The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-23 00:00:00

The following also ran :

Curie (Parsons,
Tornado (Fordham:
Amelia • (Challoner:
Gold Dust (Norman:
Marigold
Crafton Lass
Tease-me-Not
Won in a canter by three lengths. A bad third.
£lOO HANDICAP PLATE.

Atherstone
Giraffe colt

Six ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Speedy . ___ _..---.
Lizzie

Six ran.
FREE HANDICAP.

Citadel
Paste

Five ran.
HANDICAP PLATE.

Wingrave
Harlequin
N.ne ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 15 SOVS,
Cerintha
Zora
Three ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

Southport
Speedy

Four ran.

LATEST BETTING.
CHESTER CUP.
3to lon the ta-1,1 (off, red)

GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
9to 2 agst Fantail (taken)
sto 1 agst Carbineer (taken)
11 to 1 agst Gameboy colt (taken)

THE DERBY.
9to 2 agst Lord Clitden (taken)
7to 1 agst Maccaroni (taken)
9to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken)
15 to 1 agst Automat on (taken)
16 to 1 agst Glenochty colt (taken)
18 to 1 agst Ranger (taken)
A thin muster, but little betting.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863.
APRIL.

York Spring 28

z,alisbury

Chester .
Bath
Harpenden l5
Epsom l9

.AY.
Radcliffe 25
Dl anchester 27
Marlborough ..29

Ascot 2
Newton ..10
Hampton
Odiham 16
Bibury Club 17

Beverley l7
Stockbridge lB
Chelmsford 23
Newcastle-on-Tyne 23
Carlisle 3O
rLv.: _ _

Worcester Summer 2
Newmarket July .. 7
Liverpool... 13
Abingdon 14
Hungerford l6
Pontefract 16

Samford l6
Winchester 2l
Nottingham 21
Cambridge 2l
Southampton.. 22
Goodwood 22

EXECUTION FOR DESERTION.

Robert Gay, a soldier of Company D, 71st Indiana, has
been shot, in obedience to the sentence of a court-martial.
Shortly after the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, last sum-
mer, he deserted and took the oath of allegiance to the rebel
Government. Returning to Clay County, in this State, he
was arrested last fail, and, when searched, a copy of the oath
of allegiance to the Confederate States was found sewed up
in his pantaloons. The sentence was executed in presence
of all the troops at this post, near Camp Morton. He made
a brief address to the soldiers, acknowledging his guilt, but
saying that he intended nothing criminal in what he
done. Ho never intended to join the rebel army, but took

the oath in the belief that that would release bun from ser-
vice in the Federal army, and enable him to return to his
home. He desired to leave the army because he could not
endure its hardships; his health had been poor; but he
added that his health was now better than it had
ever been in his life. He asked the soldiers not to let
him suffer, but shoot at his breast that he might die quickly.
The sergeant•major then stepped up and began tying his
hands, which he placed behind his back voluntarily. He
stood silent for a moment, aed If I could only be
spared I would enter the regiment agsin, and do my duty as
well as any man in it, or (hesitating) fis well as I am able."
By this time his hands were tied, and he glanced round the
ranks, and up at the sun, as if to take a last look ac earth
The sergeant-major led him to the coffin, and seated him
up,,n it, facing the firing party, with his back to the asst.
He sat a second, drew his feet towardt him. and settled
himself back on the coffin, as if to brace himself against
the shock that was to coma. The sergeant-major

tied the band of the black cloth round his eyes, and
stepped rapidly off to the tight and front out of the range
of the guns. Then the prisoner, being left alone, for the
first time, exclaimed, " Oh, that I could see my death 1"

in a tone of deep sadness. A whisper from Lieutenant
Sherley to the firing party brought all the guns to a
" ready." The clicking o, the cocks was heard all around.
The prisoner heard it 00, but he only showed his conscious-
ness of it by the movement of his lips in prayer, which be-
came audible, but not intelligible, as the guns were lowered
to take aim. " Lord God," in a low tone, as if part of his
prayer, was heard, and the crash of the guns followed in-
stantly. At the explosion he tell straight back over his
coffin, without a sound or struggle. He gasped for half a
minute spasmodically, not breathing, and was dead. There
were eight shot holes in his coat, seven of them in his breas ,
any one of which would almost have killed him instantly.
One of them struck Dim right in the heart. All ten of the
balls struck him. The sergeant, with his carbine in re-
serve, stood by the coffin to shoot him in the head and end
his misery if it bad been necessary; but, much to his relief,
the work had been surely done without him. The coffin
was put into Undertaker Weaver's waggon, the troops were
dismissed, and the most impressive and dreadful scene ever
witnessed in Indianapolis and the first military execution in
the West was over.—lndianapolis Journal.