Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-05
L1rcHFIELD, CONN, THURSDAY. APRIL 5, 1880.

fired at, while his companion was shot dead. We are not surprised to learn that this ma died impenitent, laughing and needing" t
 his acqsaintances in the crowd on his wa
 to Tyburn. A highwayman, somewhat Tt
 semhling him in character, actually sho
 dead Mir Spurling, the head-turnkey of tn
 court at the Old Bailey, in the presence e
 the conrt He did this because SpurIinj
 would not let him speak with woman, al i acquaintance Of his, then on her trial fo
 coming. The woman encouraged him to d, the deed, and the horror-str;eken court in stantly ar'aigned them both fer the murder
 of which they were of course convicted O, the spot, everybody present being witnesses
 of the deed. They died desperately wicked.
 A robher named Hartley, who was con
 vlcted with comrade, of robbing, in the open fields, poor tailor of twopence and hi:
 clothes-whic'l they stripped off, and bound
 him to tree-adopted most extraordin.
 y expt dcnt with view to save his neck
 He procured six young women, dressed in
 white, to go to St. Jamrs's. and present d
 petition in his behalf The singulnrity oi
 their appearance gained them admission,
 when they told the king, that if he extend ed the royal mercy to the offender, heu
 vould cast Lots uhicA should be las uife but his majesty said he was more deserving of the gaIows than wife, and accordingly re- fused their request" He was hanged st Iyburn, May 4, l722.
 Oue would naturally suppose that man wiio had suffered all the horrors of hanging. inst short of actual death, would never risk the gnl!ows again; but such, in one case It least, was rot the result. A hou>e-breaker named Snit', was hanged at Tyburn, De- crmber "A, 1705, ano when he had hung nearly Ffeen minutes, the people shouted "A relrcve! He was cut down, bled. and recovered! When asked what his feel inss had been, he replied, in substance, that "when he was turned off, he for some time Was sensible of very great pain, occasoned hy the weight of his body, and felt his spir- It's Ill strange comm 'tion, violently pressing upwards; that having forced their way to hls head, he, az it were, saw great blaze or glaring light, which seemed to go out of the eyes with flash, and then he lost all sense of paiu. That after he was cut down, and began to come to himself, the blood aud spirits forcing themselves into their former put him, by sort of prickirg or shooting, to such intolerable pain, that he could have wished those hanged who had cut him down." Ever afterwards, he went by the name of "half hanged Smith," This fellow soon returned to his former evil hab- It's, and was again tried at the Old Bailey for house-bre"king; but the jury brought in special verdict, leaving the affair to the decision of the twelve judges, who decided Il favor of the prisoner. Even this sccohd escape did not deter him from re- 'um'ng Lis maIpractices, and q third time 'c was to have been brought to tral, but the prosecutor died before the day appointed, ind thus he once more got free Nothing frsTn Nonha a dbpraT af fst when the body Of convict was not specially ordered for disscc- :ion, or to haug in chains, he could dispose ,f it whilst living, for among the pnpers of . Mir. Goldwyr, surgeon, of Salisbury, was ound letter, addressed to him by an un- ,arpy and frendless criminal, lying in Fish jail, and bearing date October }, l73G. It is as fellows:
 "SIR-Beiny informed that you arc the only surgeon in this'city Cor county) that ,natonises men, and being under the un- happy circumstances, and in a very mean would gladly live as long as :an; but, by all appearance, am to be ex- ,cuted next March, having no friends cn earth that Will speak word to save my fife, nor send me morsel of bread to keep fife and soul together until that fatal day; 50, if you will vouchsafe to come hither, l will gladly sell you my body (bcing whole aud sound) to be ord red at your discretion; knowing that it will rise again at the g@ner- .l resurrection as well from your house as from the grave. Your answer, sir, will highly obliye yours, &c., J. BROOKE"
 We are not aware what crime Brooke had nor whether the surgeon compli- ed with his piteous request.
 So late as the year l751, man named Coley was executed aud hung in chains for being q ringlvader of a mob who ducked poor old woman 10 death for being d witch" at TrIng, in Hertfordshire. Her husband was tucked at the same time, but tlC StiSSco. AhC SuA ious putC Ol Itic iuuiT is, that the leaders of the mob on this occu- sion acted so openly and deliberately, tha, they previously employed the crier of Hemel- Hampstead to give notice, paying him four pence for the job, and giving him paper to cry from, of which this is a copy: This is to give notice that, on Monday next, man and woman are to be publicly ducked at Triug,n this county, for theIr wicked crimes J The notice was also given at two neighbor- ing towns, on their market-days, and the overscer of Tring removed the two helpless old people to the workhousc, in the first i.,- stance, and subsequently to the vestry of the church, to protect them from their threateil- ed fate. On the day appointed, five thou sand people assembled, aud almost tore t:own the work-house ere they were cnnvimc- ed their intended victims were elsewhere. They searched every part of the house, "ex- amil,ng the cIossts, boxes, trunks. ard ercn the saLt-boz," and 'swore they would pull down the house. and set fire to the whole town of Tring, except Osborne and
 his wife were produced" They at lengtl,
 Iearned where the old people were, and tht
 result has been told.
 N-At Dieppe, in France, q famous bath
 ing place, there is a police established, who's, l.. :< ;., uQPSnus from,