Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-30
BORJESSEN HANGED.

Ihe nuFOcfef. OI Emma An0eFSOns
 His sxee,heart-Hc Leaves a Con-
 fessfOn of Guilt and Admits Pre-
 meditatfon-Sherif Allen Makes Neat Job of it-Death Practically Instantaneous.
 L1TCKBIELD, Jan. 29.-Andrew Bor- jessen, the murderer of Emma Anderson, was hanged in the jail here this forenoon. The drop fell at 10:3S o'clock and the vic tim of the law was dead in eleven minutes | thereafter.
 Borjessen was trifle nervous yesterday and paced his cell continuously MT. Erickson, the Swedish clergyman, spent a good part of the prisoners last night on | earth with him, reading the Bible and praying After Borjessen retired he slept soundly until , o'clock. At 7 o'clock he | was shaved and donned his new black clothes. At o'clock the sacrament was administered by the Rev. MT. Erickson. Borjessen has become very religious lately. Yesterday he gave to Sheriff Alien long rambling statement in writing, acknowl- l edging the justice of the sentence and stat ! ing that he alone was responsible for the l crime, and that it had been premeditated for several days. The screed ends with 8 profession of faith and an expression of the belief that he is saved.
 At 10:30 the warrant was read in Borjes- sens cell and his arms pinioned- The pro- cession was then taken up. Borjessen was very pale and haggard; his lower jaw | moved convulsively as he came in sight of the scaffold. which was erected in the end of the new building farthest from the jail l He walked firmly, however, and mounted | ha fwa ata took up his position on the drop. Sheriff Allen and Jailer Sedgwick took places in front and the others on the sides. Mir Erickson made prayer in Swedish, and l then the prisoner spoke few almost unin- telligible words in broken English, express ing sorrow for his crime and belief in God s mercy. He then prayed inaudibly, his lips moving and body swaying: He re. covered his composure and stood New Hartford drew the black cap over his head and Richmond of New Milford ad- justed the moose. The drop was six feet, and the body hung rigid except for three or four convulsive movements of the chest. There was no movement of the limbs whatever. The jail physician pronounced hin dead in eleven minutes. After hang ing thirty-two minutes the body was low cred and the rope cut from the neck. The neck was then found to have been broken. The body was placed in stained coffin, and, accompanied by Sheriff Futile, was taken to the West cemetery aud buried. No relatives have visited the prisoner in the past few weeks. The gallows, rope, cap and straps were the same used in the execution of Scheele last spring. Hanley of Thomaston, who stabbed his brother to death Thanksgiving day, exhib- ited signs of terror during the hour of ex- ecution.
 BoRJEssEN's CRIME.
 Borjessen committed one of the most brutal murders in the annals of Connecti- cut crime. At o'clock on the morning of Friday, August 1, 1890, in Worthwhile, a settlement near New Milford, he murdered his sweetheart, Emma Anderson. She was young Swede and had aroused his jealousy. The deed was done with a razor-edged jack-knife, and was bloody trance through window to the apart ments of the sleeping girl, he plunged the knife into the back of her neck, severing the spinal cord. Then he worked the blade right and left, almost decapitating her, and followed this up by stabbipg her in the breast and arm, making seven wounds in all. The thud of the fall ing body on the floor aroused Henry Buck ingham, in whose house the girl lived. He entered the room in time to de tect Borjessen making his escape by the way he entered. In his hurry Borjessen placed the open knife, covered with blood as it was, in his pocket. He stumbled and ; fell. The keen blade pierced his thigh, mingling the blood of his victim with that of the murderer. Thus was the crime par tially avenged at the very outset by the inanimate instrument of his fendish re- venge. Borjessen was captured in the woods that afternoon. He was tried be- fore Chief Justice Andrews and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced | to death.