The morning news., 1897-08-29

- Is only TOrpiH Indifference
uicb,yaymen who Played Cards
N,biIc Awaiting the End-Vasquez
shows Supreme. COOlncss-COm-
stock played Thniards Until the
Vcr,. Last MinUde.
From the Chicago Tribune.
group of white-haired ranchmen sat
,,attiug and smok King at the Natick house
IN Los Angeles The other day. Somebody
node reference to the unusual nerve
.,own by Theodore Duwaut, the San
7,r7ncisco murderer, who had been in the
,-,,7ov, of the galows at the San Quentin
ate prison foa weeks. and then some rem
,iseences of the actions of men under
,ntence of death were related.
.Noyy 1 don't believe there is any nerve
e.. all in Durrant," said William Tupper,
,Iie Oldest man in the party. 'I hear lots
-. folks say that the fellow was so cool
al calm when he saw the carpenters
Z. .,ildng his gallows, but they are ali
,,roae It's only torpid Indifference. A
man that is shut in prison for more than
-,yo Years is a different sort of person
rom one who lives in the free air end
.,nsbine out of doors and is his own b oss
N the time If you viii stop and think.
rou'U see that nearly every person you
yer know that was prisoner for year
nr SO before the execution was cool and
collected when he came to be hanged. It's
The fellows who are deprived of liberty,
and are taken right out of their daily
rursuits to die the same day or the next,
that have claims to nervness.
the best displays of nerve anc. cool
ness in the face of ignominious death that
/ have ever knoWn-and I've seen over
dozen men led out to die-were in Benson,
triz. in 1878 at about the time the Tomb
stone mines were being opened uD by the
ssheffe,in crowd: There were no railroads
ln Arizona then, and we did all our busi-
ness by stages Highway ROBBERS were
common. In the spring of 1878 the stages
between Yuma and Benson were held up
nearly every week by two men, who al
rays wore masks made from white flour
sackiug.
zone day just az dusk, the flour-sack
highwaymen spgang out from behind
,oWlder near where Caliente row it. Inc
lr.yor told the robbers to go to some
GARNER locality when he was ordered to
arrow off the Wells Fargo box. At that he
ras shot dead, and he rolled off behind
the horses. That murder capped the eli
ulaX People in Benson and Tucson were
aroused. A posse of ra nchmen and min
, srs was organized. They trailed the flee
mg robbers for three weeks, and finally
lhe two robbers were. overpowered and
taken captive.
The outlaws were both young men,
fud how they ever came to be bandits is
ne of the things that the old-timers were
I'LL arguing about when ! came away
i ON the territory years after. No one
a er knew the mems names but they said
nh ey were Samuel Mann and George E.
ST 'ver. Mann was about q, and Silver
Va ar or so older Mann was well edu-
Gu ted, and his choice words impressed his
"a tors Silver was an eX-cowpuncher,
60t had led a hard life on the plains.
Well Mann and Silver were brought
dos the mountains to Benson. hap
pm I'd TO be there and was made juror
at the sort of lynch trial of the young
ban dts for murder and highway robbery.
OF coIrse it was a foregone conclusion
low the trial would re suit
II hay We're the coolest men I ever did
see hear of. They were never confined
a m Jment after their sentence, but sat
With their ankles manacled with wagon
ch3 IS welded on by .ocal blacksmith.
The. ? chatted and smoked about the sa-
loon where our court had been held, un-
I'll Il sc moment of their hanging l took
ia Icy TO young Mann. He never re-
tere d to his crimes and his career in the
foutu west He ehatled about the affairs
Of The, day, and spoke of the honors that
Gen. ) rant was at that time receiving in
"I ave always wanted to see Grant
said be to me, but now I guess I'll soon
le oye' that wish. They say folks don't
Laya MI ch ambition after they're hanged,
Ls adiE with a drawl.
At i e suggestion of Mann and Silver
W. 30. { 70 a game of euchre in the saloon.
About , lalf the male population of the
Liie fzoua crossroads of those days
st 81 t . windows and stood about look
le a, the two manacled men playing
CARTS bile the sands of their life ran
quickly cut. What cut me the most was
To- nave 7he men whom we were going to
&c .aus ed pay for the drinks once in
While
bon worry about us. pard,' said
Si'"r D ome one; we've got some money
wa us nd unless we spent it now it
rNo' do us any good, you know,
a1i hr M de q twist about his neck as
fc'. as if to indicate a moose.
There " as none of your bravado ana
- .+n.ss about Mann. He realized
wat t-atl meant. but he saw it would
w. ..'s . rake a time over it. We
beard '9 zen hammering on the boards
''re- Ne o pen space, and such a thing
WIS SOD rre1 nmon !n that half dead and
o'-'D nlnHct in those days that we knew
N.~ work )n the scaffold for the double
AaaHua
'i's taUea to have to die when would
Nt' n "a ave Tor, but, Mann Sdiu
S''i"-F. ] lay serve as another awful
+a.NN. 90. ~ G. truth Of the proverb that
H' "@ 1t tht transgressor is hard
iND night efore the execution a dozen
Na mo il s'ue room at the adobe sa-
s1l uoa Mann, ana we talked for
.'f about as tronomy, and what Nigh
IRON luture years OF investiga
l '.' ncr vens Mann was as much
I'D ,It lbject of astronomy az
Nire a ( boy in college, and hae
''- D. h,e ye I. despite of about sever
.'a.. hours
'sht l,ns :. end ranchmen and cat
49, ' mics about came TO see whc
v, 'A'A unp / winging. Mann and 81
t.. 5000 ~ enkfast about dawn, ana
tor.-. were with the Methodist mis-
Gao. ei soHp time At promptly
D.. '"'k weim bound about their ell
oa... "41h q heir manacles of wagon
Oh, h ny were hanged. A lot
&. . yea ~ few dollars each ana
4 "ei, bl Fied the same day ovef
s.. aSptus grove.
C... Ut Alvin Washburp Of Ath,