Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-31
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The body of Hamin rests about sixty rods from that of his victim -shipman, n,-the for mer in the Catholic cemetery and the latter in the Old North burying ground.
 A report was in circulation in Hartford that Hamlin had requested that Allen and Davis should be brought from the State prison to see his execution. Such was not the case
 Hamlin never told his real name to any one after he began his criminal life. Even to his confessor, the Very Rev Father Hughes, he did not speak his name. He wrote it on slip of paper, which Father Hughes has in his possession.
 There was rush to see the gallows after Hamlin's body was cut down. It was taken down and shipped to New Haven.
 The rope which ended Hamlin's life was cut into pieces and given away. The demand was greater than the supply. Several women got pieces of the rope.
 It is the opinion of doctors that Hamlin's neck was broken. They thus account for his probably easy death.
 The Insane HOspitaI-The Full Awards
 of Contracts.
 The committee, composed of Dr Storrs, of Hartford, William Atwater, Esq, of New Haven, and Charles G R Vinal, of Middle town, on the award of contracts for the addi- ton to the Insane Asylum at Middletown, have fully announced their decision, which was de- layed by the number of bids-ffty in all. It has been reported that the delay was due to the fact that it had been discovered that the cost of the addition as designed would be in excess of the legislative appropriation, but the fact is that it was attributable only to the great number of bids which were to be con- sidered-some of them not wholly clear and demanding explanation. The successful bidders are pretty evenly divided between Hartford and Middletown, and but one con- tract goes out of the State. The awards were: Mason work, Watson Tryon, Enfield 1852, 557; carpenter work, w Hubbard & Co, Middletown, 1882, 811 63 slating, M F Clark & Go, Hartford, $4, 700; plumbing and gas fitting, George Maehl, Hartford, $8, 720; boilers, Peter Amerman, Hartford, $1. 75o; steam heating, Walworth Manufac- turing Co, Boston, $7, ,995 75. Jasper D Sibley, Middletown, before said, was cho- sen foreman of the work.
 The New Haven Orphan Asylum.
 The annual reports of the New Haven Or phan Asylum will be found in another col umn and will repay a careful perusal. It will be seen that the institution has had the care of an unusually large number of the little wards the past season, and that at times the premises have been insufficient for all, &C., comnodations elsewhere having to be provid- ed for some. The great usefulness of the institution would be seriously impaired and crippled were it not for the annual donation receipts, but even with this and the other sources of help the meeting of the expenses, notwithstanding strictest economy, is often a matter of serious perplexity. Additional benefits might come to the institution were not it's financial condition perchance misap- prehended, owing to the impression that much money has been left it. Money and funds may come to the institution in the fu- ture, and it may not. It all depends upon circumstances. In any case the help is far off and in some cases both remote and un- certain. What the institution needs is pres ent liberal remembrance, and there is no question but that it is worthy.