The New York Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1873, Page 5

gent by the Governor of Hazar-Asp, Said Emir Ool- @omar, an uncle to the Khan, to offer their ‘sub- mission and surrender the fortress, The Governor Aiméself had gone 10 Khiva. Their submission was ‘accepted; but Kaufmann, used to all the tricks and wiles of Central Asian warfare, omitted no precaution, nevertheless, to prevent a surprise. @he morning was bright and warm; the orchards and gardens through which we were passing green and fresh, fragrant with the odor of many Dlossoms, and the march seemed more like a holi- @ay excursion or picnic than the iron tread of grim-visaged war. Some of the houses along the ‘road we found abandoned; but at others the in- habitants were quietly sitting on the ground before their doors, and rose and bowed gravely to us a8 we passed, About ten o’clock we came in sight of ‘the fortress, which, as seen through the trees at a distance, with its high-battlemented walls and buttresses, crooked and irregular, and the water surrounding it, presented a noble appearance, not ‘unlike Windsor Castle. We halted afew minutes, -assome men were seen on the walls, and, in spite -@fthe fortress having already been surrendered, General Kaufmann was not sure that there was not some mischief preparing. The proper dispositions having been taken, the army again moved for- wara, and entered a long, narrow, covered street, with a single line of houses or @hops on each side of it, which, leading over the water, served as @ Kind of ‘eauseway and entrance to the fortress. We filed throngh this crooked, trregular street, not without some apprehensions of an ambuscade, and making two or three short turns, to the right and left found Ourselves in front of the main entrance. A heavy, massive, arched gateway, with flanking towers, the whole built of brick and plastered over with mud, closea with heavy wooden gates, which had been pierced in one or two place with holes, evi- @ently made by cannon balis ia some old siege. ; IN THE PALACE. Kaufmann rode in, toliowed by his stafl and a couple of companies of infantry, made the circuit of the inside of the fortress, which, likewise, en- closed the most of the town; and, winding about through several very narrow, crooked streets, we Stiast dismounted in a small court and, entering by a succession of small, dark corridors and rooms, found oorselves in the principal court of the palace of Hazar-Asp. It was only about #0 by 50 feet, and the southern side was entirely taken up by the great hall of state, which is simply a hign portico, opening into the court of the north, Around this court are disposed the different rooms of the palace, the harem and stables, General Kaufmann received here the chief dignitaries and Moollahs of the place, who came to ask il every- body would be killed or only a part. He tola them ‘that if they quietly submitted, without resistance, ther lives, property and women would be re- spected; that he had not come to conquer Khiva, but only to punish the Khan, They received these communications with every mark of satisfaction, and then withdrew, after which we proceeded to breakfast. Thus Hazar-Asp, a really stronger than Khiva, sutrendered without striking a . Most of the officers, and the Grand Dukes papecially, were dissatisfied that there had been no fighting, but they consoled themselves with the hope that a desperate resistance would be made at Khiva, x resting a couple of hours Kaufmann left a i garrison in Hazar-Asp and marched about lway back to the river and camped in the lens, in order to wait for the rest of the de- ichment to come up before making the fina! at- back upon Khiva. AN ASTAN VILLAGE. Hazar-Asp is a place of about 5,000 inhabitants, peo built and almost entirely enclosed in the is of the fortress, which is of an irregular rectangular shape, to which has been added a id 01 wing or addition, and is nearly surrounded a wide but shallow ditch. It is about 10 miles from the Oxus and 40 from Khiva. Some five or ix cannons and lalconettes mounted on wheels, as well asa large supply of very good powder were abandonea by the ing troops of the Khan, which, of course, fell into Kaufmann’s hands. We Jay encamped between Hazar-Asp and the river three days, during which time the rest of the Getachment was coming up, and General Kauf- abn was engaged in assembling horses and carts ough to replace the camels sent back from the river to Alti-Koodook and Khala-ata. During this ‘time letters came from Vérevkine, stating that he was pusbing rapidly forward ‘and would reach Khiva the 9th or 10th of June. Kaufmann therefore determined to resume his march on the 8th, which be accordingly did. ADVANCING ON KHIVA. On the afternoon of the 9th we rerched a point sbout 10 miles from Khiva and encamped near a “Little lake@ All the way along the road the people had come to meet us in groups of 20 and 30, offer- ing their submission and presenting bread, apricots and sometimes a lamb or sheep or a calf asa offering. Toward evening a cousin of the Knan arrived with @ letter from him, stating that the detachment from Oremburg had that day attacked the town and had been repulsed; that they were now bombarding it, and praying that the bombardment might cease, as he was ready to surrender upon any terms Kaufmann might aictate. OVERTURES FROM THE KHAN. It may be well to state that Kaufmann had re- ceived messages from the Khan three or four times since his ar. ival upon the river, in which the latter continually asked why the Russians were attack- ing. ashe had done nothing to offend them, m fa ant them they ought to go back and leave him in peace. This time, however, he offered to “throw himself on General Kaufmann’s mercy and #uarrender at discretion. Kauimann immediately gent a despatch to General Vérevkine, ordering ‘him to cease the bombardment, and wrote the Khan that if he was in earnest he should come out mext morning with 100 followers and meet him on the and tne terms of surrender would then be made known to him. This letter was sent back ' ‘with the messenger who nad brought the Khan’s Jetter. Much disappointment was expressed gropmnere among our detachment at this news, To have poe lle far, +9 have eieat a os bardshtps e hope of having a fig! and then to De put off in this way, with a surrender, produced a degree of discontent and cap een not to say disgust, only to be understood by a military man or War correspondent. It would be hard to make the Khan fight, how- ever, if he did not want to, and so there was only one hope left. That was, that the surrender was ul @ruse on his part to throw the Russians off their ‘d and take them by surprise—a ruse which had been practised upon them once before and which had succeeded so weil that only one or two escaped to tell the tale. The next morning at ‘we were again in the saddle, on the march, ‘but the wildest rumors were afloat about what had (passed at Khiva during the night. A CANARD, The inhabitants, who came flocking to meet us in great numbers with their peace offerings, in- Pog us hat b onootade oe Longe driven a, by en! inhabitants when they knew of his imoditated surrender, his brother chosen in his jaceé, and they were going to resist a outrance, Was another 4th of September, in short, ar- be aiter the latest French style as well as we could make out, and it was even said that Roche- fort and Oluseret had arrived and declared the jane, tracing the latter part of