The New-York Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1866, Page 1

Vor. XXVIL..N® 7,912 THE YEOPLE™ BUSINZES COLLEGR THE DARVEST OF THE GALLOWS, ————— TWO0 EXECUTIONS IN ONE DAY AT READING, PENNSYLVANTA. Bernard Friery at the Tombs. FHEGRY AND PRACTICE COMBINED. ALBERT L. STARKWEATHER AT HARTFORD. i Onfhege i located in the beautiful City of Reading, Pa., the Lhird city In the State in wealth and peprisfion 135,000 inhabitents). swer Resords in the immediste vicioity, s LAST HOURS OF THE CONDEMNED. Whe benpe umber of S AR g X2 e ot thet s Eidenic ever prevalled theve o comiocl evh | 0 L0 oo o AR ATIONS. emn of ita healiHfalnese. —— Wur full description, sevd for College Paper—meiled froe. / LAST SCEN OF ALL. —_— THE MURDERERS OF THE PAST. RSSO OUVR COURSE. The Course of Instruction conwists of Four Departmen Two men were yosterday banged npon the gallows. ‘Whether capital punishment bo a Christian wode of punish went, or the contrary, 18 not for the reporter to discuss. He Qouls in facts and not philosophy. He tells how poople live and move and dic, and leaves to the essayist and theoriat the discussion of the prineiples which may nnder ie his facts. He giver, therefore, the details of the two judicial executions yosterday—telling bow theso men died, and how the people stood ngape about the gates which had elosed forever between the condemned and the world of which they were once & part Philunthropists will read these reports and thoughtfully seck now moral infliences which shall lessen the crimes of the | world; law-makers will read them and discuss the death penalty vs. life imprisonment; the associates of the deceasod will read them and file them away as memontoes of past companionship; women wll read them and shudder at the ghastly details; children will hear them voad and will ercet ture gibbets upon wuich tiey will haug Kittens and rag Preparstory, Theoretical, Actual Business, snd Misceilareous Departument. In the PREPARATORY, the Student is taught Mathematics (if ‘mecensary) and the simflest principlesof the Science of Accounts. & rea! Sopy oy THE PRINCIPLES of Ju the THEORY, % pure Abe Science, sod i Tequired 10 write up six different sets, the first g & certain Ahree representing oue wan's business—each tet invo principle. The lutt three represent o partnership of two, three, and Sour partmers, (b last set being & recapitulation of il the other sts U e werk i comvectly execated, be is sdmitted to e Dabics. Wo preface the history of yesterlay's executions with n roview of those which have taken place at the Tombs sineo that gloomy pile was erectod, something ore than a quarter of & century #go. S DEPARTMID BUSINT The Studest is furnished with & real Cash Capital, Dry Goeds, e ; e NONS AT THE TONBS. — ank, Duys and ‘velle for Cash, Note, Draft; deporits meuey in the I FORMER EXECUT withraws the rame per Check, leaves Notes st the Bank for Collec there have ding that of | » period which we have n o less than 1% exsontions at this pl sterday. anud aggravatrd character, calling for the fall ponaity of the Tt was put forward to rescae the uufortunate criminels from the terril © they were doomed to unde: Contrare to what might be avticipated, and to tue popular beiief se to the way in which criminals mee deatt, reported to b therr fate with cow posure and courage. S0 ply buoyed up with the bope that at the List won me. while erw exhibited 4 daring ing their guilt There appears to have bee e convietion ¢ L Giom ané Piscount—in fact, be goew thiough every kind of transaction, incl s Cash Book @ven to attsching Tuterual Revenue stamp ; balsoces everysizht. 8o far se wa can Jearn, other Coileger omit attachiug Shesteap and bulancing te Cash Book daily; s evy business mat will tell yoa this is absclutely pecessary. m wrly We subjoin an indorsement, wod, for farther pavsioutars, send for Gotlens Eapei—sent 0 you free of charae. sardibood only equa s in the p bo at Jea REMARKS. uxecotio e o b cutions that bave t < ile eree tion. Bhe Committes who examined oor Course comsimed of the Hour. . | John C.Colt, in th 3. LAWKENCE GETZ, J. KNABB, sid Mz JOHN D. ool & of thix SRSNLER 10 the sociel position ‘ citement. 1o aud ¥ ollowing tieir umes is the following eertificate T We consieer the names of the sbove gan Micient gas B watee of e wog orded by the Peopie's Buswess wancre JOHN 8. PIERSON & Co, JAMES €. BROWN, KLINE. EPPEHIEMER & Co., EINSTE N & BROTHER ». P. BELLER Novewber, Baence N. M. EISENHOWER, Mayor of Readiog of the sen M. F. FELIX, Wholesalc Shoe Dealer ; ::: Apeain M. H. MUHLENBURG, Coshier Farmers Nations! Bak ; | preparations were ¢ A. F. BOAS, Prosident First Natious! Bauk Taised. Ttis aut €. B. MCKNIGHT, Coshier Na sl Union Reuk € ¢ MALTZBERGR, the most remurkable in the crim and 1 doubiiess fresh in the mem: CHARLES THOM 18 feted JAMESON & Co LEMON BUCK & Co, STRICKLAND & BROTHER JOSEPH MISHLER & Co., H. A HOFF GEORGE LERCH & Ce,, SAMUEL M. KEA, DILLER LUTHER. Collecter Tuternal Kevenue JOSEFH L. STICUTER, JONN A BANKS, a colored maz. 6o w'd hie would rather suf e Liad the reputation of exeited by « witoeesed t was seliom About 400 per; He left & wife, about 25 yoars MATTHEW ¥ 00D, an Trishuian, was convieted of murder 1o vsan Wood,0u the #ta the first degree, for Febraary, i<t He INE! o WILLIAN RRINER, Postma ¢ with & negronamed AuronJoues, (o be e3 A. G. CURTIN, Govervor of Py " 2d of June, 181", Joues was reprieved, . e L ed 1o State. | Fiso fe. lu couse SIMON CAMERON, ex Sec War, e Goversot i relation aused great dissatisfaction, he wa peiled Hew th respited uutil Friday, th 1o reprieve Wood also. Wi carriod 1nto effect. of July, a8 whick time the sea At ¢ the time anvounced for the execution Le arrived ou the fold, dressed iu s suit of white, faced with bisck, weariug ou TERMS. bis hoad & cap of the ssmo colur. bis Lauds pinioned bebind ERMS. bim, preceded by 1) au d aud supported on the e sice b a clergymas aad on Ly ier by wa Aider 4 mau, e walked vi top and st neath the Bou v wisife Scholarship.” entitling the purchaser 10 & full Cous e s sakod If e had anytaing to 8y, 4nd answered die {onocent, M ose who swore God forgive 1 against me.” ‘The cap was theu pull scarcely bad it been s6 when he ma speak again. He taen said be thoug! and Doubie En d over lis faoe, ‘mescial Cenree includiop Bookkeepiog (by Bin [ mxy), Poumc ship, snd Methematios, with the privilege of revies:iug bud a reprieve for bim He