The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-06-26

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pulls the bolt, the drop fails, and the bound
and blindfolded figure swings to and fro in
the bright morning air corpse. Barrett
powerful will and enormous self CONTROL
seemed prominent even in the death agony
The ordinary Geath-twitchings and spas
medically convulsiye struggles of hands and
feet were none of them to be seen, and, as
lie hung stiff and rigid, and with protruding
tongue and swollen, distorted features, dis
cernible under their thin, white cotton GOV.
erlne, as it they were part Of some hidden
masquerading, his broad shoulders and
thick. set muscular frame seemed to part
with life without single throe or heave.
Calcraft remained below, placing his hands
on the dying man S feet as if to steady the
swinging body; but without employing the
pull or jerk with which be is said to occas-
lonally supplement the dreadful fall. In
death the legs were drawn partly up aud
turned outwardly at the knees, as if in ir-
voluntary aid of determination and with
the bow-shape Sir Walter Scott gave Rob
Roy's, in token of his vast personal
strength. The criminal this morning either
had his neck broken in the first fall, OF
kept unmoved in pursuance of set pur-
pose, but it is certain that his proud spirit
departed without betraying the usual symp-
toms of an unnatural and violent death.
The mob saw but few of the details VIC
have described. Tie short black cloth
curtain which has of late years been placed
round the shabby old gallows, partially
hides those standing on it, and makes only
head and shoulders visible after the drop
has fallen, and the criminal is hanged. But
Caicraft and Barrett each had 4 horribly
noisy reception directly after they appeared.
The persistent burst of groanipg which
greeted the detachment of metropolitan
police joining the city constables in the in
closed space before the gallows became
appalling when the hangman was recog>
nlzed. Let's put him there instead -
Shame u Down with him p bah,
bah, murderer, bah, are but few of the
articulate sounds heard from the windows
OF the Old Bailey, and ringing in the
doomed mans ears at the supreme mo-
ment. But even these were lost in the ex-
cited and congratulated cheers for Barrett.
The murderous outrage tor which he died
seemed to be forgotten. The MANNED
women, the crippled children, the countless
agonles inflicted upon the aged, the help
less and the weak the honest breadwln-
ners reduced to life of cherries pauper-
ism, all faded out of sight; and hand clap
ping, Bravo, Barrett" Good bye. Bar
rett, . Never mind 'em-theml' were
mixed up with cheers as hearty as ever fol-
lowed hero to battlefield. But the Irish
accent was notably absent, though those
demonstrations seemed to come both from
the regular Old Bailey trequenters and the
more respectable people with which they
we're plentifully interspersed.
Nor were more touching evidences of
sympathy wanting. Hanging over the bar
.rier Immediately opposite the gailows, and
supported on ethics side by female friend
stood the half fainting figure of a young
woman of some "a or 25 Her decent de-
rneanor and modest air won even upon the
brutal natures round her, and couple OF
genuine London roughs kept back their
comrades by entreaties, and, when neces>
sary, by blows. Whatever her relationship
or knowledge of Barrett may have been,
there could be no doubt of the genuineness
white, with cIenched lips, and hands which
chung to The wooden barrier before her,
with the tenacity of the drowning man, she
succeeded in controlling herself until the
drop actually fell When Barrett appear
GU vi tHC SCouUiu, ti6 WOludu supporting
her redoubled their consolatory efforts, and
her blanched face aud wiStful, air. became
intensified in their expression. But when
his face was covered she gave way, and, at
the fatal moment, fell PROSTATE and lay in
a passion of hysterical grief, deaf to the
noises and blind to the sights nearer him,
and conscious only of the gallows and it's
doubtful mission. Concurrently with this
painful scene is stir among the police
men guarding the inclosure in front. One
of their number, tall, powerful, good
looking young man, has given way, and
Barrett's death is the signal for his falling
down to fit. His clenched teeth white
face, upturned eyeballs and cataleptic fig
ure, as his head falls down over the arms
raised to succor him, lend additional horror
to the proceedings. But his brother off
GERS loosen his neckcloth, and pale, hag>
gard, and with some ugly marks as if of
blood about the mouth, he is led away by
couple Of colleagues with stronger nerves
than his own, who halt guide and half help
him to Newgate door, taking him as they
do so clese by the gallows tree, and the
rlgla figure now moving idly, but with a
sort OF pendulum motion, from north to
south.
The horrors and brutalities of an execu-
ton have been so often described, that an
of some of the features alb
sent this morning will give the reader
more acurate understanding of the scene
than any attempt at deliberate detail
There were comparatively few women, lit
tie violence, few fights, and no robbery to
speak of. Up to 6 clock the assemblage
was so scattered and sparse that the course
OF the heavy barriers-put up by the city
to break the expected rushings,
and looking like massive sheepfolds-
could be easily traced, At the people
did not cover Newgate street and
it was not until nearly that the more dis
tant approaches were filed But even
then large bare patches OF vacancy could
be detected from the roof-ways near. The
ragged element was, moreover, far less
common than is usual. Take away the lit
tie tatterdemalions Of five years old and
upward who gambolled up and down, over
and under the barriers, and Knocked and
gibed at the windows and in the face of
death, and it was not, by comparison, a
dressed crowd. But its sym
pathies were essentially cruel They hated
the hapgm n more than his victim, and
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