Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-20
Tennessee.

Expiating His crime-A Murderer's End
 the ScaRold-A Cheering Acknoyv-
 ledgement on the Ga1Ioyvs.
 JACKSON, Dec. 19.-Four thousand people assembled yesterday to see Edward Long, 8 negro, hanged. The gallows was erected just outside the corporate limits. The cul- prit mounted the scaffold with light and airy step, betraying no fear. He said in making brief address to the spectators ''I killed Pete Rogers in cold blood I have wished, even longed for death, and am will ing to go. My mother has always told me that if I made my bed hard must lie on it. I have now found it to be true, and I want all to take warning by me. Love and jeal- ousy and blood have made me wretched, brought me to my doom when scarcely in my teens. My life has been cut short by my own act, and have no others to blame but my self. The river beyond may seem dark, but it cannot be darker or more dismal than the days of wretchedness I have spent since murdered Mollie's husband. I hope, how ever, that Jesus may have compassion on me, for I have confessed all and die with no lie on my lips. have repented the crime, oh, so often. and have wished that I might by some extraordinary power have brought Rogers back from death to life, but it was too late after I dealt Rogers those fearful blows. I am prepared to meet my fate like a man, knowing full we'll that deserve it. and am glad that it will soon be all over with me. I am thankful to the sheriff for his kindness and the ministers for their at tention in the hour of my sore distress
 Long died a comparatively easy death. His body was given over to his father, who will take it to Turkey Creek, his old home, for interment. The murderer was attended on the scaffold by Elders Mosely and Ben ton, the former of whom administered the ordinance of baptism and sacrament to him yesterday.
 The murder was committed in Madison county in June last. Upon his conviction of murder in the first degree Long refused to take an appeal, saying that the sentence was just and he ought to be hanged He neither hoped nor cared to have the sentence changed. Long lived at Rogers house and he and Rogers wife worked to- gether on plantation. All three were col ored Rogers labored in a field over a mile away and was seldom at home. Long had been intimate with Rogers wife, and after the couple were married the intimacy was continued. Mrs Rogers promised Long that if he could get her husband out of the way she would live with him until death. Long said he loved the woman and was jealous of Rogers. He determined to kill him, and went over to Rogers house intending to kill Rog ers On the way he picked up a heavy piece of iron with which to do the deed. When he reached Rogers house hisreso- lution failed him. He persuaded Rogers to accompany him to the cabin in which Mollie, Rogers wife, lived. On the way Long re- peatedly stepped behind Rogers with the in- tention of killing him, and at length, while crossing stream, he struck Rogers upon the head, felling him to the ground. Long walked on, but on looking back, saw Rogers trying to get up. Going back to Rogers he dealt him several more blows, crushing his skull, and leaving him, as he supposed, dead. On the next morning Rogers was found dead, under the bridge, in the water.