this story to ite source, however, I found it had origt- pated with the Grand Duke Nicholas, wno re- expressed throughout the detachment at the mekent of a fight was unbounded, but it was soon clouded. Abont three miles from Khiva we were met by a delegation headed by Said Emir Ooi- Oomar, the old uncle of the Khan before mentioned, Governor of Hazar-Asp. He came to surrender the town and informed General Kaufmann that the an, instead of being driven out by the peopie, become frigntened at the continual bombard. ment of Vérevkine and fed with a tew hundred Torcomans to Iliali, leaving instructions for his ‘wives and slaves to follow, and that the latter haa been prevented by the people irom carrying out this order. That the people, so far from wishing to fight to the last, were ready and glad to submit, AN ENVOY FROM THE KHAN. Said Emir Ool-Oomar was about 70 years old, ar feeble and with a perfectly idiotic expres- of face, caused by a hanging lower jaw and be Mouth, said to be the result of opium eating. le was not so imbecile as he looked, however, ani had proved the soundness of his judgment by ad- Vising the Khan for years to accede to the demands Of the Russians and thus prevent an invasion, for ‘Which advice he had been long in disgrace. He was favo roaed u's bright green khalag & 0 a bri reen a tall black sheepskin hat, large boos made of un- blacked leather, pointed and turned up at the toes and with high narrow heels, Kauimann related to me that Said Emir 0ol- Oomar had at one time persuaded the Khan to ke peace with the Russians, but that Jacob another of the Khan's counsellors, had di Buaded him from it by the following argumem *When'I was a boy,’ he sald, “very young, indeed, 1 remember of hearing it said that the Russians —but they did not come, and since u as been a report nearly eve that they were coming. Nowlam an oid man, as old as Your Mi pac and still the Russians believe that they ever ‘will come.” is argument ved con 4 the Khan only discovered%es fallacy when cg were eae tae to at his captta. A ithe Khan, Atta-Jan, who haa ¢ lat two years and who hdd just a Emir ar, jared, Was @ candidate the ea ‘been ae u A) bi boned, rather not-look as tl the Helm of state, He | now about ar and ‘18 save moroluiover tian, Be, iowing hot ana ‘becoming terribie, risin around e day was Baa tie tists marae mes one coul o'clock we were within a mile and @ half of Kiva, and were met by a part of Vérevkine’s detachment in tenue, drawn up to meet us. Tue troops, who had marched #0 far, exchanged hearty cheers as they met each other; hut Vérevkine was not there to receive Kaufmann,‘and we soon learned that he had been wounded in the affair of the day belore. a STORY OF THE ORENBURG DETACHMENT, Kaufmann turned off the road, under some treer, to hear the story of the Orenburg detachment, which was very interesting, and which I will give in my next letter. During this time I wae very much astonished to hear several reports of cannon, which was rather extraordinary considering that the city had already surrendered. I did not re- cetve the explanation of this circumstance for | several days afterward. After a halt of about two hours, during which time negotiations were carried on with old Said Emir Ool-Oomar for the surrender of the city, General Golovachoff moved forward with two companies of infantry, leading the head of the column, followed by four pieces of cannon; after those two more companies and 200 Cossacks, It was now about noon, and in 20 minutes we were within sight of the renowned city. We did not see it until we were within less than hail a mile, own to the masses of trees everywhere that completely hid itfrom our view. At last it broke upon us from the clouds of dust which we had raised, and which prevented us from catching more than occasional glimpses until we were under the ver: walls. Great, heavy mud walls they were, hig! and bafttlemented with heavy round buttresses and a ditch, partly ary. partly filled with water, over which we could see the tops ot trees, @ jew tall minarets, domes of mosques and one immense round tower that reflected the rays of the sun like porcelain. We were before the gate of Hazar-Asp. A heavy arched and covered gateway, 10 feet wide by 20 deep, arched over with brick and flanked by heavy towers with loop-holes—a little fortress in itself, Through this gate, which had been opened fo recelve us, in a cloud of dust so dense and thick that J, at times, could not see my horse’s head, we marched with fying colors, a military band irom the Orenburg detachment playing the national Russian air, ‘“Boaje Tsaria Haranyie.” As we passed through the long arched gateway we left the dust behind us, and emerging from tlis, found the city before ua. VIEW OF THE CITY, I think every one of us experienced a feeling of disappointment, We had not expected much im the way of architectural display or of imposing beauty; nevertheless, we expected something striking and | pera oge and in this we were dis- oppointed, ‘here are points of view in Khiva which are very picturesque, bat we had entered on the wrong side for that, and the great porce- lain tower, almost the only striking object to he seen, was hid from view by intervening walls or trees. Immediately beiore us, along the interior of the walls, were a wide, open space, with a few trees here and there, then a few mud houses and sheds, not more than 10 or 15 feet high, a little to the right agreat number of round semispherical tombs (for there is a cemetery almost in the middle of the city) ; further on more mud houses, taller and more pretentious, with high porches, all opening to the north, with trees here and there amon; them; then the mud walls of the citadel, behin which arose @ minaret or two. Here taere was no soul to grecy us, but a8 we entered 4 long, narrow, winding street, built up of bare, black, hideous mud walls, we began to see smail groups of men in the lateral streets, in their long, dirty, ragged khalats and long beards, with hats off, bowing timidly to us as we passed. These were the tnhabi- tants, and they were not yet sure whether they would all be massacred or not, With what strange awe and dread they must have upon us as We passed, dust covered and dirty, aiter our march of 700 miles over the desert, which they had consid. ered impassable—grim, stern, silent and invincible. ‘We must have appeared to them like some stra 4 owertul beings of unknown race and world, Then we came upon a crowd of Persian slaves, who received us With shouts, cries and tears of joy. They were wild with excitement, for they had heard that wherever the Russians went slavery dis- appeared, and they did not doubt that it would the case here. Some had already liberated themselves, and I saw several engaged in cutting the chains of three or four miserable beings, shout- ing the while and laughing and crying all at once in the wildest and most hysterical manner. It was & strange and curious ‘scene and affected me deeply. I may here relate a little episode con- nected with the liberation of the slaves, that may not be without interest. When I arrived at the wellof Tandjarik, in the Kizil-Koom, I was received and entertained by the Kirgheég chief, Bey-Tobook. I had not been seated in his kibitka more than five minutes when an old woman came to me wringmg her hands and weeping in the most desolate man- ner, Cae al eed torrent of words in Kirgheez, of which I eould only distinguish the one word, “Turcoman,” and