Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-12-12

lives. tell you I've got an ambition to
drop through that trap"
| Was Amused At the Priests.
II was amused last night when those
priests came to reform me. They are
all right, they are good men, but they
can't put freshness into a rotten egg
and told them it didn't 60 with me-
Too bad, you know, but was never
taught to take any stock in religion.
If there is a hereafter I'll stand as
good show as anybody, because l
my conscience dictated. am all right.
| The people who don't think so are as
ignorant in their way as I may be in
mine.'
Don't you have any fear at all? are
you not afraid to die?''
| 'Now," he answered enphatically,
II welcome the drop from that trap.
You may not believe it, but wish it
! could all come Of now.''
But there was peculiar expression
in his eye which contradicted his bold
assertion. Ills eye had lost its keen
ness. There was dul look in his eyes
la look of pain; hunted look.
While he was talking he abruptly
surned away and would not return.
The scan'old.
Work OH the scaTord was completed
Monday afternoon, and Monday even
ing the rope which was to do duty at
the execution was tested. The gallows
stands against the unused cage on the
Fourth street side of the lofty execution
chamber, which is dreary enough
place with its cold, stone wall towering
up 80 feet With it's towering main
posts, 1s feet high, and its somber red
paint, the gloomy instrument of death
had an air of silent warning and dread
full fo,eboding which caused sensitive
persons to leave the chamber of death
after one glance.
The platform was SKA feet and was
supported by four posts feet 10 inches
in height and inches square. Corbels,
1Ox12 inches, held in place by short 4x6
braces supported from the posts with
their upper surfaces flush with the tops
Of the posts in turn supported nine
joists on which the platform floor was
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than feet II inches above the floor Of
the room. The end joists were 3xS and
the inside ones 2xs. The heavy 10x10
main posts, Is feet high, which support
the cross. beam, 1Ox12 inches, are placed
at either end of the structure somewhat
nearer the front than the back. As
they rise from the floor their tops are a
little more than 8 feet above the plat
form. The drop was about seven feet.
| Dictated His Dying Statement.
| His dying statement of his past life
which he told to Joe Mannix and his
cousin Goodsell, was taken down in
shorthand by Court Stenographer Dick
Mabey, and was one OF thrilling inter.
est. Harry talked for some time with
the three, and now and then his laugh
ter, ringing out as clear as Il bell, before
he go: down to the real subject i'll hand
Ills conve, sation with sheriff Holm.
berg before he Legan his statement, re-
lated almost w;.oJy to the tests of the
rope when had been made during the,
evening. lie was told just exactly Whas
had been cone and what ar
rangeinents had been made and
seemed to think the sheriff had got
the thing along i'll good shape. re
mentioned his new clothes and fresh
shave, and also the grand jury visit.
speaking OF his hearty enjoyment Of
each. lie asked the sheriff if the moose
which was TO 70 around his neck had
been testet., and when told that it was
unnecessary. seemed to think differ
emily ana expressed his earnest desire to
have every single little detail carefully.
looked after III all Of the mans
actions or talk there was no trace of
any fear Of what Was TO come. The
insane actions aila talk were all gone.
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