The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-21
Criminals Erectsted.

Harry Adams was executed in the Jail yard
at Dayton, Ohio, ON June Is, for the murder
of Henry Mulharen, soldier from the
"Home" in that city, on February IA, 1876.
The prisoner to the last declared his inno-
cence in the following card:
/, Harry Adams sitting here within four feet of
the scafoId upon which will die most ignomiDious
death, within full sight of IL, while looking uponit
do solemnly declare, with this my dying word, that
l never did the deed for which am to die but that
Jennie Smith did it, SO help me- God.
The execution took place at the appointed
hour. When the prisoner mounted the
scatfold, says a Commercial reporter, with
his hands pinioned, it was observed that he
laughed; and also that his gait seemed
little unsteady. The laugh was accordingly
taken for bravado, and the unsteadiness for
fear. When he commenced to speak, how
ever, it became evident from his incoherent
manner and thick voice that he was drunk
livery drunk, in fact. In that condition he
spoke for eleven minutes and half, saying
| nothing of special consequence, excepting
to denounce Bickham, of the Journal, as the
| author of his death, to accuse the girl ennie
Smith of the murder, and to deny that he
| had nything to do with the crime. At last
| Deputy Sheriff Freeman tried to stop this
torrent of incoherent nonsense, and fitted
the black cap over the prisoners face. Even
| then he continued to speak for awhile, and
was actually moving his lips under the black
|
stantly broken, and the body remained
motionless. In fifteen minutes the pulse had
ceased to beat, and in nineteen the body was
cut down.
| THREE EXECUTIONS AT NEW ORLEANS.
At II O'Clock, June 15 the following were
executed by hanging, in the parish prison
yard, New Orleans, in the presence of about
two hundred spectators.
Adrian Eveque, colored, aged twenty, who
| u l.. 1oI IL .nlo
Twined, at ball in hall corner of Clai.
borne and Ursuline Streets, February 6,
1876. Eveque acknowledged the killing, but
pleaded intoxication.
George Morris, colored, aged twenty-five
years, for killing quadroon woman named
Sarah Jones, his former mistress, on Novem
Der 80, 1875. Morris had then just returned
from Baton Rouge, where he had been serv
ing out his sentence in the penitentiary fol
theft. The woman refused to have anything
more to do with him. He waited near th'
woman's house until she came out, when h
stabbed her to death with long knife.
Joaquin Florence, native OF the Philip
pine Islands, aged thirty-hve, for the murde
of his mistress, Marie Louise, colored, whom
he stabbed to death with a shoemaker
,, knife, January 16, 1876, at their room OF
Bourbon Street--cause, jealousy. After Kill
ing the woman in bed, at night, Florenz
g scattered several hundred dollars in none
] over and ABOUT her, seated n1mselI on In
+ gallery until morning, when he went i
search of her supposed paramour, found an
. shot at him, and was arrested. He then tol
the policeman what he had done, and too
n him to the scene of the tragedy.
/. The day before execution, by order {
, Governor Nichols, medical commissio
L examined Florenzo's mental condition, an
reported he was perfectly sane.
wIFE.MURDERER HANGED IN GEORGIA.
. Stephen Brinkley was hanged at Newman
Ga, June Is, for the murder of his wifi
IL nearly four years ago. He has brother
/. Memphis who is very wealthy broker, an
8. who has spent over thirty thousand dolla
o in the attempt to save him from the gallow
~ For two weeks before his execution tt
most extraordinary efforts had been made
le secure executive interference. Three Go
a ernors, Governor Stone. of Mississippi, ar
,e Governors Porter and Brown, of Tennessee
A. have each sent papers to Governor Ct
y. y. quit, asking for clemency. General N.
n' Forrest and General w. 81. Jackson, wi
n whom Brinkley served during the war, wro
to the Governor saying that they believ
o the condemned man was of unsound min
~ and that he bore the reputation of bel
as crazy during the war, and was discharg
a from the army on that account. The Gov
C. nor, however, refused to commute his sci