The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-12-18

Yes, sir, perfectly So"
sis your vile In the city ?''
Yes she is living here, and visits me
often"
"You look as If you had plenty to eat"
Yes sir. Sheriff Fisher treats me well,
i sleep we'll, and am trying to enjoy myself
as best | can during the short time / yet
have TO live"
The reporter offered to publish any state
ment that the prisoner desired to make,
over hIs own signature or otherwise, but
the offer vas declined with thanks.
Fox hardly seems To realize hi, terrible
stu alton, and presents an unusually calm
exterior for man who is looking into the
face OF the grim monster, Death, and sur
yeyiDg all the attendant horrors of q pub
lie hanging. He was twenty-five years of
sge on the I'D day of April last, having
been born in 1861 in Audrsin county, near
Mexico He does not present the appear
snce of bad man or desperate character,
but has an INEXPENSIVE and sensual coun-
tenance, and is uneducaled and very illit-
crate.
As has been indicated In the interview
with the prisoner, no effort is being made
TO save him from his horrible fate, or pro-
long his life by further stay of execution.
TIE people OF Nevada feel that the punish
ment imposed by the court is just and
right; that there are no extenusting cir
cumsIances; that Fox himself has nothing
TO saw as TO why the penalty of the law
shall not be visited upon him, and that any
Interference with the execution of justice
would he an outrage upon public morals
and . blot upon the escutcheon of the fair
fame vi the Gem city and OF Vernon county.
The reporter endravured TO obtain an
interview with Mrs. Fox, bu, to his great
regret ascertained that she was temporarily
absent from the city.
During the int Tview, which lasted but
few minutes, Sheriff Fisher volunteered the |
statement that Fox bad never given him |
the least trouble while under his charge.
None of the arrangements for the execu- |
ton have yet been commenced, and II has |
not been decided exactly where the scaffold |
and the suggestion will probsbly be car !
where the murder was committed.
Mrs. Fox, it is said, parted from her
husband four years ago, but seems TO man
ifest great sympathy for him in |
his pr, sent great trouble, and is already \
also seeking the consolation of religion,
and is a regular attendant upon divine /
service at the Methodist church.
Whose Sheddeih blood Of man,
by man shall his blood be shed
For cruel, murderOus deed,
He his life has forfeited.
Vanly did his victim plead
For his life in pIteOus tones,
Deaf was his asSailant, naught
Cared he for those dying grOans.
Faltered not his heart or hand
Not IN instant did he stay
The dark, bloody work begun,
Till a life had ebbed away.
H. no jot Of mercy showed,
Yet Gods mercy hOpsS fer STILL
Hopes Ia Heaven Straightway 90
From tins wOrld-Perhaps he will.
ANOTHER MURDERER.
During the interview there was seated in
he corridor near Fox, young man who
vas introduced to the BAZoo representa-
i've by Sheriff Fisher, as Dick Gee,
harged with killing two men, one in !
Iernon and the other in Cedar county. He |
Tas arrested on the 9th of November, be-
ny captured in Livingston County. He is |
ccused OF killing one Carl Roberts In
lear Greek township, Cedar county.
Ii is said that Gee killed a man at Edo
ado about two years previous, and when &
e was arrested thought that this was the {
barge upon which he was taken. He I
laimed that he killing of Roberts was I
urely accidental. {
The accused said that he had employed S
traitor < Stone as his attorneys and in &C. v
Drdance with instructions from them de- d
lined TO say anything, save that he was a s
alive OF Cedar county, twenty-five years b
age. and innocent OF the charges prefer o
against him. il