The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1877, Page 4

i 4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. could swear that it was the 34 of he ae us? ere are serawethas ereenllee hee ou THE ScHoor, FOR SCANDAL, ‘ 7 ‘And yet when asked on the witn \d what day ‘1 \ or the month itwas ten he could not toll. This is ra lad pri tedied ed Mee am etal mend HILO 4 |! soils, Ss. bid be ately og yom bled in Wilsey and the adjoining streets and | MR, DOUGLAS WALKER YAILS TO APPEAR AT room. and while there Koch gave him lessuns, and there patiently awaited events, The crowd | jusvicey WALSH'S COURT, IN ANSWER 10 was mostly composed of yery old men and hearing it said and told to him so often what to say ' es i 5 ¥ he finally coucluded that it must be the truth, tetera very young voys, and the latter occasionally | MR, CLARKR'S COMPLAINT—A SHORT SKETCH ad he got up a fight among themselves in order : * swore to it. Another witness who also swears he . m * ts . . ‘a us n OF THE CAUSE OF QUABREL, J y m 5 is enee, the imile of a letter | to relieve the menotcny of the scene, Ono of these The Closing Acts in the | saw us st Roe’s saloon oun Winnie; but bis | ‘Te the public at large, as well as to students of criminal jurisprude ¥ fos ter | soyeliey nthe, moaoiany, 1 ETS oll amis ee aly it story does not correspond to the others, tor he wi received yesterday morning at the Huratp office, which is printed below, will be of the greatest in- | ery of “Cop, cop!’? was able to it. Young girls bad y Brock Tragedy. not locked up with them, and theretore bis statement tenit BPR oss 7 ate terday morning at his court, in sho Brooklyn City a6 Rg th dn and Brown. nee as for | terest. It is well known that the relatives of condemned criminals often adopt similar means to Jou¢ laugh which speaks the vacant | Hall, as it had been announced that Mr. Douglas euben Roe, who swore that we were in lis saloon on eich ian . i 4 4 é g wi whien the law or its over-sure officials give | mind, while two or three lads practised amateur bang- o ht to y the morning of August Si, we also do not know | stay the hands of justice, in ignorance of the little weight whicr or tt sire | Tie ence or twine Mts ihe tee eee ees | Ce creme Mes Phoman’F,_Curke what to make of bim or what to such anonymousetiorts. Butthe case of Oschwald and Ryan is now decided, so far as their lives are | ynti the Sherif red and passing through the | Wow! iscussed and judgment pronounced thereon, the assault took place it was understood HOW OSCHW ALD AND RYAN DIED EM B. yh! Mh dlls crowd entered the Jail. The procession—for procession | The day aft concerned, and this soi-disant confession by the wife of the real murderer claims attention. Ryan Is were ‘ais pine stor wromet thereon the porbing oF bhi sep p, and Oschwald w der the gallows, solemnly denied the crime, which, more- begins i a wri ely ger Prings ti that no action would be taken in the courts in order to August 1, and noton August 3. Wedo not say that | 80 [8 Basp, mi Bi ies y a Ce em, We, peuon, And It inane ned Mnnier | avoid scandal and the too free mention of atf innocent they have perjured themselves, but we do say they are | over, no witness at the trial saw committed. ‘The evidencé was strong but purely | with Sheriff Hurrison and Doputy Sheriff Davis | lady’sname, On Wednesday afternooa Mr. Clarke ap- Gallows tly mistaken, of elso they have some good reason a i . The Former Strangled bis the “e } fir ewesring seat Soe hae as Roe now are he knows | circumstantial. In all the facts developed there was still room left for some one else to step with oie Lica np ceniate bf eebrine fs pelt peared before Justice Walsh and laid a complaint . R . more about this affair than he ts willing to divulge, | 4, h i" a tl ose of Officer Brock. There is such a thing as remorse; | rying long poles, ot uulike those with which the against Dougias Walker for assault, upon which the tho Lattor Kaxplnes in His Coll. | scan Vectenessetin cutnetracs Sit Wit | cctctuamstsacumon volmmaaigh WHD thee two thcrrs of deals x work t the behets of oh | Stee Nites Peace, sate ua | ce mes 6 Yao i canta eee de 3 common to a pse 5 pet ps God to explaiu If tor us, aud we'icel wasured that He y tore distinguishable Go the tie ments they’ held ‘be, | Dearing of the case tor ten o'clock yesterday morning, will do so, but we cannot tell when sod) whee ou) uneducated woman the letter received at the Herat oflice might well be & remilt—kept back until [eaed: Welt enehin 25 bespeadeeioa-aeated shee! cha tabiee: bouny, —, to hight that we were not the guilty partles, | 10 1ate, for selfishness’ sake; sent on too late—a sop to remorse. In printing a fac-simile of this | the crowd separated to allow it to pass im, and then ‘Thero was nothing iu the. appearance of the court i ible Night—Poi- | there can ve nothing done for us, and then what will e Ryau’'s Last Horrible Nig There can be nothing done (or, My Nay they would | letter a duty to the public is done, A jail oflicial, a logal adviser of the State, or may be a Gover | Ouiward display nes only an ladication, © "| yesterday morning at ton o'elock to. indicate tho ap i THK EXKCUTION. proach of any trial of social importance. ‘he usuw) ‘i c ch does not T . Drunk. | mérely say that it was au accident which t ¥ hig Oe CE AWAIT! soned and . | occurevery day and for which we were not to blame; | nor, might toss it by with contempt, but their wisdom : eth by a bs oe