American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-05-08

which are ministers, 2 physicians, printer
and type foundry.
The press was started in June last, and a
the last accounts had printed ,OO0, 900 pares
OF the Scriptures. About the middle Of The
last year the Board commenced operations il
Papal Europe, and had already sent $50 900 to
that field of labor Although the receipts ap.
peared small, yet they would appear large wher
the good which had thereby been Accomplished
! was considered.
| Impressive addresses were then made by the
Kew. DIS. Snodgrass and Alexander, setting
forth the nature and importance of the work
the success which had already at ended 1t and
the acknowledgements which are waited upon
every breeze for greater efforts and renewed
! faith
The Btnediction was pronounced by the Pre-
sdent.
AN EXCITING INTERVIEW IN TIE AUBURN
PRISON. Green, the Reformed Gambler re-
Gently made an excursion through the Auburn
State Prison. He gives tho following account
OF his interview with murderer:
"On my return to the prison office was in
| troduced to the chaplain, Rev. O. f.. Morrill,
which reverend gentleman informed me that Il
man by the name of Wyatt, then confined in
one OF the cells, Ter the murder Of Gordon, on
the 10th OF March, in the Auburn State prison,
mad confessed to him that he had lived pam-
bler several years IN the South and West, and
he would like should call upon him. | sc-
| companled him TO the cell Of the murderer
The door was thrown open upon its grating
hinges, when the reverend gentleman introduc.
ed me as an acquaintance of his who had ira
yelled South several years, and thought that
he (Wyatt) would be glad TO converse with
nm lie said he was happy to see me, and
asked me to be seated. After short discourse
relative to the different classes of men then in
confinement, l asked him what he followed in
his travels through tn South. He told me
gambling. | asked him how long he had been
engaged IN that nefarious business? He said
twelve or thirteen years. asked him if he
knew many gamblers? He said he did
| asked him if he ever knew one by the
name of Greene He said he did. asked his
name2 He answered john said le knew him
in 1882, 3, A., and s., and saw him in 1912, in
st. Louis. | asked him if he was intimate
with Green? He said he knew him as one
gambler knew another asked if favored
him? He said if would stand in the light, he
would tell me. | did so. He said 1 looked
like the man. | told him was the man, but
that never knew him by the name of WYATT
He said did not; that Wyatt was not his real
name. He then told me another, which was
not bis real name, and asked me if did not
hear of man being murdered near St. Louis
in the year lS4l and of two men being arrest
ed, both tried and convicted, one having a new
trial granted him, the other being hung.
told him that thought had. He said he
was tie man that had the new trial granted.
and was acquitted; "and, said he, "they hung
the wrong man; he was innocent; am the
guilty man; but they hung him and cleared
me-" "But," says |, ''you were under diff
ferent name still, at that time He said,
eyes, by none OF those names do you know
me, but my real name you are familiar with.
Your name" said he, 81 knew in the year
1882; the gamblers called you John, but Jona-
than is your real name" My curiosity was
highly excited at the strange management of
the murderer But you may imagine the in
crease of it when he told me his real name.
| looked at the murderer aud could scarcely
believe my own eyes, yet he stood before me
living marvel. | have pledged secresy as TO
his real name until after his execution. | in
torrogated him on his first steps in vice, and
how he became so hardened, He told me
to remember the treatment he had received
from the Lynchers lash at Vicksburg. | did,
but my eyes could scarcely credit reality. | (
had known him in 1882, 8, 4, and the early |
part of '35, as bar-keeper in Vicksburs. He
was never shrewd card-player, but at that
time considered an inoffensvo youth The
coffee house he kept was owned by North, who |
with four Others were executed on the 5th of
Jaly. 1885, by Lynch law. Wyatt and three
others were taken on the morning of the It'll, |
stripped and one thousand lashes given to the .
four, tlrred and feathered, and put into canoe
and set adrtt on the Mississippi River. 1t
makes my blood curdle and my flesh culver to
think of the suffering condition of these unlor-
tunate men, set adrift on the morning of the .
18th of July, with the broiling sun upon their
mangled bodies. Two died in about two
hours after they were set ahoat. Wyatt and
another remained with their hands and feet
bound forty hours, suffering more than tongue
can tell or pen describe, when they were picked
up by some slave negroes, who started with the
two SURVIVORS TO their quarters His compan-
ion died before they arrived. Wyatt survives
to tell the horrors of the Lynchers' last He
told me seven murders had been occasioned by
their unmerclfu treatment to him, and one in
nocent man hung, know his statements to
be true, tor had known him before 1885, and
his truth 10 other particulars cannot be doubt
ed. He murdered his seventh man, for which
crime he will be executed. have another
for your paper concerning the
murderer and his prospects in the world to
ocme Yours truly, jill. GREEN.
Auburn, April 10, 1916.
New DREss. The Boston Dailv Mail,
spirited and well conducted sheet. came out in