St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-17
THE DEATH WATCH.
The Room Where the Barrettv
Will Spend Their Last NiDht

The county commissioners, at the
time the Barretts were sentenced to
be hanged, fitted up a room es-
pecially for their confinement. 1t is
situated just off the hall, between the
two wings of the building, and is on
the second floor, Immediately over the
passage which runs from the jail to the
sheritf's residence. 1t is provided with
two cells, inclosed in strong wire cage.
The light is poor, however, and the
room rather close, while it is in
was therefore thought best best to to-
keep them in the main portion of the
Jail, and they have had two of the cells
In the upper tier, on what IS properly
the third floor. There are no other pris-
oners in this tier, and they have the
corridor to themselves. They have not
been left alone since they were sem
fenced, and Turkeys Shaw and TinkelI
watch them by night and day. Their
visitors have been gradually limited to
their parents, their attorneys, the re-
porters, and occasionally people who
wish to see them on religious matters,
Since the MOak incident. however, their
spiritual advisers have been limited to-
Rey. Father McGolrick and Rev. Father
Corbett. Several times young girl. Ada
Boyd by name, has called to see Pete
Barrett, and Friday was admitted at his
request. She is daughter of Charles
T: Boyd, cooper who lives at 1898
Third avenue south. She has sort of
a craving for prisoners, and has been at
the jail before to see certain inmates.
1t is doubted that she and Pete had
much, it any, acquaintance before he
was confined in the jail, and a morbid
fancy or craving for notoriety is about
all there is to her assumed interest in
his welfare. She wears a military cap
and dresses in blue, which adds some
what to her fairly good looks. Her vis-
its are the one speck of anything like
romance that is connected with the
brothers. Their poor, old, and
HALF-DISTRACTED MOTHER
is the most frequent visitor, and with
her occasionally is her daughter, and
sister to the boys. The visits are not
especially affecting. Mrs. Barrett
usually cries and means the while, as
she stands talking to her sons, but the
boys themselves do not show any re-
ciprocal emotion.
They are not exactly Indifferent, but
they do not appear to be exercised over
their situation. Stolidness would more
appropriately describe their expression.
1t may be pluck, or it may be that the
light value they place upon human life
extends even to themselves. They have
eaten heartily, and their meals, served
from the fremont house, are about such
as man in good health would relish.
Thursday they were measured for the
suits they will wear ON the scaffOld.
THE DEATH MARCH.
Thursday the Barretts will probably
be moved from their present quarters to
the room spoken of, which nearly ad
joins the east wing, where the execution
will take place. This will be for the
purpose of locating them so that the
walk to the gallows, lat II O'Clock Friday
morning, will be as short as possible.
Even then the death march will be
longer than is usual at executions. They
will first come down the stairway from
the room from the hallway, then into
the east wing, and then ascend the steps
to the scaffold. The time consumed by
the march and preparations ON the scat
fold before the traps fall it is calculated
will be between three and five minutes.
Thursday night each of the Barretts will
have deputy sheriff for bedfelloW
for their last mortal slumber.