Show alae execution of thomas IX 11 ferguson thomas II if ferguson convicted of the murder of alexander carpenter during the late terra terin of the district court in in this city and who vrho was sentenced by the court to pay with ith his life the violation of the law which lie ie had committed was in conformity with the sentence sin tence pass passed ed upon him executed on inday friday last about one on near the wall on the north side of this city tile the escort consisting of a portion of the Iau Nati legion that had bad been furr furnished Asbed by y request as a guard left the county jail in in the city with the prisoner in charge about 11 II A M A large laree crowd of men mea and boys followed the escort and the wagon con aaning the condemned man to the place ot of execution exe cation but no irregularities either of word or deed so far as we have heard took ilia we could not help thinking however ho weier on seeing the th throng that followed the sad procession ee astion that greater consideration forthe for the unfortunate man who was as about to suffer would have lave been evinced by taking some other direction to the gallows than the one pursued by jy those conducting him even if they desired to 0 o witness his execution on oil reaching the gallows alloa 9 the handcuffs hand cuffs culla were removed from hia in wrists after afier which with his owa hands he unscrewed unscrew ej the shackles from his ankles and then hen ascended the gallows gallou a with si appa parenty apparently renly a a firm arid and steady step on reaching the he top he aie engaged for sometime gome time in conversation w m ith one of the gentlemen who defended him during his tria lafter which he proceeded to address the throng of persons assembled on all sides bides of the gallows ilia his remarks possessed little of interest and nothing worth recording lie he said but little about the crime that he had committed except that he was stupefied with liquor when the deed was done lie he complained sone some so ne of the unfairness of his trial alleging that witnesses necessary to his hia defence were absent and that the judge would no not t postpone the trial till they could be obtained afterwards his bis remarks assumed a desultory and irregular form and appeared to be made more for the purpose of postponing the fatal moment than for any interest he be felt in making them ile he seemed to anticipate until almost the last moment that a reprieve would be granted to him or that he be would meet with a rescue from soi some source after talking for more than half an hour he requested prayer some difficulty and delay was experienced in finding any one willing or suitable to officiate in this ceremony at length one of the guard came forward and offered prayer and shortly after the cap was placed over tha face of cf the doomed man the rope which held the trap was cut and thomas 11 II ferguson bergi sor with a fall of several i I 1 feet was launched into eternity with scarce ly A struggle lie he was no HO doubt a guil guilty bY j man a and rid suffered justly but a as a he has expiated his crime vi ith his lifer life let a mantle of charity as far as can lisp be co er the one dark deed of ins life and letus ictus hope thattie sacrifice nay may plead in in its hia behalf in in the ears of tb that a t god who tempers justice with in mercy er C Y the execution of ferguson we w e have been 1 informed n is the first that has ever taken take n place in this territory by a regular judicial sentence bence of the many murders that have taken place here the perpetrators of them have in in all instances escaped or no notice whatever has been talen taken of their crime the general belief bein being that they were authorized or commanded by those who wield a despotic power potte rover over the lives and actions of the deluded and fand fanatical tica I 1 people that dwell in this territory and though we do not paral participate in the misguided sympathy of some ot of our shielded ferguson had it been tit in their power from the theaon con sequences of his bis crime because he was a gentile men tile 11 we yet cannot help thinking that bis fate would haie been different if bedad he had been a professed mormon we are adire aware that gibson and ivie were both mormons cormons Mor mons and that they were both sentenced to death for the crime crime of murder here but in their cases the victims were also mor mons the murderers of mcneill of drown and arnold of sargeant pike and of vincent all of whom were gentiles or apostates from the church are still at ab large and unpunished the time and circumstances un under de r w which aich some of these man icon were murdered dered proves beyond a doubt the fact that if the men who murdered them were not actually aided in in making their escape little or r no effort was made by the public authorities here to arrest them and bring them to p punishment U D ish ment |