The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1875-12-11 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY RUMOUR.  The London correspondent of the Leeds Afutary, writing on the 3rd lose, says :—Yesterdayafternoon,the sheriffs, Mr. Aid. Knight and Mr. Breffit, accompanied by the visiting justices of the gaol of Nurgate and the under-sheriffs, went to the cell where Henry Wainwright has been confined since his conviction, and in the ordinary way communicated to him the Intenigenre that Tuesday, the 21st instant, had been fixed by the sheriffs for carrying out the sentence of the law. The prisoner, who appeared to have conducted himself with extraordinary fortitude both before and since his conviction, heard the intelligence without exhibiting the least emotion, and said that he was prepared; but he had one request to make. He wan asked what it was that he desired, and he said there were certain persons of whom he should like to take a last farewell, and he begged for permission to write to his solicitor, Mr. Pelham, who concluded his defence, and informed them who it was that he wished to see. All there did not appear to be any objection to this being done, the prisoner's request was complied with, and he subsequently wrote a letter to Mr. Pelham, which was forwarded to that gentleman. The fixing of the day of execution on a Tuesday is rather en unusual °moment*, the ordinary rule being to carry out the capital sentence on Mondays. It has always been the practice to allow a prisoner convicted of murder, which is the only crime, as the law now stands, to ,shish the death penalty is attached, three clear Sundays after his conviction, and the fact of the trial extending over the Sunday has had the effect of prolonging 'he existence of the prisoner a week longer than would have been the ease if the trial had been brought to a conclusion during the first week. The prisoner Is, of course, never left alone, a warder being with him day and night. He has, it is understood, repeated the assertion be made at the clue of the trial that he was innocent of the crime of murder, and that him was not the hand that caused the death of Harriet Lane, and from the firmness with which this declaration was made it appears probable that he will persist in it to the last. A variety of extraordinary rumours hare been afloat upon this subject, and among others is one that was current in the court, proceeding from persons very likely to be well informed upon the subject, on the last day of the trial, to the effect that If Thomas Wainwright had been acquitted altogether, as was considered not at all improbable from the tenor of the summing up of the Lord Chief Justice, which was certainly very favourable to the prisoner, he intended to hare avowed that he was the murderer of Harriet Lane, and that his brother Henry was innocent. This avowal would not have involved any personal peril, because, having been acquitted by the jury of the crime, he could not have been tried a second time for the same offence. Whether or not any such admission will yet he made by him remains to be seen; but up to the present time it appears that he has not said a word with reference to the crime for which his brother is to suffer. It appears, however, to be a very general opinion that some startling revelations will yet be made with reference to this almost unparalleled crime. AN UNVARNISHED REVIEW or