a final test of the truth Chastes Onchweld arka: Lungocbintuncortider 6040: |: gang of loaters. dissolve waned hd dhpewed:od:cien me, the limite of the evid filled the boay of the court, and imside the railing | tor the jury found them guilty aud we pronounced the | a6 jetter, taken with the circumstances of the ¢ nee and the vehement | ground floor of the ‘This corridor is @ spacious ; | it to the questions :—Were they innocent! | side and ou the north side by tiers of cells. Ip No, 3, | there were only three gentlemen, seated facing tho sentence according 10 the law. Now as tor Mr, McDer- hall, bounded b; je wall of tl jlou the south mitt, we hereby deciare that be is entirely mistaken | denials of the two men who died yesterday, gives we a sag OG ‘he Jailou th OTH DENY BLOOD-GUILTINESS. Remarkabie Scenes In and Around New- ark Jail Yesterday. WERE THEY INNOCENT? Startling Letter. from a Woman Calling Her Husband the Murderer. There was so much mystery, fuss and nonsenso over the preparation for the execution of Oschwald and Ryan at Newark, yesterday, that simple obedience to the mandates of the law was entirely lost sight of in the bigness and importance of the uccasion, At an early hour on Wednesday evening 4 patrol was placed around the jail, and a respectable citizen was not al- lowed to walk along the streets in the neighborhood without being watched by these officious constables, Inside the prison were the Sheriff and his deputies, busy with the preparations for the morning’s work, and fairly bursting with the importance of the event and their share in it, A teow shosen favorites came and went at their picasure, but to all others there was no “open sesame” which would unlock the gates of Newark jail. The reporters whose duty it was to gather the details relating to the lust hours of the doomed men were rigorously excluded from the prison, while the doors almost fell down in fabjection before the small Jersey politicians who en- joyed the favor of the Sheriff Every request for fucilities in the duty imposed upon the representatives of the press was rudely refused, and ‘I kaow nothing about it”? was the only response which could be obtained in reply to questions touchimg the condition of the prisoners, On the outside there were rumors of the impending death of Ryan flying trom mouth to mouth, and among these intimations of poison were frequently heard. At the prison none of these rumors could be verilled, further {hau that Ryan was in a very low state, but that stimulants had been administered and that he was better, The gossips had better opportunities of know- ing the truth than the news gatherers, and the deputy sheriffs and small iry politicians opened their mouths wide to their crovies and companions while closing them tightly to the reporters. But truth, like murder, will out, and bit by bit the facts were gathered which tell one of tho most remarkable tales ever recorded of the last hours of a murderer, THK DOOMED WEN, Ryan and Oschwald were two young men who wero born und tived all their lives in Newark. As their Rames indicate the one was®f Irish, tne other of Ger- man extraction. A singular friendship existed be- tween them and they were companions in suffering as as in crime. Ryan’s home was within a stone’s throw of the prison where he was to die so miserably, and each of them had a father and brothers who were compelled to beara share of the suffering and shame of his fate, Oschwald was the younger of the two, and, as the evidence tended to show, guiltier, while bis life had been more blameless, This wag his first crime, but it brought with it his last punishment It was he, according to the prosecuting officers, who fired the fatal shot which cost Oflicer Brock his life and doomed himself and his companion to the gal- Jows, Tho fact that this was his first offence gave him a sympathy which was not extended to the other, sim- ply because Ryan had acquired notoriety in crime, and was already known for his evil deeds, ‘Tommy,’ commonly called “Jack”? Ryan, bad already served a term in the New York State Prison, and he was con- victed und sentenced to be hanged apparently on gen- eral principles. Nobody pretended tnat he had shot or even shot at Officer Brock, 1t was not shown that he had aided or even counselled the shooting. From tho outset he asserted his innocence, without accusing his companion, and both of them died denying their guilt. All this gives to the case a peculiar interest and in- vested the death story of Oschwald and Ryan with a romance which seldom surrounds the last hours of two doomed murderers. INNOCENT Ok GUILTY? Their asseverations of innocence would im them- selves have toucbed the popular imagination. It is nard to believe that even a convicted murderer can die with alie apon bis lips. Protestations of innocence on the scaflold always leave a bitter favor behind them, and wheu they are persisted in they are usually met by an almost feverish anxiety to destroy the spectre which they raise by a final coniession. It 18 not often that efforts so strenuous and so persistent, und at the same time so Iruitless, arc made to this end as were made in the case of Oschwald and Ryan, Their last hours were em- bittered by the appeals of officials, of counsel and of friends for an acknowledgment of their guilt, Indeed, the efforts of the lawyer who had defended them upon their trial to imduce them to acknowledge the crime laid at their door can only