Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-24
Women Killers.

Women Killers.
NEW YORK, Aug % The four muir
derers of women, Patrick Packenham,
Jack Lewis (coIored) James Nolan and
Ferdinand CAROLYN, were hanged in the
yard of the Tombs prison this morning.
There were two soaffoIds and two men were
hanged on each. Packenham and Nolan
were first executed on a scaffold which
had been erected on the Franklin street
side of the prison. The drop fell at 6:55
O'Clock.
EIGHT MINUTES LATER
Lewis and Carolin were hanging rom
scaffold on Leonard street side. Sheriff
Flack and Under Sheriff Sexton entered
the prison at :35 o clock. They were
followed by twenty deputy sheriffs, all
in black clothes and wearing silk
hats. Each official wore his badge
of office and carried a staff.
They marched through the corridor into
the court yard. Ten of them went to
the Leonard street side and the other ten
took their places at the Franklin street
wall At 8 40 CLOCK the first jury of
twelve men, all
NEWSPAPER REPRESENTATIVES,,
were given the signal to enter the prison
yard and two minutes later the second
set of jurors fled out and marched to
their places. simultaneously with the
marching out of the second jury Packen-
ham and Nolan were taken into cell
in the new prison. At $40 CarOliu and
Lewis were removed TO the boys Jail on
the Leonard street side. The last rites
OF the church were then administered,
EIK ooTay1a ioS nIuht nFuTTpg
At 6:54 two of the condemned men,
Paokenham and Nolan, emerged
from the jail, accompanied by the
priests. Father Prendergast supported
Packenham and Father Gelinas walked
alongside Nolan. The procession brought
up with Father FanRensellaer. The
arms of the condemned men were pin
toned. Packenham 5 face was of a
CHASTITY pallor, but his step was firm and
he looked untlinchingly into the faces
around him. Nolan hardly appeared to
realize his position. There was a half
defiant look on his countenance. The
rope around his neck with the
KNOT PRESSING AGAINST
his left ear seemed to chafe him, for he
moved his head uneasily once or twice.
Nolan took his place under the rope
hanging nearest the Franklin street wall.
men turned and grasped the pri ests by
the hands, wringing them ferv emily.
Then Hangman Atkinson tied cord
about the legs of Nolan. His ass istant
did like service for old Packenha N
In a twinkling the black caps were ad-
justed and Atkinson
RAPED THREE TINES
in rapid succession on the side of the box
where a third assistant stood with a
hatchet. The third rap had hardly been
given when the bodies of the murderers
were jerked up into the air. At the
expiration of four minutes Packenham 5
pulse had gone up to ninety-six and then
sunk rapidly to fifty beats a minute.
Nolan 5 pulse at the fourth minute was
bounding at seventy, but it too became
weaker, and at the expiration of five
minutes was no longer perceptible.
At 40 both men were pronoun ced
| dead, but were permitted to hang for
| fifteen minutes longer.
/ While this scene was being enacted,
! preparations were being made tor what
| proved to be the
! MOST SHOCKING SPECTACLE
! that has ever taken place within the
/ walls of the TOmbs prison. The hanging
! of Carolin and Lewis in several aspects
| is probably unparalleled. The two muir
| derers at 6:45 o'clock received their last
! spiritual consolation. At 1902 o'clock
| Carolin and Lewis, with the priests,
| came through the door. Lewis walked
unsteadily the first dozen pa ces, but
| ouicl,Iv recovered himself. He was
! smiling, and as he caught sight Of a dep
| utv who had been especially kind to him
| he walked over and
SEIZED HIS HANDS.
Then he shook hands with two more.
| Father Gelinas urged him toward the rope
| that was to strangie him He smiled
| and looked fearlesslY around him. Caro-
| lin had the
! BUTT OF A CIGAR
! between his lips and was putting yigor-
| ously, blowing great clouds of smoke
into the faces of the attending priests.
! His face was pale as the face of the dead,
and the scOwl OF it almost demOni cal
| He glared at the priests as he turned
around and felt the rope touch his sh oul-
der. Splitting the cigar stump from his
| mouth, he broke out y
INTO BLAsPHEBIY
| that Mortified the spectators. Atkinson
| had lust pinioned his legs when he spoke.
| Looking sullenly at the three priests, he
suddenly exclaimed: - die al limo
cent man, Cd d-n it. l did not do
| this thing.
Lewis, who had then been pinIoned,
half turned his head and, addressing his
companion, said: What 5 the matter
with you, any Bay2 Why don t you die
like q MANI
81 will die like 3 man. shtieked