcher, of Queen Anne’s was chosen a
member of his council.

In the fall of 1807, the people of Queen Anne’s, Caroline and Tal-
bot were greatly exercised over a daring attempt to kill Judge James
S. Robins of Worcester county. The Star of Thursday, October 20,
contains the following account of the affair:

On Sunday morning last while returning from Caroline County Coutt,
Judge Robins was shot through the body by some unknown assassins about
three miles from Denton in company with Josiah Bayley, Esq., in separate
carriages. A gun was discharged containing two balls, one of which passed
through near the shoulder blade and came out at the left breast; the other
ball grazed his ear. From the direction the person must have advanced into
the road to fire and retreated under cover of a thick woods. With the as-
sistance of Mr. Bayley Judge Robins was enabled to reach the residence of
a gentleman in the neighborhood with the loss of much blood, where his
wound was examined and flattering hopes entertained of its not being mortal.

Circumstantial evidence was said to be strong against a certain
Riggin, who some time before had fled to Delaware from Worcester
County to escape the penalty of the law and who was much incensed
against Judge Robins for his efforts to bring him to justice. Riggin’s
real name seems to have been John Worrilow, alias John Riggin, alias
John Williams, who had been imprisoned on a charge of burglary.
Judge Robins recovered and took his seat on the bench in Worcester
County, on the 10th of November. His assailant was afterwards cap-
tured in South Carolina, and executed at Snow Hill in April, 1808.
A rumor having gotten abroad that he was not really dead, the afh-
davit of John White, a respectable farmer, who had seen him hung
and buried was published, together with corroborative evidence of
other witnesses.

“ Columbus” writing in the Star of Feb. 23, 1808, with relation
to the embargo, made a strong plea for the encouragement of home
manufactures and against apeing British fashions and using British

_ goods.

Among us a person is understood to be in perfect fashion who is rigged
off with something that has not been seen or heard of in the State betore.

POLITICAL EVENTS 379

On this principle it is that we have scen new forms of head-dress, like bul-
lets in a pop-gun, kick one another out so fast, that we could hardly learn
their names as they passed in review. Perhaps we shall be told that an Ameri-
can is not in fashion who dresses like other Americans; he must dress as
people do in London. If they change their clothes once in a month, so must
we. If they wear pantaloons large and long enough for a giant, or close and
smaller than the skin, so must we.

July 4th, 1808, was celebrated in Centreville by a parade of Capt.
Wm. H. Nicholson’s company of infantry and by dinners at the
court house and market house. At the latter, Stephen Lowery pre-
sided and Richard T. Earle was vice-president. A number of toasts,
as usual, were drunk.

On Saturday, Aug. 13, 1808, Captain Joseph H. Nicholson’s troop
of cavalry and Captain John R. Downes’ company of infantry with
about fifty citizens from the neighborhood assembled on the banks
of Corsica Creek and “ partook of a plentiful and excellent fish din-
ner given by the officers of the two companies. The two companies,
with very few exceptions, are composed of farmers whom the pres-
sure and exigency of harvest obliged to forego the pleasure of meet-
ing on the 4th of July to celebrate an anniversary that they held in
joyful and grateful remembrance.”” Toasts were drunk accompanied
by volleys of musketry and “having spent the day in conviviality
and joy, the company, consisting of about 150 persons, retired in the
most perfect good fellowship, harmony and concord.”

Another Fourth of July celebration was held about the same time
on the banks of Chester River by Captain Richard I. Jones’ troop of
cavalry “and a considerable number of respectable farmers.” A
“ gentcel and copious entertainment” was provided by Capt. Jones
and among the toasts was one to Mrs. Paca, “ the generous donor of

our elegant stand of colours for which the troop return their grateful:

acknowledgments.” Ae

In view of expected war with France the Secretary of War in the
Fall of 1808 made a requisition upon the Governor of Maryland for
6063 troops and Governor Wright on the 7th of November, issued
general orders to the militia officers requesting volunteers. Major
S. T. Wright of Queen Anne’s, was still the Adjutant General.

In December, 1808, James Nicholson was appointed 2nd lieut. of
Capt. J. H. Nicholson’s troop of horse; John Tilghman lieut. of Cap-
tain Wm. H. Nicholson’s company of infantry; William Thomas,
surgeon's mate, 35th Regiment, Queen Anne's County; James Brit-
tain, captain; Nathan Smith, licut., and Henry Comerford ensign of a

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88 History OF QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY

yet, either for the purpose of gratifying Evelin’s ill-will towards Claiborne, or
possibly with a view of hampering them with civil processes, so that they
might be kept quiet, these suits were instituted. The same may be said of
the other parties, who were known to be devoted to the interests of Claiborne,
and far from satisfied with the new state of things on the Island, Warrants
were also issued for the seizure of about sixty head of cattle, in the posses-
sion of William Coxe, Mrs. Cartwright, (Gertrude,) James, Robert Philpott
and William Blizzard, which were claimed as the property of Clobery &
Company, but most of which it was generally known were the private property
of Claiborne, having been brought on the Island from Virginia at the com-
mencement of the settlement, and hired out, at a moderate charge per annum
to such of the inhabitants as could afford the luxury of milk. ... As if to
form a climax to this series of strange warrants, a warrant was lst of all
directed to Evelin to cause to be attached the persons of John Butler,
(Boteler,) Thomas Smith, and Edward Beckler, to hold them without bail or
mainprise, and to have them with all convenient speed before the Governor
at St. Mary’s, to answer for the several crimes of sedition, piracy and murder.

From the legal proceedings in the suit of Claiborne vs. Clobery,
before referred to, we find, according to the testimony of Thomas
Sturman, that at Evelyn's suggestion the Governor of Maryland came
and took forcible possession, arresting John Butler and Thomas
Smith, friends of Claiborne. Afterwards Edward Beckler and Thomas
Smith were hanged as rebels, and all the estate of Clobery & Com-
pany was confiscated, as also the property of Claiborne.

Sturman also testified that Evelyn, soon after the departure of
Claiborne for England, persuaded the Governor to seize Clatborne’s
property on Palmer's Island, and lent him two pieces of ordnance
from Kent Fort for that purpose, and that Evelyn mismanaged and
neglected Clobery & Company's affairs on the Island.

In the same suit Thomas Youall, of the Isle of Kent, testified
that under Claiborne the affairs of the Island “ thrived very well”
until the Marylanders interfered, killing three men — Lieutenant
Warren, John Belson and William Dawson — in the shallop Cocka-
trice. Also, that but for the efforts of Thomas Smith and Mr. James,
friends of Claiborne, who procured corn for the island after Evelyn
had sent meal away to Maryland, great suffering must have resulted.

Thomas Hailes testified strongly in Claiborne’s favor, and stated
that Evelyn ‘“tooke with*him many trees out of the garden att the
said Isle of Kent,’ which were transported to his plantation in
Maryland.

William Cope testified that Claiborne brought 28 or 30 neat cattle
from Virginia and that the “ milke of the said cattle was a great

KENT ISLAND UNDER Lorp BALTIMORE 89

nourishment to the people on the said Island, both in sickness and
in health.” The cattle had belonged to the estate of Sir Thomas
Gates, deceased, and were taken to the island from Kecoughtan
(now Hampton), Va., in 1631, At this time there were three mills
on the island — one in operation and two in course of construction,
and a flourishing manufacture of pipe staves had been established.
An orchard had also been planted, and Claiborne had a plantation at
Craford, which was distinct from the joint stock plantation in which
Clobery & Company were interested.

John Boteler, or Butler, of Kent, testified that Evelyn had spoken
several times against the pretended rights of the Marylanders to the
plantation and its trade and “against the Governor of Maryland’s
grandfather, saying he was but a Grasier,”’ and that Governor Cal-
vert had been a blockhead and dunce at school. Evelyn also defended
Claiborne’s commission.

Philip Taylor, of Accomac, Captain Richard Popeley, of Charles
River, and John Harvey, of James City, testified in favor of Claiborne.

Thomas Adams testified that he had kept the books upon the
Island in 1636 and 1637, and believed the accounts to be correct
before those years. He had, like others, worked at a much lower rate
for Claiborne, on account of “ the said Clayborne’s carying himselfe
so affable and virtueous toward them.”

George Scovell, of Virginia, gave similar testimony.

Anthony Linney, of Kecoughtan, Va., testified that in 1634 Clai-
borne received from England 19 servants, of whom he was one, from
Clobery & Company, and with as many of them as could be spared
from the trade, did join in co-partnership with Alexander Mountney
and John Smyth, and their servants which were freemen, and did
settle a plantation called Craford, and cleared ground and built
houses.

This testimony, it should be noted, was of persons friendly to
Claiborne, all or nearly all of them Virginians, or former associates
of Claiborne, and it is not improbable that losses sustained through
Evelyn’s course added not a little to their professed admiration
for Claiborne’s management of affairs on the Island.

Evelyn's administration, whatever it may have been, was evidently
not a popular one with the islanders, who at last ‘‘ burst out in open
rebellion” (Streeter, p. 38). Evelyn's official subordinates were set
at defiance, the prisoners in their hands were rescued, and the people
generally seemed determined to throw off the rule of the Calverts.

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102 HIstoRY OF QUEEN ANNE’s COUNTY

province, having, as credibly reported, given out speeches that he
purposed ere long to make some attempt upon the Isle of Kent.
Sixteen years had elapsed since Claiborne’s occupation of the Island
had been first disputed, and yet we find him still as determined as
ever in the assertion of his rights and in his opposition to the Lord
Proprietor’s government. It was further provided that any person
who should aid Claiborne should be punished with death and
confiscation. ,

But Claiborne was now endowed with a power greater than that
of either the assembly or governor, and having assisted in establishing
the authority of the Parliament in Virginia, he turned his attention
to Maryland. Governor Stone and Assembly submitted to the com-
missioners, who after appointing six deputies to govern Maryland
with Robert Brooke as the chief or practical governor of the pro-
vince, returned to Virginia and elected Richard Bennett governor,
with William Claiborne Secretary of State.

Messrs. Bennett and Claiborne returned to Maryland in June, and
appointed William Stone governor, with a council of six members,
of whom Robert Brooke was one. Claiborne again took possession
of Kent Island, and his right to it was formally recognized in a
treaty with the Susquehanna Indians, executed by the Puritan Com-
missioners, July 5, 1652, in which it is stated that ‘‘ the Isle of Kent
and Palmer's Island . . . belong to Captain Clayborne.”

Vaughan, who was still commander of Kent Island, refused to
submit to the Governor and Council, who deputed Richard Bennett,
Edward Lloyd, Thomas Marsh and Leonard Strong, “to settle,”
that is, to subdue the Isle of Kent. Accordingly, on the 31st of July,
1652, they issued an order deposing Vaughan, and appointing Philip
Conner, Thomas Ringgold, Thomas Bradnox, Henry Morgan,
Nicholas Browne, Thomas Hynson, Joseph Wickes, John Phillips
and John Russell commissioners for the government of the island.
Vaughan did not take kindly to the new order of things, but in
August following was fined 600 pounds of tobacco for insulting the
commissioners by using “ opprobrious ”’ epithets, “ bending his fist”
over the heads of the judges, and swearing at the clerk. (Hanson’s
Old Kent, p. 23.) Having apologized to the Court, however, Captain
Vaughan was released from payment of his fine.

The following persons, by an agreement entered into on the Sth
of April, 1652, promised and engaged themselves ‘to be true and
faithful to the Commonwealth of England without King or House

KENT ISLAND COUNTY 103

of Lords” (see Hanson’s Old Kent, pp. 59 and 60): Thomas Ward,
Thomas South, Thomas Wetherell, Thos. Pett, Thomas Taylor,
Henry Carlyen (Carline), Fran. Lumbard, John Hud, Rob’t Martin,
John Smith, Henry Ashley, John Phillips, John Gould, Edward Ebes,
John Smyth, John Richeson, Henry Taylor, Will Leedes, John Sepsen,
Anthony Calliway, John Gibson, Robert Vaughan, Philip Commins,
Thomas Ringgold, Thomas Bradnox, Hen. Morgan, Joseph Wickes,
William Elliot, Robert Holters, Richard Blunt, Matthew Read,
William Jones, John Ringgold, Francis Bright, Edward Copedge,
Edmund: Weebe, John Russell, Richard Salter, Mark Benton, John
Maconick, William Band, Francis Barnes, Henry Clay, Roger Baxter,
James Horner, Henry West, Isaac Ilive, Thomas West, George
Croutch, Edward Barton, Abraham Hollman, John Winchester,
Nicholas Picard, Nicholas Browne, David Geldersen, William Price,
Thomas Hill, John Dean, Edward Coxe, Robert Dunn, John Errick-
son, Andrew Hanson, Andrew Anderson. John Coursey (clerk of
Kent County in 1653) signed his name certifying to the authenticity
of the document.

In the Provincial Assembly of 1654, the law against. Claiborne,
passed in 1650, was repealed, and he was thus left, for the time
being, in undisputed possession of the Island.

On the 28th of February, 1655, N. S., Philip Conner was ap-
pointed by the Puritan authorities commander of Kent, with Joseph
Wickes, Thomas Ringgold, Thomas Hynson, John Russell, Henry
Morgan, William Eliot and: Henry Carline as Commissioners.
(Hanson's Old Kent, p. 78.)

It has been claimed for Lord Baltimore that he was faithful to
King Charles, to whom he was certainly bound by all the ties of
gratitude and honor, but the records show that he soon became
reconciled to the Parliament, and began to court the favor of Crom-
well. The latter found it expedient to satisfy his demands, and on
the 12th of January, 1655, addressed a letter to Governor Bennett,
of Virginia, who had been one of the Puritan Commissioners to
Virginia and Maryland, enjoining him not to disturb Lord Baltimore,
and “ to permit all things to remain as they were before any disturb-
ance or alteration made by you.” During the winter of the same
yeat Governor Stone, encouraged by advices from England, attempted
to re-assert the authority of Lord Baltimore. He collected an armed
force for that purpose, and proceeded to the Puritan Settlement of
Providence (now Annapolis), where, on Horn Point, he was met by
Captain Fuller, the Puritan commander at Providence, completely

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AMERICANS WHO WERE IN REVOLT

New Orleans, July 28.-“The Nien
FARHANS feel distrvetful of the United
States an? who can blame them” salt
; Mr J. Lamotte Morgan, formerly of
Rirminsham, AM, who Is just from
| Bluetiedds

; “We must pot forget that we have
(droken away frem al Past traditions
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pansion. That little tepublie hae
Watched us plant the flag tn

the hand on Cuba

to overthrow President Zelaya and bis
gevernment
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dealings with

government, and that was that he did!

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Nicaragnans had ever attempted such |
a red-handed act in the United Stateg
every one of them would have been
tynched. Ip his consideration he al-
lowed all the Americans to escape and
leave the country.”

MURDERER CAUGHT.

_—_—

He Killed & Man Who Resented an
Insult Offered a Young
Woman.

Memphis, Tern., July 28.—8beriff W.
H. Duke. of Orangeburg, 8. C., with
Charles Wilson, a negro murderer, in
bis custody, passed through the city
enroute froin a point in Kangas to his
home. Wilson is wanted for the mur-
der of Private Godfrey in the city of
Orangeburg about six months ago.

Godfrey belonged to Anderson's
Heavy Battery, which was stationed at
the time at Sullivan's Island. He was
off on a furlough at the time he was
killed and having some friends in Or-
sogeburg went there to spend some of
the time with them.

He observed Wilson one day push a
white woman off the sidewalk.
Though she was unknown to him, God-
frey resented the insult offered her and
engaged in a fistic encounter with the
negro.

Gédfrey was a strong young fellow
and he was giving the negro rather se-
vere punishment when the latter drew
& revolver and shot bim in the stom-
ach. He died tn a short time. The
murderer was pursued but got away.

DISTINGUISHED ARRIVALS.
New York, July 28—Among the pas-
seugers who arrived ¢hie morning per
Brittanic from Liverpool asd
n Were Archbishop Ireland,
Harold

} in my honest that the woman threatened to kill him
mortally poviniog. made oniy one mistake In bis; and plunged at him with a knife with

the Americans who took, which she had been pecling potatoes
hey. Napoleon White, Com-| Patt in the attempt to overthrow his! Bryan overcame ber, took the knife

isc ered tue . og0 us
the pellee.

Gardiner was found hiding tn the
honee In a anak atttc room Te was
eovered with deat aud lint and pre
Septed a wie begune gsppraranre No
trouble was experienced in Jocating fhe
Other twee and they were soon oaoder
arrest

For a time it was feared the vietti'a
Injfugies wank eause death She une
derwent convulston after convulsion,
After two weeks of suffering during
Whiep the child was nieonse ous most
fef the time. ber etrength returned and
behe wae anfficivatly recovered to ap-
| pear neainst hee asaailants
| Joweph Bryant) was convicted of the

murder on April 2 Inet of bis common
tlnw wife. Mary Puck, colored Hryan
{had lived shout ex sears with the wo-
jman, whe bad deserted ber husband
lio take up with hin, They were both
pets quarrelscme disposition and their

Porte tights were the talk of the neighbor-4
retort of the capture of) Rico, in the Phitippines and lay a gen. j heed of their home, at 124 Rogers ave-
They have watches) Due
,OUr Aggressive policy In regard to the | der, the woman upbraided Bryan
' protection of the Americans who twok |
; part In the Keyes revolution atid tried |

About a week prior to the mur-
for
not giviog ber eueugh money

After the usual quarrel Mary left
the house and went to Hye with a
friend at 2%, South Dallas street,
Bryan did not discover her where-
abouts ontil the day of the murder,

turn to him some of his clothing, which

A qnuarre! followed Bryan claimed

away and deliberately cut ber throat.
The woman's 1%year old daughter wit-
nessed her mother’s death.

Iirvan confessed, byt sald be was
drunk at the time. This was denied |
by witnesses, and the jury on July 13
rendered a verdict of murder in the
first degree after twenty-five minutes’
deliberation.

MISTAKEN FOR HIS BROTHER. |
Came
- Out All Right. | !

Glasgow, Ky. July 28.—Mistaken for
@ twin brother and agrested on a
charge of murder. Eari Atkinson bas
just passed through a trial for his life
and been acquitted. Earl was arrested
at Danville, Il. about a week ago for
the kHling of the Temple brothera at
Fountain Run. Ky., a crime of which
his brother, Ernest Atkinson, was ac-
cused. He was placed on trial at
Tonspkinsville and the. testimony of
toose who had known the brothers afl
their lives was introduced to prove hia
identity. The jury was. convinced
that we prisoner was Earl and not
Ernest and he was acquitted.

AWFUL DEATH RATE

Of the Plague at Pooos. Wedoea-
day’a Record 121, Including
Four Europeans.

Bombay, July 28.—There were 261
cases and 121 deaths from the plague
at Poona on Wednesday. The cases
inclade four Europeans.

The raips still bold off and the crops
are withering. 8 .
COAL GOING UP,

New York, July 26.--The Anthracite
companies announce that al! orders for

coal at prices prior to July 1, pot filled | cg

6m July 31, will be cancelled end the
advance
Be inte general

j finally terminating In a tragedy. i

rabee. The detese ‘

of the decease? at the the 7
death, having married Dice efter Sir
neperation froin the alginy #
the courts had @
Wartet Faredée.-
Since then the estate of
has occasioned some troud
the heirs which ts not yet ad!
Since the/death of Arbockle the mot
of the Plaintiff has also died, and 1
| Ix related that the blow abe,
‘from the publicity given the
of her daughter bad much to do with

thin. BF
| Mrs. Arbockle’s attorney said: © Ca
‘have not yet filed my declaration, bey
| will do so In about ten days. It w
leontain some interesting reading, &
| will give the pnblic a fair idea of ©
| true facts, This is simply an old Conk.
mon Jaw acton of criminal con
| tion. ‘The plaintiff ts attempting to tee

>
Ps

| cover damages for the alienation of Beg
| husband's affections. I would have fl- |
|e this suit several weeks ago, if I had
| not been absent from the city. :
“My client feels that she has bee:
wronged beyond reparation. The @ub-’
lie can never know bow much shé hag
suffered. and onehalf has pot been
told. “Mrs, Arbuckle thinks that tite
sul: is a duty she owes to herself re
her child and to her friends.” :
The bill will be a sensational one mpi)
doubt as the entire Arbuckle .
affair since {ts opening chapter
presented a series of striking

was thought this would be the end,
but the aftermath Is almost ae sensax .

tional as the opening events. No fer 4) %5
ther step will be taken for a week one

ten days. oh
FOURTEEN GOVERNORS ACC ; 7
And WiM Take Part in the Dewey Pa» +
rade. Fireworks Display. '
. New York, July 23—The committee.
op plan and scope of the Dewey recep-
tion Committee held a meeting yester-
day at the City Hall. It was
to have a display of fireworks in all of
the five boroughs at points to be dew
ignated, with an electrical display for ;
three nights at the New York and
Brookiyn City Halls. ‘ :
A report having gone out that news _
paper-men from other cities would be
treated as guests of the city, the com
mittee made a report to the effect that
while newspaper men from other cities
would be treated with every courtesy, -
that woukd not mean that the city
would assume their hote? bills or other-
personal expenses. :
Replies from fourteen Governors a@ ©,
cepting the invitation to take part {a —
the parade were received.

TO ASSUME THE CONTROL

Of the Caroline Islands, Germans Are |
Moving. 4
Washington, July 28—Information
received in official quarters here is t
the effect that a party ef German off-
clals, who will inaugurate German rule |
in the Carolines, recently acquired by
Germany from Spain, sailed on Tues, 5
day last by way of Genoa and the
North German Lioyd steamer. ;
Those who bave been chosen for this
work are Dr. Stahl, .bo will be VicwG
Governor; and will establish his. sent (7°
in Ponape; Herr Frita who will bave =9 ss
charge of the Marienne group, and ;
retary Senfft, who will be in charge Ui
the West Carglincs Ja s sat in, Yee a
The y Will go to gape :
ha fy the Mol are pele
where Dr. Stabl will recruit aad t
a native police force for abner ec:

No : on is felt on toil

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if 2% cents per ton then
he effect. Mest

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(ralsleamen te the nlanés. | iPad
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23.

OL. XLIV —NO.

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{Reported for the Baltimore Sun.)

_ THE EXECUTION
GANBEILL, (BOP, CORBIE AND STEPEENS

FOR MURDER,
| THE ORIGIN OF THE MURDERS.
~~ A Brief History of their Arrest, Trial and Conviction.
““§ RESPITES THE |
"THE DAY OF EXECUTION. —
CONFESSION OF CROP.
enial of Guilt by Gambrill and Stephens.
DYING STATEMENT OF GAMBRILL.

The Preparations—-Scenes in their Cel!s—
The Gallows—The Multitude Assembled te
Witness their Death—Their Execution—
Incidents, &c.

Bs a ae y at e
. nee eo

sie saceaia ih, sili slide tha sh

FROM THE G@VERNOR.

THE DAY—THE MULTITUDE. |

Yesterday was the day fixed upon by the Governor
of the State of Maryland for the execution of the
four condemned murderers, Henry C. Gambrill,
Marion Crop, Peter Corrie and Jobn Stephens,
alias Cyphus, the latter colored. Many persons
had arrived in the city during Thursday to witness
“he scene—all parts of the State, the Districtof Co-
‘umbia, Virginia and Pennsylvania, and even New
York city and Buffalo being represented on the
occasion. Early in the morning throngs of peré ona
vegan to pour in from Baltimore, Howard, Anne
“Arundel, Harford and adjacent counties, and the
uses Of the city appeared to empty themselves of
@tb-ir inbebitanta—all wending their way to the
~§R ttreete and hilis tw the west and north of the jall,
xsl ~( B Cornmanded a full view of the high gallows
Uae tet owitten the Jatl yard. The house tops,
oe oe we tree @nd a)! other plares from whence a

— Towded with bemon beings A eee of faces met
the eye far and Reas— men. women and children —

: Ee Yaet maliitede drawn th wit: me the berri tle
Soporte ie Threnenteie aii tone of thoveends were

Stem! . Fe eee ine wees Pine eae WIE: taney)
ccrering sir The thn eee clens, begutifey! snd
Phrtiitaet tewt tm ge@eert tire the Oh y We wreer ee
Pre the cleade geee ieken of en appar hiag rein
erm Edia 436 met, heweree | ne fai

- Sat Tues cerrado ota ed
ee ii eb -

BS rere eniarged view could be obtained, were.
2G By and indeney— white and black —~ewelled up

fet gated te wrt ereued thee jail aad in view

el:
ne 0 oe
=“
z

Bene
$0
“

Rae Te re EE nonin ARE Se tical
ed from the wicinity 4 Sge> and Beth streets, |
where he lived, with euciemés ed Woman f v
calied «*T opey,’' to tne Geciare section of the elty, i e
and to the hous of #igieG jected man named j k
William King, on Waeee-s0er, neer &-hroeder f
street. He there dawien. cy ali night with t S
bawd accompany! Wet refused permis ¥
sion by King. Stephan eiied ihe alley, caB- | ti
ed King ever, ai © ne, stabbed him | 1
with a Knife, casi tg ® few minutes. p

Siepheng was arrest: etlee on the 27th of | ¥
Seprem: bet, 1858; his & esmenged on the 25th
of Octobeb, and conelr@= = tae Bb of the same | o
month, by a verdict of guiev ef murder in the first
degree. On Nov. @th he erat sentenced to death. f
is mother wasa free wromenn and hisfather se | i:
slave. His mother iz still ving In this chy. h
his Buy ute be was empl in driving a F
cart, me five years age Cyphus ado asea- | S
faring life and made a number of voyages to | tl
various parts of the world. During one of these | h
the vessel he was in was wrecked onthe Frying } ni
Pan Shoale, and upon another he was e ed in | ar
a difficulty with « fellow seaman, whom he at- | m
tempted to kill witha knife. Cyphus was a man
of strong passions and intemperate habits. He | yr
was pre ing in appearance and possessed | w
extraord nary intelligence for a negro. Hehad {| T
seen much o? “ world, and contracted looseand | sb
si! Pole associations. ar
e wasa ntly about 33 holt hig Sei Sy é, I te
about 6 feet § inches high, and weighs about 160 ar
pounes. He was a widower, with twochildren, | hi:
oys of 7 and 10 years—and was employed in driv- | or
ing 2 Brey at the time of the murder.
yambriil, Corrie and Cyphus were born in Bal-
timore; Crop in Carlisle, Pa. bean
THE WABRANTS OF EXECUTION AND RBEPRIEVES | 4.
On the 23d of December, 1858, the Governor of ed
the State issned his warrant to Sheriff Thomée | yy
Creamer, of Baltimore city, directing the exece- i
tion of Henry C. Gambrill and John Stephensalias
Cyphus, colored, on the lith of February, 1569, at
or before the hour of 12 o'clock, noon. W
On ‘the Ath day of February the Governor re
pricves the ries poser se the execution until | /*
¢ iSth of March, for ‘rensonsshown. and which :
exist, satisfactory and sufficlent for a samt pone. ve
ment.” requesting the sheriff to inform the prise a
nevrethat ‘‘the Any was fines! fat the ere ution of ay
the Jaw,’' anit that they may at once. without far. :
ther i!) founded hope of delay of rapeleve prepare a
lor the change which awalls them ”' cc
On the th of February the Gaverpor jesued ble
warrant in the sheriff for the everntion ef Maria: ai
Crop on the teth day of March, and on the (00, of -
February be jasved hie warrant to tise anes idl foe <7
‘the erecution of Peter Cortie an the tat uf Mi gr@ss 4
<tnakiny al! four on the game day i
On the 1th of Marr hy. the W el need a) preceding
the Friday Beed for the @earntion, the Uoverne
te prte vest ati The psmrtiee pees re fey lie @am vilier: yee
tanthd Friday: the bn finy “heat: we the # feud sg
‘that the Ceptritun! ad otierg and pet enle of pbs ped 'y
‘woe fendernned to death Pepe chen | Thee ge heme | OE
entirely Be pwapeind BOR eg Vial flies tae "6
mey be pranted theen te 20 fre teds ewes ‘
Oi Bike Aawiving UNO ChE ty mabe Banwn b& | *
Lite meando Henghhe fee Lei Sete SF emw om ot Nagle fo
io Siar ity i 2 th Bot beet af as, LG tiv haus :

John Leazer, David Horah aud
William Harris were among the men
arrested and they told stories which
seamed to throw the blame on Leazer.
At first ho dpmed any knowledge of
the affanr and was put) throagh a
coutse of sprouts, which ineloded the
tharty- second degree. At last he told
the officers that he was guilty of the
shooting, but that it was euturely acei
dental, “He said that he had been
taking coal and was approached by
the officer who grabbed hitn by the
coat. The prisoner pulled his revolver
and to his surprise it was discharged.
He said that he did vot know till
morning that the officer was dead.

Leazer has been charged with mur-
der and the other three prisoners will
be held as witnesses.) State's Attor-
ney Niholas H. Green and Deputy
Sheriff Nicholas W. Bryan went to
Baltimore this morning to secure at
first hand the statement of the prison-
‘er. He will be brought to Aunapolia
aud lodged in the county jail today.

Such is the feeling in the matter that

the grand jury, which under a recent
enactment, ie never finally discharged
until a pew jury ix sworn in, will be
called together to take action ip the
case. If Leazer is indicted he will
then be placed on trial and the care
disposed of at once rather than wait
until the regular session of court.

Of course ,this 18s merely conjecture,
but the chances are very good that
this will be done, it being the general
opioion that ina case of this kind @
speedy trial aud positive results are
better than waiting a great length of
time.

NSS ET a ae

MCKANARE'S MURDERER

MAN WHO-KIELED OFFIC
HAS BEEN CAUGHT.

Says That The Shooting Was En-
tirely Accidental And Can-

not Understand
The Cause.

After a search lasting less than
twenty-four hours the self confessed

murderer of Policeman Joun George
McNamara has been placed under ar-
rest. The story as told by the arrested
man and corroborated by witnesses to
the affair leave no doubt in the minds
of the officers that they have the right
MAD Under arrest.

He is Wilham Loazer, colored about
$o vears of agecand has been enploved
for the better part of four years at
the plant of the Marviand Car Works
at Curtis bay. Leazer states that) he

did not knowingly shoot the police:

man. He says that the killing was
entirely an accident. The arrest was
made by Chief of Police McDonald,
of the Anne Arundel county forea, of
which MeNamara was a member.

Ivery member of Che Anne Arundel
police department, many detectives of
Baltimore, Sheriff Samuel W. Hardy
and Depaty Sherif! No W. Bryan, of
this county, and Chief George Hahn,
of the Annapolis city police foree
wore at work on the case. After the
police Fad been working on the cass
for several hours the bail pen in the
Central Station in Batliniore was well
filled with suspects These wong
Closely questioned and their Noriega
investigated, each man beim turner
loose as he was thought to be inne
cent.

ede

€ ‘s 3

ha Rep Hier | rere ha sets

- ed

si @ ole er Ie

aa atleeeaiabalial

#6. ee aa Cer iy kaa hie eriioce W urew
broyeht these young mon tothe acaMold. Tr fl!
of warnihg sod admonitions)" 2

_ THE PRISONERS AND THEIR CRIMES.

ft may be well to state bere bricty the severn!
offensaces for which the prisoners were condemied
te die. as sonie months Lave elapsed alnce the mur-
der were conmitted. _ ,

On the myht of Merch 8d, 1858. police officers
Benjamin Benten and Robert Mo Rigdon, of the
western station, arrested John Gaibrill and three
others on the charge of atteanpting to act fire to a
dwelling house on Ross, near Kutaw street. The
officers sawsthe parties in the act of igniting com-
bustible material, saturated with camphen, placed
in a crevice between two frame houses, and arrest.
ed them. Two were tried and acquitted, the evt-
dence not belny very conclusive; but John Gambrill
avd another, belng more strongly iinplicated, re
moved their cases, gn the Inth March, isc, to Bal-
tin ore County Court
Threats baving been made against the lives of
the two officers, if they dared to appear against the
accused, they were advised to chinge their beats
to snether section of the city; but refused to do so.
Officer Benton informed his brother otficers at the
western station that Henry C. Gambrill, brother of
John Gambril)} bad told him he should never live
t> appear he John; but the officer beldly dis-
revarded the threat.” ¢
On the night of September 22d, 1859. a private
party was being held at the dwelling of Mrs. Green
on Biddle strect, near Pennsylvania avenue, an

men, among whorh was Henry C. Gambrill, came
into the yoni and created a disturbance by
several forcing their presence i:%> Mrs. Green’s
house. The police were called and arrested one
young man for disorderly cona uct, when the some-
what notorious David Honck: interfered with the
officers, and Benton and Rigdon arrested Houck
and started for the police station. At the corner
of Biddle streetand Pennsylvania avenue, whilst
Houck was struggling with the olticers, Henry C.
Gambrill ran up from the direction ef Mrs. Green's,
placed a istol close to officer Benton’s head and
stot bim dead onthe spot, Officer Rigdon fully
identified Gambrill, whom he knew, and he was
arrested within an hour afterwards. ee

On the 2th of September, 1555—two days after
the murder—Henry C. Gambrill was ind{cted In
the Criminal Court of Baltimore, his trial com-
menced on the 2th of October, and terminated on
the 5th of November, by a verdict of guilty of
murder In the first degree. On the 23d of Novem-
ber he was sentenced to be bung.

On the evening of the 5th of November, about
six o'clock, after the rendition of the verdict, as
the prisoner was being conveyed to a hack toreturn
hiin to the jail, a desperate effort was made to res}
cue him. and only astrong body of police prevented
itafeuccess. ‘Hue warden of the jai! and hisdepn-
ties were forced to take refuge in the middle station
house, and a large body of police with loaded.
muskets escorted the convict to prison. Intense
excitement ded the city on that evening and
night. the Jurors who sat In the case, the State’s
atiorney and his sssistant, Mr. Duffy, and especial-
ly offcor Robert M. Rigdon, being threatencd
with. eance by the {nfuriated mob who had
been foiled in acquitting, or rescuing, the prisoner.

Ro grent whe the danyer to officer Rig on, that
he wes edvised to go home from the weatern sta-
tion-bouse, end not go on duty that night. Hedid
so; but the friends of Gambrill had determined to
tuke Lis life—he being the main witness on whose
testimony Gambrill was convicted. Marion Crop

had progressed quietly until a crowd of young

and Peter a To emselves (Of Were
nasi gniedeterd the des YOR "wekll) officer

mi Bsa a gentall ys

was a trigger which worked’ on an fron wwive! a
eachend of the primoipe: crom piece, and wisic
Lada play of about fires inches —fiet euiticient t
allow the drop es Fail ‘Pilate croee- beam waa eo
touber sis by eich! fiehee and had four sheave
fitted into itat ea digtemee of nel quile three fer
aye Al wach ef there were aleo fitted tw
Sheaves, upon which Gieropes were placed Pb
drop was sbout fourtes feet from the vround, am
reached by « strong Bigs of steps. Ropes weres
arranged as to recei@eahe wright of tue drop an
prevent the noise Ghee falling and stri hinge te
upriy btw. Acetate |
ve feet had been placed 4

A platform of sane
the back entrance @ Mo., fe make the evree
More easy to the eeoute of the proceesio.

w the scaffold.

Tie eer. |

In an upper room abohe tet) were placed the fon —
coftips destined to @0e@in the retnatnas of the cor
demned, which exhibite! ene of the mosat me!
ancholy features of te ocrasiem.. The cottins «
Gambrill and Corrie were made of mahogany, wit!
silver inountings andbandies—ong of them bai! th
name of

*t Peter Corrie, aged M6 years!

The coffin of Marien Crop ls made of black wa!
nut. with silver mountings, but nohandles. Th
coftin of Cypbus is made of poplar, with plate
silvermountings. Tt was understood that they woul:
not be placed underthe gallows, as !s customary
The four condemned persons in accordance wif)
their desire and application, were not to be hun;
tn shrouds, but in citizens’ dress.

THE GALLOWS SPACE.

As early az 8 o'clock there were applications fo
admission into the yard of the jail, and at 9 o'cloc)
the surrounding hills, heights and house-tope })
view of the gallows began to be blackened wit!
human beings. The peliowy was protected fron:
a too nigh approsch of those inthe yard by a roug!
post fence, made of boards and ropes,with a fram:
yateway in the centre, ee which the proces
sion of criminals, ministers, the sheriff and Lis off
cers passed to the foot of the scaffold, which wa
ascended by a Olghtof about twenty ateps, fou
feet wide.

In the inter!or of the ¢ were stationed Lients
Carmichael and Wright, with a body of fift ab
cers to preserve order. Twotrust-worthy effice
Irving and Rote. were stationed at the gate, age
admitted none to the enclosure except the holder
of tickets authorizing them to enter.

The space surroun mK the scaffold was much en
cumbered with the build
jail, but the ene warden bad removed every
thing that woul
ceedings, and no delay was experienced in reach
Ing the spot.”

All business npon the new jail was suspended
and the melancholy stiliness that brooded upon th
unfinished walls, where the day previous every
thingy had been so bustling and active, gove un
mistakable and almost spesking evidence ha
some unusual event was abont to take place.

Between the tnterval of the gathering of the peo

le and the ae at ahie of the erfminats, the pr!
soners in the cells of the Jali overlooking the yal
lows amused themselves ty looking from the win

dows ie the scene @nd watching the progres

GO CA Wi atinelltnien on “a
: “A NIGUT Withort? torr.
~““Thursday nipht waa one without hope.
~The mother, sister and brother of Peter Corr!
were with him doring the sfternoon and evenin:
until O& o'clock. The scene running throug! ty!
riod of time ts beyond dearription The afte

ions of @ sister w.cre hore porty

Ld
>

wile Take a glance at.

f the crinoea whieb
~geaffold. Ht 18 ful

| . CRIMES

-Drietly the severn!
were condemned
ie bce the uaur.

TRIS, ice officers
tT Rivilon, of the

Mtobrill and three

‘Hit to aet fre to a
Kutaw street. The
| tof igniting com-
SY canphen, placed

oe os ar ar bout

Mg . ie evi-

wat Jotn tiambrill

sly iinplicated, re
@rch, inoc, to Bal-
La the Ilves of

ppear ayainst the

hinge their beats
‘itrefused to do so.
ther officers at the
am@brill, brother of

» gBhould never live
-Sificer boldly dis-

G@,'1858, a private
| ine of Mrs. Green,
‘ania avenue, and
—‘erowd of young
‘> Gambrill, came
a disturbance by
in%> Mrs. Green's
t_and arrested one
oh, in the some-
nt ed with the
nf arrested Houck
5 At the corner
“Ta avenne, whilst
Officers, Henry C.
onef Mrs. Green's,
enton’s head and
eer Rigdon fully
ew, and he was

two days after
i was ind{cted tn
‘te, his [trial com-
ana ternuinated on
erdict of guilty of
‘he 234 of Novem-

November, about

Of the verdict, as
to a hack toreturn

twas made to res’.

of police prevented
Mi and Misde it-

the middie station —

with loaded.
ison, Intense
t evening and
“ase, the State's

oUice
“oO

al and especial-
Wethe Phreatenedl

‘= —-b who had
By si he prisover.
‘é@: nigdon, that
‘mathe western sta-
vat night. Hedid
vad determined to
Witness on whose
ed: Marion Crop
86] Ves Nw were
. 7) tecklil officer

_soners in the cells of the

of events.

“Tosa, Sak, Bees dew ke hie cas eo Sie ui tue jiaine-
work by four heavy leap binges. On lhe went ede
Was s trigger which warket on An fron swivel at
each end of the prigoipg: croas-plece, and whieh
Lad a play of aboot fires inches just eumcient te
allow the drop te $a. fuer cross-beam wae of
tunber sis by ¢icb'terhes and had four sheaves

fitted intweitate € Manee of nut quite three feet
a fpoke Al each em there were also fitted two
sheaves, upon which theropese were placed ‘Ihe

@ feck from the ground, and
of steps Ropes were so
Welght of the drop and

ailing and atrikingeethe

drop Was sbout forks
reaclmd by a strong
arranged ne to recerre
prevent the noise af
upriy tite. é

A platform of sa
the back entrance

hore @asy 10 the
tw the scaffold.

feet had been placed at
fs, make the eyress
s toute of the procession

In an upper room @f ie fat! were placed the four
cefiins destined to geetein the retoainea of the con-
demned, which exhihited. Of, bbe moest mel.
ancholy featores of | , The coftins of

(iammbrill and Corrie were made of mahogany, with
silver inountinge ond handles—ong of them ba:t the
name of a oe ic dsrsitsirnincs

7 ‘' Peter Corrie, aged 2 years?

The coffin of Marion Crop is made of black wal-
nut, with silver mountings, but nohandles. The
coftin of Cypbus ts made of poplar, with plated
silver mountings. It was understood that they would
not be placed underthe gallows, as Is pie ent h
The four condemned persons in accordance with
thelr des‘re and application, were not to be hung
in shrouds, but In citizens’ dress.

THE GALLOWS SPACE. !

As early as 8 o'clock there were applications for
admission into the yard of the jail, and at 9 o'clock
the surrounding hills, heights and honse-tops in
view of the gallows began to be blackened with
human beings. The gallows was protected from
& too nigh approach of those {nthe yard by a rough
post fence, made of boards and ropes,with a frame
gateway in the centre, throngh which the proces-
sion of criminals, ministers, the sheriff and his offi-
cers passed to the foot of the scaffold, which was
ascended by a Alght of about twenty steps, four
feet wide.

In the interior of the space were stationed Lients.
Carmichael and Wright, with a body of fift of.
cera to preserve order. Two trust-worthy effice
Irving and Rote, were stationed at the pate, a
admitted none to the enclosure except the holders
of tickets authorizing them to enter.

The space surrounding the scaffold was much en-
cumbered with the building materials of the new
jail, but the energetic warden bad removed every-
thing that would tend to retard or mar the pro-
ceedings, and no delay was experienced 1n reach-

Ing the spot.
All business upon the new jail was nded,
and the melancholy stillness that brooded upon the

unfinished walls, where the day previous every-_.

thing had been so bustling and active, yave un-
mistakable and almost speakin
some tinusual event was abont to take place.
Between the interval of the gathering of the
pleand the appenranre of the criminats, the pri.
aly overlooking the pyal-
lows amused themselves by looking from the win.
dows upon the scene and watching the progress

A NIGHT WIthortT nope. -
Thursday night was one without hope,
The mother, sister and brother of Peter Corrle
were with him during the afternoon and evening
until 9% o'clock. The scene running Rarongh tgs

riod of time ts beyond description. The a
of .& sister werehore por in all the |
Sys warmth ore ie

evidence ‘that —

peo- |

as he bad been

fitecdect Marilou Crop bid Lint @ final fare}
on Thursday night at pine o clock This tas
| Wie & inost hi a wene NO pen ce
dearription of it Lape hed died oat, 1
palr with all tt Lorrors, was alone ieft te
Cries and Intnentetions, that awakened free ff)
the profounde@t pity came from the cell of
doomed tan. The mother and farther tert
jail ecarcely able to walk, wee ing and tiourg:
ond yive vent to bursts of eta
The porting between the prisoner and bis fa
lssaidto Lave been a most eff tiny acene
Ciuny sround his father's neck, kissed him |
and ayaln and wept with the filiness of a ehii
In parting with his mother, for ber enke he apy
ed calmer than in parting with any of his otue
latives, but when she hac Kone theaetrong man s.
The followtny letter was banded to Rev FB
Brooke by Crop. at 9 o'clock. intended for }
selfand Kev George Hildt, who was with
und who nttended to bim from the time of)
conviction: | |
“Priday morning. @ olor.
“To my epirstenl advisers Hy your kind.
struction | have a bright hope of wolng to theti:
Where the parting hand 1a never taken, and
dear friends, if you should ever happen to see.
of my old companions, tell them to turn te G_
for he isa merciful God. And now farewell, ,
|
!

