The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-02-23

some noble peer on his hearing that I
intended making my escape. j told
them l never had any such thought,
snd would bear it with the other cruel
usages had received on my character.
The Rev. Mr. Swinton, the worthy cler-
gyman, who attended me in prison, can
testify was regular at the chapel when
ever l was well. Sometimes / really
was not able to come out, and then he
attended me in my room. They have
likewise published papers and deposit
tions which ought not to have been
published, in order to represent me as
the most abandoned of my sex, and to
prejudice the world against me. L
submit myself to your Lordships and to
the worthy jury. 1 do assure your
Lordships, as / am to answer at the
great tribunal, where / must appear, /
am as innocent as the child unborn of
the death of my father. / would not
endeavor to save my life at the expense
of truth. L really thought the powder
an innocent, inoffensive thing; and /
gave it to procure his love (meaning to-
ward Cranstoun). 1t has been mention
ed, L should say, L was ruined. My
Lord, when young woman loses her
character, is not that her ruin? Why
then should this expression be construed
in so wide sense? is it not running
my character to have such thing laid
to my charge? And, whatever may be
the event of this trial. / am ruined most
effectually.
Miss Bland was sentenced to death.
Her execution occurred at Oxford OH
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death she spent in devotion, and at 8
in the morning she left her apartment,
being dressed in black bombazine and
having her arms bound with black
ribbons.
Having assembled some steps of the
gallows-ladder she said;
Gentlemen, don't hang me high, for
the sake of decency."
Being desired to go something higher
she turned about and expressed her APP
prehensions that she should fall. The
rope being put around her neck she
pulled her handkerchief over her face,
and was turned off on holding out
book of devotion which she had been
reading.
Cranstoun, hearing of Miss Blandy's
commitment to Oxford Jail, concealed
himself some time in Scotland, and
then escaped to Boulogne, in France,
where he changed his name to Dunbar.
Some officers in the French service,
who were related to his wife, hearing of
his concealment, vowed revenge if they
should meet him for his cruelty to the
unhappy woman, on which he fled to
Paris, when he went to Furnes, in
Flanders.
He had not been long at Fumes,
when he was seized with a severe fit of
illenss, which brought him to degree
of reflection to which he had long been
a stranger. At length he sent for
father belonging to an adjacent con-
vent, and received absolution from his
hands on declaring himself convert to
the Romish faith.
Cranstoun died on the 3Oth of No
vember, 1852, and the fraternity of
monks and friars looked on his CONVEX
sion as an object of so much Importance,
that solemn mass was sung on the oc-
casion, and the body was followed to
the grave not only by the ecclesiastics
but by the magistrates of the town.
His papers were then sent to England
to his brother, Lord Cranstoun, his
clothes were sold for the discharge of
his debts, and, in spite of the sanity
| character of his end, his name stands
to this day in the calendar of criminals
in England with the inscription against
it:
"Murderer-died while evading trial"