Year: 1867

r Davy city missionary. None OF these gentlemen
made any impression on the culprit


NIGHT THE CONDEMNED.


Daring last night and evening the criminal sur
rounded by friends and relatives his surviving
the circumstances and appeals OF his spiritual
comforters he seemed TO be moro attentive than
To their repeated exhorations he bowed times with
somewhat Of fervor and humility; but when addressed
BY persons other than the attending cergymen he OK
pressed himself as having time TO attend then 10
admonitions whose results affect him In the life
beyond the grave Later in the day he yielded far more
the clergy abored patiently to prepare him for the dread
closing scenes Of his earthly career AZ six o'clock p
he seemed more fully . realize bis awful % position SIX and
was In measure depressed in spirits, his mind ap
. dws .n On tns ne scenes q meridian today HIS
throughout the night during which he slept but little
being restless and generally uneasy the night waved
70 the bars OF his cell He arose at an early
hour parook Of breakfast and again addressed himself
after rising he quiet and calm. but the longer he re-
NAMED awake the moro disturbed he evidently became
in mind


Shortly after nine O'Clock the military began 70 assems
ble and immense crowds Of people commenced to move
vous apprehension always attendant upon the formal
ties Of the hanging Of human being by the neck until
command OF Major George T. stesubursh. and the do
tachment OF police under general command Of Supertn


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forming in line at the county jail Ferry street. where


colossal crowd had early assembled 70 gratify their
jail structure, and especially the small grated win.
dow behind which the condemned felon was en-
and the police maintained excellent order and
kept the thousands Of highly excited people 10
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widespread and universal desire to witness the actual
execution Sheriff Cornell, whose preparations Of
the most admirable and, so far az possible, humane
character had issued tickets to about hundred and


fifty citizens TO witness the execution, who, under the
law, we're deputy sherins for the time being.


EXECUTION


of the criminal, which seemed towards the fatal mo.
meat to linger. OWING to unforeseen delays in
arranging, the details of the act but the personnel
attendance finally carried out In the most admirable
manner possible by Sheriff G. w. Cornell and his depu
ties At fifteen minutes past twelve Coon apparently
somewhat anxious TO have the ordeal over, sent
word through Chief Detective Hurlbut to sherIf Cor
fully ready and anxious to be hung. Hurry him
up" During the absence Of the messenger, Deputy
time. and found that It worked, as previously with
entire Tho at this time in the small but
crowded apartments was very striking Yesterday a
partition wall was removed to make room for the
numerous spectators, large majority OF whom stood in
the formerly occupied by Mrs. henrietta Robinson
the famed s'veiled Murderess," who convicted in
this city some years ago Of the murder Of Timothy


nngan and another person by the administration Of
the Sing sing State Prison. The crowd was now
anxously awaiting the appearance Of the doomed man,
and Tor this was Fssss he length @ as al
sion appeared the condemned taking his place under
the strong that to bear him hence, where he
was looked on from above by the Rensselaer, County
Board Of Supervisors, who had positions
the weights in the Jail garret, which
had been from three hundred and fty to four
hundred and fifty pounds Upon being asked by Sheriff
Cornell-who with great drmness, yet gentleness did
the OF execution In he had anything to say
why the sentence Of death should not be carried out
Coon gave affirmative nod, and then turned to Deputy
Sheriff Lare and held private conversation, the purp0rt
Of which that he could not better his by any
further remarks and left his statement to the world
stated is accepted total falsehood This conversation
closed, prayer offered by Rev. Mr. Slower, Al the
close or which the fatal trap cord instantly pulled by
Sheriff Cornell, aud tho murderer went up nstanta-
neousy and returned with terrific rebound BE died
in eleven minutes apparently with very little suffering
His neck broken, owing TO the knot slipping 70
the back part OF his head, death ensuing by srangula
tion. During the fearful ordeal he looked calm and
placid all the time previous TO the drawing Of the
black cap face The body cut down in thirty
inmates, Drs simmons and Hull pronouncing life wholly
extinct The cap removed tho face Of the dead convict
disclosed discoloraon and he seemed 70 have died
TRANQUILITY The remains were properly enclosed in
coffin and delivered to his friends for burial In
Petersburg, in this county, the place OF his nativity.
Is not believed that no experienced the slightest feeling
expressed he endeavored TO make his peace with his
Maker. Thus Hiram Coon, the woman slayer, met hrs
death, unperturbed, with great and strange outward
placidity but doubtless feeling that he had lived life
terrible that the efficacy OF Christian grace could do
little for him IN the way OF regeneration. His life and
his death are bat other well pronounced warnings to
the vicious and the wayward G