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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: SEPTEMBER 10, 1876.
THE DAYTON' HANGING.
A Horrifying Scene Upon
the Scaffold—Tlie Rope
Breaks and the Con
demned Falls to
the Ground.
The telegraph has briefly related
? he particulars of the hanging at
Dayton, Ohio, of James Murphy for
the murder of Col. William Dawson.
We append further particulars of the
horrifying event which took place
upon the gallows as printed in the
Sheriff Patton must in great
measure be exempted from the blame
of this cruel blunder of having a rope
too small to sustain the weight of a
man falling three and a half feet . He
accepted the advice of Sheriff Sher-
rard, of Putnan county, Ohio, who
had experienced the pleasure of
hanging five man, and selected a rope
against his better judgment, small,
in order that it might slip more easi
ly in the hangman’s knot. Indeed,
Sherrard told one of the reporters
present that he would assume the re-
sponsibility of censure. In justice to
Cincinnati Gazette
At half-past one o’c’ock Deputy j him it may be said that he tested the
Sheriff Charles T. Freeman opened rope with his own body, and he
the door leading to the murderer’s
room and cried out: “ Time’s up,
Jim; the sheriff want you.’’
« All right,” said the doomed man
in a voice almost cheerful.
And then with a firm and unfalter
ing step, with his arms pinioned be
hind him at the elbows, lie mounted
the staircas? and stood upon the scat-
fold. lie was preceded in the ascent
by Sheriff Patton and Fa’her Mur
phy, and followed by Deputy SherfPs
II el higgle, Freeman and Tomlinson
and Dr. Crum.
Having taken a jwjsition in front of
the trap, the condemned was urged
■,o speak. lie did not seem at first
so disposed, but being urged and
prompted by bis spiritual advisors,
briefly confessed the murder.
Murphy then stepped backward
on the fatal trap, and Sheriff Patton
drew from his pocket the death war
rant. In a voice tremulous with
emotion and eyes suffused with tears,
he said : “ It is my solemn duty to
execute upon you the sentence of the
court.” lie then read the death
warrant.
After reading the warrant Sheriff
Patton advanced and, taking Mur
phy’s hand in his own,said: “James,
I must bid you farewell. God bless
you!’’
After Deputy Sheriff Freeman had
bandaged the doomed man’s logs,
and Deputy Tomlinson had adjusted
the boose andpulled over his head the
b’ack cap, Father Murphy read the
last service of the Catholic chinch
Sheriff Patton stood with his foot on
the lever, ready to launch the critni-
nal into cteruity at tJU^ cojidusion of
The ^ e,K "
ii§ fate
Crfihle rel
ot tqe
sponsibility the law required him to
assume, hut he did not falter. Mur
phy held in his right hand a gilt
crucifix, which he put to his litis.
The last words scare ly concluded,
the trap sprung, and James Murphy,
instead *of being launched into the
other world, was landed on the floor
at the feet of the physicians.
The fiail hempen rope, only three-
eights ot an inch in diameter, snap
ped under the great strain of a fail
i f three and a lialfieet, and the body
♦>f the half strangled man fell to the
floor, feet foremost. In falling back
ward bis head struck one of the
swinging traps a heavy blow, and he
'fell squarely upon his back. For al
most a minute lie" lay completely
motionless, while Dr. Crum examin
ed his pulse and endeavored to ascer
tain whether the neck was broken.
At the expiration of that time Mur
phy crossed his feet, one over the
other, gave a loud groan, and return
ed to consciousness, His pulse was
heating at 120 per niinntc. The
black cap was still drawn over his
f.tce, but ho said, in a voice loud
enough to be heard by those around
ldm, P Oh, God ! must I lay here f"
A moment later, seemingly impatient,
l.e said, “ Is there any doctor here to
loci my pulse?’* Another moment,
and he broke out with, “ Say, don’t
believe me dead, :md leave me lay
ing here; father, I ain’t dead.”
Again, •• No use my laying here and
suffering; somebody kill me.” And
lastly, “ Oh, my God! don’t leave
me here in misery.” Then he was
quiet.
Tho crowd in the corridor were
slow to realize the situation, bat when
they did there was great excitement.
Tt was with much difficulty they
could be restrained from breaking
throngh the frail barrier of black
muslin which separated them from
tl.a suffering man, and only the
strong guard of police prevented it
claims to weigh 175 pounds, and the
night before it had been tested with
a keg of nails, weighing about 110
]>ouiids, which it fully sustained.
Sheriff Patton was not altogether
satisfied with the small rope, and,
for fear of accidents, had prepared a
heavier one, with a hangman’s noose
at each end, and long enough to
wind twice around the beam, thus
making a doable rope, as well as a
double noose. This was left for con
venience in the doomed man’s room,
and could not he found at once.
