The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1860-04-26
wfe, aud accordingly refused their request
He was hsnged at Tybun May d, l722.
rus MALT HANGED uoHwAvMAv.

One would naturally suppose that man who
hld suffered all the horrors OF hanging mst
short of actual death, wonli never risk the gal.
lows again; but such, in one case NJ least was
not the result. hudSeb tcaker named Smith,
was hanged at Tybun, December 81. l703, and
when he had hung nearly fifteen minutes, the
people shouted, "a reprievol y He was cut
down, bled, and recovered
When asked what his feelings had bcen, he
replied in substance, that "whcn he was turned
Off he tor some time was sensible OF very grca,
pain, occosioned by the weight OF hi, holy, aud
felt his spirits in a strange otion. violently
pressing upwards; that having lorced their wa,
to his head he, as il Were, saw n great bluse or
glarinS light which seemed togo out of the eyes
with dash, und then he lost oil sense of pain +,
that after he was cut down, and began to come
TO himself the blood and spirits forcing them.
selves ino their tormer channels, put him, by h
sort ot pricken or shooting, in such intoleruble
pain, that no could have wished those hanged
who had cut him down." Eycr afterwards, he
went by the name OF haifhangtd Smith. -
rhiS fellow soon returned to his former evil
habits, and was again tried at the Old Bailey for
houSebreaking; but the jury brought in special
verdict, leaving the affair to the decision of the
twelve judges wao declded in lator OF the prs.
oncr. Even this second wonderful ESCAPE did
not deter hun from rcsuming his mapracticcs
aud the thlrl time h. was to have been brou sht
TO trial, but the prosecutor died before the day
! appointed, ant thus he once more got lrre.--
Nothing is known o. his subsequent history.
now THEY uEAbr wiru WITCHES uuNpRgn
YEARS 400.
so late as the year l75l a man named Col
ley was executed AMI huug N chains lor being
ringleadcr ofa mob who duckod poor oil wo
man to death for beingp WITCH ut Tring, il
| Hertlcrdshire. Her husband was duckcd at tn,
same time, but he survived. The curious part %
the affair Is. that the leader of the mob ON tins
occasion acted 50 openly md deliberately. tha
they previously cmployed the cter OF lltmc
Hampstead to give notice, paying him foufpenc,
iur tne job, aul giving him II paper to cry lrou
of which this is "A copy: " THIS is 10 give MOTTO,
| thai, on NJ luday next man anl woman arr
tn b. publicly du, ked at Trng, in this county
for their wicked crimes The notice was ais,
gwen at two nClghborng towns on their mirke
lays, AMI the o,erseer of Tring removed the tw,
helpless old people to their wn,khouse, in tn
first Instance, and su's 'quently to the vestry o
the church 10 project them from their threat
ened fate o. the day appointed, five thousun,
people assembled, and almost tore down tn
workhousa ere they were convinced their il,
tended victims were elsewhere. They scarchc
every part of the house examining the closets
boxes. trunks, and even the salt box" and "swor
they would pull down the house, and st ire I
the whole town Of rriug. except Osborne an
his wife were Produced" They at length learnc
where the old people were. aud thi result hi
been told,