The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-01-23
Il am the Murderer Of Will
liam Spense and George
W. Sisney."
A Bad Poet, but q Cool
Fellow.
The Builiner Side Punished. How
About the Other Side 2
Over 5000 Persons Present ut the
Hanging.
CARBoNDALE, Jan. %, 1876.

IN MI DISPATCH
ANNOUNCED the execution OF Marshall 4.
Grain, in Marion, williamson county.
on Friday the 2lst, aud promised you
particulars by letter.
Accompanied by number of Bohen-
ians Of the press, representing the Chi
cago Times, st. Louis Republican, New
York Herald, st. Louis Giebs-Denocro'
Chicago Tribune, and Arcly Vegetable. :"
reputation, I,--.eoh ln"i"' traia ut
I UsfD5ndaIc, early on Friday morning.
The cars were well filled, and while pass.
ing Carterville and Granville, many
others, citizens living in the vicinity
where the
VENDETTA SPENT ITSELF.
got upon the train. Reaching Marion
we found large crowds assembled on all
the corners of the streets, and from the
principal avenues leading to the town,
men, women and children ilocked in, on
foot, horseback and In wagons and car
riagcs. BY ten o'clock the town was
crowed with people of the neighborhood,
and previous to the execution numbered
at least three thousand. Being acquainted
with the town and officials, took, by
general cosent,
CHARGE OF THE EDITORIAL BRIGADE,
and learning that Sheriff Norris, an eff.
cient officer. interpreted the law so rs to
exclude reporters, consulted Prosecu-
ting Attorney j. W. lIartwell, who i'm
mediately visited the sheriff and made ar
engagements satisfactory to that gentle
man, who was fearful OF violating the law.
Besides being under obligations to MIR.
Hartwell, the press force owes much 10
his law partner, Mr.. Walter Warder, for
courtesics extended.
At II o'clock the militia assembled,
by Captain James Order;
William Henderson, lieutenant. Sixty
i've muskets, loaded, capped and bayo-
neted were carried by men who seemed
to know how to handle them.
One o'clock was the time set for the
springing OF the trap that would
END THE DAYS or MARSHALL GRAIN.
The front OF the Jail was entirely blocked
up by people, as orderly q crowd as
ever laid eyes upon, rejecting great
credit on the farmers OF Williamson and
,,tizens of Marion. There was no drunk
,nness, no boisterous conduct, seeming
more like a holiday or grand arenic
display that the men, women ana chii-
lren contemplated seeing, instead OF a
tragic chapter in bloody drama.
BAYONETs CLEANED
in the Jail yard, and along the fence sur
it, and an avenue was opened
for those who were authorized TO enter
the building where the doomed man was
for death.
Alter IL o'clock, accompanied by the
press force, repaired to the Jail, pre-
sented my pass to the officer in COM
mand, aud was soon inside the hall of the
building. Ascending flight of stairs |
CONFRONTED The GALLONS,
a rude structure, but sufficiently strong
to hold a small elephant, erected in cor.
ner Of the upper hall, the floor being cut
to let the body swing down after severing
of the rope.
INSIDE OF THE CELL
Marshall Grain was dressing himself for
the the fatal leap, and in few moments,
in company with deputy Sheriff Ed
ringtOn, he made his appearance in the
hall. A window was opened for him and
he looked calmly out upon the people as
scmbled. A white robe coveled his
whole body, and he was closely shaved,
with hair neatly cut. In clear, dis.
tinct voice he said it was his duty to God
and man to confess his crimes,
asked to be forgiven and hoped the
country would he quiet and prosperous
after his death, which was not tar Of.
He closed by reading the following
poem, which was, at his positive request,
published verbatim: