The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-04-03 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

SOMETHING ABOUT PlNS.—These articles have
now been in pretty general use in this country for
nearly 400 years. They were at first somewhat clumsy
iron spikes, but in 1540 brass ones were introduced
from France. The importance the ladies of those days
attached to them may be gathered from the fact that
they induced Parliament to pass an Act "To avoid
the sleighty and false working of pinnes, which be
dayly vented, uttered, and put to sale within this
realme to the no littel hurte and damage of the
Kinge's subjects, byers and occupiers of the same. Be
it enacted," continues the Act, " . . . that no maner
of person or persons . . . shall vent, utter, or put to
sale by retayle, engross°, or otherwise, any maner of
pynnes within this realme, but only such as shall be
double-headed, and have the heades soudered fast to
the shanke of the pinne wel smethed, the shank well
shaven, the poynt well -found, filed, canted, and
shaped. . . . Provided alwaies that no person shall
eel any pynnes above the rate or pryces which they
heretofore, within two yeres, have been commonly
sold at."—Pictorial World.

" FOOTING " IT Ur.—Americans will soon
cease to marry. A bachelor took an envied Furopean
into his confidence as he took his arm and went into
the drawing-room of a fashionable hotel : "I told
you I should never marry. Well, stranger and Euro-
pean brother, look there at that pleasant bit of a
femil. 'Well, she has on a £lOO pannieresi, Watteaued,
polonaised, brown, gros-grain dress, and I wear a £l2
coat. She wears a £250 camel's hair shawl and a £l5O
set of sable, while I wear a £l4 overcoat. She wears a £l5
bonnet, while I wear a£l 12s. hat. She wears £4O worth
of point applique and point augile, while I wear a 245.
shirt. Her shoes cost £3, and mine cost £2 Bs.
Her ordinary morning jewellery, which is changed
every year, not counting diamonds, cost £l6O, mine
cost £40." "Well, how does it foot up ? " "Why,
the clothes she has on cost £450 and mine cost £4l, and
that is only one of her dozen outfits, while I have only
—say three. The fact is," said he, growing earnest,
"I couldn't begin to live in a brown stone front with
that woman and keep up appearances to match—car-
riages, church, dinners, opera, and sea-side—for £4,000.
I'd have to become a second-rate man, and live in an
eighteen-foot house, or withdraw over to Second-avenue,
and that I'll not do! "and he slung his fist down slam
into a nice silk hat in the excess of his earnestness.—
Court Journal.

ELECTION PETITIONS.—From the 30th of
January, 1874, to the 30th of January last, there were
19 election petition tried jn England, four in Scotland,
and the same number in Ireland. From a Parliamen-
tary paper just issued it appears that in England the
costs were, of the petitioners, considerable. In the
period there were three petitions as to Stroud. In the
first one both members were unseated, and the taxed
costs of the petitioners amounted to £1,322 9s. ; and in
the second, where the same result happened to one
member, the costs were £1,467 18s. 4d.; in the third
petition the member was seated. The largest amount
of taxed costs to a respondent was £305 10s. in regard
to Barnstaple, and the smallest, £llO 13s. 4d., at
Bolton. In Ireland the costs to unseat members were
respectively £264 18s. sd. at Mayo, .280 12s. 10d. at
Athlone, and £721 17s. 3d. at Galway. In Scotland,
to unseat a member at Wigtown there were no costs;
£139 19s. 9d. at Renfrewshire, where the member was
seated; and £l2B 14s. sd. on the second petition at
Wigtown Burghs.

A HINT ABOUT THE TEETH. —Decay of the
teeth is really caused by their being dissolved by acids
generated in the mouth by the decomposition of small
particles of food. It is clear, therefore, that the only
method of preventing this is to apply the brush im-
mediately after every meal. Soap is the best
substance to use on the brush, though it is advisable
occasionally to use a rather rough powder of some
kind to keep the teeth in brilliant polish.—Pictorial
World.

-eOREMNERA IN CHINA. —The China Mail,
speaking of the accession of a new-Emperor in China,
and the policy which is likely to be pursued towards
foreigners, says :—" If the Empresses and Regent are
convinced that foreigners will never again forego the
right of audience, they may encourage informal visits
on the part of the foreign representatives to his Royal
babyship. Such a course would show that the divine
pretensions of the Emperorship had been definitely
abandoned, and, startling as such an innovation would
be to orthodox Chinese, would be. good policy. We do
not attach much importance to the reported anti.
foreign sympathies of the child-Emperor's father. It
is probable that his passive concurrence in any ques-
tions of policy will have been secured—at all events
for a good many years yet to come—by the selection of
his son to fill the vacant throne. It is extremely
probable that by this means a powerful adherent has
been secured by the party of progress. Time of course
alone can show. But at present we see no cause for
greater apprehension of difficulties than was felt pre-
vious to the accession of Kwang-su."

AN OBDURATE GODDESS.—We (Shanghai
Gazette) are informed that shortly before the
Emperor's death a gigantic image, the Goddess of
Small-pox, was paraded round the city of Pekin in
solemn procession, and then taken into the vex y bed-
room of the dying youth, where it was worshipped and
honoured with many propitiatory offerings. As, how-
ever, the Goddess continued obdurate she was
subjected, we believe, to a severe thrashing and other
insults and 'finally burnt. The fatal result of the attack
was, we suppose. her revenge for the maltreatment
AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN..—The
following were the average prices of British corn per
imperial quarter, as received from the inspectors and
officers of Excise, for the week ending March 27 :
Wheat, 41s. 10d. ; barley, 42i. Bd. ; oats, 30s. 3d.
Corresponding week last year :—Wheat, 60s. 10d. ;
barley, 48.3. 6d.; oats, 28s. 7d. •
RULING THE ROAST.—The practice of crema-
tion has been by some theorists supposed to have
originated from fire-worship, which is said to have
been formulated and systematised by Zoroaster.
"Take Zo " says 'Arry, "away from Zoroaster, and
the remainder is a good name for the Teacher of Fire-
Worship."—Punch.
A VISIT TO A LUNATIC ASYLUM.—A corres-
pondent of a St. Louis paper says, in writing of a visit
to a private lunatic asylum :—" Several of the inmates
walked about in the large yard, and down one walk a
quantity of water had been run in, and it had made a
splendid slide. Well wrapped up in mittens and furs,
there was the aged mother of the two ladies I had
accompanied, going down that slide in ten-year-old
style, and hanging on by the fence, crawling back and
taking her place behind a girl of sixteen, to have a
slide when her turn came. Down sat my two friends
and began to cry. •Oh mother, mother!' sobbed the
youngest, Ido believe you'll break my heart ! ' I'm
not hard-hearted, but for the life of me if the tears
came as I looked on the two daughters, the laugh
came quick enough as I saw the old lady. She took a
little short run, she sailed up with that inevitable hop
all women take when they slide, and she went down
the ice as stiff as a poker, with her mouth wide open,
and plunged into the snow-bank at the foot of the yard.
Then she clambered up and blew her fingers, put on
her red mittens and toiled back, hugging the fence,
laughing with much glee at the downfall of another
skater."

THE MURDER OF MR. MARGARY. —At the
last meeting of the Royal Geographical Society-, Sir
Henry Rawlinson presided. A paper was read by
Mr. john Coryton,.late Recorder of Moulmein, on the
"Trade Routes by British Burmah to Western China."
He described the existing routes, and showed that if
the countries through which they passed were in a
more settled state a more direct communication might
be opened up, along which a great trade would cer-
tainly pass if security to merchants could be secured.
In referring to the death of Mr.-Margary, Sir George
Campbell said he had also to deplore the loss of a per-
sonal friend, Lieutenant Holkam, on the Burmese
frontier. He had been killed recently with 80 British
subjects while employed in the exploration of the
country between Assam and Burmah. Sir Rutherford
Alcock thought the fate of Mr. M:trgary should make
us very careful with regard to future explorations.
England was a great Asiatic power, and should not
lose prestige. At the close of the discussion Sir Henry
Rawlinson deplored the irreparable loss the Geo-
graphical Society had sustained by the death of Mr.
Diargary,

IRISH AGRICULTURE.—The Registrar-General
of Ireland, in his report just issued, states that there
was a decrease of 48,000 acres under oats and barley
Ireland, in 1874 as compared with 1873 • a decrease °L
11,000 acres under green crops, but a larger yield ;„„,9
decrease of 14,000 acres under turnips, and of 20,00°
acres under flax; an increa.s eof 20,000 acres under wheat,
5,000 under cabbage, and 68.000 under hay. Ha CO
plains that the farmers, by allowing weeds to grow un;
checked, cause a loss to Ireland of about a million an
a half sterling per annum.
DEATH OF A CHIEF.—J. W. Simcoe Kerr,
Chief of the Tribes of the Six Nations, died at st•
Catherine's, Ontario' on the 23rd of February. oe
was the third son of the late William Johnson Ner,r,,
" They endenaja," who was a descendant of Sir Wit
Ham Johnson, Governor of the State of New Yors'
during the War of Independence, and also Chief of
the Tribes for some years, by right of his wife,
John. He was a lawyer of ability.
A GOOD FRIDAY CUSTOM.—The lime-honoured
custom of flogging, in effigy, the false Apostle so°
carried out on Good Friday with all due ceremony 131
the crews of several vessels of Portuguese and Soutia
American Nationalities at the London Docks. Th°
manner of performing the ceremony was in eal
instance precisely similar. At daybreak a life-size
figure of a man, dressed in sailor's costume with o°l'
boots, is hoisted to the masthead, and in order that the
identity of the effigy shall be fully established a plsouLd
is fastened to the breast, bearing the inscription, im
Portuguese, "This is Judas Iscariot." The effigY
remains mastheaded until about 6 a.m. when the en'
tire crew assist in lowering it to the deck, the Olt'
bell meanwhile keeping up an incessant clanging. T
figure is carried three times round the deck and finalll
lashed to the capstan, and the crew belabour it With
knotted ropes amid loud yells and shouting. The clothes
are cut away in shreds and when the figure is core'
pletely denuded, the block of wood which does du.'
for the body is kicked all over the deck, suspended to
a line, and thrown overboard into the docks, and re'
peatedly dipped. Owing to the dock regulations the,
stump could not be publicly burnt, but it was chopPe2
up into small fragments and handed over to the coos
to be destroyed under the galley fire.
EMIGRATION TO CANADA.—Mr. John A.
Donaldson, writing from the Doninion of Canada.,,i,fly
migration Office, Toronto, on the 11th March, I°'
states that the passengers
. of the Sarmatian arrivt
there that morning, some 250 in all. They reached the
Agency at three a.m., and while he wrote, at no'
every man, woman and child had been disposed of —,
had been sent to their destinations, where emplopue°:
was waiting for them. A notice Mr. Donaldson Puy
in the papers announcing their arrival brought in Eal
150 applications in writing, and a personal visit throPl,
a portion of his district enabled him to 'place all
others. Seven hundred othd immigAnts- weilr„tf, •
follow in the folloting week, and he would be fay
prepared for them, and after that as many as could 11°
sent, as the demand would increase as the season su;
vanced. The farmer expressed their satisfaction a'
being able to get hands thus early. Prospects of er,a;
ployment for emigrants had improved, and lands cow°
be had for capitalists at reasonable rates. Young nil
get $l2 per month the year round, and boaro.
Domestic servants are much wanted.
DIFFERENT POINTS OF VlEW.—Maud (Wit
much sympathy in her voice). "Only fancy, rearnros'
Uncle Jack took us to a Picture Gallery in BOOGF
street, and there we saw a Picture of a lot of &TV
Christians, poor dears, who 'd been thrown to a lot °f
lions and tigers, who were devouring them !
(with still more sympathy). "Yes, and mamma, der
there was one poor tiger that hadn't got a Christian'
—Punch.
THE BROOKLYN TRIAL. —The trial of "Tilton
v. Beecher," interrupted by the illness of a juror, vr.°
resumed on the Bth of March, which was the 43rd
of the hearing. The New York Times says :
"It appears now pretty certain that the trial will not
concluded before the middle of May, if, -indeed, it show
even then be closed. The proceedings were opened on the.
