Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-10-19

| Brown felt the full weight OF the awful re,
sponsibility, but cool aud unrnilled, cour-
tcous and nffabie, and at the same time
sicrn and fixcd III his determination when
necessity required. he passed through the
ordeal in n manner that entitle. him TO the
highest praiie. Every arrangement TO the
minntest detail was strictly observed and
most successfully carried out. Tue gentle
men Of the press were afforded every fncil..
ily at his command and at his own expense.
The arrangements shout the scafiold were
equally complete, and lie deserves, Ms lie
received, the highest commentator for
the manner in which lis terrible duty was
so successfully discharged.
THE MILITARY.
Too much can not he said In favor of the
military guard--a guard whose presence
was an indispensable necessity. This guard
comprised the Toledo Cadets, under COM
msnd af Cn Jtsin McMaken, and @ Com
pany OF the Sixteenth Regiment, o. N. G.,
under command OF Captain Wade, making
about one hundred strong, the whole under
command OF Msjor II. s. Bunker, OF this
city. The military companies arrived at
the Court House about o'clock Thursday
evening, and at once took possession OF the
grounds and buildings, guard being
placed around the entire yard, and none
being permitted to pass except those au-
thorized. They were fully equipped with
| 1900 rounds of ball cartridges, and the
result very forcibly proved the wonderful
ly soothing effect engendered upon an
eager and somewhat turbulent crowd, by
a Gordon OF military armed with ball and
bayonet. For seventeen hours the bows
were on duty and discharged the duty de-
volving upon them faithfully and we'll.
At 8 o'clock when the streets south and
east OF the Court House were being filed
up by hundreds and thousands of enger, ex.
cited persons, az they swnrmed into the
town from every direction, the guard was
doubled, and many in the throng could he
heard mullering dire imprecatinns at the
officers, the authorities, The town, and in
fact upon everybody. At tins junciure
Major Bunker, who was on The alert. did a
wise thing in causing an officer TO distrib-
ute and place in the cartridge. box of every
soldier i've rounds of ball cartridges in full
view of the great crowd that pressed rgains
the fence. 1t was an evidence that the mil
, itary were there for business and proposed
, to indulge in no chi!d's play, should til,
, necessity be forced upon them.
There is no question about the matter
That had II not been for the presence of tina
strong military guard, the great multitude
would have tnken possession OF the Cour
House yard, and under the lead OF the man
turbulent spirits, the enclosure in whic
; the execution took place would proball
/. have been razed to the ground. The mil
}, tary are entitled to high commendatio
/. for the excellent manner in which lhei
:, duty was performed.
!, AN INCIDENT.
v just before leaving the jail for the sca
- fold Carl Bach handed TO Sheriff Brow
u several letters 10 be delivered TO his child
rem and others, and also took him into h
late cell and showed him a knife and
~ triangular piece of tin which he had arr
:! fully and securely concealed in the stor
', wall by taking ont the mortar and agai
covering it over. The knife was one rudcl
!" manufactured by the prisoner from Il
steel shank taken from boot sole. 1t W
enclosed in leather case around whit
', was tied a thread, the end of which protru
- ed from the wall so that the knife could
III readily taken out. Bach remarked that
had the means thus Of taking his own Ii
If he had so desired, but more reasonat
\. theory is that the only thing that proven
=, ed him from so doing is the fact that
y. was taken from his cell aud not permit
IT, to return, before he was made aware OF t
:, decision of the Supreme Court, ard III
~ all hope Of longer lease of life was gor
~ He also informed the Sheriff that
- Butlerfcld, the prisoner charged with t
~ Jackson township murder, and who h
been removed to Toledo, wa. continual
.s suggesting various devices with which
~ n might take his own life. Among the
VI W several devices one was thar of placing
~ old'fashioned copper cent which he h
!, between buttered biscuit, and le,ving
W. there for several days, so that enough We
~ ~ dlgris might accumulate to effect the {
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