Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-10-14
| WALKING GALLONS
The Horrible Deeds of Lieutenant
 Hepenstall.
HANGED MEN FROM HIS NECK

n, Handsome but Brutal Giant of inc Wicklow Militia Was the Most Geld Glooded and Eccentric Exeeu- u3a-r That Has Ever Existed.
 lmou- the examples and records of RdtisH tyranny during the terrible ,s,r l1gS there is none more extraor- Eg9ry. according to writer in an r.,sA magazine, than that of Lieu. paau, Edward Hepenstall, known by S, nickname of the walking gal srs" for such he certainly was, lit saly and practically.
 Tns notorious individual. who had Rea brought up as an apothecary In n,ai.. obtained commission in the Ef.s..N militia. in which he attained : p the ruuk of lieutenant in l795. He Nsg nan of splendid physique, about Sg fet two inches in height and y-ou- and broad in proportion. Refer d,. tD this handsome but brutal giant. g. Jonah Harrington in his memoirs 1,es:
 q kncw him well and from his coun- snaace should never have suspected hia Of cruelty. but so cold blooded and SentriC an eXecutioner of the human nce never yet existed"
 4 the outbreak of the sanguinary re- enon, when the common law was gspended and the stern martial va ity tOurished in its stead, Lieutenant HepenStall hit upon the expedient of hngiHg on his own back persons EbOSe plysiognomies he considered 5aracteriStic of seditious tenets. At he present. day the story seems almost credible, but 1t is notorious fact, sTealed by the journalism of the pe- id that when rebels. either suspected EauGht red handed, were brought be- he him Hepenstall would order the ord of a drum to be taken off and asn, rigging up a running moose, you'd proceed to hang each in turn lGOSS his athletic shoulders until the Rtms had been slowly strangled to sath, after which he would throw bTn his load and take up another.
 The walking gallows" was clearly dh new and simple plan and a lede of execution not nearly so aiOuS or painful as Tyburn or Old Riley hanging. It answered his aieSty'S service as well as two posts Sd a crOwbar. When rope was not hand Hepenstall's own silk cravat, s1g softer than an ordinary halter, csme a merciful substitute.
 h pursuance of these benevolent in- atOns the lieutenant would frequent
 administer an anaesthetic to his rnbling victim-in other words, he pIld first knock him silly with a low. His garters then did the duty handcuffs. and the cravat would be tped over the condemned mans Sk Whenever he had an unusually pow 1Ul victim to do with. Hepenstall ck pride in showing his own 1sngth With a dexterous lunge of s body the lieutenant used to draw the poor devils head as high as his Tl and then. when both were cheek jOwl, begin to trot about with his rden like 9 iolting cart horse until F rebel had no further solicitude nolt sublunary affairs. It was after Of these trotting executions, which ! I taken place in the barrack yard l Joining Stephens green. that Hep 1 elstall acquired the surname of "the 1 'akiDg gallows." He was invested a it by the gallery of Crow Street aatcr Dublin.
 A the trial Of rebel in that city lieutenant. undergoing cross exam ahOn admitted the aforementioned eal!s of his method of hanging. and An NOrbury, the presiding judge. afuly complimented him on his loy- ' and assured him that he had been ly of no act which was not natural "a jealous, loyal and efficient officer. l lieutenant Hepenstall, however, did 0ng survive his hideous practice. l died in 1894. Owing to the odium
 which he was universally held, the i 0Aorities arranged that his funeral ACId take place secretly. while a
 'oih wit suggested that his tomb 7@ would be suitably inscribed by | following epitaph:
 Here lie tho bones of Hepenstall.
 Judge fury paIio;s rome and all