Evening journal., 1896-12-28
HIS DEATH WATCH.
Doomed Man Removed To-day
to His Last Abode.
PLACED UNDER A BODY-GUARD
CAPTAIN RIDING WILL BUILD
THE GALLOWs ON WEDNESDAY.
NO HOPE OF EXECUTIVE INTER
FERENCE - EXECUTION EN-
TIRELY PRIVATE.

NO HOPE OF EXECUTIVE lNlEh-
FERENCE - EXECUTION EN-
TIRELY PRIVATE.
Eward Wright. the young colored
man condemned to death for the muir
der Of his sweetheart. Ida Crummel, in
Wilmington last July. will be hanged
about Il o'clock on Friday morning In
the old Jail yard at New Castle, where
many man who dared to take human
life or womanly honor has been swung
into eternity
This morning Wright was taken
from his upper tier cell by a guard of
wardens down to No. IA on the ground
floor, which has always been known as
the doomed mans cell, and from which
Shakespeare Reeves was led to execu-
tion by Sheriff Simmons in 1891. Here
death watch will be placed beside
Wright, as is required by law, for five
days before the execution and until the
scaffold trap falls.
Old Frank Johnson a trustworthy
prisoner. was the death watch over
Reeves, the last man hung at New
Castle.
In former years, when executions
used TO take place anywhere on New
I
SIG for a sheriff. and this regulation
has not been materially changed. II Is
said however that many sherlffs
would rather pay SIG or 81 600 and be
relieved OF the job.
Wright remains stolid and totally
indifferent as to his impeding fate. Rev.
Samuel Ambrose. his adviser, was very
much discouraged after his last inter-
view on Saturday.
CAPTAIN RIDING's GALLOWs.
Captain Israel Riding. the hangman
whose services and advice are invalu-
able In Delaware executions and
Sheriff Finn have completed all details
for as humane an execution as can be
made
THE sheriff" said Captain Riding
wants me TO construct the gallows on
Wednesday instead of Thursday. as has
always been my custom. / have never
built IL so soon before. but the sheriff
Is afraid that something may be lack
ing or broken so late in the day that
we would have no time to replace It.
THE scaffold will be practically the
same upon which Proctor and Young
were hanged at Dover and Reeves at
New Castle. The rope will come from
Edwin III. Filter a Co.. OF Philadelphia
and will be the finest Italian hemp
five-eighths OF an inch in diameter
After the hanging q section OF this rope
is sent back 10 the Filler firm, who
thereupon labels Il '--- ---, executed
by Sheriff ---, -- -
+ "rhe trap-door will be secured from
behind by q weight so that Il canno
swing after the drop has fallen. W.
p will start 20 build the scahold ON We'd
p nesday morning, and expect to hav'
: everything complete by Thursda,
1 morning"
NO PROSPECT FOR A REPRIEVE
The authorities here have no hope o
n reprieve from the governor 70
I Wright The only grounds that cOul,
I be urged by his counsel we're that mex
Friday Is New Years day and a lega
holiday in Delaware. IL Is understoo'
that Governor Watson has intimate'
= that he did not intend to interfere a
all with the law taking its course.
ENTIRELY PRIVATE EXECUTION
e Notwithstanding the demands mad
upon him for tickets OF admission
r Sheriff Finn intends that the execution
. shall be strictly private. IL Is under
stood that all means of ingress an
egress to the prison or prison var
will be closed on that day, even th
front doors of the sheriff's residenc'
o The iurOrs-tobe be swornin on Thursda
n by the shorthand the few physicians
relatives Of the prisoner and represer
tatiyes of the press. who have bee
81 supplied with numbered tickets bearin
l. the sheriff's autograph. will probabl
b. be admitted through the private corr
( / dor leading from the old COurt Hons
li 10 the sherns residence, and thence
D. the main corridor. This is the enrans
used at all private executions.