be characterized gallows he quoted Scripture to the them if they were guilty to acknowledge their guilt, “If 1 had anything to contess 1 weuld contess it now,” Ryan answered, and Oschwald, ip a coarser ‘way, was even more emphatic:— “1 am an innocent boy, and that’s the end of it.” Even after this, and with a copy of their statement in his possession, Mr, Morrow appealed to them again, but met with the same response, Nething could move them from the position they had taken in the begin- Ding, aud they both died leaving such testimony ag they could behind them touching their tunocence of the crime of which they were convicted. It 1s a curi- Ous aocument, and canvot tail to excite a profound in- terest both on account of its peculiar asseverations and the remarkable circumstances uuder which it was pub- ished. RYAN AND OSCHWALD'S DYING STATEMENT. The following, prepared by Oschwald, 18 the state- ment relorred wo. It was given to Samuel Morrow on the day belore the execurion:— We, the undersigned, make the following dying Statement to the public:—That we are entirely inno- cent of the crime jur which we are to sutler the ox- treme penalty of the law, and know nothing about it Whatever; for if we did we would now make a full conlession vf it, as it would be of no use to assert our junocence aoy further. Asior Mr. J, lusseil’s testi mony, we have only to say that ho ts mistaken in the party. We do not mean to say that he did not seo apy one leaving the house of Mr. Bedell; but, as fora man that will ueny hig own character and cannot ree- ognize his own friends with whom he had persoual acquaintance and dealings belore he came to this country, it dows nut look at ull reasonable that he | could so positively idenuly two entire strangers to hita—as he swore we were--at a momentary glance, apd then cannot give any particular reason low bo jaentified thom, ouly they bad dark cloihes on and wore stil brimmed hate for Jobn Koch, a man who was first arrested 00 a charge of committing (he deed, who is now in State Prison for a theft b committed in Union county, we do not know what b object was for swearing false jnst us, unless ik was to screen bimeelf, as he told ‘eral partics when he was committed to jail, These were his expression “Thad to say something to get out of it mysell. And, farthermore, a man that says that August 2 was the first night ver slept away trom home (which Lappened to be terrivle tragedy wc- curred) and his reason fo! ying out that wight was decause he could not get in his bouse after ten o'cluck at night, and when he was cross-examined and followed’ up, he was out alter ten o'clock ou July 31 and got into his house with anight key. Cyrus Brown, the littie colored boy who swore Soiree same etfect that Koch did—that we were in &, Roe’s saloon ‘on the morning of the 3d August, 1876-—how Ia it thas he. « bov that does not know the value of an oath. in the murning. as for J, S. Blanchard and big family, aby one can see into their testimony, for as the daughter swore she saw CO. Oschwald ab ber vouse nbout eight o'clock one evening by the light of the moon; yet it was proved clearly that the moon did not rise of that night until alter eleven o'clock. It is useless to talk about their testimony, for 1, Charles Oschwald, hereby say and swear that as su as I soon intend to stand betore God my Maker the whole of the Blanchard amily are wiitul perjurers, and to save their own son they ull’ wiltully perjured themselves; for as Mri, Blanchard herselt said to Mra. Broc! the mother of the deceased—this 1s what she said, which Mrs, Brock will testify to—\'Sister Brocd is it not very smgular that the death of your son saved my boy??? And that boy is now in the County Jail on’ two charges of burglary, a sell-confessed burgtar, awaiting sentence. Now come to Deborah Dunwore, the colored lady, who was avother witness: against us, who acknowledged on the witness stand that she had perjured herselt Now as for the witnesses for the detence—Ryn’s alibi, The State claims that the wituesses in the Ryan alibi were not reliable, but we think tat they were more reliable than any of the State wituesses, for there 18 Lot one of them that the State can say any- thing against only whut was produced on trial, and there they could bring nothing agaist any of them only Brady, who was continued in’ the sex County Jai! for a simple assault und battery, Astor Mr. Holmer, they could not impeach his testimony, altuough they tried very hard to impeach him, and we cannot see ‘how a jury could take all one side of the testimony and throw the other out, ‘Then as to the Oschwald alibi; thay was looked upon as worthless, therefore it was thrown aside, But how is it about the Blanchard far ny? Could they not have sworn against me, CU, Ose! Wald, for the purpose of saving their son? And how about Mr. Brewer, the son-in-law of the Blanchard family? He is the man thatfurnished the tools which were used for committing the hat robvery to which his brother-in-law, J. 8. Blanchard, has pleaded guilty. And what was the reagon of Chief Mills Swearing it was a small boy who Drought the news of the tray to the police when he knew it wag J. 8. Blanchard? Now, when the learned prosecutor, G. N. Abecl, was trying to sum up the case on the part oi the State, he tried to bring in his theory tbat he saw the mud on the back tence in Oscbwald’s yard, which be tried to make the jury believe was there trom tne 3d day of August until