Show r Q w r 44 PHILOSOPHIC MURDERER A Man Who c TaRes the Gallows at the End of His EveryDay Every-Day Life Edward Ear who suffered the penalty of the law at iSageville Hamilton County for the murder of his wife is a queer character He claimed that he was justified in killing his wife and opposed the claim of insanity in his behalf He was an intelligent man and a blacksmith black-smith but was troublesome when in drink which was often of late 2so one knows his history Some think he is a Spaniard and others a Virginian He has courted hanging Writing to a friend recently Earl made light of his situation as follows fol-lows Yes old boy I am going at the time appointed I have an engagement engage-ment with Death that phantom of grizzly bone and shall meet him with a smile a fortitude that will make him turn away thinking that I am not the one sent for They are already engaged building a fence around the place of execution and from my window I watch the work talk with the workmen and have an idea they dread they day more than L Let me see I have yet fifteen fif-teen days and a few hours to live let me tell you that is longer than some folks have got and then there will be some hanging done herei e a tight rope performance per-formance I am to be the principal actor in the performance and am depended on by the public to make the thing interesting I am to act the part of the hanged and that is the most prominent part of the whole business and of course shall use my utmost endeavors to act my part in a manner to give entire satisfaction to those who are fortunate for-tunate enough to witness the performance per-formance You have heard of Haman I supposefeller that lived long long ago in good Queen Esthers time and was hanged fifty cubits high Well I am going to hang after the manner of that Haman feller only the distance in height is to be reduced re-duced in order to give shortsighted folks an equal chance and no expense ex-pense will be spared to make this the most attractive show ever offered of-fered to the people of this country But my friend it is new business tome to-me I have not the hang of it yet and I have some misgivings as to the result it may be the death of me in fact have read instances of persons actually dying while performing per-forming in this waybut we are to have a skillful physician in attendance at-tendance whose duty it will be to prevent the thing from going too far Performance will commence about 10 a m Octobr 14th and continue con-tinue as long as the law directs and physicians think proper Positively my lastJappearance in public and no posponement on account ac-count of weather |