The New York herald., 1879-12-16

apple toll bar. in Edgeware Road. He con-
tossed that Hannah Brown had deceived him by
pretending to have some property. aud that one
night she called at his lodgings and laughed at
her trick. In rage he struck her with
silk roller and the blow proving mortal he formed
the resolution of cutting up and conceang the body.
No criminal since the trial of DR.. Dodd had
stirred SO much excitement in London. On the
night of Greenacre's execution hundreds of
persons slept on the steps of the prison
and of st. sepulchre's Church. and boys
remained all night clineing to the Ianpposts.
The crowds in the streets whiled away the night in
ribald jokes and drunken brawls. Greenacre. when
he passed to the gallows. was totally unnamed.
He could not artcuate the responses to the ordinary
and had to be supported or he would have fallen.
coURvoIsIER MULLER
Greenacre's execution brought fame to Calcraft.
He did not rest long his lanrels. Three years
later he was called to carry out the sentence
of the law FRANCOIS Benjamin Courvoisier.
Swiss valet. found guilty Of the murder
of his master. Lord william Russell. Lord
William. who was in his seventy-third year.
lived alone in his house in Norfolk street. Park
lane. with his establishment of two maids and Of
Courvosier. the body servant. On the morning of
the murder the housemaid found his study in dis
order. and. entering his bedroom with Courvoisier.
saw that his head was nearly severed from his body.
Two bank notes. supposed to have been taken from
Lord Williams body. were found behind the skirt
ing board of the buffers pantry. Those notes con-
victed Courvoisier. He hanged on July 6,
1910. Upward of twenty thousand people
were present at the scene. Most OF them waited
all night ut the debtors door Of the Old Bailey.
High fees were paid for house roofs and the win
dows crowded. As the bell began to toll at
eight O'Clock the multitude uncovered. and
at two minutes past tho hour Courvoisier
cended the steps leading to the drop.
followed by the executouer and ordinary
of the prison. He died without struggle. The
ease of his death was universally attributed to Cal
crafts skill. new genius had risen in the busi-
ness. Jack Ketch. of Tyburn. out
done. For twenty.four years Calcraft
tinued to win the applause Of press and
public. Not combining his exsrtions to Newgate,
he travelled in tho wake of the judges round their
circuit He never bungled. He has executed seven
pirates together and performed his work with entire
satisfaction. He hanged the three Fenians at Man.
chester and showed extreme contempt for the
anonymous threats that made against his life.
In 1864 he hanged Franz Muller. the young German
tailor who. to pay his passage to America.
murdered Mr.. Briggs in carriage on the North
London Railway. On the night that Muller died
there was disgraceful around Newgste.
The house was filed with spectators, who had
paid moro than couple OF guineas apiece for
place. and who spent the night playing at cards
and singing choruses. When Muller set foot on the
scafold, he looked up at the chains with perfect
self possession Then he murmured confess
sion to the attendant clergyman and the drop
fell instantly. These were the three great
criminals Of Calcraft's career-Greenscre. Cour-
voisier and Muller. In 1868 public execu-
tions were abolished. and the hangman's
glory departed The gallows was hence
forth erected in the prison yard Of Newgate.
and only silence reigned the spot which had
seen the executions of Governor Wall, who foRged
. man to death; Of Bellingham, Mr.. Percival's
assassin. Of the Cato street conspirators. whose
heads were cut of on the scanold after they were
hanged, of Fauntlcroy. the banker. and of Bishops
and williams, the "burkers." Cslcraft retired
from business which rapidly falling in popu-
lar esteem. and Marwood. his lieutenant, succeeded
him.1