Year: 1877

and Koch were both locked up in the same
hearing it said and told 10 him SO often what 10 say
he finally concluded that 1t must be the truth, and he
swore to IT, Another witness who also swears be
saw at Roe's saloon Is Jonn Winnis; but his
story does not correspond TO the others Tor he was
not locked up with hcn and therefore his statement
did agree with Koch and Brown Now as for
Reuben Roe who swore that we were in his saloon on
the morning Of August 81, we also do not know
what TO make OF him or what his object was 10 say
II on that morning were IN his place, for nc
knows IN hls own mnd that u was not that morning we
In his place. tor we met there ON the mornhg oi
August 1, and not on August g. We do not say that
they have perured themselves but we 90 say thcy are
greatly mistaken or elso they nave some goDo %
for swearing against for as Roe now says ne KNOWS
more about this affair than nc Is Wiling 70 uis use,
although we cannot explain what motive or reason tney
had Tor swearing what they did; but we will leave 10
q Cod TO explain it tor u.s. and ec assured that he
viii do SO, but we cannot tell when and where u w
come TO light that we were not the guity parties
There can be nothing done for us, and thcn what VIII
the members OF the Court say Why tney would
merely say that II was accident which does not
occur every day aud for which We were not TO blame;
the jury found them guilty and we the
sentence according the law Now as tor Mr. McDer-
mlt. VIC hereby declare that he entirely mistaken
In the morning AS for j. s. Blanchard and ms family,
any one can see into their testimony, ior as ane
about eight O'Clock one evening by the light OF the
moon yet 1t proved clearly that the moon did not
rise on that night until alter eleven o'clock


II is useless to talk about their testimony, for 1.
Charles Oschwald, hereby say and swear that as sure
the whole OF the Blanchard family are %iilu
perjurers, and 10 save their own son they



Blanchard herself SAID TO Mrs Brock,
The mother OF the deccased--this IS what she
said, which Mrs. Brock Will testify to-''sister Brock,
Is IL not very singular that the death OF your son
saved my boy2" And that boy is now in the County
Jail on Two charges Of burglary, seli-coniessed
burglar, awaiting sentence. Now we come to Deborah
Duninorc. the coored lady, who was another witness
against us, who acknowledged on the witness stand
that she hal perjured herself


Now as for the witnesses for the deIencc--Ryan's
alb The State claims that the witnesses IN the Ryan
alib were rot reliable, but we think lhat they were
sitnhla thnn nm u he
there not one OF them that the State can say any
thing against only what was produced on trlal.
any OF them only Brady, who was confined
in the Essex County Jai! for SIMPLE
assault and battery. AS tor Mr.. Holmer, they could
not mpeach his testimony, although they trIed very
hard 10 I'M peach him, aud we cannot see how jury
tho other out Then as TO the Oschwad abb; that
looked upon as worthless, therefore u was
thrown aside But how is IL about The blanchard lam
iy? Could they not have sworn against me- U. Osci-
wad, for the purpose OF saving their son? And now
about Mr.. Brewer, the son-in-law Of the Blanchard
fam;lyy He is the that furnished the tools whlch
were used Tor committing the hat robbery TO winch
his brothern-law, j. ). blanchard. has pleaded
guilty And what was the OF Chief Mills
Swearing il was u small boy who brought the news Of
the tragedy to the police when he knew u
}. S. BlancnardY Now, when the learned
up the on the part oi the State,
he tried bring in his theory that he saw the mud on
the back fence in Oschwald's yard which he tired to
make the Jury believe there IRON the Sd day Of
August until the Sd day OF November and also stated





men, for 1t will be warning TO others. Now this IL
all we have TO say. We entirely innocent Ot any
part of this crime for which we are doomed TO Due,
and we feel innocence will come TO light some
time Our lives we're sworn away by wilful perjurers
anG the prejudice Of the press by misrcpresentlng u.s.
We very thankful 10 our counsel, or they ud all
that lay In their power 10 but II was a con-
spred arrangement from beginning to end They. the
State bound to hang us, mattor what evidence
was produced TO show our innocence


CHARLES H. OsCHwALD





soMK SINGULAR cnARAcrERIsTIcs


The thought that will rise uppsrmost in the mind
while contemplating statement characteristic is
that II It conceived and written by two guilty
one of whom had already suffered an odous punish
ment the only motive for it could be desire to mi
gate far possible the shame enailed by tho crmo
for which they had been sentenced to death This
would Indicate u sensitiveness and dclcacy Of
feeling with which few murdercrs have
been credited Each Of the doomed
in different way gave color TO this
hypothesis Oschwald met his fate, apparently at
least not with the stol!d Indifference often exhib-
tied on the galows but with the calm philosophy Of
man unjustly accused and unjusty shed who oud
afford look death calmly In tho face, because the
wrongs which ho suffered coequal with his
treunity His youth made such a doath scene all tho
more wonderful and its terrible outlines were all the
weird in contrast with the dying agones OF his
companion in misfortune. Whatever may have been
the ultimate of Ryans death, there 'can be
doubt that he broke down completely when
all hope gone and he brought face to face with
the grim monster. s'Was this simply coward,
who died from fear of death, did poison him.
self to escape the shame of the gallows?" the
question that erybody's lips yesterday morn
ing, and with it mingled aspiration that
was universal in It's utterance-"lf only these





behind this murder" 1t is the general impress
sion that other persons besides Oschwald aud Ryan
concerned in the double crime of August g. 1876,
and tho double episode OF yesterday has inspired
widespread regret that every circumstance attending
the crime not unravclled before the law
ecuted in all its dreadful potency.


RyAN's HouRs.


Tho story Of Ryans death is Of those terrible
citals which appeal to the imagination rather than the
experience Of men The physical sunerngs of his last
hours only family reflected in his mental agones.
When the cell in which he confined with Osch wuld
was first entered on Wednesday morning 1t was found
that hc was very Ill Nothing would rest his sto.
mach, but the presence OF poison not suspected.
Physical prostration, sCpernducea by the tear Of
DEATH was supposed to be the malaay from which he
suffered, aud In the evening the officers
at the jail sa.d it "ony his nerves."
and declared tnat stimulants had sooined
him and put him 10 sleep Later in
the night, however he was awake, and very
wide awake. The stimulants which tho doctors had
gwen him had kept him alive, but he was drunk, very
drunk. Brandy whiskey, champagne, ale lager beer,
had all been gwen HIM to drink, and as he drank he
cried for Death stood before him in ali its ter
rors and he not only drunk but madman Hc
tossed and rolled and raved Sometimes he would cry
that he might at be taken TO tho gaows and
in the next breath he would bog peousy Tor onothor
bottle OF Milwaukee lager" 1t was the delirium OF
despair, the ltful gusts OF blind passion in which
the longing for life and for death mingled anu
blended. The distorted images OF the widest
Imagination never conIured from The incantatons Of
Hecate anything SO dsordcred, unrcasoning
ag0nizng. BY turns his meanings were plalntvc and
terrible. His cries pierced the hearts even Of the Jer
sey constables who had been appointed 10 guard him
As lIsi cQuld luil ranch