Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11

was received this morning by the Secretary
of the Treasury, from E. W Shelton, dated
Galveston the 4th, via New Orleans the 9th
inst, announcing the death of VIM. John
son, Esq, only brother of the President OF
the United States, and late collector at We
lasco. He died from the effects of an ;Eeci-
dental gun shot wound.
The Execution of Wirz.
WASHINGTON, November I0.-Capt. W'irz
was hung between 10 and II o'clock this
morning. On the gallows he declared his
innocence. He died without exhibiting any
symptoms of fear.
This morning Father Boyle administered
the sacrament to Captain Wirz, and Father
Wiggett, also of the Roman Catholic Church,
then placed upon the prisoner black cam
brio gown, remarking as he did 30, that he
hoped 1T would be turned into white one
in another world.
AT seven minutes past ten o'clock this
morning Captain Wirz came from his cell
in the Old Capitol prison, accompanied by
Provost Marshal Russell and other officers,
and by Fathers Wiggett and Boyle. Pass
ing between military guard, they ascend
ed the seaffold. The prisoner was then
seated.
The scaffold was II feet square and %
feet to the top beam, with a drop II feet
from the ground. The guard consisted of
the I9jth Pennsylvania Volunteers and
three detaehments of the Veteran Reserve
Corps, commanded by Captain Walbridge,
military superintendent Of the Old Capitol
prison.
There were several hundred spectators
present besides the military, the civilians
| having been admitted on special passes.
Provost Marshal Russell proceeded to read
the order from the War Department founded
on the verdict of the Court Marshal which
tried the prisoner. He was charged and
convicted of combining, confederating and
conspiring with jeff. Davis, J. A. Sedden,
Howell Cobb, John H. Winder, Richard B.
! Winder, Isaiah White, W. S. Winder, Moore
Kerr, late hospital steward at tAndersonville
James Duncan, Wesley W. Turner. BenJa'
min Harris, and others whose names are
unknown and who were then engaged il
an armed rebellion against the United
States, maliciously, traitorously and in vio-
1 Iatiou of the laws of war, to impair and in
iure the health and to destroy the lives, by
subiecting to torture and great suffering, by
coniining in unhealthy and unwhOlesomt
ouarters, by exposing to the inelemency o
winter and to the dews and burning sun o
summer, by compelling the use OF impure
water, and by furnishing insufficient anC
unwholesome food, of large numbel
. of Federal prisoners OF war, to wit
|. !
| of war at Andersonville, within the lines o
the so-caIIed Confederate States, on or be
fore the 9th of March, 1864, and at diver
times between that day and the 10th day o
AnriI. 1865, to the end that the armies
ne limited States might be weakened an
g ;nanoired. and that the insurgents might b
4. aided and comforted, etc, ETC. The orde
also states that the prisoner was foun'
puilty of the second charge, namely: Nun
r der in violation of the laws and customs c
war, and guilty of all specifications, e1
cept the 4th, 10th and 18th, which set tort
that he killed prisoner by shooting hin
with a revolver that he ordered sentine
IN fire upon another with a revolver, an
r tbat he shot another with a revolver, 90 tina
V he died. The order concludes as follows
# The Court do therefore sentence hin
I Henry Wirz. to be hanged, by the neck, III
. III he he dead, at such time and place
the President may direct. Two-thirds o.
the members of the Court coneurrIng herr
is in. And the Court also find the prlsone
Iorrv Wirz. guilty of having caused IL
10th in the manner alleged in specific
tion ii. charge 2, by means OF dogs,
thirty nrisoners of war in his custody, al
soldiers of the United States, one occurrlI
:, ~, or about the 18th of May, 1864, anoth
u o,o,,rring ON or about the l4th day OF Jul
IseS and another on or about the LIST di
of sertember. 1864, but which finding,
- f,,nrassed. has not and did not ent
MT tbe sentence of the Court as beic
ch given. e,d;nr. .rd .e
tencein the foregoing case having been 81
r,itted to the President of the United Stat
er, the following are his orders:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Nov. 3, 1863
The proceedings, findings and sentence
;. tba Court in the within case are approV
nd Il ia ordered that the sentence be
'ale riaJ into execution by the officer commal
l. ~ tbe Department Of Washington on !
Jay the 10th day of November, lsoo'
-, tr,aor the hours Of 6 o'clock IN the morn
- and I2 o'clock noon.
President of the United State
ID Mai. Gen. C. c. Augur, command
Il. n,',ariment of Washington, is comman'
:" Po,,sa the. foregoing sentence in the
of Henry Wirz so be duly executed IN
.o-Ja-,ca with the Presidents order.
FL 4tb Tho Military Commission, OF WI
eres Ma; Cen, Lewis Wallace, l. 5. Vols
Presidept, is hereby dissolved by comm
Of the President of the United states.
signed. E. D. TOWNSEND, A. a.
When the reading of the order was c
,otaJ wirz conyersed with those on
iIatforn with seeming confidence anu
Z, possessiot. and it was remarked that ne
OK" Z smiling countenance. To his sPiri
advisers he said T.. h,,t 7
;. 4 81 am innocent. have to die, put
snt Of die Ike man. -,
inter nave notning I-.ds v,era then tied
We'd - ..,.I HE nack and the