The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-08
IContiEUed from me First P09e,l
ptarces ike his, book of religious instruction,
IBd a coupe OF praYer.books"
ms KEEPER's EsTINATE'

LBd coupe OF prayerbooks."
MS KEEP ER's ESTIMATE.
FRlualy, then, the talk at the prison flowed
10 the opinion entertained OF him 0Y his keepers.
The above statement was thoroughly and strongly
coTroborated lie says:-'I resigned te
make saorGce OF my life for wnat have DONE"
told one.
Anotner:-'TIe is very submissive; makes no
complaints rs so many convicted murderers do
auout not having justice done them; ABOUT Ine
get off saie. lie never asks Tor any in!np5 Is mo. no.
6issausteo with is vIctuals the only tnng tnat
he has been partial to has b,en apples and he Is
immU dUi ately fond OF them" . -
This recalls TO the winters nd the little fact that
when Chlef De echve Fianknn was endeaV21Ing 70
pave the way Tor the reporters to receive Pr0OsGs
sJecla detaed conTessIOnt the prisoner asked MN Tor
an opple. the chief promptly secured a couple OF
the rep orters, PTObst heartily relished them.
"He mas cen getting them ever SINCE took him
NJ q couple aiter dmner, aud he said, Il will eat
them my ast upper Before, at nner time,
he .ai1 his is my last dinner"
irobst, unlike all preceding murdereis was con
fneo the doomed cell at his first arrival the iron
chan was manacled to his ankle, and at night his
hands we're fastened behind his back These pre-
cautions thus taken first owug to the bic
cIiuts he had apparently committed, and the lgnO-
rance OF the officers OF his disposition wou not
trust hin as heartily any of the Others" SAID the
previous speaker
A LAST talk WITH PRoBsT.
Through the KIND attention OF Mr. VIM Is. Per-
kins Tor many years the ficient Superintendent, to
whose uufatering assistance toe thanks of the mem
bers OF the CITY press is often richly due, shoTt
visit TO the c.ndemuei's cell wa arrange l. kindly
priest whose modesty forbids the pub mention of
his name, had lst quilted 'he cell As an officer
and the writer passed up tn stairway, the formei
dampened ones ardor sadly, BY s'atiny that Pro,st
was crying when the minister lett him
The outer iron door was opened the inner uu-
barred; but an unwOnted dlflidence led me, the
writer, to pause at the threshold moment Then l
stepped INSIDE. ProOst dressed in mis- shirt and
pants was sitting on his cot, bending over little
table at his side, writing intenty upon sheet OF
tote paper He did not look up, and gave
moments glance to the lately well,known "col Is,
second floor north side north CORRIDOR" The cot
on the aoor and the tGoe, the only furniture;
and by his side lay a couple o. apples and orange
Ihe hare thick. walled vaulted room, running from
c to 8 eet in height about eG wide and 10 feet
long, was well hgh ed Vi by the long and narrow,
well barred windOw ooAIng to the north, out upon
the ga den walks that ed to the galows.
Not unit 1 spoke TO him did he look up, and grasp
the offered hand. The cut o the seeming intru.
sloI was easily tod 1t was to give 10 the public,
IL he was willing full, true atement of what he
wlled and felt that any mleiudgment OF him
might be met bv his own words He was quite will
ing but IN accordance with his temperament, was
slew OF thought and word, requiring to be prompted
by questions
He spoke at ,nteryals:-'I feel very well in BODY
and mIrd; content to DE. do not care about
lvirP. ,eel that have repented entirely, and am
very sorly for what done Aud that is a true say
ing that Is repented for SINS for what have
doDe feel satisfied tina, l have been forgiven for
them feel that in my bran that God have
mercy on me ct. have had verv k nd good
prie.t with me; he attended me we'll. [ am
81 isfed with my confession published BY the re.
porters on, no; did not laugh when [ told that
confession
at the prese nj time writing letter to my
father and mother bidding them good,bye and
hoping they viii pray iorgveness.'
As he touchingiy said these last words the inter-
view was at an end Shaking him the hand ana
bidding him good. b7e he said, Goodbye! Good.
NeW
Ind SEEN Ii IN often before, but there was one
more meeting to come ,e> on this Friday morning.
THE MURDBRER's LAST NIGHr.
Tne vivid pen of Bulwer, and the smooth numbers
OF Hoo fail to portray tie terrors Of the last night
of Eugene Aram Yet Aram murdered bat one old
man. while he who dl' d to-day sent eiDht unpre
pared sou s to that bourne from whence trave Ter
returns How then hope to depics in Ian
puape the feelings OF Probst as he lay in his CELL
waiting for the dawn which was to see him sent to
his long accOunt9 II the theory Of the return OF
spirits be true, ard If his eyes coud have the
shadowy band which lowered around HIM he would
have recognized in those leeriug faces many whose
deeds resemble his There would have been his
fellow -eountryman Berger, with his purple face and
blood stained II othY lips whose soul had gone out
from that very spot but four months since. There
would have been Spring, the Skuspinskis, and
kindred ipnds TOR none from t1at cell went save
dead or to the ga'lows But there, his inferior in
crime would have had terrors compared with
those evoked by the memory of his victims 1t
needed not that these spirits should come, remeu-
brance or dreams ould cause agony sufficient to
make him understand what future pun SHIN mt was
re eryed iof hrm. il on this earth such agony was
meted out The finest delineation of ShakespeaIs
is his invocation OF the spirits of the murde ed viz
Tins Of Richard to visit his couch the
hight before his death The innocence sIau gh-
tered, the friends betrayed, the supenors as
sassinated, all came, AID pleaded for re-
yenge. Such must have been thu crowd whose souls
rise up before the murderer's gaze as slow.y he
noted The fight of time-slow to all else by far too
fast TO him TO know at each chime of the cock
that one hour more of life ebbs vay-to know
that just as sure as that cock whcl he heard
str king wol I'D strike that number once again. that
be would be where was punished. An old
legend tells us of the keen Ortures reserved for a
captive prisoner in CASTLE. Tue walls of his PRISON
slowly contracted, and at each stroke Of the ock
the space grew less, until he was crushed =
as Iho foo ,r, iii living
which that Spaniard
saw nus room disappear must have been simi.
-. 10 that OF Probst time osed slowly
around him, and narrowed down from hours to
minutes. To thnk that when that little hand of the
watch had gone around he would be-whereG HIs
Il