Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-22
NEW XORh.

A Murderer's End James Walsh Exscm-
 ted For Killing a Young Girl.
 BROOKLYN, July 21.-James F. Walsh, nineteen years of age, the murderer of Bar bara Groenthal, was hung this morning in the Raymond street jail About three hun dred persons witnessed the execution. Walsh slept at intervals during the night and awoke at five minutes to 5 this morning, and at once dressed himself in the clothes provided by the sheriff. Fathers Donahue and Galla- gher arrived at o'clock and celebrated mass, the prisoner, after declining to eat breakfast, remaining closeted with them until 9:45. After reaching the gallows Walsh was placed under the rope without any ceremony. At 1OO5 the blow of the executioner's axe was heard. Walsh was jerksd into the air and fell two feet before the rope frightened. The knot slipped round to the back of his neck and his head was thrown forward. He drew up his legs and his arms once and made two or three convulsive movements, but his suf- ferings were evidently short. At 10:14, in nine minutes, the doctors pronounced him dead. The body was given to his uncle, who had made arrangements for it's interment in Holy Cross cemetery.
 In Walshs case there were no mitigating circumstances, and very little sympathy has been expressed for him beyond the doubt as l to his mental responsibility. That he pre- meditated the murder was fully established at the trial. He secured good-sized pocket | knife with one blade about four inches in ! length some days before the murder and took 1t ! to the paint shop where he worked, on At ! lant1c street, and ground both edges sharp. ! Then he inquired of one of the workmen the exact locality of the heart He also inquired 1 the effect of th1 owing red pepper in a per- \ sons eyes. When he had possessed himself ! of the information which he sought he ap- peared satisfied He had persecuted the girl l with his attentions, and she requested him not to call upon her again. Barbara Groen thai was only sixteen years of age, and was living in the family of Mir. Thomas Carlisle, of l No. 5O2 Willoughby avenue, servant. ! Walsh called at the house on the night of the murder, and had an interview with the girl, I but what passed between them was never learned The fourteen-year-old daughter of I MT. Carlisle was sitting at the parlor window l and could observe them. Walsh, she said, I talked in an excited manner, and Barbara, evidently alarmed moved quickly away, ran into the house, closed and locked the base ment door. When she came into the front basement she made no remark, however, to MT. Carlisle, or to any other members of the
 
 the coal scuttle to get some coal, which was kept under the front stoop. Barbars accompanied him, carrying lighted candle in her hand. She observed Walsh still lettering in front of the house, and he mus, have beckoned her to come out, for afte,
 Alfred went in with the coal she remain ed
 behind and passed up the area steps to where
 Walsh was standing by the railing. In three
 or four minutes later the poor girl rushed
 into the hallway with her hands pressed tc
 her heart. Mrs. Carlisle caught her in he,
 arms she was about to fall. Barbara ex claimed: ''I'm stabbed!' and died almos instantly. Walsh, after committing the das
 tardly deed, ran away, and jumped into thu
 Gowanus canal. Repenting of the suicida : attempt, he cried for help, and then fell into
 the hands of the police. His defense at th'
 trial was insanity. It has frequently beer , remarked since the murder that the Walsl family were all bad. Against Mrs. Walsl ! nothing, however, has ever been said ant if ever any woman has had her share O l trouble in this life she certainly has. He
 eldest son, who was known as ''Buck' Walsh was burglar and was shot dead in the at