Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-10
THE GALLONS.
GEO. ALLAN PRICE.

CINCINNATI, July Geo. Allen Price, the
murderer of Willie Black, was hanged accord
ing to law in the yard of the Hamilton
county jail at y minutes past IL. He was
cut down dead 20 minutes later.
On the 30th of April, 1879, he shot and
murdered Willie Black, in the Office of the
latter in this city. He was found guilty OF
murder in the first degree and sentenced to
be hanged May 2Sth. On representations
that he was insane Gov. Foster gave q re.
spite until July 9th. Price was colored
born slave in Kentucky, 81 years old. He
was freed by the war and came to Cincinnati
where he has since lived. Willie Black was
tobacco merchant and for eight years up to
week before his murder, kept Price in his
employ. About a week previous he caused
the arrest of Price for stealing tobacco from
him. Then only the day before the murder
bailed him out. Price went to Blacks of
flee, demanded a retraction of the charge of
larceny, which was refused, whereupon the
murder followed.
The conduct of Price has been described
as cold, hard and unrepentant. He
had an adherence of reporters. His redeem
ing traits were his intense concern
FOR his family, which is said was character
istic of him before the commission of the
crime. Till twelve years old he said he wss
reared in the Catholic church when, through
the influence of his wife, he joined
the Baptist church. That he abandoned
years ago and up to the moment of his
death, refused to have spiritual adviser.
An hour before the execution the TAILOR
asked him, "are you prepared to die?''
He answered, Eyes, l have always been pre-.
pared ever since | was born" To his
nor,uavciY,c, With hin, tl,;, .,o.,,
ing he said: 81 suppose man exists here
after, and if God mado me of dust and
breathed life into me, am his own, and I'Il
trust him to take care of me, and l don't
want any nonsense about it on the scaffoId.''
One of the most active in trying to get his
punishment commuted to life imprisonment;
asked him if he thought he was sane, and he
said firmly, "Why, yes. We have been sane
all the time.''
He evidently hoped for executive clemenoy
to within two hours of the execution. When
the jailer disabused his mind of such hopes
this morning he ate no breakfast. During
all forenoon from half past four IL & tles 5z
ing he drank great deal of whisky, smoked
cigars, talked freely and cheerfully, sought
out prisoners in the jail to ask pardon in
cases where he supposed he had given offense,
sent word to Judge Longworth, the Judge
who pronounced his sentence, asking for
giVeness for words used in a letter sent to
him. He took occasion to express most in
tense gratitude to some ladies who visited
him in Jail and to the wife of the jailor,
coupled with the wish that there might
be hereafter In which he would
be able to pay the kindness
which was so dear because rendered when the
public seemed to be enraged against him.
The enormity of the crime and the Justice of
his punishment he fully realized and frequent
~ said that all disposition to complain of the
. court and the public had vanished.
He requested the sheriff to delay the hang
ing till 1880, and the sheriff acquiesced.
He was attired in a new. black suit and wore
black hat. From the prison cell to an
apartment in the Jail he listened to, the death
warrant. On his way to the scaffold he call
ed servant and some little children in the
Jail yard, bade them farewell and hoped a
better life and death for them than his. His
interview with his wife lasted two hours after
eighth the morning. His only daughter
did not visit him since Yesterday.
On the scatfold he was firm and COM
posed. To some persons in the crowd whom
he knew he bade farewell. just before the
black cap was applied he addressed the
die the best CAM Though the execution
was in an enclosure, tho court house formed
one wall of the enclosure, aud many persons
witnessed the scene from the windows. The
moose was not drawn tight enough, and when
the trap fell it slipped and failed to break
the neck. For ten minutes the pulse beat.
The body when cut down was taken to the
crowded streets and exhibited by his request.
The funeral will be private and from the
widows home next Sunday.
HENRY RYAN.
AUGUSTA, Ga, July 9-Henry Ryan, coIored,
was hung in Waynesboro, Burke comfy,
Georgia, to-day for the murder of negro
woman named Mary Thomas in December last.
He killed her to get her money, about $16 He
confessed yesterday that he committed the
deed. The execution was witnessed by fully
seven thousand people, principally ncgros.
Ryan made long speech from the gallows &C.
knowledging his guilt and the justice of his
sentence. He said he was going straight to
heaven, that while ants and bugs would have
his body Jesus would have his SOUL AT half
past twelve the drop fell. His neck was broken
and he died soon.
Anderson Jones, to have been hung here to-
day, was respited.
DANIEL WASHINGTON.
CHARLESTON, s. G., July 9.-Dave Wash
ington, alias Carver, a notorious negro desper.
ado and leader of a gang of notorious outlaws
and horse thieves, who infested this and ad
Joining counties for several years, was hanged
to-day for the murder ofAllen Collins, a color.
cd witness who had been summoned to testify
againt him in a horse stealing case. The exc
cution was conducted in private and death was
immediate.
ALEX. HOWARD.
GoLDsBoRo, Y. c., July 9.-The execution
of the negro Alex. Howard for the murder oi
an old white man named Babelantry, July
1878, took place here to-day, and was witnessed
by about 1900 people. Howard protested hi.
innocence to the last and made a very bitter
harapgue from the scaffold, but the crime was
fully proved against him by his stepson, who
was an acoomplice in the deed.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
CRUSHED BIZ. TIE CARS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
OwAToNNA, July 9.-At Medford, between II
and o'clock this morning brakeman named