4th of January, and this will extend the term of the trial ,„tv
a period of nearly five months. The probability is that
cumstances may arise which will prolong the trial to are'
meter date. Out of twenty-five witnesses subpcenaed (fc!
the defence) only three have been as yet examined, and it,
estimated that on an average each witness will requires
for examination. It is thought that Mr. Beecher's testinior
and cross-examination will occupy fully three weeks. Ici
comes the evidence in rebuttal, which must occupy at 10
two weeks, and the summing up will require not less that;
three weeks more. It is understood that Mr. Evarts an
Judge Porter will be permitted to sum up for the defence,
and that an agreement to this effect has been made with 31„r"
Tilton's counsel. They are to be allowed one week ese'l
after which Mr. Beach will reply in a speech of four daVit
duration. Judge Neilson's charge will occupy the grea.t..%
part of a week, so that a verdict cannot be reached bele'"
the middle of May."
DRUNKENNESS AND CRIME.—The grand Pr/
at Leeds Assizes, upon the conclusion of their labourf'
9
made through their foreman, Sir Henry Edwards,,„
presentment calling attention to the fact that in nearu
all the cases in which violence had been committed,
and the number had largely increased, the excitilig
cause had been strong drink, and .they expressed Ot
opinion that no severity of punishment was suffide"A
to deter a man whose blood was inflamed and his rain"
maddened by drink from acts of violence and outragE%
the
Mr. Baron Amphlett expressed his concurrence in
observations of the grand jury. -
THE TWO-HEADED EAGLE. —The origin of tll° ,
device of the eagle on national and royal banners nolli
be traced to very early times. It was the ensign °„
the ancient kings of Persia and Babylon. The Rorae°,
adopted various other figures on their camp standarn°'
but Marius, B c. 102, made the eagle alone the ensitili°
of the legions, aril confined the other figures to t
cohorts. From the Romans the French, under tire
Empire, adopted the eagle.. The emperors of IC
Western Roman Empire used a black eagle; thee°
of the East, a golden one. The sign of the goldeti
eagle, met with in taverns, is in allusion to the ein-
perors of the East. Since the time of the Rolusn''',
almost every state that has assumed the desfi
nation of an empire has taken the eagle for 1
ensign; Austria, Russia, Prussia, Poland and Franc°
all took the eagle. The two-headed eagle signifies °
double empire. The emperors of Austria, who dais°
to be considered the successors of the Cwsars of Role,
used the double-headed eagle, which is the eagle of the
Eastern emperors with that of the Western, typifYini
the "Holy Roman Empire," of which the emperors °
Germany (now merged in the House of Austria) or'.
sidered themselves as the representatives. Charie-
magne was the first to use it, for when he becal,
master of the whole of the German empire he a.dcle.
the second head to the eagle, A.D. 802, to denote thsv
the empires of Rome and Germany were united
him.
VICTORIAN GOLD. The Melbourne Argus',
making its usual annual calculation of the quantitY
gold produced by gold mining in Victoria, states the
quantity for the year 1874 at 1,102,614 oz., balg
146,793 oz, less than in the preceding year; and t_ll,‘Ae
average number of miners at 46,800, or nearly 6,ew
less than in the preceding year. This decrease in Pr-
duction is accounted for partly by the over-speculatioa
in shares in 1872 and 1873, which led to enterprises
being started which never did anything except meik°
calls, and caused thEi. public to be unwilling to invest
mining property generally. But besides this it happeue,°
that in 1874 no fresh extensive alluvial deposits of gola
bearing washdirt were found, or exceedingly rich
yields obtained from various quartz mines, as was the
case at Sandhurst in the years 1871-2, and part of 1873'
A large amount of work is, however, now being Per,
formed both in quartz and alluvial mining, and. it "
thought to be almost an impossibility to carry it ei!
much longer without finding something very important
and advantageous to the mining industry in the forul
of rich quartz or alluvial washdirt. The discoverie°
made in 1874 were considered such as should greatll
increase confidence in the permanence of the auriferous
quartz lodes of the Colony. Eight years ago the yield'
for 1866, reached 1,536,581 ounces.
