New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-10-21
pearance Of contentednsss and frequent
u referred in = laughing way to the
which adorned his wrists.
FROM NEW ULM TO REDWOOD.
The Doomed man was in a Talkative Mood
until he left the Train.

lhe Doomed man was IN laxative Mood
until he left the Train.
Between New Ulm and Sleepy Eye
Rose was very cheerful. He did not
speak of the execution, but joked the
Sheriff and deputy by relating stories
of his experience in Montana. Arriv-
ing at Sleepy Eye at $50, Rose was
placed in private room at the CONNER
cial House, where he had breakfast
and spent the interval between the ar
rival and departure of trains in telling
Sheriff Mead and others some humor-
Gus anecdotes of Col. Sam. McPhail,
whom Rose knew well. s.e FL.
After breakfast he invited the News
reporter to a chair. lighted a cigar, also
offered the reporter one. After a
few puffs, and without any leading up
to it. Rose began to talk of the refusal
of Coy, Merriam to commute the sen
tence. 49, -~'..@ y. ~
II consider Gov. Merriam" he said,
lone of the most unfair men on earth.
We met when he was not Governor.
1t was on the banks of Lake Kampeska,
South Dakota, He was with a hunt
ing party and requested me to do a
petty service for him.. I refused and
he insulted me, and I resented that in
suit, He probably remembered that
incident when he refused to pardon me,
an innocent man. I am innocent and
some day the world may know it,
Sitting in the hotel lobb! Rose shook
hands and chatted gailY with old Slee-
Ply Eye acquaintance, and if the main
subject was spoken of would insist that
fate was terrible, not to him, but to
Minnesota, the authorities of which, he
said, were about to execute an innocent
man.
knowing myself innocent, death
has no terrors for me-" was the way he
answered personal acquaintance, af-
ter which he quickly changed the sub
ject by asking after former friend
known to both.
The train left Sleep? Eye at $3.50 a.
m. with Rose handcutted to Deputy
Olmstead. When about nine miles
from Sleepy Eye he called the News re-
porter to his side and said he wanted tt
make the following statement:
e'Some people say that was born il
the Wild West, but my place Of birth il
in Pike County, Illinois, and on Jan. 8
1861. Directly after the war removed
with my parents to Fillmore county
Minnesota. residing there until the fal
of 1874. when we removed to Murra
county, where my father now re
sides.
I'm the spring of 1884, went t
Campbell county, South Dakota, took
homestead and remained on the sam
until the spring of 1887. when I re
turned to my Murray county home.
mime years ago last June I took
pleasure trip to the Pacific coast.
don't hope for anything, from the Gov
ernor. think am going to hang an
am ready. lam willing to see spirit
ual adviser at Redwood, but have n
statement to make, except that I am in
nocent.
''My father called on me Monday an
my mother and sisters Tuesday and
don't expect to see them again becaus
1 requested them to remain away fror
Redwood Falls. Ny brother, whom
have not seen for year, will probabl
see me at Redwood.
Arriving at Redwood Falls, Rose wa
taken at once to the dark and gloom
shell that serves as Redwood county
Jail. There spiritual adviser Gale
on him and asked him whether be de
sired to pray. Rose instantly fell O
his knees but told the minister that b
was maliciously arrested, maliciousl
prosecuted, and was not guilty. I'll
minister then prayed that the Lor
: would purge Rose Of his sins, if he ha
any, as the Lord and Rose alone kne
whether the latter was guilty, An al
tempt was made to have Rose make
confession, but the latter replied that
had nothing to confess. -. T.. *..:@
In the afternoon he asked to be take
to a barbershop for a shave, and frol
there toia photograph gallery to ha,
his picture taken for 'shls MOTHER as
said. After the negative had been take
he left instructions with the photograph
er, and then proceeded to the undertal
er's TO select his own coffin. Such nery
as this in face of what awaited him We
perhaps never before evinced.
Returning to his cell he wrote sever,