New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-20
EXECUTION or THREE NEGROES.
of The Washington Star.

Correspondence Of The Washington Star.
PRINCE WILLIAM Co., Va, Feb. 10, 1857.
The execution Of three of the v murderers of Mr..
Green. the we'll schoolmaster OF this county,
took place in Il pine grove in the Immediate vi
entity Of this village little before p. m to day Up
to last night the condemned five in ELY had been re
ceiving constant attention from our local clergy all oil
them protesting to be under conviction. Last night
they spent in singing hymns and praying together
They &C Messed their dreadful crime some time ago.
and since then have protested great penitence for IT,
This morning ali but the lnstlgaOr Old Nelly, ate Il
ye,y hearty breakfast-the old woman refused food.
At noon the Old Nelly, aged fom % to 40 her
daughter Jane and the eldest boy, lillian tue t"o
Younger boys, twins, sged ID or TO- being respted-
eperged from the jail under the guard OF the H'gh
Sheriff of the county his deputies aud the Jaior, and
mounting a two horse wagon, were conveyed Ia the
place OF execution, where space OF near an acre In
extent had been cleared for the erection OF the gaoWs,
standing room for the spectators, &c. Ihcy were
robed in white ehrouds the wearing their bon
nets and the man being bsreheaded. On the way
from the iail TO the galows they were singing hymns
all the time .
with npparent alacrity and conversation expressed
their willingness TO expa'e their crime, declaring that
they placed their trust In Jesus, and believed mat tney
had so repened to secure salvation through him The
man alone said anything on the galiows aud he only
cent word by the jaor TO tue two respted boys to e
ready 10 follow them; that is, to be sure That they
nske their peace with God In ten or fifteen minutes
Aer they mounted the gaows the white caps that had
hung upon their necks az the back OF their shrouds
were drawn up their faces and the Sheriff, cutting
he fastening If the trap launched them into eternity
The necks If the younger woman and the man are sup
psed to have been Instantly broken
The old woman struggle much for some minutes.
heir a ms but not their legs were p,nioned. After
Angling until life was clearly extinct in ali OF Them
,eif bodies were taken down and placed IN PLAIN cot
b. and inferred in the pines few feet distant from
here the gallows stood the graves having besn pre-
busly prepared There were perhaps thousand
bsons present, a majority OF wnom were negroes.
ch was the atroci,y of the circumstances OF their
ime az SO much their victim beloved by all IN
Is section that the negroes eyinced If anything less
cnpaihy for them than the whites. Halt the crowd
tompsnied the cortege from the jail in vehicles, on
Ssebaek and on foot. Hundreds. TO get good views,
nbed the pines until they looked as thoagh growing
trop OF men ana boys.
1t q thought here that the resped boys will not be
ung Their old hcnd OF a grandmother IT will be re-
mse.ed copcocted the plot and insgated the rest TO
dreadful deed-of beating their ma ters brains out,
M burning the house into which they dragged his
hp.e 70 conceal their crime. The course of justice,
ewever was swift upon It's heel. THIS execution, IT 10
kught will have desirable effect on all evil doors IN
hs quarter.