Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19

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 MIR AND MRS. BIRCHALL.
 poached eggs, canned peaches, canned blackberries and coffee. Birchall partook of all with his usual appetite and even greeted the man who brought it with an attempt at jest and a pleasant good morn ing. Rev. MT. Wade joined him in cup of coffee.
 Inspector Chamberlain entered the cell, and the death warrant was read to the condemned man. His friend Leetham had been admitted meanwhile, and as the fatal words were being read Birchall shuddered 8 little, and turning to his friend said:
 sTake hold of my hand, old man." The request was quickly complied with, and the two friends stood together.
 ''Have you anything to say against the warrant of the law being fulfillcd" asked Inspector Chamberlain finally when tho sheriff ceased reading, and Birchall re piled, 'I have nothing to say"
 In the Jail Yard.
 A big walled inclosure carpeted with green sod and fanked on the east by building cut up by barred windows let deep into light masonry walls, and in a corner a brand new gibbet; the yard full of men with note books out and anxious looks directed alternately at the scaffold and at door in the building approached by five stone steps. This was the scene in the jail yard. They were waiting to see Birchall hanged for the killing of Benwell.
 m Fkl If steps was heard to resound from the paved passage into the jail, and a mans voice broke the awed stiffness with the beauti- ful words, "I am the resurrection and the life," and then the speaker appeared, handsome, kindly looking clergyman, iIi his white robes, book in hand and eyes turned upward. It was the Rev. MT. Wade, and he headed the procession of Che condemned. After him came the old sheriff, with his cooked hat and insignia of office, and other jail officials, and then Birchall himself, very pale, and his palf7r intensified by 8 blue cheviot suit he wore. When he descended the steps Keeper Per " took his left arm and his friend Leethan his right, and between these two he walktd unflinchingly to the gallows and took his place beneath the beam little east of the center.
 The Hangman Ratified.
 The hangman had talked to some news paper men and promised them that he would hang Birchall in way to suit every one But he didn't. When the final mo- ment came he got rattled. He only pulled the black cap down about half the way over Birchall's face. Then he stepped back and Birchall said, loud enough for every one there to hear:
 "Well, won't you shake hands before 1 goi"
 This rather dumfounded the hangms.n for moment. Then he thrust forth bis hand and shook Birchall's hand
 The minister then began the Lord s prayer. At Deliver us from eviP' the signal of death was given, and the foPm under the gibbet shot upward into the air, the head horribly twisted to one side. It went away above the gravity line and created horrible slack" It completely left the perpendicular and for second a part of the body was sideways, with the head grotesquely twisted to one side, but this was but the scene of fraction of a second and the body dropped heavily to the end of the rope.
 A Horrible Scene.
 The weight fell precisely at S:26, and l then strong mems hearts were stirred and faces turned pale and blood grew chilled | in the veins, for Birchall began a terrible | gallows dance in midair, his legs drawing up and straightening out many times, his hands clinching convulsively and un. | clinching as if in mortal agony, till to those who looked on in mortified suspense ii seemed as if he would never have done But the hangman came forward and held down his legs.
 Over the upper part of the neck and the | lower part of the face where the cap di6 | not come the skin began gradually te darken as if congestion was occurring. Al s:3O Birchall had ceased to struggle, anG | the doctors were taking his pulse. At that time it had fallen to sixty beats to tht | minute, and in the next six minutes h. was pronounced dead. Inspector Cham berlain. M. D.; Drs. Rice and Burns anG Coroner McLay assisted at the gallows The body was then cut down and an au topsy held. | After the execution the spectators wer, driven out of the jail yard and the bod. was given over to the doctors The post mortem showed that the murderer was man of splendid physique. His brain wa large and normal and all his organs-witl the exception of one kidney, which wa slightly congested-were in healthy con dition. The post-mortem also revealed the fact that no dislocation of the neck had taken place. The windpipe was crushed and death was caused by strangulation Thus ended the life of a man who is be lieved in Woodstock to have been the most extraordinary scoundrel that ever live.l | Buried in the Jail Yard. Birchall was buried at 5 o'clock in tht jail yard. Very few were present. Mrs West-Jones and Friend Leetham repre- sented the family. There were present also two reporters and few of the jai officials The undertakers had made goot work with the body. It was dressed il evening costume, and on the breast wa! the gold locket containing the picture O Mrs. Birchall and lock of her yellow hair
 The metallic casket was handsome anC plush covered, and was covered with lilie' of the valley and callas. When the jai officers had placed it in the grave, aht while Mrs. West-J Jones and Friend Leethan silently wept, the Rev. MT. Wade stood b. the open grave and said a fervent prayer.
 Says It Is a Lie.
 Rev. Wade speaks freely about the lette given to Guard Percy by Birchall, datet the 10th inst, denying that he had made confession to any one MT. Wade says tn letter was 8 he, and that when he first say it he gave up hopes of the man repenting The inference is that Birchall confessed t, the clergyman and that it was because o the denial that Rev. Wade refused to reat the church of England burial service an, simply said prayer at the grave.