The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-12

THE EXECUTION OF Two WIFE MURDERERs IN NEW
ORLEANS.-The execution of two men convicted of
the murder of their wives, took place in New Or
leans, on the 4th inst. The Picayune of the 9Th
gives the following particulars of the tragic scene:
Yesterday morning at ii O'Clock, Patrick Eagan
and George Osborne men in the prime of life, the
former 36 and the latter 35 years old both convict
ed OF wife murder, after impartial trial by iu-
~ of their countrymen, and having had all the op-
portunities of Defence suffered death by hanging
within the walls of tbs Parish Prison, in accord.
ance with the sentence of the Court and the death
warrant signed by the Governor of the State.
small crowd, consisting of public functionaries
and privileged few, assembled in the prison yard,
to witness the execution. The two doomed men
appeared on the simple scaffod adapted to the fur
thest upper cell facing the yard. Eagan with flush
ed face and uneasy manner, pre-occupied by the
thought of his orphan children, but withal re-
signed and accomplishing, Osborne pale and firm,
and nerved up, despite the teachings of religion,
by secret resentment against former friends
Eagan spoke first; he alluded to his past lie that
OF a working and industrious man, good father
and husband; that he should ever have become the
murderer OF his wife was a thought he would have
rejected as an impossible occurrence; but he had
caused her death unintentonally, in a mo.
ment OF passion and madness he had
been tried and convicted, and he did not complain
OF his fate; hope had entered his heart and be trus
ted in the all-merciful God before whom he woul d
soon appear.
He had seat request to Mayor Monroe, in whose
employ he had been once, and perceiving him in
the front rank of the crowd, he called to him by
name bade him an affectonate farewell, and called
ON him in the name of God to take care of his
children. Mr.. Monroe, deeply moved, promised the
dying man to comply with his request, and comfor-
ted and satisfied, Patrick Eagan babe last farewell
to the ties of this world and turned his thoughts to
the world above.
Osborne spoke in a firm and loud voice, he said
he was not afraid to speak-he was not afraid to
die-he was prepared for it-he could meet death
mn NV fha \. h.
be had not had fair chance for his ife under the
laws of the land. The death of his wife was not
his crime, but his misfortune; it the result of
an accident, the result of liquor!
He had had many friends; prompt to offer their
services, when he was free and did not want them
but when trouble came, since his Imprisonment he
had had no friends not one of those of former days
had come and proffered to the lonely prisoner even
the poor solace of pipe of tobacco. He had met
with kindness from strangers, from those who had
never known him before-but his friends had for |
gotten and renowned him. He returned thanks to |
the various officers who had been kind to him.
prayer spoken aloud by the two doomed men,
some words of spiritual comfort from the venera-
Bile Father Dufan-the worthy priest who seems to |
have devoted his life to the noble task of nculcat
ing hope and the love of God in the bosoms of those
to whom society has said, "Thou shalt die;" the
last preparations made by the masked and un. |
known executioner, the sentence read by Deputy |
Sheriff, the white cap is drawn over the pale fea-
lures, two voices mufled by the thick fabric, muir
muir, "Oh, God Have mercy on my soul!'-then |
a pause that seems hour-a sharp notes.-the |
crowd recos, and two quivering bodies remain |
hanging from the double beam that projects
out of the prison wall |
Their death was easy; no struggling; simple |
quivering of the muscles, and all was over.
Mr.. Woodward the new Librarian of her Majes-
ty, Queen Victoria is preparing plans for the pub.
LEGATION of the whole body Of the Stuart Papers |.
the Queens possession. These papers compose, as
scnoars are well aware mass of material for his.