Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-26
The Last Of BuIoW.

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! The remains Of the murderer who wa
hanged last Friday morning were KEEP,
ut Harting &. Sons morgue until 2 o'clocI
in the afternoon. and hundreds called
to see the face, Of the criminal At
the coffin containing the body was
taken to the cemetery and place.
beneath the sod. ~
It is claimed by some that after much
coaxing Bulow made confession" a
day or two before he died in which he
admitted that someone else shot Eich
His alleged story was that a companion
of his, Pat Riley, did the shooting and
took the money. There is nothing
whatever to substantiate the story.
| While there are perhaps some good
features Of the Smith hanging law, We
have failed to to learn Of anybody who
endorses it as it now is. The barbarity
of killing a criminal in the night is dis
gushing to people who are not savages
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
Some ludicrous things took place
about the Jail on the night of the excel
ton, in spite of the horrible fact that Il
human life was to be taken.
During the awful hush that always
comes in the moments just before the
sheriff and the condemned man march
out from the place of confinement to
the scaffold, harsh grating sounds could
he heard by those who were in the pen
messed. The night was still and star
light. The witnesses made no sound =,
but stood like statues, waiting. The
rope swung in the light breezs. 1t " as
so dark in the shadows of the
enclosure that the features OF those
who were there could hardly he distin
guished and there was funereal atmos-
phere over the scene, which the light
from the lanterns on the cross beam
made more sickly than ever. And all
around was this grating, grinding sound,
as if rats were gnawing for dear life at
the boards. But it was not go. The
guards outside were few, and several Of
the morbidly curious had crawled past
them in the shadows with augurs in
their pockets, and while the few inside
were holding their brcatl, and waiting,
the outsiders were indnstriously boring
augur holes through the board fence. so
that they might get sight at the trap.
The policemen were new, some Of
them-specials sworn in for the occa-
sion-and they had been instructed to
keep the crowd back 20 feet from the
fence. Most Of them did the best they
could TO do so, but one Of them yielded
to his own morbid nature. and he want
ed to see the hanging himself Taking
our friend, named ''Bilp', he came close
up to the fence and secured knot hole
which command ed a view Of the gal
lows, with one eve to the hole he
waved his hand to the crowd behind
him and then talked in about this strain
in stage whisper:
''Get back, get back, tell you."-
Here. take Il look. Blll'-"Get back,
get bacll''-"Can't you see them?"-'I
tell you, get back there. Keep % feet
away Here, Bill, give me- another
sqnint. Can't You get one of those au
CUR holes?"-"Get back there, you
crowd, tell you,get back"
So he went on during the CHASTITY
moments as enthusiastic as a boy on
telegraph pole just outside the baseball
fence
Brainerd Journal: The new law re-
quiring executions to take place in the
night is relic of barbarism that ought
to he repealed at the first opportunity.
The author of this interesting law is one
John Day Smith, of Minneapolis, who
is undou btedly insane. 1t is very
strange that man like Smith could be
elected to the legislature, bnt still more
strange that IL bill con tanning in1isputa-
ble evidence Of having emanated from
mailman could run the gauntlet Of both
branches Of the legislature and become
law.
Royalton Banner: The horse race
last Thursday afternoon between Rol-
ler's Ches. and Gilmer's Nellie was won
by Ches. in three straight heats. Time
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