The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-03-21
HitOWS COls!.!I.
Hung at Winchester Thursday,
March 14th, 1878,
Asthe Murderer of Felix Gardner.
The Particulars.

II il our unpleasant duty to Law he
fore the readers Of the Home JOuruu
The particulars Of the hanging Of Brow
J COhlr, a stnlwart cUlprcd man. and t
preacher Of the Gospel. who, aiIrr i've
IMPARTIAL trial, IN our CIuuil Court
which were ahll med by the Suprrm'
Court of the State. WAS sentenced 20 hc
hung last Thursday as the man vii"
%muricrrt Felix Gardner, another col
orri man, on the % of June, 1916
About 20 mmntrs past u o'cl"cA
(accordin. to our wntrh,) W. arrlrr'.
at the g%nIIOws. At Iras, 1900 persons,
about equally d'vlird between White
aud cOlurc,t, were Assembled uInH the
hillside aud the creek notion. Ihr
hill SIDE was westward, and the SUI
was going westward, NV all thai
thruug Of human being, upon that lnlI
side were gong wcSlwnrd--io licIr
gra,rs-lnd suou-a Hme soonrr-
Brown C,hlr was to 60 westward, 90
,iown, like the sun, bat sooner. aud
unlike the sun, 20 down to rise not on
the morrow.
II vas well srlcclrh--lhis place for
the gnilows Sheriff ii. p. Stewards
o%llitlal duty was painful enough, and
he had trouble IN getting good place,
If any place can lie called good al
which to hang "A human ne ny. Bat a
more suitable place Conli not have
been found within one mile of our
town for n public execution.
a lew minutes before 2 p. m. poor
Brown CobIs came, sitting upon the
cuitin prepared for him. He was
guarded by twenty armed men. He
vas dressed ia II white robe, except
the black cap. He walked brav,l N
the steps of the gaIlows, and Shrrrll
Stewart very o % read to the vast au-
diencc tho following death~warrant,
to.wit;
BE IT ~REMEMBERRD, That at aSuprcmc
Court Of Errors ana Appeals, began and
hcli AT TIE Capitol, in the city Of Nash
willie, IN the first Monday IN Dcrrmbcr, A..
ID. IS17, it lrlnG TIE 81 Ity Of DccrmiDrr,
lS7I. tor the 9TH, 9th, 7tm, Sth, 9tiI, lOIh.
llli, aud part oftlic lGtn judicial Circuits.
Present: the Hon ,LirI Justice Jam,s
W. Dcrd"rIck. and Associate Justices
John l. I. onrrd, Tnom,s j. Freeman
ANA +. Iurnry, when the ~iollOhInG pro-
CrcIln.s Wcr" had, to-wlt:
saturday, JANUARY lG. lS1S-BrOwn Io-
bic. cOI. v. Tue state urolcr-franklln
Criminal DOrhct. -talnc the A~iturnry-
General tor the 0tatr. ana lh' prl>oncr ap-
prarrd at the bar in the custody OF tue
sheriff. Tnrrrupun i l. cause va, heard
upon Il tran script I'll the records from the
Circuit Court OF frdnhIln couuty, upoIi
consideration whereof 1t appears TO tue
court that neither IN the record or pro-
cccdlng-, nor IN the Judgment OF the
Court mellow. j. there error IL is there
| IbIt tbIlNIilfI'l Nv llI' 'blIt lIIdI saw
Judgment be- in all things affirmed. and
that the said Brown tObir, col, be re
mandcd to the Jail Of DaN iuson county,
there To r'mun until some convenient
time, and that the S!ciiii Of Said county.
who viii take and deliver INN to the
Sheriff OF Franklin county VINO viii him
receive and safely rOnllnr lnLll Thursday,
the lltlI day OF March, 1873, when The ,ald
sheriff OF franklin county viii, On that
day. take him the said Brown toblr, vol.
to some convenient place mitnin one mile
OF the tow Of W lnric>trr. Tenn, and on
Il uallOWs erected for that PURPOSE, be
tween the hours OF ten o'cloch IN ,hc
morning and three O'clorh in The alter
noon, hang him, the said Blown Collie,
col E. by the neck until lie Is dead. IL is
@iurther con,idcr,d by the Court that the
sand Brown toblr pay the costs ot Til,
prosecution for which execution may
issue.
Office ofthe Clerk of the Supreme Court
for LIl" Middle Division OF the State OF
I,nn-ssee-Na,iyiIlr March 7ti. ISIS
|. W. N.Cowdrn, Clerk OF the SAID tOurt.
dO hereby GRITTY that the foregoing Is
u true. perfect and complete copy OF the
judgment OF said Court. pronounced AT
its December Term. 1873, in the case OF
bIoNh '''i's ''l. " NlINt NV 'litts bN NI-
pears of record now on file in my office.
In testimony whereof, | have
hcrenntO SIT my lanL and aifiX
)o'nit ed the seal of the Court, at Office,
IN the Capitol at Nashville, ON
this the TIA day OF March. ,S7S.
and the Ind, pcndcmcc Of the United States
the l02d year.
W. N. COWDEN. Clerk.
Sheriff Stewart then told Cul,lc to
speak il he had anything to say
whcrcupon Rev. G s. Smith, colorcd.
read the 18Th chapter Of Romans, and
then went on to say that this wa, not
I'LL ordinary occasion that occurred
now and then, and he wished it would
never occur again. lie wanted to call
attention to the Tact that no one was
responsible for the execution of Brown
CUble. The Sheriff does not execute
him-nor his Judges, nor the Jury. It,
is the iaw hat hang, Brown'Conle-the
law that stands upon our stalu'es--a
higher law, und u law founded upon