The Republican journal., 1871-08-10
Wilson the Condemned Murderer.

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Wilson. tba murderer is to he banred
on the l$lh of October next. The Su-
premc Court of Errors has heard the ap-
peal of his able counsel and refused 10
GRANT him n new trial. The LEGISLATION
has heard his petition and rejected it.
There is no other tribunal TO which he can
appcal. except that which iudrcs here
after. and to that only can he appcal dur
inc the next eighty DAYS. Then The hang
mans rope win choke the breath from
his body should he survive till that time.
He appears now uute plucky and full of
his old namv vim. He has this week ap-
pcalcd 10 his counsel, Mr.. Aberdeen. to
procure II writ of habcas corpus, claiming
that he Is Illegally held in the State
Prison. the county iail being his proper
place OF confinement, But as the SUPREME
Court of Errors has already decided upon
that point. sustaining Judge Carpcntcr's
sentence. we do not know how the con
Wet can oct the benefit of the writ.
Wilson is especially anxious to get into
the county lail He SAYS that if the
people of Hartford desire to see him chok
ed to death, they must see that he is
transferred to the iail at once Other
wise he has decided not to be hanged at
all. He speaks with the greatest conf
dence and freedom of his ability to ter
inmate his own life, Notwithstanding
guard is at his ccl night and day. He
thinks he can beat Capt. Botellc, whose
duty it is to keep him safely in the suicidal
game. or course the people of Hartford
have nothing to do with his confinement
1t was the duty of the Court to consign
him 10 safe keeping till the day OF his ex-
ccution. This it did, and the sentence
win be faithfully carried out
Wilson has written about one hundred
pages of manuscript, giving an account
of his life. and he proposes to surrender
II only on the condition that he is remov
ed to the county Jail, a subject on which
hc dwcllS with intense feeling. In this
manuscript, which he entities "Thrty
three Years in the Life of a Crack" he
says he has broken ont Of nine State
prisons and that he has committed very
large number of burolaries-tWO or three
hundred we believe. The first of his
bur@larics was committed in Philadel-
pha. when he was nineteen wears old, in
company with an experienced craftsman.
they were to 90 halves in the plunder.
Entering jewelry shop they took watches
and ewelry on which they realized s. 900,
and his half, 900, gave him a good
capital to start WITH Since then he has
tried his hand on banks, safes, jewelry
and silk stores, in many places. He pro-
poses to continue the narrative and eX-
pose certain receiving shops in New York
and other places, which are kept by men
who carry their heads high in society,"
He AYERS that his real name is Dan
kenlly; that he was born in Belfast, Ire
land: that his father was Irish and his
mother Scotch: that he was brought to
New York by his father when he was a
child, and that his father packed up and
went back to Ireland, soon after the Phil
adelphia burglary, saving ''he would
not stay here to be disgraced by young
vagabond of SON." He never saw his
parents after that. Wilson says he was
never taught at school, but learned to
read and write in his own way, without
much instruction.
lie ridicules the action of the judiciary
Committee and the Legislature in reject
inc his petition without a hearing. He
has an idea that the Court which sentenc-
ed him TO be hanged had no right to in
tcrfere with his previous sentence of four
teen years for burglary, as there is no
law authorizing one Judge to set aside
the sentence of another Judge of the same
court. He also believes that in his pres
ent situation he can procure 4 writ of
habcas corpus, under which he can COM