The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-11-26


I told nor stories about tho gun for two
weeks. to keep Of doing:anything. Aicee
said to me ono day, 'If you'll kill Henry
for me, TIL get license and mary yon."
This was a week before Henry was killed.
I said to her that didn't want to do it, that
had rather go to Alabama to my family.
Sunday night. she went to VIM. Browns
house. She said to me, "Uncle Toney, are
you going to kill Henry for me tonight ?"
"Alcee." said I, 81 hate to do that mighty !
bad.' She said you have got to do it, IL
you don't Henry will kill mo. said it !
was something never did do , but if
have it to do, I'll do it, and she thsn said, |
wait Till get ont of the house. Henry
was lying on the bed alive. Alcee pulled !
off her clothes, went to bed and then got
up agains. 49, axe,MAs outsit' by the door. |
Alcee handtnhat; xo in q. u; es,,ouse. and
she went around Saw Snd>the house. There
Toney was interrupted by Alcee who
denied she had gore to bed or that she
handed him the axe. Toney replied to her
that he was going to tell all the truth and
continued j Henry Harris was asleep, with
the child on the bed asleep behind him.
+ went TO the bed. and my conscience
! checked me; set the axe down. and
stood and looked awhile. Alcee from the
| outside then asked me. are you going to
| kill him? I said, yes, but hate mighty
bad to do it. WAS sitting down; then
| got up and struck Henry on the head with
! the axe. Henry fell out Of the he'd.
struck him two more ticks on the head rs
he lay on the floor. Alcee said then, sd
| d--n you, you will never kill me-" After
| that said. lcee, you got me to kill him !;
| a mt yon going to help me pnt him in the
| bayou She said, no, I'm young thing,
and Pm scared nearly to death. then
| took Horny up, and carried him myself
to the bayou and threw him under the
| logs. threw the axe in the bayou.
! After + came back from the bayou
J + went in tho house, and took Il
bucket of water and washed mp the blood
| the best could. Alcce burned the pillow
| and the bolster with some boards from
| the lien-house. l have moro to say
! believe; this is the truth all the way
! through.
| Toney then recited disconnected portions
| of tho hymn "Whcn can read, &c., and
| said he wanted that sung when he was on
the gallows. They we're both asked ii
there hai ever baen any illicit intercourse
! between them, and both replied In a
| decided negative.
THE MURDERERs.
| Alcee Harris Is rather II good-looking
young colored woman, above the medium
| nighth, OF rather black complexion, regular
negro features eyes large and full. lips
| thick, and no facial indications ofdeprav
ity except in an expression of sullenness
| known with her race and which was ahoV WI
| several times during our visit, especially
| when she spoke Of her murdered husband
| whose death she said she glad Of
because he had treated her cruelty and
threatened to kill her. She is about "a
| years of age, and was born in Warren
| county, Miss. She was at times employed
| 81 coOk in MO,,r0a mi 81 the tinoo al hf
murder was at work on farm on Bayou
DeSiard. She has a child about 20 months
old which for awhile was kept with her in
Jail, but Is now with the fathers mother.
| About the child's fate Alcee manifested
| little or no concern.
Toney Neliu1n is a full biooded negro
COW but heavy-built. with rather an honest
! cooking countenahce, and was self-posses-
] Sod throughout his confession. He gave
| mis- age at Ga or IS years said he was
corn in Tennessee, and came to Louisiana
| four years ago from Alabama where he
| left wife and two children living. The
! old man related his confession with calm
! ness and evident regard for the truth, at
| times showing considerable mental agita-
| ton, yet insisting we should leave nothing
| out of his narration. His confession was
| read to HIM, to which he asserted as correct,
frequently interrupting the reading with
! eNITeSsAOus Oh hppToDAIlOu We paTteu
with Toney and Alcee with tho dead.
We shook their hands, both as cold as ice,
and left tho jail with such emotions "a only
two hours interview with two people con-
tlelnned TO be hanged for a terrible crime
could possibly arouse. TO day their crime
will be expiated upon tho gallows: to-
morrow they will be IA Henry Harris ia.
THE GALLONS
is very simple structure made of common
pine and stands on the ground. Two up
rights 6 feet apart rise from the base, on top
of which is tt cross beam with iron hooks
about two and a-half feet apart, to which
the rope ia fastened. The trap ia five feet
above the base and rests upon upriGhts
working on hinges below and is displaced
by II trigger and IL lever which push the
trap from under the feet of :he condemned.
The trap extends from upright to upright
md is ahont two feet in width. 1t will not
drop. or fall, but will be forced outward by
a lever and fall in curve to the ground.
The fall il less than five feet.
THE EXECUTION
| will take place in the Courthouse square
only y few steps from the Jail, mt 10 o'clock,
and both of the condemned win he exectt-
| ted at tho same time. Sheriff Hamlet will
| I've the eNecutioner.
1t affords the Republican press Of this