The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

ILLECUTION OF WHIZ WORTH dT TORS.

On Saturday morning, John Taylor Whitworth,
who was convicted at the late Yorkshire Winter Gaol Deli-
very of having murdered his sweetheart, &fly Here, at
Laughton-en-lerkforthen, near Rotherham, on the let of
October last, sufficed the highest penalty of the law at Took,
in the presence of a large concourse of spectator'.
Stare hie trial, the unhappy man has never denied his
guilt, but, on the contrary, has repeatedly acknowledged the
justice of his fate in general terms, without making any de-
' tailed confession of the circumstances order which he beams
the murderer of his sweetheart. He was warmly attached to
the girl, of whom he became jealous, in consaquence of having
reel a love letter addretead to her by • youngtuan who was
desirous of becoming her suitor. This feeling of jealoney
gained so great an ascendancy over him, that he determined
to murder her, and he carried out that determination in the
most cruel manner. Whitworth, dace hie convicion,
!tia2Lmaasid his billef that there wee not the slightest
for hie jialeusy, and, consequently, the murder he
racommitted appears to him in a very hernous light. He
has in effirt denied the troth of the long statement he made
shortly after the murder, and has admitted that the girl did
not strike him with the knife, as he alleged, but that he
murdered her, and then cut his own throat

Oa Friday the Rev. J. E M. Young and the Rev. J.
Parkes had interviews with the maniere', who was per-
fectly resigned to meet the doom that awaited him. At tes
o'clock at night Mr. Parkes again visited the culprit, sad
remained watt him mail three o'clock on Saturday morning.
The night wee epunt fa reading the scriptures and in prayer,
the culprit bring. apparently very name in his devotions..
After Mr. Parkas left Whitworth west to sleep, end rested
calmly until half-past 6 o'clock, at which time be resumed
the reading of the scriptures, sad again engaged in prayer.
Shortly after seven o'clock the omelet left the condemned
oell, when he bade the officers of the prison au affectionate
farewell, and wee then conducted ante. the Cantle-yard to a
room adjoining the scatild. He walked with a firm step,
and made use of exclamations to the kit that he had a
well-grounded belief that his soul would be eared, and was
penitent and resigned. At half-past seven o'clock the Rev.
J. E. M. Young arrived at the Castle. sod he converndiand
prayed with the criminal from that hour until ten o'clock,
when the sacrament wee administered to him.

During the night Whitworth again acknowledgcd his
guilt, confessing that be made the first attack upon his via.
lien, and that elie did not attack him. Ile also said that be
might have asked the shepherd how much arsenic would
poison anybody, but he did not distinctly recollect. He had
no doubt that the shepherd understood him to oak some
suck question, for he told him that • spoonful would kill
two persons. lie added that the jury could not arrive at
any other conclusion then the one they had, looking at the
deer evidence adduced against him, and that his sentence wee
jam.
The woelereen began shortly sitar four o'clock on Saturday
morning to erect the actiffold, the adjustment sad preperation
of which occupied leveret boors. The executioner, 'themes
Askren. of ?Cathy, WAS' Rotherham, who has performed the
duties of hangman on three previous weskit., arrived in
York on Friday night, and at mice proceeded to the Castle,
whirs he remained during the night.
After the administration of the sacramel the culprit vas
calm and collected, and his mind seemed fully posessed with
a belief of the foroveness of his crime. Shortly before 12
o'clock, W. Gray, Esq., the Under-sheriff, arrived at the
Castle, and demanded the body of the climatal in the usual
tors. The operation of pinioning was then gone throuch,
during which the prisoner sustained liOmasif writ great for-
.

