Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-09
GALLONS WILL NOT
MARK PASSING Of
MURDERERAF TER ALL
Pascal Hall Expects to Remain
Here to Worry Those Who
Testified Against Him

Long after the scaffold drop has
been sprung and Pascal Hall has APP
parently paid the laws penalty for the
highest crime against the State he will
still loiter way up amid the DINNER
shadows of the cells and corridors of
the Dauphin county jail.
Thus he may always and always
worry those who had anything to do
with sending him to the gallows.
That is Pascal Halls firm belief,
and that is the reason he does not
want to go to Heaven. If his spirit
goes winging into eternity he is conf
dent he cannot come back; II 1t re-
mains within the barred gray walls
of the prison 1t can annoy those he
considers his enemies all 1t pleases.
And this Is as Pascal Hall would wish
lit.
"Tier S." Murderers Row
Leaning against the bars of cell No.
-" on the sinister tier S." Pascal
Hall to-day told his reasons for not
caring so much for spiritual advice
and counsel of minister, and why he
doesn't want ito go"-and why he
thinks he is not going to go.
Some time between 10 o'clock in
the morning and noon of May 26 Pas
cal Hall will march down the steps
of the jail and out into the Jail yard
for the last time. A few minutes later
he will have paid the laws claim for
shooting Henry Slater, a fellow ne
gro.
But, as Hall himself said it
Yes, sab, but that JUS what they
can do with nah body. What they
does with it All don't know, nor don't
care. Fo' Ahm not COIN TO GO!
Then the typically Southern negro,
ignorant, unread. but cunning and
shrewd discussed his crime and trial
and declared bitterly that it wasn't
right for him to be hanged and that
they who spoke against him, had
lied" over and over again he de-
clared that he lis coming back"
The Return of Pascal Hall
1T amt right fo' them to take me
out there in that yard-and we'll, you
know. 1t amt right. An All don't
want to go. Fact is All amt goin.'
l did shoot Slater. But All didn't want
to do it-and it amt right for them
to go on the stand and say as how
All did.
But you've been convicted and the
laws penalty must be paid. Now
that you must go wouldn't 1t be bet
ter for you to realize it, don't you
want to go to Heaven"
mo. sah," the great-grandson of the
voodoo man of the South Carolina cot
ton fields grinned broadly and rolled
his eyes. mo, sab, All don't want to
go to no Heaven-cause if All do, All
can't nevah come back"
What will you do?"
Why, sab, All just come back
fact is sab, All amt a-goin' at all. All
m goin' to stay"
What for?"
And Then Watch 'em Go!
Well" vaguely. those that have
there in the yard, they'll see mel"
What will you do then? Chase
EN-?
Me, chase em? No, sah!" The
prisoner threw back his head and
laughed "Ah'll just stand there way
up in the shadows and just laugh and
laugh-and they'll chase 'emselvesu"
Hall says that sort of things rather
runs in the family, hat scheme of the
spirits of the Halls who have been
wronged and died and who come back
to earth to worry and worry those
who had treated them so shabbily on
earth.
Pascal himself was never bothered;
he wouldn't deliberately hurt anyone
not even a dog, he said. And be-
cause it amt right fo' to treat me so,
that is why All m going to never give
EN- no peace"
And so you're coming back?"
Comm back? No, sab. Cause Ah
amt a-goin'!"