The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31
wONEN WHO HAVE BEEN HANGED.

WOMEN WHO AVE BEEN HANGED.
The first white person executed in
Minnesota was q woman. As an Illus
tration Of her class Of intellect, il was
told that when she went TO the Territory
she took with her from Central Illinois q
bucket Of butter, kept it in her state
room on a first-class boat and carried it
in her hand to q frst-class hotel (the
Merchants), keeping it by her side in
the parlor and her bedroom, while leav-
ing her other baggage to be handled by
porters. She had heard that butter was
scarce in that part Of the country, and
had brought her supply. This and her
general appearance and behavior led to
the belief that she was a person of weak
mind. She married q man who treated
her cruelty and died with symptoms of
poison. A chemist thought he found
arsenic in the stomach, and q druggist
had sold her some of that drug "to
poison rats" There was no attempt to
dispute the chemical tests. This expe-
dent was discovered lately for the benefit
OF woman who has not outlived the
charms which once drove rival claimants
for her hand to the verge Of suicide and
madness. Being old, unattractive and
poor, none but the ladies' of st. Paul
took any special interest in her case !;
and those could only besiege the Cover
nor for a pardon. His wife led depu-
tation of them, knelt at his feet, and
with tears and passionate entreaty
begged executive clemency: but the
ugly woman was hanged by the neck
until she was dead.
A poor German woman was executed
near Philadelphia about five years ago
and her confession, in her broken En-
glish, was one of the saddest things /
ever read. Her man had "peat" her,
peat her SO much, made her work in the
field when she was sick and tired; peat
her for not keeping up; peat her for
to nurse her baby; made her
work in the house while he rested and
and peat her if she was not
ready to go out to work when he was
She was so tired; could "never get no
rested" she want to leave him and go
away, but he take the children from her;
she have four little children he peat
them, too; she could not leave her chill
1ren she was SO tired that she gave her
man stuff; she sorry she kill her man
but she no know what to do, she SO
tired.
The dailies made occasional news items
,ut of the case, and the poor, old, worm
,ut slave was universally voted monster
If iniquity. The majesty of the law was
indicated by sending her from the gal
ows to the unerring Judgment, where
Ter toil-worn hands and tortured soul |
must have been very white compared |
o the bejeweled fingers of the charming
Monsters who slip so gracefully through
he elastic meshes of our man-made
avs
Mrs. Sugart, now under sentence of
leath in Butler county, Pa, who is to
'e hanged when the present treatment
n the Rixmont Insane Hospital shall
ave SO far restored her reason as to
make her sensible of the solemnity of the
is gray-haired and a grand
,other, and in personal appearance the
pposite of charming.
Mrs. Grinder, who was executed at
some eight years ago, had
tudied the art of poisoning to the neg
'ct of that Of pleasing. She was not
and such charms as she had
ere reserved for her husband. Mrs.
Note Book.