A LATE SPRING.—A late spring (says the
Gardener's Magazine) may be safely reckoned on, Pr°'
vided, of course, that we are favoured with any spriug
at all. The east winds have probably not yet phge°,
their part, and light frosts with perhaps occasio,
snow, alternating with brilliant sunshine, may be ex- -
pected. The winter now drawing to a close may net
be the longest on record, but it has been thus far loug
enough, we should imagine, to satisfy the most exigeut
lovers of Arctic phenomena, and severe enough, We'
are quite sure, to secure to outdoor vegetation a sufa'
cient season of quietude and rest. As the winter he' r
gan unusually early and has been continued unusuallY
late, we shall probably find, before we have fully donil:
with it, that a term of six months has been exceedo
by what is generally designated the terra "dread
season."

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LONGEVITY OF AMERICAN PUBLIC MEN.";:
The New York Independent, referring to a remarA
made by an American writing from London on the
vigour of English public men at an advanced age 00n2,.",
pared with a race of Americans brought up on ho
bread and buckwheat cakes, and bent on turning then
selves into steam engines," observes :—These are ver9
strange remarks for an American to make. who knows
how long our public men last and how vigorous thel
are when they become octogenarians. There is elc-
Governor Dix, who is five years older than Mr. •
raeli and a much heartier man; there is Mr. Bryant, '•
past 80, still actively attending to his editorial duties,
Peter Cooper, past 80 and full of energy; Commodore
Vanderbilt, near 81, and an active manager of four of'
the largest railroads in the country, and an active di-
rector in other companies • Mr. A. T. Stewart, who fe
older than Mr. Disraeli actively conducting the largestdry goods business in the world. Mr. Bryant began
the translation of Homer after he was 70, and the late
Josiah Quincy, of Boston, at the age of 90 undertook
the "Lire of John Quincy Adams," which he com-
pleted and published. We should not omit to mention
among our public men Mr. George Bancroft, who ie
75 and has not yet thought about being old.

PERSIAN CARPETS. Consul General Jones).
in his Report from Tabreez recently issued, mentiong
that the demand for Persian carpets has increased con'
siderably of late. Feregan and Sultanabad are the
districts which supply the greater quantity of the
, export to Europe and Turkey, to the value of about
£50,000 annually. Carpets are there made expressly'
for the European markets in sizes varying from two
yards square to 14 by 10 yards. The carpets of th„e
Sarabend district are of soloer colours and swan
designs; the colours and quality are remarkablY
durable. The carpets of Khorassan, of which those
woven at Meshed are the best, are distinguished 1:19
the quaintness of their designs and the brilliancy of
their colours; but they are not equal to those Lanai
mentioned in strength and durability, and bring, con'
sequently, lower prices in the local market. The
carpets of the Sennah district are the finest and most
beautiful of all, but the sizes are so small that theY
can only serve in Europe for table-covers or hearth
-
rugs. They measure generally 6ft. by 4ft., and fetch
from 80f. to 150 f. each. Those worked in silk by the
ladies in the Anderoon frequently sell for 200 f. each.
The reversible carpets of Sennah without Ipile (sa
hammam) sell there at from 75f. to 125 f. each. The
colours are brilliant and fast, and the quality ex.
tremely durable. The carpets of the Karadagh dig:
trict resemble those of Kermanshah, being long and
narrow. They are of good quality and colour and
texture. Those of Bakshaish equal the others in dui's'
bility of texture, but their colours are bad and fleeting'
Carpets are manufactured all over Persia, but the,
districts above named are more especially renownoa
for the beauty or the durability of their fabrics, or for
both qualities,

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EXECUTION OF THE PURFLEET
MURDERER.
Richard Coates, artilleryman, 21 years of age' who
~was convicted before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, at
"Le last assizes for the cOunty of Essex, of the murder,
under most revolting circumstances, of a little girl
°lll3' five years and ten months of age, named Alice
Baughan, was executed on Monday morning within
. the county goal at Springfield, near Chelmsford.
