The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-01-31
City Intelligence.

DEATH OF MoNRoE EpwARps-Col Monroe Edwards,
whose crimes have given him q reputation far more
wide than envabe died at the Sing Sing State prison at
an early hour Friday morning He has been decln.
ing in health since his incarceration, but for the
last two years he has failed perceptbly to cause
general remark among those acquainted at the prison
His disease, it is said consumption brought on by
the practice OF habit prevalent amongst prisoners in all
the State prisons. He warned OF his danger long
time since he acknowledged his fault but persisted in
the practice until he past the reach medical aid For
number of weeks past he has been delirius at tines
when, however, he conversed, he was eloquent upon
the history of his past life and his plans for the future
he would not contemplate the fact that he was about to
die The chaplain OF tho institution conversed with the
sick when his death bed Edwards paid no regard
to What he said appearing to be in state of stess ia
sanity until the chaplain mentioned the crimes of which
he had been convicted when for a moment he appeared
to come partially TO his senses, and protested that he
did not commit the forgeries. On Thursday night,
he hospital was locked up usual and the patients left
in charge of attendants Towards morning it became
evident that the sick man could not long survive in
that is he imagined that he had ceased to exist and
pealed to his attendants to know il It was not So They
told him no. he not dead but hshe refused to be-
leve and began to bite his finger which he said was
without feeling and hence he argued he must be dead
and again appealed to the attendants asking them TO feel
his flesh and tell him II he were not really dead the
phy stefan the prison not with him when he died
nor indeed time during the night The nurses de-
scribe the death being horrible to witness The
diving prisoner protesting that he was Dead yet filed
with the dread Of the fearful transition and all the while
andeavoring bite his fingers tear his esh not
much with the intent to nure his person. as to convince
elf that the appalling change from life IT, death had
taken place. and he had il not 10 suffer again; and so he
died What could be more dreadful But he is gone,
and charity may at least claim light judgment upon
his memory He guilty but he expated his crimes in
those close gloomy cells, where for four years he su
tered most poignantly as naughty active man might
be expected suffer- when brought under the lash of
the overseer and confined whirthe limits pres
crbed by prison rules His stubborn spirit at first refus
ed TO give way but length broken by the stern
discipline of the institution within whose walls he found
HIMSELF and at length yielding to temptation, which in
new form, followed him to this seclusion, Monroe
Edwards died a most horrible death in the hospital oil
Sing Sing State prison He might have been great
man il he had sought greatness in the path Of recuje
but he deed the laws OF his country, and his country in
the vndication Of its laws, crushed the offender Fdt
justikd
| STATE OF THE WEATHER.--We had again. sudden
change in the weather yesterday morning, about six
| o'clock when il ceased raining and began Immediately
TO freeze VIII oh continued during the day. The side
walks and the streets pretty well drenched by the
rain of the previous day, and frozen up
dering the walking for foot passengers agreeable The
following table taken at Delatous in Wall street, dur
ing the week will show the variation in the range of the
thermometer since Monday last But begin to think
that Wall street is a bad place for Thermometers 1t il
stock market Here, however, are the quotations c