The East Riding Telegraph. — 1903-02-07 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

THE FINCHLEY BABY FARMERS:  "A MILD ATTACK OF INFLUENZA." I DOUBLE EXECUTION AT HOLLOWAY. The journey of the King and Queen to Chats- At nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, within worth on Monday was, at the last moment, deferred, I Holloway Gaol, Annie Walters, fifty-four, and owing to a slight indisposition of his Majesty. , Amelia Sach, twenty-nine, were hanged for the Though suffering train a cold, the King. apparently I murder of a newly-born child. The execution, otherwise in good health, in the morning drove I which was the first that had taken place at from Windsor Castle to the Datchet-road, and ( Holloway under the new regulations consequent planted an elm tree. The Prince of Wales and lon the closing of Nowgate, was strictly private. Prince Edward planted others, and the party I The crime for which the women suffered was the returned to the 'Castle. Sir F. Laking hiving seen , murder of a baby which was born at Sach's nursing his Majesty, adsised him, on account of his cold, home eerast had borne up reSniiiaicr;,,amdewmeililatiguni I.lrci., not to un lertake the journey to Chatsworth that had at times been very depressed, and given way day, and a messige was at once despatched to the to her feelings under the strain of her terrible Duke of Devonshire, intimating that as the King position. Sac:: had spent most of her time in the was suffering from a feverish cold the visit must pr;son infirmary; Walters occupied the ordinary be deferred, cell set apart for condemned prisoners. The demned women retired to rest at the usual hour A Windsor correspondent writes: As a matter of con Holiday night, but neither had very much sleep. fact, the King is not at all seriously ill. lam Breakfast, consisting of bread and butter and tea, permitted to say that he is not even confined to his was supplied them at seven o'clock. Remarkable bed. His Majesty has got a very slight attack of fortitude was displayed by each of the women down influenza, and has to keep well wrapped up and tmoeettbillerlafsatieSaaschsoroexe.astiodslNlx,praenssjnst apudtesainreentl remain in his room, but he is not in that painful to her misery. The condemned offered no resistance stage when the mind is depressed and physical to the pinioning process, and on emerging from their exertion is impossible. Had it not been that , cells caps were drawn over their feces within a few Chatsworth involves a long railway journey there I paces from the drop, upon which each took up a would have been no postponement of the visit to ! position without any assistance, and a moment later Derbyshire. Sir Fiancis Laking vetoed the proceed- the bolt was drawn. Death was stated to have been ing not because there existed any fear of real . instantaneous, and the sentence to have been danger, but because it was advisable for one in his I humanely carried out. No black flag was hoisted, Majesty's position not to run even the slightest risk, I but the passing bell of the chapel was tolled, and Sir Francis Laking was only a short time at the subsequently an official notice, to the effect that Castle on Tuesday, and afterwards Lord Knollys I the women had been hanged, was posted on the was able to furnish all inquirers with the following 1 main entrance to the gaol. statement: "The King is suffeiing from a mild I Neither of the women made any statement, but attack of influenza. His Majesty is progressing Such expressed her thanks to the chaplain, be quite satisfactorily." It is announced that there having promised to look after her child. Billincton, will be no visit to Chatsworth for the present. The with Pierpoint as his assistant, was the hangman. Royal servants have been recalled and the train ' arrangements cancelled. It is probable that when the King is allowed to travel their Majesties will go down to Sandringham to recruit. That the King will, unle , unexpected complications arise, open the Session of Parliament on the 17th inst. is practically certain. The following reassuring telegram from Lord Knollys was despatched from Windsor Castle on Tuesday night: "The King's prcgress continues to be quite satisfactory.—limmtvs."