The Prisoner, who appears to have been a man of con-
his
. siderable intelligence and to have received a very good
education, was born' as it may be said, in the regiment,
father. who is now pensioned, having been for a
great any. years in the artillery. When very young
he was m
sent to Gibraltar with his brigade, and on a _ count of his superior attainments, he was appointed
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and
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His conduct, however, does not p .to have been very good, and he ultimately deserted
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sent came to England, where he was apprehended and
back to his regiment, and he had only been at
: Purfleet a few weeks when the terrible occurrence
t,ook Place for whioh he has forfeited his life. The
uetadia
raair, f are not of a nature to be published, but the
_ pubilciacts will be fresh in the recollection of the
I_The murder was committed on the 9th of Dec_e.m-
-;In a'nd On that day the prisoner was attending
"u his duties as schoolmaster as usual, his schools.
e4nsisting of six young children belonging to 1
!diers in the garrison, all about the same age as
rile deceased. About half-past three o'clock in the
"'terneen the poor child asked his permission to leave
the school-rootn, and went out, and the prisoner
Shortly afterwards followed her, and the murder was
coratnitted in a closet close by, appropriated to th
,11„.,_se of the children, under most frightful cir-
,;,."-"lstances. The evidence was entirely circume-
Wfailitstial, but it left no possible doubt that the lif
4.1.-- " Poor child was destroyed in this closet, and
that th d
e ead body was secreted until dusk in the
g' when an unsuccessful attempt was made b_ y
Inte prisleoner to throw it over the palings of the barraelp
the river, and if he had been successful in
earrYing ou might
this intention, the terrible crime
possibly never have been discovered. The prisoner
ror
;,.._ a considerable time after his conviction asserted his
444noee
A letternyo,
hibunt,it appears that upon his mother writing
and earnestly pressing him to tell the
trluthine prisoner resolved, as he said, to make a
LrClean oreast of it, and he wrote out a statement of -the
ennistances connected with the crime. Some peard-
,.,_eulars of this confession have already appeared, an
d
Some Main facts have been fully given, but there are
"hae other matters connected with the prisoner's
' statement l3liblic which may not be uninteresting to the
tu......
Ile headed the statement in the following
--mhier •:-.4- .‘ -
," • ~.. _ •
. in eras is the'bollfesslOn oT:itiCliji.7l,.. tOaas .ni ON%i- i iirisoner
towurecider of
"Wingfield Gaol, and under sentence of
to
for the
obaclock, I Alice Baughaii." He goes on to ay :- 0
, nesday, the 9th of December, 1874, a little after one
was in the canteen, drinking, when one of the
•onentthst.werks about the magazine ask,ed if there was any
onethhat woUld go in the boat to help to pick up somen d
,aO4 LI river, and a s n o one else answered, I volunteered, ando_e
11;litebtlo,.the boat, but as I did not pull an oar to please
notth
tt Wet boat, he put me ashore, but my clothes did
. . to I went
tthewhhile I was on the river as was
.supposed. w . vh. otel and drank some spirits-three or four
.ea et rura-and this with the beer I had.
.ha.c.i esti" canteen during the morning produced intope
.khoea, but I was still able to walk straight. I wenatstowtinth
diflkalitnrtit a quarter-past two o'clock, and it w
disco k - gave the children their work to do without their
bY jiepny the state I was in, and I sat down with a book
her
OPoia " ~°r,e to teach the deceased, and took h do, sfiez Knee to teach her, as it was my,custom to
den!, ,o, told me that I had been drinking brandy, and I
other,,'%La I went on teaching her, and I also taught the
kite -e-ddrett as usuaL" The prisoner, after referring to
tc,
asirther matters, says :-" I put her down and told her_e
closet. to out, and she did so, and I followed her to the
or thr e I°4 all ray self-command, and struck her
did
hot kneow olent blows, and I found she was dead. I itn
the seat what to do with the body, and I placed
et , or the closet, and returned to the school. A fear
fit r;lng detected made me leave her where she. was, utterly
reoltums to know what to do. After I had been in the school.
