Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-05-02
ruE EXECUTION OF WEBSTER, TIE FEDER.

The EXECUTION OF WEBSTER, TIE FEDERAL
's-- ''' .---,;irqs Of the trial OF Timothy Web
s;er, charged with being spy, ""-r.- ---r.o-
d.v, when the sentence OF desth, which had pre-
viously been announced, was put in execution. lle
trial commenced on the cd OF this month, before tho
G. s. Martial at the City Hall, Col! Nathaniel
TYLER, presiding. The charge was that the said
Webster chad been lurking around the armies and
ortfcutions, in and about the Confederate States,
il the service Of the United States
Specilcat,on lst.-Thst on tho lst OF April, !So..
the prisoner urkcd about the foriihcations around
the city OF Richmond, in the service o. 'ne o.
Government. ,.,,
Spec;tcation 2nd-That on the let OF July, lsjl,
the prisoner lurkcd pbout the armies and iortiica-
tions ut Memphis Tcnnes.ee, III the serS:re ot the
L. ). Government.
il will be remembered that Two aHies, hauicIJ !,
Price Lewis and John Sculy, were uie! by court
martial several weeks ago, found guilty AID sen.
:.,,ceJ 10 be hung The scaHold wss erected. and
RI. duy appointed for the execution; but owing To
| confession which they made, duplicating "cpE,er,
:yhn hnd heeu vigorous witnrss against thcn EN-
eeutiya c,cueEcy granted them respite, All" the
discretion OF the court martial transformed tneiu
;rto witnesses Webster, at the time, uGs md hau
been for some time before, employed by the Con
cd.rste States War Department; TO carry letters to
and from the North. scH!!y and Lewis were Nottn-
crn detectives who were arrested while attempting
| n make their way out Of Virginia, BY way o! the
eastern counties along the Pamuukey. IheIT con
.essior represented Webstcr as being Hspy ol the
6rs, water, with whom they hsd been acting IN UNI
son.
The verdict OF the court WAS thas OF the HfsI
specification tho prisoner gaiIty: on the =es"nd
not guilty the charge on that speccatoL hoi BENG
sufficiently stlstninei -,
IN the 18th lust, the sentence, which had pcsi!
pronounced, was approved, and Gen' W iiiuei HP
POINTED the 2th, tyeserIay,l between the nouns "'
; sud IL O'clock A. ii. Icr the tiuis Of execution;
Previous 10 the removal oi the prisoner .r'iil tne
| Military PrsoE he WIS visited BY the f.a'. NJ
WoodbrIdse, OF the Monumental Church, VINO III
his endeayors 20 hring about piou- state oi n'Ad
in the anuitgated william, only met with il,mah-
| ucrcG responses The Only approach be Insio 70
wards resignation request tina. the rev gen
tieuan would read hin that psalm o. UaVn "a,ci
invoked curses upon his euemies. Dr. " "oofof'IH'
of conrse declined, and !ett the apartment IL
,naintnped thut he WAS innocent 70 the last.
About ten o'clock ne wss removed, unaei 'I!:tI
rF escort 10 the place Of execution, the Ie" -; ~
Crouu,i, where, upon the scatold erected ipr u
sccomplices he met the fate which a"Eiteu mn
not. however, wthoat III accident: frayeI hs, m 10.
hren offered in his behalf BY the Rev. M y. LIZ
D, D., of the Presbyterian Church, lhs nopes w.
laced around the condemned mans Neck u.e 'u
drswn, and h. tell but the rops slipping llon' y
tastenings, be Vas precipitsted to the
SCARCELY moment elapsed before the oiLeu'9 ~
: adjusted and at twenty minutes past eicren' -
] word va. given, sad he was Instantly 'auAeie
b. into eternity