= hee the cay

Well til!) we meetin Heaven) Marion Cror.
In his cell on Thursday, Crop said toRey. WW
Scott Downey, who frequently visited him, t
vp tothat time he hod experted that his frie
would rescue him, but then hope had failed. +
he raw only death before bim F
At 15 minut. s past 10 o'clock the sher! ff ente,
He was found tn f

his cel) yesterday inane his spiritual advise
+ his t ii&} Vit,

mate communication wi
Revs Mlesera. Hildtand Brooke. He had his ¢:
off, but rose and put iton. The de uty she

then proceeded to pin the arms of the teor,
during which be stood erect and manifested

alarm or trepidation—not a nerve contracted a
muecle twitched—be appeared a man of iron,
When the arma were tled and pinned, he quie’
satdown Whilegying him, he was aeked if*

cords hurthim He replied. ‘:No, | can stand 1:
The cord was then passed back of him and tiec

both of his elbows. The sheriff and then I.
the room. Crop requested the watchman fo df
his hair and properly arrange his clothing. She;

Creamer had prepared a black shaw!, which ¥
thrown around ile prisoner's shanlicra, and pins,
80 as to bide all the cords used in tying bie arma,
The Rev. Mr. Hildt then offcred an earnest a.
fervent prayer. Crop’s lips moved, and he eppe,
ed to be offering sinceredevotion. After prayer.
again resumed

Inacat, and did not speak unt:
one of the intnisters addreased iim. Altto'e la:
word was piveninthecell thatall was ready, wh
Crop, accompanied by Rev. Mersrs. Hilde a:
Brooke and Father Freeman, left bis cell witi,

Bem walk, us : etnias

PETER Corrie. +

At& o’cl’k Thursday nigh Corrie’s relatires to,
thelr fins! leave of bim. Hite mother, sisters 5.
others of the family had remained with him >
day, engaging In religions exerctaes “The partt

betwreen the mother and son was most affe ti
and aad Corrie, when they were steut te ea, |
him, ertrented them all to pray for him. ert ati.
they would al! meet in Heaven. Daring the sig
he seeined cheerful, and, after retiring. slept we
He arose et bis usual heur neat morning anc p
took of alight breakfast Although con vers!
cheerfully, he showed much anxiety as the f
hout approached “Rev Mi Foley was with bi
heretofore, tuetaining him te

rites of bis religion
AU DOT past tee Weterk the sheriff entered

= ee
ey oe pe -"

ld patina eee? PRO he Ere &

— prbich | ly officer Robert M. Rigdon, being threatened | lows amused themselves by looking from
. Boortu- | with vengernce by the Infurfated mob who had | dows upon the scene aud watching "hice
& ch he | beendfoiled in acquitting, or rescuing, the isovier. of cebake: Spas eeadtyy Abt
+. Es alac So yrent wae the danger to ofticer Rigdon, that Sa aaemaie oars
: 2m ret ree | he wae advised to yo home from the western sta-~ Thursday rt ao byt wer one without hone
| * rethe | tion-bouse, and not go on auly thatnivht ble did The mether eater and brother af Yet ”
. guide Jeo: but the friends of Gembril! had determined to | were with him. dering the afternoon eval
¢ | show | take Lis life—he being the main witness on whose | until Ux oc look. Phe scene ruuning thir
i testimony Gambrill was convicted. Marion Crop | period of Ume te Beyowd description T
: oa espe | and Peter Corrie took upon themselves fot were pe of a sister seers here portrayed
> = PRY be assigned to do the a by lot,) to kill officer geniality ang Meth of woman's nat
am His | Rigdon, and after dogging him about for an | cried over him igecgaantiy. Themother
a acter, | bour or so. about eight o'clock on the sameeven- | been absent at Ase tie during the Ans
| = as ad- | ing—the Sth of November—they went to Rigdon’s | at abeut7 P, Big Reined inthe com
we ble to | house on West Baltimore street, near Pearl, tocar- | children, around eee whom the curtai
2 er an | ry out their determination. Corrie watched in | bis earthly careee oc eapon to be drawn
g could | the mouth of a side alley to the Louse, whilst | continually and “=; hin unttl their s
.* shout | Crop procesded up the alley, into the Apte and | was vated forage ee tatences of the bh
= hich | tiring a large ‘‘bob-tall’ gun, through a back | plend that they gai get take her from }
a Wand | window, shot Rigdon through the body, whi let n parting, Corrieded.<deok before yo
i ng of | standing leaning on the mantel piece, conversing | and meet me in ieeyve:. $ am prepmred

Ay patie of baving shed pager bloo<
jot, J Am not going to be executed for m

anny Bu simene:
‘he futher, mother and brother of Ife
brill visited bis cell re Thursday 2
or j

with his wife, killing him dead on the spot. The
murderers fled, but the alarm being given, Cor
rie was pursued and caught, not, however, until
be had @red several shote at the officers pursuing
him; and on hisinformation Crop was svon after

grand
agastic
irhain.

induced the lynching of the two prisoners that
night, and the meek ing of s ary oh Prati
on their presumed and alleged confederates. Wiser
counsels prevailed, the prisoners were committed
next morning, Rang tthe d?, on. Monday, Nov. &th,
were indicted for the wilful murder of Rigdon;
were arraigned the same day in the nce of an
immensely crowded court, and at the same time
removed heir cases, on afidavits that they conid
not Lave fulr and impartial trials here, to Balti-
more County Cireutt Court, at Towsontown:

Marion Crop’s trial commenced on the ki of Jan-
{ nary, 1859—the trials baving been severed ut the in-
stance of the defense—and on the Lith of January
the jury rendered a verdictof guilty of mur-
der in the first a toe On the @&hb of the
same month he was tenced te death. The
trial of Peter Corrie commenced en the 13th of
January, was concluded on the Sith of January
by a verdict of guilty of murder In the first degree,
aug on the 11th of February be was sentenced to

eath. cet

Gambrt)! war a ronng man, sbont 9% years of age,
about five f et eight inches high, we'z about 1)
pounds, brown hair, faircomplesion.and was by no
means bad looking. Crops ws about 24 years of age.
five feet nine or ten Inches high, weighe nigh 150

““teli- Pager sted: nny a and remained until 16 oclack P.M
. the Such a state of things struck the whole commu- | fatber has shown unusual attachment fo
nner. | nity with borror, and but little was needed to have | While inthe cell he clasped bis eon to h

and exclaimed, \what power on earth car
father and son.’' Yeung Gambrlll wept,
declared bie innocence He seid that
pared to dic, but the tears and tronble ¢
rents Were a gtent source of urief to}
mother wep and clang te Bim, which rep
sedi feelings of the son, unt)! nearly

of eelf-control left him He threw kim.
his bed, and burying bie heed in bia pill
vitli one would bio his beart must bre

ing mementcame, and be was leit al
sad meditations

Cyphus retired early, afte; sing'nz an?
end slept sonedly during the night. ile»
in the morning. and afier dressing him
pertions of the Scriptures, and otered '
solemn prayer, Cyphos bad bul few f
visit bia, ble rae companion pein
mother end bie epiritual advisers i
with h!s mother was of the moet affectir
ter. Touring the utterance of ® few we
pass: d between then be firmwls denice
commiltted the crime for which Lis Lle
for felt.

On Thursday afternoen fhe father m-
sisters and the brothers of © enteret
apd converted with him for the Inet tt
moene ent ad was one wv hich ¢=pApet be ¢

pounds, and of s light complexion and light Bair,
and somew bat of a repulsive countenance. Corrie

The lnagtnation can only picture the

wna 3 years of age five feet six inches bigh,wrigh- | brothers pnd aisters grate) around the
ed about 16) pounds. and of ordinary. ance. | romviet and sobbing a if their agents
Garobril! kept s reetaurant at the time le arreat | would byret At half-pest nine eo cler

on Franklin street Crop waa elected im 1957 0
conttabls of the fearteenth ward, but resigned
thet, and was Enown ne ® common ricter and rew-

inet bim fe the

“the most terrible way of alicaune 1

That the tert parental farewell wae epoke
‘9 frarfri plotyre end one thel would

ped
8 gh é
4
iat
?
;
Vj ‘
t
‘

2. dy, & member of tees bei |
= by 8 eran. Corre wa a bucher by trade. | Ske Comdemmed te their Col!
bad bees guray @ yror @ in React, where he 3 soRe Cr PATS
te bare Spur paronnea arog dn Riera pi pry Cy v0 promented & Gi ferent om
“af ‘ ; ® ¥ ' + é aD nae | 2 bes
ae ot. Carpe tesnibe aller bis temre, | Shc tutaed spoke of bis eoohinees
‘heeder, AU theese were Gingie men, | Ele reitersted Larne penem, GE

Abe onal is a
Serer ect sepestikls parses... While in Lis bade galled wpes thot
i shes, chine debe Cy pins, the colored epee bh if be Behe Bet uly whan be &

i i innecence of Gee letribie crime Ge wh.

* mae

i Seep ant ae

: AR ees eg SS Deo ROME Cae alla

i A eee fect ee

.F
&

Loe RRS P| #5

AMBRILL.
their Cells—

og the Governor
e€ution of the
7. Gambrill,
‘gbn Stephens,
Many persons
“Bday to witness
- Districtof Co-
and even New

| abented on the
ongs of pereons
owerd, Anne
ties, and the
yAbemse! vee of
olf way to the
“thof the jail,
mbigh allows
het hones tops,

whence

, tial ned, were
te-of faces met

ona ehildren

eb @ cond
Pautifvul ssd

j that the ‘cepiylivat ed risers @

TIMORE, SATURDAY

eat anata htt mmmeadeeachiieads a siailiie esi. coe aes ee

£OrT ATIRT SY
Ori Batre fF

ae) «sla her ~ aa

7 es and Bath streets,
where belived, wits eng coeg one! colored women
called ‘Topsy ,’’ to Une Gaccame anction of the elty

ed from the vicinite a 5 |

and to the ot & eparec man nam
Wiltam King, on sey, near Schroeder
street He there desir ve all night with
bawd accor panying b ras refused perm ip-
sion by King. Blephen & the alley -
ed King pver, meat 8, stabbed kim
with a Bolte, caus @ few minutes,
Btep Rs onthe 27th of

nenoed on the 25th

Septem bets 1853; his ,
Septem bet, i ae Boo of the same

of Octobe}, and conclog

month, by a verdict of gy %er. : minder in the first
deg On Nov, Sith be Sear eentenced to death.

is mother was # free-tyomonn and his father e
slave. His mother is still ving tn this city. #
bis ey tite he was empl in driving a dirt
cart. Some ive years ago Cyphus adopted a ses-
faring life and made s number of voyages to
various parts of the world. During one of these
the vesse! he was in war wrecked on the Frying
Pan Shoals, and upon another he was ed in
a difficulty with a fellow seaman, whom he at-
tempted to kill witha knife. Cyphus was a man

of strong passions and intemperate habits. He
was pre ing in appearance and possessed
extraordinary intelligence for a negro. He had
seen much world, and contracied loose and
depraved associations. : 2.

e wasa ntly about 33 or 34 years of age,
about § feet 6 inches high, and wel about 160

unds. He was a widower, with two children,
oys of 7 and 10 years—and was employed in driv.
ing a arey at the time of the murder.

Paik il, Corrie and i ga were born in Bal-
timore; Crop in Carlisle, Pa.

THR WARRANTS OF EXECUTION ANY REPRIFVES.
Onthe 234 of December, 1858, the Governor
the State issued his warrant to Sheriff Thom
Creamer, of Baltimore city, direc the exer g-
tion of Henry C. Gambril! and John Stephens alias
Cypnus, colored, on the Hith of February, 160, at
or ore the hour of 12 o'clock, noon

On ‘the @th day of February the Governor re

teved the hase de ib. the execution until
ne {6th of March, for | rensonsshown, and which
exist, satisfactory and suffictent for a pantpons:
nent.’ requesting tbe sheriff to inform the priae
nevethet “the day was fixed for the erecution of
the Jaw,’ ancl that ‘they may at once without fur
ther!!! founded hope of delsy or reprieve, prepare
for the change which awaile them (oo.

On the Oth of Kebruaty the Gevernor leaned tle
warrant to the she! ff for the ererutionof Marien
Crop on the eth day of March) and on the tath of
February be jesned hie werrent te the ener fpr
the erecution of Peter Corrie on the beth of Ab arei.
mating ell fout on te tame day |

4on the 16th of March the W ad nates
the Pridey eed for the Seerntion the tlovernd
veoprievedd ail the patios fewtpentng the exe ullen
uP Friday the Mth day soho aa the preuad

toil peetente of fs eee
eene condemned to teeth pepenent then ba bei ng
PTET PT UT paper BA hey Tal Te they tiene
iey be geared bets te pergmre for Pedy Arenen

ar Slee only te Ober te mabe Paown ty

thet: Galphumeie Poth Usat Eile eptemmion oi tiem

io Sline {iat + the Puefees of SOR Be hy “
te eqn Si ttn RS

aboct te suffer. He told Mr. Edwant Laméis.

| He eiepi well at mighi, and next morning areee tn

—* rite. As soon as the cell wae Rer.
Samnue! Chase entered. Cyphus me him, and,
with a amile sald, ‘Brother Chase, all is well,
thongh an innocent man. | am prepered to die’
Im his case, as in that of all the others, the sher!ff
prohibited any other person than their spiritaal ad-
visers to enter thetr cells before ten o'clock,

At five minutes past ten o'clock the Sheriff, with

one of his deputies, entered the cell of John Cy-

bus. His hands were then bound, and his arnis

led from behind. While the officer was perform.
ing thie duty, the doomed man frequently raised
his eye and ejaculated 2 ‘‘Thank God!” Rev. J.
F. Hoff and Rev. Mr. Webb, colored, and Rev.
S. Chase, colored, were then with him. Mr. Hoff
then approached and asked him if hestill declared |
his innocence, to which he replied ‘‘This is all for —
nothing. Jam ne murderer. God don’t hold me
asamurderer.” He said ‘It has been said that [ |
made a confession, but such is not the fact.” -

| He spoke of his children, two boys, one aged 19

years, and the other 7 years, both of whom were
with his mother in Cider alley, near Green street.
The sheriff then xo pig ae Cyphus and laid a
shawl over his shouidera to hide Aas bind! ng of bir
grins, and protect him from the cold, at the time

! the bytn «
pron trig }

telling him that it was time to go to another cel!
and he would return when he wns read y to remove
him. Cyphnue then said the peth wasa pleasant
one to him, and he had no fear.

Rev. Mr. Hof then led in singing a hymn:

- “Hear what the voice of Heaven declares,”

in which the doomed man jgined ina clear voice
After singing the hymn, Re¢. Samuel Chase offer:
ed prayer, invoking God to pardon al! the sins of ,
him about to die to satiafy the law.

After the prayer, Cypbus sany

“*O, that my load of ein were gone

Hetook the book from the hand of Ree B:

Webb, and failing to strike the Proper tune ston |

i ped aud myo! fang witha clear and distinet rok «

Rev Mr Hoff read to the the firat ten .
verera of the fith cha ef Pan! tothe Hermans.
and from the J4th verse of the Pth ¢hapter af the —
geing bowk At: Ho then asked bless f the Betiewent |
eli that he bad heard rent Cyphie repited the’
he believes! tt ail. ard hie felt heties: tn 44a" ther
ever nhta life before Ble felt to: ig: btex lie gen
Henet- PBher think Uoey have A Monta
Hut they ere bility we fer meting Bie thet
Saket him if he a haew teed et hive df @ a hee
te whieh he peg eat, Vee ul toot fee Cte
WERE Dims (Hers derrrest afl me eine! Piey then sasz |

leon oe

Z Saf Dim v he Ab aslewtinn tries
Mr Hed tric ty pies thet thes bed <9 sagt
a? Fert & 1

fre but ene meee thers ent :
hee the Tienes fipare and Hee Ae Wek cat.
in pe@re: VY kills he was peaping teehee o meee |
wl eet bates? 1p pers the preeerbiage eee .. aia
Pere ae taper Fee eee {Seiettsiccigg AES iii
Diegeity Spe Se pla ml tik wl be tye oe nie eae’
See Gf These PAA ee Ber age 1 t Pte & the 2

| eee! en ie Bet el pone Lee aed

wate F,

“Ett 38 Bie telat oo beet:

‘> <&
ae
te

ditty te Bet BM: Hoek pest staat ag .
ike Fs ' 7. 4

ooh

by B * *
Rey PEAS @

0 pee Sere eee a
that brooded Upon the
day previous every-
‘Band activé, gave un-
raking: evidence what
ut te take place.
e gathering of the peo-
Khe criminats, the pri-
overlooking the
looking from the win-
watching the progress

TY SO
without hope. |
other of Peter Corrie
afternoon and evening
pe ruuning through a
ription. The affer-
portrayed in all the
woman's nature. She
Themother, who had
foring the day, arrived
A in the company of het
om the curtain closing
Fodedrawn, She wept
n unt!] their separation
iness of the hour. Sbe
ke her from her son. -—
k before you and &y
“i to die

rotber of Henry Gam-
Thursday afternoon,
ok FM. The poor
ttachment for his son.
44 b's non to his breast,

of grief to him.
im, which renewed
until nearly all
te’ threw himse!
-ad in his pillow, cried
—aprert must break The
be was left alone to bi»

a most

parting
charac-
which

ai v sere.

» Rost affect!
“4 a few wor
“f Gemis demied havisg
Aiich hia Mie paid the

it wee

pote :

pine o cists wt might |

ale ie
PETER CoRRIE.
ht Corr

firm w alk. . ws

At&o’cl’k Thursday ni
thelr final leave of him.

guners of the family had
dey, engaging in religious exercises. The
between the incther and son was
and aad. Corrie, when they were about to
im, eptreated them all to pray
they would all meet in Heaven.
he seemed cheerful, and, after retir
He arose at bis usual heur next Morn

took of aslight breakfast.

cell. Upon entering,
spiritual advisers, the

ley. and the Rey. Father Hickey.
of the cell a neat altar was erec
candirs burning and several
the sberi@ entered Corrie arose and
ected him. The sheriff then

js arms. While the cord was in

hands, the sheriff asked him if it feit easy;
plied, with asmile, ‘No sir, it feels comfe

Deing ready. the door of the cell was ©

Corrie, oa ie
Folcv, and on the other by deputy sheri
nga d into the corrider and took a
ee in the rear of Henry Gambrill
Corrie js said to hate written a

on one side

o'clech mest morning

firrmereet and ate!
entered , Gaint

¢ aaid he felt much
oa lop meet

twre of

at six
et
Rev. Mr. H
erith & senile.

Brooke and Father Mreeman, left bis cell Wine § ah

le'arelatives took
Tia mother, sisters and §..
reniained with him ail @

most affecting

fot him, and said §

During the might @
ing, stept well. ®
ng and psr~ %
Although conversi
cheerfully, be showed much anxiety as the fa

Corrie was seated with -his a
Revs. Thoinas and John Fo § 327
At the first end §
ted, on which were F ©
small cracifxes.

roceeded to pinien
placed on his

‘ertable
A bisck shaw! was then inned

by the Rev. Mr.
ff Ponte,
position In the

Lalor
erect eben |
pire
otter

ee ae a

whole and going to each
gecureiy belind their lef
B four depcties. with the pr
f went open the acatioic

Po Ger brill preyed quite ané
rting Baeemed towards the beavers
: § eee moving thelr lips. Cor
lenve fame SBN the others, and nev
: tne on the gulilows.
Gepbusemiled and praret
“Wia peck, looking upwe
peed in recognition of s
we gard, with a smile or
je and Gambrill cle

& more downward ths

hour approached. Rev. Mr Foley was with him, @ think bel :
an he bad been heretofore, sustaining him in the 3 | Soage Dathyy ready
rites of bis religion. = i ig ll ; : ACOs, Br

At balf-past ten o'clock the sheriff entered bis oi atal drop.
Sali was under the

# ine beam. Corrie w
ees end Cyphus at the fc
“@6 of the beam.

As Ses THE FATAL
ntly The deputies reached the
Creamer from the!

his foot fouc hed the trigger
it o'clock the drop fell, ar
yand four human }

thealr.

he re-

it don't cut me.”’ a
around his shoulders, when the sheriff left the cell. The suppressed emotion”
‘be prisoner then engaged in spiritual conversa. | side € be distinctly he
tion with the Reverend Fathers present and seerned | it burst from many lips.
to be Ina happy train of mind, smiling frequently In the windows in the fe
when making his replies. After the ixpse et some ail were a number of feme
fifteen minntes the sheriff agein entered the cell, lack—and ns the drop fell -
and the white cap wae placed upon bis bead, over | could be heard throughout |
which bis ordinary black slouch hat was placed. Gambrilland Corrie stru;
Corrie at this time. and also while his arms were only, and then were still. ¢
being pinioned, showed great fortitude, and gave | tion natural to such deaths —
aeaeg Ps to the officers how he would like bis hat | Crop and Cyphus steng:
fixed vpon bis head. The prisoner then a last | utes, end then, with the ex
farewell to the sheriff and the reporters pre t. in | motion. werestill.
bidding adieu to all, he remarked, ‘ aie upon } The drop of the rope w2
the gallows, but am no murderer” Everythi feet, and all four appeared |
gore six minutes no moti¢.

an
W bile they were thus b

brought out onder the gt
fur the reception of the

been ed umier the sca
would more unperve the p:

all the facts connected with the murder of Rigdon, § LOWERING 7
but yesterday bornt ft tt saying that he now At balf- i1 o'clock.
become pious,and would not pow injare hisneigh- | minutes. the bodies were
bor, he was to die apes the scaffold. and would | and examined by Dr Ff
not sliow any others to soffer for the crime. It was | the feil; Dr H. P. P.Veai
intimated to him by some one oe Thi y that | te see whether any life re
Merion Lad made a confession, to which he | There was a tufnt pulse
replied. ++That be did not believe it.” of Crpbus—the others w:
Sli iets WESRY GAMBRILE. Eight minutes more els
Up t ailste bour Thursday night Gambrill eaf- |} still too in death, their be
fered very much from prostration, but bis spiritual | end placed in the coflins ),
advisers remainrd with him and ceanselied him - Teoh

and ais iy
wevet, 44

PE Sp Sk ne at
PES

SATURDAY MORNING, AP
<p sr emma hee PIE ieee Ae RS eT

Se hee tee
roe at
"
a

+h t Gee «.

5
“cat Saale

aon? te suffer. He told Mr.
whe wae with him, that
enacted be wae two miles

He sleyt well at

wy te aerate - pe
Edw Lasmdia, | oe
when the wagedy war } of hic

distant from thr place.
nighi, and next morning arese In
rite. Asseon ag the cel! was opened K
Chase entered.
withe smile, eal
though n innocen
In his case, as in thet
prohibited eny
visers to enter
At five minutes past

yphus met him, and,
4, “Brother Chase, all is well; -
t man, | am to die.”
of all the ot Hise icine’ of
r person than thelr spir} “
their cells before ten o'clock.
ten o'clock the Sheriff, with
one of his deputies, entered the cell of John Cy-
bus. His hands were then bound, and hie arms
W hile the officer was perform-
uently raised
Rev. J.

ad on the 27th of
»ced on the 35th
28th of the same
> furder in the first
o--Btenced to death.

and his father @

ied from behind.
ing this duty, the doomed man freq
re and ejaculated a ‘Thank God!”
ev. Mr. Webb, colored, and Rev.
were then withhim. Mr. Hof
a asked him if be still declared
ed ‘‘This is al) for
od don’t hold me
He said ‘It has been said that I
made a confession, but such 1s not the fact.” -
He spoke of his children, two boys
and the other 7 years, both of whom were
his mother in Cider alley
The sheriff then a
shaw! over his shou
arms, and pretect him from the cold, at the time
telling him that it wes time to go to another cell,
and he would return when he was ready to remove
us then said the path was a pleasant
one to him, and he had no fear. a
Rev. Mr. Hoff then led in singing 2 hymn:

‘Hear what the voice of Heaven declares,”

in which the doomed man joined in a clear voice.
Rev. Samue! Chase offer-
pardon all the sins of

F. Hoff and
S. Chase, colored,
then approached
his innocence, to which he repli
I am ne murderer.

of voyages to
g one of these
nothing.
: ee as a murderer.’

4 te 1, whom
phus was & man
; , near Green street.
oached Cyphus and laid
to hide the bind!

sh two children, | him. C

iployed in driv-
=e oie
@ore born in Bal-

——<D REPRIEVES.
she Governor of
= @cheriff Thomas’

3 the @xece-
od hens alias
-@ bruary, i559, at

After singing the hy
prayer, invoking G
ut to die to satisfy the law.
After the prayer, Cyphus sang
load of sin were gone. zi
from the hand of Rev. a
roper tune sto
witha clear vid disti net voles.
isoner the first ten
aul tothe Romans,
pter of the

“QO, that m

He took the boo
bel pathy ine
djand eyainsang
Rev. M! Hoff read to the
verses of the 6th chapter of
and from the 34th verse of the &th cha
game book. Mr.H. then asked him If he believed
all that be had beard read. Cyphus replied that
he believed it all, and be felt better to-day than
He felt brighter. He con-
a murderer,
tne for nothing.’
d himself a sinner,
ut God, for Christ's
fh my sins? They then sung

=e Governor re to strike the

4 execution until
wn, end which
efor & tpone-
a he priso-
Bibe erecution of
Poe. without fur-

= Be prieve, prepare
ye.

eo-rnoe jaenad bis

ertonof Marion _
da on the 1%h of
> the sheriff for.

2 ith of Marth

aday preceding
n. the Governor
eg the execution |

ete of
Et them oe
Bet further ti me
of thetr Goam," |
ake koeorwn
[ ptemeter of

| ate Brent cer teres

ever in his life before.
tinned—“Tbey think they
buithey are kill
asked bim if he acknowled
towhich be rey
aske has pardoned a
the bytin— —

“Of him who

lied, “Yes

Eh
ea

te
om webs iz i bot as Mie 7 ' , ee ee ee ee oe Pee ee ee ee ie ee ee eee
zs Ree eee 7A ; ‘as i
‘ é 2°: hs 3 at oR fia a Me Pe Ee ee : i
PD ih abs fk Fai 1 ; ‘ 4) em ae bt et
1 bit ; aur oe) A BMS hank tae 4

A1d salvation bring.) >
Mr. Hoff told Cypbua that they bad o

fre but one more prayer together, and al

fore the Throne of Grace, and Kev, Mr. Webb led
in prayer Ww
of, end interrn
fine bee come !

the sher!ff enter-

hile he was pray!
ny*, saying ‘the

deen ol le

plared the white cap on hia head .

faith of

sik Bee eee nl ale ag ee > eae
ere Ete oe sda ol

we at:

Sal peemarstion. Gambrill, wna
mB arose quickly and put oc hu

wit i :

3 +] pale. yet very calm, an? stood
=
Ha the gheriff:--“‘Sheriff, this is ea

ee; take out of the world.” Ti

# Poet he regretted {tit eras his
duty = wee it Gambrill re@sarked—
tras: Se Srarder, or of having ary co)
tiem “4 ie tanocent. God’s will |

| ete niaced eronad his wriste b
We ea teth krme were pintoned toget!
front. - Lord were then ced around Lis

ees a |
Capt. Dansker then took the hand rerchtef
young Gambrill's pocket and saturated it wt

ogne and sanayne._ He pares the handke
over Gambriil’s f and. nostrils, tor. |
his weakened and craig com@*étion.

He was dreseed nestly in blak. Deputy -
ker told him to trust in the Lopd. He said b
sustained by the e of God.

A friend (Rev. Mr. Eeans) esked him by
felt. He said he was pre to die—that t
not comm|t the act, nor any knowledge
in any shape or form. No knowledge of &
rangement to take the life of any one.

Kr. Evansssid—Look to God. Dark andr
rious are the ways of Providence; but Go
comfort you... ris ss $e:

The sheriff asked him if he had any object
‘wearing a shawl—it was damp and chilly ov
he bed putit on the others am brill replie
he had no objections, and a dark shawl was |
over him. : ni

He remarked it made no difference how ¢«
air was now—he would be out of theair befor:

The peepeion were made ina few m!.
and the Kev. Mr. Evans whispered wor
consolation in bis ear. A cap was placed o%
white enp pull over the eyes, 80 as to
hide it as he walked out. ;

‘Whilst awaiting the leaving of the cellhe
up firm. The Rev. Messrs. Hedges and
puoyed him up with the consolations bis p:
required. By request of“hose with him |
down in s rockiny chair a short time.

Although nerving himself for the dread mx
bis face betokened the woe of despair...

Mr. Hedges sat beside him and talked to *
Delhi ges He closed his eyes and lister
CeDEh yy». vicsiryionsia

Mr. Evans again told him to look to God,
pray that He would sustin him.

Gambrill dropped hit

mot ready? Bo.

3 va Se at cs, tee he waa. oi
fam * ttogo as quick
«fieagheilteaide=t sgt to go. a8

Mr. Evans, Inying bis hand upon his sho:
srid—‘Henry. the same grace which has sus
others Will aostain you; Fle has prom isel ni
leave Bein our dying hours *

caer LRAVINO THE CELLS.”

Ab three minutes of eleven e'cinck. the fo

i brought from the cele te the co

oie Fe
a “¥ es
* a a

puny, enue ta pck tube
oA, Dering threatened
ated mob who had
rescuing, the prisquer.
o@ticer Rigdon, that
from the Wester st.-
ib ey night Hedid
~+Bohad determined to
| itness on Whose
wh Marion Crop
+ themse! ves = were
og lot.) to kill officer
g him about for ap
ogk on the same cven-
they went to Rigdon’s
eet. near Pearl, to car-
= Corrie watched in
to the Louse, whilst
-yeinto the yard, and
gun, through & back
eas the body, whilst
rte! piece, conversing
iead on the spot. The
‘tm being given, Cor
_ not. however, until
the officers pursuing
Srop was svon after

8 ary ven oe
dcbniederates, Viser
ners were committed
og. Monday, Nov. &th,
, murder of Rigdon;
yin the ce of an
and at the same time
javits that they could
“a 7) here, to Balti.

4 weontown.
vencea onthe 3d of Jan-
been severed at the in-
om the 11th of January
a@tof guilty of mur-
Br @Xb of the

aced to death. The
“yenced on the 13th of

m the @6th of January
‘ae in the first degree,
he was sentenced to

a, about % years of age,
algh, weg he ebout i”)
-apleaion and was by no
egaboul Ui yrarsof age.
High, welghe nigh 180
niexion and light hair,
-erountenance, Corrie
nein epi, 7
eord nary appemrance:
af the Ap is arreat

be reed , bul resigned -

ig fearful pictyre end onc thet would

¥ & wegen sit

Pusicie dhs bel Celle EEE JOA UVC m iis bac fae

lows aniused thempelves by looking from the wih-
dows pa the scene and watching the progress
of events. aie Pes
cs A BME WITHOVT Nore

Thursdsy night wee one without hope

The wether, Sivtet and brother of Peter Corrie
were with himogduphng the afternoon and evening
until O& oc loek. Phe scene ruuning through 6

riod of time Wf Regend description. The affer-
ions of 0 sistebeegre here portrayed in all the
geniality and Saath of ‘woman's nature She
cried over him igedijantly. The mother, who had
been absent at Ag tts during the day, arrived
at abeut 7 P. Bay sined in the company of ber
children, around £ whom the curtain clowing
his earthly caress won tobedrawn. She wept
poten and &:* hig untt] their separation
was called for > Jatences of the hour. Ske
lend that they fe: 255 20% take her from her son --
n parting, Corrie tia, *‘iesk before you and ty
and meet ine in-ijeeyen. Lam prepared to dir.
am jrmocent of having shed human blood Thank
God, I am not going fo be executed for murderiny

an Be ee
“*he father, mother and brother of Feary Gam-
brill visited his oell Baring Thursday afternoon,
and remained until 16 o'clock P.M. The poor
father has shown nnusus! attachment for bis son
While in the cell he clasped bis son to his breast,
nnd exclaimed, what power on earth can separate
father and son.’ Yeung (ambril! wept, and still
de(lared bis innocence. He said that Le wae pre.
pared to die, but the tears and tronbdle of Wis ref
rents were a great source of grief tohim. His
mother wept and clang te Bim, which renewed thr
zed feelings of the gon, until nearly all power
et self-control left him. He threw himaeclf spon
his bed, and burying his bead fn bis pillow, cried
ont!) one would think his beart must break | The
parting mementcame, and he was left alone to bis
sad meditations cochlea ia “
Cyphue retired early. after singing and pra) me.
and slept soundly during the night lle arene party
in the morning. and after dressi himaelf re
tions of the Scriptures. an@ offered up s most
solemn prayer. Cyphos bad but few friends to
visit bim, bis only companion et | his aged
mother and bis spiritual adylsers ig parting
with his mother was of the Most affecting charac -
ter. Yruring the ullerance nf a few words which
paassd between then. he firrals denied baving
comsltted the crline for whieh bie fe pad the

forfeit 3
On Thorday aflernoen fhe father, mother, the

gieters and the brother: of © entered his ceil,

and conversed with hin for last time.
acene enacted was one w bch rennet be dearrt
The linayination can ob § picture the

weothers and eslsters #rate around thr Bu
ton ee if their pose od

convict and sebbin at rend
wovld urst At half-paet nine o clerk at might
the moet leret ble ah gie of allcearme Tt seh
that the last tal ei] was com. HA wee
me ante
_.... The Contesmed ia shete Celle
Se RR CF PMP.

innecet terribie crime for whica

Se wert: gape oma FS ES e aR

a Ot pmo. Ie

fr
1} faving Beowe oe of the eee

Mie cp Bens bands calles wpe _ — Bt
epee bh i walt @hen i | Re Ra. th
of Oe a oe wm plunaetods et

“and sad. Corrfe. when they were shoot ©
him, eptreated them allto pray for bim. ak
they would al! meetin Heaven. During thy
he seenned cheerful, and, after retiring. eleg!
He nrose at bis sual hen neat morooog an
took vo! a sliyist bream kinael. Alillan vie oon
cheerfully, be showed mouch abalely os tl!
hour approached Kev Mr Foley wea » A
as hie Lad been heretofore, sustaining him |
rites of Lis reliylon |

At bolf past ien o'clock the then. ff ents —
cell. T pen entering. Corrie wat mated Ww
pplritual advisers, the fievs Thoiias and Ic
ley. and the Hey. Father Hickey At the %

the cell a neat alter wae erected] on whic’
candies burning and severe! ete eros ifs:
the sLeriff entered Corrie ereme and pir
gresied him The sheriff then proceeded t«
nie armns. While the cord was being pier oc
bands. the sher{ff asked him if it felt omey,'

Wed, with asimile, *No sie it feria comh —
it don'teut me’! A black shaw! waethern
around bis shoulders, when the eheriffieftt
‘he prisoner then engaged in epiritos! co
tlop ith the Reverend Pethers peeaentand :—
to be Ina ha train of mind. emiling fre
virn making bie replies Afler the lapme ¢
fifteen minutes the sheriff again entered ti
and the white cap was placed upon bis bea
which bis ordinary black slouch Lal wee”
Corrie at this time, and alex while bis arr
being pinioned, showed great fortitude. er
Atrections to tLe offcers bow he wouid |i he
fiard hee bis brad. iy seaner therm be |
frre well te the aher! ff a reperters pret
» ddipy edieu te al), be remaried ' PS
the gallows, but am no murderse Eve
Loe da ready, the door of the «¢l) was open
Cort Ph ead (ender em one aide by the H:
Poles, and on the other by depely sheriff 1
satme d jate the corrider and took « poesia:
tne in the rear of Henry Gambe iil.

Cortie {6 sald te Lave Mrittien @ letter re
all the facts connected vw ththe merdee of fh
but yesterday burnt Rup smn: that be le:
become plows,and world not mew Injare hi
bor, he wee to dte m the se affould, and
net alicow ao others to ee fer for the cr me!
intimated te him by some one og Thered
Marion hadl made 8 comf:anian to ©
replied. “<T pet be did wot bell ere it."

BEAR. Gamer t
Up a lete hour Thuraiay aiget Gam?
very werh Prem prostretian Bert bie §
ad visets remmna) rw d wk bias and gonad:
te rely upem (rod a2 the enly belp fe bi
peed. hie retired ated aeraned wee
at ais o'cleck mest marning \V 11k the meet:
ethtdited gare éremeeus amd at rigtte goer
Ree Br Hegre entered Gam tell rere”!
with os amile. Ne sald be feli muck betie |
perrrs were tack stronger Tors tus, b
im ble eoerefenmere Ue se%tie? ea ieeee oh
tam belt! anaes @ statement te tern af Boe |
te whird be sein Seat fe ES

watt! afer 4 wes ,
ané

Recutivectemency
&heir minds,”
- and persisg

‘Brovernor to duce
St of denth & im-
Sniiary, in the case

s\
‘

Ption. and the ereo-
ke by direction of
bn of the 35th of
ined stamding since
ted about twenty-

» yard, and imme-
Bhd and new build-
six inches square,
projecting about

im the corners. It
rhers, which were
rout eight by four-

,. pode of the frame
On the west side
an tron swivel at

L Alacsidias sini cial SP Ea ae cage «i ogg He

hist sufficient to
-oas-Dearn was of
had four sheaves
quite three feet
=e also fitted two
eetevere paced The

In the ground, and

“Sa Ropes wereso
of tue drop aad
nd strik: ng te

jad been placed at
rake the egress
of Lue procession

ec placed the fenr

ibe meeet mel.

The coffins of
‘mahogany, with
e of them Lad the
ae years hs ae

ate of biack wal:
Jar with plated

ct atthey would
a ia Cu ary

e net to ve bung
¥

‘ an@ at Po'cio F

. St oprotarteal fram
gt rar4 2 ttn gb
A

wh) Dye pror oe
peri fand hie oi
A ow leh wee

tment t

eee .

tef. }

piece, and which

noaina of the con-

: ne bandies .. The.

wm cordance with |

canna tar | Bla ce yeaterdny morning

ad beter tope tn”
bie kent with.

‘Auting which be

sijee with @ frmeier

- otis teas wad gi a DF tig, 4 Lis clotting

ne wren ely OR
eriale of fe pew *

: ge elt

Gou. fhe Baie Vi aca Vallg Fhe CCL FERS Sie MM

that Lis Testament be given to his son.” ~

eccemverens MARION CROP. stb
exhibited more firmness on Thursday night. He
spoke freely of the terrible doom thatawaited him,
and said ue had put bis trust in God, believing
that, throuch the merits of Christ, his sins bad all
been forgiven Rev. B. F. Brooke remained with
him ip fo a jate hour at night, and after he left
Crop retired. He slept well and yesterday morning
seemed refreshed. He was more cheerful than
otherwise, and spoke bonndentiy, of his hope of
salvation. He was calm, and thongh hte ci &
sufferiny some emotion, bore himself with muc
nerve. He joined in the teligious exercises, and
seemed earnest In Lis devotions. Crop said he
could bear all but giving up his father and mother,
and brothers and s{sters. They were near to his
heart, and God only knew how hard it was to part
with them.

The mother, sisters and other relatives and
friends of Marion Crop bid him a final farewell
on Thursday night at nine o'clock. This last part.
ing was a most te? « rscene Nopen can give
sp ion of it, Bie had died ont, and dis-

palr with all ite horrors, was alone left to their
cries and lamentations, that awakened feelings of
came from the cell of the

the profoundest = ed
doomed man, The mother and farther left the
jailacarcely able to walk wereles and mourning,
and give vent to bursts of grief. nario
Tne parting between the prisoner and his father
is said to Lave been a most effecting scene. He
clung around his father’s neck, kissed him time
and avain and wept with the fullness of a child.—
In parting with his mother, for ber
ed calmer than in parting with eny of bis otuer re-
latives, but when sheha wone the strong man sank
The following letter was banded to Rev, B. F
Brooke by Crop, at 9 o'clock, intended for him-
acifand Rev George Hildt, who was with him
and who attended to bim from the time of his
conviction: ora Bisin
— ‘' Pyiday morning, 9 o'clock.
“To my spiritual advisers. By your kind {n-

struction { haves bright hope of going to that land —

where the porting band |e never taken, and my
dear friends, if you should ever bappen to see an
of my old companions, tell them to turn te God,
for he jag merciful God. And now farewell, fare
well UH we meetin Heaven, Mapios Crop.’
ty his cell on Thuraday, Crop sald to Rev, Wm
scott Downey, who frequently visited him, that
wp tothat time be bad es ted that his friends
would reacue him, butthen hope bad failed, and
heenwoonly death before him a
At itamtnut « part 10 e’cloc’ the her! entered
mate comomiunication with hie apirituel advisers,
fievs Mirmare Hildt end Brooke He had tite con!
off. but rose and put ton. The deputy sheriff
then preeeeded to pin the aripe of he prisaner,
stand. erect and manifested

alaren of trepidation.

When ‘he arine were that
wei deen While tying him, be
¢eetia Liurt bir
Tne cord wee then jrapeed bark of him and ed to
peti eff hie ti terre fe bee atieeiit anit pormee then left
the toeen Crop requested the wate ee
ALeand

:% ahewt. whir

firesinet hed corpo

The ep se oe BA te prtenger'e shield ett and pinned
en ae im pita al) the conde) ta tying hie arene —
fine Bow Me NIMAL then fh cond eee Ge owt and
Prrret prose Eing’e ge rorvett, andl he sppee'
o@ te tee 4 Perese Fee nttion A thee pret yer hee
CT eed net bic exet- end dived met op ae dete ett
aaeae-the on

piote tt ati ceertt ie Ree
eR 1 thee! at wre pee ee

sake he appear-

die wae found ta intl.

nod.
® nerve contracts ora”

| penta te ie bedn. he appeared a. man ef fen —_
and pine’, he qiriet 2k Eases
whe aeked ifthe 4.
Heyeplied Ne Teen stand ft

imaen te dress.

hb wae

Bia FETE Poe WIL Eee SER,

The Kherif headed !t, Gambr!l! came
Dennty Bheriff Daneker and the Rev, ¥

Cerie next, with Deputy Sharif P,
M eeaea, Foley and Father Hickey |

0 doe text, with oe ye Sherif Wocle
Mowers Brooke and Hildt.

Cypius came last, with Deputy She
and ficy. Mr. Hoff, and Rev. Messrs.—

and “iaer. colored.
t goceeded out the celi stairway
the the back door across the

na directly up on to the drop.
staining a great deal of mers
eppafently sustained ya hc
on (strations of religlo®-
eters and others followed int!
if, were admitted within tt
-seatold. =
gee DIOCESS-ON , out inte ¢
condemned centhited a arondeful deg
porate: -@ambrill appeared. weak an
ut was $11! firm. Cropand Corrie look
gard: Ap sker appeared to fee) his sit
of all, srolled as he greeted sever
he ed along. ~~ /

When the cortege reached the yar
number of persons there ajmultanes
their hats, and opening a , allow
silently and solemnly onward. s

EE “ON THE SCAFFOLD.

The prisoners took their places unde
onthe drop. Amid breathless silenc
ste forward and said:

“Fellow-citizens, | am now abon
eternity, but am innocent of the murd
Benton, or of baving any thing to d-
W hen you see this trap fall under me, _
an innocent man launched into eternit,
one and all.’’ 2 |

He had stepped forward on the se’
tn aloud and very firm voice, and wt |
be stepped back again to his posit

rope.
“Eypbns then stepped
‘*] must tel) you that
other innocent man. I
der. They gave me ® name I! neve!
am innoccnt. Iam going home to
no more to say than that. Good-by, a
friends ooo i eee nee
Cyphus resumed bis place, havin:
firm and clear voice. |
Crop then sang the following bymr |
“HYMN stUNG BY CROP ON THE GA’
Pon pares Fos must leave >
ear npoee Are o'er,
Bet ta Vicaven i hope to greet you.
Phere to meet to part no mors.
When a few more momenta wanter |
win this diving sCOne ip O' Oly |
von thie Inet dread grniefli've tas.

forward and «
aah are goin;
now nothing

Leh!) rhe@te fail no more.
Vast my sun of life's declining,
Boon “twill aot He@ndless night:
By my hopes, pudand reviving,
inate fairer wGexia of lie

ete
‘

nf gpa this mouradg . tremiblin 8
Soe th shall bureimie enlien gio

Then ['y epirit Gasca ing, fying,
=. Bball he Lorne Eegend the tomb.

gli f® feng in a nd voice pant
(iamilitit tn the mage distinct tone —
iower, and Abr lipe of Cottle only |
AT the eleew of the hymn Crop
ioudl ¥: iPprewell, aio’ which wor
iOS tube by Ganka i and Uyph
eva} Pithty the encicsvre Ipreiunt
. re were then adjusted
af “HRT tA? Ponte

ee Sa ne Sr ' ai eo a 3 BRR Sigs nb AE ih rhe AEE ie PSR om ay SE) Seay oe
¥ MQRNING, “APRE S
7 4 aio Rains eGR see

Age ree LS

We old Mr. Edwird Lamia,
@, ““-t when the wagedy wae
1h gee # distant ~— the
ws, abd next morning
tered ‘Or Ohi ight him, and
as m m, ;
etBrothes Chase,
af man, | am ed to die.’
‘hat of all the others, the shertff
‘er than the!r spirjtaa! ed-
‘g cells nate ten o'clock,
ten o'clock the Sheriff, with
@, entered the cell of John Cy-
Were then bound, and hig arms
» W hile the officer was alam:
oomed man frequently ralsed
s ‘Thank God!” Bev. Sf
a Webb, colored, and Rev.
, Were then with him. Mr. Hoff
Bd asked bim if he still declared
which he replied ‘This is all for
sfurderer. God don’t hold me
e said ‘‘It has been said that J
wm such is not the fact.” -
‘Ghildren, two boys, one 10
fe Gogh both of whom were
Cider alley, neer Green street.
oached Cyphus and laid a
ere to hide “A binding of his
: him from the cold, at the time
tt was time to go to another cell,
mn when he was ready to remove
“er id the path wasa AS a
2} nd fear, oy
Qa aed in sin ging 2 hym
he voice of Hewes Nelares
om man joined ina clear voice.
n, Rev. Samuel Chase offer-
God ts to pardon all the sins of
ania thelew.
Ylosd of sin were gone.??
from the _— of Rev. Mr
Fa strike the tune sto
x witha clear san distinct voice.
vad tothe prisoner the first ten
bapter of Paul tothe Romans,
Verse of the &th chapter
H. then asked him if he believed
es read. Cyphus replied that
he felt etiar to-day than
He felt brighter. He con:
i‘ they have got a murder
me tne for nothing.’? Mr. Hott
Benya ka himeeclf a sinner,
od,, Yes, but God, for Christ's
Sh my sins.** They shen os

SZ salvation Dring. 1:
hus that they bad opportunity
ayer soxathn and al) knelt be.
race, and Rev. Mr. Webb ied

was Ing thesherl{f enter.
4 geocoding: saying ‘‘the

Taeed the white cap on his hend.

ites before 11 o'rlock® the con

‘Bore from the call. Wille
prayed mate

3 Wee #ifon *

mving there 1h tb

cpt tare

[etl om cen - pean ee

faith of

wan =al preparati
Be fiaert "arose quickly end put om bis eow

ali ts ‘well; -

tion. Gambetll whe >

om. pale, yet very calm, and stead with
che shertff.— Sheet, thie ts ome in.

wen take out of the world.”’ The she
sei he regretted itett wae his stern
it Gambrill kexd''f die

et, or of “having any connec.

i die tanocent. God's will is my

gen
wae placed around his wrists ie fir

2% . both Arms were pintoned hee tn
front. .qacerd “was then ed aroand his back,
pole S. 50h of his elbows firmly againsi his

Capt. Daneker then took the hand ker bief from

of the

Cyphne-
at he thesired |

ing Gambrill’s pocket and saturated it with co
ogne and anodyne. He the hand kere hief
over Gambrit!’s fore nostrils, to relieve
bis weskered and seg Se thon.
He was Gremed nestly in x. Deputy Dene.
ker teld him te trust in ote He said he was

sustained by the e of God.
A friend (Rev. Mr. E ) asked him how he
felt. He aaid he was to die—that he did

not haga the act, nor any pt of it
in any shape or form. No Parity, weed Any Bf-
rangement to take the life ne

Mr. Evans ssid —Look to G Dark and m yste-
rious are the ways of Providence; deb God will
comfort you.

T he sheriff asked him if he had an F aiieton to
wearing a shaw]—ii was damp and chilly out, and
he bad putitonthe others Gambrill replied the
he had no objections, and a dark shawl was placed
over him. —

He remarked it made no difference bow cool the
alr was now—he would be outof theelr before long.

