The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-07
Nlrhmonn Qispattb.
WEDNESDAY, MOKNINa. NOV. ,so.

E@6oUT TioS OF A MATRIoIDE.-Ezra Brain
erd Was hung at Three Rivers. q. W.on ,hs
2a'h uit', for having murdered his mother
some months since. Since his conviction
strong efforts have been made to have him
pardoned on the ground of insanity. and ths
wretched dogerei which he has had published
In paper at Three Rivers would seem to IN
dicate that be was far from being in his right
mind A correspondent of the Montreal Ga
zette sketches the closing scene of his life He
writes:
shortly before IL O'Clock, a door leading to
the convicrs cell was closed, and the hang
man proceeded to pinion his victim in the
dtmly lighted dungeon, screened by the closed
door from the looks of the people in the iail
nah The constables who accom- panied him
state that while being pinioned Braiherd re-
quested Sheriff Ogden to convey his body, af-
ter execution. to Melbourne. in the Town
ships Tor burial, and that the twenty dollars
In gold among his effects be appropriated for
the purpose. The Sheriff promised to comply
win ms request. He also said to the hang
man, ou are pinching me; you are begin
mag TO murder me too soon" The convict
pinioned, rope was placed round his waist
and the party, led by the Sheriff. proceeded up
the TWO highs OF stairs TO the room leading to
the drop.
Brainerd walked up the steps coolly and
more uhconcernedly tnan any of the specta-
tors In the room the executioner took his
hand OF Brainerds neck aud drew back the
ooIts OF the door, outside which was the drop
As he did SO the crowd, which now amounted
To about2, 900, ana in which many women were
to be seen, multaneOusly exclaimed, "Le roi-
Ia, !s coiIa," and swayed TO and fro a few mo-
ments, eagerly looking up at Brainero, who
stood calmly gazing out into the rain. The
nangman stepped out on the drop and pulled
down The moose Rev. Mr.. Carron said
"BTainerd, humble yourself; repent ; in len
minutes you Will be no more, ana facing your
Creator" Words 10 this effect he repeated
Twice, but still Brainerd made no sign and
looked down at the crowd. Precisely at H.
the preparations completed, Brainerd was led
out on the drop, and the e1ecutioner placed
the moose around his neck, having previously
partly drawn The black cap down over his face
ana removed his hal, Bralnerd saying that the
wind would blow it of. He stood facing east
and exclaimed, in low tones, to the people
outside, strangers, they are going to commit
murder. am innocent"
he was deaf 10 all the en- treaties of his spir-
ltuai advisers, and refused to be baptized be-
lore stepping upon the scaffold. When the
drop fell ne appeared to suffer horribly owing
tc the rain the rope had stlffened, and when
cut did not close upon the victims neck The
fall, though six feet, did not appear sufficient
10 dIslocate his neck, Whlrling RAPIDLY around
with the rope his body was visibly agitated
by his convulslve efforts to loosen his hands
every nerve seemed 10 Writhe in agony, ana
after O short struggle, u horrid choked sound
issued between his cleuched teeth. Gradually
II ceased, and Win 1t the upheavings of the
chest and The agitation of the limbs. A few
gasps, and III lew moments Ezra Brainerd
mad explated his crime.