The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-04-25
IDAHO WORLD.
HANGING.
fFrom the Omaha Bee.l


THE SENSATIONS or MAN WHILE BEING EXECUTED.
lFrom the Omaha Beef
There is now living in this city man
who, until recently, has been engaged
as common laborer On the Union Pa.
cifc road, and who has livid ring ex.
tending entirely around his neck.
Though he takes especial pains to con.
ceal this mark by wearing a large scarf,
yet occasionally his associates have
caught glimpses Of it and have vainly
tried to induce him to explain it's origin.
He always turned the questioner off by
some light remark, or, as the mood seiz-
ed him, by grufay requesting the curl
GUS to mind their own business. A few
days since, he told an intimate friend
how he came to be so afflicted, and last
evening we interviewed him, and after
q good deal of persuasion, succeeded in
getting from him the following story,
which we give our readers as it was
told to us:
When he brought up at the ropes
end very acute pain, only momentary
in duration, seized upon his brain, and
then he seemed to feel a drowsiness
creeping upon him.. He was without
pain, while he thought he was in anoth-
er world. where everything was beau
tiful beyond description. 1t appeared
that most gorgeous panorama was
passing before his eyes, and he longed
to cry out in approval. Suddenly the
scene changed, and an impenetrable
darkness settled over all. He came
back to realization Of his position,
and waited in impatience for the final
change to take place. He felt an icy
GOODNESS gradually creeping from his
feet upward, and he reasoned to himself
that as soon as it should reach his heart
he would die. He seemed to take pleas
ure in noting the progress of this chill
and wondered if, when people die from
natural causes, they experienced the
same sensations. All at once he became
Of similar chill creeping
over his heart downward. His face
grew cold as marble, and he knew his
end was near. He noted the increasing
progress of the chills, and thought that
when they came together over the heart
he would then be dead. Still he did
not fear nor have pain.
Finally the looked-for result came,
and it seemed to him that with one wall
Of agony, produced by sudden pain.
ne leaped upward, as light as air, and ,
then all was blank. He remembers I
nothing more until seven hours after. |
wards, when he woke to consciousness :
and knew his life had been saved. For :
hours, aye, days, his agony was most :
acute, and he says he had rather be 5
hung dozen times than resuscitated q
nee. 1t appeared to him that he was I
at times by hundreds of lit I
lie imps, who took delight in sticking /
leedles into his flesh and burning his 9
'ody with hot irons His head racked +
With pain and his whole system seemed h
he seat of every acute disease imagin- O
BILE. After several days he recovered n
to sit up, when it was found !;
hat in all probability he would carry b
ne marks of his terrible experience all n
is life. His neck refused to succumbs h
reatment for months afterward, and G
vhen finally the wound healed it left n
he livid ring already spoken of. d
He seems quite intelligent, but is I,
cry quiet, seldom making free with his ]
and never joining in any h
their sports. When spoken to quick o.
: he starts and looks around as if he a
-as in fear of some dire calamity about b
, befall him. Though we have given 81
i'm an assumed name, yet he assures
9 the above facts are true, and many -
his associates will now know the :.
,ason of the peculiar mark on his neck. ~
THIS ia a story in Old and Ne,r. A III