was asured to, the centrary futres! , ol (e Bolder's pleasure.......... s | Tuecap was agaiu drawu over his facs. the Sheriff dropned ,’-’ s, AR it Eaa b bis haudkerchief for & sigual, the ax dropped, tie weight fell, Rimbied b idiers. . ] sud the culprit bung quivering in the air. BENSON AND DOUGLASS, TELEGKAPHY murder of Asa Huvens mate of the burk Glen, were exsouted July 25, 1851, The execution took cuse, it may be remembered, was one of great Tombs. atroeity, aud owing 1o the fact tuat the culprits were youb, ereatad co r U wen well known in ce able intorest und exci superbuimay etforte wore exerted in their boh 4 e tained. On the scadxid Deuson sppesred osim aad | On the Z5th of June, Is6z, Wm. H. Howkins, a negro cook s— firw. and Douglass seemed doep!s agitat e former de. | on the ship Lamargier, was hung for the murder of the cap: Bied up 10 the last moment that be hod soy band in the mur. | fais of tho vessel, Wan, H. Adams, The crime was committed Ger. and excalpated Clameas, 8o associate wbo was rospited. | iu the Euglish Ciaunel while the sbip was on the way to this The struggles of the unfortunate mes were great. but e | port. Capt. Adams bad becowe d istied with the manuer 200n over. A body of marines came i ine uud kuelt before | 1o which Hawkius did the cooking #poke harsbly about NOTICES, abe gallows, with the caps drawn over the es. Ata | the matter; whereat Hawkine vowed veugeance upou the ) frow the Marshal the cord wae sovercd. and the wretched | captai. Accordingly, o3 the night of Septowber 29, 1861, L men were lauuched into etermity. | Hawkine murdered Capt. Adams iu bis state-roons. Hawkiv . g ‘ wan tried on the charee of the murder of Cupt. Adams before . AALON L. STOOKEY. — " Whardlag otron $4 4o @430 permeek. Sladenls received wny | iryie man was executed on the 1914 of Septombe Tadae B e I e thotraasent duy o the yeus. the murder of Teddy Moore, by stabbiog, at the Five Polots. | 1 goumaute the sentonce of death, but without svail. M the wonth of March of the samne yes There were upward | S1ILL UNDEE SENTENCE. m of 1400 persons present to witness the execution. ‘Le address 4 Cherles M. Jefferds were sent made by the prisoner previous to Lis execution expinins bis | o T e ary £6, 1063, the e enced Wi two enter ot the saiar time, & dedection of $%ewill be made | ¢TI He said: 1 have to tell you to beware of rum. ‘h a8, “,‘i' e By *ivl i€ terus of | Beware of i—betware of rum; mever duuch, never taste, vever | the fentene Lo of thi hey should be L eeschn I five auter. #15 wild De paid Lo the getter up. of the Club, | hazdle it | and tust after the expiration of that time they shoull be G . i "The execotion was stated by tbe reporters as being a horrible | 1% <3 ,:"'i::,.",f:‘.""..:'i;r..':‘::[.",.:n:xk:lI a '-‘n'.:(r'."r'::-'ul."f.l.'.';n. - 80 eae others. spestacle. For several minutes aftor the rope had been cat, a |y g0 " p ey death, but with no intiination of the time waid that the reckiess spirit 7 crowd upon the occurion probable tlat 06 this accouul to witne thess execut asiderally decreased. The case of Stookey in cinbled that of Fr The peevsed commitie le murder, teated by bad spirit aud an | sutrul pound was beard, I | and depruvity cvinced by the wol was truly disgusting, snd it Is e G, allowed . Statiovary bill (ncluding Books, $10, % in Dembes) ¢onte less Shan 10 Other Coliepes charge frem $20 to 4. Whale-cont, - | uBeontsclabie temper, . OTT0 GRUNZIG. Otto Gruuzig, a Germas, residiog in EMridge st., was con- | | victed of purdering Lis wite by poisou. The case juteresied public atteution 1o u considerable extent at the time, owlug to the peceliat «lsoumstances surrounding it. Some time elnpsed eleding everylbing, i s Uian $100. 1. the Couree i three montha. Some Lave dopest in between the,culprits covviction aud his " umtes Dagmgris soaviation And WA sustion aad s the wealtty nutises of Louisians, had bim appointed to ty i 10 weeks. i efforte, though uaavaill -~ y e i LAy Sl hough. pasTaiOAS oiut Ac i tayed two soars and then st e A R s SR AR frt, wsaceemtl. and d Rebellon came aud V. 4 lazge. oomesnses oL’ peesle ot " & | found Lim i the runks of e s iy Joopia L the cuurtyerd of the U7 | gplawfol warfure. During his imprisoament Konned ) LA ‘7% | traved in bis language and weditations. which be wrot Send for eircalars, which will by sect free of charge. ¥orapecimen | can hardly be a shudow of « dou | the crime op 1o the aw momews. i . pleaded not guilty o 1t would ssem that he ex ted o regriore, (Wik 10 4o mystery and probabilities ing around the case. The seprieve T CATme, AN o wnefp inciose two threecent stamps, and sddrens CLARK & GRAYBILL, Kealing. Fs Joun Cran % Tresident, € E. Gmaym, b, Secretary. oetraged Jaw wos avenged by his dentls upon the scaffold. BOWLYTT ANW SACL. . These two men, in conjumetion with w man named M- | ged Wil the tusder of Thomas Baxter. Walwon Laggtlin, were ¢ on beard the sbip Thom Augus: 1551, The a dangereus characters, b night of the 2tk of i hnown 1o the police i river thieves, ond ou the night of the murgier sever cogulavd the prisoners as belo Ju the neighborboo hie murdered man was slot turough the Lead, wnd the ship was plandéred of consideruble quentaty of goods. A great portion of these were found 1n the Couthry vewspoyers glese send your terus for half-colgun fof v wontin % PosscEbon of the prisoner€ Al iicnse array of witnesses Busiess wen in need of Books epers supplied, and those whom | Was af At Abe trinl. the case being contlusive painet tho 4 seused. The juey brooght 1o & verdict of guilty, and on the LTy Sp— 1o of Jaunary, 1958, (hey undewout tho eatredme peualty of Nearly all of these cases wereof a lratal | { , | deatl Edward F. Douglass ead Thowas Benson. couvicted of the | Lace in the yard of the | . o reprieve | | notoriety eame frou bis connection with the mysterious g | brought est from the prison the Jaw. Saul persieted in his entire innocence to the very Jast, a1 the same time professing penitence for bis previoss course of life. Bau) appeared deeply impressed with the awlul position 1o which he was placed, while Howlett died evidently unrepentant, aud defiant. Two Catholic priests kneit sud prayed wiih them up 10 the last mowent, when they were sent 10 their last account, After baving hung abeut baif an hour. the hodies were eut down, placed in mabogany coftine, and de- Wvered to their friends. JOSEPTI CLARK ‘was convicted of the