Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-01-10

hanging had taken place, EXCEPT
scores Of persons vending their wav
toward Calve.t street, expecting
that it would be held at later
hour in the morning.
Many hardly believed that ii was
all over. In fact several doubting
ones actually went into the iaiI
| yard 20 see if the gallows had been
4 torn down. There was no untoward
incident in connection with the
hanging, as Sheriff Beaslev took
double rrecaution to see that order
was preserved, although il was not
expected that many persons would be
on hand, owing to the fact that the
hour fixed for it bad beel given but
little publicity. However, the Sheriff
notified all members of the citv no.
lice force to be on duty in the vicinity
of the Jail premises, in addition to
the score of special deputies employed
especially for the occasion.
In the Circuit Court room at the
Court House last night a religions
service was conducted in behalf of
| the condemned murderer by Rev. N.
N. Carroll, pastor of Asbury M. E.
Church, colored. The choir OF the
church was also in attendance. He
Joined in the service and the singing
of several hymns. Jacobs voice
plainly bespoke nervous excitement.
and times he gave way to tears.
The officials did everything pos
sible to calm the murderer in the
| closing hours Of mis- fife, telling him
that his every want would be attend
ed to, and that he would be given
anything be wished to eat. But Jacobs
ats little of anything last night. 1t
was late when he retired in the cell
room of the Court House, and he was
restless throughout the night. But
he arose early and began to dress
himself for the ceremony that would
shortly take away the spark of his
| life.
Like all other murderers, he was
clothed in neat black suit, with white
shirt ani collar and small black
tie. Jacobs was visited by che Rev.
Carroll just before be was driven to
the scene cf the execution.
Instead of being consigned to the
Potter's Field Jacobs body was
claimed by one of his brothers who
lives at Elvator station, on the Short
Line Railway, and the county author
tiles had it sent there on the ii
O'Clock car this morning.
Jacobs was small man, weighing
\ about l35 pounds, and his general ap-
pearance was not that of the average
criminal. He was of the brown skin
type and was "a years old.
The crime for which Jacobs gave
his life today was committed last
September at Rock Creek, ia the
Third district. His victim was John
Brooks, another colored man, whom
he killed with a shot gun. Jacobs
and Brooks had been enemies of long
standing, it is said, and the killing of
Brooks was the elimination of that
old feud.
1t was on Saturday afternoon
that Jacobs, while returning from a
gunning expedition stopped by the
house of Brooks, along the roadside.
He saw Brooks outside of the house
and walking toward him, shot him
down, almost without warning. The
first load of shot, apparently, did not
kill Brooks instantly, so Jacobs fred
again into his enemy's body. Jacobs
made no attempt to escaps, as he was
captured at his home a few hours
after the shooting.
That the hanging today was attend
ed by such unusual circumstances was
due entirely to the fact that a new
county jail is being erected on Cal
vert street, and since bis conviction
before the Circuit Court in October
last, Jacobs has been incarcerated in
the Baltimore city jail. The demoli-
tion Ct the old jail building presented
an unusual situation for an execu-
tion, and for time there was some
question as to where it would take
place.
One of the early suggestions made
by Sheriff Beaalev was to have it In
an old tobacco barn on Fourth dis,
t=ict farm. This, however. met Will
almost general disapproval, and it wai
finally agreed tnat the ceremony
would be made quite private by tn,
construction of a high temporar,
board fence about the jail yard. AT
the Sheriff deemed it the wiser cours,
to bring the murderer to the cit.
last night, instead of this morning
and this rendered the plans for th'
early morning hanging more effective