The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-31
Extraordinary Indifference of the
Condemned.
His Speech from the GaIlows.
TIE EXECUTION, &c.

On Saturday morning Albert Tyler, who
| stood condemned of poisoning to death
Paulina Hubbard on the 23d OF February
, last, gave UP his life in answer to the laws
demand for the sake of Justice. We give
below sketch of his case from its inception
to its awful ending:
TIE CRIME
for which he was condemned was, as above
stated, committed in February last. Albert
| Tyler with his two stcp-childrcn, lived in
! the same house with Palllna Hubbard and
her husband for some time, and there was
nothing done to disturb their peace, rs far
as is shown in the evidence. until one day
Tyler, was discovered by Paulina in the
attempt to violate the person Of his step
| daughter, aged about twelve years. She
| threatened to inform on him, and upbraidcd
him, as also did her husband. He answered
| them with threats. On day or two after
! wards Paulina cooked dinner for the house
hold, and when she went to give the chill
dren some biscuits to eat, they refused
them, saying, that " father" (Albcrt Tyler
had told them they were not made for them,
| and that they must not eat them. She ate Il
portion of biscuit and remarked upon
their peculiar taste. She shortly afterwards
started for her husbands place of work
with his dinner. She had nearly reached
him, when she was taken violently ill., She
suffered in great agony for several hours,
and died. A post mortem examination dis
closed the fact that she had undoubtedly
been poisoned with arsenic. The flour and
| bread from which she ate were fully im-
pregnatcd with it, and the poison could be
, detected without the aid of Il test. Circum-
stances pointed to Albert Tyler. He was
arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced
on the 3lst day of March last to be hung.
IN JAIL.
The prisoners conduct in jail since his
conviction and sentence has been good, but
has been marked by an Indifference to his
fate that scarcely can be accounted as human.
! He was occasionally visited by ministers or
religious persons, but his apparent regard
encouragement. His foolish, rambling con-
versations about his visits to Heaven and to
! hell, and of his visions of the murdered
woman, seemed more like the vagaries of Il
! craZed mind than the sober reflections of
one doomed so soon to meet his God. Apart
from this, his conduct Us Il prisoner has
always been good-so much so that the irons
usually placed upon condemn cd men were
dispensed with in his case.
| CONFESSION.
! The condemned man had confessed his
crime to several parties. On Tuesday
morning last hc was visited by member of
the press, and the following interview took
place between them, which we give us the
most succinct report of the different state
mcnts he had made:
| Question Tyler, do you know that Sa-
, turday next is the day on which you arc to
! be hung for killing Paulina Hubbard
Tyler: Oh, yes, | knows it.
! Did Won kill Palllina Hubbard?
Tyler: 81 wants to tell you about 1t.
! YoU see | hadn't nothing a-in laulna, and
| didn't want to kill her. / fixed dc pizin for
her husband, Henry Hubbard and wanted
! 10 give it to him. case he beat me almost to
death dc night bcfn. had nottin agin Pau
! lima, she always treated me as lady but
! lis as soon as Henry beat me | sent dat g;ll
to de doctor shop to cit de pizin. ! told
her to tell dc doctor wanted it TO kill rats:
When she cum back took it from her, and
next morning, after breakfast, Paulina aycd
her what dat was she brought me dc night
! bcfo, and dc ggi tolc her it was pizin. Pau-
| lina den call her husband out in dc yard
and tolc him what de gll tolc her. While
'dcy was out i'm de yard l went to dc kag
whar dcy kept dar flour and put dc pizin in
! it. Dcy had done eat dar breakfast. Dcy
cat corn bread for breakfast. When Pau
| lima went to cit dinner she got -four out of
de kag, and made de bread, and eat it,
"Was what Paulina said about you and
the girl truc?"
"Ycs. sir; dat was the truth and Pau
lima told me I oughtn't to do so; but she
never qllarrclcd with me, and never said
she was gwine to tell anybody about it. |
amt gwine to tell you any lie about it,
How do you feel about what is to take
place on Saturday ?"
"I don't feel Uneasy about it. I'm per-
fectly willin' to go at any time. I'm sorry
for what I've done, but can't help it now"
During the whole interview the con-
dcmncd man manifested great disposition
to talk, and INDUCED in great deal of the
irrelevant, rambling conversation Of which
negroes are so fond.
SCENES AT THE JAIL.
On the night before the day of his death,
TYLER rested rs calmly rs though he had
many happy years to live. On Saturday
morning he arose, and after eating Il hearty
meal, waited calmly for the coming Of the
hour of his execution. At about Ii O'Clock
Rcvs. james Holmes, of the First African
church, Charles BOwe, of the Fifth Baptist,
John Jasper, Of the Sixth Mount Zion
church, and D. L. Smith, a theological stu
dent, al colored, and Rev. A. Ctladwin,
missionary of the American Baptist Pub
fishing Society in Virginia, arrived Mt the
prison and repaired to Tyler'3 cell. Tyler
stood next to the wall, and his spiritual ad-
yisers around him. His conduct was still
indicative of an utter indifference to his fate,
or else IN entire want OF appreciation OF his
situation. Mr. Gladwin gave out the hymn,
"Show pity Lord" which was sung, Tyler
joining in and singing the tenor part with
Sharp, shrill voice.
The hymn was sung. Rev. Jasper offered
n PRAYER. At intervals between the praying
and singing the condemned would converse
with great GOODNESS, and wore perpetual
grin upon his face. He was questioned rs
to how he had rested the night before. lie
replied 8" rested well. / slcptin de faith" !"
SHOW has your appetite been"
"Oh, very good. ute well. l has been
very we'll"
He was asked:
care you sure you appreciatcyour situa-
ton? Don't you think you arc mistaken
in the idea that you do:"
"Oh, no; amt mistaken. Not much.
I'm gwine to heaven, | am" With this re-
mark he broke out into 4 loud hugh.
There was nothing about his demcanor
that would indicate that he felt his end ap-
proachinm, but there was that about his ap-
pcaI5nce and conduct CHARACTERISTIC OF Il to-
tai want of humanity, and an entire iSno-
rance of the horrors oil death. ...- vi
TuH-PROCEssIoN TO THE GALLows.
Quite large number of persons had mean
time gathered outside the jail. A detacll-
ment of forty-cight policemen, under charge
Of Col. Eghbert and Captain kendrlck, were
also in waiting; and the f,,rniture-wagon
containing the black coffin was driven MP to
the Jail gate. At about ten minutes attel
twelve Tyler was brought from his cell by
Jailor J. E. Brooks. He was seated in tho
wagon on his coffin, and accompanied by
FJailor Brooks, Deputy-Sergeant Bowie, and
Rev. James Holmes. The wagon was driven
off. surrounded by squad Of policemen and