The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-18


Execution OF Sid. wallace, ihe SoiorI.
Gus Arkansas Murderer and Dcs.
peradO.
A dispatch from Little Rock to the
ST. Louis Globe gives the following ac-
count Of the execution ofold, Wallace,
II notorious desperado Mt GAINESVILLE,
in that state, on the l4th instant;
AT 9 o'clock this morning special
engine left here for Clarksville In the
employ ofthe Little Rock Republi IN,
from whose reporter we have the facts
connected with the execution of Sid,
Wallace, ut that place, about noon to-
day. Wallace slept well last night,
breakfasted heartily this morning, con-
tinued in good spirits, and was game
to the last, There was no attempt at
n rescue, as apprehcnded by some par
ties, and some three hundred armed
mell patrolled the place yesterday and
today.
He was visited yesterday and this
morning by his mother and other la
dies, to whom he said he didn't want
any respite; he could stand it, and no
favors to ask. The ladies left for home,
weeping bitterly. Rev. Mr. Burrows
and Presiding Elder Paine, uncle of
William Paine, killed by Wallace,
were with him most Of the time. L..
II. Burroughs thought Wallace had re-
pented, and been forgiven, but Wal
lace's speech on the scaflold seems to
refute the idea Of repentance. He
said Gentlemen, some of you proba-
bly, came expecting u long talk, but
you will be disappointed. | make no
confession to man, but to God. What
l have done has been in self-defense
and defense of friends, and | only
wish ! had more lives to be used the
same way"
He stepped firmly upon the drop,
turned up his coat collar and buttoned
his coat bid goodbye to all Oh the
scatfold; was pinioned, and the cap
pulled down. Sid. then cried: "Lord.
remember me when thou contest into
thy kingdom The drop fell, and the
desperate, who has been guilty of six
murders, was ushered into eternity.
The body fell about four feet, dislocat-
ing the neck. The heart continued
beating twenty minutes, but at thirty
he was pronounced dead, his body cut
down, and sent to his mother, as she
had requested.
The scaflold was erected in the court
house yard, just in front of the Jail
where Wallace was confined. Looking
at it, he asked the reporter if he didn't
think that was mighty shabby affair
upon which to hang him. He expressed
no fear of death whatever, and stated
his confidence of being borne away to
heaven by angels. If turned loose
now, he said, with couple of good six
shooters, he thought he could get away
with good many of his enemies, but,
he stated, they were afraid to meet
him. They were pack of towards,
who had sworn his life away because
they We're afraid of him. The crowd
in attendance at the execution is de-
scribed by parties down from there to-
night, as the largest ever assembled in
Johnson county. Wallace was related
to one of the oldest and best families
in the county. His father, prior to the
war, was a member of the legislature
and q prominent Methodist divine. He
was killed by jayhawkers about the
close of the war; Sid had the reputa-
ton of killing several men besides the
one for which he was hung. There
was also u sentence of four years in
the penitentiary hanging over him for
All attempt at the assassination of an
other man.