The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-28

children thronged the window OF the jai-not
criminals Imprisoned there. beings hardened by
but wives and daughters of county officials, re-
spectacle wcmsn, with their little ones, gazing
& SsS ngon % urs ors sas,lv sa upop
bis neck was not so stin as that upon Fuilem'A
and had been better placed: After three rnin..
utes muscular agitation shook his body, and
was followed by a tremor In about minute
more; then he gave no further sign Of suffering.
The doctors were not negectful OF the interests
Of science. Even while Fullem was still
In blsi death struggle his wrist was In the
clutch OF medical gentleman who was count
ing his pulsations, and who found them to be,
after three minutes suspension, ~; four min
utes, 62; ave minutes. S6i ak minutes,. 20:
was much more rapid. At the end OF three
minutes his pulse was nut 62, at the end OF four
minutes 40. and In i've minutes 1t had ceased
Old Mrs. Fullem, the mother OF John and
mother-in-law OF Jack Hill, had been for several
paying boarder. She sat at a window Of the
little back parlor until she saw her son and SON
she turned aside sand and we Wept and did no. look
forth again until they were dangling IN the air.
when she took another view as sort OF nliip to
After hanging thirty-ons minutes, the bodies
were lowered into coffins and carried inside the
During all this time the crowd about tho jail
had been constsntly auementine, aud avery con-
siderable portion OF its numbers. through assidu-
Gus and energetic practice at the bar Of the ad-
Jacent. hotel, had become very decidedly intoxi-
Gated. A vender OF ph tographs Of the executed
felons did thriving business. Here and there
through the crowd we're envied beings who had
been Of the favored two hundred inside the
gallows enclosure and who could tell "how the
boy Kicked" They had no lack OF listeners.
When the inquest WIS over, the cofins con-
taining the two corpses were set out on trestles,
10 the hall OF the Jail building, one on each side,
aud the puolo were permitted to pass through
the III, entering by the front door and leaving
by the back, enjoying on the way two gratinca-
tions Of their morbid curiosty-the hrst,
seeing the cOrpses OF the men who
had been hanged, and the second. walk
ing under the gallows beam from which they
had depended, ana trsadiDg upon the platform
which they rod in health and strength but
little more than an hour before. Nearly two
hours this strange lying in state was con;
tinued. Not only men, but women. and
even little children, 30 email that they
had to be lifted up to see the dead rob-
ters, were thus permitted to gaze at them.
While this was going on, a deputy sheriff sold
fragments OF the ropes with which the criminals
had been banged. The speculation was quite
successful In n financial way, both the ropes
going OF readily at twenty hve cents per foot.
When the show was over and the rope all
sold the bodies were given up to Mrs Fullem
aud John Mckenna. anoi her son-tn-law, and put
on board the train for Camden. Hill's neck. the
doctrs found, had been dislocated, while Full
lem had, as IL appeared at tho time, died Of
strangulation. Neither was much discolored or
distorted.