evidently begging some favor. When Ak-Mamatef came in from watering the horses, she repeated to him her story, which I haa not been able to understand, from which it appeared that she was a widow, and that her only son had been captured three weeks previously while tendiny sheep in the Bookan Tau mountains by a maraud- ing party of turcomans and carried off to Khiva, to be sold into slavery. She wanted me to tell Kauf- mann to set him at liberty when he should arrive at Kniva. Iassured her that all the slaves would be liberated and, of course, her son among the rest, and that, as he was a Russian subject, the ‘‘Yarim- Padisnah,” the {Half-Emperor,” by which name Kauimann is known all over Central Asia, would be sure to find him; and she went away very much consoled by the assurance, Curiously enough, my oe who had taken care te not forget his name, found the young Kirgheez, heavily loaded with chains for his attempts to run away, and actually Set him at liberty, to his great joy and satisfaction. LIFE FOR LIFE. Two Murders and Their Expia- tion Yesterday. | AN EXECUTION AND A SUICIDE. Piles a ts te ns The End of s Washington Colored Thug on the Gallows and of ao Reckless Georgian Man Slayer by Voluntary Poisoning. Execution of William Young, « Colored Ma. at Washington, D. ©., for the Murder of Frank Hahn. Wasuinaton, Nov. 28, 1873. Witiiam Young was executed in the jail yard here to-day for the murder of Frank Habn on the armory lot in this city on tMe 28th of March last. The murder, in’ all its circumstances cruel anda brutal in the highest degree, is so singularly asso- ciated with another murder and its punishment as to make it especialty notable in the dark annais of crime, Its mMstory is not unworthy the attention of these psychologisis who mark m the human mind the infuences abnormal associations, and trace their eifects in the conduct of men. The connection between this murder and that of the old clockmaker Monroe, ag reported in the HeRALD of March 28 last, Is merely one of time, place and circumstances, and yet in those the connection is 80 evident that the cruel marder of drover Hahn, in Washington, may be viewed as a precedent of the cruel murder of clockmaker Monroe at Alexandria some months previous. A succinct review of the circumstances as detailed in the HERALD of March 28, 1873, will make evident the relatiqn of the one to the other. HENRY YOUNG, THE MURDERER, execnted to-day, lived at Buzzard’s Roast, a dis- reputabie locality in Alexandria, A short distance northward from his house, Maniey, whose execu- tion was recorded in the H#naup, killed, in the hope of getting money, an old stranger, a clock- maker, about eleven o’clock, as he was resting beside aspring, and was executed for we crime in the jail yard, some 200 yards west of Young’s house, the relative situations being about as if the murder of the clockmaker took place at the Broadway and Chambers street angle of the New York City Hall Park, and the hanging at the Vesey Street angle, white Young’s house (Buzzard’s Roast) was at the Chambers and Chatham street angie. While Manley was being executed Young watched the hanging from the roof o! his house, and as soon as it was over came down stairs, and, having eaten his dinner, talked much anout the murderer and his fate, saying, ‘“Man- ley made mighty little by his crime; the fellows who got off were sharp.” Soon after dinner he gathered materials for making a siung- shot. He got a lead bob, which had been used by him to catch “catfish” off the wharves at Alexan- dria, but, being without leather to cover it, he cut the binding of an old boot! eg, and sewed up the lead in it, xing the whole with stout thread to a stick, His mistress, & smart iooking yel- low woman, told him tnat she was going to sit up that night with Manley’s body, which had been brought to tne house of his father-in-law, about a hundred yards from Young’s house, She had scarcely gone before Young, who had borrowed the cap'of @ young negro neighbor, started of, passed the jail when tne gallows still dangled im the air, and tonk the railroad track towards Washington, The sun had not ses when he left his home, and the day was just sinking into twilight when, at ® brickyard on the route, the black Thug, with the newlyfmade braining siungehot in his pocket, met an acquaintance, who asked him how Maniey died, poses stopped on his murderous errand, and narrated all the circumstances of Manley’s execution, Darkness deepened while the two mren talked, and Young resumed hie way (pass- mg @ shop on the road where & pedier was murdered for money half a century ago, and the assassins never discovered) and reached Washing- ton after dark. WATCHING FOR A VICTIM. He prowled about the depot of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad and watched the passengers as they descended from the train that came in soon alter eight o’clock. The night was very dark and fiche promise of rain, which commenced at a later our. The thug with the slung shot caught sight of the drover, Frank Hahn, whose unsteady steps gave token that he had prepared for the dam night by more than one potation. Close at hand, 1 afterwards saw him gayly equipped in a red khalat, with sword and gun, mounted on a horse he had stolen or openly taken from some of the Usbegs. ¢ INSIDE OF KHIVA. We passed through the narrow, dusty, crooked street, with bare, blank wall Sale per and, for the most part, doorless, until we came to the citadei, which we entered by a long, heavy arched brick gateway. Here we had 4 nearer view of the large town, which now came out in brilliant colors of biue, green, purpie and brown. Taking a nar- row street, not more than ten feet wide, leading directly towards this tower, we soon arrived upon & piace about 50 by 75 yards square, which proved to be the grcat place betore the palace of the Khan. One side Of this place was taken up by the palace, a huge, rambling structure, with mud-battlemented walls, about 20 leet high, opposite a new madresa, not yet finished; the other two sides were filled up by sheds and private houses, while at the soutn- eastern angie of the palace rose, beautiful and ma- jestic, the iamous sacred tower of Khiva, which we had remarked from a disvance. It was about 20 Jeet in diameter at the bottom, tapering gradu- ally to the top, a height of about 126 feet, where it appeared to have a diameter of 15 feet. It nas neither pedestal nor capital, nor ornament of any kind—a plain, round tower—but ifs surface is cov- ered with a kind of enamel in terra-cotta, brill- iantly colored with blue, green, purple and brown, on ot go white ground, arranged ina variety of broad stripes and figures, the whole a moss brily- jiant and beautiful effect, The tower is held in great reverence by the Khivans, and from its fp nay be heard every evening at sunset the shrill, piercing voice of &@ mooliah calling the people to Prayer, The tops of the two towers flanking the palace gate were embellished in tue same manner asthe large tower, and parts uf the iacade of its new madresa opposite, not yet finished, were evidently to be embellished in the same manner. Near the middle of this place was a hole about 10 feet square and six feet deep, which, as I after- wards learned, was the place in which criminals were executed. j THE PALACE AND PALACE GROUNDS. We rode into tnis square and formed around itto await the arrival of General Kaufmann... He soon rode in, followed by the two