Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23

ae prison aud Father GelinAs rscited nigh
prayers for them before
THEY WIRE sHur Up IN TIE CAGE
After they were In Packenham wrote fare
seu letters while Nolan and Lewis undresssc
md went TO ped. Carolin was loath 70 retire,
out Father Predengast prevailed on him 10
tske some rest II he could as a needed prepare
aon Tor the morning. By midnight the men
we're AL asleep. breathing heavily. shortly
after 4 o'clock Warden Osborne mad4 his ap-
pearance, and in few minutes later Hangmsn
Joe Atkinson. dressed in sober black, but col
iariess wandered in from the Jail yard whers
he had been walking around.
FATHER sslinss slept in the cage with the
doomed men.
The Grimes for which they were Hanged
Patrick Packenham, the Oldest of the four
murderers, was about sixty years OF are. He
murdered his wife by cutting her throat, March
IS of last year, because she refused 20 eivs
money 10 him with which TO bay liquor. A
one time he was a policeman in New orleans
o. late years he had been idle and his wife bsd
to support him. He frequently beat and abused
her and his children aud threatened her life
and theirs. He was drunk when he killed her
He was quiet prisoner and gave little trouble
after his conviction
JACK LEWIS, THE ooLoRrp MunprRER,
killed Alice jackson, q mulstto. on July II,
him He attempted to murder her several
months before he succeeded He fired several
shots at her at that time and thought that he
had killed her. He fed. When he found that
she was still alive he returned 20 this city and
wanted her TO live with him again. She refused
and he kept bothering her after that up TO the
morning that he murdered her. He called on
that day at = am, at the house where Alice
jackson was employed cook. He forced
his way in and went straight 20 the kitchen
She ordered him out Of the house and he shot
her In the breast and abdomen. She accused
him Of the crime before witnesses just previous
TO her death. and when he was arrested be nc
knowledged the crime. And meant TO do IL
too, he added.
FERDINAND CAROLYN WAS A GERMAN.
He murdered his wife at their rooms, AZ STAN
ton street. His wife was an Irish woman. He
murdered her IN the most brutal manner. He
was seen to do II by a woman who lived in the
same house with them. She looked in at Q
window aud saw Carolin chopping his wife in
the face with a hatchet he was holding her
head between his knees. He chopped az il
! again and again and when she was found by
the police she was disfgured almost beyond
recognition. She was covered with blood from
her head to her walst. Carolin stayed in the
room with the murdered woman until the po-
lice came aud arrested him. He made no re-
sistance and did not try to deny the crime.
All that he said was that the woman was not
really his wife. They were very poor. and q
number Of pawn tickets were found upon him.
JAMES NOLAN MURDERED EMMA BUcH,
who had left her husband to lead life Of
shame. She had met Nolan and lived with him
for a while, but finally told him to leave her.
He threatened her when she wanted to rid her
self of him. She locked him out the next
night. The next day he called to see her As
she came down the stairs he pulled out pistol
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him when he fired, and four bullets entered her
abdomen. In her ante-mortem statement to
the coroner Emma said that she had supported
Nolan ever since she had lived with him. He
had frequently abused her. He quarreled with
her the night before she locked him out When
he pulled the pistol she screamed, For Gods
sake don't touch met His only response was
to begin shooting her.