Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-30


"TUoMAS, &Y LAST CHEW,
| Con Ion gave HIM some tobacco which
| he chewcd into cud and then branch
| ed out in n. ,eistical poem, composed
Ivy Lizzie Noten, the so called spiri: Of
Robert Burns. The verses are 4
laughing and biting satire oh religion,
written in the brogue and composed
after the style Of the great bard OF
Scotland. Murphy rendered it faith
fully and well, from memory, in his
native Scotch veruacular. 1t was re-
ple,e with well turned strokes at the
Vulnerable points of the Christian sys-
tenn and, at any other time, would
have set a mixed "for western" au-
diences to roaring; as it was, however,
the pungent wit of the piece excited
only faint glow Of humor on the
countenances Of few. After this
effort he wiped his bald head with his
handkerchief dipped i'll ice water and
stood
ASrRADDLE OF The TRAP DOOR
through which he was in a few min
utes to be dropped like dead shot
and opened his book on spirituaiism
IL Tue 1otth If5c' AiS'i ti'e' 'i'0 '''oN
saving: 81 have never kneeled be-
fore, but l do kneel, now" With
these words he dropped on his knees
con,uls!vely upon the treachcrous
trap
AND UTTERED HIS LAST PRAYER
from the boo!, Of spirits which LIE held
il his hand:
Almighty and most merciful Father,
who has created us in thy wisdom and
sustained us by thy love. look down with
compassion on this thy unhappy child
row present, and asss. HIM, We besecch
Thee, in bis search after truth. Roll
from his mind the clouds of error, ignor-
ance, and superstition, tina. the light Of
Thy wisdom may shine upon him,
cheering his heart, enligAteHing lis uu-
derstandirr and rendering bright his
pathway to Thy holy mansions eternal
III the heavens. Suffer Thy holy spirits
to minister unto him as his guardians
and guides. to lead him from darkness
to light and place him On the plane OF
everlasting progression.
~ AM READY. now
he said, ana gave himself up Into the
hands Of the executive ctlicers. lie
begged for another mouth.ul Of tobacco
which be received nervously and chewed
with the intensest excitement, while his
face became exceedingly pale and his
eyes were watery and red. He showed
a system Of steel to the very last, and
while they were adjusting the moose
about his neck, he cried out from the
scafcl!
"HALL0 SWEENEY
when lie recognized in the crowd before
him; and told the reporter Of the Gold
Hill Ners, who stood in front OF the
gallows, to tell the boys that he had
seen him in - tight place. He went
50 far as even to wish that his d-n
judges might yet experience a drop like
his
THE BLACK CAP
was drawn over tho doomed wletch's
head and tied under his neck. In q
moment more the lever WAS sprung, the |
trap left the surface. and with mourn
fu! thud the eXeCrated n!urierer-a prey |
to humanity and TO himself - was hang |
ing in the air with twitching muscles |
and broken neck. Owing to some mis-
understanding or slip, which we are not
70 discuss,
NO EoCroG COULD GE FOUND
on the premises, and the Sheriff was
placed in very embarrassing sitU,tion.
He called upon any one in the tLronS
who might be a member OF tie medical
profession, as a favor, TO come forward
and give him assurance il tho criminal
was according TO law, dead, dead. dead,
out there WAS no response. After the
'orpso had hung suspended twenty nliu-
ties everybody said the sentence vas
31ocuted. The corpse was then taken
way ard deposited in some grave sur
'ounded by the aroma Of sacebrush,
away from graveyards lallowed by
,hurch ceremony, where the merely GU
-ious and they Of speculative humor
nay resort to chatter and phi!osophize.
PARpoS.-James I. Ehoades, pliso-
Ter from Esmeralda comfy, convicted
II arson in the second degree on the 9TH
# August, 1871, and sentenced to eight
ears imprisonment, was pardoned yes
erday. Tho reasons for his pardon
we're, his uniform good conduct while in
Prison ard well-founded opinion of
he Board that the evidence was INSULT
lent to justify the conviction. Ex-Gov-
rnor Blasdel, whose mill was burned,
las made very strenuous efforts in this
ase in favor of the prisoner. He wrote
letter to the Board avowing his belief
n Rhoades' innocence, and attributing
lis conviction on such slight evidence to
lis having served former term in the