The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-12
KILLED HER FOR MONEY
Samuel Welsor Today Paid the
Penalty of His Crime.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12, 1s94.-Samuel Welsor
was hanged at 500 A. M.
Welsors spent the night rather u~neventfully,
though he was decidedly more nervous than
he had been during yesterday. At times he
seemed to be sleeping soundly and pea cefully,
but at the slightest sound he would start and
often moan for several minute thereafter.
His last night IN earth was not a happy one.
At 6:25 a tempting breakfast was taken to
Welsor's cell and the doomed man partook
| sparingly thereof. Al reporter was trying to
induce Welsor to make a confession, but
that, he said, he could not do because he had
already admitted having killed Clementine
| Manning.
AT a quarter to eight A. NJ, the Sheriff
read the death warrant to which the con
demned man listened attentively and with
out comment. A few minutes before eight
| o'clock, the Deputy Sheriffs pinioned Wei
sor's arms, and the march to the scaffold be-
gan. The procession was made up of deputy
sh~eriffs, reporters aud jurors to the number
of about twenty-five.
MARCH To THE SCAFFoLD.
The procession in which Welsor was the
central figure wendell its way out through
the "Sullpen' moving southwardly the
greater portion of the way, then turning to
the southwest, through a somewhat narrow
~passageway and ont into the hazy cold air of
the early morning, with the gallows i'll full
view of the prisoner as he mount a few
steps from the floor of the Jail proper into
the yard, between Chief Desmond's office
and the Morgue.
At eight o'clock Welsor mounted the gal
lows with a somewhat firmer step and with
much cooler demeanor than had been an
ticipated.
While the final arrangements for the exc
cutions were being made, Welsor stood erect
and gazed unfiinchiligly into the eyes of the
I 49, ~ -.1,1n -,,,,,a,1r,1i,,r tha n fRN1I
Just before the black cap was pulled over
Welsor's face he was cooler than at any time
during the trying proceedings. He smiled to
friends in the crowd, II from all appear
ances died without terror.
At SOP the drop fell. His neck was broken
by the fall, and in ten minuees the physicians
pronounced him dead.
HIS CRIME.
Sam Welsor's crime was the cold-blooded
murder of Clementine Manning, an aban-
doned woman, on August 4, 1890. Seven
years ago Welsor met the wonian. She was
then in the social gutter, after a brief but
wild career of d~ebauchery, but was still
handsome and mentally gifted above those
of her class. Welsor was infatuated with
her. He layished money Upon her and fitted
up for her a gilded establishment on Pine
street. He was then in good circum-
stances, owning a saloon at Tenth
and Pine streets. The woman's constant de-
mands for money at last bankrupted Welsor,
and when he had nothing more to give her
she spurned him. A lucky turn of fortune
again set him up in business and the hason
was renewed. Again she spurned him when
his money was exhausted by her greed. For
four years this was the history of their lives
until Welsor disappeared three years ago:
On August 4, 1890, Welsor returned
to the city. Having learned that
Clementine had won a large sum in a
lottery, he went to her house and demanded a
portion of her lucky winnings. She laughed
at him. 1t was her death-knell. Like a flash
Welsor seized her by the hair and threw her
on the floor. With one foot planted on her
upturned face, he drew a pistol and fired five
bullets into her PROSTATE form. She lost
consciousness, and, thinking she was dead,
Welsor fed.
He was arrested later. Clementine died
next day, but signed a written ante mortem
statement, reading
'Sam Weisor did it. He killed me for my
money. Do you heara I say he killed me for
my money!
+ This convicted him.