The evening world., 1888-07-16
THEY WILL HANG EBERT,
JERSEY ClTY'S WIFE MURDERER TO DIE
ON WEDNESDAY MORNING.

How Hia Last Days Are Passed Ia Jail-A
Brother Only Remains Loyal 60 the Con-
demned Mau-The Story Of the Tragedy
In Brief-Death Beaten In the Hospital
TO Bc Met ON the Gnilows.
Less than forty-eight hours within the
grim walls of Hudson County's old Jail re-
main in the life of Henry Ebert, who shot his
wife In Jersey City last November.
There is practically nothing that can save
him. The failure of the appeals to Chancel-
of their official prerogatives have sealed his
fate, and ut 10 o'clock on Wednesday morn
ing Ebert must die.
The murderer's last hours are remarkable
for one thing. No one but his faithful minis:
ter. Rey. Mr.. Meury, and his brother Fred
have called to comfort HIM. All Of his other
relatives are those who either testified against
him or would not speak. for him.
The brother alone is faithful. He daily
available. He has circulated three petitions
o the Court of Pardons-fruitless effort and
wasted time, but the best of evidence of his
b~rotherly attachment to the man who needs
h' Rbeet's S Sope afnf n nStu ss is rema SS.SbH; He
still believes that the petitions will be effec-
tive and that the Court at its sitting in Tren-
ton tomorrow. will reprieve him. This is a
possibility. but by. no means likely.
LbDIt . uDptbitC ~ kOOh- - Nubo Y buiuiiy
three times daily. and Is denied nothing. He
smokes and reads constantly. having no such
diversion as the visits of flower laden females
or other casual philanthropists to occupy his
time.
Rev Mr.. Meury spends hours with him
each day, and declares that his words of com-
fort and exhortation have been most ef-
~fective.
far as possible from the location of the
gallOwS.
The death watch. Keepers Hanlon and
Carroll, are constantly with him, on the
watch for a possible suicidal turn in his
Haneman Van Hise, of Newark, will visit
the Jail tomorrow to superintend the erec-
ton of the gallows, which is the same on
which Disque and Kankowski were hung.
1t will be erected in ward 8, In the south
Tailor Beidsall watches Ebert with the ut
most care, lest he make an effort cheat the
gallows. A sturdy of the mans department
has led the jailor however, to believe that
logged. expressionless face he wore during
the trial, without fiinching or failing.
Like o cow" rs one OF the keepers ex-
pressed i. iii =, u;., ,,n
last moment. his death will be the fifth the
minister has witnessed on the gallows.
Hudson County since its creation IN 1910.
Ne uIbL WINS u nubhthu uhlu6u meCulbI, VINO
shot o United States Marshal in Hudson
street. He was hanged. at the jail in 1874.
Martin Kinkowshi, who killed his sweet
heart, Nina Muller, in the woods of North
Hudson, was the second. his execution taking
place in 1882, The third was George H..
Disque, who killed his wife in Hoboken in O
most shocking manner He was hanged last
year.
Ebert's crime was committed on the even
ing Of Sunday, Nov. AZ, 1887. His wife, who
was slightly demented, had been staying
with a relative in New York, while the hus.
band lived alone in o little house on Pater-
son street. 1
On the day of the murder he went to New
York, and, asking his crazed wife to walk
with him in Central Park, took her to Jersey |
City instead. Just at dusk tho two reached
the little house on Paterson street.
An hour later pistol shots alarmed the
neighbors and Ebert was found In the yard
of the house muttering and bleeding, while
his wife lay dead within with a bullet
through her brain.
Ebert fought death at the hospital for
weeks before he lived to meet II in a more
form on the Rallows.
With one eye gone and the bullet in his
head he was tried and found guilty. despite |
the theory of the defense of mutual attempts
suicide on the part of the unhappy man
and wife.
He still protests that he remembers moth |
ing of the tragedy and that all is blank from
that horrible night to his recovery of con- |
in the hospital. The bullet be |
aimed OF his OWL life is still Embedded in his
uluu |