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his was in progress, Kennedy asked General Beale for a handkerchief, and used it. When the black cap was placed upon his head, he asked, "Am I going to wear this thing to the gallows?" The answer: "Yes. " The preparations being now complete, the procession formed in line, and as it passed out of the cell door, Kennedy turned to General Beale, with the remark: "This is a cowardly murder." About five minutes past 1 o'clock the procession marched to the gallows, Chaplain Burke and Lieutenant Black, officer of the day, walking first, followed by Kennedy and General Beale. The guard brought up the rear. The garrison of the fort (Seventeenth regiment of regulars) stood in two lines on either side of the scaffold. One hundred and ninety bounty-jumpers and brokers, previously marched out of their cells, occupied the background, the brokers separated by a short interval from their victims. A dozen newspaper reporters stood near the gallows. The first act under the gallows was t