The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-25
THE CONVICTED MURDERER.

HOW HE FEELS AND ACTs-THINKs HE DID
RIGHT, BUT OUGHT TO HAVE HAD TWO
YEARS FOR THE EATS HEARTILY AND
SLEEPS WELL, AND IS UNUSUALLY ANrdAT-
ED-DoEsN'T WANT RELIGION STUFFED
AT HIM THROUGH THE GRATrNGs," AND
HOLDS A MAN AS "PooR STICK" WHO
'GoEs BACK" ON HIS vIcTUALs.
On Wednesday evening jury of his
countrymen found Charles Glass, the negro
who killed Carter Newman, guilty of muir
der, and declared that he should suffer the
penalty of death The doomed man re-
ceived the verdict with an air of indiffer-
ence, maintaining the sullen, morose mood,
which is evidently characteristic with him.
Removed to the cell, he was sound asleep
in less than thirty minutes.
| Yesterday morning our reporter visited
him in his cell, and was surprised at the
change the intervening twelve hours had
worked in the fellows feelings and bear
Ing. He had Invested himself of all his
clothing except his drawers, and was pac-
ing the floor of the cell, tanning himself
vigorously with palm leaf.
Reporter-"Well, Charley, how do you
feel, now that you know what is in store for
your"
Gass-"I don't feel no different from
what alters felt"
Reporter-"Don't you feel any regrets
for having killed Newmanl"
! Glass-"No, don't. think | done
right, He was all the time a
runnin' over me, and abusing me. He was q
better man than l am, and | was all the
time afraid he'd do me hurt. He wouldn't
leave, and bullying of me and beaten and
threatenen of me, and right in my own
house, was more'n any man ought to
bear. didn't intend to kill him, when l
struck him; but to hurt him so he'd let me
alone. But did kill him, and now ain t
sorry for it,
Reporter Are you satisfied with your
trial."
Glass-"No. They didn't tell the truth.
Now which ought to be believed; the story
that lawyer Mulkey told, or the story that
lawyer Black toldl Ruth Brown and Mrs.
McFadden and Ellen McKerney all swore
to what they knowed wasn't true. They
war all aginst me, and now they think
they've gotm life, reckon they're salts
fed"
Reporter "Didn't you have a full show
ing of your slider Were any Of your wit
nesses absentl"
Glass-"No, | didn't get in all my side.
There was man who saw Nemman with a
pair Of brass knucks, and heard him say he
was agoin to mug the head off of old Glass
with EN-; and that man wasn't put up for
me-"
Reporter-"Well, why didn't you have
him brought inl'
Glass-Gnsoently) "That's best known
to myself" Then, Immediately brighten
ing up: II say, boss, amt you got nothin
to gimme-no tobacco nor nothin'2"
Reporter-"Glass, how's your appetitea
Can you do justice to your mealsl"
Glass-"Appetite! why l could eat with
a loaded shot gun in my mouth It's a
mighty poor stick Of man that goes back
on his grub, all along of a little trouble.
No sir, there's no discount on my eatin, nor
sleepin neither
Rcporter-"Don't you feel inclined to
look at your condition scriouslyl Isn't it
your desire that the preachers should visit
your"
Glass-"Well, groanin' and gropin' won't
help nothin', The preachers can come, if
they like. But don't see no USE said he,
Tipping his fingers in the openings Of the
grated door--"of comm here and pokin'
religiod at me through them holes'--and
the fellow laughed most heartily,
He seemed to be unusually communlca-
tive, laughing boisterously at times and
showing an animation that could scarcely
have been increased had he won the capital
prize in the Louisiana lottery, instead of
veelict that sends him to the gallows.
In reply to o her party, he
said he thought the We. act a "little rough.
He did right when he killed Newman, he
said; but still he would have compromised
the matter by taking two years in the pen
itentiary, and saved all bother of q trial.
Being asked If he wouldn't have accepted
five years, he promptly answered that he
would not--that five years would have been
"excelslor"-probably meaning excess.
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