Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28
O'DONNELL HANGED.


Execution of Patrick O'Donneli, the mar.
derer OF Informer Carey. at Nrvr.t.
Prison-Thc Steamship A syrian Monarch
Searched for an Alleged Rescuins
Party.
LONDON. Dec. II.
Patrick O'Donnell, the slayer of James
oarey, paid the penalty of his crime with
IA the walls of Newgate this morning. The
urop fell at precisely eight a. m. Last
night O'Donnell went to bed about ten
O'CLOCK, and remained apparently asleep
until $3.50 this morning. At six O'Clock
rasner Fleming came to the prisoner and
remained in prayer with him for some
time. AT the conclusion of the prayers the
sacrament was administered to the con.
uemned. O'Donnell then partook of a light
breakfast, which he appeared to eat with
some relish. At 7:4J O'Clock the prison
DELL 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'Donnell was at once
leo TO the pinioning-room, situated about
halfway between the condemned cell an
the prison yard. There he found the exc
cutioner Binns awaiting him, together with
the Sheriff Of London, three wardens and
the prison doctor. Binns deity bound
ODonnelPs 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
10 the few spectators who had been admit.
saH 20 fha a..
have touched O'Donnell. but for the lattice
work which separated them. The scaffold,
which was quickly reached, had the ap.
pearance of an ordinary shed. The hemper,
loop, however, hung omniously from d
,ross-beam above. The shed was half
boarded up, so that O'Donnell and his at.
'endants as they stood there could be seen
oy 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
4 quivering cord was all that remained TO
show where he had stood. The Governor
and Doctor gaZed for moment into the
,ellar-like-pit in which the convict's body
Iwung and then turned away. Outside t e
al.
out dispersed directly the black flag was
loisted. About twenty police were drafted
inside the jail, and constables were posted
around the walls on the outside. The body
Of O'Donnell, after hanging one hour, was
mt 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
luick-lime under one of the flags of the
corridor, known as the "Bird-cage Walk"
O'Donneli's brother paced to and fro oppo
site the flagstaff in a most restless and de-
iected manner, exciting the sympathy Of
all present.
The steamship Assyrian Monarch, which
teIt New 1Ork on December 4, arrived at
Gravesend yestt rlay morning and was at
once selZed by the Government police, be-
cause of advices from New York that theie
were aboard a party of American Invinci-
DleS on mission to rescue O'Donnell and
mile; punishment upon the officials Ell
gagged in his prosecution. The officers mott
lied 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.
clded to regulate The Decentralization by the
passenger list. This, however, was discov.
cred 10 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 tm,, hut assumed
full police control of the vessel and pIaced
all aboard under surveillance in the mean.
time. Ii was stated late last night that the
detectives had salts actOrily sing led ont the
suspects and would allow the other passen.
gers to land this morning.