Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-09

death.
INCIDENTS.
On The road to the scaffo,d Brown remarked
to the undertaken, who was seated in the wag-
on with him, on observing military in the field:
They have excluded all citizens" Yes"
was the reply. Captain Brown said-"Gen-
tlemcn, you are very calm and collected-much
more so than | am and yet your condition is
much more critical. | am COOL said he |
have suffered much more from modesty in my
lifetime than l have from fear. For thirty
years l have been educated to look on fear as
a myth, and now l do not know what it IS
After ridingzsame distance farther, and being
beyond the limits of the town. he said address
sing the same gentleman " What a beauti-
full country you have / had no idea of its
beauties and the excellence Of its soil. This
is the Grst time ] have ever had the pleasure
of seeing it." No other conversation took
place, ana he quietly proceeded to his death.
Just previous to starting to the execution,
Brown wrote the following, and handed it to
Mr.. Hiram O'Bannon
q am now convinced that the gseat iniqui-
ty which hangs over this country cannot be
purged without immense bloodshed. When l
first came to this Sta,e | thought differently,
but am now convinced that was mistaken"
He requested Mr.. OBanpon not to give
publicity to the above.
After the body of Brown had hung for thir-
ty-eight minutes, ii was cut down and placed
in the coffin. The rope with which he was
hung vas taken in charge by an officer, and
afterwards cut up into pieces and distributed
to those who were anxious to have it. Par
ties cut the timbers of the g~ollows, and carried
away the pieces, while others secured q lock Of
his hair. When the body was placed in the
coffin ii was conveyed down and placed in the
jail. Many persons desired to visit the jail
for the purpose of seeing it, but their curiosity
was not gratiied. A. special train of cars was
ordered from the Ferry, and at half-past six
o'clock, under a strong military escort, the cot
fin was removed from Jail and taken to the
cars, where it was placed in a special one, and
an escort getting in, the train proceeded to the
Ferry, where it arrived at half past seven
o'clock.
Not more than two hundred citizens witness
sed the execution. Many more would have
been present, but the officer of the day, i'll p.a-
cling s~entiEels on the avenues leading 10 the
town, selected men from the military corps
from a distance, and they, not being able to
recognize ~citizcns of the county, they were ex-
Guided from town lest they might be reseuers.
Mich indignation. was felt and expressed on
account of this arrangement, and clamor be
came SO great that the commanding officer was
compelled to remove those who were on senti-
ael duty. and placed members of the county
military companies on, guard. Immediately
after the. execution a heavy smoke was ohser-
we'd to the southeast of town, and q report
was IN circulation that it was occasioned by
the bnrning7o of the barn of the late Geo. Tur-
ner, who was killed at Harper's Ferry, A
squad Of cavalry were Immediately dispatched
to examine into the cause, who returned and
stated that it was owing to the burning of
brush on a clearing, On Thursday, however
four of the horses belonging to Mr.. Turner
died Of poison. while several Others are suffer
ing from the effects of the same l
Charlestown is very quiet the people are
not excited, and have meyer been. The only
excitement which has existed has been occa-
stoned by the military. The troops will re-
main. Some few will be granted furloughs,
but they will be all present on the 10th inst.