The preparations were made ina few minutes
and the Kev. Mr. Evans whispered words of
eaten. in bisear. A cap was Veggie over the
white cap to pull over the eyes, 80 as to nearly
hide it as be walked out.

Whilst awaiting the leaving of the cell the stood
up firm. The Rev. Messrs. Hedges and Evans
buoyed him up with the consolations bis position

required. By request ofhose with him he sat
down in & rockiny chair a short time.

Although nerving himself for the dread moment,
bis face betokened the woe of despair

Mr. Hedges sat beside him and talked to him in
low W bispers. He closed ule eyes and listened tn-

tently. :
Mr. Evans again told him to look to God. and to
n him.

pray that He would su :
Gambrill dropped hig head, apparently in dee
in a few minutes looke

nitential sorrow, an
up, and, addressing the: heriff, said: “Are you

m rendy?'*
The aber! ff replied t!
G am brill said—.‘‘f
sible.’ -
Mr. Evans, lnying Sa hand upon his shoulders,
said— Henry the same grece which bas sustal net
others Will aostain you; fle has promised never to
Ieeve Hein eur dying hours?
LRAVIVG THE CRILLOO
Ab tree minutes of eleven efclock, the ‘teu ye:
+ We Iingwtce serio the celle te the corridor,

: 5 As ulaaiy came wext with

: he was.

Sed ae ea eee a ee

canes vine are eags with ‘the ree oe

t to go as quick ns pos: “| farewell till we meet in

, Hs, “
o 8 a
6 AM A RL Ss RS A RE feelin, din, Se abke, OF dh aks eelpednsh-td ah dsanciale 1 =

tli be wee den. :

The crowd bs eevee
este por ote Fly aeiy all tot dopann the ¢

2 Se ae ©? cRor
On W ¥ sigh! are;
Bee the Pinte: A thormey, Ls
certa'n feveiations. Bd: Pinkney
attorney. called | Mt the pec mex
ney, to see him Crap wri Bampti«,
conditvons for Bimeelf, boi ty
Rone could be promised —the!
must be free and voluntary, and
be submitted & Ais me cond »
officer of the Biate. and ha could dc
er there wee any thing tr te Oree.
opinlow reistive te bis guilt.
Ph ther seid that on the night «,
Rigdon be and Corrie were at a iss,
street, and went fram thence up i
ar whom be nained 1B
gs
They went up. and tere other ma.
pany—one fortes: i police officer,
a constabla—that and ©
coromut the murder athe ya ot lew |
it; and that neither be ner Corrie we.
or at the house when the murder w,
The pistol Corrie carried up waa,
ther—one of the mans Sr Ramble 3
anid thet after the murder be and ¥
went into Ri gdan's house and asw thy.
bad nothing to @6 with the killin.
ney tokd him the statement would a
ment, affect bis case at all—_that
tent, and be (Mr, Pinkney) world!
iy ustice to say that he could have |

+8} o.
and his father eti pn iatest the’

F-Pt
oe
Vb

shen Id not be given, as Gritten ace
ney, for publication, nor anything #
after al) of executive clemenc

The statement was evidently made f;
tain conditions or st! pulsations relat{|

Mr. Pinkney, with Captain Jam
remained in the cell till about 2 o'¢|
morning. Knocking et the fror a
and the Sie 40 esring them #}
utes, Crop os Eo out ety loud la
to Mr, Pinkney—“ Why, you ere ae)

LETTER FROM CROP,

This was written with bis own
morning, addressed to Rev. Geot
Rev. Benjamin F. Brooke:

To my Spicitiual Advisers ,—By.)
striction. | have a bright hope ¢
land where the parting hand is mn
my dear friends. 1f bps should eve!
any of my old companions, tell thes
for He ts merciful ere | a mal

va,

af!

April 8th, 18599 o'clock, A. Bf.
ANOTHER LETTER FROX €
The following letter was written s

and placed tn the hands of Dr ES
made public afler Crop's death:

To my Fellow Mortais:—Desr Fr
a few hours of the moment when ii

ffeaving the Celi that be Gesired
mm be given to his soneoos:.
SMARION CROP
frmness on Thursday night. He
terrible doon, thatawa ted him,
/ ut his trust in God, believing
“merits of Christ, Lis ains bad a
+. F. Brooke remained with
at niylt, and after he lef
Biept Welland yesterd ay morning
a. ate was more cheerful than
oke ponteeory of his hope of
Wascaim, and though evidentl
motion bore himself with muc
@ in the reliyious exercises, and
fn his devotions. Crop said he
af giving up his father and mother,
A sisters. They were near to his

aly knew how hard it was to part

pisters and aiher ‘relatives and
aCrop bid him a final farewell
ght at nine o'clock. This last part
a re scene Nopen can give
{ the had died ‘at t,and dis-
“horrors, was alone left to their
ons, that awakened feelings of
‘pity came from the cell of the

The motber and farther left the
-*to-awalk page $ and mourning,

Porisoner and his father
na most. effecting scene. He
ther’s nec ene § him time
fept with the ullness of a child.—
s mother, for ber sake he 8
® parting with any of his other re-
yeahe had pone the strong man _
a tter was banded “Fig

a o'clock, intended for a
c Hildt, who was with bim |
24 _ to him ‘from: the time of his

| 4 Priday morning, 9 o'rlock
ffunt advisers: By your kind in--
- g dright hope of going to that land
: ag and in never taken, and my
|

yn ahovld ever he to see any -
o@piona, tell them to turn te God,
‘fo! God And now farewell, fare
etin Heaven, Marton Crop.”
Thursday, Cropaaid toRev. Wm
Who frejuently viatted him, that
e bed expected that hie friends

}

Be | before him —

past ie o'ciock the sheriff entered -
Ds ane Ile was found tn tntl-
‘Btion ait his spiritual edvisers,~
1 At and Hrookr. He had his con
Aoput jten ‘Phe deputy sheriff
"Sn pin the arme of ¢ leaner,
1 pa eres? and manifested no
bie ® metve contracts) or. a.
A Aa appeared a manof tren
; = ‘Ned and plained, he quietly
* y its hfe he whe wohl Hf the.
fe replied. JM 1 ean stand it”
aaerd bark of him and Ged to

ae The pheriif and ) then left
ee lhe wale bran to dines
i. srrerge bos - lnthilay ther tft

Ae hia ® anewt witch wer

lerpey'e shanidera end panned

ge Atte sted a Se oraal ¥, 'Ferewell, alk’ which wos repeated ina

4 Ma goeeveel, eet he eppear lens by Gambri and Cyphus | per.

grnieve ds “tte «= Atm #1 be t eat aA wilyin tue cam lesure involuntarily returned
ee? end 14 Bat apa betree § Ss FP a

- ; pee eR were then ediuet<]..Mr Daneker

| ge hens eect tim—aitteciok dents Seopa: as) Ponteer that of Cor.

| Mestre Brooke and Hildt.

@, but then hope had Called, and fp

diam bell th the m

a ie taal iii Maia ai

and formed in procession.
The ®her!f headed it, Gambrll! came next with
Deputy Sherif Daneker and the Rev/Rir. Hedges.
ae te next, with Deputy Sheriff Pontier and
r. §& ‘&.
C fae tex t, with De uty Sherif Woolen and Rev.

By
oo

Fo:cy and Father Hickey
yp came last, with Deputy Sheriff Sparks
es . Mr. Hoff, ‘and mae Messrs. Wevd and
. colored.

* the back door across the yerd to the

tad directly up on to the drop, the prison-

jutaining a great deal of nerve and com-
eppsfently sustained a BY a hope ground.

: tions of col

“erg and others followed Inthe line from

2. were admitted within the enclosure

eS seafold.
ocemsion ed outinto the yard the
a wondeful degree of com-

enue: exhibi
ae, Gambril) ap ai weak and sufferin
but ghee gs Peis | Corrie looked less bane

yphus red to feel his situation least

of all, aids sled te he grected several parties as
e on

When the = seackat the yard the large

number of ns there ajmultaneously raised

their hats, and opening a ) allowed it to pass

silently and solemnly onward
ON THE sca¥roLn.
The page took their places under the ropes:
on the Amid breathless silence, Gambrill

ey ward and said:
ellow-citizens, I am now about going inte

eternity, but am rmetieeee of the murder of ofticer
Benton, or of havin thing to do with it —
W hen you see this p fall under me, you will! see
an innocent man launched into eternity, Farewell,
one and all,’

He had stepped forward on the ‘ecaffold, ‘spoke
in aloud and very firm voice, and when he ‘ceased

he aeepet back again to his position wader the

bus then stepped forward and sald: .
must tell you that ie he are going to Gees an-
shee aapocent t man. now not hy of that mur-
der. They gave me ; name I never went b
am Innoccnt. Iem gotng home to God, save
no more to say than that. Good-by, all of you, my
ffiends.”’
Cyphus resumed his place, having’ Ls int a
firm and clear voice.
Crop then sang the following hymn:

HYMN aUNG BY CROP ON THE GALLOWS. .-
ae Eermer tients, J now rmurt leave you, .

Arora

x“ “ye epee

eo My. ¢ arth Shopeenre o'er,
_... Bytintlraven t hope to greet you, _ Sea uae,
a Ore agate tw part no mora,

W ne one ware inoments was
th de ilving scene is 0 ‘or,

— ww hen this last dread grief i've tasted,
~—Pehall rise to fal! no more, ren conn nr
Past my sun of life's declining

w= Api rete sot ithtncliens night;

: the rOviv iMG, _
sof hightiens 2 scam
a ighinny

a mh iy my ‘per, pul
; ete fairer w

a th H ea Baa, » SoTL in
th ehall bure

eaniion ¢ my
OM fHy eHitit Ageing, fring, ———
ad eh be berne Bese mi the ‘tomb as ane

end voice and wes as joined by
Paletinet tone Cyphnus aang

lower, and thr Lipe ot Lorrie only could be seen
le Move,

— tinee of the hymn Crop « cried ont very

a pany ia #8

1 and to the

the awit.
owing th

&® te

part. and ireling ee
now stand, and id 6
in the presence of the nha? if
few words in taking inal ire ve és
expreas! ny sincere garrow {:
nition towards these with w bor
clated.
With regard to the causes whi:
leld to the groseer praviont of nm
say nothing. Let the vellafe
as itshould cover my eius new
to eipiate them. If is ponrsel
should remind you of the neces
influences which led me into my
but te my fermner companions
some advice, and of that it m
as a voice from the grave, exheor
ing them to avoid what has brow
Ei vor and bad assoc istionns e:-
bas eat tned others as well as
me anteat you to reinember
has followyd my transyresnons
Let {t stagd out in after yours
warning obers from the wrong:
one, an eminding them, wie
ein similar acts, of what ma)
the ignominious death wh:
and by the bleeding hearts of ep
my companions have caused. |:
fy from the deeds which are |!!+
I wish, inconcinsion, toexpree
warden and bis deputy for the!
Mr. James Prior and Robert f
been tn my cell four weeks v
good bye to all—God bless you
THE DYING #TATEMENT OF Itt’
The followiny statement waa v
on Thursday niyut by Henry
rapa, whom he esper telly 6G
in bis cell for such per
‘On to-morrow, and the time
when I shall suffer an ignom
now, infull view of that , ey ‘
‘sense of the terri ble reepons! b!!!
immortal spirit if Pshall go tn
God with any other than the nw!
soul, } feel it due to my affifeter
public, to publish
dying statement +of all my cor
unfortunate murder of officer be
On tbat nigbt | left my house.
Richard Harris, Houck, Davis
others, without having the lens
mitting viclence syvainst any one
understanding or “know lec ge ¥
of the sf to do wrong—h
my self, and not know ing thet ar
any. Wewent to James aed se
there a short time convers'ny
Mr. Miller. we all Ieft Morge
stopped at Mr. David Cross’, in
gany afew songs. We then er
and commenced singing the
Harris went into Sirs. Gree
member or the pavement te! k's
caster about getting Harris an
away nicht intended to ¢
two Yoho Isenhardt got into a
throngh the windew. whirh §
mates that Mre. Green's sen ren
called for the watch. Ofcer:
belng close by went at once inte:
rested Inenhbardt. and as they ¥:
out, officers Benton, Taylor and
the direction of the avenue, wh!
Green's. Officer Benton caug bi
whe David Houck tnterferec. ‘al
jet go hie hold on lsenbardt a
re! 9 Brown then aseisted phic

a
ses

tis mother, sisters aad

fanily had remained with him s!!
ing n religious exercises. The rtiag
fe He and son was most affecting

‘all meetin Heaven. During the eight

his usual heur next morn

gyphe showed much anxie y as the fm

religion.

me Rev Father Hickey. At the first end
‘neat altar was erected. on which were
imning and several smal! crucifixes. As

Fentered Corrle arose and Prepinten
m. The sher!ff then preceeded © nion
NV hile the cord was
Bheriff asked him if it Sites he i
a@smile, ‘‘No sic, it feels comfortable
tme.’’ A black shawl was then ianed
1. shoulders, when the shberi ffleftt
mer then engaged in spiritual seuverda:
le Reverend ers presentand eae
train of rind, cpentilg tee of soek
ny his replies After the ls
aintee the sheriff = pone ry the scsi
Mite cap was plac bis head, over
dinary black atone hat was |
his time. and also while his arnis were
bes showed great fortitude, and gave
j officers how he would ike his hat

utad, The prisoner then bid a last
sheriff and the reporters present. In

‘adieu to all, he remarked, ‘‘] die wu
va, but am no murderer” Fiveryth
ae , the door of the cell was opened. an

orted on one ead by ae Mr.
the other ty sherlff Pontier,
corrider nil ‘took position in the
” os of Henry Gambrill.
agaid to have written a letter sitenve
connected withthe mar dcret Ri
day burnt it up, saying that he her
jand won!d not now Injare hie neigh-
to die rg oe? the scaffold, and would
by others offer for the crime. It —
tm by some one on Thursday
had made a coufrmion, to w ch he
the did not believe it. = =...
|= MERRY Gawsrizz. ©

bour Thursday night Gambeill eat.
- mech from tion, bet his spiritual

malned with him and counselled him —

@ God as theonly help in his serere

€k next morning With the mornin be
Sirenness rete ale Chea choc Rw

: Peter Freeman left “his cel with e

J Peter Counie. :
Thursday night Corrle’s relatives took
eve of bim.

itheerful, and, after retirin a er well. ==

> %

ht breakfast. Although Ronvertiag
tal

ached. Rev Mr Foley wat with him, -
een heretofore, sustaining him in the «

en o'clock the sheriff entered hie ;
* b entering, Corrie was seated with -his |
advi sers, the Revs. Thoinas and John Fe |;

ike a aetd Seda ea eee
beech stronger There however, |

PRTC) poe Sacra Cicainer OVeriOoK Ing tue
Wiis, going to each and fixing the knot
wecurely belind thelr left ears. The sheriff and

frat. deputies, with the prisoners, were all that
_ Went & trom the scaffold .

Barn trill prayed quite and! bly, sith b!s face up
e Terned towards the heavens: the ethers could be
¢ Sen moving thelr Ps. Corric on parkas more fail.
*, when they were about to leave ¢ Sayt than the others, and never epone

1
: i. _ Nem all to pray for him, and said ©
|

inan audible
ken the gallows,
¥pbuasraiied and prayed after the ro #pni
ae neck, looking upwards. Once peWwal
seed in tp recognition of some one in the crowd,
ere asgmile on his face.
e and Gambrill closed thelr
= Apore ated pps them either of he ‘anank
thi eve rendy?the white cans were
eh over ces gers the four men stood
ae the fatal drop.

“rill was under the first noose at the east
tise Deam. Corrie was stationed next; Crop

| eee 4 a Cyphus at the fourth Reve, at the west
ee of the beam. 7

THE FATAL DROP.

Phe deputies reached the ground, and as Sheriff

stepped from the last step of the a ateld
his foot touched ee iitca and at 5 minutes

Il o'clock the drop fell, ainid a suppressed thr!!! of
Sertst and four b buman | ings were dangling In

The suppressed of the thousands out
side be distinctly beard within the yard, as
it “pag from many Lips:

gent windows In the female department of the

i ait were a number of female prisoners—white and

lack—and as the drop fell, their cries and screams
could be heard throughout the

Gambrilland C ocriesureauia A for a. minute er two
only, and then were still, except the muscular mo-
tion Batural te such deattis.

Cropand Cyphus struggled for some five mia.
utes. and then, with the exception of the muscular
motion, were still.

The drop of the rope was about two and e ah
feet, and all four appeared to die very quickly.
some six minutes no motion conld be o

W bile they were thus hanging, the cofliins were
broug bt out pander the galltent and od ready
for the reception of the laodies, ‘They
been placed under the scaffuld, as usual, for fear it
wou more unnerve the prisoners as they came ott.

~ LOWERIXG THE Bopigs.

At reo, eg 11 o'clock, having hung fwenty-@ve
minutes bodies were lowered near the ground
ec on Dr. FE. 8. Thomas. physician ot
the jail; Dr # Yeates and Dr. Owings Mans,

Senet ee
There was a faint po bie in the heart
Bait ged snk tn desth.

minutes more els . and Cyptus being

wil in death, their ies were lowered detwn

aed placed {a the cofine provided by the fronds

dois @ natural pos! The faces
Of weither were © i Bayne ine os or

thes “CONVERSION OF cROP,
gifts the dente fe Pars as own nae

two tle vale, when i ran uf
Ge you intend t do with +
and go inte the bonse for :
no renmi ¥ door? el ee i
bac x! into the

I then ief} es tite’:

| Biddle street til: Cet ‘

down which } turnen’ Bee!
side SA bes | gut femriy :
friset Mer penn ¥* aters Role
Biddle street. and sur %2
few feet of bin, T heemrd ts
immediate! y turned rotnt
ters bad alec 5g lg 1th
i ermpeae dewn the sven:
the curb-stone Sergren: *4
Harrie answered. (still ry
corner’ Tanw acre ter
(orchard street, and ran ne
Waters the: continues tay
On My Core towerds hoes
Land side of the avenue 1:1)
court. when | cromed over
into Franklin street from |)
the north side of Franklin «
Greeti and Paces streets {:
and Mr. Mi Pierson whe
me; they gahed what the
plied. leenbardt le drunk
le south aide of Pars ety net
McPherson. and whilst ors
intersection with Brankiia:
Holtz, whom we had joet
Or the mort): sideof Frank:
came over afd jolned us ay:
] comtinued towards bee:
Ot the terner of Franbliin a:
Pheraon amd Halts left me
O¥'n boner. @ve bows fren:
pices Moon afler reer bing
fece of weier meio: i
n ath pt. Browse Norwood
bey entered, and same cen:
{Ween theen. whee 4 athie:
could sweur te bie. te hb
Vi athing said. then we Let!
and they ol} left. 4
After esting my pleve of
jag antiows to bnew whet?
By contend cep aed wrest ¢
+ renkiln sad bietew sirerte ,
Maloney. whe hed bute lit
bean. evidently is pearch a
ed them wheat tem us!
ip the manner they ¢id
Beston Lad been killed whi:
of any murder beriag bee.

oak then: who hed done it—4,

did pet know. | pet thre,
and they both geve the exsey
to Howard Devis, whe wes,

@ Wb ket they gepee elven es

Morgan's and lagu tee gcc;
_ When we got fe Margan:|
and others. rad et ence sais)
Jou billed Femtom,”* te wrist)
d—n well did, dex | wea}
him, Pd then’ et ag et

VE Since pee tris, dice op
af tad, * Shes te 2 oa
eh bome Orenk:'s

OB when Daeis ua
tre abewt het seas roa j

pes 6 tae one ge ths

, Ben: poms pretigeoing whe © on ‘paleve bia ’ : pie Sagas } for his deed ve
pee arom Quickiy mal put ea bis = bor rn lack, wi the =. “= gf

jued pale, yet very calm, and stood with | The crowd bean te leave fe Pama agrinst the cou
oe mOon, pearly all Cope : et om é Heaps eece as deve
! to fine eter —'-ROnert pe nce Scan Coneumneied = es tae: <i sosae had | ro ie ped to i
me Yow. take out ef the worl ® STATEMENT oF cho = Pisecter,
dod ihe be reg retiet 11-11 was hisstern | On Wednesday night requried te it tested. |
\eeterm 14 -dremm brill me nny cot die | see ihe State's torney, Mr. Whi make esi cer ak
wf the —— o of aay A arg eerie len ae i. Pinkzer,
eit tamocent m ronda called af Whit.

A to see him. Crop evid y tried to make words nat

te dono, !
ote were placed! arwbd bis wriete by Mtr. ponditions for himeelf, bot be war tid thai Or cherates
sod tedi arene Were piannes in | none could be promised—that what he made ae rag 8 ait
Alea ogh igh migaloe’ bis | be wubmiited to Mr. Whltner, ac the ‘operior | S,che amen 7
leet, af hae ot firm) net at , perier $ |
ion: oe offices of the State, and b determine wheth | fonud witho

eaahe then temk the hand k@chief from | er there was any thing in to create reared =f Idid. My iz
joo te hh por Bet one maturates it with oo. | opinion relative te his guilt my friends say
“i anodyme He the btndberchief | Crop then sald that on the night of the killi upon his evic
awit > fowehwmd and nosts a , to relieve Rigdon he and Corrie were at » honse on Holl . was to be tal

hd dik lating pind ties street, and went from thence up town—that ano- | me to be such
ipeesone” wan; in biack Thepety Dane. | ther r person, wher be named, gave Corrie the In regard to
owe te areamt tn Ube [nd | me said he wae pistol my conviction

Ss the grace af Ood They went ap. one Oe ee eee ene ee eleventh hour, _

As per My Evans! eabet Bim how he | pany—one formerly police officer, and the otha and so truthful

Smid te wee | te ai hat he did ft 2 Seid wis akan bee » (Crop) and Corrie did not | And just bere |

: A tne ol mee 1 aby hoc@iedge of it | commit the marder—t other two men did | knowledgment

Fede fore. Ne Rmowledge of any a it) and that nefther he nor Corrie were inthe alley | this testimony,
te tele te life of any one - , of ot the houses when the murder was done. i tive clemency;
dnemnd Lack jo tad Dark and myr. | The pistol Oorrie carried up wa taken by ano- | could not be pr
fine ways Providence, But (red will thee .one of the men be named—who fired it. Crop | commendation
ey aeid that he nid and cehedy putter i friends believe
heaved tm If tee had shjertion te ‘went into Ri gdon’s house and saw the utthey | men brought t
eo eee oe darn iy aut and | bad nothing do with the killing. Mr. Pink- ¢ have -thito. jos é.
lt we the athens gr dae dy requiedt they ney tokd ma hie Se pote cade bed leave them tor
ans sey bs ener a the nconsis- § the uneven wa!
= pS Sere the wl Ses Pee toni, e (Mr. Pinkney) would be doing bim ] jast hours, hart.

eo edt + mate me ditierenee tow rt the! npc os heat uld bave any hope of his | T feel it my ¢

fl * be weembd be eal of Laeels before 4 counsel fo my
Z. a aos aume ct rep and bis father etipninted that the statement } which is to e:
= 6 ipa * ya oat nina in eheuld net be given, aa written down by Mr. Pink- | than any other

= ' : gi ga? etn ever the ter pudliretion, por an ing anid abont itttl! | lamentable e:

nae & te pemer hy: et all of executive c emency bad falled.— } some lawful an

oe pa

She ye ‘ T be etatrenrnt ved Adccharil ape th qe kee oin the churc!
ag the td tain conditions of stipulations ve : ness. wh
eee ion ni iedg. ley pst ie, aioe TN ae , with Captain James, the warden, | (fod. Perbape
on ser ete Die hi pow tian | | pensined in the sell ull about 3 o'clock, Thureda ‘y He wns in ope
Oa 44 ane 4 es with him he nee we phe y ec at the frond a to getou wishes and ent

‘gina chek a6 hme SSeS See lose re not —e them for several min- | And new, a3

ro oF srpke eut bebe . loud h, and said a sinner whea

eee | We, wiabhey~ Why, you ov area p toner too!” i. visited by the: |

: in blew te 7 sy TTR fe ge CROP Ks thized *
é at et Pie wes written with bis own hand ten me in the thin:
a esis | Re otAreered to Rev, werrg? Mildt an racks taduced :
fen jarr in F Brooke ance of all my

Forme @ Bpittwal sie ae ¢ Rind tn. trom oop chi |
frac tien, <2 a St! io ae ng ty tie commandmen
| ea we here ite Jayne wit 7 hove taken: ‘and | my adorable §
if ye aha Roe baron to see | confidence tha
te. te ' Grd” en re for all

Be old te

ow tenis we 440 SUE, BAG Tell upon

wRiydon's ON i nrc
eoticer gave chase, when another man (since
pened as Ma! Croppe } followed) and ran

sory on the other aide of the street. (00k sin

aged ont Corrie, and came vp with him ona he:
2 calling on him to stop.

Corrie did not heed but
ran ot Baltimore to Pine and to Penn sucets,
the pursued and pnrauer exchancing shots occa-
Benaily. At Venn street, Cook waa joined by of
foers Jamison and Hoge tne. one of Whon @prang
his tattic tn advance af Corrie, Which so alarmed
him, that heostinekened his ce, and wos eaagily
captured. When he found encar in the hands
of the officers, he begged for life, and said as
God lived” be was tunocent of the murder He
then tn bie fear, confessed, and sald «Mal Cropps
did it’) Hewas locked up ina cell at the wes.
term station. tis Cap, &Acioth one, with an ol!
tioth cover. was found to hare been perforated
With one of the balls fired from Cook's revolver

There was besides a wound bpon bis nose, but
whether inflicted by a ball or spantoon was not
certain -I0@s said that after the shooting, Croppe
appeared at the house, and mingling with Nhe
thiong Of persons attracted, forced himaeif
Into tue room where the wor of Kigdon lay,
riving vent to ejaculations of borrer at the deed
A cotlmon with others, and expreasions of his
Cencern for the deceased. He {a represented by
Persons Within bis hearing as having said, 4
should Hke to po Jack Ketel: for the ——— whe
kitted htns ” Rig Wasa yoad fellow; —be often
lent meso quarter when | was hard up Great
Pty,” “Shame, and such like e*xpressone = En
soon Alter lett the scene. Between 10 and 3}
ocleck Mayor Swann went to the western station,
andpeansed Corrte, who bed turned states’ tvi-
dence, te be arfaigned before him.

Being sworn he testified that he was tn n street
tending from German atree t, (Penn street) when
arreated = Had passed Kiydon's house tn compa

Ny Wit® Cropps and another man he did not
know oe went up the alley leading to the
rearof iivdon’s house, and witness stood xt the
brad of the alley. Heard the het and ran, but
cOnid nt eay positively that Croppe fred the abot

A itoecee was drunk, smal ore Severn! tenes wt
ln@mey ‘es tavern, close b tan AWRY Whrn the
shet was fired for fear his Preaerace might excite

seepictar and connert Lint with the imurder He.
fete Hivdon was sbhet witness wae tin the dr

veers atore of Ri Gone, bet left Croppe at Cut,
hry 8. Witness did'nt know he was in Higdon's
afore did'nt bnow Higdon. nor Croppeeither until
the day of the murder Did net MO Altre Uy from

the reurt honer to Kipdon’s house, but Brat Went.
wal the cor |

teenrper aad aflerwnrde met Crop
rr ol Layette and North atreete. Then walked
tA Feiss Moryven'’s thejaskin honar, Cornes of
fir taw ond Reme streets Stald there fome time,
rete down Futaw to Prankiin. Wrinking on the

Wey edoseed tit weatern police station on “Hi Peen
cng gt tuted up Maltimore street tor K Lo

SN a

''firer John Cook, who arrented Cortie, and

fy. | tert bee Bee ba, of the station win Tewetyed bir,
Ub beat Bed Je the SM @tal riteumetancrs af. tig”

SRE Bel ne agceration ae we}! ae thire olber

Bete eeverned; Higgine RO howl and

at htenaete vine n mates ab ME 6 00 Dee

STH RS Tht eramination Corrie was ened Wy
Mapes AE ogee gay TAT Co etire abot Hy

FON TEL eRe Te worda abieyeent ehnklsg
Bitte tne Hts oppe did the dee
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hae nics heel de ceminatecn

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Ser. see

TR iy eatpaOLae eae as

OE ee were rre grerre rare: 03 partite Vit é,
ie the othe? a glourh bat, and light dress

ificer Biineheomb deposed thut after the trin!
Was over at court, came uptown and met Rigdon.
Met him ag #t 4 o'clock Both went to
Supper af Gegtejoeks ¢ Ort and heard

fgyne
the jury hag fenvicted Cinmidri!}: heard of the

attempted peepee, Walked townrds the siation
hove, posed Bigdon's house. He wasat supper.
After at Dp Heed out with him and Kol clyara,
He spoke af: Be trial and conviction, appeared
Dneasy, Ane seceed about Lim. Went xp etreet
between Cowe eed Pine strects. where some
friends wee elemnding. Witte talking to-
Wether, Coma gee. Croppe came up. One esid

ial?’ And both went aWay.
: tiyars, and walked back Op-
aes Went into John Blank's

“How
Went and
mite Hig

vern. C3 £35 five minutes andgaw iv.
don. Cropp i Sanding a short dist&ice froin

Blank’s with Corie He wns faimbling with
something. Gerre came Up and bepan talking,
looking firgt at Witnes@ and then at Riedon
Corrie said ‘Pen addressing Mr. Rigdon, am }
not?’ Kivgdan said ‘yes, that lemy name He
then sald ‘‘Gambril!’s innocent, Rigdou 7% The
conversation took place in front of Hiank's house.
Croppe came up and iaid hie hand on bie hip like
he heda pistol. He said to Rigdon ‘(we bave
always been preity aquere.”” Rigdon replied ‘yes,

you have been always aqnare towards me »? Rig-
don looked at him ee be spoke and ame Up the
street to Amey's, corner of Baltimo and Green-

streets.
saw Cro i and Corrie about Kigd@n's house, as
descrlted y other witnesses. Shortly after went
fo Dr. Core's house, then heard the report of the
tatol and ran and found Corrte tn custody.
binks Corrie was drunk, but Croppe was not
Wm_ B Turner deposed that be lives at No. 591
Weat Baltimore street, enw Croppa ayd apother
man together, on the night of the murder; ‘snoke
to Crop; §, both passed witness’ place frequently
that evening. and finally went off up Pearl street.
one behind the other, alug ishly with their hats
over thetr eyes: tn about Hiteen minutes Kigdon
waa kilied. . |
John T. Sangston, barkeeper at honee Bo 510

more stemet, deponc that Cronge an
Shether gua, be did nia bow. dene. tar &. gute

that niyht between 6 and 7 o'clock,
AWAY, end in about 5 mtnuees lear tthe pt
Hrd Wentte Kisdon's houne

It was then about roll call. 2°A Nerwards

The jury. after hearing some other evidesre car.

reborttory to the forevolny, returned the follow
hy Werlicl We, the Jurors in theenee, believe
don came to tiedeath by balls
Heed from a pital in the hands of ether Marton
Crop, s of Peter Corrte. the priganera "

Hie how very niatn that the AssaR in ANproac hed

: Hip dan *@ house edith the vate of the Sliry that

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NOVEMBER &, [PRICE ONE CEN
ay oomaraomo sa Hera anne = ‘i vs ee a TEE CLIO a IMR TT Be AL Rca ats eae gh pena: oT a fie ee MCF ie MEN Ea Be! :
, end when mx he burst ont crying, and be. { pety Marshal Manly, the cz nz of the ¢
ober’ M. Rigdon—The | ing taken hee jam CCl Was chained down... | Jeutensnts and ser ofi.cer \:
:vor— [nvestipation and John Cook - he was an officer of the | Star enclosed in crape. In that manner '-
E-Tae Excitement and | Western dist =& near Baltimore street at moved on, an immense crowd following.
re—The Sun of Satur. | the time; +e go tothe theatre, but wes | Swann walked in company with ex-Ria’
y announcement of the | turned back | = Bawtwo men running | len, John T. Ford, Haq , president of :
don, an officer of the | from Rigdon twored: Was within fifteen | branch of the te § Councth, Onc severe! mt
‘gesassinated In the bo. | feet of the ps iipopps) when he turned his | The line mo down Baltimore st. te (—
vest Baltimore street, | head over his = ead Gred two barrelgpfare- up Charles to John street, and thence by t
Fevenge for his testi. | Volver at bisi.@%9@ “rftness returned the fhots. | road to GreenMount cemetery. A report |
emf Gambrill, conclu. | | Officer Biggteesepesed he was an otficer of the | prevailed during the day thatthe intermec
pihe same afternoon } *me district, Hes in a house near Rigdon’s; take place et the Baltimore cemetery, mai)
Benjamin Benton, a | beard the shot, Sad ran out. Cook was running | sand persons lined Baltimore street as far,
‘sed fhe unparalleg | about Sfteen yards in edvance of witness, When | line street, in the extreme eastern part of :|
the excitement in the | OD Penn street, near Cider alley, officer Jamison ; A similar misunderstanding prevalied in}
eguse of the crime, has | laid hold of Corrie, and witness grabbed hold ofa to the Western cemetery, and hundreds w:
ipreaders this morning | Pistol; didn’t know who held the pistol. There ing in that ee ee
ibeequent examination | W288 crowd followed; the pistol was snatched | known, however, the throngs set tow:

é@r, but excluded from-

p press at midnight
on ap to have
omemeditation. Officer
ii call et the etation-
réd into the attri? Pad
ning, amd while Mr.
am of his dwelling, a
‘Peter Corrie) entered
ifthe front partof the
ond iirtsand other ar-

ee ynducted himself

at was evidently cee:

repulsive te Mra. Rig-
nt, she called on her
the premises. Fearful
odraw him within the
‘on hesitated, and said
‘he doorway leading to

vend the store—tell him

its elbow nst the
where he had laid his
the crouching assassin
ugh the ttl window
from the sitting -room.
v@eition of the mantel,

rfour feet distant from
stnye in bis back, near
xtlamation was, ‘My
piled to reach the sofa,
dted after heaving an
Ing upon the strect
:borbood alarmed b
buse, where they stoo
the deed of blood be.
sfiixed and unable to
“ave acted heroically,
“ginted, Dut recited all

Bs cle At that mo-

aeesion which wae re.
wet ‘yg in the vicinity:

rot, and fell apen

fi agg. May from the |

Hen prother man (ince 3

ran
Clank @in-

a followed, an
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ip with bim on aren.
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from witness’ hand; didn’t sea who jerked it
away.
Onticer Jamison deposed that he was on German
street near Pine; saw Corrie running towards him,
followed by the crowd; thought it wae a meb;
stepped aside and let him pass; toofa second
theught. and ran and Isid hands on him on Penn
street; was immediately assisted by officer Covk,
who never lost sight of him, (Corrle,) and officers
Higgineand Dennison. Sergeant Hough, of the
western district, exhibited the weapon with which’
the decd wasdone. itis evidently a shot gun,
cut dewn to about eighteen Inches or two febt in
length with » butt partly broken. It was found
lying beneath the window inthe alley of Rigdon’s
house, where the azezasin had dropped it, after
dojng its work ofdeath. An exploded cap was
fitted on the nipple, butthe bmrrel was empty. —
The witnese explained how aman might have
concealed the weapon by running it parallel svith
bis arm up his coat sleeve. Said he saw C @ppe
and Corrie about 5\ o'clock on Friday event in

the Lexington market. Croppe carried his arms
downawkwardly. Sawthe butt end of some-

pe. sticking outof Lis sleeve; thiuks It wasa
ING. ee
eat 334 O'clock on Saturday morning, the furry
adjourned to 4 oc lork on seriiehtoe | afternoon,
when they reassembled at the western station,
where the evidence was continued. Wiltltam
Moulton,» lad, deposed that he was standing on
the pavement of the elgbth bouse from Kizdon's.
Saw Mal rie? be and snother man come down the
street, and looked through the window of Jobn
Hiank’s restaurant, No 471 West Baltimore street
Otticer Kigdon bad just gone in. The giass of
the window was stained below, and the tallest
looked over, Croppe was at ane window, and
his accomplice, (stipposed to have been Corrie3
at another Rigdon came out tage into his house,
and one ran up the alley, but Cropps was not
quick, and talked to him: On@@bad one glazed
cap. the otber a slovueh bat, andgese ht drese oy
bimcer-Btincticom deprecdl Gar
wee over at court, came up tom gand met Rigdon
Met Lim again at 5 o cloge
et S @elokh! Cate ont and heard

ites ote

supper

the jury ae eee ricted Gagnbrilly beard of the
<pitenrpiodetemee... Walked towards. the station
BE Oi

Ripper. _

esi,

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jae

after the trial

threatening the Hife ef the preaeee
Mitten. Sine) het obi

not haA ail hs . E i

thoroughbferes designated, and hundreds |
York road, and occupied the hills adjace
to. Upon thearrival of the co eat th
tery, the coffin containing the y was
from the hearse, and deposited in the ms
fer interment hereafter, when !t is propos
ter the bodies of Benton and Rigdon toe

Previous to depositing the coffin in t!
Rev. Mr. Robertson addremsed the asse
and the ceremonies were concluded. The
vood order prevailed, and {pn no insta:
police interference necessary.

Brfore the Mayor.—At the marshall’s ¢
Saturday morning, Jamee Hasiam, err
Friday onthe charge of shocting, with |
kill, bis wife, and with shooting = mar]
Kaylor, was brought before the mayor f¢
ination. He wascommiitted to jail in
ball to the amount of 85.000 to answer the

Yesterday morning Oliver Sturgess, J:
ley and 8 man named Hagan were arra!
fore the mayor, on the charge of knocktf
Thomas Beale on Pratt street, near Po
stealing from him s hat and umbrella. 1
ed from the statement of “Beale that th:
had al) been her at a drinking hous?
urday night and left Oneof thein then
¢d to go to another place, when be. |
fused. The attack was then made on bi!
police rap up when the assailants fled, o:

' the bat and another the umbrel!s of F

“Se was admitted to ball, and Styrress 2
ty were sentto jail fortrial —

David Hawkes waz also brought i»
mayor yesterday morning on the charz
fully injuring the house of Benjamin |
weth, on Forrest street, near Gay. The |
wentto show that the parties had be
house of Chenoweth and returned, whr-
Richard Pryor, were refused admisstic
then kicked the door, when the oficx
and Hawkes was taken tnto cittod:
fined @20 and costs, and gent to fall ir
payment, and a warrant was lsoed for
of Pryor tele sibaat tha} owen onnene mote ya i seep heeb on .
~—titcen irons, Bowers and Petticor:
up ® mak Rammed Joseph Hall on at
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| A WOT PRED EO
JAY MORN ING, NOVEMBER 8, 1ié
Pi oe senietsiionsiienaiiaimenmaieumnmmacacsrtlss aa. sss ititiaitnmai gens i rn SE ines onsen ‘isi f SP Re
oe Leal MATTERS. = ati and when identified ke Rout crying, and be- | pety Me
“Pye Aewnismarniop af Reber! M Rigdon—Tre | ine tehew back by hilt com S Cuaiaed down lingteda
nemimnsvem Seton tac Mayor fe Oeetigeton and John Cook depoeed Gieres ae officer of the Star enc!
Te -wdvet of the Covomer's Jury Tt Breviement and western dictrict War. Maitimore street at moved «
TD n-sdomi: of the Trdcety, fc © The Bun of Aatur. | the time, had etarted %¢ 1 f theatre, Fut was | Swann >
May camtained the startli ny announcement of the | turned back by the shy wo men runntay | in, dob
‘ting ef Reberi Nl. Riydon, a8 Officer of the from Kigdor's and fo: “Re Within Oflmen | Branch +
Deere Gretrict. whe was aesestnaied la the bo. | fet of the prisoner (Ce 3a3 be turned bis | “Fhe
iow of bia family, No 4 Wont Baltimere street, head over his shoulder & we dbarrel€@)fare up Char
7 be might revious out af revenge for bis testi. volver at him, when Wy 2. verd the hots. road to!
Bway Aelivered tn the case ef Gambrtll. cencta- OM@eer Higgins daper he Ki oecer of the | ibaa:
Ldied im ibe ieiminai Court op the same afternoon | Meme yetrict, wee lt | m@ gear Rigdon's, | take pla
aT tbe murder of offcer teeojamin Henton, a heard the sbot, end ran Sat, Cook was running | sand pe
Ee | ater officer of toe deconsed Phe unparalied | Shout fifteen ein advance of witness. \Woen : line stre
qt ocliy of tae deed, aud the excitement in the | 0? Penn street, nenr Cider alley, officer Jamfson , A sini
Jos ef tnte cemmuntiy benavee of the crime, bas laid hold of Corrte, and witness: grabbed hold of a | to the ¥
doce vs to lay before our readers this morning pistol, didn’t know who beid the pistol. There ; Iny in|
- fate adduced at the eubscyuent examination wate crowd followed; the lo was snatched known,
«fore the nayor and corover, but escluded from from witness’ hand; didn’t see who jerked it thorony
cp last inoue Which weatto press at midnight adhd & Beer ret See , York re
Jn triday The assassination appears to bare Oicer Jamison deposed that he wasenGerman | to. UF
wen one Of Geliberate premeditation, Ofgeer etreet nenr Pine; eaw Corrie running togtarde him, | tery, th
gion. afer apewering roll call at the station. followed by the crowd; thought ff was a meb, | from tt
ge op Lieeep street retired inte the privec of stepped aside and let Lim pam, ba second | fer inte:
enome During the even ke, andi while her theuplt. and ren and laid bands on Bim on Peon | br the
Yyden weatn the ba: k room of bis dwelling, a street, Wee immediately ape isted by officer Cook, Prev
lan s@incs frecegnized as Petar Coerte) entered who never lest eight of bim,(Corrie,) and off ers Rev N
4 oc atore room, which fe tn the froat pert of the Hiygineand Denison. Sergeant Hough, of the and the
B) ce nod looked ateome ynderahirts and other ar- wealkrn district, exhibtied the weapon with which | good ¢
Bf cceedreplayed dn thestore be conducted bimeelf | the deed whe done. Ite evidently s shot gun, police -
> ate drupter man, bul thal wae evidently felyn- cot down to abeut elgbteen Inches or fwo feet tn Brie
pat ii s actions bev oming repr isive te Mire Rig- length with a Butt partly broken. it wras foanid ated.
‘on anda female attendant, she called on ber | [Yi0K beneath the window inthe alley of Higgon® | Friday
and In eject him from the premises Fearful | bovee, where the asezesin bad dropped {t, efter | kill, bh
o@t the thing wee a roee te draw Lim within the ne ite work of death An exploded cap was | Kaylor
eb of Lia enen tes, Rigdon hesitated, and eaid hited on the nipple, butthe Murrel was empty — | inatior
le wife Who atood In the doorway leading to ] The witness exp alned how aman might have | bail to
o> gore room. ‘1 don't attend the slore—tel! bim concesied the weapon by running ft pare lel with Vest
get of words that effort At that mo bia arm wp biscont sleeve Bald be saw Crmp leyane
cat Wille ereting with bis eleow egainat the | end Corrie about 5 o'clock op Friday even|gg: th fore th
aetel of tie Greplace, where he he laid bie the Lexington market. Bropee carried his 8rms | Thom
iol weit the were pon ef the crouching sesaas!n dewh awkwardly Maw the butt end of eaoame- stenlir
hie rear wae fre@ through the litle window te atiching outof Lis sieeve, thivks it Wasa | ed fro
ib etene lots the yard from the aittiny room platol. agi. : bad al!
ction. who, from the position of the mantel, At3ky oiclork on Saturday morning, the jury | urday
et have Leen bot Ubrer or four fret Aistant from \ edijourned to 4 o'clock on ees afternoon, | ed to:
2 wrepen teceived fre ely jn ble back, near. when they re asactilled at the weatern station, | fosed
fe jet? side Hie on! exclamation Was, mATY where the evidence wns contiuued, Wiitlfarn i police
wt tm ehet” anf ator. peed te tench theeofa, | Noulton,e lad. deposed that be was standing en | the be
t@ork on the foo and died afler heaving an the paverentofthe elybth house from Risdon « | pan w
sO tte geome, yereone pra | thy Myre the elenet nw Alal + one and another man come down the | ry w
2 toe e@siente of the nelgiborhopé alarmed by | Street and looked through the window of John | Das
+ the? hetideed intelhe } cue, where theye Hinnk @ restaurant, to 4.1 Weat Baltimore atreet | mayo
| mer ned eed Wambiing at tir deed-uf biood be, 4 UB et Hindon hed Just gone tn, ‘The glass of } full
See Lee fot @ momnent transfaemd wand onatile to the window was etalned below, and the tallest | wrth
4. Hoe wife te eald to bave acted heroically, lovhed over Croppe wee nt gne window, andot went.
ek ur'ties ghtleleart nor fo ited, hit pe thed nit liieaccomplice, (supposed to bgve been Corrie.) | house
OE 6 in ont poe get golf peaeresion Wwhirh wee ja geet anothes, Higdon cane out ba @ Ino ie house, | Kich
ua setae ine. trees d Leek deing io the vieluity and une feh up the alley, bu Croppe wae not) then
Se the Gieeclion of tbe ehet, ahd fell cpon | Gate awe talked to him, Cngipad one glared j and
eg tee Oe Be Wee THAR HY away from yee sie the ates a slouch bat, andas ht dress fined
Gh. ios of Mighew eee Rat Racername ice Bilnc le omb de porrilggs: after the trial | paper
To oF ua wleos hase when annet mas fainre y wes Over at court, came up tow mond met Higdon | of Ft
oe tits A um x Cropte) fotinweod it rah 4 Riet him agein at & ocho : Hath went to iit
ney wn Bee (ieee gtde of ihe etremt "Boat olf supper at 6 ob ei! C@ee ot and beard | ups
Med sat Cortle ged rane ep wittebin ore run | | jury bad contied Upmbritl; beard of the | three
Si cutting we ivi ge stop Corrie dd net heed bs! atiringded resene. i aa pemnrce the atation aes
PR eager’ " dee ba Pink bh US 2'Sbd bl hele gee i pct dee... fie want 1) q Hote
in se Vee 86 Fine and LES Shs —Soneiaye E akti ed Sat with bim end ew a wav

we : Croppe answercad, ‘dpe Daa crease & were tt &
at oe $day. a rato cso it wil Frew SG BD a SSecheontaly cena Genet nna ¢
aie oe Mgsine ays a arnt SC on Te Ye natal thet Fri ay right wes the seventh an- ie
ee td asked tf he (the prisoner) had not washed | pie ry Rigdon‘s marriage and his death

iy : : . .be: ) , 4 rea. «8 : ‘ cs ibe
- hands since then, he replied ‘tyes. cise ltaneously therewith, the fa.t of

occurring...
We was alse committed, and ahortly afer re- | fords an he Fable colncidence

manded to jal) inebarye of a file of armed ott- Peter Copeie was a butcher in the emply of 3.
cers, The bearing of the prisoners afforded acon | putcher op Pennsylvania avenue. Marion Croppe —

trist. Croppe wes sullen and dogyed, but Corrie ie
etic ted the utmeat coptrition, weeping aod im- hae ie J
ploring an ofiicer in the station horse tosboot him. The Pee Ee
Meanwhile De. Greentree, coroner for the north (iathrrimg.&
i. western district, summoned a jury at the house Robert 2
$imanner to | where Rigdon’s body lay, coinposed of the fol. | Gambril
the last- | lowing gentlemen: aleb Douty, foreman, Ber- at3 o’C2 m his. late residence, No. 465
) dicted by | nard C. Reed, James F. Moulton, john T Tucker, | West sp ee Breet. The annals of the history
Piintherict | Samuel HB Merryman. Josenh K. Milaor, M. x ‘cety fornish an instance where
B®. norequt- | M. Kee, John Butt Jehn Penn. bovert Hlami!ton, ed forth such an assemblage of
fourt with | William Weir, Jobin Green. Allert Bell. After 2ing all classes of the communi-
5. Te will } examining the body, the jury ordered a post mor- i and 2 o'clock Baltgmore street
ewhe were | tem, which was made by Dr. George U oe _ iy hid 5258 and Sy 3 o'clock
i to, who | dis. a surgeon of the alnisliouse. Atlii oclock org gireet from remont to Paca streets
ypped hair, | the jury adjourned until 12), , when they chéaywith bomen bejugs, and {it was 2
Py ish wea- | the repert of the examination. Tt was ns follows: | dificult matter to oper a way for the Immediate
the legal | > after probing the five wounds ‘on the left side friends ana relatives of the family to reach the
sefore Lim | ef the chest, fhe dector proceeded to raise the house. Green street, in front of the western police
! T prevat bone of the deceased in such a manner as | station, was early surrounded by a crowd of seve
= . to allow the band to be easily worked about ralthousand persons. the throngs extending into
pts —Oa" | among the intestines Abouttwo wash b7siu8 full | all the by streets. The window sand pee
Ma-clezentiy- | of bleed were taken from the cavity of the stomach. | of the surrounding buildings were also filled,
Wer asked to | scarcely any blood flowe dfrom the sinctures and the cortege, in ‘its passing from the house
9a i compat- | caused he the entrance of the lalls. It was found | £ Greenmount cemetery, was witnessed by thou-
price be- | that. the pericardium, or sack around the heart, sands of persons.
tmonncle, | was penetrated, and the seat of life itself slightly About 3 o'clock @ solemn service the house
dollar Dill | grazed. “The ball that made nag incision in the | Was commenced by the Rev. Jamee tobertson, 0
Hy to the | }rartentered at the fifth rib. prssing on up In an Cumberiand, Md., reeding with an impressive
@A\:d then. to | opiique direction through the pericardium, gre voice the 11th chapter of Jobn: tT Bist SE FeOUr |
Pe clerk out | zing tLe heart and burying Iteelf in the #8" rior | rection and the life.” He coucluded with som
Saas opinion | vein ir Liocd vessel, Which carries the life stream remorks ag pe slate to the occasion, and was fol
i ant, and |) ack tothe heart. One other ball passed directly lIbwid by Kev. Thomas Sargeant, ing ferven
= been Put pt) rough the siath rib; the lowest ball entered be- | Pro) er that awoke responses thronyheut the larg:
Ba receive or | wwern tue eighth and ninth tribe. The lunge of warm bis that crowded every available ny tha
Sayer come | ite decensed were found to be perfectly riddied— sabees d standing room within the hearfiig of bi
voice. ; ss til
The family and friends then moved tovearde th
carringes, forty-five in number, drawn up at tb
entrance, and farnisLed by Joeeph Loane, the w

euler calling. Both are youny men

at ef Robert M. Rigdon. —Immense |
ez Peop!e —The funeral of officer
S4edon, the martyr to the truth in
= took place yesterday afternoon

ni
“taut

Gehan Mah®

a Present.
; ia 1o less then eleven punctores bein discovered if
ag teiticence | ¢1;a. Six holes were found in he left, and Sve

