The Daily Cairo Bulletin

ONLY THREE DAYS MORE.

GLASS HEARS THE SOUNDS OF PREPARATION
FOR HIS EXECUTION WITH APPARENT UNCONCERN-HE FEELS SURE THAT IF THE
PUBLIC KNEW ALL, HE WOULD NOT HANG,
AND THEN RECOUNTS THAT "ALL"-HE
WOULD ESCAPE IF HE COULD: BUT EXPECTS
TO HANG.

Preparations for the execution of the
murderer Glass, were commenced yesterday
morning. Our reporter called upon the
doomed man to learn his state of mind, in
view of the growing certainty of death,
and found him quite as composed as upon
any former occasion. He plainly heard the
hammering and sawing and knew what it
meant. "I hear every lick that is struck,"
he remarked, "and knew from the first that
they were building my scaffold; but it
makes no difference. They have got to
build the scaffold, I suppose; and as I can't
help myself, it would do no good to take on
and be miserable. But this I do know, that
if the people of this town knew all the facts
in the case, they would not allow me to be
hanged. They don't know how about two
years ago, I picked that woman (Ruth
Brown) up and gave her clothes and food
and a home, and they don't know how that
Carter Newman came between me and her.
and took her away from me, and how they
carried on in my presence. I had been
working hard from 6 o'clock in the morn-
ing until 1 o'clock at night to get
money for that woman to spend,
and on the Saturday evening before the
murder, I came home for supper and found
no supper ready. Ellen McKearney called
to me and said she "Glass if you will give
me ten cents I'll tell you something."
And then she pointed to a room that was
barricaded up, and says she, "Carter and
Ruth Brown have been in there together
for hours." And when I "carried on"
about such conduct under my own eyes,
Carter came at me with brass knucks.
He was a strong man; mighty few men
could get away with Carter, and I was
afraid of him. And the people don't know
that the money I gave to Ruth Brown to
buy something to eat was spent by her and
Newman for whisky, and how I had to put
up with it or be bullied and whipped in my
own house. It was a pretty hard thing for
a man to stand. I ought to be punished
for killing Carter but I oughtn't to die for
it, and if everything had been told I
wouldn't have been sent to death."

The wretched fellow plead his case with
great earnestness, and is fully persuaded
himself that if he had another chance to
get his side of the case to a jury, the gal-
lows would be robbed of a victim.

The reporter then asked the prisoner if
there was anything he could do for him.
With a dull appearance of humor in his
countenance, Glass promptly replied: "Yes,
there's something you can do for me, and I
wish you wouldn't forget it. Bring me a
hatchet, a chisel and an auger. Be sure to
bring 'em; and if you can't get 'em here be-
fore 2 o'clock Tuesday morning, bring them
then, for with life outside and death inside,
I'll make my way through these walls be-
fore daylight." The reporter admonishing
him to build up no hopes of that character,
he replied that he had no hope of escape,
and didn't think it likely the Governor
would interfere and let him spend his days
in the penitentiary. Being asked, finally,
if he had anything to say that he wanted
the public to know, he replied "No, not
now. On Monday I'll get Mr. ___ to
write out my statement. As it will
be made by a man just going
to die, I guess the people will believe it.
I'll tell all I know, and tell the truth. I'm
not to blame as much as people think I am.
I'm only an ignorant nigger; but I had
great trouble, and smarter men than I am,
would have done as I did if they'd been
worried, and robbed and whipped and in-
sulted in their own houses as I was. I will
have Mr. --- write it all down for The
Bulletin so that everybody can see, after
I'm dead and gone, that I wasn't as much
to blame as they now think I am."

The arrangement for the writing of the
statement has already been made by the
doomed man; with the understanding that
it is to be published by us with our ac-
count of the execution.

If Glass is not inspired by the hope that
he will be furnished an opportunity to es-
cape, or that the Governor will interfere,
and commute his punishment to imprison-
ment, his comparatively easy and comforta-
ble frame of mind, and the manifest ab-
sence of all fear of death, are quite unusual,
to say the least of them.