The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-28
.rer Of Wife and Children Paid
the Penalty.
CORPSE DRAPED IN U. S. FLAG
None Might Look on His Face
After Death.
BODY HAS BEEN BURIED
Gave Written Statement to n
Reporter Before He Went TO
the Scaffold.

hin, Texas. May 27.--Eugere Burt, the
and child murderer, paid the penalty
crime or the scaffold at HIS this
ug. LifeN"~s extinct in eleven aud
minutes,N two minutes thereafter
Ody was cpN Avn and turned over to
ndertakers, obedience to a re-
by Burt setptureeys ago, covered his
With UniAnothetes flGg and per-
no one to SO Notcs.ce. The remains
buried in " cemetery ct
Aock this evenih,
" 27.-1l
ben bis cell door wa F.. Chez, five min
before the hanginad and IEalked out
put being called andu with 1.-THE seat
With steady step airy orderstraight to
trap Before pinioniifs W arms and
|, Sheriff White asked If he hal
ping to say, and he Ndefed: eyes, l
only word to say: With the excep-
Of the disgrace, this lis the happiest
Fsnt Of my life"
stood erect on the trap, with heal
an back aud arms hanging naturally
sb being tied, and, glancing at the crowd
fcut 100 people who had been admitted
fliness his departure, remarked to the
vi; This is larger crowd than /
tted."
ere was no hitch whatever in the pro-
flgs' The lever and trap worked
0nly and the drop broke Burt's neck.
dlec without making any confession,
Inc very last manifested absolute in
renee as to his fate and refused to re-
me benefits of religious ministration.
4 apparently spent quiet night, but
sNsAe at o'clock this morning. AT
4 ne began to make preparations for
'"asl Pulling up his coat collar he
~ 70 the death watch and remarked
w was getting chilly; then with
smile said: 1t is early for me to be
'ns cold" He made slight attempt
'.ssnng his face, but soon desisted, with
"a ,'nef remark that somebody else
i ue washing him before long and
/, ISSUES, he would be washed in the
~ me Lamb before so - long"
,f.,, lii having been completed to his
lssoh' he partook freely of a hearty
''ss' supplied by Sheriff White.
uisht Burt called for pen and paper
.'O'e long document. and this morn
1a''ns sent for County Clerk Hornsby.
! " the contents thereof before that
!, WIG newspaper men had been adj
], !. 70 the Jail, he handed the document
- EDITOR smoot of the Statesman,
'1e following injunction. after that
'.lan had promised TO observe it: II
Il atteh document in my pocket
We, supplemental to the long state
ono printed from me the other day.
me- =, NOW have is simply explanatory
70, hss l saii in the other. | viii
w. 'nls statement signed and sworI
,oss WI comply with the conditions
ca,r IN other words. you must give
prir, "ord OF honor as a man that you
ta,sle IN the regular edition cnly Of
4 ~ tomorrow morning, and not
4 arn puollcation in any extra edition
y hon hon Further, that you win per-
~ s. being e, sec the statement
nrins publication, except the nsces-
o. ss ! make this discrimination
ola or give you the document and
!, from others. for two reasons.
II S "e OF our personal friendship
ina ,auoh, the other IL because Of
iatment you have accorded me
rave been in jail"
~ ai'Hr his first trial Burt hal
yis brain to DR.. Joe wocten fer
j purposes, but Few DAYS ago
!. us mind and refused TO make his
II sSod, giving as reason that the !
~ ae'coi would be featured by the |
IA he modification of his brothers.
{ II. eady suffered enough humilia-
refused ~ talk TO newspaper