Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-05-19
ALMY HANGED.
The Sentence of the Law Exc
cuted
In the state Prison at Concord, N. Ill.,
His COwardIy Crime Recalled.

III
His COwardIy Crime Recalled.
Frank G. Almy, the murderer of Christie
Warden, was hanged in the state prison at
concord, n. H., at few minutes past 10
o'clock Tuesday morning. Almy bore up
with remarkable nerve, and possessed him
self with compOsure to the last. He silent
well the last night of his life, and after
rising and dressing himself at 5 o'clock in
the morning, was taken to the matron's
room in the prison, which opens into the
corridor where the scaffold was erected.
Almy and the prison chaplain were left
alone except for the two guards in the
room, but the prisoner refused 10 talk upon
religious subjects as he had steadily done
ever since his Imprisonment. He was pro-
vided with suit of plain black cheviot, in
which he dressed himself with care. The
only two requests which he made were
that he be given the plain gold ring to
wear which Christie Warden gave him,
and that he be buried decently in a Con-
cord cemetery and his body not on any ac-
count to be given to the Hanover medical
students to dissect. He spent his time
looking out of the window upon the distant
sky and green fields until the attention of
visitors began to be attracted to him, when
he asked to have the curtain pulled down.
He knew that he was to be delivered to the
sheriff about 10 o'clock and as the hour
drew near he became perceptibly nervous
getting up and pacing the room.
At 10 o'clock the sheriff and his deputies,
under escort of the warden, entered the
matron's room, and the warden, with the
death watch as witnesses, formally deliv-
cred Almy to the sheriff. The latter in
formed Almy that he might say anything
he wished before going to the scaffold, but
would not be allowed to speak on the scat
| fold. Almy said he had nothing to saw
Meanwhile the witnesses assembled in the
guard-room were allowed TO file in and take
their places in the corridor. About 200
were present. At 1920 the death march
was taken up from the matron's room, AL
my being in charge of the sheriff and depu-
ties and accompanied by the chaplain. In
half a minute the scaffold was reached
amid painful stiffness. Almy's arms and
legs were quickly pinioned after reaching
the scaffold, his face becoming ashen pale
and his body swaying slightly. Twice he
said to the sheriff, almost inaudibly, "May
speak," but the sheriff made no reply.
The black cap was drawn, the moose was
adjusted, and at 1917 the spring was
touched and the body fell through the trap.
To the horror of the spectators the rope
was either stretched or was too long, and
Almy's feet struck the floor below and his
knees bent under him. The officers on the
scaffold quickly pulled the body up. There
was no struggling, and when the doctors
made their examination a few minutes
later, they found that the neck was broken
and death had been instantaneous.
| A painful feature of the execution was
the presence of young brother of Christie
Warden, who watched the proceedings
with grim satisfaction.
Almy's Career and his Crime.
Almy preserved to the last his reticence
about himself. The jailer, in whose
charge he was before he was sent to Con-
cord for safe keeping, insists that he con-
fessed to him that he was George II. Alb
bolt, whose career of youthful crime has
been so widely published, who was once
shot down in his hiding place among the
rocks before he would surrender, and who
escaped from the Windsor prison. Wheth-
er it is true that he made this confession
cannot now be said, but there is probably
no doubt in anyone's mind that Almy was
in reality George H. Abbott. The facts OF
his crime are too familiar to need recalling
in detail 1t was on the night of July II
1891, that he suddenly appeared to Christie
Warden, her mother, sister, and othel
friends, on the lonely road known as the
Vale of Tempe, as they were on their way
home from grange meeting, and demand
ed to speak with Christie. Immediately
after he dragged her over the bars into {
clump of willows, where he shot her. Fol
nearly a month, as the event proved, HI
Law in hiding in the Warden's barn, it be
ing on the 10Th of August that he was dis
covered and finally compelled to surrender
his leg having first been broken by bullet