‘from him, | :
. tan ; n ihe right lung. Only two halls were {sco-
= Teer eape wered in the body, one Inbedded jn the heft lang,
- Bie '. re- | snd the other menr the liver. lying loose in the
; ae . eet cavity of the right chest. Both the sings found
poe . wt | were leaden and myged, and notinrger than bac
te s ~ Kivi shot. which, however, did not correspond to those
foe tad exhibited by Croppe on the corner of Baltimore _
etiam UE Green streets previously, 6
eed aatlar The following is an abstract pf the evidence
la hundred taken before the coroner at the western station.
bE without while Bees for the post-mortem examination of
| She oy Rtgs Sarah Hall deposed and meid she wat at
ae he one frst | fPdFE Rigdon’s store, which i$ in the front of
Be | Lis duciling, No. 465 West Baltimore street. It
<1 greg Qfiece minutes 5 o'clock, A man came
in: Le saked for knit shirts; he was runk, s@g-
per: about; looked tnto the back room , where
| igées Sao Be — jen sinall ene, #8 Oe
gear of the store, snd separs therefrom by 8 4.
ba dre eich ape ease
ing snytbing, and in three MET
the shot wee Fred. ety "tea te 3
him of Baltimore street, pass!eg week

gathered in the house passed out every OF” |
opportunity to view the corpse. The yw:
dresacd in the police uniform with stancing OF
far and black cravat. The lid of the coffin whi
wns plain, bore this simple record, jnacribed ob
silver plate, the shape of ® heart: ‘Robert F

| Rigdon. Died Nov. 8, 1658. rs.

and nails of the same metal, and on the lid, wh!
isid back, revealing the fare of the corpet, We?
gweet smelling boquet of fresh ogre ee

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116 The Negro in Maryland.

masters who might be accused of neglecting or abusing their
servants had been changed from the jurisdiction of the mag-
istrates in first offences to that of the county courts. Ser-
vants who absented themselves from their masters’ service
were adjudged before the county courts to renewed service,
ten days for one absent day, at the expiration of their term.
Persons entertaining such servants were fined ; and after 1748,
those who could not pay the fine could be whipped, and put
under security for good behavior.’ This custom of white ser-
vice practically died out toward the close of the eighteenth
century,—at the time when criminal law was being changed
by the changes in public feeling.

We have seen already how careful and judicious the gov-
ernment of Maryland was in its relations with the Indians.
It sometimes vied with the customs of those Indians who
were at war, by offering a bounty for every ear of a dead
Indian; and in a treaty with a tribe recently at war, is the
stipulation that the colonists might shoot down any Indian
found killing cattle or hogs.? But, in most of the treaties, it
was expressly stated that all Indians who might kill English-
men should be given up to the authorities, to be tried for
murder as a white man would be. We find mention of a
special commission of Oyer and Terminer for the trial of an
Indian who had murdered a white servant? A treaty with
the Nanticokes in 1687, provided that an Indian who should
commit any offence against the English,—be it murder or hog
stealing or helping runaway servants and slaves,—should be
tried by English law, and that any Englishman who might
injure the Indians should be tried by the same law, also. At
about the same time, a Pocomoke Indian was imprisoned for
rape on an English woman, and the Council duly considered

11715, 44; 1748, 19.

2Md. Arch., III, 502, 530, 433, 486.

$Md. Arch., IT, 195, V, 476. An Indian convicted of murdering a white
was shot at St. Mary’s, 1669.

Slaves. lit

+ what manner he should be tried, and decided by the statute
Jaw. Thereupon several of the chiefs came before the Council
and desired to be informed of the English law, which was
duly expounded to them, and which they promised not to
break in future. As it was found that the woman had wil-
lingly erred, the Indian was merely whipped, according to
English law, and advised by the Court to be more circum-
spect. In 1648, four Patuxent Indians were brought before
the Provincial Court, charged with stealing and killing hogs,
and with other thieving, and it was stated to the Court that
intolerable injuries had been suffered by the colonists at the
hands of the neighboring Indians. The prisoners, brought to
the bar, denied the charge, (there was evidently no objec-
tion to their testimony, be it noted), stating that a hammer
which they had had on the day mentioned, had been purchased
from another Indian two years before. And the plaintiff not

- being able to produce further evidence, the jury declared not

uilty, and the Indians were discharged by the Governor.
We find that two Indians were executed, by sentence of the
Provincial Court, for the murder of two negroes,||
For three-quarters of a century after the settlement of Mary-
land, the negroes in the Province were few in number, and
were nearly all, if not all, slaves. The punishments which were
administered on the plantation were sometimes too severe, as
we shall see, in the case of both white servants and slaves,
though the laws early forbade excessive abuse or punishment
to these alike. Whcther justice was administered by magis-
trates and judges with greater rigor to the black than to the
white, we cannot say ; but during this long period, be it noted,
there was no special provision by law for the trial and punish-
ment of slaves for serious offences. For murder or burglary
or any serious crime, any offender, white, black, or Indian,
was brought before the Provincial Court, to receive, we pre-
sume, the same fair dispensation of justice. In 1700, there

1 Md. Arch., IV, 409; V, 558. Davis’ Day Star, 151.

te eae thm On gd ME

30 The Negro in Maryland.

act, as under the preceding one, the free man would be tried
before the county court, the slave by a single magistrate.
Of these three acts, the first remained in force in 1860
unchanged ; the penalties of the second had been changed to a
smaller fine and fewer lashes; the third had been done away,
the law forbidding simply any obstructions to be erected by
any person under penalty of fine of not over fifty dollars. In
all cases, of free man or slave, the trial was before a justice.’

To make any sweeping assertions as to the rigor or mildness
with which this criminal code was enforced against the blacks,
would be hazardous. Even if we had the records of all the
courts, the few words of the docket entries would tell neither
the circumstances of a case nor the fitness of a penalty. Yet
we may hope to throw some light on the matter, to say the
least.

Death sentences were referred, we remember, to the Gov-
ernor and Council; so the Council records show us somewhat
how the greatest offences were dealt with.’ [In the case of one
negro woman sentenced to death in 1738, for attempting to
poison her master, the Council recommended the warrant for
execution. In the same year, in an adjoining county, a negro
was found guilty of felony deserving death, but the reports
sent the Council were not satisfactory, evidently, for the exe-
cution was suspended until the Attorney-General could thor-
oughly consider the indictment and the process in the case.
Some weeks later, that officer reported that the proceedings
were regular, and so the negro was executed—it appearing to
the Council that he was “a notorious offender.” | \ Soon after

11801, 70; 1805, 31; 1808, 78; Code of 1860.

*The Council records seem to be quite complete during the interesting
period from 1738-1770, when, as we have seen, the criminal code became
most rigorous.

We note that in 1688, on the happy birth of the young Prince, the
Council pardoned several negroes who had been lately condemned to death,
and returned them to their masters, on payment of costs. (Council Book
B., Oct. 16, 1688.)

Slaves.

this, a court of Oyer and Terminer and jail delivery, of three
men, commissioned for Anne Arundel county, reported that
they had passed sentence of death on a slave, Isaac, for bur-
glary and robbery, on another slave for murder, and on a
white man who had committed the burglary with Isaac. As
it appeared to the Council that Isaac had borne “a good char-
acter and was a real object of compassion,” he was recommen-
ded to the mercy of the Governor; but as the crime of the
other slave was murder, and as the white man was a notorious
offender, the Council advised that, they be executed ; and the
Governor acted accordingly. |/On the receipt of the record
from St. Mary’s court of the conviction of two slaves for
conspiring to poison the overseer, clerk and gardener of their
master, warrants for execution were ordered. F “So, in the next
year, two slaves of Anne Arundel were executed, one for bur-
glary, the other for rape on a white woman ; aid the body of
the second, who had been a notorious offender, was hung in
chains at some distance from the gallows.) | fin 1742, seven
neers condemned by the Provincial Court, “on clear evi-
dence,” of the murder of their master, were executed... The
court of Charles county passed sentence of death on two
negroes for felony, but also recommended that the men were
objects of mercy. In this the Council agreed, as the men had
never before been charged with any felony, and the Governor
issued pardon. [In the next year, two negroes murdered an
Indian, and they were hung in chains; and two white men
were hung for burglary and murder ;'while a white boy and a
young mulatto slave, condemned for stealing, were pardoned
as objects of mercy. /In 1747, two negroes convicted of horse
stealing were pardoned; while another of an adjoining county,
was executed for the same offence, as he bore “a very ill
character ;”? and a servant was executed for the murder of a
mulatto slave. In 1754, a slave and a white man were sen-
tenced to death for storebreaking and stealing, but were par-
doned by the Governor at the request of several gentlemen, as
they were both very young, and had never been convicted for

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132 The Negro in Maryland.
ws

offences before., Negroes Pompey, Sambo and Jack were con-
demned to death in Anne Arundel for entering a storehouse
and stealing fifty pounds of bacon and ten gallons of rum. As
Sambo was young, and might, in the opinion of the Council,
have been influenced by his father Pompey, he and Jack were
pardoned, but Pompey was hung.) |And a negro who mur-
dered his overseer was hung in chains as near as possible to
the scene of the murder. \ When, in 1761, the conviction of
tion, a letter was sent to the clerk of the county court, thus:
“The Governor and Council upon hearing read the copy of
the conviction of negro Tom fora felony and also of negro
Nace for a felony in breaking open the meat-house of Cathe-
rine Price of your county, sent up by you without any Letter
or Report from the Justices of the county who were present at
the Tryals, how the circumstances appeared to them, you are
therefore desired to enquire of them in Relation to the same,
and transmit their answer to me by the first opportunity, in
order to lay it before the Council at their next meeting.” At
their next meeting was read the report of the justices and a
petition from several of them and a clergyman, recommending
the offenders as objects of mercy. They were accordingly
pardoned. A negress, “ Bett Pone,” convicted of an attempt
to poison her overseer, was also recommended to the mercy of
the Governor by the justices, and was accordingly pardoned.
‘When three negroes were sentenced for attempt to poison, in
Calvert county, in 1764, the county clerk evidently neglected
to send the full particulars to the Council, for the papers were
returned with orders that he procure from the justices a report
of the behavior of the culprits. Their owners were also asked
if they chose to transport the negroes from the Province ; but
they requested the execution of the sentence.’ There were at
that time a number of cases of poisoning or attempts to poison.
One slave murdered the wife and child of his master. An-
other slave was sentenced, in Prince George’s county, for pois-
oning a fellow-slave ; but a reprieve was issued, in answer to

Slaves. 133

a petition from his master, on the condition that he should not
stay in the county after five days from that date. In several
cases, negroes were bound over to good behavior—instead of
being hung.’ fIn 1766, a negro was condemned for attempting
to poison his master ; convicted by confession and by testimony
of a slave who was privy to his preparing a ‘ Dose composed
of Ground Poppies and other Ingredients which he supposed
Poisonous.” A young negress, slave of a citizen of Charles
county, was convicted in 1766, of setting fire to a tobacco house,
from which the dwelling house of her master was consumed.
On asking information, the Council learned that the girl in the
absence of her master, drew some cider and left the spigot
open, for which her mistress threatened to tell her master and
have her whipped. Several times the girl asked forgiveness
of her mistress and begged that the fault might be concealed
from her master. Then, in despair, she set fire to a tobacco
house, and the dwelling house and offices were wholly con-
sumed. After the trial, the mistress went to the house of one
of the justices and begged him to apply to the Governor for
pardon, saying that if the girl were executed, she never could
forgive herself for obstinately persisting in her threats of
punishment ; that she knew not but that the girl might
have been intoxicated with the liquor she drew, and that she
had before behaved herself “as well as negroes in common
do.” The master expressed himself as willing to have the girl
pardoned. One of the justices testified to the fact that the
court had inquired into the girl’s character, that she seemed
but little sensible of her situation at the trial, and that her
youth and her confession of the crime appeared to be the only
circumstances in her favor. But the attention of the Council
was called, also, to the fact that two other cases of burning of

1In 1762, a negro was condemned for a felony, in Charles county court ;
but a reprieve for a month was issued by the Governor, and the sheriff was
ordered to set the fellow free and acquaint him that unless he behaved, he
would be called to his former sentence.

94 The Negro in Maryland.

to be ready for any possible insurrections or foreign wars.
These messages were startling; but this insurrection seems
to have been no more than a local excitement caused by a few
blacks. The leader was tried and executed. There was a
great difference of opinion, indeed, as to the extent of the out-
break and of the dangers from it, the House of Delegates
assuring the Council—during some opposition to the appro-
priations which the Council desired, the following year, on
account of the war between England and Spain—that the
Romanists of the Province were not inclined to disturb the
peace, and that inquiry into the insurrection of the negroes in
Prince George’s county failed to find anything which could in
any way be presumed to have endangered the welfare of the
Province.'’ In 1742, the Council feared that there was a con-
spiracy of certain Indians to destroy all the whites in Mary-
land ; but articles of peace were soon made with them, the
action of the Governor was lenient, and within a year their
guns were restored to them.? In 1745, again, the Romanists
were under great suspicion. To one of their leaders Governor
Bladen wrote, that their religious duties should be fulfilled,
as they surely might be, without such large meetings of people
as might give suspicion of designs other than religious exer-
cises. Nothing, said the Governor, could give greater alarm
to good subjects of King George than such frequent meetings
of whites and negroes under pretence of divine worship.’
Again, with the breaking out of the French and Indian war,
not only were the people of Maryland, particularly those in
its distant parts, bidden by a proclamation to be ready for
defence, but the colonels of militia in Frederick and Baltimore
counties were ordered to hold reviews, and to make returns of

‘Council Records, 1738-1753, 59, &c., 110. The Council seem to have
taken the House to be very unpatriotic for being willing to believe no ill-
will on the part of the negroes, and so for discouraging the need of military
measures,

* Council Records, 1738-1753, 162.

* Council Records, 1738-1753, 255.

Slaves.

the number of men and arms, and whether there was plenty

of ammunition in the counties in case of any rioting or plot-

ting by servants, slaves or others. Should such intrigues be

known, the ring-leaders were to he seized by the troops."

After Braddock’s defeat, according to Governor Sharp’s let-

ters, the people were thrown into the greatest consterna-

tion, slaves and convicts were well watched, and the militia

were ready to quell any insurrections. Soon, indeed, reports
came to the Council that the negroes in certain parts had
held some tumultuous meetings and intrigues, and the Rom-
anists in several counties had so misbehaved as to give cause
for fears of insurrection. So the magistrates throughout the
Province were ordered to make examination, and to imprison
the offenders ; but if the reports were false, to carry the authors
before the courts as disturbers of the peace. Inquiries were
also to be made into the report that some Roman Catholic
priests had recently been absent from their homes. Answers
were received from the magistrates in nine counties, and all to
the effect that the constables in the various hundreds were wide
awake to their duties, that the Romanists were few in num-
ber, and that nothing unusual had been done by the negroes.’
In the troubled state of affairs during the outbreak of the Rev-
olution, several gentlemen reqnested Governor Eden to give
out arms to the people, from fears that the servants and slaves
might revolt. The Governor expostulated, stating that such
action would tend only to hasten any such evil, but finally
gave a quantity of arms to certain regularly appointed persons,
in accordance with the militia act.2 But in both the Revolu-
tion and the war of 1812 there was no general uprising of
slaves. On the contrary, a number of colored men served

1 Council Records, 1753-1767, 56.

2 Council Records, 1753-1767, 59, 65-73. Stevens’ Hist. Index, Vol. X.
Gov. Dinwiddie, of Va., had fears of the negroes at this time. (Dinwiddie
Papers, II, 102.)

3 Letters of Gov. Eden, Scharf’s Md., II, 179.

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and gn inte ibe house for your bat’ Harris made
at the piste benind him end went
back lite the house. "So aoe
ithen tefl Mra, Gpeag’e farement, went along
Hiddle steeet till | comets Pecneyivania avenue
down which | turned, @8# Bert on the right band
a ierceant we nets ayant te Orchard street |
met Serprant Waters got ie the evenus towards
Bisdidie street, and jw, gg geterd, and within «
few fret of him, | henrd Seeammert ef 2 pistol, and
immediately turned tos Z noticed that Wa-
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(oe; bard street, and ron. Haeet Sergeant

Waters then continued rena, and | ee
en My Course pare on Gown the right
band aide of the sywkos at St. Blary's

cia =e ! cromned oe etal —
tote Franklin street eS She avenoe nt along
thr north side of Franklin street, and when peters
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came over and joined us again.
I comtinned towerds hone, and when arriving
at the carner of Franklin and E.utaw streets, Sic-

ney eutered,
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VA athing seid, then we have no business in here,
and they ell left.

Afut eating my piece of watermeton, and feel -
hnow what bad hs , | put on
pi) creat and rap and weatout. Un the corner of
Frentiiv and b.wtrw streets T saw McDonald and
Moloney. who had bute little while before left my
bens, evidently in search of some one, and | ask-
ed thew w teat mersnt i, into my house
tn the manner shey did. Me 4 replied that

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one retired in cleg
B.lijeh ailing Honey Lee wae cenfioed 16 4 Pome:
which oreriosk:4 the acafuld W ben Une ar af
the scaffold fell \t caused bim te tremhie wits age
ny. Jusi asthe trap fell tbe fourth Gage an b«
left hand became suddenly Gead. ami tae thee!
leaving it, the Enger cemmencm! shriveieg wp
in a few momeits, the palm ef bie baad Deome«
bluish, and oe sharp pate extendecd pleng the arty
tothe elbow. A tevers pe else strer & Bien bm tine
back of the head AMadical @tierdaece wes gym -
moned as quickly ss pewible, and he apguared te
recover.

CERDIT TO OMERITE COtawes

The execution througheut wee condprtet with
the greatest precision and humanity thr ardom aad
arrangements of Sherif Creamer belng carried ect
with the most srupulout Gdelity To tee eberit
and those deputies whe ess'sted bim every «madi
is due for the faithful die harge of their detsee
No exerntion thet ever ocurred tn Bellianere woe

ormed with more strk t regard te mar 7 one
umanity, and note single cir: vetiance oreo read
which could cause regiet je the perfarimemes oi
the stern demande of the law =e
PINAL DisrOeifick OF THe Bost OF TBE Lae

CUMS Chi mi Babe

At enon ae the fort became Puewn eFeE bee £ tie
that the execution had taken place, cere crowds
beyren to collect shout the € wediiogs ote ageat by
the fam |iiee of the enfuriaustie tace bn tévk-ngiaiios
of the arzival af the badiee Arenad Ge bese oe
Thomas Gambrill the falber af Flmeary f Gare ae {.
compet of Pine and George treat, tere o feree Baw
dred persone were ge Bieertiy eheee | o'r cers
a coveted was driven ia freely howe.

fiw Ry A

reaved femlly, oe
The acene that fellewed the rengptien @ fe

corpee ts deacti ted as mor!

tief, thelz wel
From the Gore} mg . :
ness, and i was found

disecG in

. a irene at Kev i
EWE nile be wen poenw tng the aise i weer 9 ge

i ree gh, am Mice

ERDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1859...

‘ter, He told Mr. Edward Lamdin,
ith him, shat when the tragedy was
Pgs tro miles distant from the place.
3] at night, and next morning rose In
. Assoon ag the cell was opened Rev.
se entered. Cyphus met him. and,

- gaid, ‘Brother Chase, ali ts well, -

spocent man, I am prepared to dte "—
fas in that of all the others, the sheriff
ny other than the!rspirttual ad-
or their cells before ten o'clock,
notes ten o'clock the Sheriff, with
apoties, entered the celi of Joun ty-
cands were then bound, and his arms
bhind While the officer was perform.
y the doomed man frequently raised
~laculated a ‘Thank God’ Rev J
Rev Mr. Webb, colored, and Rev
tored. were then with him Mr Ho®
hed and araked bim if beat:!! declared
-¢, to which he repled ‘This is all for
am ne murderer Godt don't hold me
oe He said Vi bas been said that I
eee on. Dut such ia not the fact ar
-<ischildren. two boys. one aged hy
ther Tt vears both uf whom were
rin Cider aliey. near Green street.
then approached tyvpbue and iaids
sshouiders to Lide the t.nd.ing of bis
roert Lin from threoald at tbe time
Lent }t-wees time te go to another cell
to yeturn when be was ready be remove
ume then anid the path wasa piensant
ard le had ne fear
Hoff teen ied in sing ng o bymh
© hat the watce of Heaven de iaree
+ deemed man jelned tra clear voice
- the hymn, Ree Semuel C'mec offer
woking Gad te pardon all the ae at
ie te eatiafy the law,
wrayer Cypbot eng
chat my land of ain Wert pone |
me | from the tand of Rev RT
failing ts etribe tie prope tiapee mtg
qeeng Withes leer and distin t your
bird? remd to the prl@iner the firet ten
Hp oo bapter of Pani b& the Romane
+ Bath vewee af the Sth claypte: arf tise
AY. OW thes asked Pore rT te teeter eet
wat beard read (Cy ptore cep iiedt tes
i atl at tee fell dewtior te dey tian
3 Ye tee fore De felt trrip utes fie orn
ey THE they have "a “g cen oriter er
eine ame fer netic ay peaaibanees * BF

he at brew ledge te f @ 8 ew

opel test eee eet toad few. Abt seta:

linet! al fre ete” Ties Lien wong
3 « tes Bid entvation Bring
Be teat t yparoe tumt tuey be or eabdscah ka

SS grace end all
“he OVA “emt

re peteceandt ‘ee ee te nep on hw aod
eiertriee Beier 1f on bem eR sok

. eme remerersh drome thee eet Moe
Me Bod? poten! wtih irae Uo x pee
ee fai ef

ay fun

uk:

treat bee 2

pig eetl thot Be desired

a ee
HE ens

make bis final preparation. Gambrill, whe was
on bis knees, arose quickly and put on his eoat
without aid :

He looked pale, yet very calm, and sto@@ with
great firmness. :

He said to the sher! ff’ —“Sher!f. this {¢ one tn-
pocent man you take out of the world.’ The she-
riff replied that he regretted 1t-—Iit was his atern
duty to perform tt Gambrill remarked— 'l die
Innocent of the murder, or of shaving any connec-
See with it. I die tanocent. God's will is my
will’

The cords were placed around his wrists by Mr.
\WV jlson, and both arms were pinioned i Sage In
front A cord was then placed around bis back.
holding beth of bis elbows firmly alnst his
bod y ? .

Capt Denaker then took the hand ker@m@ief from
young Gambrill's pocket and saturated ft with co-
layne and anodyne He passed the handkerchief
over tcaubrill’s ‘orshenid and nostrils, to relieve
Lox Weekened and fainting condition

He was dresenxt neatly tn black
ker told tim te trust in the Lord.
pustained by the grace of Giod

A friend (Rew Mr. Evans) asked tim how he
felt. Me aajd he was prepared to die—that he did
bot comnut the act. nor had any knowledge efit
In any shape or form No knowledge of any Ar
rangement! to tabe the Ife of any one

Alr bovaneand —Look to ed Dark and myste
ous ere the woof Provideace, but God wil
contort you

The eber f naked tim if be Lad any objec tan to
weary nabaw! ft wae dampand cliliy out and
he hed put ‘ton the others dgarmbetll replied ee
he bad ne oblections and a dark elisw!) wan ple
ever Loto s. ph Res

Ibe temarhed (timade nod. ference hew cool the
ap wR now. he would te outof theale before long

Phe peeparat ame were mmic inafew milaites.
en) the Mew. Mio divans wilapered works od
(oneiatinnds bie eat A cap wes ple ei overt Ue
wildls gaple gall pve the eyee oe ae te oneeriy
bide ctap lhe Bibel ould.

VS olsiat awelt ng the fraying of the cell he stor!
liw Hey Myesra Heatyee ated Doo.
brarevy om ty teoaupw ai thir Conaclatione bts presi than

Depity Dane-
He said be was

Leena peal dey tespueal of tts mr we'th hin the sat
WRIT PIS RN Ciaire es Short tare aigemccagssathense
Attiooploners try Lovee Tf for tte where maotaesit:

tt
Nei peddle bins ly
awe iisteved ip

hie face eA Deied the woe of A
*! Hedges wat dept feo tey met
tow whispers He: jemewt hie ory

teeth aye
Sis Ae a a Ee tar tee ated te
gigcges ape ne aes id crete can hit estar Se Eaten
Pg Te OO 4 3 ane head Beare ys ery 4
prt ever w wrt: SOs apg tet net ee e230
ee lies | he atarvar np the ee Sa ATE EM
mio ree” por
the aie Teg ed thet ie we roe me
Pris oh eee ; Neti lil ie

Che ee

“Rs P cene Aying bie Quon} pert ie etoiihers
ig So ene Me ee gene waic ds tee ee.
mhere arth bk ce odin, & Soci joke ye me beret a

verge Set —b be r

‘ ° '@etri re oe ee
Alibre plates of eleven aiden &o tee Bove #

ernete were beong bi fromm Lise Beate Me art

id Peete Le phocema tor : tte ;
Tie her F hewiet | ie BETTS

(rare mat err

amen e penta th

RO, 3h yas ds
ws

< %

ether FSe rg
Fieger W esl weed Bee

ony Sam,

before nine o'clock, with thet

were Gee te tb Fanpop, Bie UE Partian oud

nest that it be not
opened till he was dead. F. Brooms,
G W. Hitor.”
: Poliphebdern ye » leave the premises, and
i 1 é
es Semanal eae eparted ; the dread scene
STATEMENT OF CROP ¥. PINENEY,

On Wednesday night on Cropr Pinca to
see the State's Attorney, Mr. Whitney. to make
certain revelations. Mr. Eiakaer, deputy State's
attorney, called, at the request of Mr. Whit
ney. to see him. Crop evidently tried to make
conditions for himself, but he wes told that
none could be promised-—that what he made
must be free and prongs Eh and that it would
be submitted to Mr. Whitney, as the superior
officer of the State. and he couid determine wheth
er there was any thing in ft to create any change of
opinion relative to his guilt,

Crop then said that on the night of the killing of
Rigdon be and Corrie were atu house on Hollidsy
street. and went from thence up town—that ano-
aes — whom be named,gave Corrie the

into :

They went op. and twe other men were tn com-

ny-—one formerly 8 police officer. and the oth®
a vonstable—that he (Crop) and Corrie did not
commit the murder—that the other two men did
{1, and that neither he nor Corrie were in the alley
or at the house when the murder was done.

The pistol Corrle carried up wae taken by 8no-
ther —one of the men be named—who fired it. Crop
anid that after the murder he and Kitty Chambers
went into K ycton’s houseand saw the body, but tbey
had nothing to do with the killing. Mr. Pink-
ney told Lim the statement would not, in his judg-
ment, affect biacase at all—that it was inconsis-
tent, and he (Mr.Pinkney) would be doing Lim
geil to any that he could have any hope of bis
life.

Crop and his father stipuinted that the statement
should not be given, aswrittendown by Air. Pink-
ney fer pulicstion ner anytuing said about It till
atier all hope of executive clemency had falled.—
“Phe statement was evidently made for ¢ffect—toob-
tain conditions or stipulations relative to his fate.

Mtr Pinkney with Captain James, the warden,
reiained inthe cell UU about 3 o'clock Thursday
morning hin ure nt the fron door to get eit:
anal the oP Na not hearing them for several min-
ntre Crap broke ont into a lond langb, and said
te Mr Piakbey Why, you are a prisoner too:"*

SETTER PROM CROP soe

Ti # wee vertten wlth bia own hand yesterday
motning #Adrraset to Rev. George Hildt and
pe Rewterin Po Mreoke

Ritesh! 8 eRe Advysers.—By your kind fn-
stroctiet fhe e® dtipht hope ofsgotng to that
tacd sw Pere Whe parting band te never taken. nnd
any ile at Titeads TT You should ever happen to xee
any of pwd com partons, tell them to tirn te God,
tor He merciful and good, and now farewell,

4 farewell Sitwe weet on Teaver

Maniox Cror.
“RPP Pin Berle ROA ME ee
— £ROPHER PRT TER FROM CROP
The Bilow ing iecltet was wr (ten soir days since,
and peaced tt the tants ot Dr POS Thomas te be
soade peblic afters rop s deat oo solr
fe my Peller Mertats Deer Friends: Within

afew bourse of tie myomen! when Ufe and | shali

pert ail fewiiey hos awal position in which d
vow Seed and bikiwing tha: { ahall soon appear
fo The peGrKeS Of the Alrighty, P desire to any ®
fem weedatn tabiry final Jeaee of you, by wry of

4 iGer Wh whom | hare been ato

ee: tthe mn

experming tinrere worrow for past acts and adino. -
reer,

he ve relie
breugbtt
for bus de
God mry
] Aesire
age! net th
dence as
euicig ~
ren gie¢
bad justi
fectly pia
testimony
that he hb
words ay
ever ted
of eternit
that Mfr. |
to the Lar
entirely
Nooner
IT did
my frier
upon hi:
was to
me to be
In reg:
my con’
eteventb
and so tr:
And jw
knowledc
this tesh
tive clen
could ne
commen
friends)
men bre
have be
leave the
the unev
last how:
1 feel
counsel
which :
than an™
laments |
some ja‘!
th the:
sappine
(jod. }
life was
wishes
Andtr
asinne:
visited
sympat
me ip th
been in
ance of
trom on
commt
my ude
conficte
en me:
strong
the grt
cold ©
of this
the aw
exting
os peace
Lrenils
any w?

+ ehwh

Ton
jatives
at mot
ro ve
Tom
alan to
Wyatt,

. Splritias wel OTE TA OT ee he ae ise
; eves Drirot dnpee ee Ae ae that land
i prio, Lait oe et taben nvadorrs
ae ae Sees Oe oe sheuiad ever appt tis wee Nery
“i ipa Me tire te fra te tvend
ag riers ifs] taal Atal ww Gavel. fare
| i Cropton BHeraven Ma boat. mart
wie TT hiisray. et agi te tee A\Voin
+ HES re ee eee Oe ee Ceca OR Pied, WA ate « 6 UR GOB
: ine he tind eagerted: Tas pe ties
oe Ae Pat en hope opal ts reud, atiat

faites ig TM eee es. eS in cited Rs ; be ‘en

mi: Ar nim who did salvation bring .”’
Bc told Cypbus that they had Spronuelty
a ve more prayer together. and alb knelt be-

Prone af Grace, and Rev. Mr. Web ied |
W hile he was pray!ng the sher!ff enter-
nterrapled the proceedings, saying “tle

come.’ pees
/ Sparks placed the white cap on his head
S..ree minutes before 1) o clock the con
van was removed from the cell, While
f Rev. Mr. Hoff prayed standing. Cyphas
«and said he was strony in the faith of
Hoo said on leaving the cell that he desired
-c estament be given to his son, |
ecko MARION CROP ...
=\ more firmness on Thursday night. He
ely of the terrible doom thatawaited bim,
> he had put his trust in God, believin
ugh the merits of Christ, bissins bad al
iven Rev. B. F. Brooke remained with
+a late hour at night, and after he left
| red. He slept welland yesterday morning
-efreshed. e was more cheerful than
and spoke confidently of b's hope of
b He wascalm, and thongh evidentiy
“some emotion, bore himself with much
fe joined in the religious exercises, and
arnest in bis devotions. Crop said he
ral) but giving up bis father and mother.
ers and sisters. ‘They were near to bis
4 Ged only knew how hard it waa to part

pee
i

‘3

nother, sisters and otber relatives and
’ Marion Crop bid lum 8 tinal farewell
tay night at nine o'clok. ‘This Last part-
. most ee recene Nopen can give
von of it, we bad dred out, and dis-
all its horrors, was alone left to thelr
ismentations. that awakened feelin of
andest. pity came from the eell of the
nan Tbe motber and farther left the
ty able to walk. weeping and mourning,
vent to bursts of grief
tng between the prisoner and tis father
Lave been a noel ete Ung seve He
upd ie fathers peck bined fim time
sil wept with the {lines of avhild ~-
with his mother, for ber sake be appear:
than lu parting With any of bis atoer te
‘twhen ahe bad genre the etrouy ah cee
cow ng fetter was banded te Kev HE
+ Mae ap piclonk,. intended for tom
ev torte PUL wht: wes with Ft
attended to him from the tine of hes

Padey morning V4

iil

, sheath. dae bose PR

Hit a pent i eae eee auer Mentors!
aterday tear hy jie wae foand da cut
PeuyT iia DET aT me 1.°% epiettne’ adcierrs
meth Bi 4! thi cowed TH. ad yataen
vag el pert Th tee fier osbegieks ater ft
eoxteat) te pis he artes ak. Une pee et

tonite teelits

ty epabetet ree yaa oe fare ,
Heath eager 2 Beh ah ARN
aries wore tied Bil 5 mew a
VN bide Asada ime. ber Ce RE
Re Nive the poypsinsd. 2 Mp tiem start
eas ther pemenst dome’ wt him and pet ts
elbows... J ee sleet iB s:t power (en 160
Crap rejaemed the = 6r
net properis strange bon inthie. semi
inat ode wie } sami owt be
dete and pineet
¢ a ty ite tte arene
Ady S23 et tte afficrmt an eeraret and

oe ee ee

Pome, Wf boa ee F

pete pee whee). 4406 imiul qoanifeatedne

wan toc

gage Powers ars ee BET
by ETS ater porrer be

sheep jalew ALISO
ron: aim) ag we Se jot Oe ee
mes Diner PE ETE eat

compre gw 8 a SS BE aE Ne cial hn eee EY
penitential sorrow, and,
pp, and, address-ng tbe
most ready?” ; Siaces
The sueriff rep.

ina few

ted that he was.

sible

Mr F.vans. aying
said—‘iienry the same
others will simtain yous
leave usin vor dying hourt ©
LEAVING THE CELLS.

Lis bang wpe da

and formed in procession...
Deputy Sheriff Daneker and the Rev
orrie next, with Deputy
Messrs. Foley and Fatber Hic key
Cropnext, with Deputy
Messrs Brooke and Hildt.
Cyphus came last, with Dep
and Rev. Mr. Hoff, and Rev.
and Chase, colored

They
thence out the back door across the
scattold, and directly up on to the droy

ed in the ministrations of religion.
The reporters and others folk

the cells,
around the scaffold
As the procession
condemned ¢xhibitec
WRITE.
vutwas still fru: Crop
yard Cyphus appeared to
of atl, and smited a
he passed stony:

\
number of persons there
their hats. and opening a Way,
silently and selenmnly onward.
ON THE BCAFFOLD,

on the arog
stepped forward apd anid:

Wohen you se bude trap fall uncer me
ap invocent toap
uc and whl”.

Le stepped back asin his posit

rasp

Wi Ms ey
} Mgccrd fi. esetn, ] for WW $Sh

ue irae
Pucere te

teaver
yyyeet tee part Pile Byatt:
Rist Vid 6 TEA ONE 28 tee

ae ras Pe er, ee griet) vetas
age Pee bene fae Accuat are
wh yet oboe mut fee Oi risea vary o

owed in the
and were ndmitied within the enclosure

lane hed into eternity

RAO ee ke moments © anid

ra biteisecl
racé which bas sustai
e jas prom ise! never to

Attbree minutes of eleven @eclock, the four
soners were brought from the celis w the corr

* 2
5
+

- ninutes looked
sheriff’. said: “Are you

Gam brill said—--Lwant to go as Quick 8% pos

rect

The Sher! headed it. Gambri!! came next with
Mr. Hedges.
Speriff Pontier and
Sherif Woolenand Rev.

uty Sheriff Sparks
Messrs. Webb and

proceeded out the cell stairway to the hall,

vard tothe

y the

ers al! maintaining a great deal of nerve ane
posure,and apparently sustained bya hope ground:

ye ison:
com-

fine from

ssed outinto the yard the
a wondefil degree of com-
Gambrill appeared, weak aud suffering.
and Corrie looked less hag-
feel bis situation Teast
he grected several parties us

hen the cortege reached the yard the large
simultaneously raised

ae it te pass

The prisoners took thelr places under the ropes
Amid breathless silence Gambrill
fictivw citivens Poam now about going into
eternity, but am Innocent of the murder of otticer
Benton, or of linving anv thing jo do with it.—

you Will see

ke st

Pee PT Os THR Gari ows
rirai an Fu,
whoa otis Be pee are ua 2 wtp
repre ie aren! P-2b Ub gear

PYarewell,

fle had stepped forward on the scaffold apoke
i) adoud and very fiom vouwe, and when he ceased
wn vader the

Cypha then stepped forward and anid

“Prist tell You hat yaw are pot ng te han an-
arian ecnt oan f know nothing of that mur
der. They pave Ine 8 name te Hever went b H
nani Doe peas heine te Gaal Phare
noanoere to en) than tiiat trod py. athof youomy
tricia asioceggiiariie a a a ah ee

Cpl renimed bie place having spoken Mas
fre neal. teat Wee once ed ae pee :

Crop then any the follow ify hynin

eg etbese'y

Le kyoto

Pieces twa SOL dn eidoes the he:
Piet pee bopets Pee amin OK

} 245% despre: By ha sf Be ori
1 #moe tine piicrret severe ae ets

Saas asa Prewitt peer ee ee
Preyer th hel tees

Pa tem cr deers a Lea Baul. Dee

Hap weg tM jeri BRIA

fsmimia cis ik the tneet Tiel re Labs

joie os aed Tht pe i; meee

poe

Genet ha grehe we th, the po eoirers
wort uret hae @ # Des

Getter il poured qr acd b>
termed toe werthe bit weet,
De Bhs Koks Liga. {offen are?
igmg Sa wr wales ort ee ee

aa:

sack wee fe
sa ma ae ype 94 F S

gees

wer a bisa!

die hint ® ' a
reel epecme [9

he te

Gf outs seutd tr

rece

ap Mp te,
@ieorttta,

pent hy

544

fb Farry

Sasi Wali. &--- fm et Fe eas
mr dear friends. if yeu sould ever banpes bet
any of my oid cOMML.ous. Sedf flee to tare: bit
for Re famerciful and good snd now fires
farewel UU we mect cc Hesven

oe ee pe eae

Bae Magios Cer
Apt BE TSS ori AM
ANOTHER SRTTES PROM OK

The folles ng fetter wae Writlen sour dase +S

end placed .« yoe panda of Dr 20 =. Thousas t

made peblic afer Crop a death.
Toms Bellew Morais —bear Friends Vit
3 few eure of the moment when 1fr and fos
pert, and Sealing the awful peezies th owt
now stand, and know! ng that Shall soon. app
in the: of the Almighty. 1 deeirr te sa
few weeds tn taking finaileave of you, by wa
ex ing Bincere portow for past acts ant ad

nities toveards those with whom I have bern 4
elated.

