Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-04-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE "SAYINGS AND SCRAPS" OF A MURDERER. !elan Logue was executed at Downpabrick, Ireland, Thur Bay in last week, for the murder, in August of ahoy named Graham, by ph oting him. Before .. trial he made an attempt to escape from prison. ....sr his coolemnation he cried bit • erly. He spoke • eaven, and asked how the dead were awakened. one of the clergrmen he produced a sketch of his appends-1 to which were these lines— eras that sparkle with delight, Will mon be called off from the scenes of earth. • the 10.,1 of tio sketch there was a coffin drawn in !o!,r r r five inches in 1, ngth. In the coursed con. the Rev. Mr. Eager mentioned that, if he • • .aily,bot young Graham, perhaps he did not intend onmit murder. "Ah," was the immediate reply, di,' it, it was still murder and afterwards to', v.ll the significant statement, "11l not die with ice' "  • a interview Mr. Willis observed to him in his position, be should he dead to this world. hy, sir,' was the answer, "if anylgsly killed we would be hanged for it yet." The schoolmaster tried that he should have a new heart—not a ,t of limns. Lot a heart of flesh. "I have no heart .tone," sus the rejoinder; "I have a heart of aisl i 1 1 want a heart at all it's a heart of  one of the turnkey he obeerved in the count,' of ThurAday will be por ping day."  . .. • • C'""1"t was during the past few clays of his isited by h 4 brother, aunt, and Miter. The two r came first, and the interview was, on the part ern coadned man, cold and indifferent. There ihake hands, a few words of ordinary convertus, and, on the side of Logue, not the slightest rib. •4I of feeling. When the aunt was about to leave 11, she turned to him and said: "Well, what H.urder ; are you guilty" "I'm not," he lily. ` Then," she replied, "I go home Lt." One of the officers replied that sinners I endeavoor to get rid of their nine before leaving world. "There is no doubt of that," said the but I am not the murderer." iii,, interview brother was characterized by the same absence fls, had a total disregard for the awful aituation eh hewn,, placed. ipteimen of his composition we may give the rsr, entitled  - - .. 1 t ..0 of the Sayings end Scraps" of John Lnfee ,—" On i, -.1 Of A vril I will close my eyes on this unhappy Ii . I .1"1...1•1n i,j by tender parent.. In the nurture 04.,..,14111ti01i 1,1 the Lord, the unitary conviction of 1 ri,;... I,li the kidded in childhood, and the blessing. of '',re nore than renewed In the fleet pare of my cruel  servitude. I had then woe knowledge of various Mtinni. connected with the science, hut what a'tnowledge without the tear of (null An humble, igto -old man la much easier and better than A proud scholar, who studies all natural things, and knew. not himmull. The time will come when it will mole avail a man to have eubduedi ono lust than to hove known all impurities and all flexions. My prayer now ti—Whatever becomes of my body, Lord have mercy on my soul, and save it at the last." Amongst the many statements of the convict was one that he had been in Ituasia, and that he hail been originally led astray by soldiers. The culprit, when the time came for his execution, walked from his cell in the midst of four or five turnkeys. His face was pale, which might have been the effect of long confinement, and which gave him the appearance of one above the ordinary run of the labouring class. Ile walked fast and lightly, and ascended ths narrow staircase without any trepidation in his manner. His head was slightly bent, and as he walked up he once twirled his moustache. Everything heing in readiness, the condemned man, with a white bandage over his eyes, ascended three or four stone steps to the scaffold, and took his stand on the drop with the most perfect coolness. The hangman (who was the same that operated in the case of the man who was bun a few weeks since in Wexford) adjusted the rope round his neck. The executioner having asked him whether he had anything to say, he replied, "No, no." Instantaneously the bolt was withdrawn, and the unhappy man was launched into eternity.