MANSION-HOUSE.
lan COMM, a middle-aged. woman was brought before
11[r. Alderman barter, charged with having robbed a lad of
a pair of boots under the following ciratmetances.
Jamas Daley am 10 years old, and am errand boy
to Mr. J. Widdowes, a shoemaker. This morning I was
sent by my grandfet her on an errand over Blackfriars-bridge
with a blue bag containing a pair of boom, which I was to
take to • customer in Beer-lane, Cleorgendreet, Bleckfriare-
reed. Just as I ree-bed the gum of the Midge, the prisoner
came up to me, and asked me to go to a shop to get her tome
work, protuidog we a penny for my trouble. I went with
her to a how., opposite the end of Old Fish-stmt, when she
pointed nut o chop to me, and told me to inquire for Mrs.
Johnson's work, and also for a loot. She took my bag from
my band, and told me to walk on while she waited for me at
a bcershop which elm pointed out. I was to take the work to
her thee*. I went to the chop and inquired for her work,
but was told they did not know anything about It. I then
ralunind to the shop, but could not hod her, I went along
Comoro -street crying. and the policemen asked me what was
She matter. I told him what had occurred. and accompanied
him to the station, after which we went in search of the
prisoner, and found her in about eve minutes in the street.
the policeman was only two yard. from me when I pointed
bee out to him, and he tirik her into custody. She irate.-
&Moly denied that she wee the woman, but I am within as
to her identity. In the meantime she bad got rid of the boots I FATAL ACCIDENTS. A carter-owner, named
and bac. Japh Lunt, wee driving hie home and cart along the Live:-
Alderman Carter asked the prisoner whether she wished putt Uncles on Thuraday, when be come in collision with a
to Rut any questions to the witness Y I lorry, and was so revere!), crushed between the two vehicles
riu(www—l declare that I sun not the Perron at all, and I ' that he died on the spot. An inquest was held on his body
Dover raw the boy till he told the policeman to take me into I on Saturday. and a verdict of sondentel death was returned.
custody. When the polloeman asked him if he was acre II on Saturday morning a similar accident occurred at the
was the woman who bad rubbed him he said he did'at think ° docks, the ntifortonete sufferer being Francis Borne, a lad
I watt. lin the employ of MOM*. Piceford, the carrion. lie was
Policeman—That la sot correct. When I fleet asked the standing near a poet on the Clarence-dock quay, when •
boy if he was certain she was the women, Its said he woe. ' out was iwidaid, backed, and he was crashed between It
The primmer then contradicted him, are which I 'aid, and the pest. He was taken to the Northern Hospital,
" Are /no certain she is the women r mta hs replied, "Iftsi whore be died the New day. An inquest will be held on the
I'm pnaltive of it." I body to-day.
Several women, whore children have been robbed in a czypirpy pny,acz, HALF-CROWN Day.--
slender manner by a pennon remaining the prisoner in cep- BAT...a. Jaw. 8. 0.
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premises, stood forward, and upon the eon of taut of them (a dun LitMa.l,7B7 6.4.1 visilceti 7, 18 t.
Id about nine 'ewe old) being rineetiowed, be mild he woe r .
a I tAneertieement.l—" THE NATURAL REG ENERA-
unable to speak positively to her Identity
altkaaah 'am"- ' nos or wee PIO.TITS amyl • sr, Perfect Health without Medicine,
• rod deal like her bend 011 the Me"' dAI stolen " Wotli IDCOII,MIIIOIOII, or r pro, re •torell io the ne.t•ofort4a4 or nattered
from him which be hod been meat by hisse. otter to delivn to nmain. toe. sin etfe,ual renewal of lellroetos klreoreelal. eobl.
• customer. The mother hid had to py the value f the MY. coortlpatloo, nerretole.o. treitshilltr,:e. ...Menem coon. ..tenth
.11•4111;,000 all o real., 14
ic nl.lour. an.l.llver
Molest parcel to the wester, and the wormy alderman gave ke.. by .t.nd, re,
her 10.. out of the poor-box. ao4 reeete.l elicit carer Olt, times It. root la other re/noller
The primmer was thin rsrosadad. V TM. pamphlet I. adapted to the Moral by f
4reeler oord oo.ht to be to the
hand. of all veneer nhealth.lrerdeel ree toot,Shortly after the care had been disposed of the policeman t i townie
on retetl4 ten tenor .wow,. I
It
s loGown.
entered the court, end sod he had ascertained the prisoner mown., 610. tee.

Precisely at 12 o'clock the haltordiers made their appear-
'nee on the scaffold, and roes followed by the Under-sheriff,
the Governor of thy Castle, and ~that officiate. The culprit
came next. He was attired in the garb he wore on hie trial,
that ol a fares earning. . .

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Immediately before the rope was adjusted by Aekren, the
unhappy man offered up a prayer, after whirh the bolt wee
drawn by the executioner, the drop fell, and the culprit, after
struggling for about two minute', expired.
The crowd who attended the execution amounted to about
5,000. Eves the solemn event could nut prevent some of the
spectator. crying out, "Shen.; bring out Atkinson," the
man acquitted of the D.uley warder on the ground of in-
, emit,. but the crowd began to diepare shortly after the
drop feU.
At one o'clock tha body we. cut down, and interred within
the precincts of the 0..t1e.