With to the causes whic b tmpeliad m
yield toe the grosser pas-ione of my nature.)
to say nothing Let the vel! of charity cover "
as itshauld cover my s!:8. how that | sm a!
to explate them. It is scarcely necessary th
should remind you of the necemity to aye
infinences which led me tnto my present posse
but to my former conrpanions, 1 woah to 4
some advice, and ol) that it may be consid:
ae a Voice from the grave, exhortias and com
tng them to avold what has browy Lt me to thie
jqnor and bad associations are the bane wi)
bas ruined others as well as mr. and ot
me entreat you to ft inemibet the fale Ww
has followed my transreasions and profit ly

Let it stand out in afler years as the sign}:
warning others from the wrony road tnto ther
one, and reminding them. when dispose tc

Ege in similar acts. of what may awalt them
y the lynominious death which Loam to:
and by the Dieeding bearts of agony which 1
my companions have caused. L conjure yous
tly from the deeds whieh are egal and sinf
I wish, Inconcinsion. toexpress my thanks t
warden and bisdeputy for their kindness. »).
Air. James Prior and Robert Ramary who
been tp my cell four weeks with ime Fir
good bye to all—God bless you. Mastox C}
THE DYING BTATCMENT OF TENRV © Ga MBn
The followlng statement was made ats late
on Thursday wyut by Henry C. Ganbe'll
friend, whem he espectally requested to wisi’
in his cell for such purpose, En Maa.
(n to-rmorrow, and the time will have ar:
when f shall auffer an tynominious denth
now. infill view of that fact. as well ax of o
sense of the terrilile responsibility resting ups
Immortal spiribit Teh] go into the prese:
Gol with any otherthan the naked truthonpy:
soul. } feeTittdne tomy affifeted family, to |
am! to the public, to publish to the wor!
dying statement “of all my connecttons Wis
unfortunate murder of otticer Kenton ”

On that night Pdeftmy house, in company
Riebard dbarris, diouck. Davis, McPherse
others owithont having the Jeast intention of
miltting Viclence meainst any one, and witho
onderstamd ing: or knew wledye whatever wit
of the parties to do wrony—having no fr:

misetf. and not Know ng that any of the prt;
aay — Moewentto Janes Morgan's. After st:

duere a shorttumeconverding with Mr. Bae
Mtr Miller we nfl feft: Morgan's tovether
topped Mr Dad Croe’ in Biddtestree
soot afew sonva. We then went to Mrs (ir
and commenced singing there; when R
Maris went into Mea Green's” honse
member or the pavement talking with Henr
vomter about getting Hiarcis and the other
nway whee Pe entcnated te -do” -In a mon.
twee Johan Teenturrsdt pot tnte Vira fsreen'‘s:
throeph the Window which so alarmed t
poatee That Wee Green's een ran tnto the etre
salted for the wat h OMcers Burk and |
beng these by wentabonce inte the bouse 6
rates) deenbardt aad ae they were bringio

es wie ee Linnie esnips aoe ee ant oti we Benton, Taylor and Brown cam
Atihe ?Ther af the bytes tops Viet EE wee the ditweon of the avenne whitch le near t
feidis. Fares) 8 ae owas 6 wated (o® pureen'® oO Mcer Benton caught hold of ise)
{work tote dey fee ted eek Ate ee I whet Peyid ton k interfered, wheren ne
one Willen the somimune tae oltks y celicoet Piet go Hehe it on tnenhardt and erired Ho
ie apaeall ae met a BONA A Ah a Rahat onc ante hore re Prewsn then abeiptoat Renton, and the
Jobe enmee eed thes, adingte) Mee tare ers were carrying him away, when R
Eiing Chat of Aantal Siew ier (ated ore) Herrera et ot Matra Green's heuer, bare
a Ro tial ld fag ait a myorh? 1 od with apetetin bishand which he wa
that mt iypiee Mit! FT ier weeriaating Fe} to rie We, when Prannp ty binfand ssid,
Wier a ie he eal aed cag tr beet d dove inhend deocho with Laat weapon’ nut}
aty wet ind Eels left pera Pie eet acd band ge itte the Bouse for your bat” dare!

pe rety deat past the piste) belind Lin an
ia. & bt the fous

titer Jeft Mra dipeen's pererent, wen
riddle ateet tit came to Pennsylvania |

ae hi cledaurned, aul kept on the fly!
ber Pyut nearty se hs etd

ikl: Micheal ea lena: MMi, il

| a Slee rate PR ane

£44 i a
1 fg ba 4 ,
a
if
4 a

B eT : xu Seo Bik Ms
: Borer retiring, slept well:
next morning and par-
‘Bt. Although conversin
Hiuch anxiety as the fata
Ptr Foley wos with bim,
b, sustaining hia in the

k the sheriff entered’ his
brie was seated with his
bx. Thonas and John Fo-
Miickey At the first end
» erected, on which were
bral ernall crucifixes. As
Fc ercse and ntly

then eeded to pinion
Howas being placed orn bis
E>im if it felt easy; be re-
Pair. itfeels comfortable,
Py shawl! was then planed
en the sheritfleft the cell
FE -ed in spiritual conversa-
P thers presentand seemed
Penind. smiling freqaenuy
im Aficr the lapee of some
Tagain entered the cell,
aoe tl bis bead. over

AE tert

so while bis arme were
urteat fortitude, and gave
Bow he would lke his hat
- prisoner then bid a last
fea me mat. in
remarked. <‘‘] die upon
Bmourderet "' Bes nies
mm he ell was OF _ oh
side by the Hev. Air.
» deputy sheriff Pontver,
«i took a posiGen in the
sam be fi
“'tlen a letter revealing

amy in thet he now
net atew tajere his me! ch-
ine mw affuld, and would
fee for the crime Tt wee
one om Thoreday that
roufim.on, to which he
ber l'ove it.”
.wREILE
iay mig bt Gam brill saf.
tration wet ble epiritual
m an¢ ceanediled him

slouch bat was placed.”

utue morder of Rigdon, |

on bis neck, locking upwards. Once be bowed
bis heed in recognition of some one fn the crowd,
in the yard. with aesmile on hie face. so

Corrie and Gambrill closed their . Crop
looked more downward than efther of tee others. |

bivery thing being ready, the white cape werd;
polied over
alone on the fatal dro

* immediately
tere had also sopped

ir faces and the four men stood #

MO TU ee I en caer cag Ol ete Pe ay ey PC ee ee ak Wh Be em
few feet of bin, | beard the re.
turned round, ar
I then |
furnning down tbe avenue o
the curb-stone. Sergeant Wont
Bharris nurwered. (atili runn!
gernet."' leaw Harris turn §
Orchard strect, and run ug t

Gambrill was aeduCibe first noose at the eat
endofthe beam. Corrie was stationed next; Crop
third, and Cyphus at the fourth neose, at the west
end of the beam.

THE PATAL DROP.

The deputies reached the ground, and as Sher!
Creamet siep from the lust step of the scaffold
his foot tour bed the trigger. and at 5 minnrtes past,
li o'clock the drop fell, amid asuppressed thrill
horror, and four bumana se

the alr. ee

The suppressed emotion o
side Sonia be disti
it burst from many lips. . :

In the windows in the female department of the
i were a number of female prisoners—w bite and

slackh—and as the drop fell, their cries and screams
conld be beard throug hout the place.

Gam briliand Corrie strugyied for 2 minute or twro
only, and then were still, except the musculs? me-
tion natural to such deaths.

Crop and Cyphbus struggled for some fire min-
utes. and then, with the exception of the muscular
motion, were still,

The drop of the rope abont two and ¢ half
feet. and all four appeare@ to die very quickly. In
some six minutes no motion could Be observed.

W hile tbey were thus banging, the coffins were
broug bt out onder the gallows, and pi ready
fur the reception of the bodies. fF hed not
been placed under the ecaffold, a2 usual, for fear it
would more unnerve the prisoners aa they came ot.

LOWERING TRE BODIES.

At balf-past 11 o'clock, having hung twenty-five
minutes, bodies were lowered near the ground
and examined by Dr 8. Thémas, physician of
the fail; Dr H.P P Yeatesand Dr. Owings Mann,
to ace Whether ons life remained.

There was a fafnt pulse perceptible in the beart
of Cyphna—the others were sti) tn desth.

#i mipotes more ein aed Cyphus being
still $0 in death, thetr iva Were lowered down
and placed in the coffins provided by the fr.ends

their bodies ta'd in a natural pos'ti
of meither were much disyure
nes peotrad! ng.
Press a brief eremination, the peck of Corr'e
found to be Orekea—the ethers did not appear
Corrie died inetently almost—the breaking of
peck wee me Goubt the cauge of hk

V hee property taif in their coffins looked
were earried tate the oct) corridor te evra't

the Grmontie of thety eclatives.

whe
oo
thse

a =< ages

istplies
baits vac

od al ”’ Ri ee
Phe ebove

b; Marien Cre

rutleR. atest ted min

were dangling im

the thonsande ont 4 ;
netly heard within the yard, a¢ |

t Waters then continued np th
2 Se my Course lowerds homir. 5
2 sand aide of the avenue t.]! i}

seer, when | crossed over to
Franklin street from tha
torth side of Franklin sire
S and Parca streets fell _
i Bir. MePierson, who we
Se teey waked what the ne
me ipenhard( is drunk. |

Se Boatth tide of Pare street {;
Mad berson, end whilst cross

| Uptersection with Franklin s

| Halia, whom we had jiat le
om the north side of Franklis
este over and joined us ayal:

I continved towsrds haine.
at the cerner of Franklin anc
Pherson and Holty left me, a
own bonee, five houses fron: t.
street. Soon after reaching bh
ing & re of watermelon a)
Watkins. Brown. Norwood,
ney entered, and some cenres
tween them. when Watkins
could swear te Lim, te whic!
W atkins ssid, then we Lave
and they sil left.

After ewling my piece of @
tng anxiovs fo know whet he)
tiny ceat and cap and went or
¥rank)in and Luvtew streets |

| Maloney. who had but a littl

bense, evidently in search of
ed them what rmeant by -
in the manner they did.

Benton had been killed whir
of any murder having bees
enk them who had done |t-—t!)
did net know. 1 pn
and they both ga
to Howard Davis, whe whe
Morgan's and inqgutre about

| "Se res wee liens Rigdon. bet Thee Rpm

W ben we got to Mergan’s
and others, and at oncessié
you hilled Frestom,”’

inting to
a ; isi discor
we'a.{ pad, ‘Oise re le a ma:
#§ the tru; k-howse drunk *’
de oBeers bad been to my
OS@, wben Davis spoke auc
thre abewt the enmne ize,

Whilst the: were ehangiy
ped at the door, and f ot
ya Lane diately 4 sit vb
nrawea ret, er woes

a shert cise)

6 Bester

murder ,~

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Historical and Political Science,
edited by Herbert B. Adams

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CONTENTS.
CHAP. PAGE.
J.—InrRopucTION, - - -— - - . ais 5 ‘ 1
I.—Inpians AND WHITE SERVANTS, - - - - - ll
III.—S.Laves, - - - : - - - - - - 26
IV.—MANvMISSION, - - - - - - - - - 148
V.—TuHE FREE NEGRO, - - - - - - - - 175

92 The Negro in Maryland.

and that many and great disturbances were threatened, particu-
larly in Calvert and Charles counties. The Ta@lane. it was
said, were in league with the papists. Suspicions must have
been cast on the negroes, also, for those Southern counties had
a large slave population. But a declaration signed by some
fifteen prominent men there, assured the home government
that the plot was wholly groundless and imaginary. In 1695,
there was passed an act to prevent the frequent meetings af
negroes. This soon expired; but it is evident that blacks
were regarded by the authorities as a part of the popula-
tion that could easily be used in political intrigues.! | Nor
were men entirely free of apprehensions from the white ser-
vants, some of whom were the refuse of European camps,
prisoners of war, and worthless convicts. There were reports
of a plot of Irish servants and slaves in Bermuda, and of an
insurrection which had been planned and almost carried out
in Gloucester county, Virginia, by a number of servants, one
of whom betrayed the plans, and four of whom were tried and
executed.” The Assembly of Maryland in 1705 declared that
certain whites were guilty of a conspiracy to seize the Governor
and magazine, and, joining with the “Heathen Indians,” to
cut off the inhabitants of the Province.’ During all the years
of Jacobite disaffection to the Protestant succession in Eng-
land, the Romanists of Maryland were kept under the eye of
government. In 1708, for instance, the sheriffs of the coun-
ties were ordered to send to the Governor within a few weeks
the number and names of papists—not merely of masters of

Pub. Record Office, quoted in Scharf’s Maryland, I, 309. In 1698, the
provincial Governors were ordered—at the suggestion of the Board of Trade
—to see that the laws for increasing the whites in proportion to the blacks,
were duly enforced. There were no such laws in Md., but Gov. Nicholson
urged on the Board the evils that might follow from too great increase in
the blacks. (Steven’s Hist. Index, Vol. IV.)

* Virginia Carolorum, 295.

* Bacon, 1705, 5. Annals of Annapolis, 108. The ringleader, who was
not caught, was attainted, two years later.

= GR eae cages eee mrenes enemtrce EF

Slaves. 93

families, but of the households, servants and slaves baptized
in the Roman faith.! Tn 1739, the Council received the depo-
sitions of several negroes of Prince George’s county, telling
of a most wicked and dangerous conspiracy which had been
entered into by the blacks there, to destroy the whites, and to
possess themselves of the country. Whereupon, the Governor
issued orders for a special commission of Oyer and Terminer
for the speedy trial of those who had been taken, and that a
guard of twelve men, under the command of the colonel of
the county, should be kept at the jail until the execution of
any who might be convicted. And, further, the sheriff of
Annapolis was ordered not to allow any negroes to enter that
city on Sundays without written permits from their masters.
On the next day, the Council decided that, in accordance
with the laws on slaves, the trials could not be held before
the next regular courts should sit, so the sheriff was ordered
to take every precaution with his prisoners, and to levy any
posse that might be necessary; for there was reason, wrote
the Council, to fear that those who were already in jail and
the numbers which must be committed, together with their
accomplices without, might give trouble. The Governor,
further, issued a proclamation to all officials, civil and mili-
tary, to aid in averting such great dangers as were threatening
the lives and property of the people, by the rage and fury of
merciless and barbarous slaves. Care was to be taken to
enforce strictly the laws against tumultuous meetings of slaves,
to secure all slaves who might be found wandering at large
and who could not give satisfactory accounts of themselves, to
execute all laws for the public safety, and to exhort all the
people to be on their guard, for the defence of themselyes and
their neighbors. In particular, the magistrates were bidden
to take notice of the way in which local officers should act,
and the major-generals of the Eastern and Western shores
Were given careful instructions for the practice of the troops,

*Council Journal, 1704-1708, 125.

without public sentiment nothing can
ntiment goes deeper than he who
atutes and decisions possible or

“With public sentiment nothing can fail;
succeed. Consequently he who moulds public se
enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes st
impossible to be executed.”—Abraham Lincoln.

THE

NEGRO IN MARYLAND

A Study of the Institution of Slavery

By JEFFREY R. BRACKETT, Ph. D.

BALTIMORE
N. Murray, PUBLICATION AGENT, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

1889

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tine

xed Sia Deck a
Sa eR Ba PEG ae sasssnanseemeraernane ie ,
OUR POLIcR, 43 | =
- twenty-four hours we would perhaps haye the same man to agai i
ock up. The officers Were not upheld in the discharge of their “4
duties. We often arrested forty or fifty persons in one night, |
every one of whom were released the next morning by the
magistrates, They would take the sureties from an
offered them iti

"officers got discouraged. The
how secure they were.

recklessness look
at the case of the sh tin licemen Rigdon and Benton.
Cropps, Cerrie and oe nce

I was many times ont
on Baltimore street with forty or fifty men all night, just to keep
the firemen from fighting.

““T, myself,” continued Mr,
worst characters in Baltimore, ‘Bud’ Coulston

shots in the day time into the Public school at Fa
liday streets. I took th

Ore -@ magistrate who
immediately released him on ‘ ’ bai

“men in the city,
_ trial. . The Dep
and committed

Hoffman's management of the affair.

As the witnesses arrived they gathered
in little groups about the large corridor
and talked in subdned tones. A number
6090n went into the yard, where the scuaf-
fold was ready. ; :

Services Of The Last: Hours,
.. In the meantime the sound of singing

beautiful, that birds were singing in the
trees outside, or that curious spectators
were waiting to see them die.
secmed earnestly busy with their ‘devo-
tions, and the sound of #inging at times

men.

‘to awaken In the morning.
he arese and asked for’ Rev. Joseph

putsch, of St. Francis Navier* Catholic

hurch, who hurriedly responded and re-
mained with the prisoner until the end.
Kryan, Myers and. James ‘slept soundly
. until 6.20 o'clock, when ther awoke and
fanmediately began praying. Messrs.
James Newton, B. F. Marr and Joseph H.
Eaches, composing the night death watch,
Were then relieved by Messrs.. Edward F.
| Roblitz, J. H. Hare and George (. War-
- her, composing the day watch, and the
‘last morning of the condemned- men had
beguny wae .,
Rebecca Johnson and Frances Wright,
evangelists; Rev. C. W. Goens, pastor of
Oak Street African Methodist Episcopal
Church, and Rev. Reuben Parker, paxtor
«f Mount Zion Baptist Church, Waverly,
- Ul 0.15 o'clock. Shortly before that hour
communion was administered to
James and Myers in cell 16 by the’ col-
ored clergymen according to the rites of
the Afrivan Methodist. Episcopal Church,
Father Butseh performed the dast offices
in another cell fer.Gardner. Soon after

all colored, soon came and began religious |
services in the cells, which continued un- |

They }

ave. way to fervent. murmured prayer or |
to the exhortations of the attending clergy- |

Bryan, |

this Gardner -was permitted to come out
into the eprridor by. request of Father
Butsch, because ofthe heat tn the. cells:
He. walked slowly to and fro for. some
time reading his prayer-book and reciting
prayers, accompanied. by the faithful
Priest, who also read from a prayer-book.
All this time the crowd of spectators in
the main corridor had -been- constantly.
“growing larger, many persons standing
“silently and respectfully at the iron rail-
ings listening to the relizious services and‘
watching the little group of officials before
“the cell doors.- 5 = 2 >! saat :

-.. They. Start To Their Death.
At.9.20° o'clock -the newspaper represen-
tatives and a few officials: were asked to
step Into Warden Hall's private office. At
9.31 o'clock Sheriff Hoffman appeared, fol. |
lowed by the condemned men and the cler-
gymen.. A hush fell upon the room as the
prisoners ‘entered. The fonr were looking
<"pward and were murmuring prayers; -Not |
the slightest attention waa pald to tucir
> furroundings, and ar Chief. Clerk Heine |
> arrayed tuem’ in Ine iu the-centre of the
;. room they obeyed the tou
“mechanically, © James “and
above the avera

«continued to more in prayers: Lying upon
table in front of the
ere the' Jeathez

ype Wiiciuas From lork, t’a., were ais
in dospectatorgs of the proceedings.
Tes ery highly complimented Sheriff

could be heard coming from the cells of |
the condemned men, about half-way down |
‘, the ‘west corridor in the south wing of |
tthe: jail. It smattered. little to. the four |
hegroea that the morning was bright. and

|
|
|

Gardner had -heen the first of the men
_At 5.30 a'e¥ock |

Jail physiciany J

‘dead. Twenty-nine = mimuten):

then read) very impressively, the | by mo
“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.” A
“Put your trust in the’ twenty-third,
Tsahn,” sald Rev. Parker. ‘Bear in mad
these words: : 2 este
The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want,
"He maketh me to lie down in gyen_ pastures, He
leadeth me beside the still waterp. ;
Yer> though 1 walk a e valley of the
shadow of death, 1 will fear n@ evil, fot Thou art
with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.
“Boys, are you feeling all. right?’ asked
the minister: ‘Yes, sir,’ the quartet re-
sponded. 4 th ;
The deputies. q ped the trem-
bling men ‘In theft shroiids,; and

Sherif Hoffman, hat
march to the. gallow
by James, Gardner} -
the order named, the clérgyme walking
with the prisoners re abut 4 score: of
avitnessea and deputies heft i up jthe
rear, All the other jail prisdners bad Heen
locked in their a » So that no pne kaw
the ‘soleima procession except! a, few jail
aificials. ; “ :
4 March To he Gall :
Straight across the ee .couriddér, down
the steep steps tnto fhe. yard and long
the high stone wall to the north ehd of
the -bujlding the procession] moved, the
prisoners still looking ently toward the
blue sky and praying udiply, There was.
no faltering or) pausing)on the -part ,of
any; of the men. . When the scaffold eqpe:
were: reached Sherlf. Hoffman stepped
aside and hurried -hacketo the jail to pull
the trap trigger,.-while the deputies,
clergymen and prisoners kept on up t
steps. In the yhrd below ina wit-

yers and Bryan In

trek

nesses and a nuniber of physician, but the
men never looked ,at |them. The ropes
Were soon adjusted,|'th black cape drawn
over the prisone i

eads by Messrs.
Helne, Arinstrong . | 4

roms eaAriy die Fa euorieus crewed 1 Shady
been. grouped a 1¢ front entrance te
the jail, but the val of the undertak-

_Jqil Board, who was at the

MacLellan, =
then officials and clergypiep hastily left
the scaffold. The only: $ned who seemed
about to give way was Myert, who swayed |
perceptibly as -he stood |waiting for the
downward plunge, but the others remained
firm. ° : Re sink .

“ When Mr. Heine Haid descended {hree
steps he waved “his arm and Sheriff Hoff-
man pulled the trigger. Four. tack. ‘ohed
figures shot down throngh th trap to-
gether and. hung limp}y at ee ends,

In the fall the cap |biéw ardnen's
bend, and the spectators] saw |the -con-
tortions of his face as: hq slowly stran-
gled. The necks “of ithe ofhers had been

broken, and they xchr ely! male: Q move-
ment. Gardner struggled very ‘Jittle, but

the awful expression of bis face, seemin
to. change: from .one horror to anothef
unmanned seve spectators, whe w
compelled’ to leave the- scene. Th ants
eyes, at first staring frightfully, gr tally
grew dim And. glaz a; Good flowed |fram
his nose and colored’ shirt, Sevdral
Persons remarked upon the fact'ithat thi
man, who Instigntag-the crime’ for wh cf
three died, suffered most in paying’ th
penalty. The men, had dropped 41% feet.
Examined py Physiciang..
“The bodies hung, into slowly half

way round and back again, fér seven min-
ates, when, by-direction of Dr. J.C. Elurk,
i nes mak jowered _with-
tn a few? tnches: lof thé grdund. With 2
stethoscope: Dr) Plarke and dirs, N. G.-
Kelrle, ©, L. Buddenbohn,: W. Re Stokes,
John D. Blake, /§tandish MeCleary ‘and A.
Ll. Stroup: alternately: |iletened. ‘for’ the
heating of the Heart. All pronounced. the
man deud.- The others were then exam-
‘ned in: the’ samp ay--and® pronounced
after “the
dro}y fell the body" of Jambs | was handltd
over: to. the .undertnkers. Gardner, the
Tast. to he taken down, hung)-44 tninufes.”
The exact time each ‘man Was. snapended
by the neck Was annou ced hy Dri Clarke
as follows: James, 29) minutes;> Myers,
34% minutes: Bryan,*40 minutes} Gar
her, 44 minutes.f. 4s :
Disposition Of T
The body of Bryan wa
fin by Undertake? Char

‘Hlaced [if a cot-;
a Halley. taken et

-tonched by the woman's

war locke in a cel

‘the jail from te ‘various: pol

“the girl's co

0 wi
ch. of the |cont
*. The offense! wa cohmitted nj May S$ |
last; at the hom¢ of! the sin) Vine |
-street. At the ti ‘in ¢

-and & young colored m

a jarger crowd to the
Sdveral hugdred per

ers’ wagons drev
Madison street fra

Fons congregated there, Miling treet aind
shlewalks. When the first wagon owns
driven ont with dts grufésome -load the

shout went np, “Here they come.’ As the
Wagons proceeded stowly down the street
they were followed by a'crowd of men and
boys. They shouted the news of what was |
coning to other who joined the singular:
procession. Th spare of the wagons
throngh the centrelof the cit
ed by there attendants. ; 2
Incidents Of The Hanging.

Two unusual incident mafked the hang-
ing. When the trap wab sprung Keeper
L. Gross, who stood at the foot pf the
steps, turned away. As he did sO a canary
bird, ‘which was evidently loat, alighted on
his arm, gave a “few' chirps and fluttere,;
to the ground. It was ok Hie and pre-

y was berald-

sented ta President Isaac 8. Hield, of the
institution.
The bird was prébably Lig Bae by the
strange scene and the crowd. : ae
Just a minnte before the drop fell the
large clock in thé main office of thp juil
stopped. It was soon star diagain. |
Several persons In the crofwdjhad cameras
with them and took snapshots at va way-
ing bodies. ’ ‘
Shortly after the Arop fell the spectators
were’startied by hearipg a shrill voice cry
“Is it all over?" It ‘was found that-a boy
had, in some ways. ¢lamberefi to the top of
the north wall 1 :d was looking over. He
had seen the, men Hee, lows, but
could not see them after the drdp. He was
ordered down, but 'rdmained on the wall
some time. r 3 : Ly A
-THE Sun was| the fi
fact and time of bangin
ice being nearly 18 mi
other. .. :

to announce the
its bulletin sery-
tes ahead of any!

‘ae

Sher'ff, Hoffman left the, jall aj short.
time after the hang{ng. and took 4 train
to Atlantic City, here he will pemain

several days. ; ‘ |
Stella ‘Coomhsa,. colored, aged 20] years,
who is serving six months’ senténce: in
jill, claimed to ‘be a cousig of Gprdner.,
She dreaded the hanging and strongly ap-
pealed to Warden Hall to send her out of
the Institution during the ‘time ber cousin:
was being hanged. Warden Hall was
treaties; and
Shortly after 8 o’clockl he|had her sent.
‘to the Central Police Station. .There Ashe
}.untfl about J o'clock

-In the‘afterhoon. - ‘> I ae
By — request ‘of:

jSheriff Hoffioan and
Warden Hall no

risoners were sent to
icel stations
Those com:
y Fd the po-
the statio

e cfose f the afternoon.

until late in the’ afternoon.
mitted at the morning sittin
lice magistrates were held' at
honser untill th
sitting. :
_ Warden Hall kept all prikoners locked
in ther celle unthaguaner” wat rved, at
2.0’clock in the afternoon.» ets”
_* Confession’ Of The. Three. | :
The ‘confession of-Jdmen,; Gardner. an
Myers was written July 17 and. reaffirmed :
hy the men yésterday motning. All-con-’
fessed that they had perjuted themselves

recovered. The m@¢n were arrested
Round-Sergeant D mpbey, and Deputy
State's Attorney Snjlth ‘prosecuted the
case. After copvictien ping

the facts cares looked into by a relia-
ble detective, and announced that he could
find no -imitignt{ng dircunstances to war.
rant upy other acmrecy | an ‘that of death.
; : Bryan's ime, t

Joseph Bryan‘s-crime. was the murder,
on April 23 last, of bis conmp nia wife,
Mary Pack, evlored. Bryan had lived for
about six years with-thée woman, who! had
deserted her husband for him. They were
both of quarreleome|dispositions, and their
fights were the talk of the’ neighborhood:
About a week previous to the rhe they

had an exceptionally protracted uarrel,
which was started b the woman, who de-
clared ‘that Bryan did not give her money |
enough to ke¢p House with. The woman |
‘Jeft the house and went to live with a
friend, Amelia Webb, at 206 South Dallas
strect. Bryan did not discover her wh¢re-
abouts until Apri 23. On, that day] he
went to the Dallas. street house and jde-
manded.of Mary Pack that she returi to
him. sonie of his clothing, which he charged.
her with tnking. She denfed the charge,
and a quarrel ensued. BKryan declared that
the. woman had threatenen, to senld: bim, |
and then picked up a knif¢ she bad used
for peeling potatoes and mpde' a lunge at
him. He oyercame her, tbok away the
knife, and then most deliberately cut ‘her
throat.. The| woman's 15-year-old daughter
saw the whole affair, nng her screams
brought Patrolmen Crog and Schefflein,
who' arrived Jn time to see bim Piupging
the knife intd her neck. % :
DISPOSITION OF THE BODIES
: er: Girth : :
T at orG rdner|Viewed With Awed
Interest By Hyndreda. |
he body .of. Cornellus Gatdner was
taken from the jail to His home, 663 Vine
street, by. Undertaker -Fellx Pye, where
it rpmained an object of awed Intergst to
huniireds of. colored | people who | were
drawn to.the house out ef. curiosity and
sympathy. : =
Last night thb bady, In {ts plain coffin,
‘was In the'little front reom of the house
cloxe to the wall and direétly under the
mantel. A table containing a number of
Hghted candles was at the head of the-
comin, om a crucifix and a cross stood near
the other!lend. | The glass was pulled back,
and the}face jof the dead man, -was ex--
posed. ueezed between the coffin and
the wall) witha green silk tidy about her
shoulder, was an old colored woman, whin
“held -In her/hand ‘a small cigar box with
a siit ‘in! the top. This box was handed
to every one who cahie into the room,
and many dimes, nfckels ‘and . pennies
were dropped in for the purpose of defray-
ing the funeral expenkes. : S325
. Op all sides of the coffin, save ta on
which the colored|woman with the pox
stood, were men-add: women who cried
their necks to see Gardner's fave and yet
dared net touch the coffin.. The crowd of
colored onlookers came and went, the rel-
atlves, of the. dead ‘man allowing only a
short time: for.enck set of gazers, and
when the Nmit had been reached the old

upon the witness: stand at’ their ; trial.|
They ackno rledgéd ‘they had“ gone into
Anne: Baileyfs houde,| but. declar¢d they
had not assaulted: the. girl, jalthough they
attempted to jdo 80. Myers. and Gardner
claimed that they were in the h
4 sent. M

sion is-not' fit/to prin

the girl was {n ¢onty |
pany with Bessfe Miller, of ut-Her age |

Re: chimed Arthur |

’clogk|-In the

-;Want ‘to the |
df whisky ana |
+ but they re. |
After he left Jaines and Myers ap. |

Thomas. It was ‘abcut: 4
aftérnoon. when © Gardver
house, - He*had a /bottie
wanted the’ girls 3 drin
fused..

Wolnan with the box waved them out and
Rave a sign to the boy at the dvor to ad-
mit others,; At times the uit room was
so packed that 1% was fcarcely possible t
breathes sa ES aie [
‘In spite"of his struggle after the: dro
had fallen,his features: were In repose
st night,“and sith the exception of. his
‘Awollen eyeg there was po sign that he
had died a Wolent death. The throat was
concealed by collar andi necktie, and the
dy was dressed In a new sult] of black
clothes: ? ee SEE Saar
i*A lnege colored man an he leaned nrer:
the coffin and looked at the face safd:
“He certainly was. ng wicked man -with

Wright bad |

room, Who conld nog get to the coffin, in-
guired anxjously whether Gardner's tongue
was sticking ont, and when told that It
Was not departed with an entire bellef in
Gardner's Innocence. Gardner's * family,
consisting of hix mother, hix- sleters and:
brother-in-law, were seated,;in the back |
room, separated’ from. the crowd bya
amall dqor. They Ormiy believe that he 1
y died ‘an Bnnocent man, his mother basing
her conqiction - upon. the report made to |
‘her that a,canary bird perched upon the
arm of the| Sheriff just‘as the drop fell.”
The crowfl remained about the honse un-
til ine ‘ot? night, a .poileeman t ing: re-
quited to keep those) on*the outside from |
pushing Into the heise, Gardner wl be!
buried fomornawe mbeninn in Bonnie Brae
Cematary, where sarvices will be held.

Myers. and James were buried yoxter-
day afternoon-at Lanrel Cemetery, on the
Helalr road. The arringementa were th
charge of Undertaker Hercules Ross, from
Whose place, Of) Little’ Paca. street,. the
bodies were taken. Members of the fami-
lies of both men and abont.a dogen friend
ccomperhied the bodies td. th cemutere]

hfre they were Interred side by “side,

here were no services: : ; $
i The Waly. of Sfecuh Bryan wak taken
from jall to’ Asbury Cemetery, - The re-
malns were accompanied to ‘the grave by -
the-dénd nign’r near relatives and a few
friends, The services at: the grave ‘wera
jfordheted by Eilzabeth Johndon, colored,
‘of y i Methodist Episcopal: Church,
assisted hy Frances, Wright, colored; of
Water). African Methodist —~ Eplacopal
Chrrehj<The' former, In apeaking at the
grave of the decenacd, aatd he had shown |
aréat-brhvers:, during .his ‘Inst? moments,
and his: manner. before” death “Indicated
‘that he had found peace; She exhorted
hia, brothers’ ‘and sistera_to ‘alway - hear
din mind Rryan’a dying words, which

that fare.” Persons farther back In’ the

should eyer serve an a warning.

~_ FOUR MEN HANGED |

Bryan, : James, ‘Gardner ; And
. . Myers Die On The Gallows ,

IX A ReLi@rots” yeRvoR}

“The Three Who Assaulted Anne
* Bailey Leave A ‘Statement In
3 ‘Which They Deny Full Gailt.-

Four colored men

\erime by giv
_the same ge
Morning.

Jorzeph Bryan, a ‘barber, aged 82 years,
Mled for the brutal murder of Mary Peck,
colored, with whom he lived. In a‘ fit of
Jealous rage he-knocked her down and cut
_ her throat “with a knife. Cornelius Gard-
Der, a porter, aged 23 years; CharlesJamen,
a walter, 21 rears old, and John. Myers, a
dentist's messenger, aged 19 years, had‘
. been founa guilty of felonious assault upon
Anne Balley; a 15-year-old culored girl,
Governor Lowndes, who was earnestly pe-
titloned to save the men's lives,-could gnd
no extenuating efreumstances to Warrant
bin’ in interfering with the law's ‘course.

_ The execution of the law was quiet and
expeditions. Sheriff Hoffman and his dep-
. Utles had arranged all the grim details,
>, Well aud there was nu hiteh. The con-
denined men were badly scared and nerv-

pald the penalty for
ing up their lives together upon
afoll at the city jail yesterday

at-10,

shad been iny
already. there.
100 men, wom

ited to witness the hanging
In the street outside about
en and children -had col-
lected. They stood there for three hours,
Sazing tnicntiy at the high stone wall and
' Seeing nothing except the hurried passing
of witnesses within the gate. A number of
Policemen were -on duty in the jail, under
~ cammanid of Deputy Marshal Farpan, Cap-
talus Cadwallader and: Farnan and Kound-
Bergeant Dempser. Captain Freburgér
and Detective Kratz and O'Donnell were.
-Present from the detectives" department.

. Other Sheriffs Present. :
Among the first witnesses to arrive .was
~Capt. J. Av. Walters, deputy Warden of the
Washington (D. .) Jail. He has officiated
at a number of hangings, and had two in
May; one a double execution. Sher#f Hor-
ton G. Thompson, of Montgomery county,
’ Who will hang Taylor and Brown, colored
murderers, next month. Shertfs Joshua ‘T,
Whittle, of Baitinore county, and Robert

th
in little groups about the large corridor

and talked in subdned tones. A number
s09N Went into the yard. where the scuf-
fold was ready. ‘
Services Of The Last Hours,

_In the meantime the sound of singing
could be heard comtne he antt wd

1
lea
Y

wit
from +

"The prisoners were poorly clad.2> James
Wore a blue shirt without collar, dar | trou-

- Shirt open at thé colla

. Whispered to James

> notice of the time a

come. I ask that Ay
above for comfort
hour. Bryan,

not do so.
and then said, disconnect
to gay is that the witn
told the truth about
was true. I want him
-meet_mie in Heaven.
* against nobody. That's

ous, but they did uot falter, and all pro- say." ; ;
fessed readiness to mect their end. The] - on big Pabeine Daron! qamies, have you
drop fell eight xeconds'afier 9.48 A. M., und {- anything Jy: ed the Sheriff. ‘The

men glanced at him for a mo

4 "clock ‘ rere ment, “but
from the scafold into Neco nen ald bet conte thria neice! praying.
' . Sheriff Hoffman reached the jail at 7.40 “1 have the Md en Confession of these
o'clock and found.a-number of those who f three men,” sa ev. COW. Goens, pro-

ducing a paper.
‘the Sheriff. .

whife James continued
the Sheriff. There was no

horted Rev. Reuben Parker
agalu gazed devoutly upwar

Sheriff's office: De
Lellan and Georg
took up the leath
bind the arms.of t

dr
gloves, which wefe to prevent the finger
nallx from tearing the fleph.

he felt himself.'vel

}

|
P.- Casey, of Alle any conuty, and seve i el ynien. Rey. Goen this afternoon, At 4 o'clock. *} | sions for about a week, but has Pprrently |
police officials fade York, Pa eee pron actor bad H eececae the . hymn From early morning a earlous crowd Wind | recovered. The min were arrested by |
interested spectators of the proceedings. “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms." | been grouped about ghe front entrance’ te Round-Sergeant Démp ey, and Deputy
They .very highly complimented Sheriff “Put your trust in the “twenty-t ird | the jail, but the arrival of the undertak- State's Attorney SnjIth ‘prosecuted the |
Hoffman's management of the affair. Psalm," sald Rev. Parker. “Bear in mind!] ers’ wagons raph ® {arger crowd to the | cage. e Wright hud |

As the witnesses arrived they gathered , at : eat ate.

The Lord is m

shadow of death, 1 will fear n

“ers and shoes. ‘Gardne

: rhad a white shirt
and.collar, ‘but no tle.

‘Myers. had-a-blue
r, With slate-colored
trousers and tan shoes. ‘Bryan hada white
shirt and collar, dark trousers and alippers-
cut. from. shoes... None of. the -me ;
coats. ~ © ieee oes.
In The. Warden's Office. ; coe
Sheriff Hoffmaa stepped in front of the
men and looked at them<a few Reconds.
James was at the end of the ‘line to his
right, ‘Gardnér next, Myers third and Brr-
an had the Jeft of the iine. Still the men
gazed at the celling and prayed. . _
~ “Look to Jesus, boys; he is your fri
sald Rev. Reuben’ Par! 4
He stood beside Bryan

John Miners
Charles James

Jéseph—Beyan

Cornelius Gardner
oS

“edt.

end,’
ker, encouragingly.
. Rev. C. W. Goens
. While behind Gard-
ner Father Butsch read softly from a pray-
erbook. It was a solemn scene. > - >
“Bryan, Myers, Gardner‘and James,"” be-
gan Sheriff Hoffman, ‘slowly, with 9
tremor fp his voice, “it is now -my painful
duty to carry out the sentence imposed
upen you by Jaw. 1 have given you due
nd have read the death
warrants to you. Your time to die has
‘ou look to the Lord
and, support in this
have you anything to say?”
Bryan’s Last Statement... - :
Bryan tried to speak,’ but at first could
He swallowed several times
edly: “All I have
ess, Bill Johnson,
me. What he said
and everybody to
I have nothing
all i-have to

All executed at Baltimore on July 28th 1899

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue

of 7-29-99
page 7 column. 1

“Boys, is this your confession" asked

“It Is," replied Myers and G

bis suppli
you anything more

ardner,
cations,
to “ay?” asked
response... «
Y friend,” ex.
and the men

Hare

“Look to Jesus, your onl

Bound And Rohed. d
Chief Clerk Joseph H. Heine; of the
puties Charles H. Mac.
e W.- Armstrong. then
er straps and begun. to
he prisoners. They ‘had
assistance of the officers,

awa on their hands large undressed

ready, with the

once td Asbury Cemetery and buried, Un-
dertaker Hereules Rong qook charge 6f the
hodies of Myers ‘and James and buried
them at.3 PL M.. in Latireltemetery. Up.
dertaker Fellx 1. Pre took charge of Gard.
her's body and will inter'it hh Ranpile Brae

peared together. The girl’
occurred fvas corroborated
ler, but was contradic f

story pf what
by B e Mil-
by Thomds. As
he girl was in vn
ne time it was
he: bad jconvul-

‘You may kill the body, but_you can't
ll .the soul," suddefly shouted James
* pinioned. “**Amen!)’

a result of the askgult
critical condition, and a
‘thought she was dying.

Madison street fr:
Fons congregated *
shlewalks. When the first w gon. was
driven out with dts gru¢some ‘load the
shout went np, “Here they come.” As the
Wagons proceeded stowly down the street
they were followed by a'crowd of men and

the facts earefflly ‘ldoked cate by a relia-

ble detective, and! announced that he could

find ho initignt{ng dircwnstances to war. &

rant upy other ae 8 an that of death.
Bryan's ime. t

ph Bryan's crime. wus (the murder,

dveral hugdred per
re, filling

ese words: ‘

After co te n Jud
: nl
y Shepherd, I shall not want, reet and
de maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He
deth me beside -the still waterh. ;
(At though 1 walk through) the valles of the

evil, fot Thou art

h me; Thy. 10d and Thy sta they comfort me.
‘Boys, are you feeling all right?" asked

Jone
4

RET hao He on

GARDINER, JAMES and MIN

vy denna re AA hesege tig REET pb

Pygfen Declaring That

" '
man. whereupob he steamed

FTERNOON, JULY 28, 1899.

COTTON MILL FOR FORT VALLEY.
Maine Parties Will Move a Big Plant
South.

Atlanta, Ga., July 2A—The Constitu-

tion today says:
* “Fort Valley, Ga, ta to have a
People Are Friend- 10,.000-spindle cotton mill in the pear
. future. A committee of four citizens
to Americans. of that ¢own have just returned from
: Springdale. Me.. where they went to
te make epecial inducements to the big
cotton factory at that place to move

WES PROCLAMATION | rnetcommittce reports that « extis

factory agreement was reached, and
say final arrangements wil] be per.
fected within the next few days for
the transporting of the plant of the
Springvale Cotton Mill from Maine to
Georgia.

“Among the inducements offered the
mill at Fort VaYey is an exemption
from taxation for ten years, which has
been arranged {0 a manner perfectly
constitutional; 50,000 gallons of water
per day secured for ten years, and the
pavapiane popes bales of cotton be-
: 4 ng marketed withia twenty miles of
TS CALAMBA'S CAPTORB| Fort vaticy each year .

“A company recently formed at Fort

Valley bas agreed to take a controlling

amount of the stock of the concern,
x, Joly 223—A dispatch to| Which ts capitalized at $190,000."

from Sendayan, Philippine} np S WILL BE ;

ty devia Labaid “says: AD ITALIANS WILL BE MOVED

Bates reached Sulu July 16) To Vicksburg for Fical Interment.
treaty with the Sultan at Funeral Sutday.

to begin today. The Sul} ..

oe een. the village of |, Wcksburs, Misa, July 28—The
2 cugen ae bodies of the five Italiana who were
ie people of that island dls-| resentty lynehed at Tallulah will be fi-
friendliness’ towards thejnally interred in the city cemetery
and it is belleved a satie-|h‘re. The [tiattan society of this city
ty will soon be completed. | Will today send Undertaker Fraser to
hostilities between the na- Fit agg tal Riese, the dedies and
pee ; : cksburg. He wil! re
ree “ley! Salo archi } turn Sunday afterpoon and the funeral
| be prevented. will probably take place that evening
e ts true of the Island of} Jim Defino, a cousin of the dead De-
which Js tributary to the! fatras, who left Milliken's Bend the
| day after the lynching. yesterday re
teatures Mkely to be trou: | Pin ar. nan prem ke seine aie,
: re t nl it ¥. from the mother of the Defatta
can, nam i. eed | DOTS boys asking if their reported
hich porots, e 3 "{ deaths were true, Defino reported In

will insist upon the affirmative.

of Sulina bas issued the

an i A:
reclamation to the people:|
the Americans; they have DIST
z us as friends—not to tn-

4 our religion, rights of
All those who love sheik
sultan I warn to be friend-

;
molest them The Amer! Qf the United States are
xe @ box of matches—you :

Nicaraguans.

or two and they all blaze

Are Like a Box
of Matches.

sof Zamboanga are anx-
tbe Americans take

Tagalo leacters represent-
lo there

at wept from Manila to!
sioel) ieland thirty miles :
clewnn, to reestablish a That Mr. J. Lamotte Morzan

The commander found the r :
Brings From Bluefields.
lly got the mixsiog Jight | Baya Zelaya Bhould

1 to Palabac and set ft up

ving friendly natives ig : Have Shot
rhe United States Sag 6 Bt dy cach oe wort Me,
+ place, send Valea

hk after a short eruine he

rng gone sod. the J ioiv0| AMERICANS. WHO WERE IN REYOLT

Pps vor Tors mre (THIS 1S THE INFORMATION

Borneo ana-found trace of

lle decided ta land
Love the rebel flag hat the

Bristed At length two of | ‘i > |

tleen marines were lander | pet
hard elutes fixbt. in New Oitenua dudy 28 The Nha

ative eblef (heefiret off-er! Taknaom Teel Atstrietful of the United!
ven were killed and several States amt who can blame them ?* aad
No Atverlenne was even) Mr Jo Lamotte Morgan, fomiuerty cot!

o
ERS, blacks, hanged Balti
and M BRYAN, Joseph, black, hanged there on July

FOUR SWUNG

From the Same Gallows in
Baltimore.

ALL OF THEM NEGROES.

Three Died for Assault on a Lit-
tle Girl. The Other for
Mardering a
Woman

SHORT HISTORY OF THE CRIMES

Baltimore. Md, July 28.—Four ne-
groes, Cornelius Gardiner, John Min-
ers, Charles James and Joseph Bryan,
were banged iu the jail yard today, the,
first three named for criminally as-
saulting little Annie Ba“‘ey, and Bryan
for the murder of Mary Pack, a wo
man with whom he had ved. They
were bung from the same gzllows, -

The trap was sprung at 0:48. |

Cornelius Gardiner, ‘Charled~ T.
James and John Miners’ were convict

ley,

bome in Vine street.

particularly revolUng.

ted on April 23, the men were indicted
on May 11 and found guilty on June

On the following day in passing sen-
tence, Judge Wright dwelt at length
on the nature of the charges against
the men, aud said it would have been a
Jasting disgrace to the court bad the
jury returned any verdict other thao
guilty. He added that he was disposed
to give prisoners the benefit of all
doubt, but in this case there was netth-
er doubt nor extenuating circum.
stances. y

In order to thoroughly satisfy bim-
self before passing sentence the judge
said be had employed a detective fo Ko
over the ground independent of teatt |
tony before the court, and to find, if
Possible, soe catenuating elrcun-
statce. The detective bad failed to
find one efreumsrance fending to ressep)
the aggravated nature of the offeune

The girl was inher room ou the s¢e-
apd floorof ber Uttle home alone at the
tite of the assault, The inen entered
ohe at ati ‘The sister Bf the girl
discovered the er me apd reported tt to
the polloe

Gardiner was foond hiding In the
honse {n a amali attle room. THe was
eovered with dost and dirt and pre-
senied a woe begone ppprariuce. No
trouble was experienced in Jocating fe
other two, and they were soon under
arrest

Porn time tt Was feared the vic tim's
Mi juples would cause death She un
detwent ecedivolston after rouvulsion.
Afr tuo weeks of sulfering during
Shieh the obtld Was durenscious most
atthe tine, boretrcugtt returned and}
ein wan hufficieutly recovered fo ape
pear wea het tien amailiaity

we, Mde, July 28, 1899 for same crimes
28, 1899, for another crime, .

ere etal)
,

BRINGS °S

‘ Le
(ne OMEN e

Agalast Mrs. Lala F as

Arbuale for 895000,

reer

TH AFORBTINB SERSATION

.
eepcnemee aE

Entitled the Afbuckle-Ps

Affair is Again Brought.’
to the Front in ?¥

INTERESTING DBYBLOPMERYS

Memphis, Tenn., Juby 238..—Mra. F
Artuckle, through her attorney,
Bell, bas entered ‘sult in’ the.C
Court against Mra Lulu Farabee
buckle, and asks for damages ta.%
amount of $25.000. Am attaehmar
bond for $50,000 wae made, the Bie
delity and Deposit Conrpany of Matys;
land being the surety. bo. ae oe
Attaclagents were lesued and

in the baile of Execution Deputy

Bank,
Ruseeli. J. W. Richardson
Uston and Planters’ Beak. © 3) <4
Garnishments were also issued ae
served upon R) D. McKellar, who tape
resents the second Mrs. Arbeckse
hex legal troubles, but were fot
derause of his absence from f i
Lulu Farabee Arbuckle is at Virgt
Beach, Ve., and did not know’ ot.&
sult unt a message was ,
this afternoon by her business
in the ety. No declaration wae
with the suit, but this will
within ten days '
Attorney John Bell briefly
the cause to be assigned therein. Te §
on old common law grounds and«
cause of criminal conversation:
allenating the affections of the Bui
band of the plaintiff. 1 Gs
The princtpals io this drama ‘i
well known. The plainti® was iy
fret wife of the late W. 8 ‘Arbuckle, /”
who wns shot and killed by Walter,
Farabee, The defendant wap the.
of the decease? at the . the, of »
death, having married bind after hie

:
ares

has occasioned some trouble b

the heirs which ts not yet adj

Since the/death of Arbuckle the mother
of the falntiff has also dled, aué

Is related that the blow abe rece!
from the publicity gtvan the troeblem:
of her daughter bad much to do with,

thin. | SS

rested under the suspicion of having been the instigator of this dread uy.
tragedy, seems to be in no manner tmplicated by the ednfession of Drumphond ,
who intimates that if some of the Cosden family had not escaped and givén'
the alarm it was their intention to have followed up the work of plunder
.ahddblood and that other families woudd have beem massacred the same night,
Murphy, on being arrested, appesred to be the least concerned of all the
crowd assembled. Ford an’ Sills have been lodged in jail at Elkton.