the 3d day of November, and also stated to the jury to make an example of these two young men, for it will be a warning to others, Now this 18 all we have to gay, We are entirely innocent of any part of this crime for which we are doomed to die, and we feel sure our innocence will come to light some time. Our lives were sworn away by wilful perjurers and the preudice of the press by misropreseuting ui We ure very thankful to our counsel, jor tey did that lay in their power to save us; bot ft was a con- spired arrangement from beginning toend. Th he State, were bound to hung us, ne matter what evidence was produced to show our Innocence, ‘This is a true staremonut CHARLES H. OSCHWALD, THOMAS RYAN, SOMK SINGULAR CHARACTERISTICS, ‘The thought that will rise uppermost in the mind while contemplating a statement so characteristic is that if it was conceived and written by two guilty men, one of whom had already suflerod up odious punish- ment, the only motive for it could be desire to mati- gate as faras possible the shame entailed by tho crimo for which they had been sentenced to death, This would indicate a sensitiveness and delicacy of feeling with which few murderers have been credited. Each of the doomed men in a different way gave color to thig hypothesis. Oschwald met his fate, apparently at least, not with the stol!d indifference so often exhib- ited on the gallows, but with the calm philosophy of a man unjustly accused and unjustly punished, who could afford to look death calmly im the face, because the wrongs which he suffered wore coequal with his ex- tremity. His youth made such a doath scene all tho more wonderful, und its terrible outhnes were all the more weird in contrast with the dying agonies of his companion in misfortune. Whatever may have been the ultimate cause of Ryan’s deutp, there scan bo no doubt that he broke down completely when all hope was gone and he was brought face to face with the grim monster, ‘Was this man simply a coward, who died trom the fear of death, or did ne poison him- self to escape the shame of the gallows?” the question that was ou everybody’s lips yesterday morn- jag, and with it was mingled an aspiration that was as universal in its utterauce—‘If only theso men had told all they knew—there is a story behind this murder.” lt is the general impres- sion that other persons besides Oschwald aud Ryan were concerned in the double crime of August 3, 1876, and the double episode of yesterday has inspired a widespread regret that every circumstance attending the crime was not unravelled before the law was exe- ecuted in all its dreadful potency. RYAN’S LasT HOCRS, The story of Ryan’s death is ono of those terrible re- | citals which appeal to the imagination rather than the experience of men, The physicul suflerings of h t hours were only faintly reflected in his mental agonies. When the cell in which he was confined with Oschwuldy was first entered on Wednesday morning it was found that he was very tll, Nothing would rest on his sto- mach, but the presence of poison was not suspected. Physical prostration, superinducea by the tear of death, was supposed to be the mala¢y trom which he suffered, aud even in the evening the officers at the jail sad it was “only his nerves,’’ and declared (nat stimulants bad soothed him and put’ bim_ to sleep. Later in the night, however, he was awake, and very wide awake, The stimulants which the doctors had | given him had kept him alive, but be was dran as extruordinary. Under the very shadow of tho | © Mi Figg od implored | drunk. Brandy, whiskey, champague, ale, lager beer, had all been given him to drink, and ag he drank te cried for more. Death stood before him in all its ter- rors, and he was not only drunk buta madman, Ho tossed and rolied and raved. Sometimes he would cry out that he inight at once be taken to the gallows aud ip the next breath he would bog piteously for *wnother Lottie of Miwaukee luger.’’ 1t was the deliriuia of despair, the titful gusts of blind passion in which the longing for life and for death mingled aod blended. The distorted images of the wildest imagination never conjured from the incantations of a Hecate «anything so disordered, unrenasoning, agonizing. By turns his moanings were plaintive and terrible. His cries pierced the hearts even of the Jer- sey constables who had beom appointed to guard him in hos lust moments, und could not tui) to reach the ears of his companion in doom in the adjoining cell, Ovebwald suid he feared “Tommy’’ would have to be curried to the gallows in the morning, and once 10 bis agdny Ryan cried out:— “Brace up, Charley 1" Gradually the spark of life waa burning down to the socket, aud big breath came more and more geutly until the sufferer swooned, gasped and expired, THE DEATH SCENE, The death scene was as simple as the ovents pre- ceding it were agonizing, The stimulants had been followed by seuatives. First the doctors made the doomed man drunk now they were making him so Sweet spirits of ammonia were substituted tor champange and when day dawned the doomed man Was compuratively quiet In the light of the morning it was aven Uhat his paltid features wore a ghastly shade, Just belore eight o'clock he asked to getup and was assisied out of bed and almost carried to a chair, Ho asked jor a cup of tea and i was given tio, Searcely had he drank it when his bead sunk on his breast and a deadiy pallor spread over bis face, It was the moment before