The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-20
THE DEATH PENALTY.
Execution Of Murderer in The San Jose
ddil-Yard.

SAN JOSE, Jan. 19.-James NJ. Eubanks
was hanged in the Jail yard at II 90
o'clock this forenoon for the murder of his
daughter at Los Gatos on December %
1889 He dropped five feet and died without
struggle. At eight minutes after the drop
fell physicians said the heart had ceased to
beat The rope cut the flesh. and blood
flowed out and over the breast The body
was lowered into the coffin at u :07 o'clock
and carried to the undertakers. 1t will be
sent to his brother at Los Gatos tomorrow
for burial.
On the scaffold Eubanks spoke saying:
"Oh, Jesus, give myself to thee. Thy will
be done. L hope this will be warning to
Others"
Before going to the scaffold he had the
following statement prepared:
COUNTY JAIL, 1910 A. NJ, Jan. 10, 1891
acknowledge and deeply repent before God
and my fellow-men the awful crime that has
screen my ,elf In any wise, yet my ignorance of
Gods word, my bad habits of Iiqnor-drinking
trouble led me into thls. So far was gone in
liquor that few days before my great crime /
attempted my own life. but was hindered by
mefciful providence. All these things would
warn young men to flee.
When came to this jail my heart was as hard
as flint. bur The warnings of my father to make
my peace with God. and my brothers eptreaiIes
and the faithful labors of some kind Christian
friends who have visited me in my trouble, have
through the Lord Jesus Christ. / rely upon the
promises OF Gods VOID for forgiveness FOR all
my sins, and If such sinner as / have ben is
forgiven do not think there Is any man on tile
earth but may be forgiven II he turns to the
Lord. am grateful to all my friends for their
Kindness 10 me IN these days, and my last
thoughts are Tor my children and that my fate
shall be warning 10 others.
JAMES NJ EUBANKs
THE BLOODY DEED.
The crime for which Eubanks was hanged
was one OF the most revolving in the history
of the State, and the manner in which it
was committed and the motives that
prompted 1t showed how thoroughly de-
PRAYED and dehased lie had become, saws the
pan Jose Herald, i'll reporting the particu-
lars OF the execution.
The cody deed was committed nm the
morning OF December 90, 1889. about 10
o'clock, In the kitchen of the Heath House.
~ was deliberate and cold-blooded About 9
CLOCK he borrowed double barreled shot
gun tu. rom II. Wheaton, under the pretense
M tdat ne was going to hunt ducks. To others
ne spoke about going to hunt robins. and
ASKED lor ammunition TO load the gun with
flnaly he borrowed 10 cents. and with tho,
procured ammunition sufficient for his MIR
p iuh;o, anu then went to the Heath House
Which is located on Main street. In Los
Gatos. III LOS
DELIBERATE MURDER
between the Heath House and Mat
Dulion saloon runs an alley into which
the Kitchen Of the Heath House opens
RAISING down this alley to the kitchen
door EubankS looked in and saw his
daughter Ada, who was employed as a
waiter there AS she never spoke after
the shot, what took place between them
is reported only by Eubanks himself, for
nobody else was in the kitchen at the
time. He said that he took that oppor-
tunity OF demonstrating with her and