Jasper Banner, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1855 — Coolness at an Execution. [ARTICLE]

Coolness at an Execution.

A Mr. Logan and Lipsey were hung lately in California for murder, the knots of each roap slipped at the first attempt, and, the Miner’s Advocate gives the following: “Immediately after striking the ground be neath the sc afl’old, Logan pulied ofl' the Cap from his ey es to see if Lipsey had come down with him, then rose to his feet, and with little assistance, (his feet having been untied,) re-assendedthe scaffold, Lipsey had to be carried up, though he had not been seriously injured by the fall. No disturbance was created by his Tall, except that nearly the entire crowed, seated on the hill-side, involuntarly rose to their feet. The roaps were speedily re-adjusted. The cap had been drawn’over his ‘ eyes; and just- before the roap was cut, Logan asked the time of day and demanded to see a watch. The cap was raised and a watch presented. He remarked:—‘Ah you have twenty minutes yet—if it was two o’clock I would demand my liberty under the law,” and turned away with a muttered laugh, that we- could not have expected to witness coming from a dying man.After being placed on the drop the second time, he said in a suppressed tone, as if to himself “I don ? t think I am a murderer at heart.”

An Irishman, who lived alone at Savannah, was in the last stages of the fever, and the attending physician, knowing that he must die during the night, hired another Irishman to sit up with him, at the same time furnishing the watcher With a bottle of brandy for his own use. During the night the watcher got tired of drinking alone, and he bolsterd up the dying man and forced flowing bumpers down, his throat! The doctor came in the morning, more to learn what time his patient had died more than anything else’ and his astonishment may be imagined at seeing the sick man bolt upright in bed, £ost laying,bis pipe upon the little table by the bedside, and the worthy watcher •night as a brick” in one corner. —Evansville Enipiirer.