New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-07
Affairs IN BROOkLfN'
GREENWALD PAYS THE DEATH fhNA1i
HANGED FOR THE MURDER OF LYMAN
wrrKs-pEcLARING HIS INNOCENCE

u,Ncrn For THE MURDER OF LYMAN %
wrrKs-pEcLARING HIS INNOCENCE
| TO THE LAST.
| .,,,,o, y, Iobn Greenwsd for the murder OF
lyman : Weeks on March 49, 1887, took place yester
d,, ,norning in tbs RAYMOND Street jail only the
scor. ~ nersons allowed by law 10 WITNESS inc III
| alction Of the death penalty were present inc
nrisoner slept about three hours aler miunisht ho
was reused early and spent some time In writing TO
relatives in Germany, where nc was oo,i' -9 Nph'.
mol odviser Father O'IIars, visited him, ana aiter
- ,rayor mass was said for the doomed man.
| Win mis- was going on the rope was put In place
~ .h corows and the arrangements for the e1-
ecutiOn compietcd' -,
At o'clock the sheriff and his deputies, accompanied
bv the coroncrs jury stationed themselves In front OF
81. al,ovs in the main corridor of the prison. The
prisoner was taken from his cell in the south corrdor
nd Under Sheriff Taylor read the death warrant
Cr,opwald interrupted the reading by saying Don
read any more. / am innocent, before Ood'' ITO
was then conducted beneath the moose supported Dy
nr,est on either side, who rcced the ltany' upon
his arrival at the designated spot joe Atknsoh tho
hangman adjusted the moose pulled the oach cap
over the face OF the condemned and gave the sig
I Cor tbe cutting of the ropo at "a O'Clock. The
body swung into the air and hung almost motlonicsS
The neck was broken and death was instantaneous
After twenty minutes the body was cut down anu III
tbe afternoon It was taken 10 Holy Cross Nch0'e'S
for burial No relatives friends attehdeo INC CA
ecution or burial He was married IN TINS country
but was separated from his wife, and she never 'iSied
him. 100 ,.. -.
The executed criminal gave different names ~
diaerent times but on his coffin was the nahc JON"
Theodore Wild. He Lad called himself VEN, "reen'
well Groenwald Greenwall, Greenwaid anu "h''
The crime which he paid for win ms w vman
mifted on the morning of March 10, loo. Inn
= Weeks a salesman I'm hat store wnllo So
With his wife al No 1071 DE kabiaVei; was CnS
nv a noise I'm the dining room OF ms houso, 80
down stairs i'm his bare feet he surprised MAJ, ann
the s;jyerware from a buffet. As he raised a chdlI
~ strike The burglar the latter turned ana nleu
h,,llct into his heart. Mr.. Weeks lei ueau anu Io
n,iNicrsr hastily escaped Mrs. "cehs, When sIo
heard The Shot, went to the window ana San saw an
nave the Eo,se GIeenwad and Charles niiler "eIp
arrested in Ncw-York City for burglary, anu isPv5c
Byrnes learned that the former had sao nc GIun no
want TO 20 10 Brooflyn he had shot man IneTv
Crcenwald was tried and promptly cohVlceu up9h o
c,.i6ence connecting him with the CRIME anu va
sentcnced 10 death The Court of Appears ouIeu a
nc1v ria and The result Of thai was conVc'lOn
,bc court of a, resort affirmed. VINO inc ev,uonSo
,,ou Which (.lcenwald convicted was "noiiy C!
cifpstantai Judge MCCre who heard all INC tes,l-
m"mv in ihe case was profoundly convinced OF 1Ieen
wad's guilt Another condemned inuiSeer - Al, M
mond Street Jail awaiting death by hansing "hoso
nao@ viii doubtless he the last under the o!d law