After a delay of six minutes and a
half, the badly wounded man was
borne on the arms of six men to the
scaffold, and sustained by them
while both nooses were adjusted.
As the sheriff was about to spring
the trap, Murphy suddenly seized
Deputy Sheriff Freeman by the coat
lapel, with the grip of death, exclaim
ing, ia a frenzied voice: “ What
are you going to do with me?” all
this time, including that in which he
lay on the floor, Murphy still held
clasped in his right hand, with the
grip of a vice, the little gilt crucifix
which he had kissed before his first
fail. An effort was made to break
liis hold on ill ■ deputy’s coat, but
force failed. Father Murphy advan
ced and addressed him as “ My poor
child,” requested him to let go.
“ Let go like a man,” said the liev.
Father. “ I will,” said the condemn
ed, and his hold relaxed, although In
still retained the crucifix. Murphy
was unable to stand, and while in
}io;itum for his second fall was sus
tained by the hands of Deputies
Hellriggle and jFreeuian at'Times'
kogtle TlicytCOuld not bold Un long
Old Saying in Rhyme:
As poor as a church-moose;
As thin as a rail;
As fat as a porpoise,
As rough as a gale;
As brave as a lion.
As spry as a cat;
As bright as a sixpence,
As weak as a rat.
As proud as a peacock,
As sly as a fox;
As mad os a march hare,
As strong as an ox;
As fair as a lily,
As empty as air;
As rich as a Croesus,
As cross as a bear
As pure as an angel,
As neat as a pin ;
As smart os a steel trap,
As ugly as sin;
As dead as a door nail,
As white as a sheet;
As flat os a pancake,
As read as a beet.
As round as an apple,
As black as oar hat;
As brown as a berry,
As mean as a miser;
As blind as a bat,
As full as a tick;
As plump as a partridge,
As sbaro as a stick.
A Farmer’s Wife.
As clean as a penny,
As dark as a pail ‘
As hard as a millstone,
As bitter os gall;
As fine as a fiddle,
As clear as a bell;
As dry as a herring,
As deep as a well.
As light as a feather,
As hard us a rock;
As stiff as a poker,
As calm as a clock;
As gre n as a gosling,
As brisk as a lice;—
4tnd now let me stop,
Lost you weary of me.
—[ Bottom Gazftte.
Photographing the Baby.
They came at 10 a. in., I says the
Omaha Jiej/ublicun— the baby, his
grandmother, his papaand mamma and
• wo aunties. They wanted to have his
picture taken. The obliging artist got
everything ir. readiness, brought out
the little velvet-lined high chair, in
which babies are generally photo-
tographed. and then the trouble began.
The babv’s papa wanted to take off its
sack, l>ec:ui-e it had such pretty fat
arms, hut its nmmma was afraid that it
might take cold. Then one auntie
thought it would be so sweet to take
off his little stockings and sit him in a
big arm ebair, but his other auntie
thought that such a pert£r«p£qB£ would
est'i.i
iu this ]M>sition, and without further
delay Sheriff’Patton sprung the dead
ly trap. Doth nooses firmly clutched
the already wounded throat, and the
body of James Murphy dangled in
the air. For a minute he made no
motion. Then he drew his legs up
convulsively a number of times and
again remained quiet. Five minutes
afterward there were several more
convulsive throbs and then the body
hung limp, and to all appearances
dead. the
At five minutes after the last fall,
which occured at 1:41 o’clock, the
pulse of the dying man indicated
eighty-four pulsations per minute;
at the expiration of fifteen minutes,
sixty pulsations, and at the expiration
of fifteen minutes a faiutly percepti
ble flutter. In seventeen minutes
the stethoscope failed to find any
motion of the heart, and James Mur
phy was dead. His neck was broken
by the fall.
Poor, Pooh Man.—“Have you
any old clothes, mum, as you could
give a poor man who has a sick wife
and six small children to support?”
inquired a dilapidated person, last
Saturday, at the door of a High
street residence.
“ I’ve got a coat with but three
buttons gone, and a pair of pants
that have had but a small patch be
hind, which I guess you can have,”
said the good woman, after she had
examined her closet.
“ Is the coat double-breasted with
a velvet collar ?” inquired the poor
man.
“No, sir?”
“ Arc the pants of a plaid pattern
and cut with spriug bottoms of
twenty-two inches ?”
“No, sir?”
“Then, I guess you needn’t trot
’em out,” said the poor mau. “They
ain’t my style, and I doa’t want ’em.”
—Free Press.
very
flict seemed imminent.
Finally it was agreed that they
should take the artist’s advice and strap
him up in the high chair. After much
ringing of bells the baby was induced
to look witli favor on the new state of
affairs. The artist prepared to take
the negative, hut just at the critical
moment the infant doubled himself
across the strap and screamed lustily.
