Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-06-06


okeer your south shut and say that Sam BENZ ~
ALL the pedler and laid q ON your little tom
know Good f By your IitIie D Wright. 1 "s"' 10
STILL ANOTHER APPEAZ. TO SAVE BIS NECK.
In his next epistle he tells Margaret how she
can reoant what she said in court and sarow the
crime on Sam Bembcy:
Margaret Wright want you 70 under Stand good
eeIn- eht ont sud say sam Bemssry Xii the
- dn nsR a on SSdsy nyen,ng hsrgsrst # they
assret you say Sam Be%bry hit the Pea .Te on t
head With the old Spade MsrgereG il they ask you
sam Bsnbry Beg me not 70 tell Sam keep Begioe -
hard you won't Margret You must not forget to say
Msrsret Won saw Eon ,6 shsy oo1
s as9 M, sam beg me 80 hard thought would no,
put peer yoa say IN
they ak 9en whs ny a." Tom you wMr'
they ask ycu What n you Wa. doias when ss%
the and you whit from home think Of your little
trm Right Every minut and Do as / tell You say
cum Back he had carried the some whsre Margsfe E;
TO say 8oa ths
tould on Sam Rembery but Sam said he was going to
San B1Sery Kill the Peder and laid il D on t Sm1
Wright good BY my wife Margaret. I'd. W.
SENTENCED TO DIE.
On the 18th of April the melton for new trial
was argued before Judge Macarthur, and it
was overruled On the court asking III he had
anything TO say why the sentence of the law
should not be passed he made long ramblinp
address, asserting that Sam Bembry killed the
peddler, and concluded by saying:
I'll you hang me yon will hang the wrong
man, Tor l didn't kill the peddler. Sam said he
knocked man down and got $3.50 from him,
he belonged to the Gallilcans, and they didn't
suspect him, and if he got out OF at he could
get out of this, if he was arrested"
Judge Macarthur in passing sentence said
Is N cOrnu mn nj v 10 hot
court Is entirely satisfied with the verdict" He
then passed the sentence that Wright be taken
TO JAIL and be kept IN close confinement until
Friday, the Goth day OF May, between the hours
of 10 a. m. and p. M, and be then taken to the
place OF execution and be hung by the reck
until dead. At the conclusion of the sentence
Wright remarked, ''Gentlemen, it's hard for
man to die for what he did not do"
HE WANTS To SEE JUDGE MACARTHuR.
After the sentence had been passed he desired
to see Judge Macarthur, and wrote him the
following note:
WASHINGTON, d. c., Aprill7.
to Honerbal Judge Macarthur if YOU please Jest
Please come ard oblige our Humble Prisoner idge
jest want To see your Face II not but one minut
me see yOu time IL YOU Please Come to morros
Jest one minut am confined Jail but want to see
you. Your Humoie Prisoner n w.,
The day after this motion for new trial was
oveIIuled party visiting the jail saw Wright
at yhis window and remarked .sWell, Tom all
hope is gone; the court has ruled against you;''
and he replied carelessly, "weli, / suppose |
have got TO be hung for 1t. If 1 can see that
want any rope around my neck any way; but if
know that certain man was standing beside
me In tie same nix i could die happy" The
EaIfy asked, What man do you allnde to, Tom;
you II lind out some of these days; it was the s.
of b who went back on me, who got the
swag and hasn't been seen since. Ii they want
TO hang me let them do it; but they will hang
Il hafchpt hat
used: He wasn't struck with Ratchet"
.What was it them" was asked.
Tom replied: GAN old spade. If the detect
ives had looked about for it they would have
found il setting in a barrel.''
The visitor asked why the trowel. could not
have made some of the wounds.
Wright replied: Yes, there was a little old
Towel about there and he was cut with that
There was no such instrument as a trowel
produced on the trial nor was il claimed that
any other instrument than a hatcket was used
After this statement was made by the prisoner
a trowel was found on the premises which, on
being examined with microscope showed two
small spots of what appeared to be blood. A
Chemical analy sis showed beyond doubt that il
was blood. single red hair was also found ON
the edge of it.-REP.l
HE THREATENS TO HAUNT HIS Ex-MIsTREss
On the 10Th OF April he addressed the follow
ing note to Margaret:
April Stn us Margaret Wood have got to be
Hung for What you sand at the court house Mar
MI Nelly sue, ana stay but you would not let me
MarRaret you SAID you would not go Back on IN. for
Nothing aud Margaret 1 have got 50 days to live
then have got to be hung Margaret it is ofal to
Back after l am Deal aud tear you up for Doing me
:, can never see my Mother or Ms Father again ain
Margaret L Will never see you on Earth again but
you viii never see any more Peace until you are
bsa too aaTgaIs ,, you wint back on me Tor sam
Bah on me and You ne it Margaret you
1 cont want him to be born Oh Mar.
N"ns yn Sas zee ihe f.pe
,sss TIE Star I!sTs acTnins Msts.rs ssH soa
|, ha, Tom n.veI Kin the Peddier but Sam B.m r,
b nHe Gef Ms ( Tom
be Hung aud Bon, want TO be hung for whot Sam
Bs .a s' we sn @ Ri Ss hs
to ie sh m T Sn
i,senf az me Nov send Tor one Of the CARDS and tell
if Vii Do II w get and iS
one you soc that Sam Benbery XIII the Pedler tell
II on are going to Do like tell Won Ritz re- or
the morning.
'sAY BENBRT DUN 1T AND LAID 1T ON YOUR
POOR LITTLE TOM"
On the following day he wrote Margaret as
:, wasHINGIoS May llth 1873 Margrst Wright
Margret am sorry to heare Of you being SICK all all
me- slme am n hcps that yon will get better
you SaiO tnAt you Under stood what 1
said but 700 have not ton,d me if yon going to
Say that Sam Ben.b,y kill the man Margret have
,ould the trooth on Sam Benbry / said that Benz.
bry kill the Pedler on Monday night about or 8
oclk and toutd them that Sam Kill the Ia an aud
laid n on me Margret 1 want You to scud me word
~ you will say that Sam Bembry kill
the Pedler man and laid II your your
That will git new trial then wont be hung Mar.
garet you ask me what the Preacher said about Won
The Preacher said you ought to be a aham OF your
Sell Tor going back on your little tom Wright the
frrcher say that you ought to Do i AJAX yOu ne
said yeu must say that Bembry kill the man and
isid 4 ON me Margaret send me word il you will say
hat Bombay Nil the Pedler and laid il on your liz
Tie tomas d Wright as ron git this You must
Right back 10 me Margaret tell me when you are
going to have my sun. / want to no so send Won
sonnet hing for him will tell you all about nv trial
IN a few Day Don't myself yet but am sertain
u new trial answer nj Dinner T. Wright
TON AGAIN EXPLAINS TO THE PUBLIC
About this time he wrote the following for the
public eye:
Wsaf he BembryI said 20 me on Christmas going
ro,. p,,,;. S,cn, aon.
any longer II you all want to know who kill that
Hnor man that j am now got TO be hung tor 1 will
tell you the man W no help do il is name Sam
Benifery can say for the fack who il was with him
ne kiB the man between the Of and half pass
clock AT dark and him and Of his friend car
r.ed hls. away the other one who was with Mr. Sam
be1b<ry was one OF the Galeau fish monde who be-
long 20 the same order that Samuel Bembery did 1
no~ have got to be hung for his job DO have got
to Be hung i don't to die with q lie in
my niouth 81 i will come out like a man and LET
every body no the trooth- don. want no one
70 bele..e me if they don't see proper but
this Il the trooth On last Chr.stxnas day me
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