The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-22
had NV n;cture TODAY and N, B,

I had my picture to-day and N. B.
Anderson will send you one dozen, and
I want you to send one to the follow
ing address: John G. Geiger, New
Ulm, MINI, as ]. promised him one.
One also to this address, if she wishes
it: Miss -- New Ulm, MINI.
I will enclose letter to her, which l
want you to forward to her with this
last request. Bidding all good bye
and asking you to bear your trials
bravely as you may believe l shall,
again I will say good bye, and God
bless you all. From your affectionate
son and brother,
WILLIAM Rose.
SHE LOVED ROSE.
Minneapolis Tribune: In the Brown
county jail at New Ulm is young
German girl, confined for some petty
offense. Rose was incarcerated there
at the same time and the young girl
became 80 wholly infatuated with him
that there was quite scene in the
night before Rose was brought to Red
wood Falls. She begged and pleaded
to be allowed to see him and to her
entreaties Rose added his own, but to
no avail. They we're not allowed to
meet and the little German girl will
never meet her lover.
John Day Smith, with Amendments
With the possible exception of VIII
liam Rose, none of the small crowd in
and around the scaffold last Friday
morning had so poor an opinion of the
John Day Smith law, as the half doz-
en- newspaper reporters who we're ex-
cluded by the law from having front
seats at the execution. Sheriff Mead
started out with the intention of car
rying out the spirit of that law, but it
would appear that the curious crowd
outside overawed the guards placed
there to detain them, and that every
crevice and knothole of the temporary
structure surrounding the scaffold had
an eye or pair of eyes fitted to it, in
tent upon seeing the last struggles of
a man about to meet a felon's death.
When the rope broke, the reporters got
just the opening they wanted, to get
even with the sheriff and his guards,
and the subsequent issues of the St.
Paul Globe and News and Minneapol-
is Tribune and Times followed with a
dark brown roast of almost every one
connected with the execution. Accord
ing to the Tribune, 1T was more like
hog killing than judicial execution,
and all the surroundings bore out the
smile. The jail and gallows enclosure
we're two old ramshackle buildings
more fit for animal sheds than the
habitation of human being. It was
here the most bungling execution
known in the state occurred; and it
seemed utterly inexcusable from any
point of view"
May Heaven forbid that Redwood
county should have another murder
or execution soon, but in case of
such misfortune the experience of
last week points the necessity of show
ing more Difference to the representa-
tives of the Press. They should be met
at the depot by the mayor, bearing the
keys of the city and accompanied by a
brass band. The prudent sheriff will
see that the newspaper lads are feast
ed and furnished with ample liquid
refreshments, and will carefully avoid
offending the journalistic taste with
an execution building that is lacking
in architectural beauty. He will also
arrange the details of the little affair
in hand after consulting with the del
egation of journalists, who have shown
in this instance at least that they are
expert executioners with rope as we'll
as with their lead pencils. And finally
instead of rude guards armed with an
tiquated muskets and bayonets, he
will provide a company of militia at
the very least, in full dress uniform
and armed with the brightest muskets
of the latest pattern, instructed to
carefully exclude every one from the
vicinity save newspaper reporters, who
are to have cushioned seats near the
platform in order to properly direct
the ceremonies of the occasion. tap
pears to us that such a program ought
to satisfy a plain, ordinary..reporter.
Really, we feel like apologizing for
the entire lack of style and eclat last
Friday. But our critical young friends
will please consider that this was the
first affair of tie kind in the county
Perhaps the next time they come down
here to break the laws into smithereens
and write up few columns of sensa-
tional details for their papers, some
other-to them-lucky accident may
occur, which with proper embellish-
ment may serve them in their quest,
without doing violence to their dignity
or their esthetic sensibilities.
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