Life — February 6, 1896 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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“Tue most polite man I ever knew,” said J. D. Ewans of Mississippi, ‘was a colored man down in my county. He belonged before the war to Colonel White, one of the most cultured and polished gentlemen in the south, During reconstruction days Tom was elected sheriff, and the first year he held the office a white man was sentenced to be hanged. 1 knew the doomed priso- ner and at his request was with him several hours a day for the last week of his life. “The sheriff came in the first time I was there, and addressing the prisoner said: ‘Scuse me, Mars Bob. I hab jess come fur jess a little advice. Yo! see, we ain't neither ob us used ter ceremonious occasions ob dis kin, an I jess wants ter know how yo’ would like ter hab de gallows, facin de sun or de oder way.’ “The prisoner told him to have his face away from the sun, “Thank yo’, Mars Bob. I'll done hab it dat way. We don’ want ter make no exposition ob ourselfs by not doin’ what is propah on sich events." “Upon the next occasion the sheriff came in: “**Mars Bob, ‘scuse me one moment, gemmen. I jess wants ter hab yo" show me once more how yo’ done tie dat knot, Mos’ curiousest knot I eber seed.’ “Upon the morning of the fated day, as I went in, the sheriff had the doomed man's foot thrown over a chair and was blacking his boot, the other one having already been polished. “*Mawnin, sah!’ he said to me, ‘Mars Bob jess gittin’ ready. I done borrered a suit an’ necktie from de cunnel an’ jess slickin' ‘im up. Den I gits inter my own dress suit dat I had made a purpus, an’ Mars Boban’ me, we gwine ter be de bes’ dressed ob anybody.’ ‘* Arrayed in evening dress, the convicted man and the sheriff mounted the scaffold when the time came. * Allright now, Mars’ Bob!’ said the sheriff as he adjusted the cap. ‘’Scuse me, sah, jess a minute,’ and he touched the fatal spring."— Washington Star. 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