Grand Dukes, and the staf, and wasigreeted with cheers, Everybody then alighted and entere@ the gateway of the palace, which was partly obstructed by a heavy brass can- non, rudely cast and about a 24-pounder, I should think. Having passed this we came into a lon, narrow, irregular court, branching off to the Je! and leading to the stables, with a passage to the rignt leading to the harem, right in front of the main entrance, a mass of low, irregular mud struc- tures, which have more the alr of cow stables than anything else. Into these we enter by a dark, nar- row corridor, led by old J: Bai, first into a dark room, about 8 feet by 16, then into another room, about the same size, lighted by a hole in the roof; then into another dark corridor, from which we emerge into the grand court of the palace. It is about 40 feet square, paved with brick, with a small elm tree growing in one corner, shut in by walls 20 feet high, over which, on the northern side, rose the gop mud tower of the narem,* On the southern side was the grand Hall of State. Imagine a kind of porch entirely open to the court, 20 feet Bia 3 wide, 10 feet deep, and flanked on either side by towers ornamented with terra-cotta in the same Way as the large tower on tne palace, with @ floor raised mx feet above the pave- Ment of the court, the roof supported by two carved, siender wooden illars, the whole resembling much the stage of a theatre and you will have ® very good idea of the grand Hall Gf State, wherein the of Khiva sits cross- legged and dispenses justice, We all mounted the steps leading up to this kind of atage, Kaufmann, Golovachof, the Grand Dukes Nich and Leuch- tenberg, omicers and all, and threw ourselves down to rest,. while the band struck up~-what do ye think—an air from “La Belle Aéléne,” fol- owed by Seowsr from “Bluebeard.” familiar music e upon Our ears, and the wh absurd farce of Offenbach appeared to our mind's eyes, we of the younger part of the company set up & shout of delight that made the old palace ae We had never to hear “La Belle Héléne” in Khiva, at least not that one, and our at was immeasurable, Even juimann laughed heartily when the band broke out into the well known air, commencing :— Ma premiere femme est mi Ferree distle mompore 81 j'ai jamais su comment, and I marvelled much at the wondrous power of Omenbach, who even here, in this strange, wild ‘abit dacogh iat rough usin some toe wat 1 thing we had never hoped for in Kniva, ith Kot Wheaten cak and with yet never seeming to watch, the thug followed on the track of his victim. He was little known in Washington, but already a Nemesis waited upon his murderous intent. One man did know him and recognize him, whose eyes of all others in the world he would have preferred should not have seen him. John Howell, a young mulatto, whom Young had supplanted in the affections of the woman then Young’s mistress, had a short time before gotten a piace as waiter at the American Hotel, on Seventh street, between Pennsylvania avenue and the scene of the murder. He had within two weeks visited Alexandria and been to see nis former mistress, and been ordered awa: by You! He saw Young in Seventh street ani marked him as he spoke tothe drunken driver in front of the American House. Young did not see the pair of eyes that looked upon that meeting, and lastened to him the impalpable yet tenacious thread which would guide to him the hand of justice, ana which, gathering other strands and lines of evidence,’ would twist itsel! into the thread of bis life and make 4 NOOSE AT THE “END, Other persons saw Hahn drink at the bar of the American House; observed a colored man watch him from without, and finally saw bim go down Seventh street about ten o’clock, piloted by a col- ored man, who was overheard to say to him, “this is the way.” Hahn, who was a drover from the Valiey of Virginia, had that aiternoon sold his sheep in Baltimore and was returning to Virginia, The next train after «the hour at which he arrived in Washington did not leave for Alexandria until about eleven o’clock, Hahn bad with him a small amount of cash, @ check for $131 17, some railroad tickets and @ pass upon the Orange and Alexandria Ratlroad, and was whiling the hour away in the neighbor- hood of the depos, corner of Sixth and B streets, when he was ensnared into the toils of the thug, who had walked eight miles to get a chance to waylay somebody. “THIS 18 THE WAY’? And the thug with his slung shot and his hailf- maudlin victim passed into the darkness of the Mall, The direct route to the depot would have been down B street, but the two men crossed B street and took their way into the Armory grounds, @ public reservation stretching from street north to B street south, between Sixth and Seventh streets, immediately east of the Smithsonian grounds. There are about eight acres in this reservation. The armory stands at the southeast corner, and the Baltimore and Poto- mac depot at the northeast corner. Back of the depot, or about midway between Sixth ana Seventh streets, a hedge intervenes, from Which rises a few stunted trees, Some army hospitals had lately been removed from the grounds, and pg Bak yetin a rough condition. To the edge or hedge Young led Hahn THE THUG ALONE WITH HIS PREY. The Allseeti eye alone saw the struggie—the cruel blows that broke the siungshot irom its handle, or watched Young rife the pockets of the aying man; but the ground around was torn up bi evidences of @ struggle, and when Young skulked a’ his slungshot lay broken on the ground, amid some bloody stones that iad been used to complete the nghter Habn lay, terribly beaten, his head crushed and his brain oning out, Eight miles to commit murder, and then eight miles away to enjoy its iruits. At twelve o'clock the keeper of the savern at Jackson City, on the Virginia side of the Long Bridge, a sharp irishman, was waked up to give @ dram to a colored man, The man came within the barroom. The light was turned up brilliantly, and after taking the drink the colored man showed the be gt heck on Balti- more for $131 17, and asked if that was good, and what time the bank opened in Alexandria. On the trial the tavern keeper recognized Young as that man. Young, fortified by that drink, proceeded on to Alexandria and slept safe at his own home until seven o'clock the next beng hd But, as he had travelled hurriedly along through jhe mud, {HE MOANS OF HIS vcr Bad, an Che ne Gem watt faa the hum of the grew a1 nm heard by some passers by. Oitlests had been sent for, and the dying Hahn, lifted into @ carriage, had breathed his last on the way to ti ee on. ‘ery soon the mulsto waiter at the American House had in- formed the police of the meeting of Young and the dronken white man, Very soon, the showing of tho check at Jackson City came to be repeated ; that night the house of Young at Alexandria Pe peal d the police. Young was hurried ir) Chea ‘ouse, and the boot from which tie a Ay of thread eittatter sow: mn of the detectivi aes clowning ‘bearing Baltimore been offered favional Bank, at ‘Alexandria, man, > who wen asked ron M of } coula ‘4 held — & pass getamned. ‘The check was found. All these were proved on the trial, which took place the th of vember, ‘before Mr. Justice lcArthur, holding the Crimsnal Court of the Dis- trict 0! Columbia, and the jury found # verdict of “GUILTY, AB INDI OF MURDER.” Re was rentenved to be hanged on the 14th of No- vember, bat was respited until » the 21h, when the