Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-12-03
them was for S4OO, and one for $50, and hand
ed them to her.

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ed them to her
The Execution.
CHARLEsTowN, Va, Dec 1.-The prisoner
was brought ont of Jail at eleven.
Before Ii, he bid adieu to all his fellow pris-
| oners, and was very atfectionate 10 all except
Cook. He charged Cook with having de-
ceived and misled him in relation to the sup
port he was to receive from the slaves. He
was led to believe they were ripe for insurrec-
ton, and he found the representations false.
Cook denied the charge, but made little reply.
Brown then told the sheriff he was ready.
His arms were pinioned and with black
slouched hat, and the same clothes he wore
during the trial, he proceeded to the door, APP
parently calm and cheerful. AS he came out,
the six companies of infantry and one troop of
horse, with Gen. Taliafero and his entire staff
were deploying in front of the Jail while an open
wagon with pine box in which was fine oak
coffin, was waiting for him. He looked around
and spoke to several persons he recognized,
and walking down the steps, took a seat on
the coffin box, along with the jaior. He look
ed with interest, on the fine military display,
but made no remark
The wagon moved off. fianlled by two files
of rihemen in close order. On reaching the
field, the military had already fnll possession;
pckets were stationed, and the citizens kept
back at the point of the bayonet from taking
any position but that assigned them. Through
the efforts of DR.. Rawlings of Frank Lesies
paper, the order excluding the press was par.
tally resclnded, and they were assigned posi-
ton near the Major Generals staff.
Brown walked up the steps firmly, and was
the first man on the gallows. Avis and Sher-
if Campbell stood by his side. After shaking
hands, thanking them for kindness, and bid
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put on his face, and the rope around his neck.
Avis asked him to step forward on the trap.
He replied You must lead me | cannot
see." The rope was adjusted and the military
order given:-"Not ready yet" The soldiers
marched, countermarched, and took position,
as If an enemy were in sight, being thus occu-
pied for ten minutes.
The prisoner standing all the time, Avis
asked if he was tired. Brown answered =
"No, not tired but don't keep me waiting
longer than necessary" He was swung off at
fifteen minutes past eleven. A slight grasping
of the hands and twitching of the muscles was
seen, and then all was quiet. The body was
several times examined, and the pulse did not
cease until thirty five minutes had passed.
The body was then cut down, placed in a cOt-
fin, and conveyed, under military escort, to
the depot, where it was put in car, tie be car
ried to the Ferry by special train. The mil
itary strictness throughout was most annoying:
every one felt that the tale of a.rescue was an
egregious hoax.
Brown empowered Sheriff Campbell to adj
minister on his property i'll Virginia, and pay
his widow the proceeds from sales of weapons.
Shortly after the execution, and whilst the
body was taken to the depot great excitement
was raised, the arrival OF horseman an.
nouncing that Wheatland, the late residence
of Geo w. Turner, who was shot at Harper's
Ferry, was on fire, and that the fire was ex-
tending to the farm and buildings of w. f.
Turner. The latter who was in town, said lie
left home at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon, and
that several of his horses had died very sud
denly, and he believed them to have been poi
soned.
The body of Brown arrived by the special
train, and will be taken by Mrs. Brown to
Albany. 1t is determined the body shall not
be visited anywhere on the route to North Eba
where it will be deposited in the family bury
ing ground.