St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-07
AWAITING The HOUR.
No Certainty Yet as to the
Executions at Sing Sing
Prison.
1t Midnight the Prisoners
We're Quiet and Wit
nesSes Asleep.
Woods Attorney May Have
Saved Him Awhile
Longer.
The Condemned Men Will Be
ElectPoeuted at Short In
tePValS.

SING SING, July 6.-R. J. Haire, at
torney for Wood, and George A. Hooper,
attorney for SlOcum, arrived in Sing
Sing at 1880 and drove Immediately to
The prison. Mr.. Haire had in his pocket
q certified copy of the petition for ha-
beas corpus filed by him with Judge
Lacomb. Hooper had no papers with
him. The guards stopped the two
attorneys at the terrace until Head
Keeper Connaughton came forward
and gave Mr.. Haire permission
TO enter and interview the warden.
Warden Brown had said at midnight
that unless some papers were served on
him by the time for the executions he
would execute all fonr of the men. This
was thought to dispose of Wood hopes.
At 80 Lawyer Haire came out of the
warden's office accompanied by the
warden's son. He borrowed a carriage,
promising to return in five minutes,an
after a mysterious conference with the
driver. was carried away in the direc
tiOn of the village. He refused to say
anything about his interview with the
warden.
Several Witnesses
arrived after O'clock. On the Cos
train from Albany came DIR. Samuel 3.
Ward, of Albany, personal friend of
Gov. Hill, and DR.. Franklin Townsend,
also of Albany. DR.. Ward said that he
supposed he was to witness the eXecu-
tiOns, although he was not at all posi-
tive about the matter. He had been
70 hArn ond ha6
Obeyed the request Further than that he
knew nothing, and so could tell nothing.
Dr. Townsend said he was in the same
position. On the train was physician
from Rochester, who, when asked his
name, replied: Il cannot give it. l
am instructed to say nothing and you
will have to get my name from the war
den" He admitted that he had been
invited to attend the execution. DIR.
Southwick, of Buffalo; DR.. AlphOnso
Rockwell, of New York; Or. Daniels, of
Buffalo; Warden DurstOn, Of Au-
burn; DR.. Charles Mcdonald, of
the state board of lunacy;
Prof. Laudy, Of Columbia College; <.
F. Davis, of New York; E. A. Brown,
the person purchasing agent; DR..
Ward, DR.. Townsend and the Rochester
physicians are all at the prison for the
night. One of the witnesses stated
definitely that the exception would not
take place before o'clock in the morn
ing. There are yet three or four
witnesses to arrive, but they are eX-
pected by the late trains. Every one of
the witnesses here except DR.. Mcdonald
and Warden Durston have been seen,
and all decline to talk. claiming they
know nothing of the arrangement. DIR.
Mcdonald will not come out of
IL do
cided that Father Creeden and his as
sistant, Father Hogan, will accompany
Wood and SlOcum to the execution
chamber. Father Lynch, who has been
with the prisoners, was invited to go
with them, but he has horror OF wit
Messing the execution. and he begged TO
be excused. Rev. Father Creeden and
his assistant, Father Hogan, clad in
their priestly garb, arrived at the prison
at $40 .. m.
SING SING, 2:15 a. m--Lawyer Haire
has not returned. The warden is sit
ting in'hs office waiting for him. 1t is
believed he went after some paper to be
filed With the warden in support of his
clients case.
Mr.. Haire returned at 2:25 a. m,
bringing with him copy of Wallace'S
reports. containing the decision on
which he bases the claim that the filing
OF his petition acts as a stay in the
Wood case. He is now (2:35 a. m.) with
the warden.
SING SING, July g. (Midnight.)-
Many of the witnesses have retired, the
reporters sitting on the grass plats op-
posite the prison seeing them quite
plainly. Some of the witnesses sat in
the warden's room until late, talking,
while others walked the terrace.
Deputy Warden ConnaughtOn came
put about half past 10 o'clock
and said the condemned men
were sleeping soundly ana had
would not say as to whether the men
talked about their fate tonight or not
They retired early. JugigO has hardly
said ten words all day, and is Sullen and
mOrOse. At midnight all was quiet about
the prison, and the only signs of life were
the reporters keeping vigil on the hill
opposite the prison and the guard
pacing in front. The curtains were
pulled down in the Office. but Warden
Brown was still up and about. at 1905
the warden had a long talk with the
correspondents in front OF the prison.
"The men are all awake" he said. 81
was just down to see them.
They Are Very Quiet.
but they evidently know that something
is coming" Mr.. Brown denied that
Mr.. Hogan had brought any papers of
an official character with him. ''He
brought himself. and nothing else,"
he said. 1.-The death warrants
came here at the time the
men were last resentenced. That
was June 2, ! think. l have had them
in my safe ever since" Mr.. Brown
said that no papers had been served on
him in the Wood case. He said he had
the opinion Of the attorney general on
the appeal put forward by Woods
lawyer as a claim for a stay of eXecu-
ton. He would not say what it was,
but he said: ''lf no other papers are
served Oh me before the hour set for
men will be executed" The warden said
that most OF the witnesses were asleep.
"They are like yOu," he said. "They
would like to know when this thing is
going to take place; but they do not
know anY more about it than you do.
There is no one knows when it is going
to occur but me-" The warden SAID
that he did not know whether he would
get any,sieep or not. He has not had
any sleep since Saturday night. The
guard over the condemned man re-
mains in charge. Partridge and Baxter,
who bave had the night watch for many
months. are on duty in the condemned
cells tonight. They know nothing
of the time set for the execu-
ton, but they have an idea, as
has every one in the prison that the exc
eution is set f5r tomorrow morning. 1t
Is nc improbable that 10 o'clock will be
the hour though the general expectation