New-York tribune., 1886-04-20
KILLS HIMSELF.
NOW MURDERER CIiuArEDTHE CALLows.

u.RDEN FINN UNABLE TO TILL IN WHAT WAY
RAZOR WAS GIVEN TO TIRE PRISONER
John Carncuter, the wifc-murderer, made the
,,ri attempt ia the Tombs Yesterday to cheat tho
e,llows and was at last successful When Keeper NJ
, went 10 call him 20 take his usual morning ""A i''
,uo hours he found the desperate criminal h"u !" '
vs,erious way secured IA and had killed hns"I'
last week Carpenter heard that his son oy MS ''' VIZ"
Csrly Carpenter had died from consumption III r'''
o. rostou where he had been taken recently from 'hisN
IN answer the charge of burglary. These u"nSS "e'0
even more depressing TO tie murderer INA" '''
that tie supreme Court rendered III MS cas-, '' " -
Affirming the convict's death sentence iie "'N"'
.ncnt anA more moroso tnan ever Yesterday po
,s 70 he taken before the conr TO he esentenceu e
,, -, his dead son was also to be brought ON from
pos,ou vesterday Carpenter was ahNions not 10 NC
sentenced and sunday lie asked heegah sewers" "''
n he was to bo taken to court In inc morn'hE' Inv
kceper tried 70 soOthe him by telling hm th"t sucn wa"
not the case THIS seemed to have good effect upon '"o
murderer. who grew unusually socabie. lie talked
freely with the other mGrterers 8ua sent ou' 'o
three cigars He smoked one himself gave ono 10
Chac on the Cuban negro also In the Tomns ior % NM
ing a woman. aud the other To refer Az o'clock ~
dered watchinan in West Fortieth-s ma minis we're
the prisonrrs were locked In their ce o"J. he had
pur on Carpenter with these iSem removed when
Slant for ak months only having thcu ro strannrd
b ,s his meals with them or hls Wrists Me WEI l wast
and MS arms scsd hed behind at the small lie back No
n usual sound disturbed the quie' OF ard c'rke
SuTing & 'ns ,sbt watch The hourly rounds we're made
and looking through the htte wicket ia I9m 9ving
oGely 0Gfehe' in bed A o'clock the day watch
sme on and Keepers Lynch aud Kernan TOOK charEe OF
,% corridor lynch as usual. Gale the sleeping MURDER
ers generally dress and come out Ior tei GO
In the corridor. Lynch saws that when ne e"iT" % IN
pcnier the prisoner turned partly over ID NE eVt "ew
The bed clothes around his face ana then luic hs ta
through the wicket and said " John. have message
you from Lvers Eves is keerer VINO % % .ISSu
carpenter did not stir and Kiernan entered me cell
He put his hand on the murderers shoOuei. sun ne
from his and he saw that the man was dead Inc
bed clothing was saturated with blood. f1gh1u
cash severed the right ueular vein was IN Carpen
IRIS neck There three slashes that had cut the
Dem Finn and a search resulted In finding a brown
hand ed that had fallen on the toor IL was Gov
from the mum which lay in the bed. The body was
partly cold the features or the dead man win ms
hsrgard than in lie There WIS great sensation
among the murdercrs in the row when they saw the
bloody corpse Warden Fun found the following ieter
bihg between the bed and the wall;
Mr. WILLIAM EvERs VIII ycu send my efecs S to a, Nrs rs
and don't Jet Iy6"dy eu S er h9vG "s Re T or
tins world From your irlend. , q, r,.r,o
William you can send to heby Billy Gaioser tno new new,
hoy and she WI p.y 0I s ,e he 10 l LEI & o them 9" 10
wa wan n any stoVe o Ie vii Want them don't want FIaner
H, ke anything belong ng to me DO this FOL the
sake Of boy steve.
"steve" is a child by Carpenters first wife He is
bsrkceper up town Carpenters body was sent by or,
der cf Coroner MessemeT the undertaking shop OF
Jonn Ne son, at No. 1G1 Eldrdge-st Nelson was Car
peDter's stepsOD.
Warden Finn was trying all day to find out how Car,
pener obtained the razor The only persons who had
VISITED hun recently Mrs RallsOn, the sister OF
bis first wife john Curry, distant relative OF Mr
Carpenter. his sons wife aud NJ iaber' or NO. 80
Haber shaved CARPENTER on Friday. He said that the
razor by Carpenter did not beOngtO him. lie never
missed any after visit to the Tombs Prison
ers" ad the gray-haired warden, have superhuman
cunning. day their cells are searched anu seVeI
times day the prisoners themselves are searched NO
friends al them before they are also searched
Carpenter than any other that has ever been
In the 1Ombs. to my knowledge was watched Tor ne
imp OF the devil. He was the most
] can for his freeing his hands from the mufs is
his wasted away ana he pulled them through
The fastening He complained greatly or me NUNS sald
they his wrists and lie had been behaNlhg oeter
latey did not have them drawn 9s tightly as usual
! only he has cheated US. ana 1t Is reei that
be did not murder others before going himself . -
CarIenter born Of respectable parents at No %
Wiuci-st. yfive years He was cartman, then
a fireman. always desperate man. lie married
twice hut Quarreed constantly with ms second ~ie'
Mary Ambrose. who fuay left him. He w3s sent to
Sing sing years for stabblng woman whom ne
mistook for wife in -. Francis Xaviers Church
one sunday he ws released a1e4 FS% Gi. rersse lsse
lie spent his searching for his "lIe
TO l her on May 90 1851 he met her ard her sitter
wife into liquor store at 1wentyslxth-s he stdbpeu
her to death ILen lie staohed himself He was twice
despite his pea OF insanity lie made TWO lneHcctus
attempts take his Lie III the Tombs He was ter
his keepers and his fellOw-muTdoreTs ahke,
said Warden Finn
The remittaiur which sent the lower court on
firmauce by the Court Of Appeals OF the Judgment
IN Carpenters instructed ana was sent back
Court Of oyer and Termuer instead Ofthe General
Sessions The corrected document WAS received at the
j. DstricAttOrney Office early yesterday about Tie Time
Mat the news OF his death Vas announced