The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-25

for and re-elect you. / hope my last
wish will bs remembered" Carr then
presented number of silver rings to
different parties near by, accompanying
each with, "Keep it as long as you live,
and remember me-"
Carr then said, III expect to be IN
Heaven in few moments. The bitter
cup, they call whisky, has brought me
here. 1t will ruin any man. Whisky,
whisky is what has brought me where
l now stand-a condemned murderer
about to be launched into eternity. on,
take my advice, aud Danish it. Danish
whisky and you Danish crime. LOOK az
your prisons, look at your poor, look al
the gallows erected here to hang me,
soldier who fought five years to defend
the Government. Keep liquor away
from your citizens; Danish whisky ana
you will have no more wicked men Ike
Tom Carr to execute. I pray earnestly
that God will break up the dram shops
Pray for it, every one. l have written
several letters giving parents advicsas
to training their children, and children
advice as to treatment of parents.
These letters will be opened after my
death. Read them. Read them. Fare
well, fare we'll. Goodbye, goodbye.
Carr then presented all the ministers
present with his photograph. The pho
tographs, rings, &C., presented had been
given to friend before the prisoner
left his cell, and as he called out the
articles the friend handed them to the
persons named.
The rope was then adjutted about the
culprit's neck, the cap was placed over
his head and face; he distinctly said,
Farewell, good and then dropped
into eternity.
The drop fell at eleven minutes past
one o'clock by Wheeling time, and seven
and half minutes thereafter Carr was
pronounced dead by Drs. j. II. Thomp-
son, - Voorhees, and - Cook. The
body hung suspended between heaven
and earth for forty-one minutes, when
it was taken down, placed in a neat
walnut coffin and Immediately buried
in the Methodist cemetery, near the
Jail.
We have witnessed several execu-
tiens, and have been in cells with men
doomed to die, but never before have
we seen such stolid Indifference mani
tested as was yesterday exercised by
Carr. He appeared perfectly composed,
reconciled and indifferent. On Wednes-
day evening, after the work of erecting
the scaffold was completed, Carr asked
permission to 60 out into the hall and
see it. He drew himself up on it, and
INDUCED in a number of skillful gymnas-
tic feats. He pronounced the structure
a success, and complimented the Sheriff
for his taste and style.
When he returned to his cell, he de-
sired farewell treat, and ate over half
d can of stew.d ard fried oysters. He
retired between eleven aud twelve
O'clock, arose ea!ly yesterday morning,
and ate a hearty breakfast; conversed
eely and oheerfully. These having
charge of the execution were much more
affected with is solemnity than was
the prisoner. He never wavcred from
the time the dread work Of dressing him
for the grave commenced until the drop
fell.
Several days ago tho undertaken
measured him for his coffin, and,
strange as it may seem, the prisoner
was not the least ruffled.
About thirty-fve persons were in the
jail and witnessed the execution, while
several hundred were gathered without
the Jail yard and in the streets.
Sheriff w. II. Hayes deserves great
credit for The manner in which he con-
Quoted the execution. Everything was
properly aad very judiciously arranged,
and the work done dccently and in or
der.
This is the first execution ever wit
messed in Belmont county. Thomas D.
Carr has had the honor or dishonor OF
being the first man ever hung in the
county. He was but twenty-four years
of age, five feet seven inches high, dark
cOmplectioned, with black moustache.
In his life and confession, from which
VIC made extracts yesterday, he &C.
knowledges numbering fourteen persons,
and the attempted murder offive others.
His life has surely been wild and reck.
less, and his death sad and ignomi Nous.
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