Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-15

B. kISEMAN, WV. SCHOULFIELD
X. 9. GIST. a: sEEssEL: $3.50
house. There they were Joined by th,
Governor of Newgate (Mr. Jones), th'
prison surgeon (Mr. Gibson) and tn
ordinary Rev. F. Lloyd Jones. A few
! representatives of the press to whom
tickets of admission had been givei
were also present. o
The convict Barrett retired to res
about ten on the previous night, and
having spent a somewhat restless night
rose at six yesterday morning, dressed
himself and engaged in prayer Shortly
afterward he was Joined in his cell by
Father James Hussey, attached to the
Roman Catholic Chapel in Moorfelds,
who had attended him regularly since
his conviction, and who remained with
him to the last 1t is understood that he
received the sacrament one Day last
week, and again yesterday morning.
Toward eight o'clock, the sberiffs paid
him visit, accompanied by the Cover
nor, and then retired to part of the
prison leading to the scaffold where the
rest of the authorities and the public
representatives had already assembled.
By predetermined arrangement, and
contrary to the usual practice, the con.
vict was not pinioned in the press room,
as it is called, but in his own cell, and,
this process over, he was conducted to
the drop by a private way, accompanied
by his priest, and attended by the execu-
TONER and three or four wsrdens, the
prison bell and that of St. Sepulchre's $
Church, hard by, tolling the while. The
sheriffs and under sheriffs, who, with
others, stood in. group in gloomy cor
ridor behind the scaffold, just caught a
glimpse of the doomed man as he
emerged with his attendants from a dark
and narrow passage and turned corner
leading to the gallows. He was dressed
in the short clsret- colored coat and the
gray striped trousers, both we'll worm by
which he had become familiar to all who
were present during his protracted trial.
His face had lost the horid hue it then
wore, and in other respects he was an
altered man. re|
With the first sound Of the bells came
great hungry roar from the crowd outside
and loud, continued shout of hats off
till the whole dense, bare-headed mass
stood white and ghastly looking in the
morning sun, and the pressure on the
barriers increased so that the girls and
women in the front ranks began to scream
and struggle to get free Amid such
scene as this and before such dense
crowd of white faces Barrett was exc
cuted. His clergyman came last Bar.
rett mounted the steps with the most
perfect frmuess. This may seem ste
reotyped phrase, but it really means
ascend ladder with ones arms and
hands closely pinioned would be at all
times difficult, but to climb ladder to
go to certain death might try the nerves
of the boldest Barrett walked up coolly
and boldly. His face was as white as
marble, but still he bore himself with
6rmness, and his demeanor was as far
removed from bravado as from fear. We
would not dwell on these details, but
from the singular reception he met as
he came out upon the scafold. There |
was a partial burst of cheers, which was
accompanied by loud Kisses, |
and so it remained for some seconds, till |
as the last moment approached the roars |
dwindled down to dead silence. To |
neither cheers nor Kisses did the culprit |
make the slightest recognition. he
seemed only attentive to what the priest |
was saying to him, and to be engaged 10
fervent prayer. a"
The hangman instantly put the cap
over his face and the rope around his |
neck. Then Barrett, turning, spoke
through his cap and asked for the rope |
TO be altered, which the hangman did.
In another moment Barrett was dead
man. After the bolt was drawn and the
drop fell with the loud boom which al
ways echoes from it, Barrett never
moved He died without a struggle. II
IS worthy Of remark that a great cry rose
from the crowd as the culprit fell-a cry
which was neither an exclamation nor
scream, but it partook in its sound of
both. frt
The body was placed in a she'll and re-
moved to an adjoining building in the
presence of the sheriffs and under sheritfs,
he governor, the prison surgeon, and
he ordinary. There the rope having
,een removed from the neck, aud the
eathern straps in which the legs and
rms bad been pinioned, the surgeon GER
ified That life was extinct. The express
non Of the face was marvelously serene
and placid, and the features composed to
, degree irreconeilable at FIRST sight With
be notion Of violent death, though the
ips aud part OF the forehead we're una
lually livid- Toward The evening the
,ody vas buried in The accustomed place
within the precincts Of the prison, 10 a
rave upward Of Eve feet deep, 10 The
presence Of tie governor aud other on
,srF Of the jail. II III
Barrett was an IrishnAn By birth.
bout twenty seven years Of age Of at