Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
THE GALLONS.
Am AwRul scene.

saw a mans body below. It was the body of MT. Jones, a rich and somewhat eccen- lric old farmer, about seventy years of age, who had lived alone in the house. The rooms within had been ransacked, but much l valuable property in the form of bonds and had not leen touched. It was inferred that the murderers were ignorant men-certainly not professional It was aacertained that the mur' derers first set fire to some brushwood near the house, aud then, when the old man, seeing the flames, ran out to extinguish the fire, they entered the house and awaited his return, The blood-stained walls, the dis ordered furniture, the trampled grass out side and the mutilsted corpse in the we'll, told the rest of the story. The old farmer, ss he returned to the house, was clubbed and stunned. and then dragged to the we'll, and the marks of bloody fingers on the woodwork at the top showed where he clung for his life, and the bruised and gashed hands told of the blows that finally forced him to relax his hold. He tried
 more than once to climb out of the well,
 too, as was attested by the torn finger nails
 and the marks of blood on the sides of the
 well. But several large stones were hurled
 down upon him, and heavy chopping
 block was dropped upon his head. that
 probably killed him. Beyond these facts
 the inquest threw no light upon the trage-
 dy, and a reward of 2,00O was offered for
 the apprehension of the murderers, but
 without result, and months passed before a
 clue was obtained.
 In October. 1874, the police received a
 number of letters eliminating Jarvis and
 Jackson, and they were arrested. The
 grand jury indicted both prisoners, and on
 the 3lst of November, 1874, Jarvis was
 put on trial. Judge Pratt sentenced him
 to be hanged on the 18th of January. 1875
 A few days later Jackson was sentenced.
 THE GALLONS SCENE.
 At twenty minutes past Il o'clock, Fri
 day of last week, the prisoners, guarded by
 8 posse of deputy sheriffs, walked rapidly
 down the narrow board pathway from the
 jail to the gallows. Their arms were pin . toned. and the black caps were on the backs of their heads. They ascended the plat. form and the ministers, the sheriff and some of the deputy sheriffs stepped for ward to shake hands with the culprits P Then the caps were drawn over their faces r and the sheriff stepped into the little planh , structure in which the weights were hang , ing. The dead silence that followed wa. t broken by the sharp hlow of the axe as il descended upon the rope and Jackson wal [ jerked into the air. His body assumed ar - almost horizontal position, and he fell back with a dull thud to the end of the rope B Meanwhile Jarvis, under the other end O. e the cross-beam. was raised with a violen ] shock three feet from the ground, then th' rope broke and be fell back upon the plat . form. The deputy sheriffs hardly kntv what to do in the emergency, and the spec r tators stood para!yzed. Exclamations O P horror filled the air, and all attention wa , diverted from Jackson. Jarvis had fallel on his feet, and was standing alone, witt f the broken rope hanging from his neck , He was half strangled, and when deputy 3 sheriff approached him his voice was heart F under the black cap begging the officers t' 6 loosen the rope. This they did, and hi E body then began to sink. A policeman { supported him, and he was again place, y beneath the beam; but though his heat e had fallen on his shoulders and his knee t were bent under him, he still spoke.
 .- "DoN'T MURDER MEL"
 r. be said, and then, as the moose was agai = adjusted about his neck, 'Oh, don't mak t any mistake this time." Meantime, withi D two feet of him, Jackson was moving COT C vulsivcly. but not violently. His legs tren e bled and were occasionally drawn up, an e his chest heaved slightly, but his suffering 1T were soon over and m 8 few moments hi # body hung motionless. The moose havin e once more been adjusted about Jarvi }. neck, deputy sheriff was about to attac 1T it to the rope from the cross-beam, but th l. weights were again dropped, and the rop x- was jerked out of the officers hand, flyin y up end leaving the culprit standing on tn 6 platform supported by policeman. Bot ( if A. M. At rl.30 the moose was finally at e lusted, and Jarvis, uninjured except by th .e shock, was slowly drawn into the al l. There he began to struggle, though not 6 v violently as might have been expected. 4 Ia ll:42 he was dead. Jackson died at ll:3. l. Dr. William Woods of Jamaica and D D. D. R. Porter of Manhassett, said that bot A died of strangulation, and that in neith, ia instance was the neck broken.
 ,t The breaking of the rope is not easil
 explained. Under thorough test c
 Thursday 1t stood a far greater strain ths IF that to which 1t was subjected Friday. ). WAS not jagged at the point of parting, b, S seemed to have been cut with knife, bot h ends being perfectly smooth. There was # very strong feeling against Jarvis and Jacl ,t son, and the executioner thinks that son ,. one of the many who visited the jail ya1 II on Thursday cut one or more of tt # strands.
 Arrert of Whitelavv Reid.
 -, Whitelaw Reid, editor.in-chief of th ,r New York Tribune, was arrested for lib' :. in Washington Monday night, at the il
 stance of ex-Governor Shepherd. Tt . warrant issued in the case recites that Reit ., In certain articles in the Tribune, hs
 charged Shepherd with bringing bankrup