murder of Policeman Gillespie Fourth Ward, in April 1651, It appears from the evi that Clark struck (he officer with some sharp, heavy instr ment, from the effects of which he died. ‘Lue prisouer did pot attewpt to deny the chaige, but ught on the seaflsld for execntion, he remarked that bis case was not fairly stated to the jury. He said be did not_consider bimself s murderer, as he had never intended to kill his victim, Duriog the course of & lengthy # b he wept bitterly, and a) 10 be deep- )y affected.” He was & member of the Roman Catbolie Church, and rece.ved spiritual consolation from two priests of that cbureh. A likeness of the prisoner was tak revions to the ex- ecution,Clark taking particular care that his was carefully arranged. On the morning of the fatal day he rose st 7 o'clock, ste a bearty breakfast, and appeared comparatively cheerfal. ilis case seems to be devoid of the utter brutslity of the other murderers whose executions are here recorded. He was ex ecuted on the 11th of February, 1¥53, in the rear yard of tbe City Prison, At precisely two minutes of twetve, the fatal cord was cut, and zhe wretened man dangled in the alr. After haviog been suspended about thirty minutes the hody was cut down, when the Coroner beld an inquest ever it i the cus- he tomary form. PATRICK FITZGERALD was laoged at the “Tumbe, Friday, June 17, 165, for the wurder of his wife on the 17th of Junuary of the same year, by shooiing ber through the bead with a pistol. Fitsgerald was progrietor of o smail grocery.store o1 Third-ave, 6ud Wak & viet of intemperance, was the cause of briging him 10 the seaffold. ~ The roy severed by Sheriff Orser. Firz ve gerald was a Catholie, and seemed fuily prepared to die. Efforts were mede to procure & reprieve or commutation of his sentence; but he expressed a wish to die rather than re- main in prison during xfl- remainder of hix He protested bis iunocesce to the last. Tue execution couducted as privately ns possible, and not muck excitement was whuifested arvund the Tombs. JAMES 1. MOARE. James T.. Hoare was executod at the Cu&l’flmn on the 2ith of January, 1554, for the murder of Susan McAnany, bis wis- He 'was o pative of the County of Longford, Ireland, tress. where he resided for 36 years, foll 'wing the businoss of oat meal nill e, About the year 1542 he came to this city, wheie and liquor business, and ne- onsuderable property. e became acquainted with y, and kept her ws his mistross for a year and a hall or two yenrs. She was unfaithful to huo. Hemet berove day in s porter-bouse in the Fourth Ward, s associnting with s sailor, and, enraged by her lie strack her o biow from which che died ib ten days afterward, at the New York Hospital. When near death the unfortunate woman declared that the docd was _brought y her own bad conduct, and that she wished Hoare to mshed. Grent effurts were made to secare Hoare's auy petitions were cirealated in ths ety and cutive elemency. Hoare Heleft s wife gaged in the wine qu Susan MeAnany in this eit | goun | pard other parts of the State asking Exe died & member of the Roman Catholic Chureb. and two sons and two daughtors. JOUN DORSAY. Jobn Dorsay. a colored ma, cb young Irsh woman pamed Aume M M 1657, was executed at the City Prison, or Towbe, of July of the same year. On the day he was cuted Dorsay gave a statement to the publie in which be p i e of the wurder of Awonie Melin. Ac ) this statement be fousd the body of the murdered te ot night in an alley-way nesr Worth-st. Bhe was A with the murder of & in tuis eity in on the 17th | wireedy dead when be found tie body lying io his way. He Mtates that be gave no alawn because he feared an arrest. 1o foond her clothes were smeared with blood, with which his | bands were stained in 0ftfug ber op. Frightened, he rushed o lis roos ud Wis soou alter arrested, thed and convicted 1‘ | of murder. ' Dorsay was & wember of the Roman Catholic | the exeention partook o b made n quite a lengtly spe fess to auy knowledge of the wurder , and o0 the morning ent. jich b relused to ¢ Chorel, JOHN KOGINS. hor, i, & Scotchman, named Jobn | i the coruer of Tevth-ave. wid | ug borge frow warket turec boys insultin mord tuss city, while returni i began by | Swanst Twenty-tirst-st. with his wi | veart and saters of I enme yerd Wi briog o wered and wbile was & member of of s & native public ca; ber &1 Supren | mew t be was } moce of | | Johs Crimmic | Mareh, iew. fos the Lars of the murder w Liguor store of Criwmine witk seve rul a lon time togetker ( | Henry, with was ol enu atter no more Lguor. Aherelpon u quarrel fur stabied Mclienrs wits a pavouer, and . Criwming was w00u after tried for the murder of M- | Heury and couvicted. Tue Governorof the Stute refused to | heod the many petitions seut up for cleweney in bebalf of the condemned, aud for tais be was greatiy ceusured, it beiug set | forth by many that the puuishiment was sltogetier 100 severe £r what was siwply the result of a drunkes biawl, in which | MoHenury himself participated. At the scaffold Crimming ex | pressed great coutritition for Lis erime, stating that it was | Woue in & moment of passion, sud was pot preweditaded. e was & Romas Catlolic. NATHANIEL GORDON. atbauiol Gordon. at the Tombs, 07 the 3 au event which caused nolittl- A the country, not only bocause of the bra tal character of his crime, but alwo becatse of the previous im- wiunity of offenders of bis class from the estieme penaltios of toe law. Gordou, it will be reiberod, was slave trader, of the worst class, and while Captaiu of the ship Erie was guilty of the most heinous crimes. On the dav before the execution Gordon attempted to commit wuicide by takiog strychnine, | which had been furnished bim during his trisl Tiie day o | the execation was otie of much excitoient iu Uil clty, throw having beeu made of an attempt to rescue the pris rovent the success of any such attempt the U { rescue wos wiade, huwever, arstia) obtained from tie Navy-Vard a_su | protect the prison. atiom and the weutonce T wae executed. oiel Gordoa | beiog the first sl of the United States to suffer death upon | | tho gallows. He loft & wife aud one son. WILLIAM HiNEY HAWKING | Crim | | st sl expire toget MILITARY EXECUTIONS when their liv Amoug gallows spectacles of the worst description was the | ennedy. one witnessed in the havging of Kobert Cobb e was a Kebel #py who found refuge in Canada, eveutually canght by Metropolitan