His papa jingled the bells anew, the
artist set the music box going, while
mamma drew him out of his chair,
and his auntie called him a “ putzy
uxty ittle sing.”
Peace being restored, another nega-
ative was taken, this time with tolera
ble success. Gut one auntie did not
like the expression of the face, and the
mamma thouht that it did not do
justice to his eyes. The next time he
stuck both fists into his mouth and shut
one eye; and the next time his
grandma, who had tieen watching him
iuteutly, ran hastily forward and began
shaking him and slapping him on the
back.
It was twelve o’clock, and the ther
mometer stood at ninety-eight degrees
in the shade, and the artist ground his
teeth and looked to see how far it was
from the window to the sidewalk.
Three or four more unsatisfactory at
tempts were made, and at last the
baby, who had beeu taken out of the
chair so many times, and was not prop
erly secured, slipped down on the floor
with a thump. A grand hubbub fol
lowed ; everybody screamed ; the timid
auntie fainted, and the papa swore;
while the trembling artist, fearing for
his life, secreted himself behind a
screen in the corner, where be waited
until he was sure that no bones were
broken, and then he came forth, saying
that he had been suddenly called down
stairs to see a man.
He was so much relieved on being
told that they would not try again that
day that he forgot to live up to his
rules and demand “ pay when the neg
ative is taken.”
Matilda Fletcher thus describes a
former's wife, who is not only beauti
ful and wise, but possesses several
cardinal virtues in addition : “ The
most beautifel woman I have ever
known was a former’s wife, who at
tended to the household duties for a
family of four, and also assisted in
gardening and the light form work;
and yet, I never saw her hands rough
and red; I never saw even a freckle
on her nose. Impossible! you say;
how did she manage ? I never asked
her, but she had some envious neigh
bors who went slouching around
with red, scaly hands, sunburnt faces,
and their hair matted with dust and
oil, who let me into the dreadful se
cret. They informed me with
an ominous shake of the head
that she was the proudest minx that
ever lived";* that she actually wore
india rubber gloves when she used
tlfc broom and scrubbing brush and
always when she worked outdoors;
that she had a bonnet made of oil-
silkiMCompletely covering the bead,
face and neck, leaving only apertures
for seeing and breathing, thus secur
ing perfect freedom from sun, wind
and dust. Did you ever hear ot such
depravity? She also fastened her
dish-cloth to a stiek, so that she need
not put her hands in hot water. For
the same reason, she accomplished
her laundry work with machine and
wringer. And then to see her in the
’afternoon tricked out in a fashionable
white dress, with a bright-colored
ribbon at her "throat, and a rose in
her hair, entertaining in the parlor,
as though she was the greatest lady
in the land, was more than their pa
tience could endure. And her hus
band ? He had such a satisfied ex
pression, that it was a perfect aggra
vation to ordinary people to look at
him. He deserved to be happy be
cause he encouraged and helped her
to cultivate beauty in herself, her
family, and her home; and I don’t
know but her success principally be
longed to him, because lie brought
all the new inventions that could
lighten her labors, and all the deli;
cate and pretty things she needed to
adorn lier borne; and when she was
-eick,.lu»~w<Mil«lu*lt. 1^-^pir.tonrli
iiislie was well and sti
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NO DRONES
THE STORE
S. G. DOBBS.
EVERY MAN WORKS, PRINCIPAL AND
The undersigned having just returned from %
NORTHERN MARKER
.With a full and varied stock of every description off;,,.
BOUGHT AT LOW AND PANIC PRicij
Consisting in part of
50 Barrels Sugar, 50 Bags Ri«
200 rolls bagging,
1,000 Bundles Iron Cotton Tj
16,000 POUNDS FLOUR, 16,000 POUNDS 1L\C0N
4,000 lbs. Hemlock Sole Leather, Upper Leather & Harness
100 BOXES TOBACCO, ASSORT^
200 SACKS SALT,
1,000 Pair Hand Made and Northern Brog-nSb
200 Kegs Assorted Nails, 20 bales Factory Thread, Siijai
Cured Hams, Leaf Lard, Boots and Shoes, Kerosinc
Oil, Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Hats, Caps,
READY MADE CLOTHIN
Crockery-and Glassware, Saddlery and Harness, Cotton, llonij
and Jute Rope, and various other articles too tedious to
mention, all of which he offers to the trade of Athens
and the surrounding country ior cash,
Cotton and Country Prochi
At as low or lower prices than can be bought in the State of (i
gia. He makes a specialty of looking after country merchants
wish to buy goods to sell again. He offers goods to the job
trade generally and guaranties satisfaction.
sep 12-3 til
S. C. EQBE3
until sue was well and strong.**'
Trouble on his Mind.
