The New York herald., 1872-08-31

high, powerfully built, thirtyfve years OF age with
physical and muscular development that told OF
genuine African, the forehead retreatng, the
halr and eyebrows kinky and bushy, the nose wide,
ting AND s hs s snt
binaton OF savage ferocity and semicivilized VII
lany.
CoRREsPoNDENr-IIow are you, Lucas9
LUCAS-Im well, sab.
CoRREsPoNDENr-Are you prepared to meet your
LUcAs-Well, dat's nobody's business but mine.
CORREspoNDENT-How old are you, Bin 2
Lucas dunno, san, and not Knowing wouldn't
like to say.
CORREsPoNDENT-You acknowledge your SEN
tence was Just
LUCAs-No, sab Idont.
CORREsPoNDENT-Why don't youS
LUCAs-Because 1 am black. II was white
wouldn't be here.
CoRREsPoNDENT-But you have republican
Sheriff and republican court officers; you certainly
have had lair chance
LUCAS-NO, sab ! Dey are republicans for rs
about all;
BUT DERE's NO JUSTICE
for de cullud man.
CoRREspoNDENT-You win certainly admit you
killed Simpsons
had been In my place you would have done the
same.
into hideous, sardonic grin, and rocked himself
to and fro with savage air Of defiance he spoke.
When eS ne cursed Sne 11dge ~ tne Go%rs
me next Friday instead OF waiting 40 long ?' and
he still maintained this bravado demeanOr to the
last.
the murderer of Pat Murphy, found in the passage
outside of his CELL He is the very opposite OF
Lucas in appearance being low in stature, stout,
but feeDes in strength; meek in his manners and
address, but with an expression OF features repu-
sive In the extreme.
CoRREsPoNDENT-Are you prepared to meet your
fate?
NED-Well, Use doing best can.
CoRREsPONDENT-ls your sentence Just?
NED-No, sab 1t is not.
CORREsPONDENT-Why not?
NED-Because was six miles from de place
whar de man was killed and when 1t happened.
CoRREspONDENT-Why did you not prove that9
NED-They would not let me; Niger has no
CoRREsPONDENT-Do you know who killed
Murphy
NED-No, sab don't know who killed him. nor
never seed him in my life.
Towards the close OF our brief conversation Ned
became somewhat excited, and his otherwise dull
eye flashed wildly rs he pOndered over his and
the terrible injustice which he alleges has been
BOTH OF THESE MEN
are known to be atrOciOus murderers, Lucas ad-
mitting that he killed two men in the same manner
that he killed Simpson; and yet they claim that
justice has not been done them because they are
negroes. Their idea Of justice is that having the
they should be allowed to commit crime with i'm
punity, and indeed this idea has been greatly
STRENGTHENED and encouraged by, the partial course
Of justice and the almost unlimited exercise Of the
pardoning power.
The scafiold was erected in the jail yard, and was
j
neat and trim, and OF such limited proportions as
to ensure successful strangulation. Two uprights.
eight feet apar on which rest cross beam only
the centre and swung to the right and left, COM
pleted the structure This drop or trap was not six
II any were INDUCED in OF Q broken neok Strangu-
lation of criminals for capital offences to be
the system in the South, and they always succeed.
All the
PRELIMINARY PREPARATIONS OF DEATH
were completed last night and the two condemned
me n UUnr IN hYf QyVnn mt M
casionally they would drop on into f1tiu doze,
only to awake with q start as dream Of their
their ever-wakeful minds. Morning dawned and
the light of their last day came welcome to their
W qs OF e a
meal at breakfast time, and then, with q
colored clergyman and number Of col
exercises, which continued the entire morning BY
noon the streets had assumed most lively appear
ance. The colored population turned ont en- nsasse
the males in their best Sunday apparel and the
women in their brightest, gayest and most flaming
coors. 1t was regular gala day. and If one did
THE HANGING WAS THE OCCASION
Of the excitement he would have imagined that
was taking place. On reaching the vicinity Of the
Jail found the fences lined with African female
sne WITH the
some Of them indulging In low jokes and vulgar
slang, while others and the vast majority specu-
future Beyond 1 the grave The earthly remains
the criminals were also subjects OF deep and ear.
nest discussion as to whether the doctors would
be allowed to butcher the bodies, and II so would
not their
GHOSTS FOREVER AFTER HAUNT
the vicinity Of their terribly tragic fate Many re-
marked the latter as q settled conclusion and so
strong is this superstitous impression among the
negroes that many OF them who live In the neigh
borhOOd of the jail have made up their minds to
move away, and none OF them can now be induced
e tire aes at night hy
earthly, exit. This is the general opin. pin
to convince them otherwise. About twelve O'Clock
three detachments OF the South Carolina National
trimmed with green, marched into the jail yard, i
for the purpose OF maintaining order, but they
to 1ce si0r1
leading to'the jail some Of whom had passes Of ad-
mission from the Sheriff; but the throng was so
The colored troops were sent out, but the crowd
drove them back, and as they were
ABOUT TO USE THEIR BAYONETs
they were ordered In to avoid bloodshed. The
police next tried to force back the mob, but only
partially succeeded. and for while there were in
cpent symptoms OF general riot Hundreds
and at length majority Of them the mob, OBJ Including Incl @
Mas restored one the coored Snei
troops were formed around the scaffold in hollow
square; The @ sheriff then went WEI upon the drop and
them dangling In the summer breeze, in pros
ANTICIPATION OF THE TRAGIC WORK.
A rough estimate places the crowd now in and
around the jail yard at not less than SIX thousand
people, and more disorderly throng never wit
messed on any similar occasion; yelling, hooting
and rotOus demonstrations were constant the
whole morning, and but for the exertions of Cap
tain Jackson, the Chief Of Police there would have
been serious riot, and 1t wound have been doubt
full whether the sentence OF the law could have
been executed In that case. With the thermometer
ut 120 this mob stood the entire morning sweter.
ing and surging about to crafty depraved appe-
tte, and 1t is safe to say they would have been
grievously disappointed II the tragedy had not
taken place according to programme.
THE CULPRITS BROUGHT OUT.
At twenty minutes to two O'Clock the condemned
men were conducted from the jail to the scaiold
tightly pinioned at the elbows. They were at
tended by a colored preacher and his wife, and
escorted by detachment Of the police. Both
walked firmly, and they assembled the steps leading
to the drop with great ease and apparent calm.
ness Here they stood with their faces turned to