Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1862-07-10
rnuR MEN HUNG IN NEW ORLEANS.

FOUR MEN HUNG IN NEW ORLEANS.
The. Deputy Provost Marshal Stafford, Ct
New Orleans, il g 18th, executed four men BY
order of Gen. Butler, for robbery. Their names
were w. M. Clary, Frank Newton, Geo. Craige,
and Stanislaus Roy. The Herald correspondent
furnishes the following account OF the men and
their execution:
William N. Clary was born in Charlestown.
Mass. He was thirty-eight years of age, and
leaves wife and four children in East Boston.
His eldest child, boy, is fourteen years OF age.
Clary has followed the sea since boyhood, and
has at various times sailed as master and mate Of
vessels, both from American and New Bruins
wick ports. He had been attached to the Sax
ON since her last trip from Boston. He was un-
educated, but rather intelligent and capable. He
was quite tall and robust, and not illlooking,
though his countenance was, In marked degree,
lacking in frankness and honesty. He was an
only child, and his parents have been spared by
death from the disgrace which his felon's death
would have brought upon them.
Stanislaus Roy, alias Pat Murphy, was born
ia Lower Canada, at q little place thirty miles
north Of Montreal. He was twenty-six years Of
age, and had resided in New Orleans for the last
nine years, working part Of the time at his
trade as saddler and sometimes as bar tender.
His reputation in this city was that Of q thief:
He was unmarried, and leaves his parents and
seven brothers in Canada. In person nc was
quite short-not more than five feet nve-ano
with furtiye, repulsive expression OF counte'
n6ncs.
Erank Newton was native of Lewis county,
New York, where his parents and two brotners
reside. He was only twenty-five years old last
August. Some three or four years ago be united
with the Methodist church, and for some time
evidently led an exemplary life but getting In
to evil company he became wild and addicted to
unlawful practices He was married when about
twenty years of age, but did not live with his
wife long. Early last winter, or in the tall, ne
went to New Haven, where. under the assumed
name of Newton, The declined giving his true
nsme,0 he married again, and in February en-
listed in the Connecticut Thirteenth regiment.
In person he was nearly six feet tall ana very
stalwart, with shallow face large peculiar blue
eyes, and short, bristling black hair. he was .
weaver by trade, and though illiterate, could
converse and write in English that was almost
elegant. ,,,.
Englishman by birth, and had been in this coun-
try only a year. He was thirty-three years, and
q mariner by profession. He leaves wife and
three children in Brooklyn, New York. He was
apparently of surly disposition, and not inclin-
ed to be communicative. He drank incessant-
~ Of whiskey tho morning before bis execution,
but owing probably to the excitement under
which he was laboring, he did not appear to be
come intoxicated. He was about five feet six or
seven inches in height, and Of very heavy frame.
Theodore Leib, whose sentence was commut-
ed, is only eighteen years Of age, and OF pleas
ing exterior. He is native of New York State,
but has resided here good many years. When
Colonel Stafford read to him the Generals order
committing his sentence, he received it with stol-
id Indifference. His youth and appearance ex-
cited very natural interest and sympathy, but l
am inclined to think that he was as guilty asany
Of the party.
At little after ten o'clock, a. m., Clary and
Roy attended by Father Dufo, Colonel Stafford
and the other officers charged with the execu-
ton, marched through the corridor to the scat
fold, and the culprits. already pinioned and with
their white caps on their heads, were seated on
the chairs aud the nooses placed upon their
necks. Both were dressed in white shirts and
very light colored linen pants, and both walked
firmly to the gallows. Newton, in quiet re-
spectful> tone related some little of the expert
for his wife and his hope that he should meet her
and all of his friends in that better world which
he trusted in Jesus Christ soon to attain. His
remarks are embodied in his confession above.
The caps were then drawn completely over their
faces, and at twenty minutes of twelve the drop
fell, and all that was mortal Of Newton and
Crisping hung dangling like puppets at the end
of a cord. The neck Of Crispin was broken by
the fall, and he died very soon and quite easily
but Newton's breast heaved heavily and for some
minutes The sight of the four culprits, espe-
eially Clary and Roy, after they fell, were re-
voting in the extreme.