Police Detect; of black carpet-bag {ncendiaries who sttempted to buru this | ity in November, | A Military Court Martial tried and | convicted bim of his erimes, and_be was wentenced to be exe. | cuted at Fort Lafayette, on the 25th of Mareh, 1865, Hix ife was & series of will adventures which began in Lis youth and ended with bis summary death at the age of 2. His parcuts tri cell, & wind of the most ribaid thoughts; some of his ex; were perfectly din | v doath was 1o witness the most revolting At the hour of the execution he was | sarently exeited from stroug | drisking. The intoxicating effects of the liquor did not ap- pong w0 muck in bis walk s in the expreasion of lis e il ous and inyect sitaation. But part of Lis uature. | whie glowed wickedly on those around him and the conrse and blasphemons use of his tongue. He paid o kind of beed | to the Minister who w og in prayer. but rather | sbowed contempt fur the plous act; and when it w enlied for & glass of whisky, Anotuer exl on of aw was given bofore the rope was fized 10 and when it was sdjusted Le commenced singieg W the Irisk brog lowing verse: ue the fol- “Truat to Juck, trust (o ack, Stare fate i the face For your heart will bo uisy 1its i S gt B j | the 1 | the power of whi | eite Lim to frenz woraut of what he did e most perfect oblivion evor brooded over the past, and be | could recail o sioele circum.tance of the eutire mutter how long bad been its duration. | tuese fits of tota unconsciousnoss, induced by the whisky fiend, | when unkuowing what be said, and reckless of what bhe did be stroek the blow that slew his friend and kootted the balter ‘While the echo of the closing whas jerked into the air side ‘the offieials who sttend large number of wpec whom indooed them to mittanoe. the were pi his demand to . His manner won the respect of i a pure moral ] b SRR wl ire- S eeiee ere carriod on uuder wi other milit du?rn' &, Jo -jnmper, being shot on the 3d persons in uent bubit of deserting from iin, who assnmed different names at times wns one class having enlisted twice in the army, receivingllarg: and subsequently deserting ¢ into the navy. It was stated that tie information o his arrest was {\vu Dy his wife in retaliation for baving sbasdoved her hrr c‘llunn. Jeaviog them to for the peccssaries of life, ‘while be laviahed his ill- upon His wife. however, was the only friend who attended him io bis ‘nlmw':.uu-numnlym who moarned bim after bis cath, ——— THE EXECUTION OF BERNARD RIERY. et Abont mid-day yesterday, 4 young man, youthful enough to be the grandson of many ‘who will read these words, and yet old enongh to be himself a parent, made the last aud heaviest expiation that wan 'may make on earth for mortal crime, and yiekled up his life to cancel, if it wo might be, the st of murder that lay heavy on his soul. The young man Bervard Friery was execated at 104 o'clock, a. m., closed yard of the City Prison, Lazarus. As nearly 18 moutbs have elapsed the in- for the willful warder of Harry siuge the crtme was committed, it i perbaps woll to recapitulate the leading features of the transsction for the ir formation of our readers. WO THE VICTIM WAS. Tlarry Lazaras, the murdered wan, was & yooug feilow, well known 1o the sporting fraternity of the country ass pugilist. Though but & small m pear almost effeminate, and of features s0 girbeb ws o up- bad, by sheer pluck and hard fight- ing, won the position, so mach coveted by men of his peeliar ambition, and was recogaized as the ** Champion of the Light Weights” of America. In justice, it should be stated, that reat p: fichting propensitios and abilities were rather the fral carly and care father was o ains to tbough Harry L ‘a patarally sweot and auiable disposition, he wus at it of training than of any mnate ferocity. 1His ed prize fighter in Eagland, and bad takon strget his boys in the pugilistio erf, 5o Lhat, us War i youn mun of tho mildest lem- per, of the some Lime, for & persan of his wel wost acieatific and powerful boxer. Let not bis parent bo blamed, Boxivg Wan the one sccompliskment he knew, and faithfuly and cow- scientiously be tanght it to his | e wan a professional feacher | weliknown as n quiet, pieasant an low. W uen the war broke out he e of Fire Zousves, orgenszed by Col. regiment he went to Jan, Harry did excellent service, as ho eve until his return bome. | sickness, which confined him to the hospitsl and after the | neloded to go into business for | lapse of some months, be co £ Accordingly be ope o eoadway, whie be called by the curious neme of *X. 10 U. & Aside from the faet that Ellsw orth, ai the field. At the fatal betilo of Buil Aid afterward wnffered froim He came back, having nod a saloon tu East Honston-st. Fxtonuate). and bere he began 0 guther friends about bim, and to do & fair busines, wheu the horrivle of This promb nturally the cour ung man fs«nother ove of the innumerable instances ® biw rigit mind aotier than t bimsell. sinee bis ot the gar ndismayed ¢ tions with by ever congregate about great market, hal tion certain style not specially adapted for th | aud parlor, aud, ti bis Maker profasely must witribute o grv education of b e fish atall His Jittlo plac or was Fapidly earning be was Jooking T by & mod opriet d b Fad the good o o hav 3 p nd bis parets. to whain be had ever been strongly I, when th ] fatal trouole e PERNALD FPRIERY. o Tyibune, PRICE FOUR CENTS. Tam told that I bad even been put to and had any diffioulty lie’ With aug man. lost consider- spree. There never s0oght execated between 10a m. that crowds of people, of mobs, which «ill assemble and remaio wl there is o possible chance of their seeing what most inf od in. crowded the streets al the Tombs, Cordous goarded the varions avenues; no man could the lines Without that binck-edged tieket from tho Suerifl, for which so From the stroot no glimpse of the romotest possibility be obtained, r the boavy erowds remaived. and every plugza, baicony even tho walls of the prison, hoped mauy bad sought in vain, horrible scene could by and yet for hour after ry bousetop in the vieinity, window commanding & view of with who were what. All they dread five minntos’ work was all accomplis! from the hich bor corpes. i , Friery desired his immediate atte; On Tharsday morsl ants to admit uo one to see him sive his own family and religious advisers. 