The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-11
HANGNAN' 5 BUSY DAY
Two Church Choir : Lover
Murderers in Canada
ON THE SAME SCAFF0LD
Louis RoeSeI in New jersey
Hangings in the South.
ON THE SAME SCAFFOLD

ST scholastique. Que. March lo.-Mrs.
Cornelia Poirir and Samuel Parslow were
/ hanged here today. The drop fell at S:0S
and life was declared extinct in eight
minutes the necks of both having been
broken. Mrs. Poirlr. who said farewell 10
her relatives last night, was firm and col
lected throughout. She took part in the
mass said at o'clock this morning and
| on the scafold shook hands with the
hangman without JremOr Of fear. The
crowd inside the jail jeered OF her but even
then her compOsure did not desert her,
and at the suggestion of the executioner
she turned and faced the jeerers. and stood
erect and prayed to the last. Parslow ex-
hibited much less courage and was more
dead than alive when the drop fell. The
condemned were taken 10 the scaffold sep
arately and were prevented from seeing
each other by a screen placed between
them. Six hundred men who had remained
UP all night witnessed the execution. Out
side the jail there were 1000 more who.
with a beam. tried TO batter down the
gate of the jail yard, and could only be
made 70 desist by the provincial police
firing their revolvers in the air. The be-
havior Of the crowd inside was such that
enc Of the priests. Rev Father Meloche,
had 10 reprOve them from the scaffold
The pair were hanged for the murder of
Isidore Peirir, the woman's husband in
1871. The crime was committed in the
Poirir home in St. Canute, Quebec. Mrs
Poirir, who was SO years Of age, was the
organist of the Roman aCtholic church
at St Jerome, where Parslow sang in the
choir. Both prisoners confessed their
guilt, each seeking to put the blame upon
the other. Mrs. Poirir was the third
woman out of the eleven condemned since
confederation, to receive capital punish
ment. The two women who had previously
suffered the death penalty since cOnfed-
Grafton were Phoebe Campbell, hanged at
London in 1872 for cutting her husbands
throat with knife. and Elizabeth Work.
man, hanged at Sarnia a year later for
beating her husband to death with a
club. The sentences of eight of the eleven
murderesses were committed to life i'm
prisonment. The crime of six of these
women was the murder of their husbands
New York, March 10.-Louis ROeseI was
executed by hanging today in the Union
county Jail at Elizabeth, y. j., for the
murder of James c. Pitts, of Summit.
Pitts was murdered at his home in Sum-
nit on the night of September 1887.
Roesel, who was only p years old, was
said to have planned the murder and to
have been the one TO actually strike the
fatal blow. His partner in the crime was
George Manshada. The object was rob-
her al 60
reputed to be wealthy. He left the farm
and went to New York some months be-
fore the crime. There he met Manshada
and the crime was planned in a Bowery
lodging house Pitts lived alone, except
for Mary Davis, a coIored woman. who
kept house for him. The plan was to beat
out the brains of both and ransack the
house at leisure. The plan failed through
a misdirected blow, but Pitts was killed.
The two men were arrested a few weeks
later Each confessed, but the state ac-
cepted Mashada as states evidence and
convicted Roesel. Mashada was sent to
states prison for twenty years.
Glasgow, Ky, March 1O.-John Franklin
was hanged today for the murder of his
mOther-in-law, Mrs. Bowles. great
crowd was in the town but only limited
number were admitted to the enclosure to
witness the execution. Franklin professed
to nave experienced religion, and stepped
to the scaffold smiling.
Savannah, Ga, March 10.-John Clarion,
colored, was hanged here today for the
murder of Meat Inspector Harry WcLeod.
on September 9, last. Clarion intended
to kill another man but shot McLe2d.
It is very hard to stand idly. by and see
our dear ones suffer while awaiting the
arrival Of the doctor. An Albany q. "
dairyman called alta drug store there for
doctor TO come and see his child, then very
SEX with Group. Not finding the doctor in.
he left word for him 10 come at once on
his return. He also bought a bottle Of
Chamberlain Cough Remedy. which he
hoped would give some relief until the doc
tor should arrive. IN a few hours ne re-
turned. saying the doctor need not come,
as the child was much better. The drug
glst M Otto Schoiz. says the family has
since recommended Chamb sria.Hs Cough
Remedy 70 their neighbors and friends
until he has a constant demand for Il
from that part Of the country. For sale
by druggists.
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