The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-23 00:00:00

EXECUTION FOR YURGER • FRIGHTFUL
SCENE WITH THE CULPRIT.

James Lougbord, aged 22, • labouring man. was
executed on Thursday morning at nine o'clock at Hone-
monger-lane Gaol. The culmit was convicted at the
late Spring Assists before Mr. Heron Bramoell of the
murder of • girl seven years old, named Harriet Sax.
The murder wee oommitted by stebbieg the unfortunate
child ia the throat, this set of violence being no doubt
committed by the culprit in tionsequeocie of the child
resisting the prisoner's attempt to commit mother serione
orime. His intellect wa, of the very lowest possible
description. The Rev. Mr. Jessopp, the ordinary of the
prima, wrote to the Home Secretary, that although the
prisoner was 22 years of age, his &apeman« was not
more than • lad of IS, and that in his opinion his mir
seemed to have ceased to grow at • very early age. He
dm expressed his opinion that the jury were induced to
moommend the prisoner to mercy on the ground that
petting to death tte being before than was as
shocking as executing a boy of fifteen or a mis-
chievous imbecile who had committed a similar act.
The culprit was visited by Mr. Maras; the high
sheriff of Surrey, on the 4th inst, to satisfy hinieelf as
to the state of his mind, and on the Oth he was visited by
his father and mother, who are labouring people,
residing at Dorking. The mother dung round the
wretched culprit's neck, and could with diMoulty be
from him, and his last words her were,
"liktrats7ol to
their, do try to mire me." Upon the return of
the unhappy parents to their banes a memorial one
premed to the Becretery of State, preying for a aim-
mutation of the capital punishment, which was signed ,
by a number of persons but the Home Secretary did not
feel Notified in takiag any steps to interfere with the
course of the law. On Satursay the culprit was visited
by hi. father and hi. brother, and this interview was
also of • very painful character. For some little time
after the departure of hi. relatives be appeared depressed
but very soon recovered his austanarystohddesee•Dour.
On Sunday morning the sondemned sermons was
Cs:V. In the the mead dictated a
W forwarded to his mother. The culprit slept
soundly for several hours on Monday night, and ate his
lweakfeet on Tuesday morning with his used
sinister...able manner, and when visited by Mr.
Jemmy he requested that • lock of his hair might
soot to his mother. accompanied by a statement that
be died forgiving all who had ever injured him. me he
himself hoped to he forgiven; and be particalarly
expressed a wish than an expression of his ciontrakii and
hope of forgiveness might be manyed to the parents of
the poor girl whom he had killed. When be was taken
down from the eondemed cell to the yard to be pinimed
• frightful some mimed. The romease the eeprit an
Caked; the szeoutioner, appraisal hies with the straps
to pinion his mins, he started busk with an asps* of
terror depicted on his countess's*, and began to straggle
violently with the turnkeys. The chaplain spoke to
him and endeavoured to gala him, and this fain moment
appeared to have the effect, but opal the exesettimer
requesting that the culprit might be taken outside, as
he could not she sufficiently well to fades the dram
properly, another fearful struggle enema, the culprit
being • young. powerful ram, sal it required the
exertions of four or five of the warders to hold bias,
and it was Deoeseery to throw him down mid
bold him as the ground while he was being pinioned,
and during the straggle the prisoner Masi mod violently
and one or two ei the turnkeys were Tare much kart
by the kicks they received. 'During the whole of the
=the wretched primmer did eat utter a weed,
aoudad seemed to be situated byes unconteer.
able horror of the sight of the executioner and the
apperetne of death. After be had been secured he
walked quietly by the aids of the chapleis until he
arrived at the steps leading to the maffold, and
immediately he sought eight of the giblet* his horror
appeared to return. He again straggled violently as
well ash. was able, and was forcibly dragged up to the
seeps and held under the beam by several terakeys
while this rope was adjusted rated his neck, and as
speedily as possible the bolt was drawn, and after a few
violent drunks the wretched youth ceased to exist. A
very large erowd emembled to witness the eree•ools.
The scaffold was hang with bleak cloth, so that after the
drop fell, very little, if any, of the body of the culprit
oodd be sego.