1f otbers than thess hiw ofticers did force themaelves in, it w. the wishes of a dying man, who nt such right to name the companions of his final momeat:. Iy in the morning, at about 5 o'clock, Friery, atte: by bis spiritual father, attended cbapel, Sacrifice of the Mase, rather by the innate solemnity of the service than rossive thoughits of his own situation. nder the very shadow of the in coll, where he was still attended 10 behold 1o one knows bility see was, after the bed, the bearse nded and assisted at the He seemod cool, and to be impressed any :g'nnn ‘which be had to s—he returned to ‘ministers of Christ’s fiith, who bad ncver left bim whe he desired their preseuee ‘Thursday afternoon, be réceive visit from bis mother and i brother, At this interview no one bad a Fight to g ze— such last adiens are too sacred for the cold unsympatiizing Iaws of nature dictate, the disciple of Cain earns the dempation of his fellow MIHE;. The erime of 'n the act involve Buat, not only a mother was the victim of ronding tragedy at the Lands of her own o woll—a er of tender years, who she ished with that solicitade which belongs to & brotler, of being brutally murdered by him. A the facts of the case may not be fresh in the minds somie of our renders, wo propose to give a brief review them, which will, doubtless, be r ad with interest. )y on the morning of 'August 1, 1565, t nity of Oaklands, i the County of Manchester, aroused bymm startling h::lufl"“ that Mre. the house they were in set fire to_for pose of concealing the borrible crime. news wp idly, soon n_large crow d the it presented ~ hes .l‘lfidl ter were found she petrator. laid open thie upper to the lower jaw bone; beon inflicead; the lower portion of the nose and the part of the jaw cut off; then there was another in the With the blade of an ax, also penetrating to the brain; chest were three stabs from ife into the throat and hich passed throuh the chin Tt ez eutirely btlm“:l:::llu. flb" b ‘;’ i on fire Wi o fiint B, reon nelzhbor, saierod the chuhber, Wi knife and an ax, toe implements by which the been commit s01, onbl bave been nour- ostead “ e whole comme- d of persons was attracted to the was_appalliog 1o the extreme. mutilated. ad of toe former bad on the right side two blows bad Toody deed "Albert Starkweather, the person tried, condemued and exe- srpetration of this Most monstrous duriug the exawination related, accordiog have sat quietly 1 & exhansted, and around fojeiuead o wot eloth, bruise. Accordivg to his statement, made awakened by & noise in the night proceed bedroom, on the floor above. Bolog alarmed, he #l . nppearing sowewhat wouk covenug i of the premises by the neighbors, ia Yo testimony of credicable 'un—n.: tators. MA.: Pt '?i‘.!é'i' the ;}'m"’",mm 8l ‘The first to come | Bseertain tie cause, aud While ascending the stairwny wae were the police who were detailo) to attend, wnd who same ansaulted by two persons, of Whose 0olor OF seX lie waa ul under care of Capt. Joardan of tho Sixth Preciuct. They | !nt{‘,'dlzrum-lk and thro mlunu;:..ule;m' :ew:... Ris- i Duck from lug 1 & him e & Was siain Al o, B took their position in such & manver a4 to keep buck from tie | S ey nm‘.‘m‘w borrid scaffolding and its immediate surronudiogs al unau thorized peisons. me was built of boums that liave oiten be The gailows fra : fore becu put to the same awful use, A simpie square frams consiating of two uprights about 20 feet high, With u siug cross-beam, the 'lm{::opally braced and stayed, wis ol Through the beam o hoke was bored, through which dropped rope siender to the eye, but amply rpendicular rope—a Firoui enough to bear th Weignt o soon be suspended fron i The lower ond of this_rope, fron ring: its upper end was continue] alone the beat, passe down into o r ground and was fal mectanism knew, Losttosight. Those fumitiar with such foar bowever, that there tho rope was fast the proparations, save ecriain cauyas screcus eicet the Rev. Father McKeana, his Giithtul elorgyman, had adwio st rites of the Chureh, and toe ofii ut the prisos 1 life, and 1fe, they began to beimpatient, and to grudge e moucits the ma o near his death, The listle garden k Warden lay peacefully n the morniog flowe | @3 brightly as though there were no aching | walls that closed abont them, and s if 1o soens Pow to be parformed o near them that their sweet perfu should float a Vines fastened themselves to the stera gratings yrison-w il surronndings showed its Ttsell i its wost lovable aspect to thuse wh ur more loathsome than its felows, was the dwr open to ther men to walk in the same way that had led tms one | i 1 Young men ruimed by strong drmk. He | Yo the prison 4o the rope. On every side grog-shops yuwivd o wikd, plessant tempered follow. who w 1o | ad grog-skop keepers taid in wait for other men to wreek and ands who were sorag. When & mere boy. ho was emp hop, with whieh & fish markel was cons Here e rewaiued for 1 and aseful wan. flis for ouble, speak 1 the iriendship wo far as to very o carried the d d bad & belpiag bao America. and » oid when e ended bis is face nothing of the rowdy, but ance, and n ready, quiek. pleassnt his tougue mway have uses ther than io fervent pr part of such sbort-omings to defective ¢, rather than to natoral viclogsuess. Yriery, too. following the natural in- still we of ti stincts of the butcler-boy class, lesraed something of the t fie was tacttly admitted to be, and usly put forward as the champion of a pugilistic art. and ut I was ruther os certain erowd. ested in o drinkicz sa) Houstou st b te o i nhad appeared Lut o sbort tune as proprictor, when the | ible night of Jauuary J, aceustomed to drinking ardest s tor- t Here a 1u 1564, in some manver Friery became s which was also establisbed in ning the establishment of Lazarus. to blight bis young itfe. rits to excess, it Wos in could be to many & moderate dram. to ex and to make him perfeetly reckless or When be awoke from n debauch A, cam rgie. no And it was in one of about bis own voung neck Friery aud Lazarus were friends, #s mauch as such natures e d ir riends or cak be. ter—uo love stronger than life, in truth, no t about The wen cherished o y bad simply bad no grudges to Aud this equitable any untoward ocourrence il the THE MURDER. AtChristmas and New-Years time, Friery went for many dnys on o wpree, in the course of which he lost considerable ot nev. Soured by this, as he himself says, | ing Qeeger aud deopor, until when at Inst ‘he becawe sober, | e was informed that be bad killed