St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-20

N Coroner DarrOw in approaching
the suspended body to ascertain
if life was extinct, which after
a few minutes he so decided,
and assisted by two deputies. Sheriff
Jenson lowered the body into coffin
which lay beneath the gallows. The Ie-
markable nerve displayed by Brown
throughout his trial and term of con-
fnement did not for moment desert
him as the intervening hours and
moments of his doom neared. He was
''game" as the saying goes to the last
instant. Father Augustine and Father
Wolfgang were with him the greater
part of yesterday and last night, and
for them Brown seemed TO have great
respect personally. but whose appeals
and Supplications for divine pardon, he
seemed to regard as of little concern to
him, although he has assumed to have
made his
PEACE WITH HIS MAKER.
Although newspaper men were barred
from witnessing the execution the
GLOBE reporter was present through
out the entire proceedings, although his
identity was probably unknown to
Sheriff Jensen. The jail stands about
business portion of Moorhead and some
distance from any other buildings, ex-
cept the court house, which is located
eight rods to the east. a number of
spectators had taken up quarters in the
windows of the court house, on the side
next to the jail, in the hope Of witness
ing the execution through the windows,
but Sheriff Jenson was determined that
tie edicts of the law should be respected
and accordingly arranged that abso-
lutely nothing could be seen from this
point. efTectually bringing disappoint-
ment to those curiOus-minded indivld-
ualS, who soon gave up and returned to
this city. Guards were placed outside
the Jail to preserve order should neces-
sity require it, but their services could
as well have been dispensed with, for
after II o'clock the few who had enter
tanned hopes of obtaining a chance
glin pse of the proceedings seemed to
recognize the determination of the
authorities that the execution should be
private and the majority withdrew and
relied upon those who were more lucky
or fortunate in witnessing the scene for
a report thereof. One enterprising
newspaper correspondent had procured
& ladder with which he had calculated
to obtain position at one Of the outside
windows, and thereby effect a scoop Oh
his contemporaries, but he was
DOOMED To DISAPPOINTMENT
The ladder he had burdened himself
with for nearly a mile was found to be
three feet too short TO admit of his
reaching the desired point of observa-
ton. The execution occurred in what
is virtually the second story of the jail,
although the Jail proper is but one large
room, the gallows being erected at the
top and to the side of the steel cells in
which the common run of criminals
are confined. The corridor running
around the side of the cells formed the
the space into which the drop was
made. Seven prisoners confined in
these cells had all been transferred TO
the female department earlier in the
evening, so that none of them witnessed
the execution or were aware Of the ex-
ACT llluc Mllcu TIC OAOp 1Slls OuIluS
the temporary absence of the sheriff and
taller your correspondent passed few
words with the condemned man. The
correspondent was engaged in converse
ton with one of the deputies when
Craven called to him:
Say, did you see anything in one of
the local papers about my having sold
my body TO doctor for ten dollars?"
he was informed that such a state
ment had been made.
We'll replied Brown, 81 wish you would
contradict that as l haven't closed the bar
gain vet and don't think shall NV body
Will be inferred in the Catholic cemetery in
this CITY,
why don't you have it sent to your
folksg' he was asked
"Oh, no." Brown replied. my folks don't
know anything about this snap m in Ny
body will be buried in Moorhead.''
Why don't you give your right ram and
tell where and who your folks are:
''Oh, Brown is good name, ain lit: That
Is just as good q name under the circum-
stances as any, and guess 1 viii let il stand
toI me-
While Brown was making the above
reply the jailer came in. and further
conversation was cut short by an order
to retire. During yesterday afternoon
Brown kept up a regular fullsade of
conversation with the prisoners in the