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The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Rappahannock lines. (search)
s District Court. Judge J. D. Halyburion, under the name of John Richardson, alias Louis Napoleon, expiated his offence at noon yesterday on a gallows constructed in the gaily east of the new Alms-House, and near the spot where, in former years, other malefactors had paid the penalty of their misdeeds. Richardson, altas Napoleon, had after conviction, been respited by the President twice; the last one expiring yesterday. A few days prior thereto he was brought to Richmond from the jail of Danville, where he had been contined for safety. On yesterday the prisoner informed Mr. Henry Myers, the Deputy Marshal, that it had been his intention on that occasion, had he not been so closely watched, to have killed those having him in charge, and made his escape, if possible. From an early hour yesterday morning Rev. Father Barratta was with the condemned, administering the consolations of religion. At fifteen minutes to 11 o'clock the jail doors opened, and the accused appeared, wearing a