The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-21
Criminals Executed.

Harry Adams was executed in the jail yard
at Dayton, Ohio, on June Is, for the murder
of Henry Mulharen, a soldier from the
"Home" in that city, on February IA, 1876.
The prisoner to the last declared his limo.
cence in the following card
1, Harry Adams, sitting here within four feet OF
the scaffoid upon which l will die a most ignominious
death, within full sight of IT, while looking upon 1t,
I Lever did the deed for which 1 am to die, but that
Signed HARRY ADAMS.
The execution took place at the appointed
hour. When the prisoner mounted the
scaffold, says a Commercial reporter, with
his hands pinioned, it was observed that he
laughed; and also that his gait seemed a
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
VERY drunk, in fact. In that condition he
spoke for eleven minutes and a half, saying
nothing of special consequence, excepting
to denounce Bickham, of the Journal, as the
author of his death, to accuse the girl Jenpie
Smith of the murder, and to deny that he
had ANYTHING 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
mask when the drop fell. The neck was in
stantly broken, and the body remained
m~otionless. 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 Is, 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
shot and killed a colored man, Richard
Twined, at a ball in a hall corner of Clai-
borne and Ursuline Streets, February 6,
1876. Eveque acknowledged the killing, but
pleaded intoIication.
George Morris, colored, aged twenty-five
years, for killinga 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 for
theft. The woman refused to have anything
more to do with him. He waited near the
woman's house until she came out, when hi
stabbed her to death with a long knife.
joaquin Florence, a native Of the Philip
pine Islands, aged thirty-fve, for the murder
of his mistress, Marie Louise, colored, whom
he stabbed to death with q shoemaker
knife, January 16, 1876, at their room OF
Bourbon Street--cause, jealousy. After kill
ing the woman in bed, at night, FlorenzC
scattered several hundred dollars in money
over and about her, seated himself on thu
gallery until morning, when he went IL
search of her supposed paramour, found an
shot at him, and wa arrested. He then toll
the policeman what he had done, and tool
him to the scene of the tragedy.
The day before execution, by order o
Governor Nichols, a medical commissiol
examined Florenzo's mental condition, an
reported he was perfectly sane.
w1FE-MURDERER HANGED IN GEORGIA.
Stephen Brinkley was hanged at Newman
Ca, June Is, for the murder of his wife
nearly four years ago. He has a brother i
Memphis who is a very wealthy broker, an
who has spent over thirty thousand dollar
in the attempt to save him from the gallOwI
For two weeks before his execution tn
most extraordinary efforts had been made
, secure executive interference. Three Coz
ernors, Governor Stone. of Mississippi, an
, Governors Porter and Brown, of Tennessee
: have each sent papers to Governor Go
. quit, asking for clemency. General N. ]
I Forrest and General W. a.. jackson, wit
: whom Brinkley served during the war, wrot
to the Governor saying that they believe
the condemned man was of unsound min,
aud that he bore the reputation of beir
crazy during the war, and was discharge
from the army on that account. The Cove
nor, however, refused to commute his sen
ence.