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Brown’i Interview with his Wife.Okd John Brown had a last imervievvwiih bis wife, in lbs parlor of Capt. An* the day before hi* execution. -They spent four hours together.' He was' free from manacles. As it was feared she might furnish him a weapon, of poison, for self-destruction, she was searched by the jailor's wife, previously. The interview was av badness one. |{e bequeathed^-fifty dollars, and some presents to each of bis children, and three 'other persons; and the balance of bis property to hi? wife. She owns I a farm at North Elba, N. Y., where he desired her to remain. He'suggested that his body, with those of his sons, should be burned upon a pile of pine logs, and the ashes ta~ j ken to their-graves, as a* better, and less ex-«MMiT,e war. lie shook hands with bis wife—■ _ _ , _ ' ¥.» * 'vat parting, when she went lo Harper’s Ferry 31 to await tW lt;kiiw^.iu t*~- ***month*, and but.* -rarely for two or three years.1 | He Tinted each of his fellow prisoners the next morning, except Qazlett. lie.gave each a quarter doiiar, cautioning them against betraying tbeir friend#.oef7J
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Montrose Democrat
Montrose, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Dec 08, 1859
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