The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-09-16 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE EXECUTIONS AT BIREDALE. William Robert Taylor, the murderer of Mrs. Evan Mellor, of Manchester, and Werd,eirs murderers of the policeman Jump, at ' Lyne, were executed at noon on Saturday in. the gaol at Kirkdale, near Liverpool. It appears that large numbers of people to Liverpool from Warrington and other towns.% surrounding district, and proceeded to tham•Ww, bourhood of the .1 where many of them ....j-for the night y of these persons laswigliki their provisions in handkerchiefs, baskets, fte.,.. together with bottles ef ale. The night wirer* by them in discussing their viands, and in speadit-, tang as to the mode in which the doomed man arealdt deport themselves. One fellow, luxuriating in the. pro/tact, declared that it would be the "grandma sight' he over witnessed. Before the execution carrier pigeons were frequently sent off by persons in the crowd to convey the intelligence as to the reprieve of Burke to the prisoner's friends in /Ashton and the neighbourhood. At ten o'clock on Friday night both the condemned prisoners retired to bed and passed an apparently comfortable night. Al six o'clock on Saturday morning both men arose and took breakfast, after which the Rev. Mr. Appleton, the gaol chaplain, spent some time with Ahem in earned religious conversation. Taylor appeared considerably softened during this interview, bat neither then nor subsequently did he make any statement which tended to throw light upon the murder of his children. Shortly before twelve the scaffold door was thrown ow, and Calcraft, the governor of the gaol, and one or two other officials, appeared, and examined for a few moments the apparatus of death, k Calash was dressed in Mao), Wore a gold watchguard, and with his hands in his pockets walked about with a cool businees-likeairjorinch andee-othar and lees horrible circumstances, would have beam amusing. The executioner then retired, and a fewminutes after twelve reappeared with the condemned criminals, both of whom walked firmly forward upon the scaffold. Mr. Wright (the prison philanthropist,) who been most seek= in his attentions. to both Taylor and Ward, and the Rev. Mr. Appleton, were also present. Taylor was dressed in the same suit of black which he wore during his trial at the assizes, and after a view of the crowd, placed himself under the beam. Ward also placed himself under the beam, and taking off his cap threw it amongst the crowd. His eye roved over the immense mass of upturned Ewes for a few momenta with a resales and slightly fearful expression, but he afterwards became more composed and audibly joined in the prayer uttered by the clergyman, "Lord have mercy upon us I Christ have merey upon us I" Taylor, during the few momenta that transpired before the cap was put over his head, turned two or three times and spoke earnestly to Mr. Wright, who apWto be administering worda of comfort to him. ed n his face was covered and his arms adjusted. Taylor bowed two or three times, and then bid a final adieu to the world. When all was ready, Galoraft shook both the men by the hand, and haying stepped back withdrew in rapid 'accession bolt after bolt, and the wretched men hung lifeless in the air. Taylor appeed to stiffer very little, but Ward died more hardly, In about an hour afterwards the bodies were cut down and buried within the precincts of the gaol. Since the execution it has transpired that in an interview which Mr. Wright bad with Taylor, the latter declared that his children were not destroyed by chloroform, or by the application of wet cloths, but that he had given them a "simple medicine ;" but what this was he declined to divulge. The crowd attending an execution in Liverpool was never so great as nu this occasion. The numbers were variously estimated at from 60,000 to 100,000.  Printed and published for the Proprietor, by CHARLES WHITHRIAD MILLARD, a loon Road, Pordington, Dorchester, Printer, at the Office of rhs Dorset County Express, Charch-litteist Dnrokiaster. Two' dar, Neptioaber 1114 ilfea  crowded IMOD reatribustm , = a irPro l=ti 3141.... ll i611%.1: F. Pair araeliell. al OHO I Prim. , foga; . tool i, mots we, 41•17 1; ".• o t . I 4 ford ti.. 'public. -, ' r Oiir 1 L. 3 . , 'al, 10 • ~' " tinter. , At -411 were inctil itliZildres.andena 112.111_,n 1 , '7'