Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-24
DEATH OF THE WHYo CHIEF.
DaR DriscolI ExPlates His Crime OH
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 NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Daniel Driscoll. who on June 26, 1886, shot and killed Beezie Garrity, his mistress, while trying to slay John Mccarthy, a hotel keeper, was hanged this morning in the Tombs prison yard. For the first time in the history of this oity and county a man has paid the highest penalty known to the law on Monday. Driscoll arose at o'clock this morning and spent over an hour in prayer with Father Gelinas. At o'clock low mass was celebrated, after which Driscoll returned to his cell. The hangman arrived at 6:19, and at 6:25 the easket was brought in. The unfortunate man in passing to the chapel had to look upon the dread implement that was to send his soul into eternity. A visible tremor shook his frame as he gazed at the dangling rope. On the neighboring corners stood small groups of young men with hard, wicked-looking visages. whom the police pronounce remnants of the Whyo gang of which Driscoll had been leader. Among them were some brazen-faced young women of the class to which Beezie Clarity, the woman for whose life Driscoll was to pay the forfeit, belonged.
 Through the cordon of police there marched Sheriff Grant and fourteen of his deputies, all clothed in black with tall silk hats and bearing their slaves of office in their hands with crepe knotted about the ends. They entered the Tombs and took up their positions in the yard in which the gal lows stood. At 7:2O o'clock Sheriff Grant, Under Sheriff Sexton and the death watch entered Driscoll's cell, and Under Sheriff Sexton immediately read the death warrant. The hangman at once pinioned the doomed man, and after he had repeated with the priests a short prayer the march to the gallows wes taken 1r Tbis at 7.96 0'o1nak nriS- coll had refused all stimulants and had eaten nothing except a slice of toast with cup of coffee after mass. Sheriff Grant and Under Sheriff Sexton led the march to the gallows, then came Driscon supported on either side by Fathers Pendergast and Gelin- as, the former of whom held a crucifx be- fore the face of the Whyo chief. The death watch brought up the rear. It took scarcely two minutes for D1iscoll to reach a spot immediately under the rope. He walk ed with firm step and upright bearing. His face was pale but self possessed. He glanced upward at the gallows and his eyes inspected it in every detail. The muscles in his face quivered for moment and then still with firm step he teok his place under the cross beam, the rope swinging against him and falling on the moose that already encircled his neck. He kissed the cru before him, muttered brief prayer as he glanced upward at the hszy sky and then the hangman slipped the black cap over his face and head and adjusted the moose about his neck. When this was done Dris- coll said in loud, clear tones: "God have mercy on my soul" Three heavy blows of an ax were then heard in the box at the side of the gallows, the weights attached to the rope fell and at 7:29 o'clock Driscolls body shot up through the air and fell partly back. The hands clutched and quivered for couple of minutes, the legs were drawn up convul- siyely several times, then all was still. In eight minutes the body was lowered and Driscon was pronounced dead.
 Just before he left his cell he requested Father Pendergast to take from his finger, after his death, small seal ring and give it to his brother, Henry Driscoll. He also re- quested the priest to say to Warden Walsh that he begged his pardon for all unkind things he had said against him.
 The murderer's body was deposited in a plain coffin, carried to wagon waiting at the Franklin street entrance to the prison and driven rapidly away to an undertaker's ware rooms on Pearl steeet. Driscoll, just before the hanging, gave expression to desire that his mother should have charge of his remains and that no person except the | members of his family be allowed to view his body after death. Accordingly, the body will remain at the undertaker's until Wednesday, when it will be buried in Cal
 vary cemetery, not far from where the re. | mains of his victim lie.