Harry Lazarus. The wanner of the kiling was this the moruiag of the d of Javuary, I he kept on drink- At about 2 o'clock in three mon in & sloigh, ricen by A fourth, came to the door of Hurry Lisarusw place. I,rldrlvl[ the driver with his horses the thrée—who were Ber X mA the house.” This object of the mes, tried to avoid & quarrel. Tepeated. with others more insalting last Lagarus_sald, * Well I can figh ot these words way, drawled out, " X then, throwing biy arin him deeply in tue neck, severing the carorid artery bre wurderer could I agiu drawied out, wan, but 1 guess [l ve tixed you this time.” ‘Lbe weapou waus 8 and Ul wan trie el weore ever indefatigable | s tinul fate. Lven so lnd d wwes Mactoua'd and Jumos Clark—eptered fhe :nardm ll:cdnn-l(ll mldoltlu tun CLI ore who could “lick any man in widror . nd offensive, until at ebt—L'm wo coward.” At d, 1 a drunkard’s waudlio you're & pretty guod little bout the neck of Lazirus, causing death in about two mioutes. There no siruggle or ath. Lazarus fell to the floor, and was dend before the d and we 1 of Sessions to the Supreme Coart, which uflirmed * Yes. Harry, you're u ntentenced to two years and ten months, ced, but his counsel carried his case trom ed the ou the 7th of August. Friery’s coun- their exertivns to save bim from as Weduendny last Judge Stewart sued out & writ of error, and went himseif (0 Albany, in order to procure, if possible, o stay of execution, till the Court of | Apveals should ecide whether or no the condemued man might bave a new trial. The application was, of course, in B | effectual. When b | that there FRIFRY'S CONFESSION. found that the law bad its clatehes apon him, and ould be little or no doubtthat he would he | vieted upon the evidevce, Friery never hexitated to tell what » could remember of the (FaBsuction, 0o that fatal Ja t. He seemed to prefor to teli the truth and throw upon the mercy of his judges, than to deny the | fy them to convict bim, 1l mpeb the same story to an; Though he never hes: one who approached b properly, perhaps Lis confession, of statoment, if ewbod more saccinctly in the words bereafter appended th other. To a Journalist who paid him & visit in ki duys ogo, and who b wud B0t s 3f he weie a beast 1o be stared at fo spoke as fullowh. Friery bad lost hope, or st most, had bat slight that bis prayers for & commutation of seuten | granted. He said, sabstantia’'ly ! s enough to trent bim res Jt should be premised that xpoctation would be l God is good, and if it is His will that T should die, T am I3 not eud, my b br te ropared. 1o do but refiect upon 1wy I Lave sougut religious consolation, under the guidan © | of the good priest who attends we, I trast 1 bave found peace. T hnow 16 my own Leart tha tertained the slightest o little time before b o woen in prison 1€ mouths. and have had fe und my_ approching | e L t 1 amno warderer. I neveren | wl toward Harry Lizarus, aud but been shaking baods with bim, Witk st houts diawing ner, when 1 would not imperil my soal gl Tany that 1 do ot romember a single incident 5 that terrible night. I had Jost considerable w-Voar's e ang 1 bad bygh vh B aarey They spoke with each other, they | uk together, and tley bad no cause of ill will either against lie 0ther—of eourse there was no Damon and Pytlias seuti- went iu the mi | sentiment ogative tisfy aud no quarrels to settle. as never ruflled b) very night the murder w ate of | sed to Lozaras, who, seeiog the | The words were ars imprisonuent, s accessories Friery | And of all the sweariog d reets for & sight of that gallows to Which per them may one day come, not oue in a bundred comwand 1 his dose of rum. the tree be & fine moral exhitition or mo s shadow 1hs which crod sll prisoners bad been remove o might see the fate of their uuhapy t t of the | | | by th ecution of n eris is iutended ns a useful example to thios viciously inelined, why take $0 much pains to. shu 1o plation the very ones who woald t0 most need it Emphatic counseis ! ther more consistent with the argument tha Wy would i re of Ll sol, give then front seads at the awil ‘o behold the spectacle, @ transgressor is hard.” atter to oter and perhaps abler certain slouchy-look i, semi-ragged, w maa quietly disappeared from vie t pouk, withia send a fellow-man_ oul iad been watching this g I the § extibition, and ¢ that *“the way o the world. A cer 00, and who knew by rough eplice, held an | ‘whod hastily erected in the eormor of the ! of the law ner's neck the rope which w.1s #0 100 be only awaited the word to step into the op for the last The spectators within the prison walls numbered about 300 and thougy the matter in hand was the takiog of o huaan arts within the e of death was | #chool- hout the excentioner amd toe vietim. The erupe- the V\Iv and 7¢ upon the convulsive struggies of 8 dyung uan "And yet ontside the walls, on_every corver and in every | pittance would go bis ways and de- Thing emon 2, thal never 4o rum-sbops thrive helf wmand a view of the spot where tho done it would be hard to state; if the ex- seem to be Jishment upon our stetute books to muster | But we leave tue he was to strike the koocked down insens: en uncertiin period, I fng bamself, he starfed at on peighbor, to, and | Soperfielai cuts upon the breast, which inst wese certified by D Goodrich, on the t cisoner’s own bund. y bardly appeared a cousistent one t Le was the murderer. Jlod upon (o tostify, und the facts [ to wony, and at the cor e developed, led to came to teir dew the hands of Albert L. Sta weather. doing business 0n trict seaocl. mede creditable b o sce! the sho Duriag his residence beie rous the farm, reinguishing 5 ‘an entirely different chara cher in Murttord, His d we done nm eredit, i decided y good looking wh teaching 18 said not to 3 1o appearance, Sarsweoth altwogotier i Qferont sort of Wi vutwardy fr would sect t wardorer W 1 g aturally ¢ L connive at his eseag o 1214 & most diaboilcal plot v d it been carried ity e athof Mz Fonn and b usk for waer and on_ recciviug it to stri 1 ceuterpost of his bedstead. 