New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-17
CHRISTIE VARDEN'S MURDERER HANGED.
4 MIsHAp At TIE EXECrTION-FRANK c. ALMY's
ATROCIOUS CRIME.

| 4 MISHAP At TIE EXECCTION-FRANK c. ALNf >
ATROCIOUS CRIME.
Concord n. H., May 16-Gcorre II. Abbott. alias
! Frank C. Amy was hanged herr this morning for
IN, murder OF Christie Warden near Hanover, " H..
OH July II. 1891.
| AT 1On6 O'Clock Sheriff IInrlburt touched the
spr,ng The drop fell heavily and Amy's BODY went
tnrourb the trap. Ills feet struck the foor Rcio"'
MS knees bending under HIM Tho rope was EVIL
| IDENTIFY too long. Inside of minute officers on the
| nla,form OF the scaIiold svuug the rope aud pulled
| the BODY up several feet Another distressing
fca,ur. OF the execution The position OF tho rope
and the knot rhe former pulled over the Eit
ear while the knot fully one foot above the
neck and It seemed TO the spectators that III" con
demned man st"unged TO death. At 10 :3o O'CLOCK
rr Clark pronounced tho murderer dead ana the
i've pny siclans who made the poetmVteni examim
lion certified that death came instantly with the
drop by reason Of dislocatiOn AMI frnctire Oh the
spine at the second and third cervical vertebrate.
sheriff Hurturt said this afternoon; " l am per
fcctly satisfied with the execution. Every one VINO
saw It seems 10 agree with me-, aud have satlshn
mv,elf that the acck broken directly the drop
was sprune. Death was Instantaneous aEi painless.
II is true TINT the moose slipped nj the critical moment
in, | am sure that 1t did no harm. DO not uhder-
stand how 1t happened. We had the best style OF
moose that was ever used
\ large number Of citizens came here from Hanover
among them being Bert Warden, brother OF the
murdered GIRL and {. f.. Hewitt. the student who
shot Any In tho Warden barn before he was
captured.
Ten out Of fifteen OF the last years OF the life OF
Frank &. Amy have been srnt In prison. Ills
father. overcome By shame. Killed himseH years
ago The Ipoy bad from his tenth year. ana AFTER
th.rs and more serious crimes sent TO prison
for A long term. lie escaped. and at last went to
work foI. Andrew Warden, with whose daughter
Christie he FIJI In love. She did not favor MS SUIT
When hi, time OF service expired he was not re-
cngI gcd and supposed to have lett the h'ish"r
hood.
Al o 30 O'Clock on the Night Of tG murder MIS-
Warden. her daughters Christie and Fanny, ana Miss
Louise f. Goodcll a neehbor. were making their way
home along n lonely road near the farmhouse, "hrh
Amy confronted them. lie said: Christie" i have
,om" ! 900 miles to see you. and now our 'inic i
short Then h. II revolver and ordered the
other thrr. women move The mother ana
sister refused and he began dragging Christie toward
a cIump of ircc,. shouting to the others stand
back or I'll shoot Fanny. telling her mother to run
for help herself rushed to the aid OF Christie. Almy
fred several shot, AZ her Is she advanced, but
without effect. she concealed herself, and soon the
ncishbor whom her mother had aroused came up
" he and the girl went forward 10 the spot whittier
Amy had dragged hi, victim. shots heard,
and they Amy rush up the hill toward the town.
hr,tic Warden found lying on her left SIDE dead,
With a wound In her back ana another In her head.
Amy remained In concr.m"nt In the Warden barn
Tor . month. suspicion bling aroused, the barn was
surrounded and after siege O ten hours IN the course
OF Whlca Alny' les broken by a bullet hr'd by
haile- IieHi,t Alny surrendered, the assurance
that he should MT De- lynch,d.
"a November 10. 1901 his trial began at Plymouth.
On ne .eCOni day decision was arrived s >'h'n'"
Being pronounced after the prisoner md lett the court
room ana h" ,rli"lc"i To b" hanged gu the hI>
Iur.iay II prt' mbcr i-. The irrcgularlty oi HI,
,rntrncc. white h. present In court, caused
,onmoiion la legal circles. ana la order 10 quiet lac
ADJ
legal method, n trial was asked Tor 10y his al |
Orncy,. In April, i-U., hc was again taken Ia |
Plymouth the reopened and second tni" |
but this time IN open court Frank {. Amy VA, |
-,ntcncrd to be hanged May rs, 1893.