Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-28
MURDER REcALLED.-To-day

MURDER hECALLED--1o quay
.,.nntv wears ago Charles Manley, a ne
I'VE ,So man. was executed in the Jail yard
~ = his CITY for murder. The crime OF
mbich Mauley paid the full penalty OF
", low was one of unusual atrocity.
1 7, wos proven on his trial, which took
lace in the Corporation Court on the
i %b Of January, 1873, that on the night
of the 9Th of July, Of the preceding
,aar John Monroe, an old Scotclman,
;, J" travelled about this section Of
o Wv" in the vocation Of mendinS
c ci"rts was sitting by the side OF the
Zinc in the valley which extends
I'm l. Asaph street to Royal, i'll the
' La If the colored suburb known as
... -, The night was starlit
and sultry. and it supposed that Mon
70, zoe alter refreshing his thirst at the
snrino, had set down to rest and fallen
osieen beside it. He wore q PLAIN Sill
Tor watch and carried small! tin box
tanning the tools used in his calling.
The shantv of colored man named
PAYNE was situated short distancetrom
the spring. and from there three men
@Nanlev and Samuel Payne and Lew
i Pavue-came down upon Monroe,
who was heard to cry that he had no
money. and to beg them not to murder
s1in. He was, however, beaten most
fery,bly his head bruised, and his ab,
domen mashed with large stones, ana
thcn. under the superstition that ne was
dead. thrown into a neighboring diIcn'
from which he managed to crawl dur
ing the night, and on the edge OF which
he was found in the morning, and car
ried 10 his boarding house on West
street. lie fingered there III great pam,
busin full possession Of his senses, ana
able 20 give an account OF the assault
upon him, until the evening, about I
O'Clock, when he died. The two lhynes
,nade oil during the night, and have
never been heard from since, but inc
f4thcr.in-law of Manlev having had his
suspicious aroused, communicated Them
10 the late Lieutenant of Police John
/, Smith, who came upon ManIry,
,ghilc he was asleep, and found upon
MIN the watch, hat and boots OF Aion-
roe, al! of which articles his victim
identified before he brcathed his last.
irter his conviction and sentence Man
lee continued Ion. defiant, but later
the ministrations of Rev. Fields Cook,
Rcy, r. w. Madden and other c0lored
ministers sOftened him and brought
him under religious influences. On
the scailold the condemned man at
tribut d all his miSfortNnes to whisky
said he had no one 10 biame-the
Intoxicating cup alone having brought
him to the gallows He stood up
right Oh the drop without sign OF
emotion, and while the late Capt. }.
NJ. Steuart. who was then City Ser
gent, placed the Moose around his
neck, said The sooner this is over tie
better" He hung the usual time . tier
the trap bad been sprung and when
the body WAS lowered it was exaniin-
ed by the late DR.. r. /. Adam, assist
ed by Dir. Il. s. West. and life pro
nounced extinct. Manlcy was born
mt Arcola, Loudoun county, Va, and
worked on farm until the war. Dur
ing the war ne served in company
of District of Columbia co!ored vOlun-
teers. Since The war he had been
working about this section and just
previous to the murder had been en-
Gagged on canal boat. The GAZETTE
IN It's report Of the execution cloaed Its
account rs follows: ''In short time
the large gate of the jail yard was
opened and the crowd, some 700 in
number passed out and separated.
The lesson which the law designs had
been taught" But in one instance, at
least, the lesson fell upon dead ears.
~ II negro, who witnessed Marley S
execution, went to Washington the
same night and killed Frank Hahn, a
cattle droycr, and was hanged for the
crime.