sentence of the law was carried into effect. YOUNG'S LAST HOURS ON EARTH. Yesterday afternoon Rev. Messrs. Draper and Ryder calied and spent some time im prayer with him, Jn the early part of the night he slept but hittie, but trom three to five o’clock this mornin, he was in @ sound slumber, This morning abou’ half-past seven o’elock his irons were removed and he was given o bath and he put on his iat suit, con- misting of black pants, vest and coat, and a clean ruMed white shirt, furnished by his friend from Alexanaria. He then partook of breaklasi, eating heartily of iried eggs, with bread, meat and coffee, About eight o'clock Rev. Dr. Draper and Kev. Perry Rider, with a friend, called and engaged with Youug in devotional exercises. At fifteen minutes to eleven o'clock, after the prisoner had taken the sacrament, (General Crocker informed him that he had received a tele- | gram from Alexandria, stating that his friends would take charge of the body, and that the pri+- = Wishes in that respect would be complied with, At twenty minutes past eleven religious exer- eises were again held, About eleven o'clock the crowd were admitted to the yard. Among those resent was the father of the victim, Mr. H. li, jahn, At a few minutes past twelve oelock General Crocker, with four of the guards, repaired to the room im which the Prisoner Was with the ministers, and also General jussey, of his counsel. The prisoner was stand- | ing im front of the stove, with his hands behind him, and General Crocker addressed him as fol lows:—“William, the laws Of the country, enacted for the protection of society, and particularly of the District of Cotumbia, devolve upon me the sad dnty of carrying out the sentence of the Court passed in your case, a8 set forth in the papers which I will now read.” General Crocker then read the sentence and the respite, the prisoner Jooking directly at him and paying the strictest attention, General Crocker, on concluding the reading, asked:— . “Are you prepared to go to the place of execn- tion 2”? The prisoner, in alow voice, sir.” General Crocker sa . “J nope you are prepared for a better life, and when you leave us to-day you will pass from ali your troubies and go to @ place of blessedness.”” The guards then, at a signal from Genera} | Crocker, proceeded to pinton his arme, and as they | did #0 he commenced to putton up bis coat. 20 THE GALLOWS. They then proceeded to the seaffold, General Crocker leading, and being followed by the pris- oner between two guards, the ministers and two other guards, Young walked up the steps rather rapidly, close behind General crocker, and iomediately took his position on the trap. Rev. Mr. Draper lined ont a lew verses of the hymn: “Father, I stretch my hands to fvee,” which Young sung with a clear voice; and, at the conclusion, Mr. Draper led in prayer, in which he invoked the blessing of God upon this object, a man convicted toe die on the scaffold, to give him strength, to fe his sins, to biot ont of the book of remembrance all bis tranegressione—**We thank ‘lee that he feels will- ing to Wie, and that when thejtrap falls his soul wili take wings t¢ the heavenly kingdom.”* THE MURDERER'S SERMON. Young was then told if he had anytaing to say ne Each say it, and i a clear voice he spoke as fol- ows? answered, “Yes, ws — “My DEAR Frrenps—All in the hearing of my vouce, you've got to die, and better prepare; lor now is the time when the Saviour 1s ready to re- ceive you. Ifeel that he is standing to-day with outstretched hands to receive me. Prepare to meet me in heaven. I hope to see you all in heaven. Iam going to glory. In that lonesome dungeon I have fought the fight of faith, Don’t put off. 1 did not go in the right way, and some of you may go from here and fall in the same snare that Ifeli in. Ihope to meet you ail in heaven. Good bye all. I hope to meet all in heaven.” Here he paused for @ time, “My only hope isin Him, Jesus. Tam leaning on Him. I thank God T have fought the fight of faith and won the victory over death.” HE DENIES HIS GUILT TO THE Last. A Voror—‘‘Are you guilty or not guilty ?” ‘The prisoner was sient for a moment, but when e question was repeated Mr. Draper said:— hey ask if you are guilty?” Andina ioud voice he sald, “No.” THE FALL OF THR CURTAIN. The rope was then adjusted, the black cap drawn over his face, and at the signal, the waving of a handkerchief, the trap was sprung by means of a rope passing underground into the prison, and his body tet with a heavy sound at twenty-four minutes after twelve o’clock. The legs were drawn up several times, and the feet quivered as if Young had achill. He hung quiet lor a few moments, when there were a few more shrugs of the shoulders. In 16 minutes he was lowered and an examination made by the eur- geons, who found that bis heart had ceased to beat; ani eight minutes later he was Jowered into ry were summoned and a ‘ne verdict was that by y morphine, administered by bis own Malone stated to Dr. that he took the first dose, some eight or nine grains, and that he had saved it up irom medicine lett for him. He con- cealed it some time in bis cravat and at @ther times in other parts of his ciothing. To the he stated that at the second dose he took five grains, The galiows had been put up and all ar- rangements made for the execution. He died just two houre beiore the time appointed for his éxe- eution. A jarge crowd, mostly negroes, agsembied in front of the jail and refused to believe the state- ment that Malone war dead. His body was turned over to his friends after the hoiding of the inquest. HARLEM BOILER EXPLOSION. Coroner Kessler’s Charge—Verdict of the Jury— The Contractors and Engineer Found Guilty of Criminal Negligence—Important Rec- ommendations to the Legislature for Tmmediate Legislation as to the Use of Boilers—The Recommenda- tions To Be Transmit- ted to the Governor. Coroner Kessler, the jury and the parties inter- ested in the inguiry a8 to the cause of the boiler explosion at Harlem reassembled yesterday at the Coroners’ Ofiice, in Houston street. The case was given to the jury at one o’clock, and at nine o'clock they brought in the verdict given below, which finds the contractors and the engineer guilty of criminal negligence. It also contains some very important recommendations. THE PROCEEDINGS. After the reading of the medical testimony by Deputy Coroner Leo, Coroner Kessier delivered the Souowing important charge :— CORONER KESSLER’S CHARGE, Coroner Kessler, after reviewing the evidence adduced during the inquess, addressed the jury as follows :— TLEMEN OF THE ory—It is’ scarcely posible to atl4 highly inteltigest men could have sat ré than a week and attentively lstened to ¢ without having gained the information that them to pass a proper and just verdict, and any re- Seven and health were in- boiler explosi ‘agine were for the evid is to enab! I might theretore have abstained from’ making marks were it not your wis! at I should do 80. buman beings in the prime of lit stantancously killed by @ sieam and im the presence of their eart! recorded your sacred oaths inquisition into the se seen the fatal boiler whose ternble forces caused death and destrueiion; but it was the object of this investiga- tion to ascertain how as inder what cireums explosion took pla phy sical cans: ‘as it an uni a8 will and does occur sometimes, despite all proper p cautions? Or was it owing to a faulty construction of the boiler, to improper Management and criminal carelessness? Had the laws and ordiu es bearing upon steam boilers been duly complied with? the boiler been under responsible control and careful atiend- ance? if so, your present attitude would, indeed, be a difficult and perplexing one, and with reasonable doubts resting upon your minds as to the existence of any © pablaty you would be justified im giving ‘the benefit of at doubt to he parties concerned. 