652 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

620 X,. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

You followed the child—seized and choked him until life was
extinct. You returned to the house. There, your aged mother-
in-law was engaged in baking, and you struck her senseless,
and then eut her throat. You covered her up in bed. Then
with your rifles, you returned to the mow of the barn to await
the arrival of John; and, on reaching his father’s dwelling,
you killed him, as before described. You dragged him under
his mother’s bed—washed up the floor—then returned to
your hiding place in the barn with the two rifles loaded, to
await the return of the father of this family, and the father
of the wife of your bosom, You took the handle off his door,
and when he came to it, he could not find entrance: he
turned partly around, looking for his aged wife, and you
fired and missed him. You tock up your other weapon
of death, and fired, and slightly wounded him. His eagle
eye saw you; and you fled in his presence from your hiding
place. For barbarity, treachery and depravity, your eruelty
and wickedness have not been surpassed by the pirates of the
‘Weat Indies, or the savages of the wilderness!

This brief detail is not wantonly made to distress you. Our
object is to draw your attention to your situation; and to im-
press upon you that it is our solemn opinion that there is no
merey for you on this side of the grave! that your days are
few, and your end not distant! We beseech you, seriously
and solemnly, to turn to the fountain of merey—to that
Saviour who died upon Calvary for the sins of the world! At-
tend to the ministers of the Gospel, those messengers of peace,
who will visit you, and pray with you, and point out to you
the road of repentance. God Imoweth our most inmost
thoughts. Let your cries be for mercy to the throne of grace!
And let your reliance for that mercy be upon the Saviour of
the world!

The sentence of the law is, that you, Robert MeConaghy,
be taken hence to the place from whence you cams, within the
jail of Huntingdon County, and from thence to the place of
execution within the walls or yard of the said jail, and that