The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-12

The Excitement Over the Execution.
Notwithstanding that il has been fifteen years
since the Inhabitants of this city witnessed an
execution there is little or no excitement with
reference to the hanging which takes place in
the jail-yard tomorrow. That there is no COM
motion over the event may be attributed to the
fact that the doomed man since his early life
has been worthless character, and one whom
it was predicted some years ago would wind up
his career on the gallows. On the day previous
to the departure from this world of Bonner and
Rodenberg at Huntingdon, of Titus at Carlisle,
and of all the murderers who have been hung
outside of Philadelphia, the sheriffs of these
places were beset by dense crowds of the
curious who were anxious to witness the last
solemn scene. But here, comparatively speak,
ing, there have been but few such
requests, and in nearly every instance Sheriff
William B. Albright has refused the application,
it being his intention to adhere as closely as
possible to the provisions Of the act of Assembly
on the subject. Even if he were disposed to
oblige his numerous friends, he would have no
room for them, as the Jail yard where the scaf-
fold is erected will not accommodate over fifty
persons. He has therefore limited his
Tickets of Admission
to very small number, and even has ex-
pressed his determination to issue but few to the
representatives of the press He has idea
that many of those who claim admission on the
strength of being connected with the news
papers are bogus, and in this respect your corre-
sp@ndent, judging from his past experience, CO.
incides These fellows are merely interlopers
and on more than one occasion by their miscon-
duct have brought the blush to the cheek of the
genuine representatives. The man for whose
execution the scaffold has just been erected is
Zachariah E. Synder, alias John Deal who was
convicted in January last of the
Murder of Richard NJ. Harlan
on the 9Th of October last The victim
was a paralytic, having no use of his
right arm, was about thirty years of age, and a
native of Schuylkill county. He was strolling
vagrant and without either family or any set
tied occupation.
A sketch of the Crime.
The facts of the case, as proven on the trial
were, that on the afternoon of the night of the
murder, the two were seen in company by diff
ferent persons, about the taverns, lager-beer
saloons and stores in Leesport. Harlan had a
pack of envelopes, portion of which he sue
ceeded in disposing OF. They took supper at
Jacob Tobias Hotel, where the deceased left the
balance Of the envelopes to pay for the meal as
he said they had no money. Between and
o'clock in the evening they went to the store of
Wanner g. Boyer, where Deal asked for a
hatchet He was told they had none for sale,
when Harlan inquired where they could got a
hatehet
"To Cut Their Way Through
They afterwards went TO the store of Charles
Miller, where the prisoner bought hatchet for
81 cents and a handkerchief for 25 cents. They
were seen together between s and o'clock at
the public house of Jacob Graeff, where they
had taken a drink in the afternoon. When they
came in in the evening, the prisoner carried the
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| and pair of CATERS. He said something ab out
| his being a carpenter, and having bought the
| hatchet to work at his trade. Harlan asked for
drinks, and they counted their money. Deal
had about $3.50 and Harlan twenty-five cents,
which was reduced to five after paying for the
| liquor. Harlan asked for lodging for both but
| Deal said they had been drinking too much to-
| gether that day, and would do the same again
| If they remained over night. They were not
| perceptibly intoxicated They then left, taking
| the direction of Mohrsville They were last
seen together, little afterwards, at the confec-
tonery store of William Weiser, where they
| stopped and asked for drink.
| The Dead Body
| of Harlan was discovered about daybreak the
following morning, about mile above Lees
| port by Daniel Kline. AS he was driving down
| the road he observed blood ON bridge over a
certain creek, and marks in the road as if
made by the dragging of something along. He
looked over the edge of the bridge and saw the
body of man lying in the water with his face
downwards and his feet resting on rail at
tached to one of the abutments. He conveyed
the intelligence to Leesport, and an INQUEST was
impanelled by Esquire Rain. According to
the medical testimony before the inquest, the
wounds upon the body of the deceased were de-.
scribed to be q fracture of the skull in two
places in the forehead, in the centre, and over
the right eye and a cash about three or three
and half inches in length on the right side of
the neck, penetrating to the yertebral column.
Either of these wounds was capable of pro-
ducing death.
The Next III card of Deal
was about o'clock on the afternoon of the same
day. He was apprehended by two persons for
an alleged assault upon woman on the road
near Orwigsburg, schuylRill county, and was
taken before Justice Samuel II. Madden of that
place, by whom he was committed to the Schuyl-
kin county jail When arrested he had in his
possession a satchel which contained hatchet
and pair of shoes. The hatchet he presented
to Samuel Yost, the constable who conveye d
him to prison, after offering to sell 1t to him.
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