Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-30
He Darlns his Judges and Drops with
Neatly Broken Neck INTO -.
IrouSIe witt. the Doctors.

T'rousIIe with ti,c Doctors.
The case OF John Mnrpby, deceased. is
entirely peculiar: and if lie had been
tried, under similar circumstances, in
San Francisco, the case would have
given able counsel o. both sides a most
enYiab!e opportunity to distinguish
themselves as learned and shrewd in the
knowledge and pliabiliiy Of our system
Of jurisprudence called, by way of q
joke, the perfection Of reason. The
case will be written up within the next
week by one Of the fines! legal minds in
Nevada, and presented from this point OF
departure, to the public at large, through
the columns Of some national journal.
With this much promised we come to
tie events involved in
Yesterdays CATASTROPHE.
John Murphy had been sentenced to
1s hanged, for the killing of one John
McCullom, on Friday. December Is.
While about to lie hanged near Carson,
in the presence Of q vast crowd compo-
sed mostly Of ear.L's refuse, on the Gay
liked. he was granted reprieve upon
representation made to Governor Brad
ley by his friends-a respite until De
cember 2t In the meanwhile, jury OF
inauisiticn having sat upon the case,
Murphy was declared by them to bs
sane. Day before yesterday, the Board
If rardons met tor the second time
they had once before refused to CON-
mute the sentence) aud determined rot
to interfere to stay execution Of the SEN
t5nce. WhereUpon TIE Governor order
ed tho hanging 70 be proceeded with,
yesterday, While these naediatory p!o-
cesses were in operation, the prisoner
vas suffering the most distressing tor
ture; and when lie head at last. that all
hope was irrevocablv gone, lie weak
ened" and loosing his temper of steel lie
fell into b!aspLemy ana hurled the wild
est ana;Lemas at the heads Of all wLo
took pant against lin OF failed to save
him from the clutches Of merclless
human law, with the exception OF Gen
.ral i. II. Clarke, his attorney, when
too late. In conversation with this |
talented jurist Just before he Was taken |
out to be hanged, lie said he WAS sorry
he had nothing - pay Mr.. Clarke for |
his earnest, able, Ia; unsuccessful efforts |
70 hi q. sFfaTtI
MS CORPS
il he could maxi any Use Of it. When !
burial was Suggested to him, his mono
mania cropped ou. al,. he became wild
in his lenunciations of his surroundings |
and cursed the soil q Orm7by county |
He had ''been a soldier and sailor and |
was familiar with the implements Of |
war frCm cannon ball down to boxing |
gloves This remark which he made |
while in a Eighty mood on the gallows,
taken in conjunction with his weird, in
coherent broodings on sriritualisnl. |
point 70 the almost evident dual mania
of his mind. Whether such mania is
Insanity and sufficient ground on which |
to base q plea for communication of the |
death sentence may easily be run into
one OF those lice abstract questions
which can vex, but find no Discriminate
settlement in, the human mind. Murphy
claimed that
A DYING MAN
should have all he wants. He wanted
to ride to the scaffo!d in an open vehicle,
ard begged to have the top of his wagon
removed His request, Of course, could
not be complied with. If it had been
possible to indulge him, even in this
particular, Sheriff Swift would have
done it. Swift is nearly worn out with
the anxieties and distress forced upon
him by the complications of the case and
the grand tiasco of the temporary re-
prievc, but he has borne his part of the
burden like conscientious officer of the
law, without murmaring, while outsiders |