The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-12
jim BROWN HANGED.
LAST ACE HN THE NANsEMOED
TRAGEDY. Il.
asst HOURS OF THE MURDERER.
INCIDENTS OF FHE ExECgTIos.
/, a Spectator Falls and Breaks his
Neck. ,2s..i lr
[special telegram to the DispatchJ

III. I'D
d. Especial telegram to the DispatchJ
h SUFFOLK, July yl11.-Jim Brown was hanged
here to-day for the murder of Mrs. Sarah N.
Dozier and Bfrs. Elizabeth JONES', The foul
crime thus expiated is OF SO recent occur
renee that its details must be fresh in tue
memory Of everybody in Virginia, and it is
needless to reproduce them. efss n, ,,.si.,
Rarely has justice been so speedily salts
fed in the arrest, conviction, and execution
ofia great offender against the law. Mrs
Jones and Mrs. Dozier were killed on Sum
day, June 1st; oH: the I'd Jim Brown was
arrested and released; on the Sd the same
man was rearrested and committed to Jail |;
on the 11th he was arraigned, tried, aud con-
victed Of murder in the first degree; and
now, after one month Of delay allowed him
to prepare for death, the soul of the mur-
derer has heen launched into eternity.
LAST aoasNTs OF THE MURDERER.
Jim Brown being interviewed yesterday
evening said he was converted, bad made
his peace with his Maker, and was even sorry
that his execution did not take place then
instead Of to-day. He slept soundly last
night, but remained undisturbed in his cell
until O'Clock, when the sheriff arrived. AT
10. his manacles being stricken Cd, he washed
and dressed, and then his wife, who is in
Jail, was brought to bid him a final farewell.
The meeting was no ways affecting, the con.
versation being limited to goodbye, repeated
frequently by both, shaking hands mean
while, indiferently by Jim but with slight
show of feeling by the woman. A colored
preacher was then admitted to the Jail, with
/ whom the condemned engaged in prayer,
sang q hymn, and seemed to be religiously
comforted. 1-1
| THE sCAFFoLD
was erected in front Of the Jail and not one
hundred yards from the main thoroughfage
of the town. 1t was substantial and ex'
cellent structure of the sort, allowing fall
OF six feet, with swinging doors in the drop
A square space was staked off around the
scaffold, with ropes to keep the immense
crowd present back. Thirty special consta'
bles sworn in by the sheriff, assisted by seye-
raj volunteer policemen from Norfolk, pre-
served order. 1t Is estimated that there
were about 1900 people present besides the
citizens-the largest crowd ever. assembled
| in Suffolk. At II O'Clock. the condemned
man was robed in a long,
| FLOWING WHITE STROUD,
his arms were pinioned, and he was LED
from the Jail, accompanied by the sheriff, bis
deputies, and the colored preacher. He ap
pcared to be greatly excited, and when he
mounted the steps to the drop, fell on hi
knees and was heard to mutter a prayer.
Soon after he stood UP, and the sheriff
read the death sentence. When asked i
he had anything to say, he said: "Dear
Loving Friends, s,--Itell you all ! have sinned
and hope Pm going to betterland. Don'l
follow me, but try to make heaven your
home. say to everybody repent, repent
Ebefore it is too late. What have done die
myself.
| Arope was then tied on his neck with Z
common slip-knot, but fearing this would
not do, another, with the traditional hang
mans knot, was substituted. AS the cap was
about to be drawn over his features the col
ored preacher said, "Jim, wish you to sa,,
now, as you are standing ,l.
ON TIE THRESHOLD OF ETERNITY, '
was there any one concerned with .youi in tbs
shedding of this innocent blood" Jim re-
piled, =" No." ....-
| The cap was then drawn over the fea
lures, the condemned man crying out, +" Fn
going to better land; good bye."' At 11:2(
Ia. NJ. the drop fell, and Jim's body fell into
/ the vacuum of the scafoId, the fall being
only three and half feet. The neck was
broken. Five minutes later, pulsation Was
, feeble at 70. In ten minutes he was dead
the struggles being only convulsiye move
ments of the limbs.
| The body was cut down and placed In
coffin for interment. Jim had disposed 0
his head and body separately to two person
for necessaries he required while in Jail.
ANOTHER MAN KILLED.
i While the body was suspended a negr
named Tom Bacon, who was In the uppe
branches of tree, lost his balance and fell
breaking his neck. BE was carried of
corpse.
A son of Mrs. Dozier, one of the mur
dered ladies, witnessed the execution from
privileged position within the ropes. Jim