Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-05-29

would be the height of folly to destroy the
bird that lays the golden egg.
Time and experiment alone can deter
mine the inadequacy of the means, or the
fruitlessness of the object
This much l have thought it due to your
correspondent, and others especially in
terested on the subject, to say, in reply to
his communication of the Oath ult, and l
should, probably, also say that press of
business and other unavoidable causes
have delayed its publication.
ANDREW g. CHAPMAN.
Interview Between Mi. John LamDly.
ST., and HcIIOhan.
The Baltimore Sun of Saturday last gives
the following account of this interview:
MI. John Lampley, ST., the husband of
Mrs. Lampley, for whose murder Hollohan
has been sentenced to be executed on the
18th of June, yesterday visited Hollohan
in the city Jail. He obtained an order from
+ Sheriff Kane for admission to see Hollohan,
conditional upon the latter's consenting to
the interview. Hollohan having express
ed Willingness to see Mr.. Lampley the
visit was made yesterday. Upon meeting
they shook, hands, the old man holding
Hollohan's hand in his some time, and ex-
pressing his unhappy condition. In the
course of the interview Hollohan went
over the circumstances of the murder, sub
stantially as detailed in his written con-
fession as published. He repeated that he
does not know how he allowed himself to
be persuaded to kill the old lady, but that
it was failing of his to be easily persuad-
ed; that he had no hesitation about the
robbery; they had agreed to commit the
robbery as far back as last fall, and he and
Nicholson had gone to the house one even
ing when they thought Mr. Lampley was
away fishing, but he returned sooner than
they expected, and thus frustrated the at
tempt then. Nicholson told him there
was $4,000 or $4,000 in the house, and the
whole plan Of the murder was settled be-
forehand. Nicholson told him to put ohm
Lampley, the son, away if he came in while
Hollohan was watching down stairs, in the
room with the old woman, and he had
pistol to use for that purpose, had it been
necessary. This pistol Hollohan told MI.
Lampley he should have. He also inform
ed him where the paper money and the
silver money were secreted, each in a diff
ferent place. The paper money in a tin
box was concealed in the outer premises
of a house in the eastern section of the city,
and the silver, which Hollohan put in
tin box, punching holes through the lid
and sides and securing it with wire, was
sunk in the water. AS there was .$151 in
silver, Mr.. Lampley fears it is sunk so far
in the mud he will not be able to recover
it. He made no attempt yesterday, being
unWell, to recover either box of money, but
contented himself with survey of the
places where Hollohan put them. Should
he be well enough he will make search for
the boxes to-day. The paper money Hol-
lohan and Mr.. Lampley both think it like
ty was secured by the friends of Nicholson,
who were Informed by Hollohan where it
was shortly after their arrest, and asked to
use it to fee counsel. These persons, Hol-
lohan says, reported they could not find
the money. The silver in the water the
old gentleman expects to search for with
oyster rakes, Or possibly to employ sub
marine diver, who, he says, he is told ''can
be hired for $40 an hour.
During the interview Mr.. Lampley told
Hollohan he would save his life for him if
he could, the circumstance of his not hay
ing been connection or intimate of the
victim making great difference in the
feelings with which he regarded the two
men, Hollohan and Nicholson. The latter
he speaks of with bitterness as a "contemp-
tible sneak, a cowardly murderer" He
also endeavored to impress on Hollohan
his need of help from higher power, and
said if he was truly penitent he and his
victim would meet in another world. At
this point both Mr.. Lampley and Hollo-
han broke into tears, Hollohan appearing
to be deeply affected. He said he was
willing to expiate his crime with his life,
and he only wished that the taking of his
life would restore to the old man his aged
partner and all that he had been deprived
of through his act.
Mr.. Lampley said to Hollohan during
their talk, "You have ruined me; you have
broken me up; if you had only taken all
else and left me my old wife I would not
have cared; but after all, though it is my
loss it is her gain" 1t was in response to
remarks like these that Hollohan express
ed deep contrition for his crime and will
ingness to pay for it with his life. The
old man first repeated to Hollohan and
then read from a printed sheet, which he
carried in his pocket-book, the verse which
he told him he had selected and had placed
on the 'old lady's" tombstone, and Hollo-
han said it was very fitting. Hollohan
spends great deal of his time in religious
meditation, and manifests hearty repent
ance. Rev. Mr.. Doll, of the Methodist
Church, is his only spiritual adviser, and
has been selected as such by Hollohan.-
No one is permitted to interrupt the con-
demned man by visits calculated to divert
his mind from religious pursuits, unless at
the express desire of the prisoner. For
this and other proper reasons visiting at
the Jail, particularly on Sundays, is re-
stricted, and no one will be allowed to see
Hollohan unless sent for by him. Last
Sunday great many persons were denied
admission, and the same will be the case
tomorrow and hereafter, it is understood.
House of Reformation for COIOred Chill
dren.
General John W. Horn the Superinten
dant of the House Of Reformation for Col
Ore6 Children Situatn6 in Prince Ga0rUe'S