Yours, /s/ W. W. L."
REGISTER, Raleigh, NC, XX April 23, 1851 (3:3.)

"THE KENT COUNTY (MD. ) MASSACRE, described in our last, has created a

ereat excitement in thet part of the country. Three persons hed been f
arrested, supnosed to be the murdepers., One is Willim W. Webster, an uncle

to Mrs. Cosden, snd also of Miss Rehecca CC. Yebstere The second is James
Roberts, a travelline clock mender, who bore the exact description of the
assassin given by Mics Webbter., The third party arrested is William

Shelton, who is » mill hand in the mill of Mr. Voshell, in nearly the seme
neichborhood where Roberts came from. The suspicion against him srises
from the fact of his having recently brought a double barrelled guh, 2
revolver or 9 double barreled pistol and some dirk w#nives at Smyrna."
REGISTER, Raleigh, NC, March 12, 1851(3/2.)

BROOKS, Buck, BROWN, Moses, COMHGYS, Frisbie and WILLIAMS, Fletcher, hanged at
, Chestertown, Maryland, on January 13, 1893, All black.

"Chestertown, Md,, January 13, 1893 - Contrary to what was generally expected by
everyone, Chestertown, outside the jail precinct, passed a quiet, uneventful night.
The strects were almost entirely deserted, except by Sheriff Plume and the posse that
had been summoned, which patrolled the streets nearly all night long and until the
execution took place.

"Business during the morning was almost entirely suspended, but.the streets were
crowded with vehicles. Very few negroes were seen and not a single arrest and not a
single disturbance occurred, In the city courthouse the rooms were crowded with

young and old men summoned to déferid the jail should an attempt by made bo lynch.the
four prisoners, but no such attempt was made,

"At 1230 this morning Samuel J, Hill and Walter 5, Hill, the father and brother of

Dr. J,. H, Hill, the murdered man, were admitted to the jail. Another man expressed a
wish to talk alone with the condemned prisoners with the view of forcing a confessio n
from them The Messrs, Hill went to the cells of Brooks, Williams, Brown and Comegys,
but with unsatisfactory results. Repeated efforts weremade to secure confessions from
the negroes, but each man stuck to his story and absolutely denied all knowledge of
the crime.

"Rev. A. A. Murray, who passed the night in the jail, began religious attentions to
the prisoners at 7 o'clock, The enthusiastic preacher began to pray and shipg to thw
prisoners between prayers, Then a hearty breakfast was served to the prisoners, and
shortly after 11 o'clock members of the posse inside the jail, reporters and witnesses
allowed by law crofided into the corridor,

"Watchman Storkes opened four doors, two deputies went into each cell and handcuffed
and pinioned each occupant and then the short marth to the scaffold commenced, Brooks
led, with Comegys next, followed by Williams and Brown, The heavy, awkward looking
cotton nooses were soon arranged, black caps were phhced over their faces and their
legs bound at the ankles, |

"At 12:30 the bar controlling the triggers was slipped, and there was a crash as the
trap fell and four bodies shot through the holes, Four of the mrderers of Hill had
expiated their crime,

'The cold-blooded barbarous crime for which these negroes were hanged has seldom beenn
equaled in a civilized community, The scene of the crime was a lonely road; the hour
midnighte Dr. J. R. Hill, a man highly respected throughout the county, was the vice
tim, He was on the way to attend to the wants of a sick child, As he appraached a
bridge, a number of men sprang from behind trees, Two seized his horse. A blow from
behind knocked him from his seate A brutal hand sezzed his hair, and, drawing his
head back so that his throat was fully exposed, a keen-edged knife was drawn across
the smooth white surface. Hewas then stabbed in the breast. As the hand legt go his
haar the skull of the unfortunate physician was crushed with a heavy stone.

"The four negroes hanged today were principals in the assassination,

"Four boys, three of whom were 16 and one 13 years of age, Charles Emory, Henry Eurtt,
Joshua Benson and Lewis Brainerd, were among the murderers, On account of their youth
and because he believed an octette hanging to be a bbmish on the State's history, Gpv.
Brown commutkd their sentences to imprisonment for life.

"The cause which led to the assassination was a quarrel, in which neighter the negroes
nor Dr, Hill were in any way interested, John and Joe Potts, two negroes, quarreled
with Henry Jones, a carpenter, in regard to some work he had done, One called Jones

a liar, and Jones knocked him down, The Potts brothers secured Tom Campbell, a negro
and a bad man, as their leader, A dgwen headed by Campbell went to the saloon where
the carpenter located himself, The white men in the place had evidently been pre-
pared for the mob, for in less than three minutes after Campbell burst into the

place he was pitched out to the sidwalk dead.

Dr, Hill conducted the ppppppgl autopsy and reported no wounds on the body of C@mpbell
sufficient to cause death, This acquitted thw white men and greatly incensed the negroes
against Dr. Hill. Some vowed vengeance.

"On April 23 last Dr, Hill at 10 o'clock ordsred his dog cart and started to make a
professional visit to a sick child of James Shaw, five miles away.

"Mrs, Hill waited anxiously for his his return and wh "ol
was relieved by hearing and sound of wheels in the wies.s Bus Seen Ahee” Ad ssh oe Vee hot

appear she dressed and went to see what was the matter. The sight nearly upset her

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reason. The horse was standing at .the gate and in the car was the body of Dr. Hill.
"Neighbors carried the doctor to his house. Ke never regained consciousness,

"The mjrder was quickly traced to a party of negroes and four were ,arrested. Finally
one confessed. Altogether fifteen negroes wer arrested, The indictments enbraced
nine of these, but one was: acquitted.

"Mose Brown said that on the night of the: mrder BLetcher Williams spoke to the crowd
about killing Hill: 'We could kill him because Tom Campbell was killed and we could
do the same with Dr. Hill,'

"The crime was committed as already told. At the trial the verdice was unanimous,"

DAILY NEWS, Galveston, Texas, January ll, 1893 (8-6),

BEN, CESAR, CHARLES, COOPER, MARLBOROUGH, MOL and "ataacas Slaves,

4/28/17h2.

"at the Provincial Court held at Annapolis in April, seven negroes re-
ceived sentence of death for the murder of their master, Jeremiah
Pattison, about a year ago in Calvert County, which was not discovered
till lately, when one of them principally concerned confessed that he
and his fellow slaves murdered their master as he lay in bed asleep by
choking and smothering him and that he could not be easy since till

| he made the discovery. Their sentence was to be carried to the gallows
and first have their right hands cut off, then to be hanged till dead,
then their heads cut off and their bodies to be cut in quarters and

hung up in different public places, Six of them were to be BXA&HKKEK

executed in Calvert County and the other one at Annapolis and last

Executed Maryland (1 in Annapolis and 6 in Calvert County

Wednesday was the day of execution, The negro fellow that was executed
at Annapolis behaved with much resolution and unconcernedness as
possibly could be. As he rode to the gallows he sang all the way

with the executioner, (who was of his colour), a negro song; which as
the executioner told me afterwards, was about war and fighting in

their own A#HMERK country, And meant, I suppese, to animate him
against the fears of death," PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, May 6, 172.

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were all slaves of Mr, John Pattison of Calvert Co. (The one named
Mol was definitely female). Their crime was perpetrated on 2-18-
172 in their master's house at Christ Church Parish, Calvert Co,
When they snuck into his bedroom as he lay sleeping and strangled
him, Each one of them, (including the woman), had their right
hands chopped off prior to being hanged. They when they were dead
they were all beheaded and quartered and had their heads and quar-
ters set up in the puclic places of Calvert Count. SOURCE: Judge-
ment Record of the Provincial Court, Vol. 30A, pages 19 & 20,"

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September 26th 1989

Mr. M. Watt Espy

Capital Punishment Research Project
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Headland, AL 36345

Dear Watt:

Preliminary to the Maryland 'deluge' I enclose herewith the final
batch of preliminary corrections, etc. for that state. Please work them
in at your earliest convenience. These incidentals all cropped up to-
day. 'Deluge' will follow in about ten days since it will take a week
to prepare the cards.

A GEORGE CROWDER: executed at Philadelphia PA in 1783 or 1784.
Please note that this man drew a death sen-
tence at Perth Amboy NJ in the spring of 1776 for burglary but
was reprieved under the gallows. (Did you remember to delete him
from New Jersey?) I now find that he also drew a death sentence
‘ya at the Baltimore MD Assizes in the spring of 1778 for robbing
the storehouse of one Mr. Cumberland Dugan of that locale on
April 8th of that year. Again he wrangled a pardon. Please in-
clude this added Maryland angle to existing data on this man.
It makes his third death sentence in as many states. SOURCE:
Pardon Papers of the Governor in Council (Maryland) 1777-1785

Box 1 Folder #24. 70 - (61754

Deletion of Francis Piers, 1783. See enclosed card.

u¢ BRIDGET MARTIN: Papers of her case in Box 2 Folder #113 of.
Pardon Papers of the Governor in Council. On

12-10-83 she murdered one Elizabeth Brown by administering a large
dose of white arsenic to her mixed with sugar used to sweeten a
liquor cordial. She was tried at Baltimore in February 1784 and
pleaded pregnancy upon conviction. The court was loathe to risk
another 'Bathsheba Spooner' so stayed sentence until May 24th
by which time it was reasoned she would show her supposed preg-
nancy. On that date a jury of matrons examined her and returned
a negative verdict whereupon sentence of death was passed. She
was executed on July 23rd and appears to have been the last white
woman to be executed in Maryland.

: JOHN HARRISON alias STEWART, 1760. Frederick County. Horse Theft.
Please upgrade from ‘unconfirmed' to 'confirmed' executed on 10-17-
60 at Frederick. Source: page 177 of Commission Record of Governor.

UNIDENTIFIED NEGRO MAN, 1740, hanged and gibbeted 4/4/40 at Upper

ee Marlborough for insurrection. Have ascertained his name to have been

"Jack Ransom' per Record Book of Prince George's County Court Vol. 12
pages 573-574 (March Term 1740) which also states that he was the slave
of the widow Jane Brooke and conspired to kill his mistress and her two
children. Four other negroes were acquitted as accessories. His value
was fixed at 60 pounds sterling.

482 History oF QUEEN ANNE’s CouNTy

had been erected on a mound about a mile northwest of the town.
Wm. Cosden, father of the murdered man, went upon the scaffold
lo take leave of the assassins. He wept bitterly and said, “You
know my son never did you any harm.” The culprits again reiterated
their innocence and announced that they forgave all who had taken
any part in their conviction. Taylor, in a Speech from the scaffold,
declared that his life had been sworn away by Shaw. Murphy as-
serted that he was home in bed at the time of the murder. Shelton
declined to make any public remarks although Taylor implored him
to tell all he knew,

Upon the fall of the platform Taylor and Shel

in the air and died with scarcely a Struggle, but t
around Murphy's neck ave way and the condemned man fell to
the ground. “ The victim,” says a contemporary account, " bounded
about on the §round and uttered most heart-theilling moans and
cries.” Reviving, he asked for water but could not swallow it. He
reiterated his innocence and said he believed that Shelton also, was
innocent. While * moaning most piteously and Praying” he was
again taken to the scaffold, the rope re-adjusted and the execution
consummated without further trouble.

In 1851 the democratic candidate for Congress in the district
embracing Queen Anne's Was Hiram McCollough, and the Whig
candidate Alexander Evans, both of Cecil County.

Mr. Evans was re-elected.

In Queen Anne's the Whig candidates

for the legislature were:
State Senate, Thos. H. Kemp; House of Delegates, Col, Joel Thomas,
John S. Bryan,

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For clerk of the Circuit Court the Whigs nominated John Palmer;
for register of wills, Col. Samuel T. Harrison: for sheriff, James E.
Dillon; for Surveyor, James W, Thompson; for State's
Lloyd Tilghman.

The democratic ticket for the same offices Was the following:
State Senate — Ex-Governor Wm. Grason; House of Delegates,
Lemuel Roberts, Albert T. Emory; clerk, Dr, Washington Vinley;
register of wills, Samuel Vickers; sheriff, James Perkins.

The democrats elected the senator, Ex-Governor Grason; Mr. Rob-
erts as member of the House of Delegates: Perkins, Sheriff; and
John M. Robinson State’s Attorney. The Whigs elected Palmer
clerk; Harrison, register of wills; Thompson, Surveyor; and one
member of the House of Delegates — Joel Thomas.

The vote was as follows:

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From War OF 1812 To Civi, War 483

State Senator — Grason, dem., 791; Kemp, Whig, 712.
House of Delegates — Whigs, Thomas, 748, Bryan, 709; Demo-
781, Emory, 736. ae
Ck & Cok Court dem., Finley, 725; Palmer, Whig, 772.
State's Attorney — Robinson, dem., 769; Tilghman, Whig, 730.
Sheriff — Perkins, dem., 761; Dillon, Whig, 745. 2a :
Register of Wills — Vickers, dem., 734; Harrison, bids 762.
Surveyor — Wright, dem., 68; Thompson, W hig, 823.
For judge of the Circuit Court under the new constitution the can-
didates were Wm. A. Spencer, era and Philemon B. Hopper,
Vhig ge Hopper was elected.

7 ieee Hay, Charles B. Mitchell and Charles Stevens
were appointed delegates to the democratic State —— ae ms
In this year the Whig candidate for presidential e a i
fifth district which included Queen Anne’s was Henry VW . f ee
The elector at large for the Eastern Shore was James B. ce °
Kent. The Whig candidate for president was Gen. \ infiel cot :

The democratic national convention of 1852 met in Baltimore i"
June and Gen. Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was pone
for president. The Maryland State convention met two “ws ater
and nominated candidates for presidential electors. The candidate at
large for the Eastern Shore was Dr. Cathel Humpf[h }reys os omer
set. J. A. Wickes of Kent was the candidate for elector from _
Sth district, Madison Brown of Queen Anne's having been pate
Mr. Wickes’ competitors for the nomination. E. K. Wilson of ; :
cester, now U. S. Senator, was nominated for the ieg mene
Whig opponent being H. H. Goldsborough of ar Silane
erts was appointed the Queen Anne’s member of the Democt:
sxecutive Committee.
pane iis Queen Anne's by 12 majority, the vote being Pierce
ei aad haa of 1853 for re-apportioning the ft aaa heal
tricts of Maryland, Queen Anne's was thrown ve ea “at
which comprised Queen Anne's, Caroline, Talbot, orc aes — cen
cester and Somerset Counties, Kent and Cecil being combine =
Harford, Cartoll and part of Baltimore Counties to ee :
second district. The candidates for Congtess in the Queen =
district in 1853 were J. R. Franklin, Whig; and ers n se
pendent. In Queen oe the vote was Franklin 770; Stevensor

47: F clin being elected. :
Mee vat also an election this year (1853) for members of the

382 History OF QUEEN ANNE'S CouNTy “$ POLITICAL Events 383

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who, however, were in the minority.

In the Star of May 9, 1809, is published a letter from Robert
Emory, chairman, and Thomas Wright of Thos., secretary, to Presi-
dent Jefferson on his retirement from the Executive chair and Presi-
dent Jefferson’s reply. The latter, addressed to “ the Republicans of
Queen Anne’s County,” expressed Mr. Jefferson's thanks for the
compliments conveyed in the letter of Messrs. Emory and Wright,
and the hope that war might be averted. At the same time he added,
Peace on our part and war from others would neither be for our
happiness nor honour; and should the lawless violences of the bel-
ligerent powers render it necessary to return their hostilities, no
nation has less to fear from a foreign enemy.”

Citizens of Church Hill met on the -ith of March, 1809, to express
“the agreeable satisfaction they feel on the accession of President
Madison to the chair as Chief Magistrate of the United States of
America.” Toasts were drunk by sixty or seventy citizens including
part of Capt. Jones’ troop of horse.

" At the close of the evening fired a gun as signal for lighting up
our windows on the occasion, and then with drums beating and
violins playing we marched in procession till nine and parted in
fellowship.”

In the Star of March 21, 1809, appeared a communication from
“ Philus ’’ of Queen Anne's urging patriotic ladies to wear goods
of home manufacture in order to encourage domestic industry, anc
to discard “ British yew-yaws [gew-gaws} and French frippery.””

Hon. James Tilghman, judge of the 2nd district, embracing Queen
Anne's, died at Chestertown April 19, 1809, and Richard Tilghman
Earle was on the 20th of May appointed his successor, the associate
judges being Lemuel Purnell, of Queen Anne’s, and Thomas Wor-
rell, of Kent. Governor Wright on the 6th of May, had resigned
his position expecting to be appointed to the vacant judgeship, but
in this he was disappointed, the Council preferrng Mr. Earle. Upon
the Governor's resignation “James Butcher, of Queen Anne’s, as
the first named of the Governor's Council, succeeded to the position
and issued a proclamation as Governor of Maryland convening the
General Assembly which met on the Sth of June, and elected Hon.
Edward Lloyd Governor.

James Butcher held the office of Governor about a month and must

furnished to the State. He resided near Church Hill and was an
influential man especially in the upper part of Queen Anne's.

On the 29th of April, 1809, the Secretary of War informed the
Governor of Maryland that the detachment of Maryland troops
raised in accordance with the requisition of Noy. 2, 1808, need no
longer be held in readiness for actual service, the European war
cloud having passed away for the time being. The governor there-
fore ordered the discharge of the troops.

The 4th of July, 1809, was celebrated at the Court House in Cen-
treville, the Declaration of Independence being read by Walter
Clayton and “a handsome oration” delivered by Mr. John Seney
after which there was a dinner at Hatcheson's tavern at which Ex-
Governor Wright presided; Stephen Lowery vice-president and Dr.
J. D. Emory secretary. Among ten volunteer toasts were " the cause
of Liberty throughout the Globe ” by John Seney; “ the honest poli-
tician’ by Col. Thomas Wright; “ Timothy Pickering, an ironical
toast,” by Capt. Joseph H. Nicholson, Jrt.;,° the triumph of real repub-
licanism” by J. D. Emory; “ May the diffusion of political infor-
mation place ere long the sovereignty of every nation in the people
alone,” by G. W. T. Wright.

In 1809, the democratic republican candidates for the legislature
from Queen Anne’s County were Daniel C. Hopper, J. E. Spencer,
James Brown, George Palmer, all of whom were elected. W. P.
Ridgaway already in office was again elected sheriff. The democratic
ticket had no opposition in the county in 1808 or 1809.

In the Star of Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1809, a writer from Centreville
(Nov. 10) says “a tragic scene was witnessed on Wednesday last at
the Courthouse in Centreville. Seven negroes convicted of the mur-
der of William Robinson, were brought to the Bar to hear their
dreadful doom. Silence being commanded Judge Earle pronounced
an elegant and affecting address to the prisoners.” He then con-
demned four of them to the gallows and “ the other three to the
roads; [that is, to labor on the public roads} two for fourteen and
the other for seven years.” The crime for which they were con-
demned, it was stated, “ was of the blackest dye and the evidence
against them was irresistible.” Soon after their condemnation three
of the prisoners escaped from jail as appears by the proclamation
of Gov. Lloyd published in the Star of Dec. 5, 1809 stating that the
negro Perry or Peregrine, slave of Elizabeth Rochester, the negro John

384 History OF QUEEN ANNE’s CouNTY

or John Armstrong sentenced to death for murder, and the negro
Stephen, slave of Joseph Sudler, had made their escape on Sunday
morning, Nov. 12, and offering a reward of $100 apiece for their
apprehension. Perry was a dark mulatto about 23 or 24 years old;
John a very bright mulatto about 30; Stephen of a yellow com-
plexion and also about 30. Perry was apprehended in January, 1810,
and a warrant was issued for his execution to take place on the 12th.
John Armstrong was captured two vears later in Philadelphia and
hanged in Queen Anne’s Nov. 6, 1811.

James Butcher of Queen Anne’s was again elected the first mem-
ber of the Governor's Council in 1809, receiving the highest number
of votes.

Notwithstanding the vigorous measures of the Jefferson and
Madison administrations, the impressment of American seamen by
British war vessels continued to be practiced and among the sailors
thus forced to serve against their country in 1810, was James Prin-
field of Centreville.

In this year (1810) Mr. John Brown of Nathan declined a re-
election to Congress. He was, however, nominated and elected. The
nominating convention (democratic republican) met at Hills-
borough, Caroline County.

Sept. 5, 1810, the delegates from Queen Anne’s were George
Palmer, Robert Stevens, John Fogwell, Benjamin Hatcheson, Philip
Green and Steven Myers. Messrs. John and James Brown of Queen
Anne's were both placed in nomination. and Mr. John Brown of
Nathan was chosen as the candidate. He was elected, apparently
without opposition.

On the 15th of October, however, he was appointed clerk of the
Court for Queen Anne's County and resigned his seat in Congress
to accept that position.

A new election for Congress was therefore necessary. Hon. Rob-
ert Wright of Queen Anne’s was nominated by the democratic re-
publicans, his competitor in the convention being Mr. James Brown
who had already been defeated by Mr. John Brown of Nathan. At
the polls Mr. Wright was opposed by Mr. Daniel C. Hopper, the
candidate of “ the Centreville non-contents ”’ aided, it was charged,
by the Federalists. The majority in the district for Mr. Wright was
“believed not to exceed 100.” Mr. Wright, it was added, obtained
majorities in two out of the three districts in Queen Anne's, “ the
Centreville non-contents to the contrary.” Mr. James Brown was

POLITICAL Events 385

praised by the Star for withdrawing “ all opposition to the nomina-
tion,”” his conduct being contrasted with that of Mr. Hopper who,
it was said, “ permitted himself to be used in order to divide and
distract the republican interest of the district.”

The democratic candidates for members of the House of Delegates
from Queen Anne's in 1810, were Philemon C. Blake, Samuel Bur-
gess, Stephen Myers and Thomas Emory. A fifth candidate whose
name is not given by the Star but who had Opposed the party nomi-
nees in 1803, presented himself. He was said to have removed to
Kent County after 1803, and there turned Federalist but returned to
Queen Anne’s and avowed himself a good democrat. The regular
democratic candidates were all successful. In this year Stephen
Lowery of Queen Anne’s was chosen State Senator and James But-
cher again elected a member of the Governor’s Council.

The following military appointments for Queen Anne’s were
made in the fall of 1810: ;

Sept. — James Kent Harper, ensign of Capt. J. Kennard’s Com-
pany, 38th Regiment, Winbert Tschudy, adjutant, 35th Regiment.

Nov. — Wm. Thomas, surgeon, and Wm. Matthews, surgeon’s
mate, 35th Regiment.

Dec. — Thomas Emory, captain of a troop of horse, attached to
the 6th brigade; Henry R. Pratt, 1st lieutenant; Samuel Wright, Jr.,
2nd lieutenant.

In May, 1811, Samuel Roseberry was appointed lieutenant and
John W. Osborn, ensign of Capt. Britton’s company, 36th Regiment,
Queen Anne’s County; Henry Richardson, ensign of a company in
the same regiment.

On the 17th of May, 1811, a county Convention of democratic
republicans was held at the Courthouse in Centreville, Robert
Wright presiding and Thomas Murphey secretary, at which it was
decided that the upper district be entitled to one candidate for Sena-
torial elector and two candidates for the House of Delegates, and
that the middle and lower districts jointly be entitled to the same
number. Details for holding the primary elections were also agreed
upon and William Sudler, Sidney Palmer and Robert Stevens were
appointed a committee to notify the voters of the upper election dis-
trict of the arrangement; Kensey Harrison, William Pitt Ridgway
and Walter Jackson Clayton committee for the middle district a:
Henry Duvall, James Winchester and Alexander B. Harrison, com
mittee for the lower district.

At the primaries the following vote was cast:

480 History OF QUEEN ANNt’s CouNTY

In this year (Feb. 27, 1851), occurred the horrible Cosden murder
in Kent County which may be included in the narrative of events
iffecting Queea. Anne's not only from the proximity of the scene of
the tragedy to our county and the absorbing interest which it excited
in this community, but also from the fact that one of the judges,
Hon. P. B. Hopper, and the chief prosecutor in the trial, Hon. John
M. Robinson, then recently appointed deputy attorney general, were
citizens of Queen Anne's County. Wm. Cosden, a young farmer, re-
sided on the Moody farm on the main road from Chestertown to Phil-
adelphia about midway between Georgetown Cross Road and Head of
Sassafras. His family at the time consisted of himself, his wife, his
sister, Amanda Cosden, aged 17, his wife’s sister, Miss Webster, two
small children, his wife's brother, Dickinson Webster, aged 14, and
a negro woman. Between 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening while the
family were at tea someone fired through the window mortally
wounding Mr. Cosden who was sitting before the fire, having fin-
ished his supper. The assailants, three in number, then burst into the
house, shot and stabbed Mrs. Cosden, and Miss Cosden, both of
whom were afterwards found dead, shot Miss Webster, who was
lying upstairs sick in bed which they set on fire, and finally, descend-
ing to the kitchen, shot the negro woman. The boy, Dickinson Web-
ster, made his escape and gave the alarm. When the neighbors
reached the house, they found two persons dead and three weltering
in their blood. The perpetrators of the atrocity were unknown to
the family. Miss Webster afterwards died, making four victims in
all, but the colored woman recovered.

Wm. W. Webster, uncle of Miss Webster, James P. Roberts, Wm.
Shelton, Thomas Drummond, Samuel Sills, John Ford, John Heron
and John Fagon, the latter in Queen Anne’s, were arrested on sus-
Picton.

Gov. Lowe offered a reward of $1,000 for the apprehension of
the murderers. Heron and Ford were released owing to the lack of
evidence against them. Drummond who had been arrested in Cecil
County had confessed that he was implicated in the murder and as-
serted that Nicholas Murphy of Havre de Grace, Shelton, Jesse
Ford and two men named Sills and Taylor committed the murder.
Their object, he said, was plunder and Drummond declared that if
the alarm had not been given other families would have been mur-

dered the same night.
Drummond's statements were not regarded as conclusive and

FROM War OF 1812 To Civit. WAR 481

much uncertainty as to the identity of the murderers prevailed until
a statement was obtained from a Mrs. Hand who lived near Black-
bitd, Del., to the effect that Stephen Shaw had come to her house
under the influence of liquor and had told her that himself, Taylor,
Shelton and Murphy were the guilty parties. He claimed that Taylor
fired through the window and shot Cosden, and afterwards Mrs.
Cosden; that Shelton murdered Miss Cosden and Miss Webster and
Taylor shot the black woman, that he (Shaw) took no part in the
murder having gone to the spot merely for the purpose of robbery,
and that he was so drunk he fell in a fence corner.

The grand jury indicted Wm. Shelton, Nicholas Murphy, Abra-
ham Taylor and James P. Roberts. Shelton was tried first and found
guilty of murder in the first degree. The chief witness against him
was Stephen Shaw whose evidence was substantially as given by
Mrs. Hand. Drummond also gave important testimony and circum-
stantial evidence corroborated the story of these two witnesses, The
murder was shown to have been deliberately planned and carried
out with the most cold-blooded cruelty, the assassins having stabbed
and trampled Cosden on finding after shooting him down that life
was not extinct. They also shot and stabbed Miss Webster notwith-
standing her piteous appeal for mercy and offer to give them all the
money she had. After killing Mrs. Cosden, they took the rings from
her fingers and tore the ear-rings from her ears. The house was ran-

"sacked. The trials of Taylor and Murphy were removed to Cecil

County where they were both convicted of murder in the first degree.

Hon. E. F. Chambers, chief judge of the Circuit, pronounced the
sentence of death upon the three prisoners.

The execution took place at Chestertown on Friday, August 8,
in the presence of a large assemblage, including many persons from
the adjacent counties of Maryland and Delaware. A troop of horse
from Queen Anne's, commanded by Captain Betts, assisted the Kent
county militia and a number of armed citizens in preserving order.
The three prisoners are described as awaiting their doom with in-
difference and_ persistently asserting their innocence. As the end
drew near Murphy and Taylor professed religion and prayed for
their wives and children, but Shelton apparently remained unmoved.

When the hour for the execution arrived the condemned men
were arrayed in white robes and black caps after which they were
taken from the jail and placed upon chairs in an open wagon. A pro-
cession was then formed including the prisoners, clergy and mili-
tary, and made its way through a dense crowd to the scaffold which

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poate 37

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Oh obagosrtion (ae. Ode.

surcen nts tr

Sogo tf rey ate re ‘} om or

oa.cnroe & Obto

at ts

2 Playing Possum ?

« creeper] the line, eays
rk “Sup, acd now the
ne verbal; that is, if oo
acome, like yeaterday’a,
effcrta of the epriog to
he claeaic rhymera (Per-
as aepring in those days
old timers !) Bot this
‘32 © fenrfol leak from

2 and weather
. be divine might be de
real; entirely too mach

tarpal aod diarnal, which
ray citizens to take, for

ary fell down the tabe a
treeziog, amd Spring her-
-e erased for ehivering
og The wind, a brink

>» wteed the akw was dark i

NAMED AS ALTERNATE

. 7 = 2 bie J . Les
Walter Flooce Appointed By The

President as Cacdidate Fez
West Point.

Among the presidential appoint-
menta to the United States Army is
that of Walter Bficore, cf Annapolis.
The yourg man is a ecn cf David
Moore, an enlisted man of tho navy.
who Icst bia life in the Pasraic.

In 1889 the monitor Passaic was
proceeding to Baltimore to take part
in the Sesqui-Oentennial held in that
city that year. A launch wes being
towed bv cha monitor. When off
Greenberry Pointa squall struck the
bosis and the launch in which were
seamen Brown, Moore and Scott, ths
latter a colored msn, was swamped.
Brown and Mocre were drowned and
Scott was caved.

Lienternant Dressell, who subsequent.
ly committed suicida at ths Naval
Academy, and Lientectant-Commander
Kilpatrick were,in charge of the Pas-
eaio and both aearly lost their lives.
Yourg Moore, who hes received the
appointment to West Poist,is s grand-
eon of Air. Knackstect, of Maryland
avenne, and wass protege of the late
Professor F. Willing, of tho Naval
Academy. He hes been studyizg at
the preparatory schools here since his
retare fr¢m New York, where he was
a chcirisur at Grace Cherch, and at-
tended the school for boya attached to
the church. His many friends hope he
will be successfal in passing his exam-
inations. Young Moore was appoint-
ed an alternate.

ee EP OO —-

MURDERIN THE COUNTY

Patrolman McNamara Brutally
Assaulted By Negro.

Fatrolman John G. McNamara of
the Curtis Bay police, was bratally
wardered lest night supposedly by ap
nakoown negro.

A 15-year old boy, David Horak, was
thejonty witness who saw the police-
iuan fall, and eaw two men running,
bat being dark he could sot ideutify
them. He,ran to Mr. Wililam Don.
nelly's house, about two squares off,
who rushed with. @ lantern to the
scene of the murder. .

He found McNamera lying in the

He was unconscious and died

ud.
ee shortly without having spoken.

A ballet wound from a 38-¢taliber re-
volver wes ip his right breast. rom
appearances the murderer must have
been hidden behing a pole and tock the
policeman upawares. Four baga of
coal {pn the vicinity, evidently stolen
from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
give riso to the eupposition thas four
men wero perhaps concerned im the
murder, and that perhaps MoNamars
was aboat to catch then.

Olerk te tho coz commimiczers,
Oharles Himmelhebsr, was personal
acquainted with the murdered patrol-
rman, who. waa a good, honest, con-
ecientions officer. Every effort is be-
ing meade by the Anto Arundel author.
ities to apprehend the murderer. Dep-
aty sheriff Brvan, who received a tel-
egracn last aight apprisiog him of the
murder, [a now ont on the case.

Las

e?s

Moncerovs DL

HAMPORY Arn

City Alderman Not Guilty In Case
Tried In The Baltimore
City Courts

In the casa of Snowden vs. Thomp
£02, tried today in the Criminal Coart
of Baltimore befora Judge Wickes,
Tnompson was alleged ‘‘not gailty.”'
This news came over the wires sbout
noon today.

T. Arrington Thompsen, the colored
alderman from the Third ward of this
city, anda lawyer in practice here,
left today for Baltimere, where the
case in which heis diefendant was tried
today in the Criminal Court of Bait
wmmore city before Judge Wickes. Cn
March 1 Thompson was indicted by
the grund jary of Baltimore, on the
charze of having received money an-
der fales pretenses.

Cns George Suowden, of Baltimore,
engaged Thompson in the matter of
instituting divorce proceedings against
hie wife, Rachel Snowden. Sutee-

quently Snowden was quietly convict. .

ed of bigamy. Snowden claims that
Thomposn received the fee but did not
actin the matter, and Thompson says
that he @id iustitate the divorce
proceedings as asked for by Suowden
on August 31, which the records ot

art
Bee

the ccart will show. For this he
received 212 from Suowden. Later it

was learned tiiat Snowden had mar-
ried a second time and ogqnseqnently
Thompson did not procesd farther,
particularly es at that interesting
stage Suowden was arrested for big-
amy. A numberof Thompson's friends
did not think him from the first gailty
of the alleged fraud. The decision in
the case was ,handed down today and
‘Thompson was exonerated.

——_ +> ea
Register

Every effort is being made to secare
ag much assistance for Congressman
Mudd as possible ,in securing to the
city the contemplated road from the
city liimts out West street to the Na-
tioval Cemetery. ‘The road is to cout
in the neighbornood of 314,000 and
Mr. Mudd is willing to do all that 1s
possible to secure the appropriation.

A record is kept of all visitors to the
cemetery, but very few of the thous-
auds who go there taka advantage of
the raeans afforded to register their
names in the book kept there for that
purpose. This book is sabmitted asa
report to the officialsat Washington,
and itis thouhtg that a very good
plan would be for all persons visiting
there to rogister. In this manner &
good report on the needs of the road
could be sent to Washington.

i I ee ee

The Old, Old Controversy Ended

com.

qt Re

-|quene iwotd intervals, arid no

Tit FIRST DAY'S PROGR
i yt K JA
Exercises By The Your. Mf
Christian Assuciation
Acparler of felegatem are ea -

fO BITive Usbitorm wf,

fo Uloe miele

ferebee of Che Y Mt
Pas ifs opeGliug sen Gon ob: s
fernpoon The ctslepaten oo.

bers of the Masters lives
Masrylaud, Detaware aut
of Calanil:as.

lie fret of

tn As follows ,

Friday Mlareh 4 sera!
Der, State thou se Porm: \
Kdalfirmere, Met res .

$ oo yp tu birmaves ser
James Mb Hise haus me

NOM tn mh ce twee! .
Couferenee niesan t » |
of our meets 6 Tea the

ary
lnmpitatious ¢ lu the iigheosg

soorees* oD he service

Wiss -
Lyman db Pieri Wasnccge
40 Pp an Reg strat ocn on
Young Afemo. Chr stian ew.
rocGtua, State Cire te
Gob yp mm trate pueb ote.
And rntited pests fetete res

women of Autateiis

Noght sessson will be tad
land Avenue Mook Caw:
Lothrop, Wastington, be:
1t

7.80 poo mie = Bong ner tice ce
by Percy S. Foster, Washiog Gon

Sm} mo — Athdrema ots
Edwin Warnheld |

SSO poms Actedrese Oo dha os
Passion of the Young Men »
Agssoctation Work, ° Rew Je
othy Stope, DoD) Baltimore

Lan wr

Litthé¢ Was Dore

According to the official nica
the meeting of the county
siGners Yesterday very bittie
was travascted. Nothing of a+!
pature Came ap for cousitern
the board and the pomberot ta.
ed were fow tn nutiber

Bids for supplying books an
supplies fur the varigua counts
were opeved. The clerk was
ed to tabulate them ip order ts
might be acted upon at the nea
iug of the board.

Bids were received froin
Anderson and H. E. Gray for
ing gravel ov the Fifth cistri

Wilham BE. Jeffrey was awn
contract for spreading three
shells on the Ridge rovi at é
hundred bashels

- 39 oe
Slightly Improyed

It is thooght the condition
Viola Chaney, who was ing:
being thrown from her horse
shell road last Friday, ia alix|
proved. Miss Chaney has m

to be cognizant of her sufferin
eaid the base of the ekall is fr
but may knit together if the
ia kept perfectly quiet. He
tion is still serious and the
have the sympathy of the ent
muanity. Mr. KR. G. Chaney,

the injured girl, is one of t
prominent business men in A
anda cifizen who has the

aud esteem of the community?
7 i 1,

yeh abet ebe sah
‘ corgonnmayoanssm suede ne.

Bh SEST INTERSST OF THE CITY, COUNTY AND STATE.

THURSOAY, MARCH 23, 1905.

PRIOE ONE OENT

m
21
ts

Historically Falls on The.
4ut This Year It Wal
oserved a Day

Earlier.

hisiorloally Baryland Day
ccur aptil Saturday, fall-
‘es on Barch 35, it will ba
‘ib the pablio schools to-

Aisrch 2¢h is oalobrated
f the aooiv of the
ibe Marylacd Pilgrims af
ts Lua, che day from which
atilement of the stata As
se custom for eames _
will reoeive sosne especial ob-
narticolarty in the city apd
ic echoola, and, as the date
alls on Maturday, the osle-
Lanartaporrow (Friday),

rrance af thta day ie tho
a worement of the Blate
“deoomtiap epd thea tdesm Dede
sicespread cormmendatiob.
Wwarcthald te particalariy in-
it, mod hes eoveral timed
oimeelf eae being in entire

with the movemeot. Fo! !
(eo wroganstion made “y bie:
dune ticn ts ts thectsiow &)
particalar event io Mary-
ry cute be topuc fur etudy
{ diac ceneu Gpou that day,

rroacn joctedvox paypera Gear
oe ef ent ealecteal wali be!
_fotioer yoare the tuplic Bo :
lees the Landiog of ie Ack |
"Gor thie year the vobject |
e° «Act of) Heligivas Volera }

ADARSE 10 TUE ERA

MIUST HAVE BEEN A LEAK.

The Disfranchising Enactment To
Stand—The Capital's Foze-
cast Correct.

With all eight judges concurring in
all of the principal features of the
dooision and three dissonting ia map
of the casantial facta of tho dose
iogs, an Opinion was handed down
today by the Court of Appeals in the
mandamus procesdiuga against Gover-

‘por Warflold to some him to pro-

claim tie clective frauchiso amoud-
mone.

Tho opinion owbraced in ita findings
the principal facts as published ex-
clasively ta the Capital somo time
ainos, showing that there had been a
leak 10 some department whereby facta
coucerniog the undelivered opimon
had beep allowed to escapo. The
epinion, ip twenty ive typewritten
payed, atiimnus the deciman of the lower
court aud iustracts Governor Warfleld
to procisim the aweodment, uot Giving
to him the right tovoither veto the bill

bor cause its passage by forling to re-

tory it to the legislature within mx
dave of ite presuntinent.

‘Puree jadges dissented as to the
wording of thy manuer 10 which the

Piuatterc shoud be placed before the
i cotara, they placiag a cooptruction on

the wordiug which would appear that
there had bevn some effort made to
have (lie bill mnoperative al aby stage.
fle court cites at great lopgth opin-

‘jepson procecdiugs apstituted oo lines

siqular to the preseut copteption
which ware handed down iu Peuupy-
iveuia aud Loulmaua, and makes ure
al the lauguage of Article ALY of the
Maryland Constitution, which states

A GLA SOWING OF HATS.

BEAUTIFUL THINGS FOR
FEMININE WEAR.

Spring Millinery Display At The
Mi. F. Holidayoke Company
Parlors, Church

Street. 7)

Clouds,chilly atmosphere and damp-
ness, all characteritsic of diphtherial
milduess, did not deter the women of
Annapolis jtotay from visiting the
suillinery opening of M. F. Holidayoke
& Oo., 172 Oburech street.

What they saw was a beatuiful ar-
ray of spripg and summer headwear
aud dainty laces and ribbons, ruch
ings aud collars, pretty livgeriv and
hosiery for the Mi. BF. Holidayoke
Qompavy is privcipalily and almost
exclusively a ladies’ store. Everything
was sven trom adainty pink chitfon
**Babes Ip ‘Toyland’’ hat to a sombre
black for handsome young widows.

Mourning hats of today have as
much style about them as any others,
wud because @ woman has discarded
colors is uo reason for wearing un-
fashionable headgear. The display
of hats was arrauged in yroups ac-
cording to coloring and thy effect was
very ploasing. The new hats shown,
mauy of them are turued up at the
back, often very laugh, giving com-
posite harmony of graceful lines.
Very light materials, such as horse-
hair braids aud Frepeh chips, also
Dresden ribbons and ornaments are ex-
hibited. Flowers and foliage aro used
tu profusion. ‘The colors are old rose,
crushed raspberry, pink and violet.

Among the most beautitul shapes is
the Bo-Peep. It is made of soft pink
tulle, a double crown of pale pink
roses, with gracetul flowing stream-

eee

en ie

NGANERAS MURDERER

MAN WHO KILLED OFFICER
HAS BEEN CAUGHT.

Says That The Shooting Was En-
tirely Accidental And Can-
not Understand
The Cause.

After a oseareh oo dastinge less (hia
twenty-four hours the self coutessed
murderer of Polroeman Jotun George
MeNamara bassbeen placed under ar
rest. The story as told by the arrested
man and corroborated bw owithesses to
the affair Jeave no doubt i the minds
of the officers that they tiave the riage
luan uuder arrest.

He ie William bLenwszer, colored alwut
So Veara of age and bas been eoutloyed
for the better partoof tour years at
the plant of the Marviand (ni Works
at Curtis bay Leaver states Giant) he
did not knowingly elect the police
man. Hesays that the lalling was
entirely an accident | ‘Vhe arrest wan
made by Chief af Polree Me tinata
of the Anne Arundel coumnby force, of
whieh MeoNatmara was a meniber

Livery member ot the Nune Arandel
pohee department, many detectives af
Baltimore, ShertY Samuel bo hardy
aud Deputy Sheri NOW bivan, af
this county, aud Chief Geeorse Habits,
of the Annapolis citw polo Corea
were at work on the case Atter tha
police bad been working on the cane
tor several diours the bull pean the
Central Station in Batlinore was well
titked With suspects These ower
closely questioned nnd their stories
investigated, each tian becie Corned
loose as he was thouglit te be dine
ee nt. ;

John Leazer, David Terat aud
Willham Harris were amoug the men
nrrosted and they told stories which

ik
¥
a

aber

ee TLL EL ELA LE IE

perticolariy in the city end
tie echoola, and, as the date
ahis an Matuorday, the cals. |
‘haenar toaporrow (briday),

reence of thta day 36 the
» toorteaunt of the State
Aucetiong aod the tdea hae
ides pureed oom mendation.
Weartield te paricatariy in-
tt, aod hes eoveral times

leak on wome departmenli whereby facts
coucerbiog the undelivered opinion
had beep allowed to escape. . The
opinion, io twenty-five typewritten
payesattirus the decinion of the lower
eoart aud iuetracts Governor Warfield
to proclaim the ameodment,uot ving
to him the mght towtther veto the bill
cr cause its passage by failing to re-
torn it to the legislature within sx
dave of ita presuptment.

iteaself ae besmg in eotire
with the movement. Fe!
eo roysestion made Yy the
Mtunmisan, it is the custom
particalar event io Mary:
ry immo the topic for etudy
{ discamsian Opoo that cay,
recs, tocladiog payers bear
be eFent saleotel wilh be
former yeare tie taplo @e-
‘ues the Landing of the Ack

bot this yaar the sobject
co «6Actof Heltgtuas Lolore

*
;
g

thabte the poritton of being
on of the oolonies where re
«env Wee given, @ place that
cow trying to wrest frow
‘RP iD Apail, 1640, thet the
ct Maryisod passed the fa
pation Act, but the bouor
a really belouge to Cecilior
vird Baltinore, acd it oplv
«of whist bet bec @ prac
Lo beglooing (tf the party
over from Kugiaod with
Salrert, thare 1s OG recard of
» were Oatholite and how
re Peotes bau bla Lord Bait
yetery wes @ Oatnolio, aod
the olher tweaty ‘gentle.
5 were with him, apd poual-
af the other: culuulsts wore
a
wu thonght that Cocilias
upended to eatabilsh o retrout
uted Ostboticsn, tut thers
tuinps bo~wseeeel & parety |
civuy It baa aleo beno eal
attempt Ww ver Protestants
.ve cowt with opposition in
aod opposition which would
eo inwe storm thet would
off the colony ja its infancy
omeut of Maryland, which ta
‘memurated on Marol 2, wee
«fin 1624, aot was don &
ticus of George and hie ep,
The memurabln voyago of
tlac balgrimne cotumeutes) OD
-) 6 INL when two little voe
poe and the Dhow -sot emil
ta lie Ark wea Gf about
eo the Tote & Pinbece af
topee mrrie)) maa rdlog to
Crahvert ®) af@tount hie twee
Lae rtemee) Bait) Tswmurge boeerly
Ade gf theta thGi he ap) minut

ores jodges dissented an to the

> wordtug of the manner to which the;
foxaster should be placed before the

voters they placing @ construction on
tie wordiug whici would appear that
there had beep some effort made to
have the vill ipopurative at apy stage.
tbe court cites at great lepgth opin.
fonson proceedings tustituted oo lines
similar to the presept contention
which were handed down in Peunpsy-
lvavie and Loulmana, and makes ure
of the languays of Article XLV of the
Maryland Constitution, which staten
(iat @ proposal of an amendment by
tue Geovrai Amembly iu the form ot
a Dill atall have ite passage by three-
fifens cf all the wembers vlected to
each hoase; the eutry of the proposed
novupdment on the journal; the pub-
lication by order of the Governor for
at least three munths before the next
geuooral oloction; & voto of the people,
and if @ majority Of the voters are fa-
vorable tu its adoption, ® proclamaA-
tuo by the Governor declaring the
eiwendment to be adupted aud theoce-
forth the amendmount shall be part ot
the cousutatiog.

