Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-12-05
VOLUME 27.
Execution Of q Negro.

oamee OailenuerJ the negro VINO muir
derod Mrs, Emily Jones and her two
children, on Sunday, Sept 7th, 1852, at
Otis, Mass, 0xpiatod his crime in the iail
at Lcnox, on Friday, last week, at iO}
o. m. The murderer was but 22 years
| old, and his victims were aged, respec.
lively, 26, a, and 2. Before the exeou.
tion, he made the following confession:
"On the 7lh Of September, 1869, at 10
| O'Clock, q. M, started from Gulf Bridge
and went along the highway to the lane
leading to Mr.. Clark's house. l went
past Grants pasture. found my father
sitting on log near coal cabin. had
made an appointment to meet him there.
Wo were going to Beldens Hill, to kill u
stolen sheep, as we were out Of meat
While there, we saw Mrs. Jones, and
father said, "Now is good time to have
revenge; you know how che served you
I about milking o cow"
81 wont up TO the woman and took hold
Of her arm. Father killed the children,
by throwing stones at them. then pull
cd the woman down, and pulled her
clothes over her head. While doing so,
che scrathed my face, producing the scars
now visible. then held her while father
violated her person; he then held her
while did. Father then held her clothes
over her head, while took o stone and
threw it on her head. Wo then hid the
bodies in one place, but separated them,
as the pile was too big"
He breakfasted at about seven O'Clock,
and behaved SO coolly and unconoernodly
as ever while partaking Of this, his las.
meal. Afterwards, he remarked to q visi-
tor. 81 had sausagss for breakfast, and
/ ate q d-----d LOT Of 'em for I've got
journey to 60, and don't know how long
it's going to be ~
| When asked where he expected to 20
when he died, be replied, with careless
laugh, "Go to I Why, to hell, where all
good christians 60 !"
Thomas Calender, the culprt's father,
was arrested on Thursday, and brought to
the Same Jail, on the charge of threatening
to murder his wife. He had an inter
view with James, at which they roproachcd
each other violently. James says his
q father told him he "would like to rip his
1 id --s out ~
, During the morning, the condemned
talked and jeorod with tho crowd, through
. his window; aud when his coffin arrived,
:. he cried out, "Take away that id
2 thing you don't want that yet. l don't
like to look at itr'
q The prisoner was escorted to the scaf
4 fold by Sheriff Root and his deputies
# Seven hundred persons wero admitted to
l the Jail yard to witness the execution.
n Rev. Mr.. Field read the beautiful Epis.
+ copal service for Execution, the culprit
/. standing straight and unmoved tho while.
n Mr.. Field then shook hands with the pris-
|. oner, who was as cordial as the confined
q state OF his hands would admit. The
y Sheriff then asked the prisoner il he had
anything to say. His reply wos--
"No, haven't much to say. I wish
# to state that my father got me into the
l. scrape-he got me full Of rum, and then
$ left me to be hung, while he is not. That
@ is the truth, and would stick to it if IL
il the last day OF my life y
q His father, who was in cell overlook.
'e ing the scene, hesrd the remark, and cried
ia out -
/, "James, how can you die with such a
" falsehood in your mouth ~
1, Thore was no response to this /; and the
1t black cap was then pulled over the pris.
II oner's head tho sheriff placed his foot on
d the spring, and the drop fell. The body
g fell about ten feet, and a contraction Of
j. the muscles was the only perceptible mo.
70 ton. In three minutes, Callender's pulse
went up to l20, and in five minutes and a
half there was only slight tromor. AT
n the end of twenty minutes, the body was
IN cut down and sent to the Medical College
- at Pittsiicld, and was dissected the same
- day.
N From beginning to end, it was one ol
;" The tnnat lrinhtlul and krutal trnnndia.