The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-09
e. W. PEMBERT0N HANGED.
THE SHOCKTNG MURDER or MRS.
BINGHAM ~ EAST BOSTON.
A Ring TINT Gnvc CIcw to tho Murderer
~hort trial and n speedy Execution oil
the sentence An Instantaneous Death.

Ring TINT Gave Cicw to the Murderer
Short trial and speedy Execution Of
the sentence An Instantaneous Death.
BosToN, oct. s.-Gcorge W. Pemberton
was hanged this morning IN the Charles street
jail for the murder Of Mr.. Mareaief T. Bingham
in !, 4 Boston on the % Of lat March. rhe
murder was committed at half ra-t O'Clock In
the afternoon. pcmbcrton haviug entered tho
house on ihe pfetcnce Of being gas in.ucrtor
or a bceear He accompanied Mrs. bingham to
the cellar, and probably tried to rob her. She
resisted and he chOkcd her, then nlled her
mouth with gravel, causing her death 10y sufro-
cation. Pembcrton the next morning offered
for sale in a Salem billiard saloon a diamond
ring belonging to the murdered woman. This
gave the police n clew, and they traced him back
to - lston, artesting him the next day in hts bed
at his own lodglngs. lie was promptly commit
ted. and his trial occupied rom juno to 4, the
only defence made bv tue counsel assigned him
being uon-respnnsibility bv re ,son Of long-con-
tinued debauchery. Two months ter Pember-
ton attempted suicide, stabbing himself four
times with a shafpencd end Of an iron spoon,
which he had scrHpcd on tho floor OF his cell.
with this exception bis conduct In Jal has been
exemplary, and he has given the officers no
The Rev. DR.. Lorimer, to whose church Penn
bottom used OCCASIONALLY to 60 with his wife,
visited him several times at his request. DR..
Lorner with him last NIGHT until a late
hour. pembertun's family visited HIN Yester-
daN ana the DAY heiOre. 1he interviews were
very affecting. His system, freed from the
ehec.s OF rum, was In a more healthy state th n
II has been Tor several years bis appetite WAS
good and his sleep peaceful. lie ate a he rty
SUPPER Last evening and good breakfast this
morning appearing unmoved bv his impending
doom. The gaows used has done service on
twenty previous occasions. DIR. Webster was
hanged on II IN 1852, also the James brothers,
and Green. the murderer Of young Converse, Of
Maiden. James McElhauey was the last to SUI
fer death 10y its means, two wears ago.
The doors were closed at $50 o'clock. and de-
votional exercises were held at once In the jail
parlOr. The Rev. DR.. Lurmcr read Il few seCc-
lions from the Scriptures and offered a fervent
prayer, the condemned man kneellng with hun.
lie was nected To tears, but pembertOn was
calm, without being stulld or Indifferent There
were then about 40 persons gathered In the jail
rutuuda, including the legal witnesses, physi-
clans. and nfty OF sixty policemen, most OF them
In citizens dress.
AT g:51 o'clock the prisoner entered the 70.
tunda supported by the jdlrr, DR.. Lorimer, and
Uncle Cook. lie sat In a cnair on the u Op. and
while Sheriff Clark read the warrant the Jailer
strapped his hands and feet. AT 10 O'Clock DIR.
adjusted the moose around Icmberton's neck
anu nut on him black cal. Hardly i've minutes
afterward sheriff Clark touched the spring, ana
the cody dropped about ten feet. There was a
single c"nvusiNe effort to raise the legs and the
body str itghteacd and slowly turned round and
round. nndlly settling with the b.rk ward ne
Up cttturs. After the INST spasmOdic twitch I'll
was over.
when be body had been hanging nine minutes
the physicians examined II. The cergvmen re-
tired as soon ar the body ceased to move Death
was caused by conclusion Il the brain, or tue
shock Il the fall, and was in intaneou-.
At lO..D the doors were opened. and the eXecu-
ton WIS over. the whole time occupied having
been exactly one hour. Tue body was gwen to
Pemberton's wife, and this afternoon was buried
privately.