FULFILMENT OF A REMARK ABLE PROPHECY.

Evening Star, Issue 3915, 10 September 1875, Page 3

FULFILMENT OF A REMARK ABLE PROPHECY.

In recording the execution of ;i mm* derer named 13eighloy, at Grcensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, some weeks ago, tlm ' aS'ew York Herald ' says : Singular, yet it is true, that though there have been at least a quarter of a hundred murders com mitred in West moreland County since (lie year Ifiof), yet not one of the perpetrators has suffered the extreme penalty. In I his. connection it miy not prove amiss to mention a prophecy, singular in its character and remarkable in its fulfilment, made on the scaffold on the occasion of the last exocution in the county. This was that of Joseph Evans, who was tried, eonvicted, and executed for the murder of John Cissler, by striking him over the head with a shovel. Edwards wa« tried and convicted at the February term, 1830, and the 10th of April was (ixed as the day upon which he should be executed. Upon the margin of another world and with all the horrors of death before him, he asseverated that the- testimony against him was false, and that the killing of Cissler was accidental. He admitted that he had lived a wicked life, and advised all present to refrain from gambling, profanity, and intemperance, and ascribed bis premature and ignominious death to his addiction to these vices. He then, in the most solemn manner, stated that as ho was to be hung for a crime which he had never committed, no.other persons would be

executed in Westmoreland County for u period of forty years; and furthermore, tliat fever.d witnesses—naming ■ hem-- that li.id s'vorn falsely against liiin, could not die a natural death, as the Altnightv knew of their sin and would not let them die naturally, h'iuas it may appear, then; has not 'm<'!) an execution in the, eountry sim.-.e that of Evan;-/, over forty-tour years ago ; and, what is still more singular, of the witnesses he mentioned one was drowned ; one was kicked by a horse, and, from the injuries received, died ; one was hung in Ohio, by a mob, for horsestealing: one av.is struck by lightning, and killed ; and the last one was hided on the old posiage road, standing on or near a water-tank, when a train of cars rolled him over, and left the lifeless remains of tiewitness a round mass of human flesh. Those arrested and tried for m'lrder have either been sentenced to various periods in the penitentiary, or have escaped the horrors of the gibbet bv swallowing poison on the near approach •if the fatal day. Many of the good people of Westmoreland remeinbci the last words of Hlvuns on the sodibld. and wonder at the verification of the prophecy.