Toe corat holds that there is not
word or syllable to be foand in any
of Ube provisions even suRKosUnY that
the Governor te entitled to partici:
pate, in any way, io furmalating aud
proposing amendments to the countita-
tiup. Comiug to the second section of
ti BILL the vpinion veep the Lollow-
fing Language :
of tho frapehise amendment bill fe tn
theas woids: ‘And be it further on-
acted, that the foregoing néotion,
hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Vonsttation of the State, shall
bo, at the next geveral election for
membere of the General Ausombly to
be held iv thin state, aubmitted tu the
legal and qualified voters thereof for
thoir afuption of rejeotion, tm pargu
ance of the directions contaimmed tn
Article XLV of the Conatitution, and
at sald eiection the voto op said pro-
poem! amondiwent shall be by ba lot,
sui upon each ballot there aball be
written or prioted the words ‘For the
Cunstitutional Amobdment,’ or
‘Ayatuat the Constitutional Amond
torut, as the wolers nhall elect, and
hmaupemdliateiy after aaid: oloction dus

my tt ‘Die VOyRYye Wee &

Poeetarn aball bo mata to tho (AOVOTDOT

“The eecond section |

;

3 i
exclusively @ ladies’ store, Everything
was sven from a dainty pink chitfon
‘*Habes In ‘Toyland’' hat to a sombre
black for handsome young widows.

Mourniny hats of today have as
mach style about them as any others,
und because @® woman has discarded
colors is no reason for wearing ulb-
tashionable headgear. The display
of hats was erranged in groups ac-
cording to coloring and the effect was
very ploasing. ‘The new hats shown,
many of them are turned up at the
pack, often very high, giving com-
posite harmony of graceful lines.
Very light materials, sach as horse-
hair braids and French chips, also
Dresden ribbops and ornaments are ex-
hibited. Flowers and foliage are used
in profusion. The colors ure old rose,
crushed raspberry, pink and violot.

Among the most beautitul shapes is
the Bo-Peep. It is made of soft pink
talle, a double crown of pale pink
roses, With graceful flowing stream-
ers. A Charlotte Corday hat attracted
much attention. Itis trimmed with
Dresden flowers, a light shade of
green ribbon caught with Dresden or-
paments. Of the red hats one shown
made of the tinest geraniums was
much admired. It is turned up at the
back and banked with green leaves.
Ap exquisite hat was a black and
white effect,{the brim cut and brought
around the crown to the front, where
it is caught with handsome white
plumes,one of which reste on the hair.
Un the left side are tulle streamers.
A platesu made on a wire frame lined
with chiffon velvet laced in and out
of the straw, with black velvet plait-
ings at the back, was very fetching
and becoming.

Many hats were sold, and crowds
visited the opemmug, which will con-
tinue toworruow aud Saturday.

~ eal
Ta,

A MID-WEEK SERMON.

Last Neghi’s Service at Saint
Anne's P. E. Church

Well Attended.

The oveniug mid-week lenten ser-
vices were held at St. Anne's Ohurch
Inst night. A large congregation Was
present. ‘The mune was vy the vested
choir upder the direction of Choir-
mantor Williama.

In the absence of the Rev. Dr.
Cyrus Townsend Brady, who was
scheduled to preach last evening, but
who was detained on account of ill:
bess, the sermon was preached by the
Mev. Upton Hell Lhomas, of the
clorgy of Grace BP. B. Church, Bath.
more.

Ree bh mete aR MTA i re Drm ar

the pant of the Marva tnt Works
at Curtis bay. Leaver states Ghats ote
did not knowingly sheet the pedice
man. Hesays that the hallings: Was
entirely an necidernt Vhe nrrest was
made by Chief of Pabtee Me Damla,
of the Anne Arundel counts fatea, of
whieh MeNamara was a omeniber

very meniber of Che Nuoe Avundel
police department, many dete ves af
Raltimore, ShertY Samet bo bardy
and Depaty Sheri NOW. Birvan, af
this county, and Clict Geeorce Hatin,
of the Annapolis city poties force
wore at work on the case Atter tha
police Pad been working on the cake
for several foours thee bull peu they
Central Station in Bathiiiore was well
filled with suspects These were
closely questioned and their stories
investigated, each man bers Carned
loose as he was thought te be dune
cent.

John Leazer, David Torah aud
William Harris were among the man
arrosted and they told stories which
seemed to throw the binme ou Leaser.
At first he demed any hnowledge of
the affrrr and owas put terough oo
course of sprouts, Which meloded the
tharty-second degree, AC Inst he told
the officers that he was yuiity ot the
shooting, but that it was cutirely ace)
dental. Heo said that he tad been
taking coal and was approneched by
the officor who grabbed fim by the
coat. The prisoner pulled his revolver
and to His surprise it was discharged.
He said that be did not know oll
morning that the oflticer was dend.

Leazer has been charged with mur
der and the other three prisoners will
be held as witnesses. State's Attor
pey Niholas HH. Green and Deputy
Sheriff Nicholas W. Bryan went to
Baltimore this morning to secare at
first hand the statement of the prison:
er. He will be bronght to Annapolis
aud lodged in the county jail today.
Such is the feeling in the matter that
the grand jury, which under @ recent
enactment, iv never finally discharged
until a new jury is sworn in, will be
called together to take action ino the
case. Lf Leazer is indicted lie wall
then be placed on trial and the care
disposed of at ouce rather than walt
until the regular session of court

Of course ,this is merely conjecture,
but the chances are very good that
this will be done, it being the peneral
opinion that in a case of this kind @
npeedy trial aud positive results are
better than Waiting » great length of
time.

SATURDAY’S PROGRAM.

Kvercises ot Y. M. C. A. Con-
ference —Informal Recep-

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gud bunting aod beautiiul fiags ueco-
rated the porois. }
aud torches lighted the lav:
tivully staded parlor lenips lighios

PaEOVTERA LICH SPR

son's Lawa.
GOOD SERVICE AND BEAUTIFUL
DECORATIONS.
A Pleasant Time Was Givea ivery-
bedy Who Was Fortuaate
To Be Present.

Not only was Cinderella in Fairyland
last night at the beautifal lawn eo! Mr.
Malcolm Watson at Germantown, bat
carly everybody in Ausapolis was
there, too.

Nestliag amid a grove of troosa wiih
a tong stretch of lawa ou all vides ia |
located the comforiable Kccuntry howe |
of Biv. Maicolm Watson, who last aight
ave Over to the ladies of the Presdy-
teriaa Ohurch the uso of hia laws for |
their lawn sappar.

Neatly spread tablos dotted the lawn

aad were pleced on the porch alsy,aud |
from those tables was served @ rans
delicious chickez supper. Mon, wowou
and children feasted on fried chicken,
hot roasting ears of BUgar corn, pick-
les, hos rolis, potato gealad, bau, ton-
Guo, roast beof, coffee, taa and choco-
late cud ali vor 25 ceuvts. It was a

feast for the goda, and everybody on-
joyed it. Besides tio surroundings

tasted better uadar the starry canopy |

of the heavens and surrounded) i

were 80 attractive that everything |

treos, flowera, lights and potrioiic |
flags, music aud lantorau. i

Ail the trees wore ways.

sd with flage

Tae . . Ge shee r|
Japacase sBULOVMe ?

bSslatd boa |
2 &da fi

ihe |

porca, @& portion of tha Naval sc
P - . rm Pex : . ’

i if ifteom minutes theroafter Dra. J. J.

i thital RE ee

Crowds Around the Jail and in Vicinity Wit-
ness the Hanging---His Last Hours in Jail.

IS MANGED FOR THE MURDER OF PA-
TROLMIAN RICHARIARA.
Goes to Death Calmly Saying Shooting Was

Accidental---Remains Given to His
- Brother for Burial.

HIS BODY DROPS AT 10.10 AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 10.25

80 he would goto hoaven. ‘You bo
thore, and by tho grace of God I'll he
thero too and meot you,'’ he said. As
he passed through the hallway leadiag
to the roouw: whoro servico was held,
he nodded his head aad spoke to the
representatives of the press who were
prosent.

At exactly 10.10 o’clock: this morn-
ing William R. Leazer, the colored
murderer of Patrolman John Q@. Me-
Namara, wes dropped into eternity
whem Sheriif Samuel Bb. Hardy sprung
iho gallows trap jin tha yard af the
Anne Arundol couaty jail on the cor-
nor of Calvort and Worthwest streots.
HELD SERVICES,

(Wdurphy, BR. H. Waltom aud J. O. A room on tho third floor of the jail
| Parvia propounced the man doad. | oir the coil had bean fiited with @

but his body was loft haaoging antil
0.40 o’clook. Death was due to

table,fand hero there gwere in waiting
. % FH ‘

patch with which tho uopleasant duty
was dleoharg, ai. :

Following the anuouncomont that
the man was dead and the pormiesion
of tae physicians to cat the body down,
the remains were turned over to Un-
dertaker J. Albert Adams for inter-
ment iu the colored cemetery outside
of Annapolis, whore it will rest.

io addition to the unusual crowd in
the jail yard, the houses in the neigh-
borhoad dverlookiag the jail yard
wero fillod with carious poreons, cran-
ing their necks to get a glimpse of the
grucsome sight. Calvert streat, from
the coraor of Northivest stroet to ou
Point some yarda above the jail in the
other direction, was packod with a
orowd, composed largely of menbers
of tho murderer’s own race.

Among these who witnessed the
hanging wore a party of ladies, friends
of one of the jail ofiiciala, who cane
to Aupapolio from theia county home
this moraiag for the purpose. They
were given & place of vantage, view-
ing the execution froma window in
the oud of the ascoad story corridor.
Frow hero they had a gycod view and
werd onlva few feet from the mur-
deror’ head as be stood on the trap cf
the soaffold. Detective James Arin-
strong, of Baltimore, who agsisted in
the capture of Leazer, immediately
aftor tho crime, was aiso present.

The having was also witasgsed by
a@ famous character and woll known en-
thuasgiast on the sabject of oxecutiona,
who has witnessed every hanging in
thia state aud nearby Gues for years.
This was hir. George Mantz, of Kalti-
more, who after today's hanging, tal-
lick up to No. 48 on hia fst of exocn-
tiows Winteased. He has boon attend-

ing hauginga for years and has wit: |
nessed pearly overy important axecu- |
tiow in thig section of the sountzy for |
yeara, including the hanging of Guitean |
tho murdorer of President Garfield, |
From all of these be has gathered
nouveuir, aud today he took a@ portion |

h liows step to add to his col. i

THE MOSS
Ti

Supervisor W
New Ap,

A still) furi
this morning #
eal mudale in
counetecd watt
ia removing t
Who were cam

The Democr:
mittee met wi
bers presont ai
the Democerati
mw ta Auyual
taber on the p
bat it will ne
auti-Welln fact
mako ap attem
iwmaries tomor
ticketu iu the j
the State Conv
faotion contest
tion of the Sta
on the ground —
chango the dat
thor, that all ¢
hiittes were D
mactiny. |

Dye, Walia:
of Annapolis —
Stato Cental Cr
stated that hie «|
Mr. Kobert f..|

pervisorjand we
proot that Mr.
ad didate for othe:

preseua’l postpad|
The avtionof

MARYLAND

Slave JUDAH (Bayne) BF, 14 Prince George
Murder, WM 1-16-1835

CONNOR, Thomas WM, 17 Baltimore City
Murder, WM S=5-1653

WALLIS, Mary BF, 16/16 or 17 Prince George
Murder, W 2-10-1871

PRITCHARD, William BM,16 Baltimore County
Rape, WF 9-29-1871

SMITH, Ernest BM, 17 Talbot
Murder, WF17 8-7-1874

DENNIS, Sommerfield BM, 16 Worcester
Murder, BM 8-12-1898

BERRY, John BM, 15 Prince George
Murder, WF52 6-16-1899

LEE, William BM, 17 Somerset
Rape, 2WF 7-26-1906

ROBINSON, Charles BM, 16 Frederick
Murder, WF 2-25-1921

JONES, Weldon, Jr. BM, 16/18 Wicomico
Murder, WM39 8-1-1947

SHOCKLEY, Leonard Melvin BM,16/17 Worcester
Murder, WF39 4-10-1959

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ws
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jtailand the receipts will
. HOGER

§ ok Pork,

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porch and also on the lawn. Several
haondsed people were among the pa-
trons, inciading meinbors oF wll charch-
64 in tOwb. The patrons were carried
ont to the lewn in wagons, carriages,
automobiles and vehicies of every de
scription. The evening wus sach «as
ideal cno that many preferred wath
ing. fir. and Mys. Watson, who xc
kindly tendered the use of their lawn
aud nome, éntertained charmingiy
theakipg everybody feel at home. ‘Whe
affair Wes most succesaial in every de-
net a tidy
Yor the Some of the
holpers are :
Supper Table No, J--Miss Naom:
Watson, Mrs. William £4. Morria and
Mr. Jainexs Small, .r., and Mra. J.
Guest King.

Sapper Table No. 2.—Miss Margaret
Iseraaun and Mrs. Bash.

Supper Table No. 3—Nisces Cora
sod Bortha Myera, Miss Emma Morris
and Mra. Harry Basil. .
Confectionery Table—Mre. Joseph

Hayes, Mies Westbrook and Mre.
Watson

ico Oream Teble No. 1—Miss Mollie
Isemannu, Mise Reth Wella end Mies
Martha Taylor.

ice Cream Table No. 2-—-Misa Graco
Basil, Miss Etta Oox, Miss Margarot
Watson.

Iow Oream Table No. 3—Miss Maggie
Miss Kdith Morris and Miss
iiivzeabeth ElMingheusen.

Watormelton Staud—-Mr. J.
hity.

A pivausant feature of the lawn sup-
por waa the demonstration of fifty-seven
varioties of Hl. J. Heinz & Oo.'s pick-
les preserves,ete, by M. HL J. Painter.
ir. Painter was very plensant to
everybody and took adelight in show-
ny them the aerita of the Heinz va-
rivtios ffeldistributed®a large aumber
of pnouveuirs, connietiog of cans af
Auop, prederved, bottles of picklexn, book -
tuarhe to picklo-shupo and tiny preen
pickle watchcharmnsa. Some orders
wote received and ull were pleased
with the demonstration.

eharch.

Q
Bre

Guest

~s> oa -

Attending Firemen’s Meeting.

Maser Dou and Chief Fire Mar-
shuth doxepd EE. Bellis, left here today
for Multimmore te attemd the executive
Copdiittee miceliny oof the flremen
Which Well be beldoin that emmy today.
Mayor Douw aod Merl Bellin aro miei,
Bere of the firemen’s executive
thiitios

(codba-

sat oe arte

RSOHOKGHOAROHSKSOKROHOKSWEKOEKE

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es

beimag broken by a full of nearly «ix
feet.

Although much effected by the meet-
ing with his brother, Walter, whom
he saw ot the short survice before the
execution, Leazer ister regained his
nerve and died gamely. Although he
mado no final statement on the gal-
lows to his guards this morning and
last night the murderer atill told the
name story of the shooting of McNa-
mara, saying that the policeman‘'s
death had not been intended by him.
io apont a quiet night, retiring at 1
o'clock and sleeping until shortly be-
fore 5 o'clock this morning. He ate
only alight breakasit and spent the
reat of hia time reading his Bible.

LEAZER's LAST NIGHT IN JAIL.

Although witnessed by one of the
iargest Crowds ever presént on a simi-
lar occasion, the exeoution was car-
ried out without a hitch and the 800
persone inside the jail vard were weil
handled. Gast night at about 11
o’clock the jail officials failing to
flud a barber,it was nocesary tor them
to shave tha condenmed man. This
waa done by night watchman George
Taylor and Depaty Renabon Smuil-
woad. After reading his Wible for
an four or so the mau retired to his
couch at 1 o'clock and wont to sicep
almost immediately. Ho slept well
withoat any apparent thought or
dream of the fateful morrow, and
woke this morning apparently refresh-
ed and ia good spirits.

Hiie first words were to George Tay-
lor, night deuth watch, to whom he
said, when bo awoke at 4.55 g. m.:
‘Good moruiag, Mr. George. Mow
are you this morniny ?’’ du reply to
a question as to his own health, Ler-
ver then said: ‘'d never fele better in
my life !'’ Shortly aftor 4 o'clock
hoe was asked what he wanted for
breakfast nud was piven what he or-
dered, which consisted of an egg and
a cup of ‘tea with a piece of bread.
This light breakafst lie ate of xparing-
ly, after which he yave to his watch.
map oe letter which he requested to
be delivered to Mr. Hlarry Lewis, the
night) watchman at the jail. Phis
letter ia as follows

‘Annapolis, tdd., daly 20, '05,

“These are the words of the Lord,
‘If ye heep my commandments, ye
shall abide in my love, even as I have
kept my father's commandments and
abide in ifis love; this is my com-
mandment, (hat ye love one snother,
ay { have toved voa. Greater love
hath noman than this, that) a man
iay down his life for his triend; af
vo Wnow these things, happy are ve,
ive doe then, may the Jove of the

Morey and the condemned man’s
spiritoa!l advisor, the Rev. J. H.
Simmons, rector of St. Philip's Pro-
testant Episcopal chapel. Leazer's
brother, Walter, was also present
when the shortened communion ser-
vice of the Episcopal church was held,
but he did not take the commanion.

Following the short service, which
was witnessed only by the representa-
tives of the presa and those already
mentioned in addition .to the jail off-
cials, the ‘man who realized fully the
nearness of his end, told his friends of
the Guild of Merey and tis brotier
goodby. to them all he said he fad
been forgiven and ‘'by the grace of
God he would meet them in heaven.*"’
He merely shook bands with hig
brother ; Walter, who remained in the
sane room where the service had been
held antil after the execution was
over.

MARCH TO SCAFFOLD

At six minutos past ten the marh
to the gallows was resamed. The pro-
cession was headed by the minister,
immediately behind whom came Chief
Deputy Sheriff N. W. Bryan and
Depnty Sheriff Smallwood, who were
just in front of the marderer, who had
rallied after taking the commanion
and walked with a firm tread between
his night and day death watchmen.

cen opretectee

GRPAEHC TEST AER es: ae ee oe Tea

£UCUI0. OO 1 3 eo :
the only act of thia Lind at the hang.
ing, Sheri® liardy taking care that
the ropa was not cot or any raid made
by aouvenir reckers,

Some of the former execntions
Anne Arundel county were:

Ernest Morbes,execated Aprils, Isul

Robert Wyatt, executed July ov,
1900.

Krogyv'' Johnson was to have been
executed Janusry 1S, 1901, but) was
reprieved at ihe last moment and sen
tence commuted to life imprisonment,

Julius, alias ‘*‘Tota’’ Cooper,execut.
ed January 27, 1405,

This is the first time in the ostory
of Annapolis that there have been two
hauginys in leas than six months. It is
an ubusdal coincidence.

HISTORY OF THE CRIME,

The murder of Patrolman Jolin G.
McNamara, for which Leazer today
paid the full penalty demanded by
law, waa a most brutal and ontirely
unprovoked one, growing out of the
propensity of members of the mur-
derer’s race for carrying coucealed
weapons.

On the night of March 21, last, Lea-
zey, Who was thea employed at the
plant of the Maryland Car Works at
Oortis Bay, with # number of other
negroes, was utealing coal‘from cars on

the Fuirfieid viding of the Baltimore
end Ohio Railroad. In company with

John Leaver, David Horah and Will-
iaw Elurrir, three colored mon, Les-
zer Was retaruing to his) home, each
with a bag of stolen coat on his shoul-
der. “icNamara, who was a momber
of the Fairfle!d police force, came up
with apd attempfed to arrest Leaver,
while the other three negroes tid be-
hind @ tree.

According to the testimony of tus
compasions, Leazer had previously
indicated that be tad » pistol and that
he would shoot anyone who atiompled
to arregt iiien or interfere with tigi ia
any wey. Uypon being placed under
arrest fie went afew alepa with the
officer and then drawing a SS calibre
revoiver from fig pocket fired upoo
MeNaware. The ball sutered Choe oll
cer’s right breast, causing tostanl
death. <A search was at once started
gpd powber of nuspects were rounded
opin the Ceutral Police Statiou dn
Baltimore by the Curtis Bay police
avd Sheri tardy, Deputy Sheri!
Bryau avd Chief George Haln, of the
local police furce.

Leaver Waa captured two lava after
the crime apeou the statements of La
ward Harris, who bad meC abe mar
derer shortly after dhe coal staaling
At first Leaves protested that hie kiiow

fanyting whatever of the shooting, bul
: * ’ er

cd ’

Visora of ble
nnderstood,

and other ne
the election.
by Che Moss |
Has apnoutiecs
the primar
no this deter
out withont

Sho reason |
mentat the

leged that se
Were appaln
Kewell liad
by the Croves
it in said thin
clerksy haved
and for this
sible tu hodd,

Chemical
Mr. W.

city, Was he
of the new
plant which
poses to star
Severn. M
Arthur Kaypy
‘ers of ratlhwi
machinery |
camo lure tf
those interes
ion! plant, «
the near farts
fain flrin for |
machipery
Sewell, who |
ly purchased
on North Se
upon Mero Ne
tatis for dian

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Woitle can a
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whricds tina al
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wire tlie car
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wall danke we {
simbiotin 0 Es
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gehed beds sain? Assritets UW
torches liytifved the lawn and bean

ebadet prior lampe blighted

play fhe

fo aryl

tt
euy orchestra foruihed music on the
porch and also on the lawn. Several
Huodred people were among the pa
trons ineloding membors of all charch
mab town. The patrops were carriod
outta the lawn in wagons, carriages,
automobiles and veluclos of every de-
seription. The evening was such au
ideal ope that many preferred walk
og Mr and Mrs. Watson, who se
kindly Cendered the use of their Inwa
sid home, entertained charmingly,
making everybody feel at home The
aiYair was most successful in every de

fatl and the receipts will met om tidy
rom for the church. Same of the
helpers are

Supper Table No. 1 Miss Nao
Wateon, Mex Williaos Ui. Morris ane
Mr Jmdaes Snail, tr., and Mra.

Ceuert King.

Sapper Table No. 2 --Miss Margaret
lsemaun and Mrs. Baal.

Supper Table No S--Miaser ibora
aod Bertha Myera, Miss Kinma Nevis
and Mrs. Harry Basil.

Oonfectionery Table—Mrs. Joseph
S. Hayes, Miss Westbrook and Mre
Watson.

Tea Cream Table No f- Alies Mollie

Inemuanu, Miss Huth Wells
Martha Laylor.

lee Cream Table No.»
Basil, Miss Etta Cox, Mi-

Miss

hs vd

Siusn (arace
Alargaret

Watson
lee Crema Table No

ov
a

iiss Magpie

Myers, Miss Madith Morris and Miss
hilizabedt Elbinghaunen

Watermelion Stand Mr J. Cenest
hi

A plo ooont feature of the lawn sup
pee Ware oo deronsiration offiff{y-seve:

verioties of HE bo Plein, & Co.'s pick
les preaservesete, by M.oil. J. Painte:
Me | Painter was very pleasant {
everybody and took adelight im show
lug them the merits of the Heinz vo
rieties tfetds buted’ large punmibe:
of souvenirs uisisting of cana ©!
soup. prerery<. Cottlas of pickles, bows
arhs i yoo bla-sbape and tiny grees
pickle owatelcharme. Some ordeis
were received apd all were please:
with the demoustration,
—> @ ae - -- - =
Attending Firemen’s Meeting.
Mayor Douse and Chief Fire Via
mhall Joseph Pt. Bellis, left bere todien

Pcotittee

for Baltimore to attend the executive
meet of the firemen
;Wihrteli wall Ge held su that city todas
} Mayor Dous aod Mal Bellis wre wae
bers of the tiremenu'’s executive
miltlee.

taabta-

Rhye A

\ portion of the Naval Acad. |

j Riurpay one | ' ina t;
Roaevb ger cigheouess peas chow
h fveye Dates tees view teage wands
1G 4 OP eboe & aide wea due tal
xteaugulations curderer’a® peck nol
boing broke by on fall of nearly #18
feet
Althouse’ ouch effected by the meet
roy with brother, Walter, whom

he saw & short service before the

execs: cazor later regained hur
verve a hed gamely. Although he
niade e iinal statement on the yal.

lows t coe goards this marning and
lian! ot the murderer still told the
RET ‘ory of the shooting of McNa-
ine saying that the policenan's
doa. bad not been intended by him.

fie sponta quiet night, rotiring at |
o'clock and aleeping until shortly be-
fore > o'clock this morning. Ho ate
aly alight) breakasft and spent the
rest of his time reading his Bible.

LEAZER s LAST NIGHT IN JATL.

Although witnessed by one ol the
largest crowds aver present on & KIN:
lar occasion, the execution was car-
ried out without a hitoh and the 00
persons inside the jail yard were well
bandled. Last night at about 11
o'clock the jail officials failing to
find » barber, it was necesary for them
to sbave the condemned man. This
wae dope by night watchman Qvorge
Vascor aod Depaty KRenben Small-
wood After reading his Bible for
ar eur orso the man retired to his
couch at i o'clock and went to sleep
lrimont unmediately., He slept well

withent any apparent thought or
hadrenn: of the fateful morrow, anid
L- jus morning apparently refresh-

in good spirits.
cest words were to George Tay-
sit death watch, to whom he
when he awoke at 4.53 a. m.:
' morning, Mr. George. Mow
oi yOu this morning ?7"’ Tn reply to
Da question a8 to his own health, Lea-
ee chen said: ‘'T never felt betler in
Do iafe @' Shortly after 4 o'clock
hieowas asked what he wanted for
breakfast aud was given what he or-
dered, which consisted of an egg and
nx cupof tea with a piece of bread.
This light Dbreakafst be ate of sparing-
liv. after which he gave to his watch-
vane jetter which be requested to
» delivered to Mr. Harry Lewis, the
wat watehnan at the jail, rhis
‘ter is as follaws :
‘Annapolis, Md., July 20, (05,
“These aro the words of the Lord,
(if ye heep my commandments, ye
\chall abide in my love, even as f have
kopt my father’s commaucdmwments and
abide in His love; this is my comm-
J mandmont, that ye love one another,
of have loved you. Greater love

Lae

{ S oreotna cota tt

| tari 4
Prat figs aetb ho noes ka eal owidly ad
Ptaabodes, asaaed baat} lieeFe wth ' tpt ves tense |
two uremaborn of ft Amow's dati oof
Marey od the eotebemmmed inn’ s
apiritoad oadvesar, the Bevo a Uf
Suminons, rector of St Phobias ro.
testant | Bpiscopal chapel Leazer’s
brother, Waiter, Wan also present
when the shortened Communion ser

vice of the Equacopal church was held,
but he did not take the communion

Following the short services, which
wan wiluessed only by the roprosenta-
tives of the prosk aud those alroady
mentioved in addition to the jail ofh-
cials, the man who realized fully the
pearness of hig end, teld his friends of
the Guild of Merey and tis) brotipr
goodby. Vo them all he said he hae
hoon forgiven and ‘‘by the grace of
God he would weet them in heaven."’
He merely shook banda with his
brother ; Walter, who remained in the
Rume room where the service had been
held until after the execution was
over.

MARCIE TO SCAFFOLD.

At six minutes past ten the march
to the gallows was resumed. The pro-
cession was headed by the minister,
immediately behind whom came Chief
Deputy Sheriff! N. W. Bryan and
Depnty Shoriff Sinallwood, who were
just in front of the mardorer, who had
rallied afier taking the communion
and Walked with a firm tread between
his night and day death watchmen.

4 Brea add ot
iM

r gape t

rs ee

anny Care
Pas posticorect 4
tN Aopurtoon

of the pallownh leg to adt tad

myveoir mad te fies faseek

i
w t:]

flection So fara ia kuowop this wa
the ondy act of this kind at the bong
ing, Sheri? Harty taking care that

the rope Wak met catoor any cated conde

by souvenir aeche re
Some of the former exe

Anne Arnndel county were

i. ie Hui

Ernest Forbes axe vied \gorcl bt
Robert Wyatt, cvecuted fady i
MH)

Froggy’) Joblinaon waste dave teen
executed January 5, bet, hut wins
reprieved atthe Last diament cud sen
tonce comiunuled tor lifee aadriscontuen

Joliua, alias Puta Cooper yereut
ed January 27, 1905,

Thia os the firwt tame an the aistory
of Annapolis that there have been two
havginga in leas than six months Tt
an unusual coincidence.

HIsbowy op CHR Cait

The marder of Patrolman Jolin G
McNamara, for which Leazer today
paid the full) pepaity demanded by
law, waa a most tirutal and ontiurely
unprovoked one, fraowlug oul af the
propeusity of meuibers of othe mur.
derer’s race for carrying coucealed
Weavatb.

On the oight of March 21, last, Lea-
zer, Who wak thea employed at the
plant of the Maryland Car Works ft
Curtis Bay, with a pumber of other
begrocs, was teal ng coal from cars on
the Fairfield widing of the Baltimore
aud Ohio Railroad. in company with

Joho Leazer, David Horah and Will
iaw Harrie, three colored men, Lea-
zer waa returving to hia home, each

with a bay of stolen coal on hig sheul-
der. McNamara, who was wo memler
of the Fairfleld police force, catne uy
with and attempted to arrest Leazer,
while the other three uegroed tid be
hind a tree.

According to tha testimony ot las
companions, Leazer iad previouels
indicated that be had a pistol and that
he would shoot anyoue who altelpted
to arrest iim or interfere with bins in
any way. Upou being placed under
arrest he wept afew. slepa with the
officer and then drawipg a 3S calibre
revolver from bik pocket fired upou
McNamara. The ball cutered the ofl-
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death. A search was at ouce retarted
and pumber of KUspects Were rounded

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Baltimore by the Curtin Bay police
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Mayor Dowuw sod Chief Fire Nine
shall Joseph 1. Bellis, left here todas
for Baltimore to attend the executive
conmuittee ureetiope of the
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VOILES,
whieh formerly sold for 10,

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gave to his watch-
wan adetter which hea requested to

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wit watehman at the jail his

‘ter is as follows :

“Annapolis, Md., July 20, ‘05.

“There are the words of the Lord,
‘af ye keep my commandments, ye
shall abide in my love, even as £ have
kept my father's commandments and
abide in Tfin love; this diy my com-
mandment, that ve love one another,
asf have loved von. Cireater love
hath no man than this, that a man
lay down his life for his friend; if
ye know these things, happy are ve,
if ve do them, may the Jove of the
Lord reatin you and bring ven to
everlasting life.

W. RR. LEAZER."’

On the reverso side of the paper, war
written

‘‘And also to the kind treatment of
Mr. Lewis,l will say that Iam highly
pleased indeed, as he has been so kind
tousall Teay that Iam well pleased
with his kindness, and I will say may
success follow hiin."’

These two were writtea in ink ina
fairly good hand, and showed Lenzer
to have been an oedacated man for hir
station. At the same time that this
fetter was given to Watchman Taylor,
the condamned man handed him an-
other communication addreasod to a
lady in Baltazmore, who had called to
see him on Saturday of Iast week,
The young lady, whore name is with-
held, isa friend of the death watch-
man and had talked with tne condemn-
ed man for some time while in ‘is
cell. Leazer explained that he had
taken a fancy to ber and asked that
his letter of farewell be mailed to her
today. ‘hia was done by Mr. Taylor.

After deliveriag these letters, to
Watchman Taylor, the murderer took
his Bible and. with the {sait case con-
taining the clbthea he was to wear
when hanged, moved close to the grated
door of his cell Here he took his
seat, saying that he was ready when-
ever they wanted him to dresa. At
¥. 30 o'clock he dressed himeelf, saying
as he did so that be was perfectly re-
nignod-and felt that he~Led been for-
given. Atetght minatesa of 10 the
start was matie for the gallows. As he
stepped ontside of his cell into the
corridor, he asked permission of Dep-
uty Sheriff Bryan to my farewell to
the other prisoners im the cells next
to his. his wna granted, and he
went to the door of Cell No. 8° first.
William Mereer, a white mon, charged
with bigamy, was to this cell, aod
durisg the farewell was much more

WM. R. LEAZER.

=o ate ee eres meen

The gallows was reached after about
three minutes. No time waa lost, once
the party were on the ucatfold. The
murderer took his stand on the trap
without assistance and, by his motions
assisted his executioners ag much as
possible in pinioning him. His legs
were - strapped by Depacy Sheriff
Bryan, while the black cap and rope
wore adjasted by Depoty Smallwood.
At the same time the minister, re-
peated the benediction. Inside of one
minatejafter the steps leading to his
last earthly stand had been reached,
the trap was sprung by Sheriff Hardy
aud Leazer plunged to enternity.

THE TRAP SPRUNG,

The scaffold was given s final test
early this morning and fonnd to be in
perfect working order. The timbors
ueed in its erection,and the rope were
both the same ay those which did ser-
vice at the recent hanging of Julius
alais ‘‘Tots'’ Cooper. A rope had been
stretched across the jail yard aboat 2
fest from the base of the gallows, and
behind thia the crowd was held back
by Chief of Police G Hahn and
s sqoad of patrolmen. The crowd,
however, was perfectly orderly and
overrything was carried throagh with-
out the alightest hitch.

Alttough this is only the second
hanging durieg his administration,
Sherif Hardy acd his deputies man-

aged it im a most commendah'a wav.

to arrest him oor interfere with hag ia
any way. Upou being placed under
arrest he went afew steps weth the
officer and then drawing a Ss-calibre
revolver from pocket fred upon
McNamnara. ‘The ball entered the oll.
cer’'s oripht breset, causing iustant
death. A s@arch Was at once started
aod pumber of kuspects were rounded

bias

up in the Central Poleoos Station in
Baltimore by the Curtis Bay police
and Sheriff dardyv, Deputy Sterit

Bryau and Chief George Halin, of the
local police force.

Leaver was captored two days after
the crime oypon the statements cof bd.
ward Harris, who -bad met ube mar
derer shortly after the cowl ttealiog.
At firet Leaver protested that he knew
anyling whatever of the shooting, but
later broke down and confersed, sav.
ing that the shooting was entirely ac
eidental, This plea he stood by when
oo the witness stand during his trial
Excitement way inteuse immediately
after the murder, aud for this reasou
the anthorities, fearing a lynching,
kept the accused manin the Central
Police Station in Kalitimore. He wars
brought to this city for a hearing on
March 29, and was then given a pre-
liminary hearing by Justice John N.
Davis, inthe Anne <Arande) county
jail, where ne wes executed today.

Leazer was then returned to Balti-
more, Where he romained antil Aypril
18, on which date he waa formally
arraigned before the Circait Court fur
Apne Arundel county. He entered s
plea of pot guilty sad was remanded
t? Baltimore jail ant: April 27, which
day wna set tor hin trial. The trinl
occapied two days, but the verdict was
practically a foregone conclusion, 40
damaging bud been the testimony of
all the witnesses. State's Attorory
Nicholas H. Green condacted the
prosecution, while Leazerwas defended
by Ephriem Jackson, of Baltimore,
and George L. Pendleton, of this city,
both colored.
about ap hoor aod lates inthe after.
noon of April 28 retarned a verdict of
murder in the firs: degree. Un Friday,
May 5, the condemned murderer was
brought into court and sentenced, the
sentence of the court being passe l by
Chief Judge 1. Thomas Jones. The fol.
lowing week Governpur Warfield set
Friday, Julw 21, ay the date for the
exzecotion.

Since that tise Leazer has been con-
fined in Murdere:'s Kow, in the third
tier of cells in the coanty jail. He hax
been @ good prisower, causing litiie
trouble and seeming to want but litite
He has been comstuntly attended by
the iiev. J. M. Simos, rector of SC
Philip’s Protestant Episcopal chajw),
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DANIEL ALLEN HEARN

September 13th 1989

Mr. M. Watt Espy

Capital Punishment Research Project
Ps Ow: Box 277

Headland, AL 36345

Dear Watt:

Please work in the following additional information on the respective
Maryland cases that you already have.

ka 1742; The seven negroes. They were all slaves of Mr. John Pattison
of Calvert Co. (The one named 'Mol' was definitely female). Their
crime was perpetrated on 2/18/42 in their master's house at Christ
Church Parish, Calvert Co. when they snuck into his bedroom as he
lay sleeping and strangled him. Each one of them, (including the
woman), had their right hands chopped off prior to being hanged.
Then when they were dead they were all beheaded and quartered and
had their heads and quarters set up in the public places of Calvert
County. SOURCE: Judgement Record of the Provincial Court Vol. 30A
pages 19 & 20.

mitted on 5/5/43 when he strangled his wife with a hankerchief. Her
name was Hester Taylor. SOURCE: Judgement Record of the Provincial
Court Vol. 30A pages 312 & 313.

1755; Negro Joe. He was a slave of Mr. James Weems of Anne Arundel
County. His crime was committed on 2/21/55 when he murdered his over-
seer, Richard Price, by driving an ax into the back of his head. His
value was fixed at sixty pound sterling. SOURCE: Judgement Journal

of the Anne Arundel County Court, Liber 3 (1754-1756) page 102. March
Term 1755.

\/, 1743; Alexander Taylor. A resident of Cecil Co. His crime was com-
xe

4. 1765; Edward Rudgking. He was a transport felon. His crime was com-

/ mitted on 2/16/65 when he murdered a fellow convict servant named

‘ Henry Landshare by stabbing him numerous times in the back and once
in the side before finishing him off by cutting his throat. SOURCE:
Judgement Record of the Provincial Court Vol. 53 pages 32-34, Sept.
Term 1765.

» 1765; John Hubbert. He was a transport felon like Rudgking. His
crime was committed on 4/11/65 when he murdered his master, James
Hood Jr., by stabbing him to the heart with a jack-knife. SOURCE:
Judgement Record of the Provincial Court vol. 53 pages 34 & 35, Sept.
Term 1765.

MURPHY, SHELTON and TAYLOR, Whites, hanged Chestertown, Md., 1851 - Contd,

"EXECUTION OF THE COSDEN MURDERERS. -’We learn by the vassengers in the
steamer Cecil whichcame up lest night, that the execution of Taylor, Murovhy,
and Sheldon, the varties convicted of the horrible murder of the Cosden
damily took place yesterday in the vicinity of Chestertown,. between eleven
and twelve o'clock, The expectations that a confession would be made by
the condemned men previous to the execution was not verified. The whole
three were placed on the scaffold at once, and, after the religiousz
services had concluded, Murphy and Taylor successively addressed the spect-
ators and declared their innocenee of the crime 6f which they had been
sworn away. Taylor not only asserted his innocence, but declared that he
had not seen Murphy for five years until he met him in jail and that he had
no previous knowledge-of Sheldon. The latter, who aop arred much more
devresséd than his companions, made no remarks; neighter confessing nor
denying his guilt. But Taylor and Murphy, we understand, exhibited a .
great M&XXXARXRAKEXKKWAKX decrée of fortitude. It was intended to have hung
the whole three together, but when the trap fell, from some disarrangement
of the rope, the noose sround Murphy's neck slipped, and he fell to the
eround.* Though considerably pide pe: and his neck lacerated by the rope, the
unfortunate msn soon recovered his chnsciousness, and :whilst in this awful
situation with the partners of his guilt hanging before his eyes, he
persisted in declaring his innocence and affirmed repeatedly thet they were
takeing the life of an innocent man, After the bodies of Sheldon and Tay-
lor had hung a sufficient time they were taken down, and Murphy acesin
mounted the scaffold and endured the penalty of the law, The painful spec-
tecle was witnessed by an immense concourse of persons who had assembled
from all parts of the surrounding country. The prisoners were attended by
clergymen from the vicinity, with whom they engaged in religious services
for several hours previous to the execution, - BALTIMORE AMERICAN." REGISTER,
Raleigh, NC, 8-20-1851 (1-6)

"THE KENT COUNTY MASSACRE - CONFESSION OF THE MURDER - DRUMMOND TURNED

STATE'S EVIDENCE -FOUR OF THOSE IMPLICATED ARRESTED - THE POLICE IN PURSUIT
OF THE FIFTH, ETC. ~ Havee de Grace April 18, 8 P.M.-There has been real
excitement here today in consequence of the arrival of an officer from
Chesterhown who immediately proceeded to arrest a man named Nicholas

Murphy on the charge of being one of the murderers of the Cosden family, at
the Georgetown Cross Roads, in Kent County. It will be remembered that a
mean named Thomss Drummond was srrested in Cecil County, about the first of
March on suspicion of having been connecting with the murder, and lodged

in jail, where he has remained ever since, The evidence arainst him was,

that on Wednesdsy evening, 20th ult., the day of the massacre, he disapneared
from the neg&hborhood suddenly and without assigning any cause for his de-
parture, and could giwe no satisfactory account of his movements during the
intervel., He alleged thet he had lodged at the houseof a man by the name of

Ford (who lives in the neighborhood of Blackbird) on the nicht of the mur-

d er, which declaration Ford corraboreted3; but stated that Drummond did not
arrive at his house untila late hour of the night. One of the pockets of
his pantaloons bore the distinct impression of a bloody hand! Murphy,

the man arrested here today, came forward and testified that he and Drummond
were out together in the afternoon and night of the murder, hunting

muskrats. Drummond, notwithstanding this testimony, was still held for
further exemination, and has now confessed, declaring thet Murphy, Shelton,
Ford, Sills end Taylor are the parties who committed the bloody outrage.
They had all been arrested except Shelton, end the officers are in pursuit

of him, This is not the same Shelton, the soldier, who was among the first
arrested. - Fordis the same man who testified at the examination that Drumm-
ond HAKKARAK did not reach his house until after midnight. I learn from the

4 Ay nr Cc ¢ ; : .
Bie HEEL eR nemss then ERad FAs on Ty MOB Pech GHIERS BBAG HSshBtunGepeRd in
thet his guilt only consists in a knowlege of the conspiracy before the
deed was committed. Webster, the umcloe of Mrs. Cosden, who has so long

MURPHY, Nicholas, SHELTON, William, and TAYLOR, Abraham, all white, hanged at . mm
\ Chestertown, Maryland, on Augist 8, 1891.05 . : :

"Letter from Shelton to his Mother - The KENT NEWS says the following is a copy of a
letter from William Shelton to his mother, written two days before his execution:
"Chestertown Jail, Aug. 6. My Dear Mother. - I have seen you for the last time in
this world = on the day after tomorrow, I shall close my life on the gallows. I
acknowledge’ on many occasions I sinned against, you and set at defiance your words

of reproof and advice; and often, have you cautioned me against the paths I was pur-
suing, and predicted that: they, would terminate in a disgraceful death, May all
young men, take warning from me, and when violating the, obligations due to parents,
and especially, to mothers who bore them, and nursed them in infancy, remember that
the end. of such is certain and sudden destruction, How true will. your prophetic
words prove = when in the anguish of your soul you have expressed your fear. that

my days would be ended on the. scaffold or within the bars of a prison. I pray that
God will forgive all the suffering and anguish that I have caused you, and tha, in
his mercy, he will soften this last blow from an undutiful son upon the heart of a
mother. In my dying - my last thoughts - will turn to you, and my last prayer, next
to mercy on. my own sinful soul, will be,. that tlod will stay and support your. de-
clining years./ I can say nothing to comfort or console you, except to protest my ©.
innocence, I enclose you a lock of my hair, which hope you will. keep. in. memory. .
of your, unfortunate and miserable son, /s/ WILLIAM SHELTON." .
CONSTITUTIONALIST AND REPUBLIC, A, gusta, Georgia, Ajgust 2h, 1851 (2e1.)

_ 'THE COSDEN MURDERERS = We learn from Chestertown that Murphy, one of the Cosden _
murderers, who are to be executed on Friday next, had an interview with, his. wife .
and children on Friday last, which was deeply affecting. His little son, who was
present, implored the sheriff to take the chains off his parent. Taylor and Shelton
remain callous.,and indifferent to their fate. The sheriff, it is stated, has:
summoned three hundred armed citizens, in addition to the military companies, $o be
under arms until the crowd shall disperse on the day of execution. = BALTIMORE. SUN, .
6th inst," CONSTITUTIONALIST AND REPUBLIC, A gustay Gey August 9, 1851 (2/2.)

