The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-02-27

face and groaned:
IT know I've got to die" he said,
with trembling lips. Several times he
repeated it, and the silent guards, all
stern believers in his moral RESPONSE
bility for his crime, felt a wave of pity
for the unfortunate man. krekel drew
close to him and tried to comfort him.
He seemed to rally as he heard the
words of sympathy.
Brace up, man." said the guard.
You say you are a soldier; stand it
like a soldier"
"Oh, l can't do it." moaned Dues
trow, and again the tears flowed.
ANOTHER RALLY.
In a few minutes the came another
rally. He seemed to grasp at a hope
within himself, found, perhaps, in
some thought of his attorneys Won
derful resources. With it there was
a 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. l 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.
II 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
vas lot my fault. 1t was something
! ,-;tb,, 49, +lot ,,aja mo L. - -,,
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 Il telegram to the
lawyer. Clark Brown, one of the
guards, got him some paper, and he
wrote this message:
GOV. CHARLES 2. JOHNSON, ST LOUIS,
Mo-: l am in a predicament. Intercede with
Gov. Stephens for me Immediately. 1 now
need your advice. Twas insane, but it did no
good. Ihave nothing left but hope of forgive
ness. y. F. W. BRANDENBURG."
Sheriff Puchta took the telegram
and put ii in his pocket, promising to
send it, but he did not. With this last
again on his cot and continued weep
ing.
FIGHTING o THE BODY.
Undertaken George J. Eberle, of the
firm of Eberle & Reyes, arrived in
Union Monday night, with a letter
from Hulda Duestrow to the sheriff.
1t asked him to turn the body over TO
Mr.. Eberle.
DR.. John II. Simon, one of the ex-
perts for the defense during the trials
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-
TEN examination. 1t is still the firm
belief of the defense that Duestrow was
insane, and they hope to prove it by
an examination of the brain. He sig
nified this wish to Mr.. EberIe 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 couldn not be done success
fully.
Later in the morning the row over
the body developed into considerable
bitterness. DR.. Simon, seeing that
Eberle had the advantage, determined
to appeal to Duestrow himself. Percy
holland, Il brother of Charles L. No
land, had come with him to Union.
He is a notary public, and a scheme
was devised whereby holland was to
ecure admission to the Jail and have
Duestrow assign his body to Simon.
When the notary tried it, however,
he met with 4 severe rebuff. He
could not secure admission to the
Jail. The deputies turned him down
and the sheriff stood by.
Col. Amos Maupin devised a plan to
Union Trust Co., as guardian of his
property, was also custodian of his
body. He wired Gov. Johnson in ST.
Louis to see President Madil and have
him claim the body.
Meantime Simon ven to work on
another line. lie 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 II o'clock a telegram was received
by Eberle from DR.. Schott, the Dues.
trow family physician, in~structing 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 a settlement of the question.
DAY OF EXCITEMENT AT UNION.
Union has not seen such a 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 o as
the sun was up.
The day vas beautiful. The sun
shone brightly. The gravel roads of