1 should certainly felt happy so tw charge yon, Would the attending circumstances warrant it. “The fatal explosion wich, as I have said, was either due to mysterious powers beyond our’ comprehen- sion Or t palpable causes—there is no middle ground. What does the evidence that is, to uner- ringly ‘gaide you reveal? I am sorry to say, a continuous = réck evasion of the’ law and a total absence of criminal disregard of the plainest measures and precautions calculated to avert this calawity, From the highest to the lowest, trom the principals down w the pettiest subordinates, throughout alithe various classes of employers and employes con- cerned in this awful catastrophe, the same lack ot re- sponsibility, the same unscrupulous carelessness. Is the low, created for the safety and protection of society, to be violated with impunity? Is it to remain a dead letter in the face of such wholesale murders, or does it behoove a civilized and moral community to enforce it without fear or favor? The steam bolier, as harmiess as a toy in the hands of a child, if tested to a certain capacity and under the charge of a competent and conscientiot engineer, became in this instance messenger of de- struction and death—a veritable inferna! machine, as an expert graphically put at; and the presumption is that boilers will continue to earn-a sad notoriety unless checked in their sad career by the majesty’ of the ‘The characteristic of this ¢ one chiefly rass you ip your honest the truth and the whole truth, is the end various parties concerned to shift the responsibilit, Irom off their shoulders and place it upon others. Ye although the responsibility and guilt may not rest exclu: sively with one party ; although they may appear divided, noone who has openly disregarded the law and Jeop- arded human life, has’ j ya ‘ht to claim immunity, because several causes ma: ave contributed in calamity and fearful loss of faulty construction and defec- the boiler itself, or a scarcity of water, overpressure of steam and other dangerous jd make a true You have all the coffin, when it was found that his neck had been broken by the fall The lid was then fastened down and the corpse was carried to Alexandria, where & wake was held over it at Buzzard’s Roost to-night. AN ACCUSATION. i It is said that Young, shortly before his death, made a statement implicating two cousins, Dave and Josh Haney, colored, in the murder; declar- ing that he was present but that they atruck the fatal blow. These men, Josh Haney and Dave Haney, have been for some time under the surveil- lance of the police of Alexandria. On Wednesda} they were arrested on suspicion of complicity wit! the murder of Habn and are now in jail. The Gallows Cheated—Suicide of Milton Malone Two Hours Before the Time Fixed for His Execution. ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 28, 1873. Milton Malone, on the night of the 9th of August, 1872, without provocation, in this city, shot and instantly killed Franklin Pierce Phillips, a youth of 18 years. He was arrested and lodged in jail At the October term of the Fulton Superior Court he went to trial, but while the trial was progressing one of the jurors died, At the April term this year he again went to trial, and was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The case was carried up to the Supreme Court at its July term, and that tribunal affirmed the judg- ment of the court below; and he was again sen- tenced to be hanged to-day. His counsel applied to the Supreme Court for a writ of error to take the case up to the Supreme Court of the United States, put this was refusea. Their applications to circuit judges of the United States courts were also refused, and they were likewise refased by 1 bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. Upon Judge Hopkins refusing te certify to the proceedings they were carried up to the Supreme Court on application br a writ of mandamus to compel nim, but this was refused by the courts, They next applied to Gov- ernor Smith to commute his sentence, the applica- tion being endorsed by petitions numerously signed, but the Governor declined. Yesterday the prisoner’s counsel sent up a petition for a respite, fortified by an affidavit of a person stating that he saw the kiliing and that Malone shot Phillips in self-defence. The Governor refused to grant a respite, An application to obtain a writ of lunacy likewise failed, THE MURDERER’S LEGACY. About nine o’clock last night Malone sent for the jailer, John 8, Wise, and made his will, ver- bally. He gave his terrier dog, the companion of his cell for over 15 months, to Sister Regis, one of the Sisters of Mercy. The day previously he had been searched py the Jailer to see if he had anything concealed on his person to commit suicide, but nothing was found, About eleven o'clock last night Mr. Wise took the adverse answer of the Governor in to him. Malone was walking about, smoki his pipe. He heid Ws paper awhile, then ea it aside, remark- iB i “Trg TOO LATE. These ines are nothing tome now. I wish you had come 10 minutes before and you would have Leth ay me taking my dose. You searched well; shite, in the pleat or ining: nexe torte Skins Bo leat or lining next to the skin, He then handed a note to Wise, which read :— How bady fooled so many will be to-day, the 28h. Judge He and ah his Bloodihyraty clas will be fooled. This little paper Lhave worn around my neck for weeks, and it will not let the rope take its place. John, you looked as well as you knew how; but I told you I was not fool enough to be caught. MILT, He stated that he had intended to leave the paper for him, but gave it to him now, as he had the dose in him, and the doctors could’nt get it out. The words were evidently written upon the paper which had contained morphine, ‘ne jailor at once sent for Dr. Joseph P. Logan, who arrived at about half-past eleven, and Dr. Willis F, Westmoreland about twelve o'clock. Efforts were made to administer antidotes, which he resisted violently, oe ing & glass from the hands of one it the guards, and declaring that, though he was not strong enough, he would make them feel it ‘if 1 et my tee! gi you.” Upon consultation the loctors decided that from the lapse of time since he had taken poison and his strength, that danger was past and he would recover, they left, REPRATING THE POISON POTION. About .three o’clock ho called for Wise, and, zits fait aa ee ae wi pe lapel ia he was heat Utter were ad- dressed to his terrier dog, “ F ion want to. ‘Jump up into the bed n after he was found ina stupor, and Dr, Logan was seut for. Antidoves were ireely pati bie ass ee et ae Tesults ofa careless and ignorant management, were the chief and paramount cause of the explosion is erial, as long as it is proven that all these conditions existed. Out of this meshwork of conflicting testimony You must draw forth and liberate the trath. The most searching scrutiny in a case like this tails sometimes to establish with unerring certainty the most direct cause and culpability. Should, therefore, the