The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-29
JUSTICE AVENGED.
Virginia and Kentucky Affirm
the Laws Supremacy.
ASSASSINATIONS FOR PLUMBER.
Manley Kills Scotch John"
for a Silver Watch.
Tom Smith Shoots Joseph Braden Through
the Head and RObs His Store.
IMPRISONMENT AND CONFESSIONS.
Ine negroes Full OF Prayers
and Penitence.
Seven Hundred Spectators View Ono E1eeu-
tion---Eight Thousand tho Other.
Revival Of All the Horrors Of
Public Hanging.
SPEECHES ON THE GALLONS
Last Words and Acts Before q
Death Of IgnOminy.
Words Of Warning and Irresisti-
BILE Temperance Lectures.
Seven Hundred Spectators View Ono E1ecu-
tion---Eight Thousand tho Other.
Revival Of All the Horrors of
Public Hanging.
SPEECHES ON THE GALLONS
Last Words and Acts Before q
Death Of IgnOminy.
Words Of Warning and Irresisti-
BILE Temperance Lectures.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March %, 1873.
At the jail yard here to-day, at noon, Charles
Hanley, colored man, was hanged for the murder
OF John Monroe, on the night Of the 9th
OF July last. The murder was one of
much atrocity, and there was feeling
not confined to any race that Manley suffered
q just punishment. sketch OF the persons con-
cerned In the murder and Of the circumstances
surrounding it is but the gathering up of q
thousand scattered threads Of narrative that made
sometimes light chat, but more frequently serious
talk around the gallows.
THE VICTIM MONROE.
John Monroe, the victim, had been an itinerant
mender OF clocks, traversing all this section Of the
country within the radius Of thirty miles, He was
about sixty years OF age, thick-set man, gray
haired and about i've feet seven inches in height,
somewhat STOPPING in stature and stunning in gait.
He was scotchman by birth, and in the narrative
OF hts journeyings to and fro has mentioned to
some Of those who were intimate with him that he
kept, some thirty years ago, watch and jewelry
store on John street, in the city of
New York, and afterwards in Brooklyn. His wife
having proved unfaithful to him he separated from
her, and soon drank to excess His store passed
out OF hts hands, and for twenty years he had been
leading Q vagabond life, making q precarous
living among the old clocks OF the tide-waterside
villages Of Virginia. He was addicted to large
potati0ns, but was never troublesome; the police
here bearing witness that though often in town he
never disturbed the peace or required their sur
veillance. He had no friends, and though all who
recollect him speak Of his kindly disposition, but
one person seemed to have taken within late years
the slightest personal interest in his AFFAIRS. He
had been fortunate in enlisting the pity of his
a oh
THE MURDERER.
Charles Manley, the murderer, was about five
feet ten In height and $50 pounds weight had been
Q slave in L0adoun county, Virginia, and came to
his freedom while in the Union army; but since
the close of the war he had never worked steadily
at anything, had refused dozen advantageous Of
fers to 60 into the country, on q farm, but pre-
ferred to lOter about the city, catching OCCASION
ally little easy work and employing the rest of
his time no one knew how. He had once, some
months ago, shot at man in camp meeting; but
in Virginia now justice is often too tardy to
be able to stride over county limits or else, per-
haps the old clock member had been still living and
Aanley unhanged.
SCOTCH JOHN IN "PETERsBURG.n
Several weeks ago "Scetch John,n as Monroe
was familiarity called, returned to Alexandria from
q tramp up the country, and made his home as
had not been successful on his tour and was sub
ject to frequent melancholy but made SUFFICIENT to
feed him from hand to mouth. On the 4th Of
July he drank well In honor OF the day. and was
not entirely sober when he left his boarding house.
between five and six O'Clock on the afternoon Of
the 9Th of july All the suburbs Of the town were
quite familiar to him, for It was only
ameng the poorest class Of the townspeo-
pie that he found his work. Wandering
along the byways Of the town he entered
q colored settlement known in the local geography
as petersburg" The settlement itself has Gu.
fiOus history. When General Pope fell back in his
headquarters in the saddle" large number or
contrabands accompanied the army, and suddenly
one morning the sides Of morass on the hilltops
adjoining became negro camp Of women and
children where there were none before. The needs
of the army had swallowed them. The marshy dis
trct had been the bette notre OF the town for more
than q century. A hundred years ago the old
House OF Burgesses offered the land free
to any who would locate there. Titles had been
taken and lost; tax sales innumerable attested
fnat no taxes had ever been paid. The marsh and
It's envlrons, though half crcled by the out
skirts, was to the city as the Campagna to Rome
waste where no one dare dwell, full OF malaria
that threatened all the jewellers in its neiqhbor-
hood. But the Negro women had no where else to
70. The worn out tents anorded them little pro-
lection and with little help from the quarter
masters they dotted the marsh with shanties, and
when the men came back they found houses ready
FOR them with church on the neighboring hill
top), and have lived there ever since; some OF the
most industrious made comfortable cottages
Others, idle and dissolute, have made trouble.
some class OF neghbors for the town
rs Idle as Neapoitan lazzaroni and "a busy under
che stars as Roman brigands. To this outskirt, on
the night Of the 5th Of July Monroe took his road
He familiar with 1t, although he found but lew
jobs there; for the negroes are too accustomed to
tell time by the sun to ''set much store" by
clocks. He was quite tired and sat down to rest
beside well kept spring OF water known in the
town az "the little spring." The valley In which
the spring was situated extended some three hum
dred yards rom cotton factory on the west to the
depot or the Washington and OHIO Rail
road so called because IL begins eight
miles from washington and ends $50
miles rom Ohio), on the east by the
river side. The idle among the negroes had not
mastered the spirit OF the 4th and their desires had
1ar 0utlasted their money. There were drunken
men, or half drunken men, IN many of the shanties
around, and not q few with an inexpressibO thirst
FOR strong drink, which seizes the appetite OF un
completed debauch. The quiet and unattractive
women were full OF fear. for at such times word
and blow are knit together In the crazy brain Of
man: They Kept within doors and tried to sleep,
but JAILED. the wanton and wild women were eli
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