The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-13 00:00:00

EXECUTION AT NEWCATE,

Cherie; Bhurety.22,was executed on Monday morning at
eight o'clock, within the gaol of Newgate, for the murder
of • child, two years old, named Louisa Piper. The
prisoner was tried before Hr. Justice Lindley at the last
session of the Central Criminal Court, and from the facts
disclosed in the evidence, it appeared that the prisoner
cohabited with • widow named Mary Ann Piper, who had
three children, the infant in question, • girl about 12
years old, and • boy LT The two latter went out during
the day, the boy to a Board school, and the girl to some
place where she had employment ; and the mother, who
seemed to have been the principal support of the family,
went out to work, leaving the man alone with the infant.
They occupied a back room at 2, Payne's-row, Kentish.
town, and almost immediately after they took possession
of the place the other lodgers in the house were horrified
at the brutal conduct of the prisoner towards the child,
and the revolting language he made use of towards her,
his constant threat being that he would kill her. 'This
threat appears to have been made use of only three days
before the child MIN found lying dead in the room, with
its arms and lei drawn up, and showing, by other
appearances, that it had died a violent and cruel death.
Some attempts were made to procure a remission of the
capital sentence, on the ground that the act was not
premeditated on the part of the male prisoner; but the
Secretary of state, after reading the evidence, and con.
suiting with the learned Judge who tried the case, and
who, in passing sentence, described it as one of the most
, revolting that had ever come within his experience,
declined to give any effect to the efforts to procure •
remission of the capital sentence, and, in reply to the
application made to him, said that he could not me any
ground for interferring. Since his conviction the prisoner
raid attention 'to the exhortation of the Ordinary Of
limgate, and appeared at last to be fully impressed with
the fearful character of his crime. He wrote • letter to
the mother of the child, asking her forgiveness and
esmsesmos his sorrow. The Under-Sheriffs, Crawfurd,
and Mr. Wragg, arrived at the prison shortly before eight
o'clock, and they at osce Proceeded to the prisoner's cell,
where the pinioning Waa Performed by Harwood, the
executioner. The pawner expressed his thanks for the
kindness be had received from all the officials, and Par-
ticularly to Mr. Sherd! Wollaton, for an address he
delivered to hiou • few dais ago. He at the same time
said he fulls ecknowleded the justice of his sentence,
and that he deserved to e for the dreadful offence he had
committed. He walked to the scaffold without my
assistance. He fell a distance of at least seven feet from
the length of the rope.

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