The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-21

Further Particulars Of the Execution
OF the ConspiratOrs.

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New YORK, July 8.-The Worlds 40.
count Of the execution says: It was with
shudder that saw the officer gather the
ropes tightly three times around the robes
of Mrs Surratt and bind her ankles with
cords. She half tainted and sank back.
ward upon the attendants, her limbs yield
ing but uttering no cry. aHse ao
Payne, with feet firmly laced together,
stood as strait as one of the scaffold beams
and braced himself up so stoutly that this
prevented the breaking of his peck.
Harold stood we'll beneath the drop,
still wbimpering, and Atzerodt in grow
cling attitude. ..a ...s-a gs.G ~.
d They said nothing, except Mrs. Surratt,
who asked to be supported, that she might
not fall. .a'-' s..rg,..
Harold protested against the knot with
which he was to be dislocated, it being as
huge as his double fist. ..f7 100 . .
All the mechanical preparations were
clumsy and insrtistic, and the final scenes
of the execution revolving, when the
death caps were all drawn over the faces
of the prisoners, and they stood in line in
awful suspense, between absolute life and
i'm Mediate death, a man at the neck of
each adjusting the cord. The knot be-
meath the ears Of each protruded 8 or 6
inches, and the cord was so thick that it
could not be made to press tightly against
the flesh. An officer on the front of the
platform motioned back the assistants. and
then signalled the executioners. Great
beams were dashed against the props ST.
simultaneously, two traps fell, four bodies
dropped, and the spectators took little
rush forward, ST., - s,o-...,, $500
Mrs. Surratts neck was broken imme-
diately. She scarcely drew one breath.
Her short figure, with her skirts looped
closely, merely dangled by the vibration
of her swift descent, and with the knot
holding true under her ear, her head hung
sidewaye, and her pinioned arms seemed
content with their confinement. ,aod
Payne died q horrible death. The knot
slipped to the back of his neck and bent
bis head forward on his breast, so that he
strangled as he drew his deep chest al
most up to his chin, and his knees contract
ed until they seemed almost to touch his
abdomen. The veins on his great wrists
were like whipcords- expanded to twice
their natural dimensions, and his huge
neck grew almost black with the dark
blood that rushed in food to the rope.
A long while he swayed and twisted and
struggled till nature ceased her rebellion.
Harold also passed through some strugl
giles. It is doubtful If bis neck was broken.
Atzerodt died easily. a'la' 81 oroI
NEW YoRK, July 9-The Herdlds
Washington special says the sisters OF Har-
old visited the arsenal this afternoon and
obtained the clothing and other effects Of
their brother. s - tlGe ag -hl Il
The gsllows remains precisely as it was
after the execution, with the exception
that the ropes and nooses have been re-
moved, and one of the props that upheld
the drop upon which Mrs. Surratt and
Payne stood, has been seized by curiosity
hunters and cut up for relics. -
Great numbers have visited the arsenal
hoping to obtain some souvenirs Of the ex-
ecution, but very few were procured.
Capt. Roth, of Gen. Harstaffs staff, to
whom was charged the duty of construct
ing the gallows, and arranging and carry
ing out the order of routine, says three
days ago Payne pitched . game Of quoits
with Spangler q few feet in front of where
the scaffold stands. The same officer also
remarks that at the moment of giving the
signal for springing the drop, Atzerodt,
who had an idea that he was to be swung
off the end Of the platform, instead Of
falling with the trap on which he stood,
was in the act of stepping backwards
from the verge of the scafold, when he
fell. .-5s5i -sls,se
No order has yet been received at the
arsenal for the removal of Arnold, Mudd,
OLarghlin and Spangler to the peniten-
tiary to which their sentence confines
them. They were not cognizant until to-
day of the decease of their associates in
crime. When they were brought ont this
morning in the yard in which the execu-
ton was performed, Dr.. Mudd, on catch
ing sight of the scaffold Immediately re-
marked that he had heard the sound of
hammer on the previous morning, and felt
apprehensive that the noise was caused in
the construction of the gallows. Spangler
who is q carpenter, looked at tho gal,
lows, and declared its builders had made
good job, but that he did not want to
test it. .-.--,..s,-. 80. a Z a.faaa
The prisoners are allowed an hour in
the forenoon and afternoon for exercise in
the prison yard. Since the adjournment
of the court they have been in excellent
health and tolerably good spirits. Arnold
father and counsel had an interview with
him to-day, and babe him farewell They
were both much affected, and wept at
parting. -7s.
The witness Weichman, who swore 60
positively against Mrs. Surratt, is reported
to have said since the conclusion of the
trial, that he did so simply to save his own
neck, and it is said that sffidavlts are made
confrmatory thereof, BY parties who heard
his private conversation on the subject.
The hatred of some rebels of the city for
the execution of the asssssins, has been
manifested to-day BY the exhibition Of
mourning drapery in their windows. The
Surratt house, on b street, was visited to-
day by huBdreds of curious people. A
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