The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-09

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mination to reform if he should be liber
ated. lie has made a free and unre
served confession of all his crimes anC
rowdyisms, and disclosed, as far as pos
sible, the connection of his accomplices
He has been assured, ever since his ar
rest, that he should not be hung, as The
committee would not execute any mar
for q crime that the law of the land would
not do the same for. But he was in.
formed that he would be sent out of the
country.
He has great reluctance about going
to Sydney, and frequently begged of a
member of the committee to iuterceed
to have him sent TO New York. He
promised the member that il he could
be sent to the Atlantic States he would
avoid the largo cities, go back into the
country, and give up fighting and the
use Of lIquoT. He was very anxious that
he might be sent alone, as he said his
old associates would kill him for the
revelations lie had made. He seemed
to fear transportation with the other rris-
oners there, and some rowdies not yet
captured, as much as he did death it.
self. The eommittee man agreed to do
what he could for him, but Ire could not
PROMISE to secure all that he asked.
TIE SUICIDE.
Yesterday porning, about half past
FIVE o'clock, he called to the guard who
stood without the door of his cell, and
asked for a glass of water. After drink
ing he said he had experienced a most
no rible dream, and went on to relate it.
He thought lie was arraigned, tried, con
victed, Sentenced aud executed. He
heard the footsteps of the soldiers APP
preaching. to bring him out to the gal
lows; felt the rope drawn about his neck;
imagined he dropped, and while hanging
in Imagination he awoke and called for
a glass of water. The guard chccred
him up, and assured him that he need
not fear an execution, as the committee
had already agreed to send him out of
the State.
lie was left to himself again, and at
eight and a half o'clock, when his break
fast was brought to him, he was dead
and cold. Physicians were at once sent
for, and they pronounced life extinct,
and were of opinion that he had bceu
dead some time. lie was lying upon
his bed, and the knife with which the
deed was committed was lying just be-
meath his right hand, from wEieh it had
apparently dropped.
The knife was a common taLle-kuife,
with u German S liver blade, and handle
of the same material, aud was quite dull
as much So as ordinary knives of this
character. The means resorted to pro-
duce death was to make an i~ucision upon
tue left arm, near tie elbow, and cut
ting the feshy part of the arm to the
hone, laying open a horiG wound. Two
large ar: cries were completely severed
AID death must have ensued speedily,
and without a single struggle-at least
such was TIE opinion of the physicians.
WOW CT Il I'd
Information Of the dcath was given to
the Coroner, and he removed the body
and the knife TO his Office, where it was
exposed 10 the view Of the public. A
line was formed, and passed in and out
Of the room continually from twelve
O'clock until FIVE, when the door was
clos~A It was egtialated that at least
ten thousand persons went to see the
remains of this w~ilely-LnowG individual.
INCIDENTS OF HIS LIFE.
James Suliivaa is a native Of Erg-
land, and was early in life transported
to Sydney for theft. He arrived in New
York while quite young, and was a. once
recognized as a Distinguished English
prize-fshter. Upon his arrival there he
opened what was called the Say Dust
House." and gave out that he was re-
passing upon his %laurels, and could not BE-
successfully disturbed
su!.LIyAN's FAmILY
The deceased leaves a wife and small
child to mourn his loss. He was mar
rie1 III this city about fourteen months
since, ard was living with her at the
time of his arrest on Greenwich street.
She visited the cell on Friday, and he
gave her his ring, ard told her that lie
expected to be hung on Saturdar.
\ AMI ORDER MEETING.
A meeting of c%itizcus in favor Of main
tanning the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton aud laws Of the State, was held on
the plaza at tSo P. N. on the I'd lust.
The meeting vas largely attended, and
c.iaracter7zed by great confusion during
all the proceedings. Speeches were
made by James K. Wade, Chairman of
the meeting, Judge Campbell, Mr.. Bros
nan, Colonel Baker and others.
At the conclusion OF Colonel Bakers
speech, Judge Campbell offered the fol-
lowing resolutions, which were declared
unanimonslv adopted !:
Resolrcd, That it is the sense ofthis
meeting that the reign of Law and order
should be resumed in the city of San
Francisco; that a termination be put
to the present. excitement; and that ey-
cry free American citizen be remitted to
those inallienal rights which a free Con-
stitution and equal laws assure to him.
{" Reso1yed, That we adjourn to meet
at the call OF the chairman"
THE GRAND JURY ON TIE PROCEEDINGS OF
THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
The following is the concluding por-
ton xf the Report of the Grand Jury in
San Francisco, rendered on the evening
of May 81:
The events of the last month, which
have taken place in our midst, product
i've of SO much excited feeling lii our
community, cannot be passed over BY
this grand jury without comment or re-
mark.
However, no good purpose can be
subserved By another reiteration of the
details and causes that have so deeply
affected the people of this city they
are familiar to us all and while we are
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