11 in case be siould be o and ry, tie e o) eady o swied b the Tils plan was 1 0 | bt 0 sed o m with rop 1 who had been detailed to distribute rat e thet Erowhd watll he had paid bl YIAILto, the GrOg. | Jaon aber ofi d ity { of the way, but threatening in case be did not to o | meaus lay iu hus power to et paxt bhin. Lais i ien Le communicoted to Fenu throush My, Martin, depaiy jewrs Torward a strict watch wae bept over | ¢ be wished 10 haug bis chtles . Horsco White, who has been aiready alluded we the olarm. As corroborative evidence of bi t. he exhibited the bruise on bis forehead and a few “ial, o have been wade by ilis sppearsnen both mother und danghter ed with an ax and knife i A juror's complaing lngee the weight of the gued to muss of irow o e o Somo rough | s asued sod prosecuted {1 dus form. aad dbeprsoher board seats for the accommodation of the jury, the members | slw Seprewber term of - ulxnm:“(:‘uurt xn: :::l'l.i- . ‘Shersils deputies, completed | Jury ust biga for wmurder. - of the press, and cortain of the Sheriils deputies, B.:dmly‘)l:;unl‘ e Al for smrinr.. A4 out the jegs of the unsathorised publc. c 3 iade s Friery's brother had o bist iotorviow with hin ut about 8 k THE ¥ “‘hufu PR o'clock yesterday, which was rostricted W te miiites. Al y i cfor Mook 30 was roady. Tn the sociusion of tbe prisones’s cell | the yoor 1811, snd ut th urs of age. - | His father wis Benjam and vecurence took place which deprived him of life. It is the unt- | climbing ylwits chun 10 the grim and gloomy walls 0 X | o estimony of all who ever had dealloga with youns | souwed g dmpdams aAowers i s " lies, tis features are Pocular, even babdsomeq T, that he was one of the most fnoffenxive men in bis | (heir tall Leads in weasureless coatent; ’ e aud (1, but with & somewhad | Dasiness. Tnstead of his great pagibstic *kill making bim ag- | gratoful shade upon the grassy lawn; (he eric ou; Bis Aair i 0 | presaivennd quacrelsome, us 3t uufortunntels does maoy others, | honper eliirped among the grase; buiterflies aud moths aid | j1g CONDUCT PLEVIOUS 10 IS TRIAL, AND 1IN TH COURT 10 give him & consciousuess of power. which made | fiias by thousands busad about, and the whel> carth and air 500M. t 1 1 look pity ngly and smiisgly on many & | woer fall of vitality and cager. happy, joyons life; the air war | foot Lo bls selal Btarky provoke biw, and whoin be could have chas | soft und b W the sun mever shone more brighty or Appolos Fenn o winute. was Going d | ifal. Everything of vatare that is compati- pos b- abous the prison, wdvisieg hiw t keepous or onard ] Lo o prisoner’s movements. d i . e court-room during bis triel is said 4o he ¥ | be by that ssme 1ndiffcpence and scll-posses- warl e | part of his b: His t | crowd. seldom itaelt for a time auy on ked it ail alonz and which apnears to be & lanee roamed carelestly over the i ot waader: o | fng from face to face and ont at trc window, whie o/ amd - | thon be would nod to au acquatatance whom Le recogiised. t | with tha g the str dud re: been of o g Owing to this, and Wisbing to become oxempt, dariag our war, e e dralt, be, not ble to pay the Becessary | bismission, at once set their teeth aud strung their nerves, for | < | the b cene | commutation fee, §30, his er. with “her accustomed [ Ihy Khewthe denly ntue BT Ot band. Uberaiity pruvided hiw wil the reqtired sam. Bt thie was | At precisely 10} o'clock the sad-looking Sheriff came in. H 1+ acgol hiudness which marked Mrs. Starkw, | eputy i . o rd lier kon, partienlarly during the lazter years | and his Deputy-Sherff bad the eross bitted sword belied to the | hoy life. - The place which sbe had AN wide, riff's Marstals, bore the gi spear headod_ batou of their oflice, and wore upen the I breast the official sbieid, draped in mourning. Ther come slowly in. and form a line in tront of the seaflold. Lbe jury who tried the prisoner have already entered, aud taken ti Inces that they may bebold the execution of the sentence uunded on the verdict they decreed. A murmur runs thyosgh the erowd; all b f. aud the prisoner enters. attended by the good priests Fathers MeKeuna an: doomed waw holds in bis hand an ebouy ¢ onr Savior being in gold; this be freqien worthy father beside bim is iu fine contrast to the bright, brows locks of the young man who is to die. Friery is firm; be walks steadily to the ted place. neck, having been placed thereon in Lis eell an knot rests under his chin. long is fastened round the prisoner's neck in bis cell, thea. when he is brought under the gallows, tuis rope is counected with the main one. which hangs from the beam above.) He is the Lu, even beea removed from bis neck, the rope being fastaued above it. A he steps beneath the fatal beamw, at & word from ‘atber McKenua the prisoner kneols, and, as by a common ipulse, the Sueriff aud all the officials kneel, together with many others, and everv ha off in ol the ussembly. On bis knees, repeatiug after the priest, Friers says * Our Fathor” and certaiu other fittiog prayers, and the 1 i | voice, without trembling. be repeats thy | ““Creed.” Rising to his feet, the Sheriff w! | of the prisoner to know if be would like to m | 1o which a n A Deputy ps up with the black eap in his Liand, which Friery perceives and clasps the erucifix closals 10 Lis beart, kisses it onoe or twice, thea throws bis ara about . 4, kisses him, then Kisses the other ?qlut (hlhr"r Dut'mqut; ohnr; lauds with one or two riends 88 el a3 (oe Ll tyle of his arms will pormit him, and then :';{- b}éfi ofi:i{’: place And is read, pl°n an instant the fatal black eap is drawn over his eyes by'a Deputy Sheriff, shutting out forever from his morta! cyes the view of sun, und light. und sl things beautiful; an involuntars squar- ing of himeelf on his feet is observed ; at ouce the dull sound of the ax is beard, the body rises into the air, and the mortal career of Beruard Friety is cl Conscioussess was doubtiess instantly extinguished by the shock, and the dsiog man probably suffered nothing after the first pang. Musculur struggles were observed at intervals fir about 10 minutes or more, but they were ’mrelv spaswodic tud | not indieative of pain. At the end of 15 minutes the boly | wus partially lowered for the examination of the phvaician | who did not'order it to be taken down for some minutes there after; after hanging 27 minutes in ail the corpse was lowersd into & canvas siretoher, where it was viewed by the Sheriff's Jury who sigued the requisite papors. body was theu delivered into the custods of Coroner mann, who impauneled » Coroner’s jury who rendered a verdiet that the deceased came to his death from asphyxia, he baving been executed by the Sheriff of New York Couuty in conformance with law. | ""The body was thea placed in 8 bandsome coflin whick way | provided by the friends of the execated man, who were per- witted to take awny the remains in s bearse, Ou the coftin, f | AR Y. August 17, 1066, rears aud 6 wout) BER Died d 2 With rogard to the arrangemente of the execntion, we can well say, that \f such thises must be, the procsodings can never be Dlaced it better bands taan those of vesterday. There was st gty ing absence o delay and bother, speechmaking at the gallows, nor any long prayers. Krom the time the prisoner left his cell, not five minutes elapsed before he was @ corpse. ‘The most perfect decorum characterised the proceedings in_every regard, for which all praise is due to Sheriff Kelly ana his Depaties, us well as to the police and the prison authorities, . it EXECUTION OF ALBERT L. STARKWEATHER, ————— Frow Our Speclal Correspondent. Hanrtrorp, Friday, Aug. 17, 1860, Yesterday (Friday) was set apart for the execution of Albert L. Starkweather, the marderer of his wmother and sister. 