About the hour of noon, the prisoner, after being neatly clad, was led from the jail by the officers of the law, placed in the ranks of the guard formed for the occasion, and the procession moved slowly toward the fatal spot. Soon the doomed man appeared on the gallows. The death warrant was then read to him, and he was informed that he had but a short time to live. He proceeded to address the awe-struck and silent multitude. He especially urged the young men present to take warning from his career and fate, and to avoid bad company. His misfortune he attributed principally to having been misled while young. When he had concluded, a number of questions were asked by the immediate spectators, in relation to crimes which had transpired within their knowledge; but he would give no direct answer—shrewdly eluding the inquiries. [Illustration: EXECUTION OF JAMES COPELAND.—[See Page 118.] The Sheriff then asked him, in hearing of many lookers-on, if the details of his confession, previously made to that officer, were true. He replied that they were. His hands were then tied and the cap pulled over his face, and he was told that he had but a few moments to live. He exclaimed, “Lord, have mercy on me!” and he was praying when the drop fell, and a brief struggle ended his blood-stained career. GRAND JURY. John McCullum, Lemuel Strahan, John W. Carter, Allen Travis, Lewis H. Watts, James Chappell, G. W. Rawls, Wm. Jenkins, Peter McDonald, Malachi Odom, Joseph G. Young, Jas. M. Bradley, Sr., Stephen Smith, Wm. Hinton, Edmund Merritt, Sidney Hinton, Jos. T. Breeland, Henry Dearman, Lorenzo Batson, John Fairley, _Foreman_. WITNESSES. Wm. Johnson, Chancey B. Stevens, Wm. Laudman, Gibson Waley, John Anderson, Wm. C. Griffin, Moses Fullingam, Laoma Batson, Jas. Batson, David Dubusk, Sr., Jefferson Williams, David Dubusk, Jr., Wm. Griffin, Peter Fairley, Sr., Peter Fairley, Jr., Alexander Fairley, Sampson Spikes, Westley Spikes, W. H. Nicols, John Fairley, _Prosecutor_. MEMBERS OF THE COPELAND AND WAGES CLAN. J. Baker, C. W. Moore, W. W. Ratlief, G. Buskings, J. Harper, J. Bowings, J. W. Westly, J. Whitfield, J. Whitlom, J. Porter, J. Butler, J. Hopkins, J. Harper, W. P. Hobs, W. C. Whelps, Jasper Whitlow, E. Sharper, T. Powell, J. Doty, D. Doty, S. S. Shoemake, J. Gillet, W. Brown, J. Taylor, S. Teapark, J. Pool, John Copeland, T. Copeland, Henry Copeland, Wm. Copeland, J. Elva, H. Sanford, R. Cable, J. Hevard, G. Daniels, G. H. Wages, C. H. McGraffin, Chas. McGrath, J. Welter, G. Welter, A. Brown, D. Brown, N. McIntosh, E. Myrick, J. F. Wright, J. Dewit, W. Ross, W. Sanferd, J. McClain, S. Harden, J. Harden, J. Waters, Jr., G. Clealand, — Moulton, — Overall, G. Young, Thos. Hix, J. Alfred, J. Kelly, A. Watson.