thel2', Short time I inquired if Alice had returned,
can-
her'
she had not, and I sent them home, but 1
ttot..l uect whether they stopped in the yard to play .or
her, reAtitrzilher hat and cloak to her little brother to give
g that she might have gone home, and, after
ro-V, Irl the ledger, left the school-room. I
.went to y
had a Traien, after washing my face and smoothing m hair,
41.. d liaank c't tea, and asked my two comrades, Clusybrook
"wit to the who were examined at the trial, to come
itakilr. he canteen, but Ido not remember either of them
With ichaeo3, observation about my appearance: I remained
thea left t in
the canteen till it was quite dark,
in there a 8,, era and returned to my room, and after be Et
to the c,','ort time, got on my great coat, and went straight
1110 ti,,,addren's watercloset, went to the seat and,pulled her
frontgu Pot her under my coat and carried her out of the
cloth :ate (she was then dripping wet, that was howrm
to throl4,ot Wet) dQ„ ~
'0 the railings by the river,. an
kled to ..iler over several times into the river, but
t but
the paii,.o so, in consequence of her being so heavy, and
cd fiadge Sr high. I carried her further along in hope_
dro g a lower place, but when I found I could not, 1
~,rped her down and left her, The prisoner then says,
attieneeinole act was done as I have stated. I• think I
forehea, „er first by the blows I gave her on the face and
:tern3,•::...,
Tile concludes his statement in the following
Ipon tie ‘tsa,oknowledge the justice of the sentenceepamerde
"40404 47,. hope God will forgive me, for I had
1.1144 drink .- "°lllg ha nn to that poor little child than a baby,
tee of n. and that foul poison overcame me, and, bereft
no nu
j atti 'IV senses, and for which by the just laws of England,
elsec e
wilt,raned, and may
4ft er im_al----...1.n. God forgive me, for I am afraid
g this statement the priag,p.er, who had
deree.°l2Bl3' exhibited a depressed ana melancholy
answ-; 71% aPPeared to feel great relief. and he readily
raine,eft' anY questions put to him, and seemed deter-
had e ° ehow that he sincerely repented the act he
mr....2nanaitted. He paid great attention to the Rev.
a wiilltamilton, the chaplain of tche prison, and expressed.
and t° Writd to the paretts of the' murdered child, theu74 their forgiveness - for the injury he had done
of, hiaa_,d the misery he had been the cause
Aareut al_eleoire had already been anticipated, for the
gave 4 .1.14 written to him to the effect that they for-
• Peared al, aucl when he was shown this letter he ap-
curio very much gratified. He wrote a rather
be rus letter to his own mother and father, in which
the erested thern to forget him, and to devote their
tO his brothe nd sisters, and he signed it,
4.011 r unprofitable sorns,aßichard.4 :
The ord •
tion, a
~ Prlt slept soundly the night before his execu-
early biln" when he was visited by Mr. Hamilton at an
Pared_ ;t,.,r,,°21, Monday morning, he said he was pre-
that ' "-L 'ae greater portion of the interval between
waa BPpeeriliotcl. and the hour appointed for the execution
inhintes b lc; aPParently, fervent prayer. At afe
rtioner, t,,aeat°re eight o'clock, Marwood, the execu-
ilElilieu th - brought into the cell, and proceeded to
Inio,._ e Prisoner, who had on the convict's drenss,
durfn;"•rtrY uniform havino• been taken from him, a d
Ile 001:eul Process he did' not utter a single word. , alleareeg v 5 C 8
Pale, but in every other respect he
Pliot,,,
in. "nal and collected, and he walked to the
ttihit th - a fulu marchin,, step, and did not ex-
at hi, e slightest indicati'on of dismay or terror
been
4d_itoiterPhr°„ aching fate. After the rope had
-'... utt d l fervent ejaculations
vatrese,„ , ere severa
the Re -I,,,'°Y Pardon from the Almighty, to which
and 4-; 11% Hamilton impressively responded Amen,
wa.a 0111 platform fell
, while the wretched man
Pardon. ~;-,4 the act of uttering an entreaty for
after the Ane Rev. Mr. Hamilton continued praying
evide dr°P had fallen, and until it became
exia, tlt that the an
young man had ceased to
Slid:
4Aft,ter hanging for an hour the body was cut down,
Le„,,,;,_
tileue course of the day an inquest was held by Mr.
foriQ coroner for the county, when the usual
A verdict in such cases was returned by the jury-
- good.
altho„ raalaY persons assembled outside the prison,
vitt„'grik the only 1, indication of what was going on
f„t'Lla the walls was the black flag waving mourn-.
p 1
""7 °ver tile toof the building.
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