The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-02-21
From Jefferson City.

TIVE PROCEEDINGS &C.
EDITORS REPUBLICAN;
The history of the murders commit
ted BY Council is doubtless familiar to
all newspaper readers. For killing q
woman without cause in Boone County,
| Mr.. Council was tried convicted and
sentenced to die. His sentence was, by
Gov. McCIurg, committed to imprisOn-
ment for life: and II day last year,
Council. without any p~rOvOcatlon
| whatever, while standing in the dining
hall for the convicts, thrust a six inch
blade into the body Of one Burns, a
fellow convict. who o o died: and for
| this murder. Cornell was indicted last
fall and afterwards tried convicted and
again sentenced to die in accordance
with the laws of this State, however
just or unjust such laws may be. His
attorneys took Al appeal from the de-
cision af the court which appeal was
not sustained by the Supreme court.
But l am to tell you of an
INTERVIEW wITH CONNELL
We followed our guide through the old
cell building some distance then decend-
ed a stone stairway leading down to the
lowest tier of cells one Of which holds
within its strong grasp. the murderer
Connell. When we came before his
cell he was standing at the door of his
cell peering out into the light of day.
Cornell is a large nan weighs 220
pounds, and is over 81 feet high he has
a determined wicked appearance, and
seems 20 be more like a beast than a
man. Being asked how he felt when he
contemplated the day of his execution
and how he felt in regard to his future
he replied quickly call right, all right
sir. l am very sorry for Killing Burns
and the but it won't do any
good now repentance aud PRAYER are
the only things that can do any good,
amt it sir?
Reporter.-"If you had prayed
and repcnted %oftener before you killed
Burns and that woman you would not
have committed those bloody deeds,
would you?"
ConneN.-"Ij just tell Won I was terri
bly vcxed and to tell the truth before
| God, Burns told me he did not blame
me, for it was his own fault. l have
had q priest"
RepOrter.-Had you anything against
that woman whom you killed in Boone
county.
ConneL-Shc was trying to make me
mad worse than poisoning
R.-Don't yol think it would have
been better to have taken the insult
than kill the woman"
C.-Yes Sir, l do.
R.-Reporters will be here from all
parts of the country to witness your
execution and their reports will be
published to the world, and your rela-
tives will hear of you.
C.-Their business will be very idle
but l am not going to be hung, | dream
ed | would not, and | am surc | will
not be hung. l dreamed that | was
too valuable to be hung, and they want
ed me for some other business. If |
should be hung | want no priest. preach
er mol any body else around. | am
thirty-si1 years old; have been i'll this
country about nine Gears; came here ia
get rich !; l wish l had done better (hcre
he seemed much aflccted). l do rot
believe that a dead man can come back
to earth again; but when they die that
is the last of them here; but they may
change into any form in :he other world
that they like. / don't believe a dead
man can come back and bother me-"
R.-"Do you expect to meet Burns in
the other world"
C.-"Yes, and Quickly he will be O
friend ofminc too
We babe the doomed man good bye
and left him in silence and alone in hi
dismal cell to mediate upon the terri
BILE deeds he has committed until he
shall he taken to the scaffold on the 23rl
inst to expiate his crime in the presence
of men and angels.
We de not believe in capital punish
ment. but if it is right under any cir
!. cum.tances where cold bloodcd muir
der has been committed and proven
beyond doubt, then il will certain,
) be right to hang this man Council.
~Ifcapital punishment can moi be abol
!, ishcd in Mo. let the law be SO changed
that the jury may say whether thos'
guilty of murder in the first degree shall
be punished with death or imprison
/ ment for life.
LEGISLATIVE.
> There is much CAB, and some hare
work being done, in the House OH tn
, Revenue bill.
:. In the senate the past week they hat
another Black Friday and passed tn
, Gold, Currency-so called Republication
resolution ovcr the Governors veto b,
81 to II and sent it to the House wher,
gigantic efforts were mado 10 pOstpOn
action and kill it, but it would not di
while il was evident that Gratz mus,
The House after fighting day or tw
passed it over the veto by vote of Z
to A Andrew County voting 70
currency as was PREDICTED.