Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27
O'DONNELL HANGED.


Execution. OF Patrick O'DonnelI, the ATur-
derer OF Infor1ner Carey, at Newgats
PrisOn-The Steamship Assyrian Monarch
Searched for an Alleged Rescuing
Party
LoNDeN. Dec. II.
Patrick O'Donnell, the slayer of James
Carey, paid the penalty Of his crime with
in the walls Of Newgate this morning. The
drop fell at precisely eight a. m. Last
night O'Dounen went to bed about ten
o'clock, and remained apparently asleep
until $3.50 this morning. At six O'Clock
Father Fleming came to the prisoner and
remained in prayer with him for some
time. At the conclusion Of the prayers the
sacrament was administered 20 the con-
demned. O'Donneu then partook of a light
breakfast, which he appeared to eat with
some relish. At 7:45 O'Clock the prison
bell began tolling. A similar warning was
heard from the belfry of st. Sepulcher's
Church, on the Holborn Viaduct. Directly
after the Governor of the Jail with the head
Warden entered and O'DonneI was at once
led to the pinioning situated about
halfway between the condemned cell AMI
the prison yard. There he found the exc
cutioner Binns awaiting him, together with
the prison doctor. Binns deftly bound
O'Donnell's arms with leathern thongs, the
convict submitting quietly.
The procession was then formed, the pris.
oner being in the center, and slowly march
ed to the prison-yard in which the scaffold
had been erected. They passed so close
to the few spectators who had been admit
ted to witness the execution that they could
60. he oRk
work which separated them. The scaffold,
which was quickly reached, had the ap-
pearance of an ordinary shed. The hempen
loop, however, hung omniously from a
cross-beam above. The shed was half
boarded up, so that O'Donneu and his at
PENDANTS as they stood there could be seen
by those present only from the waist up.
There was no delay, and no sensational
scenes under the scaffold. Binns lost not a
moment in placing the white cap over the
victims face and adjusting the moose. A
moment after O'Donnell disappeared, and
a quivering cord was all that remained to
show where he had stood. The Governor
and Doctor gaZed for a moment into the
cellar-like-pit in which the convict's body
swung and then turned away. Outside the
Jail considerable crowd had assembled,
but dispersed directly the black flag was
hoisted. About twenty police were drafted
inside the Jail, and constables were posted
around the walls on the outside. The body
of O'Donne1l, after hanging one hour, was
cut down, and later in the day an inquest
was held when the usual verdict was re-
turned. The interment then took place, the
remains being placed in a quantity of
quick-lime under one of the flags of the
corridor, known as the "Bird-cage Walk. -
O'DonnelIs brother paced to and fro oppo-
site the flagstaff in most restless and de-
jected manner, exciting the sympathy of
ali present.
The steamship Assyriau Monarch, which
left New York on December 4, arrived at
Gravesend yesterday morning and was at
once seized by the Government police, be-
were aboard a party of American Invinci-
bles on a mission to rescue O'DOnnell and
lnt1Ict punishment upon the officials en-
gagged in his prosecution. The officers noti-
fed the passengers that no person aboard
would be allowed to go ashore until his
Identity as person not possibly subject to
suspicion should be established, and that
all the passengers must submit to an ex-
animation of their persons and luggage.
Several American passengers made such
an effective protest that the three detectives
assigned to the work of investigation de-
cIded to regulate the decentralization by the
passenger list. This, however, was discov-
cred TO be missing, and the discovery
caused great excitement. The detectives
then gave those aboard until to-day to re-
store the passenger list, with immunity
from search until that time, but assumed
full police control of the vessel and placed
all aboard under surveillance in the mean
time. 1t was stated late last night that the
detectives had satisfactorily singled out the
suspects and would allow the other pasSen'
gers to land this morning.