Slowly it passed
through the City and made its way to Lone Mountain Cemetery where with
Masonic services, and in presence of the great multitude, standing
uncovered and affected to tears, the remains of the just and good man,
the martyr to truth and duty were deposited.
But large as was the assembly thus occupied in the upper part of the
City in rendering the last tribute of respect to the loved and lost; a
still larger number had collected in the neighborhood of the Committee
Rooms in the lower part to witness a solemn act of retribution. They
swarmed upon the housetops, filled windows, and such, portion of the
streets as was open to them, and from which they could obtain a view of
the proceedings, and waited in anxious expectation the infliction of the
penalty of their crimes upon the two assassins in the hands of the
Committee. From an early hour in the morning, movements in and around
the Rooms had plainly indicated the purpose for which they were made.
Riflemen were stationed on the roofs of the Committee building and those
adjoining.
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