Evening star., 1928-10-16

! of their meaning, more than that the,
expressed her fear Of dying.
Serene and digHified, as If no suef
explanation had been uttered, William
delivered the final speech ending witt
| Dead, dead, dead"
She tainted as he closed the period
and was carried back to prison in &
sWoon, while he adjourned the cour
TO go to dinner. No suspicion entered
his mind that he had ever seen, much
less known, the poor offender whom hi
had just condemned. Yet he remem.
| bered Agnes as he had known her-re.
membered her we'll
Had he been less stern in regard tC
her whom he had led astray Agnes
might have been saved from an igno.
miniaus death, and he might havf
been saved fram-remorse, the torture
OF which he for the first time felt or
reading a printed sheet of paper, acci-
dentally thrown In his way a few days
after he had left the town In which he
had condemned her to die.
The paper read:
'sFhe last dying words, speech anG
confession, birth, parentage and edu.
cation, life, character and behavior oi
Agnes Primrose, who was executed this
morning between the hours of 10 ano
IL, pursuant to the sentence passed
upon her by the Hon. Justice NerWynne
Agnes Primrose was born of honest
parents; Fsa Id,,,,, IN the village of Anfeld, in
William started at the name of the
village and county.
but being led astray by the arts
and f1attery Of Seducing man, she fell
from the paths of virtue and took to
bad company, which instilled into her
young heart all their evil ways and at
length brought her to this untimely end.
So she hopes her death viii be a warm
ing to all young persons of her own sex,
how they listen to the praises and court
ship OF young men, especially of those
who are their hetters, for they only
court to deceive.
"Rut the said Agnes freely fergives
al persons who have done her injury
or given her sorrow, from the young
man who first won her heart, to the
jury who found her guilty, and the
judge who condemned her to death
And she acknowledges the justice OF
her sentence, not only in respect of heI
crime for which she suffers, but in re-
gard to many others heinous sins OF
which she has been guilty, more espe-
cially that of once attempting to COM
NIT murder upon her own helpless
child-the child of that first illicit at
taehment which set her upon the down.
ward way
No sooner had the name Of "Anfield'
struck William than a thousand reflec-
tions and rememhrances flashed on hiE
mind to give him full conviction who
IT was he had Judged and sentenced
He reeollected the sad remains of Agnes
such as he once had known her, ano
now he wondered how his thoughts
could have been absent from an object
so pitiable. so worthy of his attention
as not to give him even suspicion who
she was, either from her name or from
her person during the whole trial.
And the child-he did not know
whether it was boy or girl, or whether
it still lived, or where it was
Wonder, establishment, horror anC
every other emotion was absorbed by
remorse. 1t wounded, it stabbed, Il
rent his hard heart as it would do &
tender one, it havocked on his firm
infleKible mind as it would on a weak
apf plant brainl
Spirit of Agnesl Look down and be-
hold all your wrongs reVenged william
feels-remorse.