The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-05-28

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W. murderors took place to-day u 12sll
Within The wallis Of the county jail. TIT
ouoou(1oa IVES Without . single bluudsI
I'D everything about the jail was Il
ogdos. 9he doomed man passed las
nlehs until midnight In ordinary con
cusuod In and slept soundly. He WA
kWakepod at Tao BY Sheriff Owens ana
D0ytook u I hearty breakfast. About
8oIook last night the sheriff took TIL
, prooaution % remove Rhodes from
IL old cell 70 = room In thu
9outhWest corner on the second ho0r
This move was unexpected % the pris
oners and had . very depressinS eaene
new suit Of CLOTHES for the occasion. In
the fob pocket Of bis ola pants wa
4 PACKAGE or PouNDHD GLASS.
This WA undoubtedly intended a. Z
last resort 70 cheat the gallows, II nc
better means offered. Alter his old
CLOTH were taken from him he begged
pitiousiy that they be returned, espec
shs s he 1n had found the the A pOundS s'
glass. He also repeatedly asked
70 DO allowed 70 return 10 his old cell.
This was denied him by the sheriff, who
WAS determined the sentence OF the law
should mol be defeated.
About s'clock this morning Revs.
jackson ana Kemp, colored, visited
Rhodes and spent some time with him,
singing and praying. Rhodes did not
enter into the service with any degree
prayers he sent down for some of his
things, which he claimed he had left in
the bathroom and then he again request
ed the sheriff 10 allow him 10 visit his
old cell. 1t Is believed he had some
deadly poison secreted IN the old cell
Search will DO made Tor 1t. During the
morning
ALErrER FROM GOV. IRELAND
was read to Rhodes, in which the ex-
ecutive declined to interfere.
Al II, O'Clock tho prisoner was led
from his cell aud assembled the ladder
leading 70 the scaffold, which was In the
attic over the main bnilding Of the Jail.
n hole had been cut through the ceiling
Just over the stairway leading. to the
second floor. This gave the Victim q
drop of eight feet. He took his place on
the trap with q. firm step. While he
stood In this position tho death warrant
was read TO him by the sheriff.
RHODES REMARKS.
He was then asked II he had anything
to say and replied:
81 want my relatives and friends to
leave on bad habits and stay away from
bad places.'
He then shook hands with his two
brother and bid them goodbye. He
was remarkably cool TO the last. Just
~ the sheriff was placing the black cap
from bis finger, handed 1t to the sheriff
with the remark:
"Give this to mother"
AT l2:l4 the trap was sprung and the
body OF the murderer shot down the
trap with great violence, breaking his
neck most effectually. In % minutes
he was pronounced dead and the body
was removed to tho main
hallway Of the jsil where,
In It's cofhn, several Thousand
people. chiefly colored, viewed the TO
DULY about so people Witnessed the
execution. hut on tho outside Of the jail
was gathered about 1900 people from an
early hour, who stood in the hot sun,
patiently awaiting the signal that the
brutal murderer was dead.
~ HIS CRIME
was ono or the most blood
thirsty and unparalleled chickering's
q was the murder Of his wife, Mary
which occurred i'm thiH.nitT, on
he night Of October "a, 1889 Rhodes
WAS light mulatt0, about IS years old,
ind was somewhat OF q desperate CHAR
lcter, generally feared by people Of his
race, He was continually engaged in
broils and was under bonds at the time
of the murder. for seriously stabbing
white man on the wharf. Mary Rhodes,
1is vile and Victim, wss bright, good
boxing mnlatto woman, n years old,