St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-23
Out of that window he has looked for
many weary months past.
HE SLEPT WE'LL.
Cohen Passes His Last Night in
SIumber.

Cohen Passes His Last Night in
SIumber.
Special to the Globe
FERGUS FALLS, Oct 22.-Gohen slept
late this last morning of his life. When
he finally awoke he sprang briskly out
of bed and called out to Watchman-'
Healey as he waved his pantaloons III
the air: You see Pm livelier yet than
half the men in Fergus Falls" When
the sheriff came into the corridor he as
sured him again that tile sooner after
midnight tonight he would hang the
better lie would like it. He ate heart
Ter breakfast than usual and afterwards
played his beloved accordin-which he
plays execrably. He walked in the
limited space of his cell and paced the
corridor with his guard short time.
He read a little in various good PAM
phlets with which good pious people
have kept him supplied; but they did
not seem to afford him much satisfaction
for he invariably threw them down
with curse. Later in the forenoon visi-
tors began to arrive and he consented
| 10 see some of them and talked with
| them; but all day long, whatever else
| he was doing, his eyes were ever on the
! alert to find some weapon or loophole
of escape-Only loophole; but he failed
/ to find it.
One of the early visitors at the jail
was Mrs. Goheen, his mother. She Wis
/ tied him yesterday afternoon fol the
] first in month, and at that interview
the two apparently became somewhat
reconclled. At that time she did not
know of the long history of crimes OF
which he had accused her, and was very
! anxious that they should be friendly
| This morning it was different. She had
read his accusations as published III the
/ local paper, while, OIL the other hand,
| lie did not know until he saw her that
they had yet been published. YeSter-
day afternoon she cried most of the
! time they talked, but this morning she
charged him with untruthf illness and
treachery, while he protested he
! did not intend that his story,
so far as it related 10 her
should be published, and had tried to
prevent it. He finally closed the inter-
| view by saying in effect: Mother, it
| is too late to pitch into me this way. L
am going to hang tonight, and you had
| better shake hands for it will be the last
chance. Besides what has been pub
Iished will not hurt you any," The
woman shook hands with him and went
! away crying. He sent out word to her
! previous 10 the interview that he wanted
dark necktie with pin i'll it, which
she went back and got for him. His
brother Leonard, a lad of eighteen, WIS
with her. and was taken into the cell,
but there was little conversation be-
| tween him and ,Adelbert. The latter
gave his mother his silver watch.
| Goheen's father did hot come to
see him to-day. He was i'll the
Jail yesterday and. gave his son much
godly advice. telling him to repent and
devote his thoughts to the future. and
he would be saved. He inquired par
ticnlariy into Adelbert's belief in tie
Catholic church, and said he was salts
fed If he was sincere. The family are
not Catholics, but the old man evidently
thought that was better than nothing.
Goheen issued his Invitations Yesterday
to the persons he desired to see him
hanged. He sent three. one to The
Wahpeton priest. one to Mr.. Riley, one
of his former watchmen whom he liked,
and. one to G. w. Kaddatz, a local mer-
chant who had visited him once or
twice. These Invitations read:
DEAR SIR: You are hereby permitted to
witness the execution Friday morning, ii you
desire to do SO. Very respectfully,
ADELBERT GoHEEN.