The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1845-05-17
IN Esc;tins hi~v;.w IN the auburn

I IN Eseitirs hi~visw IN the Auburn
Prison. Green, The Reformed Gambler,
recently made an excursion through The
Auburn State Prison. lie gives the follow.
Ing sccoun, Of his interview with a murde
Irer.
"On nv return 10 the prison Office ] was
introduced to the chaplain, Rev. O.E' Nor
ill, which reverend gentleman informed me
that man by the name of Wyatt, then con
lined IN one of The cells for tho murder ol
Gordon, on the 10Th of March, in tho Au
lburn State Prison, had confessed 10 him
lha, he had lived gambler several years IN
I,he South and West, and he would like !
should call upon him. accompanied him
10 the cell Of The murderer. The door was
Thrown upon its grazing hinges, when the
reverend gentleman introduced me as an ac'
lousinlsnce of his who had travelled South
several years, and thought that he (Wysl')
would be glad to converse with him. lie
said he was hsppy 10 see me, and asked me
to be seated. After a short discourse rela
. tive TO the different classes Of men then in
. confinement, | ssked him what he followed
Y lin his travels through the South. He told
n me gambling. tasked him how long he
!. had been engaged IN that nclarous business!
,,l He said Twelve or thirteen years. asked
n him if he knew many gamblcrsl He said
he did.
| asked him If he ever knew one by the
. name Of Green. lie said he did. | asked
mis- name lie answered john said be
e knew him in 1882, 3, 4 and Sand saw hin
J. ls42 in 81 Louis. asked him il he
y was intimate with Green. He said he knew
II nim az one gambler knew another. | asked
e I,f favored him. He said if would slan(
ID in the light he world tell me. ! did so.-
s He said looked ke the man. told hin
N Ii was the man, bu, that never knew hln
r lby the name Of Wyatt. He said did not
be rha, Wyatt was no, his real name. lie the
tod me another, which was no. his res
" ma me, aud asked me il | did no! hear OF
u man being murdered near ST. Louis, in II,
}" wear lS4l, and OF two men being arrested
10 both tried and convicted, one having ne'
'e risl grant, d him, the other being huug.
III old him that thought had lie said b
was the man that had the new trial granite
and was acquitted; and said he' the
hung the wrong man; he was innocent:
am The guilty man, bu. they hung him an
le cleared me But Gays !, you were III
u ier a different name sill' al that time
u.ltIe said, Yes, BY none Of these names d
IA, YOU know me, but my real name you al
I ,|famillar with. Your name said he,
oa|kn.w in the year 1882, The gambler, caIe
70, YOU John, but Jonathan is you real name
ID INV curiosity was highly excited a! II
strange management Of The murderer B'
- "e YOU NAV imagine the increase ol i! when /
~ told me his real name.
ID" tore ne living marveL have piedgt
secrecy as 10 his real name until after h
vs. execution, inlerrogased him Oh his fir
III steps in vice, ind how he became 40 ha
nldened. lit told me 10 remember the tea
n & menl he had received from the Lyncher
iu ash al Vicksburg. did, bu, my eye
fc could scarcely credit reality. had know
no him IN 1882. 3, 4, and in the ealIy parl {
NJ, 35, as barkeeper in Vlcksburg. He wa
!; never a shire wd card player, but at that tim
IL he was considered an inofensive youth =
o., The coffee house he kept was owned b
u" North, who with four others were execute
~ on the 5'h Of July, 1885, by Lynch Law
We Wysll and three others were taken on lb
D" morning Of the 7th, stripped and one hous
and Iashes given TO the four, larred AM
feathered, and put into canoe and Sc. a
drift on the Mississippi river 1t makes m
blood curdle and my flesh culver TO thinI
g. Of the suffering condition Of these uniofu
q nate men, SET adriGl on The morning OF tn
tn 7!h of July, with Tho broing sun upol
2. their mangIed bodies. Two died in abou
its Two hours after they were set aAosr. Wyatt
es and another remained with their hands ant
Il feet bound forty hours, ct ffering more thai
=. tongue can tell or pen describe, when the;
- we're picked up by some slave negroes, whc
VI started The two survivors 10 their quarle.s s
'e HIS companion died before they arrived
OF Wyatt survives 10 tell The horrors of the
"a Lynchers last. He told me seven murders
ID had been occasioned by their unmerCifu
n treatment to him, and one innocent man
T. hung. know his teslaments TO be true
for had known him before 1885, and his
truth in other particulars cannot be doubted
y lie murdered hjs seventh man, for which
r criGe he will be executed.