Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-09-05

And it is by means of kite that sns-
pension bridges over impossible
chasms have been begun. one of
those across the Niagara; the kite TAX
ing over thu string, which is followed
by cord, which draws after tho rope,
which leads the way for the wire cable
and the whole marvellous fabric.
GEORGE AsPENvALL.
Crime In Great Britaln... W Wholesale
Executions.
A late London letter has tho follow
ing startling exhibit of crime in Great
Britain: "There were Ave executions
in two days. One man was hung at
Worcester on Monday. Three were
hung at Maidstone and one at Stafford
on Tuesday, and the same journals
which report these executions, contain
accounts of three fresh murders, while
| in the jails are already a SCORE of muir
derers and murderesses awaiting trial.
The epidemic of bloodshed which is
prevailing at present is traced by some
people to the clemency of the Home
Secretary, who, few months ago, broke
his old rule of hanging
/
pardoning the other, and par
doned several in batch-Rev. Mr..
Watson, Christianu Edmunds, Marga
ret Desblane and some others. OF
the three murderers hung at Maidstone,
on Tuesday. Thomas Moore was the
most remarkable. He had been SOL
der and constable, but his bad hab-
its led to his dismissal, and he then be-
gan to lead IN irregular lite, diversified
by bursts of wild and uncomfortable
passion. He had married q wife ten
years older than himself, and his treat
ment of her caused frequent temporary
separations. Finally she left him and
told him she would not return. But
one day he called at her fathers house,
got her to walk with him in
the fields, and then stran-
gieds her. The second murderer
was soldier, who stabbed his c0mrade
in the barracks at Dover, in revenge
for being reported by him. The
soldiers had gone to bed in their bar
racks. Francis bradford, this soldier,
arose, got his bayonet, went to his VIC
TINS bed, and stabbed him through
and through. The third murderer,
Tooth. was also soldier. In the regi.
ment was drummer boy with whom
Tooth quarreled. He got intoxicated,
took a razor, went in search of the boy
and cut his throat from ear. to ear.
Moore and Bradford were members of
the Established Church. Tooth was a
Wesleyan. Since their conversion they
were attentive to the religious duties,
and they died in q good frame of mind.
Bradford was scarcely 20 years old.
A correspondent who was present at
the scene gives the following account
of the triple executions: It was close
on the hour OF execution, $50, when
the witnesses or jury of the public, who
had been conducted to guard room
adjoining the execution yard, were in
vited to proceed to the horrible cere.
mony. Their way lay through another
guard room, at the end of which was
the pinioning room. Only Tooth re-.
NAMED there, the others having been
led out and handed over to Calcraft.
His arms had already been strapped
behind him, and the two ministers were
addressing to him few final words of
consolation. Standing erect as he had
ever done on parade, he was
the least agitated of all who
we're in the cell. Through
the open door he looked right into the
! execution yard, and bis eye never win
ced, nor did his cheek blanch, nor his
pinioned hands quiver, as he eazed tc-
ward his own place on the CHASTITY line.
The witnesses passed through will,
heads uncovered, and, us they emerged
into the execution yard, q brilliant sun
light was breaking on the gravel walks
and glancing from the cell windows op-
posite. The scaffoll stood in q shaded
corner, and Calcraft was busy bandag-
ing the legs of Moore and Bradford,
while the chaplain, close in front oi
them, read their last words of comfort
or hope. Bradford hung his head,
looking vacant-eyed and almost stolid.
Moore stood erect, but there was con.
vu)sive twitching in his face, and an
occasional culver of the hands that told
of mental exitement: When
vice, Tooth walked out from the pin.
ioning room, and in crossing the yard
no tremor could be detected in his
limbs. The ministers continued ex.
horting him while his legs were being
strapped. and az the white cap was
drawn over his face one of them said a
few words Of farewell. All three were
now ready. The executioner, passing
hastily before them, grasps each OF
them by the right hand. Their fingers
close mechanically and open again,
Bradford's trembling, but the others
motionless and apparently pulseless.
Mr.. Frazer puts his ear, to- the mouth
of Bradford, and the white face moves
specifically, as farewell from the brink
of the grave is whispered. He doet
the same to Moore, and that
other spector speaks his last. Calcraft
turns to ascend narrow stair at the
side. With breathless suspense his
gray head is seen to disappear unde,
the scaffold, and in an instant the three
living men disappeared from the plat.
form, and in their places the trio o1
heads and shoulders were seen hanging
in nooses which rapidly did their work
of suffocation. Their heads were hor,
ribly wrenched to one side. Moore
and Tooth, the heavier men, had an
easier end than poor Bradford. They
fell without culver, and in a few sec
onds they seemed to be at rest. Brad.
ford fingered for minute or two, and
his sufferings disclosed themselves
by the revolutions of the rope by which
he was suspended, and by the SHARP
twitchings of his fingers, and latterly
by the horribly dead hues of the upper
part of his face. But before long his
agony was also over. The wardens
reverently closing the doors of the gol
gotha left the corpses to hang alone
during the hour which the law pre-
scribes. When that period had elapsed
they were taken down and laid out fol-
inquest. This took place shortly aftel
midday, and was Immediately sue.
ceeded by the last act of the tragedy
the murderers' burial. All three wer,
inferred within the yard where they
had been executed.
A City Of Women.
! Mrs. Leonowens, in her lecture 0,
Siam, tells the following: "The centra
part ofthe capital city of Bangkok, in Siam
is devoted exclusively to the residence O
some nine thousand women, among whom
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