The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-21

" AhOSO@ az DuCuauau, WAS uanBou
here to-day at 11:15 a. m. He was in
terviewed this morning at O'Clock and
said: 81 am prepared to meet my God.
confess killed Mosca. To-day will
go on trap never to return. This is the
last morning 1 will over see the sun
rise. want to be buried by my sister
in Salem.''
The prisoner was smoking and spoke
OF his death as q trip of pleasure. His
breakfast was sent from the hotel,
which he ate and enjoyed very much.
A large crowd encircled the jail, but
only the jury, tho sheriff's guards, press
reporters, surgeons and few citizens
were admitted.
Nowlin was fettered and taken from
his cell at IL o'clock. When on tho
.gallows he again confessed his crime
and told partial history of his life and
said he was brought to this by disobey-
ing his good old mother and keeping
bad company, and warned all to profit
by his sad fate.
Rev. w. Is. Dorsey and Rev. Samuel
Page accompanied him to tho gallows
and prayed for him. Tho death war
rant was read and the trap fell.
The jury who witnessed Nowlin's
hanging were: S. ID. Rice, ]. b. Vim
norman, c. c. Noftsinger, e. L. Duiin,
r. IL. Thrasher, S. d. Birley, C. j.
Bolton, Il. S. Spencer, S. l.. Sick, James
Eaken and John Rich, and the physi-
clans were DR.. c. Doggatt and Surgeon
Thomas Miller. Sherifs j. j.. Garland
and III. r. Booze were assisted in the
execution by w. +. Templeton, from
Rockbridge county.
The prisoner made no resistance and
was composed and willing to meet his
fate. All passed off legally and
quickly. Nowlin's death watch were
John Wright and Charles Mccoy, Geo.
Woody and j. Ranch. Nowlin was cut
down at 1850 a. m.
The rope came from Rockbridge
county and was the same used in the
execution of James Craney. Nowlin
was born in Franklin county and raised
in Salem, Va. He was about 10 wears O Id
and known as Butting Henry.
THE STORY OF THE CRIME.
Nowlin's confession has made the
facts in the case plain. He left Roanoke
in company with negro named Will
cambridge and went to West Virginia.
The two remained there only few
days, and returned to Buchanan Now
Inns confession as to the deed was made
to the editor of the Fincastlc Herald and
is as follows:
~ went to the colored church where
festival was being held; was there an
hour when Will cambridge came, and
said to me, Come and let's go home, ,
meaning Roanoke. / asked if he was
going homo tonight; he said yes.
said we could walk to Roanoke before
day. we left the church and when a
hundred yards away we saw two men,
! Tomat and Mosca.
"Will cambridge said, These mon have
got some money;let's take it from them. ;
l said, No, do nothing like that, for.
have SIS and will give you half of it,
lie said, 80, don't want your money;
those fellows have no business with
money when I've got none I said to
him that l wouldn't take anybody's
money. lie then gave me another pis-
tol ana said: You hold the pistol on
one of them and I'll take the money!
said all right. Walked on, overlook
and passed them, stopped under some
trees on the left of the road, where we
waited for the men to come along.
"When they came we ordered them
to stop and throw up their hands. Will
DaboAiOSO uotdChCo 1Oludb, WHO D1CKCQ
ten steps. Will got his money. l was
holding both pistols on Mosca; he got
tt G best of me; shot twice to scare
him; he got hold of one of the pistols.
then shot him twice. After shooting
him we both pushed him down; then /
ran to the top of tho hill and laid
down. Did not take his money. Dan
bridge got his money and watch and
came up to where / was.
lie threw the watch into tho road.
lie pulled me up and said, Come on,
let's go away from here. / was very
sorry and did lot feel like going any
where. Then we went half mile from
there into field and laid down. We
got up and walked across toward Bed
ford City. When going down the noun
tain we saw house in field and
stable near by. We entered the stable,
struck match, and caught horse;
both got on MIN and started for Bee ford
City; rode the horse the rest of the
night, and instead of arriving at Bed
ford City, we found ourselves at Buch-
anan, where at Z o'clock white man
met and asked us where we were from.
eve said Clifton Forge. lie told us a
man had been shot and robbed the
night before, and that we had better
leave there on the 7 o'clock south bot nd
express. We got on that train and
went TO Roanoke, where we remained
together till Monday night, when Will
cambridge, having shot Jack Hunt, left
and haven't seen him since"
When Mosca was shot he fell to the
road and his companion Tomat ran for
help. He met two residents Of the
locality and tho wounded man was car
ried to David Williams where he
boarded. He fingered till Sunday
morning, when he died.