The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-03

D(lll1 not seen him
since. l asked II he had anything. for the
i alias HERALD that he wished published to
the world after his death. He replied
Yes" and took a pencil and paper and
wrote half page which he handed
me, and asked that / should call on some
attorney here for some more he had written,
and wished the HERALD to publish il in full.
Its entire purport, however, was TRADE OF
abuse against the officers and the witnesses
i'm the case. Nelson Post was tried the 23d
of Sept, 1880, and given a life sentence and
the decision was approved in June. Jack
Post was tried Sept, oath, 1850,
and convicted with tho death penalty
affixed It was also, affirmed
sd, 1881, to be hung on Friday, October
18th, 1881, at 2 o'clock p. m. The prisoner
was taken from the jail by the sheriff and
guard and taken to the gallows. The death
sentence of Judge Williams was read to the
multitude by Sheriff Melton and an affect
ing prayer for the prisoner was offered by
Rev. p. Sackett. He was then asked to
said. at will do no good to plead my inno-
clfice, but you have got the
wrong man. 1t is horrible death,
but many good man has
died the same way. 1 can't shoulder that
crime, / cannot lie and help anybody. |
hope my poor old mother and sister will
not suffer. Place my body where they de-
assured that they should not want, he
closed by saying. "Do your work. All !
can say is farwelf to all God be merciful
to me-" The black cap was then drawn
over his eyes, his hands and legs were
bound, the trap-door sprung and
he swung off into eternity.
His fall was about six feet. His neck was
not broken and the moose ofthe. rope slipped
to below the chin, preventing choking. lie
heaved few groans, but made no struggle.
After ten minutes he was lifted up to the
scaffold and the moose reaojusted to hasten
his death and second time dropped. The
doctors, y. G. Drury and II. n. Price, pro-
nounced him dead after hanging fifty min
utes. He was cut down after hanging sixty
minutes and laid in his coffin for burial.
Thus ended the life Of Jack Post who
was cool and deliberate nearly to the last,
and possessed of strong nerve; a man of
light build and rather delicate looking, and
not by any means bad looking man, nor
with any indications of crime depicted on
his countenance. He stood erect upon the
gallows from the first and did not finch
or show any signs OF excitement or agita-
ton until nearly the last, when he had TO
be supported. He died protesting his in
nocence to the last moment. Jack
Post was % years old, was ma
tive of Georgia, and has lived in Texas
eleven years, in Fannin and stephens coun-
ties, and about eight months in Young
county before his arrest. He had been
married four months when arrested, and
his wife then deserted him. He has wild
owed mother and a sister here, and a sister
In Alvarado, Texas. His brother Nelson
Is now IN the penitentiary on n life sentence
for completely in the same murder.
He has four brothers and sisters in Georgia
and Alabama. Ills aged mother is a cul-
tured, Christian woman, member Of the
Baptist church, and says she reared lfer
children In the fear of God. She and her
daughter will be kindly cared for rs long as
fhev remain in Young county. In making
the above rcporf 10 the HERALD ] wish %