Fritz ha? had more trouble with
his neighbor. This time, lie deter
mined to appeal to the majesty'of the
law, and accordingly consulted a le
gal gentleman. •
“ IIow vos dose lings,” he said,
“ veil, a valaro’s got a garden und
dcr odder valare’s got some shickcns
eat um up. Don’t yon got some law
for dot?’’
“Some one’s chickens been de
stroying your garden?” asked the
lawyer.
“ Straw iu mine garden ? Nine, it
vos vegetables.”
“ And tlie chickens committed
depredation on them ?’’ *•
“ Is dot so ?” asked Fritz, in aston
ishment.
“And yon want to sue him for
damages?” continued the lawyer.
“Yaas. Gott for tamages, und
der gabbages, und der lettuges.’’
“ Did you not notify him to keep
his chickens up ?”
“ Yaas, I did nodify him.”
“ And what did he say ?”
“ He nodified me to go to haal,
und wipe mine shin down off mine
vest.”
“And he refused to comply with
your just demand?”
“ Hey ?”
“ He allowed his chickens to run
at large?”
“ Yaas. Some vos large und some
vos leedle valares, but dey bos scratch
mine garden more as der seven dimes
eech.”
“Well, you want to.sue him?”
“ Yaas, I want to sue him to make
vone blank fence up sixdeen feet his
house all around vot dcr dam slack
ens don’s got over.” .
The lawyer informed him he conld
not compel the man to build such a
fence, and Fritz left in a rage, ex
claiming :
“Next summer time I raise slack
ens too, you bate. I raise fightint
slackens, by tami! Yipe off your vest
down.”
Premium
Barker
\
Sliop.
Polite, Skillful and Accommodating.
II Select School tor Boys
. will be opened at
Athens, Georgia,
Monday, October 2d.
By H B. Brumby. A. M. M. D.
The number of pupils will be limited, and
none will be received for a shorter period than
one term, nor admitted later in that term than
the beginning of its second scholastic month:
Most of the places having been engaged,
Parents or Guardians, who may wish to secure
the remaining places for their sons or wards, will
please make application as early os practicable
to any of the following gentleman (who will be
patrons of the school.)
Dr. J. S. Hamilton, R. L. Bloomfield, S. C.
Dobbs, S. Thomas, Wm. J. Russell, Dr. H. A.
Lowraucc, F. Phiuizy, M. Stanley, J. W. Nick-
olson. . septia-lm.
New Novels!
Cripps, the Carrier. A Woodland Tale—by
R. D. Blackmore. Illustrated, 75c.
Rose Turquand—by Ellice Hopkins, 50c.
A Family Tree-by Albany DeFonklanque, 75c
My Slater’s Confession—by Miss M. E.
Braddon, 50c.
Hidden Perils—by Mary Cecil Hay, 75c.
A Narrow Escape—by Annie Thomas,75c.
Geier Wally—A Tale of the Tyrol—by Wil
ly—J
helmlne Von Hillern, 50c.
Heavy Yokes—by Janet H. Hardeman, 75c.
Coinin’ thro’ the Rye—a Novel. 76c.
A Star and a Heart—by Florence Marryatt, 50c.
Left Handed Elsa—from Blackwood, 85c.
Carter Quarterman—by Wm. M. Baker—with
illustrations, 75c. For sale at
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University of Gcor^
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
THE SEVSHT7-SIZTH '
WILL open on October f jUrt T
with i >
Tuitto i
$35 i
and $40 on March 1st, 1877. . jv.j#!
Fiitv beneficiaries admitted tre-
mic Do inrtment. . . gD
The State College of AgriW ^^i
.Mechanic Arts forms a part of t..
and opens on October 4tb.
Free scholarship* in the I
granted to as many students, . as*!*;!
as there are membersof the (, ! I ’, r ter ,a<e I |
The Law School opens, thefi^t , t(I0 j|
third Monday in August; the «*** fit
the third Monday in February to j, & I
$60 per term. Instruction snow ^ ■
branch of a liberal and P rof f s i 1 5im fit I
Good board may be bad at 1 I
month. For catalogue^cte^ I
Secritno-ori^l
8Cptl2-tf.
Pin© C3aa»® s
To get a good Buggy
I will sell on Saturday mornm
Auction one good buggy in ext
Sole positive, terms cash. r
septl2-lt. A—-
T. A - ltEB ’
At the New Drtlg Store, Bread St.,
All work warranted 12 months.
septl2-tf.
has applied fir exemption o« £j£k*A
will nu* iinon the same at 1
will pass upon the same atw u ^
the 1st day of October 18S5 at; L
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