Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-05-24

must be LoRdOn stones 1T takes an Ole not
.johuny Bull to find music in the mud of the
"American Bottom ST Louis RepuJ.
An Exciting In,.rv,.w In the Auburn
Prison.
Green. the Reformed Gambler, recently made
an excursion through the Auburn State Prison
He gives the follow ing account of his interview
with murderer -
son my return to the prison office, was in
troduced to the chaplain. Rev. O L. Merrill
which revere nd gentleman informed me that a
man by the name of Wyatt, then confined in
one of the cells, tor the murder OF Gordon, on
the 18th of March, in the Auburn State Prison,
had confessed to him that he had lived gam.
/ bier several years in the South and West, and
he would like | should call upon him. | nc.
compaulcd HIM to the cell OF the murderer
The door was thrown upon ITS grating hinges,
when the reverend gentIeWan introduced ire a>
an acquaintance OF his who had travelled South
several years, aud thought that he wyatt
would be glad to converse with him. He SAID
! he was happy 20 see me, und asked me 20 be-
seated. After short discourse, relative To the
ifIerent classes of men then in confinement.
n-ked him what nc followed in his travel,
through the South. He told me gambling.
asked him how long he had been engsged il
,hn, neiarious business! lie SAID twelve OF
thirteen years. laskcd hun If he knew many
gamblers lie sad he did
asked him # he ever knew one bv the name
ofGrecn. He sand he did asked his ramc
lie answered 'Join;' sald he knew him u,
1872, 3, 4, and ;, aud saw him in l-!2 III ~
Louis. asked him II he was intimate viii
Green. iie saId krcw hIm : one gambler
knew another. | asked It favored him. =,
SD # | would stand IN the Irgh, hr ", aid tel
me, did 81. lie saId loukrd Ike the man
told hum was the man, Ln, that 1 nsye
knew him by the name o. WYATT. He SAID
did nnti that Wyatt. was not his real name. II,
then told me anG,h-r, which WAS not his rea
name, and asned me It | did not hear OF mal
being murdered near St. LOUIS, ~ the yen
lSli, and OF two men being arrested, both ir,e,
and convicted, one having new nial grantee
INN, the other being hung. told him that
thought had. tie sand he was the man thu
had the new trial granted, and was acquitted
and saId he, they hung the wrong mun ; h'
was nnocent; am the guilty man /; but lhel
hung HIM and cleared me.' But, says |. 'yo,
were under different name stlli, al that time.
| H.. ,N hu of nj q, y,n
know me, but my real name you are iamllla
with. Your name said he, 4 knew in til,
year 1882 the gamblers called you John, bu
jonathan is your real name My curInsty va
highly exc ted at the strange mansgcmeu, q
the n,urdprrr But yon may imagine the in
erase ofr when he told ne his real name.
hnked al the murderer and could scarcely
believe NY ewG eyes yet he stood before M
living marvel have pledged secrecy as {,
, his real name until after his execution. | in
terrogalcd him on his tr-t steps IN vice, AIN
how he became 80 hardened Tie told me 4
f remember the treatment he had received iron
, the Iynchers' lash a, Nlckoburg. did, but ~,
r eyes could scarcely credit reality. had know
him in 1889, 3, 4, aud in the early par, OF 80, a
a barkeeper in Vlcksburg. He was never
/ shreWd rd-player, but at that time he va
, considered an nohensiye youth. The cuilS
, house he kept was owned by North, who wit
D four others were executed on the 9th OF Juy
1885, by Lynch Law. Wyatt and three other
| were taken on ,he morning OF the ,th, strippe
3 and one thousand lashes gwen to the four, tai
5 red aud iealhered, and put into canoe and 81,