The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-01
FOR BUCHANAN.
Attorney-Ge Decision
Delays the Execution.
Condemned Man Had Fully Made Up
His Mind TO Die.

SING SING, May DIR. Buchansn may
not be executed for six months and may
not die at all. His lawyers are happy and
his wife is tearfully joyful. Buchanan
himself, who all day yesterday had shown
by his manner that he was giving up hope
and preparing to meet his fate, is sur
prised into almost silence, and his wife
did the greater part of the talking as she
uat at the wire screen last night.
IL was few minutes after 6 last night
when the telephone in the wsrdens Office
rang and Stenographer Yorke who was at
She other end in the attorney generals
sffice at Albany, told Warden Sage tho
opinion of the attorney general that the
execution had better be delayed.
There was picturesque group about
Che telephone-reporters, officials of the
prison, the lawyers OF the convicted man,
and. leaning in the doorway between the
office and psrlor, Mrs. Buchanan, her
blonde hair somewhat disordered and her
eyes red with weeping-when the warden
announced the message.
Lawyer Gibbons and his conferree rushed
over and shook hands with Mrs. Blu
chanan. while the tears streamed down
her cheeks. and Mrs. Coleman, her com.
panion, hugged her rapturously. Warden
Sage went Immediately to the death house
and had hardly halted before the door of
the condemned mans cell when Buchanan
said: ANY news, Mr.. SageV and then
covered back in the farther corner of the
cell, as IL he were fearful of the answer.
II have news, said the warden, "and
you will not be execu ted tomorrow" The
condemned man sprang TO his feet. came
20 the front OF the coll and said. 'Is that
true, Mr.. Wardonf" Eyes; and / will
send your wife to you"
In a few minutes Mrs. Buchanan ap-
peared at the door and strange scene oc-
CURED, as she pressed her face TO the wire
screen and repeated to her husband the
news the warden had brought. It seemed
difficult for Buchanan TO believe the story
OF his good luck, for he had told the
guards yesterday that he had made up his
mind to die. q.
Mrs. Buchsnsn's FaithfuIness.
For three hours the wife stayed talking
to her husband, and when she left him at
eo'clock she had him buoyed up with the
hope that he would finally escape His
council also bade him hope that they
would be ultimately successful. Mrs.
Buchanan, Lawyer Roche and Mrs. Cole
man left for New York at 9:40
Mrs Buchanan was tired out, for she
had worked all day in New York 10 OBJ
tain a stay OF proceedings or reprieve for
her husband, in case the decision of the
attorney general was not favorable. She
sailed upon Governor Morton before she
left the city, and. while not securing an
audience with him, left letter in which
she asked for further leniency and recited
his good qualities as a husband. The
general opinion here at the prison and of
the lawyers for DIR. Buchanan is that it
will be at least six months before the
execution can possibly take place.
IL is to be noted shat DIR Buchanan has |
cheated the executioner more times than |
any other criminal condemned under tho |
eaectrocution act. Three times has the |
date been set and az many times has the |
law been evaded
At $3.50 last night, Mr.. Yorke, who was |
She messenger sent TO Albany by the
warden, arrived at the prison with the
original opinion of the attorney general
bage had made the most elaborate
for the execution A special
detail of men had been selected 10 watch
the dynamos and electric wires during tbe
night and extra precautions had been
taken I'm the death house. Even the cleo 1
frical chair was guarded. A few Of the
witnesses arrived yesterday afternoon, but
psturned home today.