St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-19
THE SHADOWS DEEPEN
And the GalloWs for the Bar
retts Nears Compile
ton.
A Silly Story That Tins
Brain Has Yielded at
Last.
Union Leaguers Drop the
Wine Fight. Kiss and
Forgive.
Smiling Tim Byrnes Prepares
to Take His New
Job.

committed to life Imprisonment?
That is the question which every one
is discussing just now, and which 10
one but Gov. Merriam can answer.
While there certainly is considerable
feeling in Minneapolis that Tim should
hang alone, the chances are that there
will be double execution on Friday
next, and that the souls of both Tim and
Pete will go before their Maker
at the same time. This will
certainly be the case if the gov
ernor follows the course he has
pursued in other cases, and there is no
reason to believe that he will not. Since
the trial Of Pete there has been no evil
dence given the governor which would
lead him to believe that the young fell
low was innocent of the murder, and
unless such evidence, if there be any, is
produced before Friday, Pete will sure
ly hang. A well known attorney, whose
word cannot be doubted, is authority
for the statement that
GOV. MERRIAM HAS DECLARED
on more than one occasion that he does
not believe in arrogating TO himself the
executive power to pardon man who
a fair and impartial trial by Jury of
his peers, unless. after such trial, evil
dence he brought out tending to show
that the man was unluStly convicted.
There has certainly been no such evil
dence in the case of Pete Barrett, and
while the petition to have his sentence
changed to life imprisonment has been
extensively signed, it is not generally
believed that it will have much inf1u-
ence on the governor.
GETTING NERVOUS.
1t is hard to detect much change in
the demeanOr of the boys as the day on
which they are to hang draws near
Tim remains Sullen and close-mouthed,
as he always has been, while Pete does
not appear to be any unhappier than
he was when he was. first con-
victed. Tim is the more nervous of
the two, but as for his being insane, that
is all nonsense, according to the views
of the men who have been watching him
for the last year and half. 1t is to be
expected that the boys will grow more
nervous as Friday draws near,
and this nervousness is shown i'm MANY
ways. They no longer talk with one
another. as they used to do, and are not
SO free in their conversation with their
few visitors.
THE PREPARATIONS.
One more day will finish the scaffold
on Which the brothers are to eXpiate
their crime. The scaffold is a stage.
with the bars of cage as a background.
AT its foot begins the rough plank stair
way on which the audience is to stand,
and to complete the analogy. the cells
above as boxes, and what
drama is to be enacted on
Friday morning! Chris Sperl put
in good part Of the afternoon yester-
day in setting the machinery by which
the traps, which are intended to drop
two souls into eternity, will be sprung.
When it was finished the Workmen laid
a board across the place the trap is to
occupy, and, one of them hanging to it
by his hands, another moved the lever,
and as he dropped to the floor the room
grew terribly still as they thought of the
result of that little movement next Fri
day morning.
YESTERDAY WAS VISITORS DAY
at the jail, and hundreds of people
were in the sheriff's Office for passes to
allow them to enter the JAIL Some
boldly said they wanted to see the Bar
rettS. as though they thought the sheriff
had them on exhibition like Gagged ami
mails; others asked to see them on the
plea of being old friends or neighbors.
Some of the visitors wanted to see the
gallows, and others just wanted TO look
around, but all were turned away.
Attorney DOnahue made short call
in the morning. and in the afternoon the
sister of the boys, Mrs. Mary Coleman,
was in the cell for some time. Father
Corbett has been tending faithfully to
their spiritual wants. Addie Boyd, the
young girl who has added
A TINT OF ROMANCE
to the monOtonous GOODNESS of the affair,
was caller at the GLOBE Office last
night. She bore this note from the dis
tracted mother:
The reason why the jurymen have not been
asked TO sign the petition is because have
not money to hire rig to go to see them.
Mrs. BARRETT
The girl said she wished to say in the
GLOBE that she did love Pete and there
was no imagining about it. Wednesday
she says she she will go and see the
governor herself IN Pete'S behalf.