Year: 1870

face, Just sucn an one as knaves would select for
they dure not undertSke Themselves His eyes are
never removed from the fragment OF the heavens
above him, not even when the good clergymen COM
gave II. The sheriff, whose every feature betrays
q disgust and o horror OF his terrible DUTY,
sSA' to say. ~. WITH Win his ' gaze stl turned tS
the sunlight over his az head .Ss Meyers; ~ sa1 In ma
ter than this and tnat all my sins are orgiveh
l want to say TO my friends that they must prepare
70 meet me, hope, IN heaven. ! want my name
hOn0red among my brethren, sisters and irlends. l
want Brother Ben. Mahon 10 preach at my grave
and Brother Corby to preach my funeral service at


Meyers then gently placed upon his feet and led
forward the trap where the cap is turned over MS
face.


THE DEADLY LOOP


Is placed about his throat and In another moment ie
~ standing alone upon the scaffolu The snerlii Oh
the top STAR OF the framework grasps long lever
MAY God have mercy upon my SOUL murInur5 %
voice from the solitary figure upon the platform,
ana at just twenty minutes past twelve there Is
rope becomes suddenly straight with the weight OF
lts human freight, spins around once or twice
choked out OF its mortal casket at the end
Of the hangman's cord The fearful work has been
Wen done and there is hardly motion to
the body. A few slight twtches OF the rapidly
whitening frame Is all, and 1t Is easily tnat the
ueath mas been painless one In ten minutes. Drs.
Van Dyke and Kellar approach the dangling figure,
and, applying the usual tests, announce that the
heart has not ceased TO pusate retire again. All
or this time the crowd without are howhng with
rage at beng bafi1ed OF the sight OF the CHASTITY
work, and at last they rush upon the guards. who
are Forced TO move on one side. Boards are ripped
from the pen. and those within the enclosure beat
hurried retreat The pulse and heart Of the pendant
man are then examined again, and life being pro-
nounced extinct, the body Is cut down and placed
IN the colin Just as the maddened crowd have
ripped away portions OF the pen and swarm inside.


Mr.. Cochran, the admirable clerk OF the circuit
court, is the only man who can govern the assem-
blage In the least and even he is only partially sue
ceSsful In queling their riotous Instincts. They
crowd around the cOt1ln and jest over the distorted
features OF It's inmate, ana, hooking upon the
sca1old, chop the rope into inch pieces, carrying
away the hempen trophy as reminders OF the Occa-
sion, while many OF them hang around
the gallows and amuse themselves for hours
in testing the workings or the lever bolt
and drop Thousands pressing around the
square outside, ciamOr defantly ior sight OF the
corpse and at last 1t Is shouldered by SIX stalwart
men, who are protected by the armed guards, and
carried up and down the street, to be gazed at by
men, women and little children The whole scene Is
one OF the most revolving that has transplred
In the criminal history OF America and Is a damn
ing disgrace to civilized country ana age Finally
the collin il taken to the outskirts OF the town. hun
dreds still stringng along behind It, the crowd not
queted until the horrid load Is placed in wagon
and driven rapidly away, To be turned over In the
evening to the relatives Of the deceased.