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M’KCIAI. aKSTINKM |over the city ut Washington. On the oven-Itntnf theiUhday of July Capt. Crawford received older* front (toll. Hancock to I port \vtiti n detail o( three hundred men J from the Uh regiment# fur picket duty ^ nround the t»fi*on» rviut *ult;trd duty I ut the prison. «ml leodYif in- c striKtlmi* ffo.n Gen. II.ulrauK who , w?ii»Win In special command of the city. In I idn*d fence loonier* that Capt.Ccaw- j *ford frttovcil theutiiUil Who hail been on duly lor twenty-fourhour* previous, The Captain obeying the dictate* of humanity, would have prefun d In have Iirrn nlitlift! to j other duty thin that ut guarding i% prison from whoso Muckcltfd ferial* a woman vie* tlm of an Insatiate thirst for blood was to j J step to the ignltow* mid be launched Into • eternity, hut ho would not shirk hi* duty a* j a *wort»f*nivef even Iflie shuddered at It. He J po*ti:t ill* pick lit i.ini:* around the prison llmll* with strict order* to Hre oti any one who mtaht attempt to |mo J ' the line, and mounted Id* Sildlludj on I ho wall4 of the prison.on run MojiNiNo or tiik ap.vkntii the Approval of the finding of the military I | court cotnlf mulim the woman and her three lu.ilt coinpatilMiH to death was promulgated.,'hlt;l Tlir.Ill r.Mxrrtns* ouuuuku. :Cupt. Crawfmd received liMrucltoit* to tnan the inner wall* ut tin* prlmo.aud to j guard *t1ll further against any |Arrr.niT at itr*ct't:« i« sergeant and IweWe picked ineu. with bay* onef4 am! titles were placed by Cwpt. Craw* I fotd at the d«*or of the hall leading tothol I pctsuti eel.* In vrhlcli the victim* of ainiinN or rnnuoii Iwere counting the minute* that dew be- J Iweeli them and death. IWith the Important dutle* of ofllcer of the I day. Involving such grave responsibility,J Capt. Crawford wa* changed, and f.iUhfulty performed. At the time. It w.n deemed j I 4uel» an honor by many of hi* fellow olllccrs, j that they would gladly have performed the I I duty assigned to him.Gen. Hancock was preterit atl the morn-itU lt;f the fated day. ami *eemed to bo so*I licltou* about the outcome of It. Such wa*IhoMotuuti otan;i ron nt.oon, the longing to catch a dance at the doomed mortal* who were soon lo be offered tip a* an onj..vnoNto npfnMie Hie cry for fevmue fur n crime at which the clvlIt/o*! world shuddered* and over wldchjlmAMKUtCAN Pl.oPt.K WKNT )IA1».When the hour in which the death knell of the four doomed people was to betolvd.drow near a surging crowd of army ofllccrs from the highest to the lowest rank clamored for aditilMloit towuni:** no: iianoino,and many of these who held card* of admission to the gallows yard called toCapt. Crawford and bclotighl him to givo them admission. So eager wiro they to force their stay In. that ttoti. Hancock demanded of the ofllccr of the day to keep them back and If necessary toctr aiiov: jiAYoNtri on the crowd. In Id* annoyance ho onco address'd the crowd of ofllcer* and told them lie \ya* n.slmmcd to see men act so end for shame sake admitted a number of them and conducted them to the fallow* yafd. While tht* scene was belli* enacted ouUldo the prison wall*.
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Dubuque Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Wed, Jun 30, 1880
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