Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1880-04-22
10th, when he commanded the sheriff

to execute the sentence.
Last Thursday, between the hours
of l and 4 O'Clock, p. m. Sheriff
Glascock very kindly admitted to the
jail, all of the prisoners friends, who
wished to bid them farewell. Thurs
day evening, after supper, Nathe and
Jake both did large amount of pray
ing, some for themselves and some
for their friends, white and black,
who asked them to pray. The scene
was very impressive, yet ludlcrous in
some respects. One moment they
would be praying, the next singing,
then one would pray while the other
would sing. Father O'Leary, their
spiritual adviser, was with them the
most of the day and part of che night.
They both ate hearty supper, and
did not retire till very late. Nathe
seemed to take it very hard and was
very much excited. His eyes were
red and a little blood-shot. He
seemed to think he was being badly
treated and said he ''loaned Hicks his
gun and followed him down into the
creek bottom. Said he did nos know
what made him follow Hicks, but de-
clared before God that he cautioned
Hicks about getting into trouble with
the gun and was over one hundred
yards from the place when the shot
was fred" Unfortunately the jury
did net look at the matter in this
light.
Friday morning they both seemed
to be feeling we'll. Father O'Leary
was with them most of the forenoon.
At half past nine O'Clock Jake's pulse
was beating 80 and Nathe's 1O9.
Nathe talked too much and kept him
self worked up and excited. They
both ate hearty dinners-dinners that
would almost give farmer the dys-
pepsia and not such as we should
ihink men about to die could master.
They got away with pint of coffee
each, light bread, biscuit, preserves,
&c, in large quantities. They seem,
cd in good spirits while they ate.
After dinner they each enjoyed their
last cigar" The crowd around the
jai! yard began to grow at 8 O'Clock
and by noon not less than 1000 peo-
pie were around the Jail, trying to get
a glimpse of the condemned, though
none but reporters were given admit
tance to The Jail. AT twelve O'Clock
the eusris arrived and Mr.. Glascock
ordered the Jail yard cleared. The
guards were, David Steele, Bob Self,
Stephen Terry, j. w. Spotswood,
R,bt Steele, James Wor.ev, b. T.
Rodman, John Carter, Cyrus Gil.
bert, w. Ii. Gleason and G. b. Null
They acted very promptly in all they
did and proved of great service il
handling the crowd and keeping or.
der. At Is minutes to one O'Clock
III. Glascock entered the cell and
fastened the two prisoners together
with .anklets.' At this stage of tht
ga,ae the gi.i, Emma prilley. chippec
In and opened up with IL osts -.arrifi.
sob, which was followed by the mos
mournful fit of weeping we ever heard
which was kept up until the condemn
| cd were taken from the jail. Sh
| was so affected that she could hardl
bid them adicu. The fact of tn
matter is that she had strange, will
love for Jake which was the caus
nf the crime the cause of her return
ing to the Jail when sent away, an
the cause OF this fit of weeping.
At one O'Clock, p. m, sharp
Fathers OLeary and Stack arrived Il
the Jail, and after few moments c
private devotion the procession start
ed for the scatfold. Such a process
sion can only be found at a hanging
IL Il circus the interest is distribute
all along the line; at hanging til
leading feature, the elephant, is til
condemned in the front wagon. Th
front wagon on this occasion contain
cd the two prisoners, the two priests
Sheriff Glascock, deputy Hooton an
assistant j. j. Steele, DR.. Russell
Bob. Steele, guard, and Bob. White
reporter for the LEDGER. The wago
containing the guards followed clos
in the rear. The procession wen
down Liberty street. The window
and porChes of the houses on tn
street were filed with people VIII
wanted To see--they did not kno'
what. The sidewalks were crowde
with all kinds of pedestrians, old an
young, black and white, male an
female, rich and poor, and the roa
was crowded with horsemen and a
kinds of vehicles, everybody goin
in the same direction to the "fre
show" 8. hanging. Not less tina
1000 persons we're on liberty sire,
at 20 minutes after one O'Clock.
| When the procession neared th
scaffold at l :35 p. M, it seemed a
most impossible to get to it for tt
crowd of footmen, horsemen an
wagons. The kills were covered wit
rnen and women, and men and boy
climbed trees near the spot. We NJ
ticed n....,, and one woman who ha
climbed up in the overlooking tree
They seemed to enjoy their percl
They wanted to look down on Il
prisoners when hung, and up at the
when they went into the neat worl
At 40 p. M, the prisoners ascen'
ed the scaffold with firm and stead
step, the priests accompanying ther
THE sCAFFoLD.
The gibbet was the same one ape
which Kilgore was hung it had bee
thoroughly examined and REPAIRS
and was q model scaffold. The tr,
) had been widened to make room f
two instead of one. 1t was erect.
about two rods south of where
stood when Kilgore was execute
The trap was set with a trigger al
faced the east. The scaffold W
right in the middle of q natural an
, phitheatre. A barbed wire W
+. stretched around the scaffold abo
20 feet from it, having room on t
inside for the members of the pre-
g and physicians, all of whom wheth
!, resident or visiting were invited.
r attend. In shorl, the utmost though
s fulnsss pervaded every arrangemer
0 and Sheriff Glascock deserves infini
I credit for the manner in which he d
i his sad duty.
Y THE I, ODE
g Among the gloomy parapherna
e of the hangman's art, no instrume