The evening world., 1889-12-06
He Earnestly Asserts His Innocence
in His Last Will.
~ Can Die as Game as Carlton, I"
He Said This Morning.
The History Of q Most Mysterious and
Startling Crime.

John areenwall, convicted Of the murder OF
Lyman 8. Weeks. was hanged this morning In
| the Raymond Street Jail. Brooklyn,
The drop fell at 7.24.
Greenwall walked firmly to the gAllows and
gave no outward appearance of fear.
1t was but moment after he was brought out
| that he was hanged.
HanRman Atkinson performed his work we'll,
for death was instantaneous.
just before the signal to cut the rope was
given Greenwall became very pale.
Atkinson supported him with one hand while
he gave with the other the signal to let the drop
fa.l.
Unless change 10 made IN tho law which pun
ishes murder with death by electricity, Green
wall was the last to die on the gallows in New
York State.
After he went TO sleep at O'Clock this morn
ing. . solemn stiffness prevailed in the prison.
Every gaslight was turned low in the vicinity OF
his cell, and Deputy Sheriffs Lamp, Campbell and
Sullivan, comprising the DEATH watch, sat in
front of his door on camp stools. II was weird
vigil.
Up in the warder's Office the reporters sat.
The three men watching Greenwall saw him
move uneAsily about g O'Clock, and at s. 80 he
moaned as IL suffering great agony.
t.3OA. M.--Greenwall woke Of his own accord
at 4 o'clock. Just as Warden Brymer was enter
ing his cell.
"Ah. good morning. Warden. Is It cold
out 2" he inquired. vivaciously.
"No, not very cold; but how do you feel
yourselfP" said the Warden.
Inever felt better in my life. don't believe
1 ever cared so much for life before as do this
morning" he added, earnestly.
He walked out into the corridor, but Warden
Brymer could detect no signs of weakening in
the young mans face.
GFeenwall sAluted the deAth-watch feebly, and
peered up Gnxiously through one of the big iron
grated windows to get glimpse of tho sky.
1T is not daylight yet, but might as well
make the most Of my time now, he remarked.
After short walk up and down the corridor
he went to the improviSed chapel near his cell
and knelt in prayer.
Meanwhile, by Warden Brymer's direction. q
force Of keepers were removing the prisoners in
the vicinity OF the condemned mans cell and
those in cells near the Rallows to Temporary
quarters in other parts Of the building.
8. .05-FAther O'HArR reached the Jail at 3
o'clock. He was unaccompanied, and hurried
at once to GreenwAll's side. The laws victim
and his spiritual adviser shook hands warmly
and then knelt side by side in the cell and spent
some time in prayer.
5.30-MAss has just begun. Father o,Hara
Is the celebrant and James Neary acolyto
GreenwAll prAys devoutly.
5.A5-.While the mass was going on SerGt
Walsh and platoon Of police entered the Jail
and scattered about through the Interior in
order to quell any demonstration by the
prisoners should any be attempted
A. M.-Inspector Mclaughlin and hun
dred men surrounded the iAil on the outside.
e.IO.-Greenwall received his last communion
on earth at the mass. which was over few
minutes after o O'Clock. A dramatic scene here
occurred. IL was 80 bitterly cold outside
that Inspector Mclaughlin asked permission to
house his men for q few minutes in the jail.
which permission was readily granted. aud
about two hundred Of them hlsd In In single
file.
The steady tramp, tramp Of their feet as they
marched Gwoke everybody In the Jail. Green