10 the whole ealender of crimes there is none more de- serviug the puuishment it receives than that of murder. ** Whoso sheddeth man's blood,” it has been said, * by man shall his blood be shed.”* Even in ordinary cases of murder, wherein one man bas been alain by anotber, exeept in the mat war of slf defense, which Doj ogly thg civil law dyfgude put s The | 6ix. the figure of Kisses, while his lips mutter continuous pravers. The gray, bare bead of the When be catches & glimpse of the rope he swiles, and tosses his head to clear the ubundant bair frow bis exen; the rope is aiready roand bis (A short rope of aboat two fest | dressed in o neat black suit, and his trim linen coliar has oot | There was no | him, he havi ulutions 18 bicoded stock. On, Wurse Oh, fiend in buman form ' that could raise bis wade over unsuccessui o brute! aguinst & become somewlat emborassed by b t that Life to which be in past owed bis exisience, and for whict be should bave beco williug at auy time to bave Jud down bis owu. THE HOMICIDE'S FIANCE. weather was engaged, is the daughter of James geutleman residiog in Mauchester, o quarter o Miss Emerette Cawpbell, the young lady to whom Starks - fa lnlnrdllhl\ from the residence of the late Mis. Starkweatber. In ewrly vouth the two wen: to the same school, where a boyish love arose i the Leart of Albert for the compasion ¢f Lis childbood. Whose acquaiutance be made later in life. , 1t seems, Was of hut short duratios, month of Jauuary, 1#65, he revewed his Emerette. It appoars from the young lad; the tial that dec! i m, | ment of respect, which it is reasonable to su He pubmequently, bowerer, bocue euguged to asother young o o agaio, 1n e usiutance with might time—Dbut for the uufortuns lanchol; | - u me Iy vccurence | o‘:r.:: pecunias :n which 1 ry em| | bad resched the "‘"’{ lady's ears, aud b produced | an uvowilliugness ia ber, stortly before tbe bowieide, to cnnnnnellhe enn‘mmon‘l.m“'lm & view to overeos these scruples ou ti rt of s» Campbell be presented | with the x«d of un”hum | which act caused some we ke Tm Ewerette received the declived acer, from biw as it | testimouy that she afterward handed it to ber mother. must have sf.er this vccurrence, and but two weeks bel Miss Campbell tormiuated the engagement by req suitor to discoutinue bis visits, at the same time giving to nthfl-d Wrnnll thought of marriage between out of the question. Thiyis ¢ wnmm of Stark! | relations with Miss Emerette Campbell. | TEE MOTIVE POR THE MURDER. On informine his wother of the presentation of Miss Campbel, we alroady stated | ensued. Starkweather finaily offered, if be certain noto fur $15,000, which he Lad given | stand as it was drawn, would keep the | pame, aud continge to reside at home, the Lad made with him in 0 the binding. and that if Miss Campbell we arry come there to live; but if he chose to decline the | had made, Le should vot have ** an iuch of the positively refuscd to do anything of the kind, an | wother of & desire to iuterfere iu his affairs and iutended bride, Sowe other exciting conversation f which resulted iu Mrs. Starkweather immediately dostr | in ber sou's presence, both the deed aud note which were ner possession, thereby rendering the deed be had gives Emerette of no value, From that time, as he himsell adwit- ted in bis coufession, the thouglt of killing bis mother neves 1ef bis miud. He bas said that he thought of it constamily, both by night and by day, and the wore he thought of it more determived he became. TIIE DEED OF BLOOD. ‘The absence of the bired man oo Mouday night, the follow- ing Taesday being the Lst of August, ated & favorable | opportunity for earrying out bis disbolical inteat. Toward morning, about 3 o'clock, the house being n—mw arose, and possessing bimself of ap ax from the wi | & knife from the drawer, proceeded to execate bis mordorons. r Let us not pause Lo account the fieundish deed of 1 blood; its details are too sickeniog to be read with aoy fechog Dbut that of interse horror; besides, they have been vuce re- corded in these columps. The bruise”on bis forchead he confessed 1o bl produced by knocking bis head the with & view to that cut hus sbirt and lacerated his breast with | his jaci 80 that ke ,mh e some proof wlereby to sub- | staitiate the story of the Strugzgle ou the stairease. After thie [ he set fre to She Deds, . Now, then, might be marry K | Cam) g i g i i e i i st 4 i 3 £ E E o i i F it < i h meretto “There would be 5o uecessity now to buiniliate him- self by asking ber to retaru Bim the deed. She might come o | live with kim ia the home that was Lis, Iere might be be happy. with ro mother or sister t between bt und his bliss. He would disabuse ber miud of ail sha picion of any cmbarrassmeuts. The davs sl glide aloag, aud 1o oue should suspect bis guilt. Ob, de. luded yoang man, thus to cheat Lis soul into shroudiog iiseld with the biackness of erime! Would there be no skeleton in the closet to poiut at him with an sccusiug fioger, and wriag trom his lips at night an omission of his heart's dark secret? Starkweather's confession bas sever appeared in priat. It was a verbal one, confided to Mr. Campbell, the father of Emerette, and accepted by the Grand Jury as safficient evie dence of bis gullt. PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE EXECCTION. An intense desire has prevailed in the commanity, for some time_tagk, to see Starkweather banged Te bas received T T Bee Eiskih Pase, i AZF §= i IR lore the murder, i