dissolution, It was seen that he was dying, and aimost beture the officer in attendance coyld come to tis axsistal was dead, His th thy for Uschwald was its effect, and a move to gave Lim (rom the gal lows was begun, but everything haa been dune which could be done, and while the body of Ryan was re. moved to the laundry for the post-mortem examination Previous to the inquest the necessiry changes in the gallows were effected and te preparations for the execution Of the remaining culprit completed. The examimation of Ryan's stomach revealed some evidences of poisoning, the mucous membrane beimg inflamed in some as if by a cor- TouIve porn ction of the liver, part of the int ‘t of the asophagua were removed, aud will be sent to New York for chemical analysis. GOING TO THE Even the most terrible scenes bave often their gro- tesaue side, aud the execution of Uschwaid was not an Is the real murderer still at large? Is this the handwriting of his wife? LZ a Bor 2e iw itl files hoes awe Cet ae pt SF Lpew lei dine Pu. — cian Nga a fine Ze—e-72<~ ps Pra Midd S ite me? re ee oe La 22 Coane fe Pale eH fhende eo se Jflerseor tS day oval te Aer ot LE > en ee POISON amy ott Bh wer CZ pee av 3 piecemeal. for oe a v4 ~~ Pe em pier But, perhaps, the most pronounced bit of irony ex- hibited on the occasion was the Sheritl’s proc Early in the mornin placed around the jail, and with an order, ‘ & strong guard was ‘e iuned and approved, impossible for hita to approach the rickety old build. venue which the people of Newark ex County Jail, the execution 8 great interest in and, ag a matter of ing iu Newark {a @ double execution. dignity with the name of the ul within a week of men were guarded by fn execution, take a doublo The Sheri! of Kesex county could not fait be aware of The ostentatious array of constabular: morning and the night before was in itsel imposing display. Whether the crowd whieh eollected about the jail in the mornin j cn the lower tier, near the soutnern end, the con- deinned man was confined: He could have peered through the graung of the cell and seen at the other end the beam and dangling rope of the gallows, prepared {or his strangulation, at any time since their erection Wednesday night, had his curiosity prompted bim to look toward the tuplement seb for his execution, Fortunately for his feelings, there were other things to enguge bis thoughts. Ryan's illness during the night, the efforts that were being made to rtacovlession from hi the fuss of nervous preparation and the eager and aimless bustle that were reflected ou the face ot every olllcial of the Sheriff's oflice who encountered the gaze of the condemned mu-t have served to provoke a spirit of resistance that found refief in a sort of heroism Which remained withs, hi to the last. Between ten o'clock in the morning and two o'clock in the afternoon the death warrant suid the men must die, Ryau was already beyond the jurisdiction of Jersey courts, He was dead, So to ‘Usechwatd alone must their attention be directed, and He met every attempt to extort a confession from him with the most vigorous protestation of his innocence of the murder of Officer ews of Ryans death was the first that engaged a's g Woments yesterday morning, and ny doubt it came a8 a relie! even though as a shock to tain; for since Ryan’s illness had become serious he teared that there would be a terrible scene at the veaflold, through whieh, however, he knew he himselt could pass, Relieved of the burden of his uppalled confuderate’s presence, he must bave felt more than ever determined to meet deflantly the fate that awaited him. Much be needed ull nis nerve, No weak man could pass tirmly through the ordeal reserved for any felon doomed to suffer death in Newark Jai Kleven o'clock im the forenoon ig tbe fa- vorite hour for execution in Newark. ‘Tradition has set the fingers of the dial at this hour, a the condemped may not hope for many minut grace thereafter. Beware the approach ‘of eleven, therefore, Jersey murderers! It isan hour pregnant with spirits that the haagman must release, an hour fatal to those the Jersey murder law condemns. And the Jerscy murder law mus; be unvsaally severe—in- deed, is Very harsh by comparison with tho’ law of other States—else it would uot have so thirsted for the hives of Ryan and Osehwald, But their case was pow beyond the pardoning power. There wus not to be enleriained from any Jersey official the Jamtest hope for relief, and if hope was not in Jersey it certuinly was not outside of it—for even Jersey is a sovereign Siate, having (ull power to lead its own tll-doers to the slaughter, Appeals to the Governur, the Court of Par- dous, the Legisiature—all had failed, and bope must therefore be abandoned here, Hope for the hereatter it was the clergyman’s duty to inspire. The Rev, Mr. Allen, of the Buptist Church, was the clergyman who sought to guide the spiritual’ thoughts of “Cnarley”” Oschwald, Haring the morning he entered Oschwald’s cell avd prayéd with him, whilv the straggling tect of curious spectators grated on the sunded floor ot the prison corridor without, through which he was to walk to bis ignominious aeath, Only a frail network curtain bebind a grated cell door shut out the scene in tho corridor from the victim within, Shortly after ten o'clock the Sheriff and his posse arrived atthe jail and the sightseers who ac- companied them streamed into the little office at the southern end of the passage, where the