Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-12-14
PRITCHARD'S SENTEN Gle.
HR Is TO BIZ sANGKD BY TIE NECK On JAFuARy
slHTBENTE.

At 10 O'Clock yesterday morning John l..
Pritchard, convicted of the marder of Hum
phrey Symons In Gold Hill, was sentenced by
Judge King to be hanged. The prisoner ap-
peared with HIS counsel and when ordered to
stand up, rose to bis feet and stood confront
| ing the Judge He seemed perfectly cool,
! and listened without any signs Of emotion to
the usual summary of the case. When asked
! if he had anything to say why sentence thould
not be passed upon him, Col. Taylor, his coun
sci, argued for new trial on the grounds that
the Court erred In giving a certain instruction;
excusing the Juror David refusing defend
ant the right to exercise peremptory challenges
at certain period, and lastly because the evi-
dence did not warrant the verdict. Jadee King
overruled the motion and proceeded with the
sentence, which closed with (" 1t is hereby
further ordered and ad Judged that you be by
the Sheriff of this county hence conducted to
the County Jail of this county, to be by him
there safely kept and detained until Friday,
the sixteenth day of January, A. D. 1886,
you be by him taken thence to within the en-,
closed limits of said jail, if enclosure shall
there exist as to screen the execution from
public gaze, otherwise to and within suitable
and efficient enclosure withiR this county
to be provided by the Coanty Commissioners
thereof for such purpose, and that you be bv
him then and there hanged by the neck until
dead, dead, dead. and may God have mercy
Oh your soul. The prisoner made slight
inclination of his head and sat down. After
rents Of profanity upon Col. Taylor, his attor.
ney, charging that he had been badly defended
The facts of the case are that Pr;tchards
crime admitted Of NO defense, and his attorney
did all in his power for bis client, whose neck
nothing could save from the halter.
HIS LAST DoLLAR.-Yesterday morning a
stranger might have been noticed standing In |
the rear of the Mint, watching an old woman |
pick up sticks She must have been about |
eighty years of age Her old calico dress was
full of holes, her face was as wrinkled as tripe |
and as brown as leather. Every time she
stopped to pick up stick she obliged to
DO 80 with painful effort. She raked over
the dry leaves with palsied hands, and all
The worthless little trinkets vent into her
basket. A heap of garbage and ashes occu-
pied her attention for some ten minutes. The
nan who was watching her finally walked up
rom behind her and dropped dollar IN her
basket and then stole away unnoticed. An
.ttachs of the Mint who was near, hailed him
IS he passed
81 say, did you give dollar to the old
ady?"
Yes indeed, although it was about the
asst had. can't bear to see poverty and
Id age combined had mother once al
most as old as her and as weak and pal.ied
feel for an old woman like that, ana by
bunder she can have dollar from me if its
he last I've got
Do you see that block over there I
Yes"
With houses or it,
" Yes"
The houses and lot belong to her"
H
This expletive was all the stranger had to
fer as he tarned away and walked rapidly up
arson street It was his last dollar