New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-28

at Police Headquarters before he was brought to
Abraham H Hummel said:
ated 7ntense 3e scrsrbe for tickets
among those with political influence Jam on the
overlooking tenement roofs, where standing space
was at d premium bulletins in front OF the news VS.
moose had Completed its work There was great
connection among the evening papers for early
az execution fb o dn Te he conveyed to Print
ing House Square before the reporter detailed -
write the main story able 10 leave the Tomos
when there we're no teIepho1 IS and when a trip
to Harlem involved tedious journey on slow
Crowds around the old ,Tonbs on hanging days
Jack Sheppard, Hundreds hocked to the scene.
blocking the thoroughfares and pouring through
old Hudson River freight depot in Frankliil-st and
making festal occasion of the death struggles OF
convicted wretches The open sesame 10 the s III,
terror courtyard where the hangnlan perIoiIhbS,i
his hideogs work. was slip Of paper s!sned 9y
for that particular day to assist % in the
cuton of the condemned -,
after the passass Of the law for death By, cleo, lee,
tricity. Seven convicted under The old law
simultaneously launched into eteri :ty to make
memora bile the final work of the salloWs IN w
Simplest kind and Could be put up or pulled down
at the shortest notice cTosS9ei 81 on the
other to jerk the condenned from his feet aEd 20
suggested but were not adopted for as me Taraf b
grlGE put it, no one who ever tried the 'o'"O'
After the Colt case and in January. 1S55 came the
sensational murder of Harry Lazarus. son OF lzzy
prize ring champion. portly. well Sroonleu
fellow who kept English public house that was
a great resort for puSists. Friery- who was 3iE
nineteen years old. with ccwardiy braEado dellneE-
ately plunged a knife. without word of warming.
killing him. Frierys CONVICTION was the first Plunnlv
in the of Cunning S. Bedford. atterWard CITY
judge. as a prosecutor.
Frierys crime quickly forgotten in the ex-
in Gsrepu5ab 5t res 52 by Young err
The "carhOok' murder of April % 1871 completely
engrosssd public attention for weeks William FoS-
had taken offence because his gances cast tow
ARD the fe of Avery ID. Putnam while they were
her. and. Selling of the hooks used by street
drivers take their horses from one end OF the
him II money alone could have saved him. EOS.
would have gone free. Rich himself he had a
powerful and wealthy family 10 aid him. put az
the efforts to him unavailing and he dleo
the gallOws.
Edward s Stokes more fortunate, after
long legal struggle. during which he was the most
old prison He convicted OF murder In the hrSt
degree December 10. 1872, before Supreme Court
J 9sce Boardman. Within three days OF the time
set for the execution, StOheSS counsel. Lyman u
Tremaine. obtained a stay from Judge Noah Davis:
of the Supreme Court. The conviction was reversed
ground of the judges charge. and
Stokes then convicted Of manslaughter IN the
third degree and State prison for four years
"Chastine Cox negro, was one of those VINO
died the galows in the courtyard, after attract
ing vast attention. On June II, 1879. he killed Mrs.
Jane De Forrest Hull in her residence in West
Forty -second-st. He had stolen her jewels and
bound her in her bed Suspicion at the outset was
directed toward her husband. who cleared himself.
but until after CoXs arrest. Cox was traced by
the stolen articles and finally captured
through the astuteneSS Of a Boston newspaper
man named BaIch
Although his victim was of humble circum-
talked-of murderrrs I'm the 'Sis. he had been
known the leader OF the Whyo gang. which had