Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-25

"Braee up. man." said the guard.
You say you are soldier; stand it
like soldier
'sOh, 1 can't do it." moaned Dues
trow, and again the tears flowed.
| ANOTHER RALLY.
In few minutes the came another
rally. He seemed to grasp at hope
within himself, found, perhaps, in
J some thought of his attorneys won
derful resources. With it there was
glimmer, too. of the old confusion in
his mind, whether feigned or real, it
matters not
They can't hang me on that" he
cried, referring to the gallows. That's
my invention. 1 have a patent on it,
and they can't do it."
In a little while he changed the cur
rent of his thoughts again. His mind
went back to the crime.
81 did wrong" he said to Kreckel.
he had gone back to his own little cell
then, and lay weeping on the bare cot.
81 killed my wife and child, but it
| was not my fault. 1t was something
within me that made me do it 1 was
not myself"
Over and over again he repeated
these words as the tears flowed fast
and the sobs occasionally checked his
| utterances-
HIS LAST STRAW.
| The doomed mans reliance on Gov.
Johnson was evidently still his main
hope, for at $50 he asked if he could
be allowed to send telegram to the
lawyer. Clark Brown, one of the
guards, got him some paper, and he
wrote this message:
Gov. CHARLES P. JOHNSON, Sc LOUIS,
| No: am IN predicament- Intercede with
| Gov. Stephens for me Immediately. I now
need your advice. I was insane, but it did no
good. have nothing left but hope of forgive
/ ness A F. W. BRANDENBURG.
Sheriff Puchta took the telegram
and put it in his pocket, promising to
send it, but he did not. With this last
straw reached for, Duestrow lay down
again on his cot and continued weep
| ing.
FIGHTING FOR THE BODY.
Undertaken George j. Eberle, of the
Union Monday night, with a letter
from Hulda Duestrow to the sheriff.
1t asked him to turn the body over to
Mr.. Eberle.
DIR. John Fl. Simon, one of the ex-
per u 4OE IAC OC4ChSc IUC GEldIS
| of Duestrow, also arrived, with a letter
from Gov. Johnson to the sheriff, in
| structing him to turn the body over to
the physician.
DIR. Simon's object in getting posses
sion of the body is to hold a post-mor-
| tenn examination. 1t is stii. the firm
belief of the defense that Duestrow was
insane, and they hope to prove it by
an examinat ton of the brain. He sig
nified this wish to Mr.. Eberle and the
latter wired the condemned mans sis
ter, asking her permission for the ex.
animation to be made. If the body is
embalmed it could not be done success
| fully.
Later in the morning the row over
| the body developed into considerabl
| bitterness. DIR. Simon, seeing that
Eberle had the advantage, determined
to appeal to Duestrow himself. Percy
holland, a brother of Charles T. No
land, had come with him to Union.
He is a notary public, and a scheme
was devised whereby holland was to
secure admission to the Jail and have
Duestrow assign his body to Simon.
When the notary tried it, however,
he met with a severe rebuff. He
COuL0 hOb 0CSuAO GOhioS1OA W bhO
Jail. The deputies turned him down
and the sheriff stood by.
Col. Amos Maupin devised a plan to
secure the same end. He held that the
Union Trust Co., as guardian of his
property, was also custodian of his
body. He wired Gov. johnson in St
Louis to see President Madill and have
him claim the body.
Meantime Simon went to work on
another line. He got hold of Coroner
Miller of Franklin county and pre-
vailed upon him as coroner to order a
port mortem. DIR. Miller had de-
termined to do so when he received an
urgent summons to go 25 miles into
the country to perform a surgical
operation. He left Immediately and
Simon was again defeated
At IL o'clock a telegram was received
by Eberle from DR.. Schott, the Dues
trow family physician, instructing him
not to embalm the body, but to bring
it to st. Louis. DIR. Schott has great
influence with Hulda, and this is taken
as settlement of the question.
LAY OF EXCITEMENT AT UNION.
Union has not seen such day since
the war. All the excitement of the
trials of the great criminal whose fate
was sealed on the gibbet was eclipsed
in the closing scenes.
But it was a different kind of ex-
element. 1t was suppressed. The
heated anger of argument was miss
ing. Men knew that the laws will
was to be done, that it was all but
over, and they came trooping into
town from all directions as soon as
the sun was up.
The day was beautiful. The sun
shone brightly. The gravel roads of
Franklin county were dry and hard.
1t was great luck for the honest farm
ers who wanted to see the murderer
die.
BY 10 o'clock the streets were
thronged. Around the courthouse
square were horses and mules, some
saddled, some not. Wagons of every
description were massed about the
corners. The saloons were full. The
| Jail was surrounded. The mob stood
| quietly in front of it, staring up at the
barred windows, waiting for the end.
Duestrow, up to the last, refused
any ministrations of religious nature
replying to all advances in that direc-
ton: Its against the army regula-