gallows stood, through the big tron gate, mto- that passage and back and forth in front of the coudemued cell, Then for neatly an hour there was an ainless drifting of blank faced, coarse mannered men and an oqually aimless and unnecessary movement through the crowd of about a dozen crude officials with long black staffs tipped with white, Through the hall little knots of pers with lean and earnest faces —_gathere and = dis cussed the anticipated spectacle, pointing nificantly, now to the scaffold, now to the cell of Oschwald, inside which the clergyman prayed earnestly, outside which stood, cold and tmpassive, two stalwart officers of the law. From buzz to whis- per rose aud fell the conversation of the changing groups, whose form and station varied even as their voices rose and fell. Light wreaths of cigar smoke circled in the atmosphere above the heads of the moving throng. On a little shelf at the eastern ond of the hall, on a ledge running along the southern side and on the passage ranging along the front of tho sec- ond tier of celts on the northern side, were crowded ling of expectant spectators. From the hallways at eithe! end of the corridor peered the keepers and gray-shirted attendants of the jail One rope only dungiea from the cross beam of the gallows, prepared and erected for the taking of two lives. Directly underneath this rope was chalked a cross, upon one line of which must rest the culprit’s heels. At the southern end of the scafold a semi-transparent sereen stood, concealing the spring which released the weights prepared to litt the culprit from the floor and hold him suspended until his life had ebbed away. As the hour of eleven ap- proached there were glances toward the prisoner's cell, glances of expectancy mingled with a shadow of impatience, for cleven, 1t should be remembered, was tue traditional hour vf doom. IN THE DOOMED MAN’S CELL, While the expectant crowd without were awaiting the Sherifl’s orders to have the prisoner brought forth thero were in progress active preparations within the cell, by the unfortunate victim, to meet his end. Colonel Johnson, the warden of the juil, presuming on the familiarity of his official acquaintance, sought to obtain a confession from Uschwald at the last moment, “Charley,” ho said, as he entered his cell to bid bim. goodby, “il a very litle while you will go before your God, und you will baye to account for all your deeds; now, let me beg of you not to go before Him with a lie upon your lips. ‘fell the truth betore you die; tell me whut you know about this marder.”” “Colonel, Lam innocent,’? Oschwald said in answer; “vetore God 1 know nothing of this thing.” Belore his deuth, aud just as he was about to breathe his last, Ryan had’ suniiarly answered a like appeal, Not so much attention was paid to bis denial, tor he had the unfortunate reputation of the experionced criminal, But now that he was dead, and that death unavoidable stared the other in the face, it was thought that an admission of some considerable iin- portance might have been obtained from him before being led to the hangman, but as the black cap was beiug adjusted his words were:— “Edie an innocent man.” With these assurances Colonel Johnson retired, bid- ding a sud, inal farewell to the prisoner, THR DEATH SOKNR. Presently there was a lull iu the conversation of the waiting crowd, the Sheriff appeared in front of Osch- wald’s cetl and iu @ momeut the culprit stepped forth ready for the scaffold, the black cap resting on the buck of bis head and his arms pinioned tightly at the elbows. He wore a vlack vest and trowserg, a neat wuite shirt, low shoes and white socks, His coat was noton, The heels of bis shoes were tied together by & string about a foot long, so that im walking from bis cell to the gallows “he was obliged to take very short steps. On either side marched a deputy, and Debind were two clergy- men—Rev. Mr. Allen, and Rev. Mr. Weed, the jail chap- lain, elore be reached the scufold a matter-ol-fact carpenter emerged from behind the screen where the drop tell, and matter-of-fact but nervous deputics cicared the space under the beam. He stood firmly on the chaiked line under the dangling rope with the fatal noose about bis neck, shook hands with the clergyman, said to Colonel Davis, the chiet Deputy Sheriff, who had charge of him :— olonel, do it well,” In Jess than a minute after bis arrival at the scaffold his struggle bad commenced, ‘The Sherif! passed be- hind the screen and made a downward motion with a he heid in bis band. There was aclick as of the ding of a spring, Some one had stepped on t touru, releasing the weights, which tell into the cells aud jerked Oschwaid into the air, It was evident th: the jerk was not sufficient to dislocate his neck, so he must die slowly by strangulation, His bands and jorearms, which were livid a8 be stood at th How: rose and fell; there wore some slight but prolonges contortions of his nether limbs, a barely perceptible struggle in the chest, and bo hung limp from the fatal cord, He bad gone to his death caimly, with appa- rently a full conscious! { the situation, and what seemed asmilo upon his face, Now he hanging only live minutes, and by the doctors’ orde: is pinioned arms wero released. ‘Two doctors were at cither wrist keeping a record of tis heart beats. But their ectonce could not analyze the heart throbs that followed him to his doom, Five miputes more and the body was lowerea to within a few