Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-24
fACIFiC COAST.


80 00600B04Y OA80
SAx FRASasco. Jan. Wheeler, the
stranger. vas banged in the court yard
OF the county jail in this city al l2:54
Under tie ,ndueuce Of stimulAnta, b
died game. His neck was broken in
the fall.
From IN early hour this morning An
i'm .Iense crowd, numbering fully three
thousand. had gathered on Broadway
street. near the entranos 20 the Jail, a.
though they we're unable TO csc any
thing going on inside. Entrance tick
cts were limited to 40 people.
At seven minutes TO o'clock the
Sheriff caa,e out Of the cell, followed By
Whesler and four deputies. A Wheeler
asoended tbs soadOld, he ev need unex-
Pected frmness. He stood erect, and
stepped brlskiy On 70 the fatal trap.
CAPs. MAeKsrxie pushed him slightly.
and he moved more into the centsf. He
aided the 0flioiats a. they we're strap
ping his legs, bat AZ his arms we're being
strapped y tvitchiag of the lips Was Wis
IDLE. Fa her Costle, Who has Leen in
religious attendance On him for the last
two days, was with him. When every
thing vas in readiness. sheriff Connolv
asked. Have you any thing TO aayr" to
which he replied in lev tone Of voice {:
II forgive the world. Nay the World
forgive ne" The priest then sespped
forward and whispered something IN
his ear, and, - he did %, extended the
Cruclfx toward the condemned man,
who kissed it, repeating the words !:
Jesus, into Thy hands I give my
spirit" As the last word was uttered,
the signal was given and the trap was
sprung, and, without culver. Wheeler
vas dead, his neck, al mas afterwards
determined, having been broken in the
fall. Fourteen minutes After his ulse
had CEASED TO beat, and vt twenty Dis-
utse past the body Was ont down and
taken 20 the AoFRue. It Wili be ssnt
east to Gorham, Me-, where his father,
An Adveutist oleFgyman, resides.
The female desire for notOriety in Q
case Of this kind WAS again manifested
in the person Of MIRA. StrattOn. Q di-
vorcsd woman Of good appearance and
dress. She has been frequent viaitOr
of Wheeler since his confinement.
and last night, when che leaned that
all hops of . reprieve was at an end,
proposed to marry the stranger, to
which he consented. She Immediately
went 10 the sheriff and infoemod him
of her intention, but he. TO her disgast,
told her that he would not allow the
ceremony to be performed.
aalng . Ba1lroaA.
Warren DuttOn and A. D. Moore, for
merly directors of the North Pacific
Coast railway, have commenced suit
against the present Board Of Directors
to recover $1O0, 900 ~ the sum which the
oommission promised them for having
induced the creditors of the company to
accept $56O,OOO in settlement Of their
claims, amounting to 81, 10000.
A Peeullae Suicide.
San FRANc1sco, Jan. 23.-Mrs. Hattie
w. Hand, wife Of stephen II. Hand Of
the Commercial Insurance Company of
this city, committed suicide this morn
ing at her residence by severinR an
artery in tho left wrist. For the last
six months she has bsen in bad health,
and lately has acted 90 strangely that
it il believed her mind Was Effected.
JeaPnallstlc Change.
SAN FRANcIsoo, Jan. 23.-Gsn. John
F. Sheehan announces his withdrawal
from tho Sacramento Bee. The paper
will hereafter be conducted BY l.. AoK.
and U. b. MoClatchy, relatives of James
NJ Catchy, deceased. General Sheehan
goes East ON . visit, q I'd on his return
will reside in this city.