The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-31
The Increase of Murder in England as Com.
pared With the Hangings.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.

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From the Cincinnati Commercial
The recent abolition of capital pun
ishment by the Italian Legislature,
and the researches of DR.. Benedict, of
Vienna, into the brains of sixteen ex-
ecuted criminals, all of which he
found malformed, have made a deep
impression in Europe; but still more
has been made by the occurrence of
an unusual number of murders side
by side with an unusual number of ex.
ecutions. The assassin's knife or pis.
tol seems lately to have been worked
by the same machinery that drops the
criminal in his moose. On Tuesday
last there were two executions, on
Wednesday another, on Thursday an
other, and there are four persons now
under sentence of death, who will GER
tainly be strangled. Along with these
executions have come eight fresh
murders of the most atrocious des-
cription. James Dalgleish, having
lost his situation through drink, quar-
relied with his landlady and murdered
her in her bed. He was strangled at
Carlisle after a happy conversion by a
Presbyterian minister, which caused
him to quote Christ's words, 'Come
unto me-" &C., and say, "Now I can
die happy The execution was with
in the prison walls, yet 1900 persons
assembled to enjoy the luxury of be-
ing near the spot where a fellow crea-
ture was being put to death. Silas
Barlow having murdered a woman with
whom he cohabited,1 a1d drowned
their child, was hung for it in London
on the same day Qast Tuesday,, He
was the son of a Baptist preacher, and
! read his Bible up to the time of his
execution---protesting meanwhile his
innocence until the last moment, when
he admitted that he s'did away with
the child.' On Wednesday, John 4.
z. Green, painter, was executed at
Leicester for wife murder. William
Flanagan was, on Thursday, executed
at Manchester for numbering a woman
with whom he had cohabited; he en-
ployed his last moments repeating the
litany after the priest.
This is but one weeks work. An
equal number preceded in the previous
fortnight. The illegal murders have
been very brutal. A young man
named Treadway, refused money by
his father, wanders about all night,
and in the morning visits an acquaint.
ance who has the habit Of wearing a
belt which he thinks may hold money,
but which contained none, murders
him and almost murders his wife.
Three poachers waylay two policemen
and shoot them. At Hyde, Joseph
Bannister, backsliding Good TEN.
pier, split his wife's head open and
cut his own throat with a penknife.
which may prevent his execution.
John Callighan, aged seventeen, stab
bed a Manchester manufacturer; be.
fore his sentence he cried, go, Judge.
have mercy!' After the sentence was
passed the prisoner cried, go, Jesus,
have mercy!' Francis Dolan, aged
nineteen, killed a fellow laborer by a
blow from behind, and laid it on an
other man. Hobert Hall0well, rope
manufacturer, strangled his son, aged
thirteen, who was sleeping with him.
Maria Maddox drowned her infant
child because she had no food for her.
self, and consequently none for her
infant. A young man, generally of
mild disposition, having quarreled
with his sweetheart, went to kill her
but not finding her he murdered an
| other young woman whom he had
never seen before.
Worcester Press: Anna Dickinson
isn't very happy in love scenes but
when it comes to hopping around
under the bed in the next act for the
tyrant whom she married just before
the curtain fell, the critics burst into
tears and the galleries focus their
sympathy on the place where the dust
is stirred up.
So many unsettled questions remain