The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-12

giving him an account Of the hustle and
confusion. attended with the clanking
of irons, etc, throughout the morning,
and that I judged from these circun-
stances that other prisoners had ar
rived.
FOUR MEET THEIR DOOM.
He replied no and in soft and feel
ing manner informed me Of the eXecu-
ton of four of our number. l was
completely thunderstruck and amazed,
and felt within my own heart, from
expressions gained from Herold and
Payne during our joint incarceration,
that q fearful crime had been perpe-
trated by the United States govern
ment in the execution of an innocent
woman. That feeling has been verified
and her innocence has been publicly
proclaimed by thousands Of the leading
men, not only of this, but of other ma
TONS
A few days after the execution We
were all again allowed exercise in the
outer yard of the prison, which on en-
| tering forced us to be confronted by
| that huge machine of death, and lit
tie to the south side of it the eye rested
upon four mounds Of new heaped earth,
testifying the undeniable fact that be-
meath those cold and cherries hillocks
rested in the quiet sleep of death all
that but a few days before were life
and sensibility Day after day we con-
! fronted this scene, the scaffold re-
manning in all it's hideousness, involun-
tarily causing the eye to wander and
gaze upon the small mounds, marking
it's feast of death.
Every day we passed through these
evolutions, all anxiety to learn what
decision the court had arrived at in our
own respective cases. On the after
noon of July II we were summoned
separately to the presence Of General
Hartranft, the military custodian,
who was seated at the farther end Of
the yard, and the sentence of each was
made known, as found by the military
commission, failing, however, to dis
close the fact, and concealing from
each the sentence as modified by An
drew Johnson, President of the United
States.
ASSASSINATION AVENGED.
The military commission had fulfilled
its mission; the death of Abraham
Lincoln had been avenged, the public
cry for vengeance had been appeased,
and the longdrawn out trial, which for
two months had heaped fuel to the fire
to add to the public excitement, passed
out of existence and the nation at large
became pacified.
The midnight hour, which had been
set apart for removal in every instance,
was again resorted to, and we were 81
lently marched, double-ironed, to a
steamboat lying in the Potomac moor
ed at a wharf Each side of the wharf
was lined with armed sentinels and
soldiers, as we emerged from our pris-
on gates, and as we passed between
them on the way to the boat our clank-
ing irons in the solemn midnight SEEM
ing to pierce the vaults of heaven, cry
ing out to the living God for vengeance
on those who had traduced, defended
and victimized us, to satiate the public
cry for revenge.
On arrival on board the steamer
which was in waiting to: receive us we
We sWiftly conveyed down the river,
to 1t destination was unknown. On
the Afternoon Of July IS we arrived at
Fortress Munroe, when we We're trans
ferred from the steamer to a small tug
boat, thence, under heavy guard, to the
gunboat Florida. Captain Budd, COM
handing. The irons hadt been removed
temporarily from our wrists and shac-
killed. about our feet we were compelled
to ascend the ladder to the deck of the
gunboat, where the entire crew Of sea
men stood about gazing in mute Won
der. On landing upon the deck of the
gunboat Capt. William H. Dutton, in
charge of the guard, directed that the