doubt as where the greatest amount of responsibility a guilt rests lead to @ verdict of accidental death, with no one to blame? But, unfortunately for the p: ties concerued and fortunately ror the interests of the people, you are not in such a dilemma, tor the testimony of nearly allobservers and experts is unanimous and conclusive in the point that overpressure of steam—the common product ot @ defective condition of the boiler a of bad management—was the main cause fatal expiosion, and the ovositive cob M. Long and Henry R Lane, that a few minutes betore the explosion the: had seen the furnace floor of the boiler closed, and other conditions favorable to a sudden generation of steam, bear out this theory. The evasion of the law bearing upon steam boilers by parties owning or rather using them, is a misdemeanor: yet when it resi in death it becomes a crime. The words ot the statute are plain:—“Every other killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of anoth where such killing is not justifiable or excusable, or is Not by statute declared murder or manslaughter in some other degree, is manslaughter in the tourth degree.’ iret, when there ig topes, t or wounding of human being it is the duty of the Coroner's jury sum- Mmoned to investigete the case to determine wlietlier the death be murder, manslaughter or justifiable or ex- cusaple homicide or suicide, aud who are the principais nd who are the accessories in the death or wound)n; on the investigation the Coroner's jury is not limited in their ingotsy ine a jury upon tl ia) ne charged with crime. ir du y is to determine ifa crime has or as not been committed, and who caused the same to be perpetrated and all the circumstances nding it; and any proper testi- mony tending in any degree to throw light upon the subject may be properly given, Still nothing but legal testimony should_ ve taken, and mere matter of opinion as to who the offender is. should not be permit nor should hearsay evidence be indulged in. Whe: man or set of men use a steam boiler t! is either defective in material or construction, and not tested by competent hai an explosion takes place with loss, of lite to | others, who perpetrated or in consequence, that man or set men are, accofdance with the strict letter of the law of our State, guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree. There is no other and no milder interpretation. The statute speaks tor it- self. It is your saw, it is my law, it ts the law of all the people of the State ot New York. What do we see in tht case? John Balmoi jenths ago first hired and then purchased a low-p1 T that was made some- Where in 1866 by & company now defunct and sold in 1868, together, with other bofiers, machinery, &c., to A. 8 Cameron. The boiler had been stowed away for yeai under a. shed part of the time exposed to all In- clemencies of the weather during winter and summer, in the open street and in such a condition, an- tested and deficientiy outfitted, placed by Balmore tipon the Fourth avenue to aid in‘a public improvement, Beemer & Coyne, subcontractors on the Fourth avenue improvement, hired this boiler from Balmore and put itunder the ‘charge of a man whose qualifications they failed to ascertain and who was not licensed to run it, with instructions to him to attend e same time to another boller about two blocks distant, Barnum, the engineer—by the bye, incompetent for his highly respon. sible charge, by the reason of his being addicted to the thao of liquor and frequently tn a state of intoxication— unable to attend to both boilers at the same time, lett the one that finaily exploded under the care of a carpenter engaged to do hoisting work, and his son, a playful and inexperienced boy of 18 years, and these two per- sons had, according to ‘the uniform testimony of eye-witnesses and citizens living in the neigtbor- hood, for some time almost exclusive control of the boiler and its management, Barnum himselt being rarely, if ever, seen there. Wout! men of the jury, consider it sat e steam boilers upon Your premises or in your factories without a responsible charge! And have fot the people living on the Fourth avenue a right to demand protection from the death dealing boilers that are lett there, apparently. to take care of themselves and to explode ‘whenever they feel so inclined? A boiler, charged with the most pow- d destructive of chemical age with quires for its mangement peculiar skill, you, ge! and proper to 18 ‘THR VERDICT. ' sey Mr. Peter Jackson, the {gseman of the jury, read the following verdict :— coe That Louisa V. Basstord and six death by the explosion of an upi Fourth avenue, between ! ith day, ot ovember, 1873, and wg Gnd or i atice'warits devesivecsustaction Sees 5 hat Messrs, Beemer & Coyne, 6 tons, John Bernum,, oneineer of said boiler, were ii criminal le Thi hat John Balmore be censured for boiler to Messrs. Beemer & Coyne without ha’ erly tested in accordance with the require! law. a ‘ourth.—We also censure A. 8, Cameron & Co, for selli ny be ¢ such a ctive beiler. Pryth.—That the Harlem Railroad Com) for their want of care in the protection of 3 Management and construction of the Fourth avenue provement under the charge of their é Fe a Ly ‘4s it now stands, In regard to testing a of steam boilers, and would recommend that th le Hoe ang testing of all boilers should be made in at we entirely disapprove of and fiat the ¢ mal Ts thereof as well as those of boliers should be P safety, by a competen store being offercd tor sale. of examine ‘and. that ; Jaw be so ai to the system adopted by the United Stat authoritics in the examination ot marine boilers, at in our opinion the laws for the examination of en. singers are altogether inadequate, abit ‘We also recommend that a more “careful and rigid exe amination of engineers be made, is That the Coroner be requested to transmit this yerdict, with our recommendat to the Goveruor aad Legisia- ture of this State and Mayor of this city. 3 THE MINORITY VERDICT. The following was stated to be the virdict of the four jurymen whose names are appende: ‘That Louis A. Bassford and six others came to their death by the explosion ot an upright boiler, situated on the Fourth avenue, between 128th and 129th streets, on ‘the 11th day of November, 1873; and we find that the pri- mary cause of the explosion of said boiler was its de- Jective construction, ‘That Messrs. Beemer & Coyne, contractors, and John Barnum, engineer of said boiler, were guilty of carcless- . d neglect in the use and manage! ler. ness and negle Lie RELY, JOHN 8. 