"The Cosden Massacre = MURPHY FOUND GUILTY! We learn from the Elkton WHIG, that, the
trial of Nicholas Murphy, one of the Cosden murderers, was commenced at that place
on Thursday afternoon, The WHIG says:' 'The examination of witnesses closed at 5:10
o'clock on Friday afternopn, and the pleading commenced, The pleading continued till
2:30 at,might. Then the jury retired, and in about an hour returned with a verdict
of GUILTY OF MURDER. IN THE FIRST. DEGREE.” © The miserable man remained. unmoved, by
the awful results At sunrise on Saturday morning, Taylor, Murphy, Drummon and Shaw ,
were on their way to Chestertown, The counsel’ exerted themselves, on, both sides of
the question with untiring perseverance, and their speeches were ingenious and
powerful, © Both of the convicted men assert their innocence,., Unfortunately for them
they are alone! in that opin ion. .The Elkton DEMOCRAT, referring to the verdict of .
guilty against Taylor, says: "The only evidence of emotion betrayed by. the prisoner |
at the moment of the rendition of the verdict, was) the blenching of his countenance,
and the compression of his lgps,) But when, taken back to prison, the fortitude, which |
had sustained him throughout the trial, seemed suddenly to have deserted him, He
threw himself: down upon the floor of the prison, covered his face with his: haridkere
chief, and, gave vent to his; feelings in a flood of tears, -loudly.and repeatedly .ex-
claiming, in the bitterness of his anguish, ‘Lord, have mercy on me = oh, .Lord, have.
mercy on jiea’ The wretched man signified his desire to, see a minister,,when the
Rev. Re Le Goldsborough, who: was visiting, Murphy at..the time, in another room, was.
conducted into his apartment. Mr. Goldsborough offered, the prisoner what consola-
tion, he could, urging on him a confession and hearty repentance of all. of his sins,:
and then offered up- a prayers The groans and lamentations of the. wretched man, were
enough to touch the most unfeeling heart. , His paroxyéém of grief lasted until about
8 o clock in the evening, when he was more composed, Hon. Jase Ae Pearce, his coun-.
sel; visited him shortly after Mr, Goldsbordugh left the room, He told him that all
d urged him to a confession, but the prisoner_pr tested
We eieccanee pies gee Rebebt, and remainint party under ar est, wild be tried
in Kent County Court on Monday, the 23rd inst." CONSTITUTIONALIST AND REPUBLIC,

Augusta, Georgia, 6-26-1851 (2/3~)

"Shelton, one of the murderers of the Cosden family, was tried before KaNKXXE Kent County
(Md.) Court, last week, and convicted of murder in the first degree," CONSTITUTIONALIST
AND REPUBLIC, Aygusta, Georgia, Junel3, 1851 (2/B.) © . ePross

"The Cosden Murder = THE MURDERERS DISCOVERED, = We learn from a gentleman who came up
yesterday: afternoon from ‘Chestertown that the full particulars of this most brutal
murder have at length been developed, and that the fiends who were the principal ac-
tors are among the persons now confined in the Chestertown jail. It will be recollected
that shortly after the’ murder was committed, it was stated that a certain female in ~
Delaware had intimated that she knew all about the matter, but all attempts to find
out her whereabouts proved fruitless until a few days since, when it was ascertained:
that she was residing in New Jersey. On Friday last she was brought to Kent County,

and upon her ‘representation a man named Shaw was arrested in New Castle County, Del,

and brought to Chestertown on Saturday night last. On Suriday Shaw made a full con-
fession, akknowledging that hé was one of the party at Cosden's house on the night of
the murder, that he was induced to go there for plunder only; that Abe Taylor shot

Mr. Cosden from the outside, and also shot Mrs, Cosden when she came into the yard;

that Shelton entered the house and murdered Miss Cosden, and afterwards went upstairs and
killed Miss: Yebster = that although Murphy and himself were present during the time,
neither of them had ‘anything to do with the murder, He-stated that he (Shaw) was
bitterly opposed to the murder, 4+ will be séen that the statement of Shaw. ©
corroborates most of the facts alleged by’ Drummond, now in jail, although that in- ©
dividual varied his statements in regard to the: details so much that his confession
could hardly be credited. Drummond was not one of the party: engaged in the murder,

as he has always strenuously asserted, and Shaw entireay acquits him of all partici-
pation, - BALTIMORE AMERICAN, May 27, 1851." CONSTITUTIONALIST AND REPUBLIC, Augusta, Gey
May 31, 1851 (2/2) i eal a a Pe oi

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"THE TRAGEDY IN KENT COUNTY = FURTHER PARTICULARS!-The Cecil DEMOCRAT contains the,
following particulars of the tragedy enacted on Thursday night of last week, at the
house of Mr, Costin, between the head of ‘Sassafras and Georgtown Cross Roads, Kent
county, :Md.: "Costin, his wife, sister and a black woman were all, except the::black
woman, seated at the supper tabley-when they were fired upon through the window by
persons without.-Mrs, Costin was shot dead, the other three badly wounded, The
assassins, two in number, then rushed into the room, stabbed Costin so that h@ died in

2 or 3 hours, and then proceeded to rob the house, In the upper room, a young lady —
named Webster, was lying sick, She p&gged for her' life, and offered. them $l.50,

all the money she had, but they shot her, and then fired her bed, Some children who °'
escaped from the house, gave the aaarm to neighbors,. who were ‘speedily: on the spot,
but the murderers had escaped, Mrs, Costin ahd the black woman are not expected to Be-
cover, The assassins were strangers to the unfortunate family." The Cecil WHIG says:
‘Mr. Costin, his wife, axsister of each of them'were all shot. Mr, Costin, his wife

and Miss Webster = his wife's sister - are’dead, the other lady and black woman were
alive yesterday, but must die.- An infant was spared, and a small boy escaped to a’:
neighbor's house. The object of the murderers’ was money, as the surviving lady, who

was sick in bed, testifies, The others were sitting at supper when they were shot.

Mr. Costin was stabbed aftép he was shot." (BALTIMORE CLIPPER, 3rd inst,)" CONSTI.
TUTIONALIST: AND REPUBLIC, Augusta, Georgia,’ Mar. 7, 1851 (2/3,) ct |

"New Castle, Del., Feb. 28, = We have just: received information here of he af tre
most shocking tragedies on record, tt appears that the dwelling of Mr. Crosden, e
who resided near the Georgetown Cross “oads,' in KentiCounty, Md., was entered’ last
night by some demon’ in human shape, who, without warning or apparent provocation,
deliberately shot Mr, Crosdem dead upon the spot, ‘Not satisfied with this bloody .
deed, he found his way to the bed chamber of Mrs, Crosden, sho lay sick at the time,
and deliberately shot her, Still thirsting for blood, he found the sister of Mrs. C.,
and shot her, and then erlded the tragedy by shooting the servant girl,-all whom are
dangepuusly wounded, The mirderer has escaped, and no clue has yet been’ had: in
regard to him, dt is hopgd that. speedy justice may cut short his.areer," CONSTI.
TUIONALIST ANDREPUBLIC, A gusta, Georgia, 3/5/1851 (2/5..) f : Laly

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“BXBCUTION IN UPPER MARLBORO’,

Prince George's Copnty, Maryland.

Hanging of Ienry alias, “Nimroa” |

Richards—The Last of Five Mur
Gerers, &e. “i i
At Upper Marlboro, Prince
“M4., on Friday, Henry Richards, alias “Nimrod”
Richards, the leader of the party of five negrove
i who murdered Col. Wm. Lyloé, of Aubura, in

} Joly, 1966, soffered the extreme penalty of the |
law, having been execnted onthe gallows in

the presence of @ very large concourse of per-
ne, nearly every part of the county being rep-
resente The particniars} of the crime, the

} tTiale and execations of the‘¢onfederates of Rich-

j ards, and the escape, adventores, capture and |
| condemnation of the latter, are familiar to the |
public, and have been eral, times repeated

durlog the different stages of the case. The

i Star of yesterday gives the followlug particalars

of the execution of Richards: :
THE 6QaProLy.

The scaffold was er¢cted on the north side of
the jail, the walle of which served for the back,
aud the platiurm wae apout twelve feet equare.
At eltber end were beavy upright timbers, (eight

inches,) and on the top rested a beau of about

the same size, from which the rope was sus-
pended immediately oyer the drop, which was
abont four feet wide.

The drop was beld 19 place by three pleces of
timber—one upright abd two braces—resemd-

ling a Y,suppgrted by/a rope niade fast in the
ja Be @ rope was a ithree quarter iuch hemp
} one, i to-have been] mede expressly fur the

hanging/of Collins in Bslttmore, whose sentence
} sie ereaiee commuted, *

®
| THE OVENNOM REF USE TO COMMUTE SEXTENCE, |

A | petition of twenty-seven citizens of Upper

Marlboro’ and vicinity was sent tothe Goveruor

ag ad cag since, asking & commutation of |
hi b

entence tol mprivonment for life, furthe rea-
that themsjesty of the law.and the safety of

society had been vindicated, inthe execution of |

the others, and he bad already sulfered tortures

woree than death. This! petitiou was sigued by:

Rov. Fathers Maher, McUuuald and U Dwyea,
god Rev, Mr. Kersbaw, - Ay

' Gavernor Bowie replied, under date of 10th
netact, and dispatched leiter by private ines-
enger, Who arrived Friday night. Ho erates
hat be was not convicted upon ap alleged con-
fexsion sworn to by parties iptere«ted in the re-
} ward which had been oilered fur bis atrest; that
| jthe reward will be paid to a citizeu uf Massachu-
jactta, who did not appearon the trial. To the
| pout that & long time had elapsed since the mur-
cr, be saye it would. be ouly ao in€eutive to
crime, uniurupaeiy prévaient in our woo.e
Counily since the war, il the were eVasivn of an
Grreet fur a few yeate by wharp aud ex; erienced
criminals, and the puvishment of their jess guy

Sesociater, should be recoguized as auy reagog §

| for leniency, either by the.cuurie ur the execu.
tive. Me farther says thefe je ny iiistake a» tu
the idciitity of Kicharde, who was implicated by
the others ae the ineizat
the horrid crime: thai the ong time since the
murder wes commited bae bot been eudticient
) tO assuage the griefot the syed partwner of the
Victim, Or objitetate ito Ler mind the borrurs
of that dreadal uighp. Me cloves: “If in a case
of as koown guilt as/ Richarde’s, even confessed
} by him repeatedly, ahd ofa murder as horrid
any in the aunais of |crime. Capital pauieumenk
should not be indicted, why nave it upon ou)
f statute.buoke as a terror to thuee who have nd
H regard for other. men's lives, except their own
W danger? Tue taw, then, Feutleen, must take
H ity coarse, aud 1 hove iis foflucuce will be so
H SActary in thiscaee that our Community may
y Dever again be shocked Dyythe perpetrauvn of su
horrid a crime.” ;
On Wednoesuay and Thareday nighte he was
occapled for weveral hours in uictaliog to Dre,
Suceby a long siatement tu refereuce tu bis trav.
Cle, a8 8'z0 nie coufessivud ‘ae tu the crime of
Wuich be was couvicted, Aud he having made a
request that Ho repurter be ailuwed to interview
bim, or, tudecd, any other pereou. tiie jail guards
re(uecd admigeion to ali, and “he thereby wa» en.
abled tocoliect bie tivughts and viowly relate
the incidents of bis escape and extensive traveis,
Three tunes during the night the guarde at the
jail, Meerra. My
Dim ip ferveus prayer.
The etateweui be gave Dr. Sheehy was, not
chinpleted Jast niynt. and this werning, about
64 o'clock. he wae cahied on by the Jroctur and

ne the narrative, aud exturted S preuuise ff

at it ebuuld nus be\mece puviic uuili Le was
gone. j

H She reply, "Quite well. He was dressed in dark

} + he pante, with c.eau white enirt, xcd iooked’.

ach better than be uid afew mon'hs since.—
He is azed abvut thirty three, wae raised to

} Londouno county, Pa., weixue about 160 peunde,
} Stands over tive fuct teu inches, aud is a iutie
} Touud-ehouidered. He wae raised oti a farm, and

y Was furmeriy owned by Guivuel Kichard Littie-

H ton. of Middlebury. Luuduush cuuuty, Va., whom. |
|} be left iu the cariy part of the war, |

George's county, |

}] Woman of that na!

fF ald ringicader in ff

eury Huier aud Charies Gil, heard f

PREPARATIONA YOR TUK EXECUTION,

Rev, Fatuer Maner was juined in Richard's cell
about 104 o'cidck by Kev. Father O Dwyer, and
they remalued Wito ‘im until they left bim on
the fatal drop. (vwiuy to ihe fact that tue priests

| bad diecourazed the members of their cougre,zas
tions from Withdroiny the execttion, the crowd

| Outvide wae not ‘bear as lavve as at the execa:

tion of 13th. Neither were thire eo @auy otticera

} @worn iu to keep the pewce,.Saerid” Frazier

Swearing iu byt @ baif duzea deputies for tue
purpyse @ keeping meu aud buys ulf the fence,
which boys commenced to mount ar e*1riy ae
Dine o'clock, but were Proper made tu dis
mouut, excepting on the east elde, where there
Weea wood pile, At ove corner of the feuce
tevcral coiured womes tuvk thejr places aud re-
mained uvtil all wae over. On the outside the ff
crowd was mostly made Up Of Cuiored peuple,
maby being women, and duinb-rs of youug nien
fromthe surrounding country had @ ful: view |
of the scaQuild from tue backs uf their nursed
“TUE PRIQUNER BROUGHT OUT. 3.
About J1 o'clock Sheriff Frazier, with Jalier

re Gardner and Dr. Sheeby, entereaythe buisd- |
ing. {

and the trons were cut of in little time.

At ten miuates to 12 o'clock the trun dvor wap f
slowly opened by Mr. Hiilen, ore of the gaarde,
and the prisoner appeared, with Fatber Mater
at one side and Sheriff Frazier at the-otber, and
wae supporied yp the yn by Messrs. Gardner

tered for a moment as

and Gill. The accuecd fa
he wag about to ascend the few stepe, but very

“800n be Became faim and coilected, and for a | i

M1DUt¢ seemed tu survey the crowd. |' ;
: | AN ADDRESS FROM THE BCAFFOLD.§ .
| Richards, to 4 He aloud volce, addressed the
Crowd, saying that he was bappy tuspe eocn a
daomber present witness the departire uf his
soul and body, a he hoped G duld bave
ercy'upon ail and look down upon them. To
hoee laughing be would say. Ged have
mercy apon them. He wae ready: he was going
home to Ged: they were nut insulting him, bat’
God, ' He hoped f any man had done any iniue
tice to bim that wotid for
Bad. Some of

apoile bad
er. (and he
Bonly what
@ had a wile,

n Lee. : ' {
“} must tell you.” said He, “thar l know no!
¢.. 1am no speaker, Speaking
19 Dot my trade, bat some have said | made my
|diving by murder) Now.whai man fe that among:
ag who can say that. I committed the mardér of
-L. Lyles? Toever kuew. bim, Jesus, who
was crucified on the cross, is ready to receive
me. Hua. Jadge Miller onthe 11ib day of Juve,
when es ee my seutence esid: ‘hicury Rich.
ards, otherwise Nimrod Richard,’—| Here be ne.
ticed tears tn Sneriff Hraz'er's eye
‘Drv. your tears, heriff, Gad
Judge Miller eatd, th passin
*You have been trie by we
: hey were nut
Y counsel, and they we

ec.”

{ ‘
He then proceeded in/s wandering way to
speak of the weit of ing chatne Placed on fy
and eaid “they were he Vy evuouzh for an e.e-:
pers bat God gave me etrengib to wear them,’

have before me four things, death, adgment,
beaven aud hell, ‘aod when this door kvocked
from ander me I wi)! Sppear before bj

fore 1 go I will ¢ali

pture—Mat

it wee Gos who pers me. ° ed

e to the fact that sor |
Money, sent to him whlle in Ansapeiies eered
reached bim; aod. r fy My thanking the

entombed re yl Of thetr indnesa, closed by Ii

ave merey oo them ali. |

when the should be placed on bis peck, ut |

tab ike crecids's Sign Peiertanet Bo |
f w f&pelt, .

mitted bis sou) to a er which. ima joeq |

} Vales, he eald: “Lf aay vow do a
} my the H
y SGepartare, ey W

Mr. James Jefferson tied bis lege with tn, |
Tepe. aad the SD:ack being Ak over he H

| cap
; | Sberiff stand, and
Kev. Father Maher qatied on b!m about seven | ven peer na

o*cluck, and oD askitg how he tcrted, received |

& witbarew to the back *
when

then another man elnee
Qe followed, and ran
Pile street. ‘Cook sin
Mp with bin on a ran,
Berrie did not heed but
@ and to Penn streets,
rnin shots occa-
4 wua jolned by of
We, one of Whom sprang
Mtic, Which ao alarmed

ty es and was easily
A himself in the hands
@ for life, and said as
@ptof the murder. He
‘tgand said «Mal Cropps
8p Inacell at the wes
A Bloth one, with an oi!
Phare been perforated
Ffrom Cook's revolver
whd upon his nose, but
Aior spantoon Was not
‘Mer the shooting, Croppe
ad mingling with Mie
rted,
, my of Rigdon lay,
of borror at the deed
id expressions of his
Ue is represented by
yr as having said, ‘i
Rete: for the —— who
ood fellow, —be often
‘fas hard up? ++ireat
cB like expressone. He
‘& Hetween 1 andl
aR to the western station,
4 turned States’ ¢vi-
fre him. .
he was ina atreet
“enn etreet) when
done house in compa.
a@iher man he did not
he alley leading to the
GQ Witness stood at the
Bhe shot and ran, but
a Cropps Bred the abot

raeth oewmrnm! tanec wt

A Han away when the
eo preacere might eacite

withthe murder He.
But ie Croppe at Cu

bw he wasitn Higdon’s
nor Croppeeither until
at not po Alter tly frown
house, but Bret went

treete, “Then walked
“Bing henee, corner of
ald there some UUme,

ahklin, drinking en the |

police station on tireen

-itimore atrret fur Rigs |

tion, whe recetyrs) him,

@ rircametancee of bis-
welione three other |
_Bilachronsh ana

ie Meus weked tre 4

MATE Riot y tial ape

foctiteg erty EEO SEE FF cor Btinehtomb deposed that
ae 2 De oo vs ¢ f we ie ee Ot t

orced® himeaelf

pet Croppe at the cor

wetin the brick wall, tetreatite

| tne tee £
4apsipalies of. 4 Wey sh _a0ys siti

bb tie deed | He woe.

at ek

ficer Stineheomb deposed thet after the trial
Was over 8} Oo!

' OOush, came uy town and met Kigdon,
Ket him ba 3. Ve ;

mort A o'clock | Roth went to

supper at @ e'elokkf> Came out and heard
the jury hag envicted Gambrill; beard of the
atternptled repose, Walked townrds the station
honee, pasted Bigdon’s house, He wasat supper.
After supper @eiged out with bim and yot clyars.
He spoke ef te trial and conviction, appeared
uneasy, and Beoged about him. Went up street
between € 4 Pine streets, where some
friends weet ending. While talking © to-
gether, Coz Croppe came up. One ssid
“How yee at’ And both went away.

Went and! “tigars, and walked back op-

Binilds ay #2 went into John Blank's
vern, Carpe ih five minutes and gaw Riy-
don. Cropra: standing a short dist@ice froin
Blank'’s with forte Me was fuinbling with

something. orrié came up and beyan talking,
looking frat @t. witness and then at Riudon.
Corrie said i'm addressing Mr. Rigdon, am 1]
not’’? Rigdon said ‘yes, that is my name”? He
then exid ‘‘Gambrill’a innocent, Rigdon” This
conversation took place in front of Hiank's house.
Cropps came wp and laid his band on bie hip Iike
he hada pistol. He said te Rigdon ‘we have
always been pretty square.” Rigdon replied ‘‘yes,

on have been always aquare towards me’ Riy-
on looked at him as be epoke and up the
nd Green

street to Amey’s, corner of Baltimo
strects. It wae then about rol! call.2cAferwards
saw Croppe and Corrie about Kigde@n's house, as
described by other witnesses. Shortly after went
to Dr. Core’s house, then heard the report.of the

istol and ran snd found Corrie tn custody.

hinke Corrie wae drunk, but Cropps was not

Wm B Turner deposed that he livee at No. 591
West Palttmore atreet, enw Croppa and aother
man together, on the night ofthe murder, @poke
to Crop; 6, both passed witness’ piace frequent!
that evening, and finally went off up Pearfstroet,
one bebind the other, slugyishly with their hate
over thelreyes in about fifteen minutes Kigdon
was killed.

John T. Bangston, barkeeper at honse Bo. 546
Weat Halttmore strnet, deposed that Cropgs, and
another Man be dhl n-’A Rmaew, drank at ar
thut night hetween 6 and 7 O'clock, the® went

away .endin about 5 minuwe heard the
peal wentto Kiedon's house. | —
Tie ped after hearing some otber eviderre car.
roboratery to the foregoing teturned the frllow
ing verdict We, the Jurore tn theense, bellewe
that Robert M Hivdon came to tis death by balls
fread from @ plelol in the hands of either Marion
Croppe or Peter Corrle, the prisoners "

MWishow very plain that the asenasin approached

Higdon a house through the wate of the ailey that
divides No. 4(™ from the adiotning borer tn fal

Hmoreatrcet on the weet, and nol through the
alley from the rear. The gate at the froat en

trance Mae Open, hut the sear gate was hot, ae far
pe the inpnates bnow _ At the end of the main.
portion of the dwelling. runntedp paralel! with the
wiley, teeging the tne beat eli

abouttiwe feet
1) thie offeet je the window t@ lighte wide ami
tight Uphta high, the atlt te atecit twenty

onthe grein 11 age peed
pad oe it veryvevikicnt.:
(Latte PMRREE ID ope pt te thee adew op hie ener!
anidde vel lie the wea pen ny

Se We he ali tn An oblique
Aire tim, Paes Bite alin a ipdnn, whe stood at
tie fed ESAS Hearted,

ye, Windew. The

ete Pe a My
* Sree «eee. Tere 4 : Ae
WE Na pane ae

PRE E.R RRR CRE ate pe,
oe BN RCT

hae ge ag

work of tract distribution Narratic«

. Here ie ag off: |

-{apdan | After singing, and prayer = A

of Neth Carolina, Rev

leaning thereupon, with:

wehbe | Tbe

i aa hata Bee a aes

SSF 8 PN SESE Ne Oe SE Ne Ee ee a eek RS
poyment, and a warrant wat tsrned fo
Of 27x08 sa

Officers Trons. Bowers and Petticoré
upeamanramned Joseph Hail on the!
threatening the life of the progecutin:
Milton W bitney, keq , by saying thet
notiiveten days On being broug bt
mayor, the assistant prosecuting attorne
{ck Pinkney, Eeq., remarked that be
nak that the bere. be held to keep the +
as the representative of Mr WS he +
that he hid no fear of threats from any:
turé as the aecused He would not ach
ony fear, 38 Mr. Wo was perfectiy able
Limeelf and did not regard tbe the-
such fellows. After a severe reprtn.e
spayor, Hall wae permitted to depart

David Houck and James Moryan we’
on Suburday by Capt Mitchell, Sergts
and Hewitt and officer A Morgan, on
ofrieting atthe court-house on Frida
and attetnpting to rescue Henry Gan.
the officera who had Lim tu charge. })
that the parties were in the crowd tha!
assanit, but Morgan, on being told to
so, Houck wes violent and catied on '
to shoot Gambril!, and not give the s-
chance to bang Lim. They were bo
jall, but Morgan was subseqnentiy. a
ball in the sum of #1 000 to gnawer the |

Aid for the Families of Officers Bente
don —On the meeting of the Corn and |
change on Saturday morning, @ moy
made to raise a fund for the families |
Renton end Rigdon, who were murc
performance of thelr duties. The rn
mace by Jobn S. Williams, Iisq., pres:
exchange, who spoke of the murder of |
cers, thus suddenly snatched from the
by the bands of assassing, and arked th
te subscribe Mberally for the relief ¢:
reaved families. A paper headed. ‘¥
dersigned citizens of Baltimore, agree
Amount opposite to our names to the
the two puiice officers, Riydon end —,
cently assassinated in the performa:,
duty,’’ was presented, and within a)
nearly B10 wassutecribed During the
ofthe meeting of the exgbange, the ra! _

end these Wrrecomimtraliyel, few pers |
To-alay jt will av ih be predenied to

genersily, and there leno doubt but 7|
rateed will abow that the people a)
faithful officer, on

The Colporters’ Comeention Sr oe
This body re assembted at Gols ko
morning In ®t. Jon's charch, t.bver
Rey. dames Mo Wilson, assistant pa:
chotoh, was called to the chair, fn thy
the presiding officer. After the intra
erciere, the convention was opened for
of the warratives of those prerent env:

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given by the following. BW. Palfor
Cerolina, C Praski, o Maryland. Je
el of Rattimore: 1, Ho dackeon, of Co}
dl, Me. Kateer, of Baluimore, 3. W
Virginia, and BoM Rogers, of Nor
i oe
haste:
leave of Ibe cunvention be copra 6 re
proce tnge of Pridar. Hf shouid rea
‘More Lban ene thectand pergans are
the eer idan the (react pocieties, atc
dred of whom are new ta commize)ou

c. 24

rca, ‘je had ctreane . 4 , ? * - |
wand ‘rh eansed it li wi!) probalidy be presented to his family. | were sddressead by the eo: porvers, 4

soner ) had not washed It ie said that Friday nigLt was the seventh an- when a general leave taking was |

niversary-@f Ricdon’s marriage and hia death | and the delegates returned to their ,

led -iyes.* is . : :
pes Dae Rg occurring. gimme ltaneou aly therewith, the fact af several Rtates, torcsume their were 7
en, . fords n regmarkable coincidence ditional! zeal gained by their comma

Be eo eae con Celie was a butcher In the empty of a Fatal Aceident.—A moat distresri::
feand dogued, Dut Corrie earylar erie Seth steady ropps | occurred on Saturday afternoon at tld |
+. weeping aod im- so ee Calling. oth are youny MEN. | pot of the Northern Central Rallrond |

ead of Robert MM. Rigdon — Jmmen te sulted in the death of a iad of twels
= the People —The funeral of officer of Mr. Wiillam Coleman, reaiding
igdon, the martyr to the truth in street near the scene of the serident
™, took place yesterday afternoon the depot, end like many other boys} )

‘om bis late residence, No. 463 | habit of jumping onthe cars. A freig? |

Mreet. The annals of the history being shifted from one traek to anc)
sseely furnish an instance where attempted to jump on one of the care!

d forth such an 2esemblage of | ''8 footing and fell. The car passed «|

the all classes of the communt- tirely cutting eff one leg and borritl

§& Dr. George G Fernan- | began te § peck with ple, and @y 3 o'clock Greentree and Maris were immed'e
honse. Atiix o'clock | Baltimeng street from Fremont to face streets | to the sufferer, and at night they cals
#2. when they received | was pocked with homan belucs, and tt wasa | Paxley, in consultation. The injuries
Hoi’ twos us follows: | dificult maiéer to open a way for the Immediate | 1) great, and life so nearly extinct. ¢!

+ ! friends an@ relatives of the family to reach the tien were considered justifiable uti’
ounds on the left side : ng Mae morning. Some reaction then took 7.

proceeded to raise the honse. Green street, in frent of the western police

: aid in sucha manner as | station, wee early surrounded by a crowd of seve- | *8* then considered that the only ch
we casily worked abont | al thousand persons. the throngs extending into | Would be the amputation ef beth lim,
Aout two wash bis!us fall all the by streets. The window sand heusetops dingly the operations were perform:
ithe cavity of the stomach. [ of the surrounding buildings were also filled, shock to bis system from the first is.
W8-dfrora the eunctures | and the cortege, in ‘its passing from the house great, that be survived but a short tin
sfthe taille. It was found | to Greemmount cemetery, was witnessed by thou. | Were completed. The father of the tac
$sack around the heart, sands of persons. = wtih s. conductor cn the road. This shou
eat'or life itself slightly | About 3 o'clock a solemn servicgiat the house sed api to the boys who dally exc
Pmade ag incision in the | was commenced by the Rev. Jamegstobcrison, of, | tives in the vame wer.
Bib. possing on up in 3a Cumberland, Md., reading withr’an impressive Reckless Shooting. —On Monday niz:
gh the pericardium, gré voice the ith chapter of John: ‘I am the resur tol was discharyed from the westrrn ©
Bg iteclf In the snperior | rection and the life”? He concluded with some j fells, oppoaite the residence of Air. J:
ach carries the life stream © remorks appropriate to the occasion, and was fol- | No. 9 Front street, a ball from ¥!
. ball passed directly luwid by Kev. Thomas Sargeant, Ing fervent through a window of Mr. con bide ne

“a hLonee tosboot him.
e8, coroner forthe north
med a jury at the house
iy, coin posed of the fol-
*h Donty, foreman, Ber-
Dulton, John T Tucker,
ofe Joseph K. Milaor, M.
Penn. Robert Hamilton,
ben. Alert Bell. After | citizens,
Mury order a post mor- | ty. Age:

1. ‘est ball entered be- | prayer that awoke responses thronyhout tee large | room where Mra. 8. was walking wit
Huin ribs, The lunge of | arsembly thet crowded every available t that | bererms, At the same time a ball we
ito be perfectly riddied— afforded standing room witLin the bear! of his | the back-steps of the dwelling of Mrs.
cfares being discovered in voice. : jeinitg On Friday night there wee
Gund in the left, and Sve The family and friends then moved rds the | and a be!! peseed through & window
ly two balls were disco- | carriages, forty-five In number, drawn up at the | Mre Welby's dwelling, and lodged |:
Bbedded jn the left lang, | entrance, and farnished by Joseph Loane, the un- | It is {rm {ble to conceive any cane
sliver. lying loose in the dertaker, The coffin which contained be body | belief that It was pure reckiessnes:
~ Both the sings found | of Rigdon stood beside the parsage to the deor in /Dangrrees. —The condition of the
and notibryer than buck the rcom where be met bisdeath.and as erga the southwest corner of Frederick
‘fd not correspond to those gathered in the house passed out every oft an | streets fe a most dangerous ont, 2>¢
She corner of Baltimore opportonity to view the corpse. The body Wat / should be doné to prevent injary. 7!
JUBy. } ene Tee dresacd in the police upliform, with standing col. ger of loes of iife to cbildren et ant
Bbstract of the evidence lar and black cravat. The lid of the ceffim,which | tp. falling of dilepidated wells, ae.
2 Tapia station, | Wee plain, bore this simple record, inscribed on & pot wheee business {t ts, but someth':
omt-mortem examination of silver piste. the shape of ® heart: Robert Mm. Aone with it. There is fn Balt!mor:
oO : "| Rigdon. Died Nov. 8, 1665. Aged 3} years.''— | tween Cet.tre market and the bridge
The cofin was ornamented with silver handles | four crfive feet deep, which seem L

ded and mid she wat st} |
Wehich jain the front of | 224 nails of the same metal, and on thelid, which { cgived by the ef the sewer,
e Balti mee 2 hs te | laid back, revealing the fece of the corpec, WO ® | under he strert at that point. ftt:
sweet smelling bequet of fresh roses. O88, gheald be fmmadiztely rem 5

6 o'clock. A man came

he waa drunk, stag- As the sseemblage moved to the door the Jacthes Night Aiseutt,—On Fridss

: > the back room, where and sobs of the bereaved wife and near vee | asmed George Geforth, while Fee
op) The man went ot! ee Se a
, and in three minute o¢ te seaece
ow the men’s face weit. porters zor Wee poetics

ote strert, passing beck « fe, Gat poles Rikon,

ite

ba te Kare DOM WEAR

| age

‘cere

alla inte Ge Mee.

ernest abt SNR! nega ov-secscai ise ae oo * farce he i it smal Cag sii sm uildibiieshiiait
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lace, when he. Beale. re.
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up when theassallants fled. o
the bat and another the umbrella of B
An wag admitted to bail, and xt
“Were wnentto tall for tetal
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mayor yesterday mornin

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wrth, on Forrest etreet, nea
; went to thow t
house of Cheno

then kicked
and Siawhee was

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part of the city.
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throngs set towards the ;
hundreds lined the
the bills adjacent there.
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and sent to jail in default of
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CORRIE, CROPS, CYPHUS AND GAMBRILL, all Hanged at Baltimore, Md,, on )-8-1859

"Baltimore, April 8, 1859=Peter Corrie, Marion Cropps, Henry Gambrill and the negbo
Cyphus, alias Stephens, who were condemned some weeks since for mrder, were executed
today at 11:10 AM, Gambrill and the negro Cyphus, protested that they were innocent,
Comrie said nothing. Cropps bade farewell to all, as the drop fell, (Second dispatch)
"As the-hour fixefi for the execution approached, an immense concourse, men, women and
youths, poured through the streets towards the jail, and by 10 o'clock not less than
30,000 people were crowfied on the hill tops, roofs of houses, and every pgqint from
which a view could be obtained, Thegallows stood near the north wall of the jail and
was plainly visible from the ground and even the streets in the vicinity. The weather
was cloudy and threatening rain, but that did not deter the eager mltitude, The

drop fell at 11 o'clock, and the four criminals paid the penalty of their crimes to
the violated law. All the criminals exhibited remarkable composure and nerve,

Cropps led in singing a hymn on the scaffold in which all joined, Gambrill in a

clear and loud voice, avowed, insolem terms, his innocence, Cropps said, in a strong
voices "Goodbye, all," Covrie said nothing, There was no disturbance during the whole
occasion, Crooss left the following note in the hand of the clergy, with a

request that it should not be opened until afterhis death, It was written at 9 o'clock
in the morning: "It was me that shot Rigdon, but I have repented of it,"

RICHMOND, VA., ENQUIRER, RICHMOND, VA., APRIL 9, 1859,

Crimes for which executed: 1) Garmbrill murdered police officer Benjamin Benton on
Septe 22, 1858, and was convicted on Nove. 5, 1858; (2) Crop and Corrie murdered
Police Officer Robert M, Rigdon on Nov, 5, 1858, Crop convicted on 1-11-1859 and
Corrie convicted on 1-26-1859; (3) John Stevens, alias Cyphus, colored, murdered
William King, chbored,, on August 21, 1858, Convicted on 10-28-1858,

Gambrill was 253 Crop, 233 Corrie, 26; and Cyphys, 3). Gambrill and Corrie both
natives of Baltimore of respectable families, Crop born in Pennsylvania but family
had lived in Baltimore for many years. Gambrill and Cypus origi nally sm#ntenced to
hang on 2=1% but respited to 3-18 when Crop and Corrie was also to hang, Subsequently
respited again at request of friends to allow more time for spiritual preparation

to #8, Strong efforts for commutation, especially incase of Gambrill made,

In dying statement draw up before execution, Gambrill said he was innocent of Benton's
murder and that he had been convicted off testimony of Rigdon who knowingly swore
falsely against him, Said Rigdon's murder was without his approbation but that

his friends and others mintained that Rigdon had been killed because he knowingly
swore away his life. His last words: "Fellow citizens = I am not guilty of the

murder of officer Benton, When you seethis drop fall from under me, you see an
imnocent man launched into eternity. Goodbye, one and all,"

Corrie: "I die upon the gallows but am no murderer,"

Cyphys: "Gentlemen = you see here another innocent man who is going to be hung.
They have given me a false name = one that I was never known by = and convicted me
for what I did not do, But I am going home to Heaven to meet my God, My way is all
clear there, So just goodbye my friends."

After trap fell, Corrie appeared to suffer none at all and no motion of limbs exhibite
ed, Gambrill also suffered but little, a lsight and short contraction of the

legs only being seen. Crop who was most muscular man of tee four, struggled the

most violently, drawing up his feet and throwing them out, Cyphys struggled longer
but not so violently as Crop, ENQUIRER, )-11-1859

as i IRIN A ce Rl te

136 The Negro in Maryland.

tobacco, was sentenced to be hanged. | | About the same time,
two white laborers, one of whom had stolen a sheep worth
eighty pounds of tobacco, and the other various goods to the
value of two hundred and eighty pounds, were sentenced to
return those things and make four-fold restitution, and to
stand in the pillory for five minutes, and to have twenty-five
lashes on the bare back at the public whipping post. Of
eighty presentments at two terms in 1790, several were for
dealing with negroes, and in one case, a free black paid thirty
shillings for an assault, but there were no slaves ; of thirty-nine
at one term in 1794, one was a white for an assault on a negro
and another was a slave woman for an assault, but both failed
to appear ; of fifty-three, four years later, one seems to have
been the same woman, one was a negro presented for murder,
and there was one slave, who was referred to a single magis-
trate. Among a multitude of civil suits and of bastardy cases,
with an occasional assault or other criminal case, it is here and
there only that we find a slave brought before the county
courts.

Among the papers belonging to the city of Annapolis are
several books of proceedings of the mayor’s court, which had
apparently much the same jurisdiction as single magistrates
had in the counties, and which dispensed justice to all persons
who disregarded the ordinances of that little city. The court
consisted of the mayor, recorder and several aldermen, but the
mayor seems to have been absent often. The cases before the
court were not, it must be confessed, of a very serious nature.
One citizen who allowed his chimney to get on fire, was fined
forty shillings ; another, who left broken bottles before his
door, paid five shillings on submission, without trial. But
when in 1720 a man had the temerity to utter four separate
oaths, one after the other, he was put in the stocks for three
hours, and fined for the first oath two shillings and sixpence,
and five shillings for each of the others. At the January term
of 1790, there were several cases of assault, and one white man
was fined seven shillings sixpence and fees for assaulting

Slaves. 137

another, and a fellow culprit, five shillings and fees for assault
ing a negro. The most common offence under the city ordi-
nances seems to have been the entertainment of, and sale of
liquor to, apprentices, indentured servants and slaves. One
person who ventured to sell a bottle of rum to a young Dutch-
man in the Governor’s service, had to pay five shillings; and
another, who sold a pint of liquor to a negro of Charles
Carroll, Esq., without the required permission in writing from
the master, atoned by forty shillings. This sum was the cus-
tomary fine for thus selling without leave, or for keeping a
disorderly house. We find one item of fines due in 1754, from
a woman, to wit, to entertaining six slaves, two hundred pounds
of tobacco each, or a total of five pounds sterling. At a session
in 1765, the grand jury found indictments for entertaining
and selling liquor to servants and slaves, to the number of sixty-
five against one person, of forty-two each against two others,
and some forty and more beside. The first mention of negro
culprits is at a session of 1783, when of twenty presentments,
five were slaves. One, for suffering hogs to go at large, does
not appear to have been brought to trial. Two of them,
women, appeared and confessed to carrying fire through the
street, eiccuscn one was excused on payment of costs, and
the other—probably because she had neither money nor indul-
gent master—received the only corporal punishment of which
we find mention in these dockets, to wit, one lash on the bare
back. She was handed over to the sheriff, who soon informed
the court he had executed the judgment. The two others were
men, who paid the court each ten shillings and ‘costs for gal-
oles on horseback through the streets. The negro boys seem
to have taken great delight in fast driving and riding. Sev-
eral years later, a free black accused of the same offence, plead
not guilty, but was convicted by jury and paid the customary
fines. One grand jury of this little court desired to be no
respecter of persons, for they presented in 1813, for allowing
his sleigh to be driven at improper speed, no less a personage
than Charles Carroll of Carrollton ; but the case was dismissed

mene an enrages

134 The Negro in Maryland.

tobacco houses had occurred in the same county during the
preceding winter. The Council evidently hesitated, considera-
tion of the case was put off for some days, and then the war-
rant for execution was issued. | A slave was convicted in St.
Mary’s county, the same year, of breaking into his master’s
store. The master asked for his pardon, stating that the slave
had himself confessed, and had not before offended; a
friend seconded the request, adding that the negro was a very
valuable slave ; and in addition, one of the magistrates wrote :
“Tam not fond of having rogues escape punishment, but on
the contrary should rather choose they should suffer as examples
to others, particularly negroes, among whom villainy and
roguery is but too common, yet on this occasion I must hope
your Excellency will grant what is desired.” So, the follow-
ing year, the master of a negro convicted of breaking open
a building, asked for his pardon, as the black was valuable
and had had a tolerably good character; while the owner of
the building wrote—the master having told him that his
consent, as the person injured, would be required—that
“if your Excellency is inclinable to extend your mercy unto
the poor wretch, I humbly submit.” Again, a year later, a
petition of twenty-nine names was presented for the pardon of
a negro sentenced for burglary, stating that the crime was
committed through over-persuasion, youth and inexperience ;
that the master could not purchase so serviceable a slave, and
notwithstanding the high value the court was pleased to put
on him, would be a great sufferer at that time if the negro
must suffer death ; and that the petitioners would not fear for
their property should the boy be pardoned—and again, a
pardon was granted.

[Tn 1770, three negroes were condemned for murder in
Prince George’s county, one as having given the blow and the
other two as abettors; and the court stated that it seemed to
be the opinion of many gentlemen of the county, as well as of
the court, that it would be very proper to execute the law in
its full rigor. Warrants were so issued, save that the two

Slaves. 135

abettors were spared the part of the sentence which directed
that the right hand be cut off before execution. This is the
only case we find in the Council Records in which the law for
the punishment of slaves for the highest crimes seems to have
been executed to the letter.’ /During this period many culprits,
white and black alike, met with no clemency. / One of the
planters, for instance, who was said indeed to be no good char-
acter, was executed for breaking and entering a store house
attached to an inn, and stealing therefrom “two Pair of
women’s leather Pumps” of the value of fifteen shillings
current money, | The Governor was empowered, a few years
later, to commute death sentences to other penalties. / We find
mention of thirteen negroes sentenced to death between 1786
and 1801. Of these, one slave was hung for rape; five, of whom
at least three were slaves, were transported for rape, arson and
other felonies; two slaves convicted of murder were put to
work on the roads for fifty years, and two others for twenty
years for other felonies ; and the death sentences of three slaves
were commuted without specified conditions,’ |

Anne Arundel county had a large slave population. We
find five cases of slaves before the county court between 1760
and 1764—one for assault and rape on a woman, evidently a
white; three for breaking and stealing ; and one for firing a
building. All threw themselves, as the old phrase went, on
God and their country, that is were tried by jury, and all
chanced to be acquitted and discharged. From 1768 to 1771
two negroes were tried. One, evidently a free negro, was
found guilty of manslaughter for killing a negro, and was
branded in the hand. !The other, a slave, found guilty by a
jury of stealing a coat valued at one hundred pounds of

1 Act of 1751,ch. 14. By this, the criminal was to have his right hand
cut off before execution, and his body quartered and exposed afterward.
From this special mention of the execution of the law in its full rigor, we
presume that slaves were ordinarily executed as others were.

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695 CHRONIOLES OF BALTIMORE,

The through Southern train on the Baltimore and Potomac
railroad, which left Richmond Saturday ni
at Calvert Station at 6.45 Sunday morning. This was the first:
regular passenger train that used the Potomac Railroad tunnel,
engine No, 2, Jerry Sweeney engincer, pulling the train, with
Conductor John T. West in charge. The first through train from
Washington for New York passed through Baltimore on the —
same night. The Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel is one of the
ercatest enterprises of the kind that has ever been executed,
With the exception of the Hoosae Tunnel, it is the longest on this

broken near the intersection of Cathedral street and North avenue

on the first of June, 1871; upon August 9th, 1871, the masonry
was begun; upon the 27th of the same month the brickwork wag pe.

begun to bo laid, and from that time to the present the work hag
sen prosecuted with marvelloug rapidity. The force employed in
the work ranged from 500 to 700 men at different periods, com-
prising stone-cutters, stone-masons, bricklayers, timbe) “men, miners,
rock-men, blacksmiths, machinists, carpenters, and common laborers, =
During the progress of the work four men were killed, each
of whom loat his life by accident. Over one hundred thousand
cubic yards of rock were blasted out. Tho side walls are of solid
masoury of Cockeysville marble, rock faced, but dressed at bedg
and joints. he arch is built of five rings of brick and backed y
with rubble masonry, At places where the bottom was composed of
quicksands or yielding earth of any kind, an inverted arch was con-
structed of four rings of brick, About 1,250,000 cubic feet of
masonry were used in the construction, and 15,000,000 briclk, The
cost of the work is thought to be about $2,300,000. The followin
aro the distances to the bottom of the excavation. Above this
the arch of the tunnel rises twenty-two feet in height. The width
of the tunnel is twenty-sevon feet: John Street, 49 feet; Park
avenue, 52 feet; Bolton streot, 50 feet; Linden avenue, 43 feet;
Kutaw street, 42 feet; Madison avenue, 314 feet: Druid Hill avenue
33 feet ; Division Street, 33 foet; Pennsylvania avenue, 32 feet;
I'remont street, 40 feet; Republican Street, 35} feet; Carey street,
32} feet; Calhoun street, 27 feet; Stricker Street, 21 feet; Gilmor
strect, 33} feet. The station at Fremont street is 350 feet lon
and 32 feet deep, and at John street 200 feet long and 49 feot deop,
The lengths are as follows: Eastern facade to Open cut at John
street, 1,148 feet; open cut from John to Oliver streets, 200 fect ;
ohn street to Pennsylvania avenue, 3,625 foot; Open cut from
Pennsylvania avonue to Fremont street, 350 feet; Fremont stroeot
to Gilmor street, 2,196 feet ; Length of tunnel propor, 6,969 feet;
Juength of open cuts, 550 fset; Length of entire line, 7,519 fvet, ji
In addition to this thore is a tunnel of 150 foot under the bed of —%

OHRONICLES OF BALTIMORE, 699

Fulton street. The eastern terminus of the tunnel ig about 67
feet above tide-level; it ascends with a rise of 1} feet to the hun-
dred, up to Pennsylvania avenue at which point the grade changes

C. S. Emack, the chief engineer, and Mr. HH, {. Carter, the resi-
dent engineer. Mr, Rutter wae ably assisted by Mr. John II. Moss,
his superintendent,.who took vharge of many of the details. In
concluding this article, mention must not be omitted of the railway
officials prominently concerned in the enterprise, Mr. J. D. Cam-
eron, president of the Northern Central, and Ex-Governor Oden
Owie, president of the Baltimore and Potomac, and Mr. J. N.
udarry, vice-president of both roads, worked with unflagging
energy in carrying out their great enterprise, A large amount of
the funds for the building of the Baltimore and Potomac tunnel
came from the subscriptions of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and
peraaps it is ultimately due to the Sagacity and enterprise of
resident J. Edgar hompson, of the road, and Col. Thomas A,
Scott, that the Baltimore and Potomac tunnel was built at all,
In July the Maryland Bible Society purchased the lot of ground
on the east side of Charles street, and decided to erect » now
building.’ The building committee consisted of Francis T. King,

Wm. B. Canfield, Isaac D. Jones, Geo, II, Pagels, and Francis A.

Crook,

Captain William Kennedy, one of the most highly respected.
citizens: of Baltimore county, died at his residence on Saturday,
October 4th. And on the 5th of August Mr. Hugh Gelston, a
native of Connecticut, but for very many years settled in Baltimore,
where he acquired a large fortune. Prof Thomas D, Baird, LL. D.,
principal and professor of' Mental and Moral Philosophy in Bualti-
more City College, died, universally lamented, on Th ursday morning,
July 10th, aged 54 years,

On Friday, August lst, Thomas R. Hollohan and Joshua Nichol-
son suffered the extreme penalty of the law by hanging in the juil-
yard of this city, for the murder of Mrs, John Lampley, on the
night of the 2d of January previous, They were indicted by the
Grand Jury of the City Criminal Court, then in session, but upon
being arraigned, removed their cases to Anno Arundel county,
They were tried at Annapolis, at the April term of the Cireuit
Court, and were both found guilty of murder in tho first degree,

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