Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1878-11-02 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

XIII. as set forth •in most important documents cannot be destroyed by the empty words of the Journal des Debate. The Coiogne Gacsite reports the adoption of a new progremme by the Social Democrat Association for the defence of the intereets of the labouring population, *tended to meet the demands of the new law. The association aims now only at the exteesion of the political influence of the people, at full freedom of the press, at gratuitous teaching in the schools and  , . ... universities, at the legal regula-tion of the hours of ." labour in manufactorim, at protection of female ' labour and prohibition of the employment of young .' child*n in manufactories, and at complete local self- , government. , Tht New York Herald has given an account of the career and execution of a miscreant, named "Bill - I Lenley," who received the richly earned reward of I his crimes at Giddings, Team, on the 11th of October. ' . ' Texas has been a sort of happy bunting ground for desperadoes for well nigh half-a-century, but this fellow seems to have been the worst of all the scoundrels who have haunted it. Be was only ; 26 piers of age; yet from the time he was 14 years of age he was a murderer, and this rot always from. provocation, but more frequently from sheer love 7 of Wickedness. He seemed to (lead a charm life. ' When only 15 he was pureued by a detachment cf . thiittd States cavalry, woo discharged, in vain, forty ' ' shots after him. A soldier closed with him, but his pietol went off, killing the soldier, and he mcaped. He was banged by it body of regulars, and as he did not , seem' to die quickly en, ugh for their taste they fired • two revolver shots at him. One struck a belt lined . with' gold pieces, the other sUot cut two strands of .. the rope, and a lad coming up soon after cut bins . . down and rescued him. More than once ho made • sham Surrender, to enable confederates to obtain rewards Of 81000 and 31500 offered for his capture. , When the reward was secured he contrived with their . connivance to get off. Of course, he could never settle anywhere, as much because of hie own restless disposition an on account of the pursuit of justice. He : wandered all over Texas and the adjoining Statee, travelling into the wild regions of the West, robbing, plundering, and murdering as be went along. Once, whilakeeping a bar-room for miners in the Big HO/11 Mountains, he and eight companions went out on -a hunting excursion and were caught in a snow*min. Three of them were frozen to death, and • he had to keep his bed for five months, but finally recovered. His last performance was the ' shooting of a man named Andereon, who, he heard, had killed his cousin. He walked up to the man as he was working in a field and shot him dead. This was his thirty-second well-authenticated murder. It was committed on the 31st of March, 1875, but various delays and legal artifices have prevented his execution till the other day, more than thrfe years and a half after the crime. On the scaffold he conducted himelf with some bravado ; hut he accepted ' the :funietance of a clergyman, and made a short speech whisk may be interpreted as expreseiog regret for • his awful deeds.. He acknowledged that he i hM fate, and asked all to forgive him. , , ___...