200m GEORGE W, Ro * HENRY G: YER, VOTE OF THANKS TO THE CORONER, | — Resolved, That the thanks of the jury be tendered to Coroner Kessler for the efficient managewentof the in- quest, and we heartily ize with him in the per- formance of his arduous duu Hie (Sigued by the jury.) wih ip Coroner Kessler made an appropriate response, in which he expressed his gratitude for the recog- nition of that which was only his duty, and aiso said that the work of the jury would, he feit certain, bear fruit in very important legislation. ‘ On Monday, at 12 o’clock, the Coroner will make a disposition of the parties charged with criminal negligence, ali of whom are now under heavy bail. THE BROOME SIREET MURDER. Coroncr Young Makes an Investiga- tion—Verdict Against Steffani, and Po- lice Officer Watson Complimented. Coroner Young yesterday held an iqnest at the Eignth precinct station house in the case of Michael Harrold, late a saloon keeper at No, 496 Broome street, who was fatally stabbed in his own place last Sunday evening with a clasp knife in the hands: of Peter Steffani, otherwise known a3 Rode, aided and assisted by Sergentt Paoli, as previously re- 2) ¥ ported in the HERALD, The most material portions. of the evidence will be found below. Christine Harold, widow of deceased, deposed that she lives at No. 496 Broome street; deceased) — was her husband; last Sunday night a man calledi Rode and another man came inand asked for two: glasses of wine, and were told that they must not quarrel, as they did on the Friday previous; Rode quarrelied with Peter Gobert, into whose face he’ threw a glass of beer; Sunday night Rode had @ difficulty with Gobert, and deceased put them out; Know well that one of them stabbed deceased, but the witness did not know which of them did it; the witness ran out foran officer, and when she returned she Jound her hus- band lying on the floor and bis clothes bloody; saw Rode standing over her husband and his hands moving; Peter Steffant, alias Rode, and Sergenti Paoli had been in the habit of coming into the sa- loon, and they were both there on Sunday night, , Peter Gobert, of No. 496 broome street, deposed that he knew deceased; on Friday evening pre- vious to the stabbing he was standing at the bar drinking, when Steiuni, alias Rode, used some pad words when the witness was going ‘to throw a giass at him, but did not; the witness wasin the saloon on Sunday evening when the prisoners came in an ranted some beer, but there being none they had some Rhine wine; Stefani then used some bad words, an Rode wanted to fight, and Mr.) id pusned Rode away; Harrold then went to the door to call an officer, when both the prisoners cat hold of Mr. Harrojd and rey on the Noor; the witness saw Stefani striking down with nd, but saw no knife im the han of either of the men; the witness Rode irom Mr. Harrold, and Harrold ran out into the street; then there was blood on the fioor; in two minutes the prisoners left and the police soon came; the prisoners held deceased last on the floor after they got bim down; prisoners had been drinking, but were not drunk; when Harrold struck Steffini, in putting him out, he did not knock him down; voth the ‘prisoners: Struck deceased before he was thrown on the floor, * Officer Charles Watson, of the hth precine! deposed that, hearing a cry of vpallse ny fe ran io: tue saloon, and saw there a man bleeding to deat and from intormation received ran to No. South Fith avenue,. and in a room on the thiid floor tound Rode, and asked bim for the knife he had cut the man with, and he said he had no knife; there were severat Italians there; pushed Rode out of the room, and both of them tum- bled down stairs; the witness held fast to the prisoner ; searched him in a saloon down stairs and jound the spring knife opendn hi there was blobd on the blade of the eee A 4 was also blood on Rode’s hands; con(ronted Coy. with Mr. Harrold, but the latter was dying could not identify him; subsequently arrest Paoli at No. 223 south Filth avenue and found blood on his snirt; neither of the prisoners was drunk; both the prisoners were en to the. station house. Dr. E. I. T. Marsh, who made @ post-mortem ex~ amination, testified that he found Bre stab we on the body, tne steel having penetrated the lt a liver, death ensuing from internal hei rhage. The case was then given to the jury, and Young in his remarks took occasion to comp! Ofticer Watson for the efficiency and daring he: played in arresting the alleged murderer surrounded Ka his friends, single handed alone, and at the great risk of his life, i The following is the verdict rendered by the jury :— ¥ That Michael Harrold came to his death from stab wounds at the hands uf Peter ‘wise known as Rodo, and that he was wilful abetted by Sargenti Paoli; and the occasion to say that they commen Charles Watson as one worthy of notice by sioners of Police and the community at large. Counsellor Brooke, who appeared for the oners, moved for their release on motion was not entertained by the Co committed them to the Tombs to await of the Grand Jury. Stefani is 22 and a native of Switzerland, Pao, of age, and also born in Swit through their counsel had not! to say, concerning the charge against A THE MURDER MEOHELLA, The Court of Pardons Will Not Rendes Their Decision Till Next Monday. The statement in several of yesterday afters ste: judg. ment and experience; and yet, in this instance we see ft under the charge of a boy Who lacked the cradest con- ception of the object he handted, and with whom an engine of greater power and capacity would have likely proved only @ more terrible weapon of death and de- struction, As the legall: ed test would most Brobably have, led to overy of any existing detects in the boiler, so would the employment of an intelligent, careful and conscientious engineer have been able to avert the calamity, and seven sorrow- stricken families would not now mourn the loss of de: ones. Non-compliance with the law, the first act of th fearful tragedy, enacted two wee! 0, Was followed by criminal negligence in the mi ae it of the bol and both must be held as equally responsible tor thi oan eM ti aa whose lives a sacrificed, it seems, in order t be spared a similar fate in the future, ir. sae ane Rot exease. his fereuction upon the out @ botler was sound and pertec was his duty to know it beyond eradvent and this, sure and positive knowledge was Pe atned only by a ob legally Prescrived test, whic! fie fitiled to have instituted. Nor can the men who hired and used the boiler claim immunity upon the plea that they were ignorant of the requirements of the law and of the character and mani nt of steam boilers; this id have been the more reason to make them Baitevod pay ey TS. chlthce A eens 16 vide nm Will Ieresistibly force. fteelf® upon your. mins tn he whole career of fatal it left its obscure to th my Was 8 system out hy” redeemin, ,, this is not the ition of any personal feelin; athies or a Lod thes toward any ‘of ene Hartiee implicated ineth if you ever all yourselves to be ‘sa; ssion lice, to indulge in any Vor preconceived notions Comp STS oe en eee Tow and to pronounce & Yerdict tor and in behalf of the, peopl ane ee ince of the sworn ¢ 6 pocple Sapecy our whole duty without fear ate annate m aa trast ines i eat rane barney fide sar will begvall in yo y and moar. ‘nd anget ‘he |. noon’s papers that the Court of Pardons of New Jersey had refused to commute the sentence of Mecnella to imprisonment for life is pure specula. tion. A HERALD reporter had an Interview with two members of the Court and learned irom them that no ment will be made in the case next Monday. There is no authority for the statement that Sheriff Reiniardt had received in- structions from Trenton or that the execution will take place at Snake Hill, The Sheri will Make no preparations till Tuesday and in the meantime the decision of Cesc se eta se ate hs aus iy ins w fo desire whatever jor spiritual consolation, He positively re/uses to be interviewed by the ers of the local papers, An application ig made to the pastor of the Greek church York to render spiritual aid in case the be not commute: ALLEGED HOMICIDE, © Coroner Young yesterday was called to 228 Riv« ington street to investigate the circumstances attending the death of Ann Smith, an Irish wo- man, 68 years of age, concerning which there ex-