The Sun. — 1859-01-10 (London, England)

BOIT.. \' IC ;4 ‘-'-' ~z,- - ,- -f -"1: #4 ,CC ' , Dll,'''' ,i4eirt`,t .. 11#744' Z ; I"'''..w# .ett. aa \ ....:... .. '' ''' i.. ~..,i, ... . 0.7.,,,-,-':, 1 '  strength left to enable her to run Cuthbert's house. She told her in tat Ad happened to her, a surgeon was promptly in at.. tendance, and every care was taken of the unhappy girl, but the character. of the -wound in her throat was so serious that she graduaLly. sank, and died in a few days afterwards. The murderer was apprehended within a few hours of the commission of this horrid crime. He was wandering about. his master's fields at Gateford, and. was in an excited state. His throat was partially cut, his shirt was bloody, and his coat sleeves appeared to have been recently washed. He said that he had inflicted the wound on his throat, and acknowledged that he had also cut the throat of the deceased. Whenbefore the coroner the murderer trumped up a long and incredible story, the purport of which was that a scuffle ensued between him and his sweetheart, both of whom-struggled to gain possession of the knife. During the conflict the young woman's throat was accidentally cut, and then she stabbed him in the throat with the knife *od ran away, leaving him lying upon the ground. The dying declaration of the murdered girl entirely denied this statement, her account of the fearful scene being that Whitworth accused her of keeping company with another man, and beingunable to prevail upon her to take poison; he seized hold of her, threw her on the ground, put his knee upon, and with a knife cut her throat. Alt a. his condemnation the murderer became 'peni. ent, acknowledged his guilt, and said. that he made the first attack upon his sweethearts being impelled thereto by what he afterwards discovered was an unfounded. jealousy. Under theconstant and zealoes religious instructions of the Rev:. J. E. M. youit temporary chaplain at the Castle, and the Rev. J. Parkes,alVesleyan Methodist rainister,the murderer became very penitent, acknowledged the justice of his sentence, and that the jury, with the evidence athneyyohtiaiedrbveefrodreictthtehman, could of guilty.ldnothave Hbils'omu gehdtittan. prison- after his trial were not distracted relatives, thi‘pnly one who visited him being his brother-in-1A:- a fey days after he had received Mg' sentence. No petitions Were presented ,to the Home Secretary or other -"pearls adopted to get a mitigation of the punishment ; but many persons expressed a strong sympathy for the convict, the more so as the man Atkinson, for the murder of his sweetheart at Darley, under somewhat similar circumstances to for which 'Whitworth was sentenced to death, had been acquitted at-the same time on the ground of insanity. The unfortunate man spent the greater part of Friday night in devotional exercises, and partook of the Holy Communion at an early hour on Saturday morning, after which up to the final act, at:l2 o'clock at noon,*he displayed great fortitude, and more than once expressed his belief that he should experience a glorious immortality. From 4,000 to 5,000 persons were assembled to witness the execution, and they behaved in a very orderly manner, with. the exception of some few, who called out " Shame ! Shame! bring out Atkinson." A man named Askern; living near Rotherham, was the executioner, as he was also in the case of the last two or three persons who havebeen hanged at York. A` out two minutes after the drop fell the struggles the the unfortunate man - ceased, and all was over. spectators soon after began to disperse, and at 1 o'clock the body of the murderer was cut down and interred within the precincts of the Castle.