Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-13
THE GALLONS.


 Craft Hung for His Crime-Pr0testinR His Innocence to the Last.
 CRIMSON, Ky, Oct. 12.-Special trains were run on the Chesapeake and Ohio and Eastern Kentucky railroads to-day bringing not less than two thousand people, black and white, old and young, to see the last act in the life of Ellis Craft. Other thousands came on horseback, in carriages buggies wagons and on foot, and the place had gala appearance. There was some drunkenness, but no apparent desire to create disorder. Crafts family and friends. and the Rev. Mir. Pinkerton, who yesterday baptized him, all united in pleading with him to confess if he was guilty and not go before the bar of God with the added crime of deliberate lie upon his soul but to all he replied that he vas in- nocent and had nothing to confess. Public opinion here Is much divided as to his guilt. At midnight the preachers left Craft alone with his guard and he slept well until daybreak, when he arose, washed and ate hearty breakfast During tho whole morning the crowd surged to and fro in the jail yard anxious to get even glance at the doomed man, but none were admitted and much disappointment was expressed. The death warrant was read to him at 10 8. m He listened calmly and at it's conclusion said with some feeling that he was innocent of the crime of which he was convicted. Ills broth CT then bade him an affectionate farewell for the last time and left the prison Craft then quietly dressed himself and at 12:30 p. m. the procession moved from the jail to the scaffold headed by the sheriff and several armed men. Craft walked next supported by his spiritual advisers and the rear was brought up by an other squad of resolute men armed with shot guns. Craft spoke on the scaffold, reiter- ating: ''I am innocent" The drop fell at 12:41 p. m. All went off quietly and in order. Canadian EXscattOn-The Penalty for
 Murdering a Family.
 LORIGINAL, Oct. 12.-Frederick Mann, the murderer of the Cooke family, was hang ed at o'clock this morning. A short time before that hour solemn procession, headed by Sheriff Merriek and the Rev. MT. Phillips, Mann's spiritual adviser, marched through the courtyard to the gallows. Mann pre- served 8 calm demeanor and ascend ed the steps leading to the scaffold without faltering, displaying raro nerve in passing through the ordeal. He stopped upon the trap-door with firmness and care
 
 was pinioning his legs Mann wore cheerful smile. He said "good-by'' to his attendants and to the newspaper correspondents present and seemed quite resigned to his fate. The Rev. MT. Phillips offered up asprayer, at the conclusion of which the trap was sprung The executioner did his work well, and nine and quarter minutes after he touched the spring the pulsations of the naurderer's heart had ceased. He died apparently without 8 struggle. He is credited with having said in conversation, a4little while before the hang ing: ''It is only hop, step and leap from a sinful world to an eternity of love-" This morning he joined heartily in the devotional exercises, singing hymn with great zest. At about s:30 o'clock the body was cut down and an inquest held. About fifty persons witnessed the execution.
 Frederick Mann was young Englishman, who came from London last fall and who had been at the time of the tragedy some three months in the service of his victim. Mr. Rug gles Cooke, prosperous farmer of Little Ri- deau, his wife, his son George. and his daugh- ter Emma, were all murdered in the most brutal manner by Mann; and William, another son of Mir. Cooke's, and Fannie and Maggie, his daughters, were also attacked and injursd-the two former very severely-by this rufiian. The life of William Cooke was despaired of for some time. but he has happily recovered and he and his two sisters are now all that re main ef the family. Mann was arrested on the following day by High Constable Latour at place called Cote St. Louis two miles from Lachute, as he was making for Mon- treal, and he was at once conveyed to the county jail at Horiginal The greatest excitement prevailed in the district and several attempts were made to lynch the murderer. He has shown himself during his captivity to be hardened criminal: The trial took place on September F at L'Original. The prisoner pleaded gull ty, and was sentenced to be hanged oa Octo- Der 12. Since the sentence the prisoner has made full confession. He made plea of hereditary insanity.