inches of the floor, While he hengs there slowly releasing his periurbed spirit the specta- tors press more closely about the body, There were a Jew with their hats on, but most of them bared heads, One tall, stout, red-haired man stood close up to the dying man smoking @ big cigar, Fittoen min- Utes past eleven and tho doctors? enrs areat the chest ot the dying man, In fifteen minutes more he is pronounced as dead as need be to satisfy ‘Jersey justice,” His body Is then lowered and ‘removed to the iaundry, where the black cap 18 removed and the noose cut off, and he rests upon u table, to remain until removed by hisrel tives, On anoth body, The par awaited the Coroner’s order to remove the bodies, That came in due course and the jail officials saw the last of Oschwal ALLEGED UNLAWFUL CONVERSION, Tho Sheriff yesterday arrested Milton Weston, o¢ Philadelphia, on the complaint of Johu A, Wallace, Complainant asserts that Weston converted to his own tise sixty-three bonds of the Bear River Mining, Manu. 4 Railroad Company, valued at §3 In taken to Ludlow that they had been delivered toge default of $10,000 bail Weston Street Jaik tavlo in the same room is Ryan's sof the two men had meanwhile made preparations for their interment, and only 1 war claiins set dow! orth $10) 100; Judge’s desk, and the usual batch of reporters gossip- ing inside the railing. The three geutiomen, however, proved to be Mr. Thomas F. U!arke, the complainant, a gevticmanly looking young man with a blond mus tache and expressive eyes; his {riond and counsellor, Mr, Jobn H. Bird, one of the best amateur actors. in New York, and Mr, Frederick Castner, a member of the Amaranth Society. They were, of course, the observea of all observers, for as Walker had uot appeared the crowd had to satisfy their curiosity by glaring ut bis vieum and his friends. A few minutes after ten Mr. Bird advauced to the Judye’s desk and stated that they were anxious to Proceed with the case, and would like to know what Prospects there were of seeing Mr, Walker. fhe Judge policly replied that Mr, Walker had been sent for early in the morning, aud as he had not passed the night at his boarding house the oflicer had been sent to New York to look for bim at bis place of business, After waiting patiently about balt an bour Mr, Bird rose from his scat, saying be was unable to wait any longer, as he had business in New York. lt was then Suggested to postpone toe case, and finally Justice Waish said that he would notily Mr. Bird what hour they would ineet on either Monday or Tuesday next. Mr, Clarke and Mr, uird then lett for New York, and the court room cleared shortly afterward, MK. WALKER ARKIVES. Justice Walsh went to dinner, and shortly after he returned and took his seat on the bench Mr. Dougiaa Walker walked into the court room, accompanice, vy Mr, F, W. Pulmann, the Assistant United States fis- trict Attorney for the Southera District of Now York, and Mr. Edward Cooper. Justice Walsh said he way sorry that tho complainant had gone, and Mr, Pulmann then volufteered the statement that Mr, Walker had come immediately when he knew he was wanted, It was then bse a to have tho hearing at two o'clock , M., on Monday next, and as Justice Walsh stated he should require $500 bail Sheriff Daggett volunteered the neceasary security, and Mr, Wal and his trienus leit the court, MR, WALKER’S GRIEVANCES. Yesterday alteraoon a gentiem: who is well acquainted with both parties, made tho following statement of the affair:—Mr. Douglass Walker is a gen- Ueman from Charleston, 8. C., and Mr. Thomas F. Clark came trom England a few years ago und settled in New York. Both of these gentlemen have had a taste for amateur theatricals, and during. thoir connec- tion with that interosting and instructive amusements they became acquainted with Mrs. Fanny Foster, a Sey, charming actress, and the widow of a gentleman well known in New York socioty. Mr. Walker was a very ardent admirer of Mrs; Foster, and, being of a hot-bloode disposition, ventured to dictate to Mrs, F who she should receive ag visitors and who she should not. The lady, however, like other Leg sites of her sex, had a will of her own, and, as Mr. Walker bad no right to mo nopolize ber attentions, she received whoever she ares and among those thus tavored was Mr. Clark. the two genticmen and the lode were among a party that visited Martba’s Vineyard last summer, and while there Mr, Walker's disagreeable and jealous dis- position manifested itself on several occasions, much to the annoyance of the lady and her friends. Atter the party had returned to New York Mr, Walker sent a telegraphic despatch to Mr. Clark to arm bimselt as bo intended to shoot him on sight. The latter gentle- man, however, paid no attention to the threat of the representative of Southern chivalry, and finally the latter thought better of 11 and apologized, Mr. Walker, however, was not satisfied with threatening Mr. Clark, and as the lady bad seen fit to exclude him from her society, he wrote a letter of the most livel- lous character to one of hor near relatives, This letter was happily intercopted, and beimg placed in the ol the Districts Attorney Mr, Walker sought juge in apologies, und the mattor was hushed ove Ever since July Mr. Clark has daily passed M Walker’s oflice, and as the latter gentleman has a desk with the seat facing the win- dow’ he has bad the opportunity of seeing his victim every twenty-four hours. No attack