The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-05-19
BRADY'S EXECUTION,
Interesting Details-Resolute to the Last.
What the Executioner Saws.

DR.. Carte, who was present at the
execution of Joe Brady, one of the
Dublin Park assassins, gives the follow
| ing interesting details:
Brady retired early to rest on Sunday
night and rose at four o'clock Monday
morning. lie was rather depressed for
about an hour, but he soon recovered his
usual spirits. After writing a letter to
his mother, in which he babe her fare
well and asked her to pray earnestly for
nm, he partook of small breakfast,
and shortly before seven accompanied
Canon Kennedy and Father O'Reilly to
the chapel, where he confessed to his
spiritual director and received the last
rites of the Church. At seven minutes to
eight the doomed man and his spiritual
advisers left the chapel. In the hall out
SIDE Marwood was waiting with the
ofhclalS who were to take part in the
melancholy procession to the scaffold.
Brady submitted quietly to the process
OF plnioning. Holding a prayer-book in
his right hand he earnestly repeated the
responses. The distance to the foot of
the scaffold was one hundred wards. and
this was traversed slowly. The COVER
nor of the Jail led the way; the medical
officer and the principal warder followed,
and then came the prisoner and Canon
Kennedy, Marwood, Sub Sheriff Ormsby
and three warders bringing up the rear.
AT the foot of the scaffold Brady turned
to the warden and said, Take the book"
He never uttered another word, but
slowly, deliberately, without apparent
falter mounted the eight steps leading to
the drop, Canon Kennedy keeping by his
side, ond Marwood with the leg straps in
his hand. A moment more and he stood
on the fatal plank. Only When Mar
wood went to place the moose round his
neck Gid he finch. lie jerked his head
suddenly on one side, but recovered him
self il second. Exactly on the stroke
of eight Marwood touched the lever
Death was instantaneous, the vertebr;e of
the neck, as DR.. Carte said being liter
ally smashed to pieces. The length of
the drop being eight feet eleven inches,
the effect of this on the neck of a man
who weighed fourteen stone can easily be
imagined.
The body, after hanging the legal hour
was cut down and laid on a rude bench
beside the small scatTold, to await the
post-mortem view of the jury. 1t was
attlred in the clothes in which Brady was
arrested-small round jacket, dark trou-
sers, vest and wooden shirt. He was in
his stocking feet, boots, by Marwood S
advice, not being allowed. The INQUEST
was held in small arched room close to
the yard in which the scaffold was erected
The proceedings did not commence till
ten, when fifteen iurymen were sworn
and filed out to look at the body with it's
blackened face. The coffin was ready,
and the jury had no sooner given their
verdict than the remains of the SLAYER
of Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Fred |
erick Cavendish were placed in the grave
dug not far from the scatfold. The only
evidence at the inquest was that of the |
doctor and the chief warder. The YER
dict was of course death from the sever
ance of the spinal cord, caused by hang
ing, according to the sentence of the law.
Marwood, in a brief interview with the |
Telegram reporter, stated that he never
hanged criminal who gave him less
trouble or anxiety, or displayed calmer
or more untlinching front.