The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-08-10

was portion and hope Of escape He
afo urged HIM Ia contsss ell In kn~w-thst ~ mast
loos 70 eod .onc as hs bad nctstna 10 from
He rvplsd that hs k~w thing ss and 90 God
the most SOLEMN "~nnsr 20 witness the truth Of what
b. said.
The bodies "a, r.y lw and sA~atsn had now been taken
and turning around h. them dead
him vhep throwing his EYES hsspsa ks sxoias sd
20 repeat hi Of horrcr = the sSousS Of
again being hure saying - o. ny tScA. think that
and murder ipn'c-nt man In shis way"
Murphy the" s,i-d Tor drink Il vstss, and It
gwen 70 HIM b1. 'b- njury 70 his throat great
The scsd, a and -p- being again adjusted, Murphy
Wa arfseo up sua tn. noo~e nxsd to is lacersted
claimed. eisplh am isnoosst man. I never
knew Cosdep; shthsr Tsylcr had anything to do With
the murder sanno' FAY; nut xnd" ina. snston
. on thai evening am an innocent man, going home
10 nv 6od On grrt' men, do not murder me-" He
w. ,wuns If .ecopd time. at twenty minutes past
.l,vep and u.d much harder than either Of
The otbsr muscular motion Of the body lasting for
some minutes
and the boo- prphy and shelton we're tsker charge
II by their i-stive- III. Eeck VI Taylor was oroken
ard the roo. had deeply into the flesh The bodies
hi, removed the vast corcourse, which the most
orderly have assembled at Nm exc cutoo-
nun herring about s,ttO-soon dispersed, and in few
hours Cberi. rtown 'rsumed s ~onted qalet, though
m. events a. he cay viii be- remembered through the
present gepr-uop This was the nrst execution that
s taken pace Kent county tor the period Of fifty
y,srs there ssewei 10 be no QUE present. excspt
sLs reporters the prees, who had
and they ~srr r'pestedly called on for instructions
- 10 the Us0. 81 prc edspg
cs persons on reading this account Of the execution
will ctma tC me com uscn that 1t judicial muir
DER so Tar a Taskr sDd Murphy were concerned 1t
sst hut notsitbs,snonx all their declarations there Is
no cpe here wh -bt~rtain- doubt VI their guilt The
t-ttmcpy sesiEs' hem mixture Of dir-st and cir
eunstaLti-l evid, thai seeie prg nane and 1t
hsr been greatly strengthened By matters that have
come to light since the trial For Instance Taylor de-
clsrd that be- hal never Shelton before whereas
there were than dozen persons present who hal
often seen tir Teacher within the preceding the
uassscru IN, lur slin later han last week urged
Mr. kicaud Ia have SHAW, who alleges that he pre-
cent nj the mnro'r by compulsou the part of tue
prisoners brought b. him aliedgug that would
10 BIZ charge Of gait against him his pres
epfe SHAW va, accordingly brought hen Taylor sud
denly became silent. L. ciined asking him any ques
tiObs NJ then questioned aud he repeated
b testimony trial addressing ray or
sksd HIM 1hat the OF ais denying his guilt
t.h MN that b. Knew that every word he uttered at
Al, tnai and rtp-sted. was true The only
nlI,c atom. lrl,ug the jaor hat If he would
gyv him Il pstoi 20 shoot hun that he would
b. sdy ~ and lie hung ut
TIE tesi Lssy and circGms tsnc-s against Shelton
cuuic nCJ hHvr been conclusive than they were
tho ulh less pi' against murphy the witness shaw
tying tba g.. third party had never
e'cn tefure ne thought murphy the man;
but The cironu"nees against lin were equally strong
a, ~ aust ether f he others
1te pri. rers aged respectively follows =
Abraham Toy Tor year Of sze 10 February Ncho
L. bUrphy was - y.arr VI age aud William Shell
ron vas bat y tb- parties murdered william
Co-den hi- -Ife May Ann Co-den. his sister Amanda
tcscen, snd has wf-'s sister. Catharine Webster. A
back aiso shot but has far Us 10
nep beipess eppie for the remainder Of her days
they al guilty generally believed there
az doubtedly hal expressions from them and
another. when difficult to explain and
car only be aeeounted Ior by the suppoon that when
toe irr after their conviction; they had
tua!y formed the resolve persist the protest
ing their innocence They all profssed conrition and
t matter mus row rest between themselves and their
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