The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-03
THE COMING EXECUTION.
MURDERER DISQUE,s LAST DAYS ON
THIS EARTH.


Refusing to Receive Callers and Combining
Himself 70 the Reading Of French Books
IAN Exciting Episode Of His Trial
Prosecutor WinHeld,s startling Question
George H. Disque, the convicted wife
murderer, has expressed desire to receive
no callers. The jail officials stated last
night to a TATrLER reporter that great
change had been noticed in Disque's con-
duct since his conviction. He now eats his
meals as if he relished them, and his appe-
tite is an enyiable possession. That he has
several friends is apparent from the
plethoric mail he receives, consisting not
SO much OF letters as French literature,
which be reads voraciously. His cell, No. 8
in fsMurderers' Row, resembles a sslibrary
upside down" On the morning following
his conviction he complained of a headache.
and the following morning he said that he
had not slept WELL Since then, and last
night particular, he seemed to have recover
ed his self possession, and looks forward
with confidence to successful issue in the
way of new trial upon review of his case.
Although the death watch has not been set
upon him, he is nevertheless carefully
guarded. The guard consist of three men.
each of whom is relieved every four hours
by one of his comrades.
In the summing up of even ordinary
cases Prosecutor Winfield is very frequent
~ intensely dramatic, and every now and
then secures a verdict OF guilty by the
marvellous force of his eloquence, when
the testimony alone would not bring
about that result. But give to him homi-
eide case where the crime charged is pecu-
liarly atrocious, his arraignment of such
culprit is intense and dramatic bevond the
powers Of the pen to describe. Such was
the case in his summing up to the jury
against Disque. Never was the court room
more closely packed than on this occasion.
It was one sea of up-turned faces from the
gallery down to ihs bar. A deat hike Sc
lence prevailed throughout the immense
audience as Mr.. Winfield was making his
terrible arraignment, and demanding atthe
hands of the jury the life of the wife
slayer. Only the heavy breathing of the
prisoner could be heard throughout the
bar enclosure during the intervals that
Mr.. Winfield glanced over the testimony,
and those in his immediate vicinity noticed
the agony depicted in every feature of his
countenance. Inch by inch the Prosecu-
tor was coiling the rope around the neck
of the culprit and hurting the anathema of
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up the picture of the murdered womyn.
showing her throat cut from ear to ear.
1t was horrible to behold to an outsider.
what must it have been to Disque In
voice full of sneering contempt and irony
he related how Disque pleaded at the sta
ton house to have the trifiing wound on
his thumb dressed. Then, with fire in his
eye, and with the bound of an enraged
panther. he covered the ground between
himself and Disque, and holding the great
cash in the dead womanss throat before
the eyes of the miserable man, cried out in
a voice of thunder. "Who bound up these
wounds, you bruteY' 1t was scene never
to be forgotten. Disque closed his eyes
tightly, while great beads of perspiration
rolled from ibis forehead. Everybody
breathed sigh of relief when MIR. Win
field returned TO his place and argument.