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  • CAMPl'S GOLD member Jan Morgan hands a carton from the back of the tractor-trailor truck that arrived on cam- us Tuesday. Except for a few volunteers, the girls did most of the unloading. (Photo by Harry Duke) In need of? let Campus Gold know If you're ever in need of anything: clothes, food, furniture, just get the message to Campus Gold. Then Vicki Cook will get the message to troop 55 of Golds- boro, who'll get the message to the Coastal Carolina Council of the Girl Scouts of America, and a few months later a tractor-trailer truck will pull into campus. That's what happened here Tuesday. A Blue Ridge Trucking Company truck, three- fourths filled with food, furniture, clothes and other necessities of life pulled onto campus around 12:00 noon Tuesdaylook- ing for representatives of the Campus Gold. Sally Edwards, the president of the organization, said the articles were sent to help with a service project the Gold started at the first of the year. The Campus Gold wanted to gather clothing for underprivileged families in the area, including Little Canada. The Gold also wanted to help start a Girl Scout troop in Little Canada. Miss Cook wrote her troop asking for some help with their project. Troop 55's leader made the area's council aware of what Western Carolina's Campus Gold was up to, and the result was 10,000 pounds of goods packed up in 410 cartons ranging in size fromabox "Imperial by Hiram Walker" was packed in, to boxes that furniture was packed in. When the truck arrived on campus there was more than a little confusion. Miss Edwards visited Tyler Combs at the Housing Office to try to decide on CONTINUED Page 12. , . . Thursday, February 17, 1972 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN 3 .... in the shadow of the Blue Ridge The hanging of Jackson Lambert By Jay S. Gertz The source of material I have been using prior to this article has been second or third hand information. Recently though, 1 have made use of the Archives and Special Collections Division of the library. (This Division was established and is headed by Dr. Richard W. IobsO The Archives is filled with original diaries, books and manuscripts that predate the War Between the States. Many of these are not only good first hand source material, but also exciting reading. I received a tip-off on some manuscripts called the Madison Papers. This article is primarily a story from those manuscripts. In December of 1885, a young teacher came to Western North Carolina. His brother had induced him to try and establish a school in Swain County, in the town of Qualla. This youngtea- cher's name was Robert Lee Madison. After his endeavors at Qualla and later in Webster, Madison came to Cullowhee. Here he rejuvenated a high school, and later founded a college, which is today W.C.U,, Robert L. Madison lefta manuscript, in his own writing, cal- led EXPERIENCES OF A PEDAGOGUE IN THE CAROLINA HIGHLANDS. It appears to to be a chapter by chapter account of Madison's experiences and adventures in Swain and Jackson counties. Madison says the summer of 1886 was marked by two memorable occurrences. One was the last legal public execution in this part of the state. The other was a mere earthquake, which couldn't hold a candle to the hanging of Jack(son) Lambert. Dick Wilson, a prominent citizen of Jackson County, was found shot and killed near Webster. There were no eyewitnesses to the shooting but the finger of guilt pointed at Jack Lambert. I-ambert was quickly arrested. All during his imprisonment, Jack proclaimed his innocence. Yet, the Swain County jury said the evidence was very convincing and he was convicted. Jack Lambert appealed to the State Supreme Court, but his request for a retrial was denied. The execution was set for July 9, 1886. Sheriff Rich of Buncombe County brought the condemned man from his cell in Asheville to Charleston (now Bryson City) on July 8. R.L. Madison happened to be in Swain County on that day. He was not aware of the execution until he saw the large mass of people in town. He begged his guest to leave, but was persuaded to stay. This story of the last hanging in W.N.C. continues in Madison's own words (and punctuation): "There.,.had been erected a high scaffold surmounted by a gallows from which dangled a strong rope with a noose at its loose end. Under the gallows was a hinged trap-door level with the platform and ready to be dropped when the sheriff should release the supporting prop. Within a roped-off area surrounding the platform stood a posse of grim-visaged men armed with rifles, for word had come to the sheriff that friends of Lambert planned to rescue him from his impending doom. "After Sheriff Welch (of Swain) had escorted the prisoner up the steps, across the platform, and to position on the trap-door, facing the front of the scaffold, he put the blackcap over Jack's head, pinioned his arms and legs with rope, and carefully adjusted the hangman's noose about his neck. This done Sheriff Welch stood, pale and solemn, beside theun- trembllng hooded form. "Then came a few moments of breathless suspense, intensely dramatic. Sheriff Rich, standing on the ground and facing the condemned man, called to him in a loud voice: "Jack Lambert, in the presence of Almighty God, of eternity, and of this great throng of people, I ask you, Did you kill Dick Wilson?" Amid absolute stillness, Lambert promptly responded, in a clear, steady voice: ''I did not!" Immediately Sheriff Welch grasped Lambert's right hand in hurried farewell, strode rapidly across the platform, ran nimbly down the steps and, with a firm, quick movement, "sprang the trap." In a twinkling, the limp body was swaying between heaven and earth. Simultaneously a woman's scream led, for only an instant, a subdued chorus of moans and groans that came involuntarily from the startled spectators. Then, here and there, women swooned and one man...fell fainting at my feet. A solemn hush held the throng in thrall for the next few harrowing minutes, and one could feel his pulse throb in his temples and hear his own and his neighbors' labored breathing. "Lambert's drop had failed to break his neck; so the mixed multitude was subjected to the CONTINUED Page 12 ... . PBOfTesxonftu* town STK&S.T svuvft ni. UP AND DOWN the steps, unloading 10,000 pounds of goods that will go to an untold number of area people. The goods were stored in the art building. Ban g?l a*0 & Balsam Rd. Waynesvilie, N. C. Draft Beer % 9ia/ian Cuisine Sfeafts Pi33a Orders to Go Phone 456-7977
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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