The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-05-17
WARDENS SAW HIN DIE.
The Murdered Girls Brother at the
Execution Of Almy.
THE CRIMINAL WENT TO HIS FATE
WITHOUT FLINCHING.

But Blunder of the Sheriff Made the
Execution a Bungling One-The Rope
Was Too Long and the Body Struck
the Floor-Death, However, Was In
| ScaffoId.
! CONCORD, N. H., May 16.-Frank C.
Almy, the murderer of Christie Warden,
paid the penalty of his crime this morn
ing. He was hung in the state prison,
the drop falling at 1914.
Perhaps the strangest thing today was
the representation of the Warden family
Young Bert Warden, brother of ill-fated
Christie, a beardless boy of perhaps 16 or
| II years, came with Charlie De Witt, who
shot the murder in the Warden barn.
Besides Bert Warden there was Alex
Warden, Bert's uncle, Andrews sen and
two or three cousins.
Alex Warden said: Eyes, Fannie had
an invitation. but she decided not to
| come.''
Not a half dozen people besides those
|
| dens were present. When the crowd
made the rush to the corridor where the
/ gallows stood, painted black and outlined
| grimly against the white walls, the War
| den boy and his friends found themselves
at the back of the murderer. Bert craned
his neck curiously above the crowd. and
| tilted his sOft.felt hat back on his head
| Hardly had the 200 people grouped about
4 the corridors got quiet, when sharp
| military step sounded, and Sheriff Hurl-
burt, with his deputies, came quickly
down through the guardroom to the gal
lows.
Frank Almy walked as straight as a
die. He was no paler than usual, and
came to the gallows with springy step,
settling his heels hard down, differ
emily from the catlike walk about his
cell. Just moments hush, that was
all.
| Bert Warden ieaned forward further
and some New Hampshire farmers lifted
him little above the crowd. 1t seemed
| an age now, but everything was ready, and
that thing encased in black all ready to
fall was Frank Almy, tossed by 35 years
I OF passion, and as Drave as soldier in
the face of death.
/ When on the scaffold Almy said: "May
I speak?"
The sheriff shook his head. The officer
then reached up, and even as he was ad-
justing the moose, Almy's lips moved and
the same imploring look came into his
| eyes.
After the moose was placed on his neck
and tightened, Almy even then appeared
to want to speak, but the cap was hastily
| put over his face, and he said nothing
Sheriff Hurlbutt, after the cap was fixed
| Mo bo hop ov,,c \
left ear.
He then stepped to the front and GEN.
tire of the scaffold, and without making
the usual proclamation, said: II now
| proceed to execute the sentence of the
law, and may God have mercy on your
SOUL
Quickly there was shuttle of fast
steps on the platform, a quick, sharp
blow, and
Then the Body Fell
through to the concreted floor
The rope had not been stretched sufi-
GENTLY, and Almy's feet fell upon the
floor with sharp rap, but the rebound
was enough to keep his feet clear as the
knees drew up. On account of the feet
touching the floor the body bent to the
right and slightly forward. Inside of a
/ minute officers on the soaffold cyy,,no III a
rona and 1,,I1lad tbe 49, ~ na.ai 1 foo+ eme
a,.o Puiiou LI. Jno ooay up ~ !o9..
stretching having done little toward get
ting the slackness off the Anarchist
rupe. oh bus b ~ +hona suic9u, lor .ng u;s @ poJI
was broken.
But one OF two tremors or twitching
motions could be seen, and there was an
entire absence OF struggling on the part
OF Amy. -, :.
Prison Physlclan II. Il. a. CLARK, his
assistant, Dr. u. u. sullivan, Doth OF this
city; DT; =. A; hnlghl OF lebanon, and
Dr. +. u. Small OF Portiand, Me-, stepped
to the BODY as soon as It had been hauled
up: Dr. clark LOOK the heart beat, Or.
sullivan the pulse, Dr. Knight gave the
time and DR.; Small KEPT, the minutes.
Their record shows the following: Pulse,
tirst m minute. not taken; second, l04;
third, ~; fourth, l00; fifth, los; sixth,
ao5; seventh, %; eighth, lost. Heart,
hrsr minute, l52; second, l2O; third. l4O;
htth, l50; sixth, 130; seventh, ITO; eighth,
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