however was mado until lust Monday night, and 1 is enerally believed that the reason for making it so public was designed by Mr. Walker for tho purpo: of dragging beiore the world the name.ot a | whose only crime was the want of appreciation of Mr. Walker’s personal charms. Mr. Clark's friends also state that there hus been some misrepregcntation about the scene in the box, Wheu the attack was made Mr, Clark’s friends hurried him off the stage, and, not knowing who occupied the stage box, pushed him in there. When inside somebody remarked, “Ob, here comes Mr. Walker. jo pot let us have ascene 1n here,’ and asked Mr, Clark to go out. He started to go out by the door, when the same person said, “Step across tho stage; Mr. Waiker is coming that way;’’ and, in obedience to their wishes, he jumped over the rail of the box and ran across the stage. Mr, Clark intends to have the matter thor- oughly investigated before the courts, as the lady whose fair name he was anxious to shield trom public biel has insisted upon bis obtalning what redress the jaw can ufford him, A DRUGGIST’S FATAL “MISTAKE. DEATH OF A PHILADELPHIA YOUNG LADY BY ACCIDENTAL POISONING—THE CORONER'S IN- QUEST—CASTOR OIL AND MURIATIC ACID. Pyitapecruia, Feb, 15, 1877. The case of Mias Hottie Love was made the subject of a Coroyer’s investigation this morning by Coroner Goddard, It-has not yet been concluded, but it has progressed (ar enough to show that what was feared— that tho young lady had been poisoned by the culpable mistake of a druggist—is only too true, Muriatic acid appeurs to be the poison used. ‘THE INQUEST. ‘The first witness called was Dr, Chapman, who tes tifled:—-1 made a post-mortem examination yesterday of the body of Miss Hettie Love, aged nineteen, of N. 1,027 Lingo street; there were no signs of violence; on opening the chest 1 found the heart enlarged; the stomach and wsophagus exhibited marked signs of congestion, and upon opening thom I tound great in- flam mation ; o doubt that death was caused by inflammation of the stomach. William G. Love sworn—I reside at No. 1,027 Lingo stroct; this is my sister that is dead; I went to the store to get her medicine on Monday evening at halt- past six; ] wont tothedrug store at the northwest corner of Eighteenth and Carpenter, kept by Mr. Isanc Sitler; Mr. Sitier was in the store himselt; 1 went for a aose of castor oll, prepared; he gave it to me in goblet (goblet produced); that 18 the goblet; he got the castor oil from the second shell back of the coun- ter; hv took one bottle containing castor ofl and then ot two other bottles; after be gave me the dose took it home to my sister; sho had hardly got the medicine down when she began to vomit; she said the medicine was roasting her; 1t was burning her verely ; 1 was sent mght for Dr. Grabam, and he came about half-past seven o'clock, The young man identificaa number of bottles that had been brought trom the drug shop aud pointed out one of them containing MURIATIO ACID as being one which he thougbt the druggist had used. A dress stained with a@ strong acid that bad taken t! color Out was also sho’ He identified it as the ono his sister had on when she took the medicine, George Sharp, a lad, sworn—I live at No, 1,022 Lingo street; lL went with Love to the drug store to get the medic that gentleman over there (pointing to Sil- ter, the prisoner) gave us the medicine; he put ttin a tumbler; it was taken trom a bottle looking like of of these on Who desk. THE PHYSICIAN'S THSTIMONY. Dr, James Graham, sworn—I reside at No, 1,342 Pino streot; attended the deceased on Monday evening; found her reclining on chairs; they told ine she had taken oiland it had burned her throst; 1 examined the tumbler from which she had taken the dose and found a small quantity of castor ol! in 1t; also an acid liquid; tho taking of muriatic acid causes almost im- mediate rejection and burning of throat; she com- plained of intense burning in ber throat and stemach; eo did not complain of thirst; there was intense pain, howev in the throat; tho pulse was 108, and very feeble; the tongue and roof of the mouth wore blistered; the skin was relaxed; berbraim oo, clear; at one time ft thought | noticed a wan by i of her brain; I gave her magnesia to neu- tralize the acid foison in her stomach; afterward bi- carbonate of soda and flaxseed too; gave her an injec- tion of morphia and whiskey and applied hot poaltices to her stomach and throa used the morphia but once; she died about ten o'clock Tuesday night; in my opinion death was caused trom inflammation produced by this acid and the shock accompanying it, Lieutenant Given, of the First Police District, tes fled that ho went to Dr. Sitler’s store and spoke t him about the occurrence; the only answer be madd was that his supply clerk had prepared the castor oll. Officor Edward 8, Simes testitied that on Tavsday ight, about ten o'clock, Mr, Edward 8. Love cane to him, while on bis beat, with a warrant for the drest Of Dr, Sitler; he took it to the drug store and pre- sented it to Dr. Sitler, Who was at that time lodiug up; he said he understood the case and surrencered himself into custody; he showed some little agitaion and culled lis wite down stairs and told hor ho wa Tested; the only answer she made was something ike hy. you didn’t give the boy the medicine.” Jusion of the case was postponed untilsat. urday next, and in the meantime the. con airl’s stomach is to be aualyaed bv Setemen ser