The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-05-05

acceptable If they Coincided with the
accepted theory that hanging causes
an expression or horror but in this
case, where there was no slow and
agonizing strangulation, the body was
as fitted for view as any body could be.
The mans facial expression in life
as he stood on the gallows and as he
lay lifeless seemed proof of his hon
esty in the last words he utterd. Just
before leaving his cell and after thank
ing the sheriff and other officials for
what they had done for him and after
telling Sheriff Pryor he had no state
ment to make on the gallOws, he said
slowly and with more feeling than he
had at any time shown: 81 am going
feeling and knowing that 1 am all
right. Some day the world will know
ALL"
From o'clock until Van Horn was
hanged, Mr.. Bulgin was with him in his
cell. Meanwhile, the only persons who
saw him We're the formers brother,
John; Edward w. Thayer, one of Van
Horns attorneys, and DIR. II. B. Ware,
Mr.. Bulgins physician. Neither dur
ing this period nor previously did VAN
Horn show any sign of weakening.
He seemed a stoiC-well, he was, eX-
ternally," said Mr.. Bugin TO a Tribune
reporter after the execution, but he
was a man of the deepest and most
intense emotions"
HE SLEPT WE'LL.
Van Horn ate hearty supper We'd
nesday night and retired at 1890
o'clock. He slept soundly all the night
and had to be awakened at o'clock
yesterday morning. This he had re-
quested on retiring. To Henry w.
Lotus, one of the death watch. Van
Horn said he had slept we'll. While
he was dressing the conversation
turned to himself and he said to Lotus
that he did not mean to kill Mrs. West
colt. a statement he had made times
without number.
A tempting breakfast consisting Of
an orange, srloin steak. creamed po-
tatoes, coffee, cake, pickles and a relish
or two was brought to the cell soon
after o'clock and Van Horn ate heart
lily of it. Mrs. Cora Johnson, one of
the matrons, was in the cell when Van
Horn was preparing to eat, she made
some remark of sympathy and he said
in one breath that his position could
not be helped, there was no need for
him or any one else to worry and that
"he guessed he would begin with the
orange, as it was good for a mans
stomach in the morning and would
make him eat Well"
At $40 o'clock Van Horn dressed in
the suit of clothes he wore when he
was hanged. Mr.. Bulgin had arrived
meanwhile and thereafter nobody was
present except for a moment or two
the few persons already mentioned ana
Captain Warner, who at s o'clock be.
gan the last death-watch and who re.
manned near enough to the condemned
and the minister to respond 10 any
emergency that might arise.
The sheriff's jury, which made tn
| official return of the cause of death
| was composed of Charles +. Wagner
| DR.. 4. Kolb. Thomas ID. Van Osten
DR.. James Stein. Charles Neuls, JOIN
| Demuth, John Kaufman, F. l.. Terppe
Victor Koch, Charles Keller, Adam
Thompson. DIR. w. p. Kennedy. Thos
who witnessed the execution We're:
SAW THE EXECUTION.
| District Attorney John II. Jones
| County Detective Thomas Leyshon, Dl
r. Cushing Jones, DIR. q. f. Hin. Rev
| Thomas de Gruchy, Dr. Sitterly, p. j
| Casey, Peter Hahn, Recorder of Deed
| Fred. Warnke, Archie Brown. Mariol
Stuart Cam, Jacob Ritter, n. Hun
| Brock. James Riley l.. c, Bortree, Her
man Landau, Stephen Jones, Patrol
man Perry, Alex. Dunn. ir., John N
Corbett, Al, Rose, John Lewis, DIR. W
p. Kennedy, Harrison Gardner, o
Scott; Arthur Kelly, a. r.. Rogers
August f. Schneider, Councilman r.. ]
| Corcoran, of Pittston; Chief of Polio
| Joseph LOTUS, of Pittston; John
Skelly, William f. Erbe. A. II. Rayns
ford. c. ID. Wegman, DR.. Black, of tn
Iackawanna hospital; John f, Mar
nion, of Carbonate; Jury COMMISSIONS
Frank Dougherty, DR.. O. j. Marcy, D.
T.. Ziegler Bower A. V. Bower, II. 1
Reilly. Carbondale; p. a. Duffy, of Can
bondale; DIR Charles A. Zeller. of Da
ton; DR.. Morrison, of Philadelphia,
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