The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-04
MuRDERERs' ROW FILLED.

Four Under Sentence OF Death and
Four Waiting to Be Tried.
Murderer row in the jail is well filed.
In the first cell, adjoining the gallows room
where he will pay the penalty of his crime
two weeks from next Friday, Jim Gay
walks sullenIy up and down peering through
his grated window, going out into the cor
rider through the barred door or longing
in his hammock, counting the days he has
to live and probably thinking over the
crime which put him in the fatal predica-
ment.
In the next call Gus Williams, Gays COM
panion, who is TO swing with him for the
| August Meyer murder, sits most of his
time bemoaning ais fate.
Next TO Williams cell Marion Hayward,
another OF she oonspirstors, who is yet to
be tried and will probably meet the same
fate at the ropes end, Is locked up. He is in
good spirits yet, and enjoys himself chatting
with the other prisoners through the iron
Stats of bis door.
Across the corridor in the cell opposite
Gay is Joe Blos, Meyers stable boy, who
was convicted last week and sentenced to
be hanged Aug. IL. Blois takes his condem-
nation harder than any Of the others. He
talks of nothing else except his horror OF
having to be hanged for a crime of which
he claims he knows nothing.
Upstairs Charley Bacon, the idiotic mem
Der of the gang which murdered Meyer, ia
confined. He doesn't talk much except
when questioned and ats on his hammock
nearly all the time he is awake tanning
himself with his handkerchief In the same
foolish fashion that he did on the witness
stand in the Blois case.
John Webb, who was sentenced TO be
hanged nearly two years ago for the muir
der of Ananias Hill, occupies cell near
Bacon, and few cells away Ella Flowers is
confined awaiting trial for whipping Annie
Hill 30 death.
Downstairs In the same tier with the
Meyer murderers Isaac Tison is locked
awaiting trial for the wnnton double muir
der Of William Williams and William
Green.
In all there are eight murderers In the
jail, four OF whom are under sentence of
death and four waiting to be tried.
A MORNING News reporter visited the
jail yeyterday and talked to Williams and
Blois. II am innocent" said Williams,
''and the only consolation 1 feel
about dying is that I'll get justice
in the other world. I didn't get 1t here.
Bacon told me after l was convicted that
he had been promised $25 and release to
say that was in the murder of Mr.. Meyer.
That boy is crazy and will swear TO any
thing. l was in my bed at the time Mr.
Meyer was killed and know nothing about
it. an going TO write a letter to Judge
Falligant about 10, but suppose IL won't do
any good
Williams was asked IL he had embraced
any religion or was taking any religious
consolation in preparation for the other
world.
81 don't belong TO any church, he an
swsred, land don't hear anything about
religion axospt from the ladies who visit
the jail IL 10 = hard thing for me to get
down on my knses and try TO pray for a
crime had nothing TO do with. l don't
feel like preparing and don't know what
am going 10 do yet Ny father, who lives
In Brinkleyvills, N. c., has written 70 the
jail to ind out II It is his son they're going
to hang, and answered that it is. / ex-
poet him here in a few days"
What about selling your head to Mr..
Cole for $l5ln
az never sold my head, and amt going
to sell 1t, either. That's all lie. He came
here 20 see me and talked around some time
ago, but | amt going 10 sell my head to
any one."
'De what you can for me, boss" Will
Jams said in conclusion, because l am an
innocent man.
dressed: Judge, your honor" in which
he goes into a minute detail about his move
nents the night of the murder and now he
found Meyer. The letter closes as follows:
This is my statement, an innocent mans.
and IL you can take my life on that crazy
boys word, all right. May God help yours
truly. Joe Bloisn
In reply TO question as to how be felt,
Blois said: II feel pretty bad looking over
there at the gallows room to think I've got
to die for nothing. But then l am innocent
and I'll go TO heaven II they put me to
death. That fellow Jim Gay across there,
Il all the time calling me names. He is a
bad negro"
AS the reporter was leaving Gay showed
his ugly face close to the bars Of his cell door
and called out: Come around next Sun
day and III have something written for
your ~ Y g
Better talk nown ne was told.
20, no." answered the condemned man
with grin. "l'd rather write it. l talked
too much to you already"
Gay is taking spiritual consolation almost
daily, and doesn't seem to mind the horror
OF hanging.