The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-11-05

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following confession in the presence or yo,,r
correspondent, with the express request
that its publication be deferred until after
his execution. He seemed all the time to
be averse to. being interviewed, and only
gave this on the above conditions:
-, William Stinson, solemnly declare
that on the night Of the 18th of June last, nat
ABOUT 5 O'Clock, / wentto the house Of Mrs.
Nancy Bum, OF Wade county the family
had Just retired. | hailed, and no answer
being given ! threw a stone through the
window. | then went to the back door and
knockeds was refused Abundance. / asked
If there Was 4 man In the house, and was
answered, mo- Admittance still being re-
fused, J.. threatened to break down the
docE. The door WAS then opened by
a little coloied boy. ! tied his hands
and went in the house and asked Mrs.
Bum IL she was ready to die. At this
moment Miss Mamie Bum escaped through
4 window. l then loosed the boy, and made
him get some lightwood splinters and build
4 fire on the floor. Mrs. Bum had I'm the
meantime escaped through q window.
Finding her gone, [ pursued her and threw
4 rope over her shoulder, rs charged. She
resisted, and lfelled her to theground with
4 gun which / got in the house, / then at
tempted to rape her person, in which / did
not fully and entirely succeed. Leaving
her. 1 returned TO the house in search Of
money. l found only ten cents. NY first
intention IN going to the house was to OBJ
tain money and food, and to brighten both
out of the women. 1 had no idea Of COM
hitting a rape until l caught the old lady
after her escape from the house. Some
parts OF the evidence against me were un-
true in unimportant points. The material
facts were true, and are sufficient for IN
conviction.'
on THE %SCAFFoLD.
The prisoner, accompanied by his spirit
ual adviser, was brought on the scaffold at
1910. He walked with a firm and steady
step, exhibiting no sign of trepidation. He
gave a hasty glance at the gallows and sus-
pended rope, and looked steadily at indi-
vidualS i'll the crowd below him. After
prayer by the minister, in which he fer
vently joined, responding audibly, the pris-
oner was asked if he wished to make any
remarks. Without the slightest hesitation
or taltering in his voice, he said:
HIS A s. WORDS.
~ have q few words to say. You all
know my doom. By the just laws of the
Ian under which we live ! am condemned
to die-to leave this world and go to
my home with the Saviour. My days,
my hours, even my minutes, are num-
hered. | hope it may be fixed that all
may see me, and all those that do not,
| want them to hear of my execution,
that they may take warning. / am guilty
of the chargerfor which I am condemned.
| am sorry the devil persuaded me to COM
nit the crime but | am not only sorry for
that, but sorry that / have SO often Offend
ed my God and saviour by many, many
other sins. / feel that God has pardoned
my sins, anu that l am going to my Saviour,
who died for Inc and for all. [ hope / may
meet You all in Heaven. You will look in
4 few moments upon my dead body, but
then | cannot see you, but l hope and pray
to meet you all in Heayen-all of you now
standing around me. / have prayed for all
men. What is mans life here ? / feel per-
tectly willing to go. There is nothing in
the world | desire to live for. I would not
give my hope in Jesus for forty thousand
such worlds as this. The Sayiour's blood
was not shed for me in vain. My home ls
in H~eavcn-a home where / can live always
by the setting of the sun. | am a thousand
INES obliged to all the officers of the Jail
and others who have been so kind to me.
l hope God will reward them all"
He said to the negro cook, "Remember
YOU have a soul to save" and then thanked
the officers each by name.
II DEATH WARRANT
was then read to him, and, having shaken
hands with the officers and with other
friends and b~ystanders, the black cap was
adjusted by Deputy Sheriff Mcguire, who
asked if the rope was too tight. He replied,
Not tight enough. Tie it tight. Don't
let HE suffer-" With the words Of a prayer
plainly audible on his lips, the rope was
cut at 1910 o'clock. the drop tell, aud the
body OF William Stinson swung into mid
air. Notwithstanding a thrce-foot drop,
the neck Of the culprit wa not broken. He
died from sufocation, pulsation not ceasing
for thirteen and a half minutes, said by ply
| sicians present to be IN unusually long
time. After hanging thirty-three minutes,
the body, now pronounced ~lifeless, was cut
| down, placed in Il coffin, and sent to the
county burying-ground.