The Sun. — 1834-11-25 (London, England)

EXECUTION OF THE CHESTER MURDERERS. (THIS DAY.)  This morning, at nine o'clock, the extreme sentence of the law was carried into effect upon James Garside, aged 34, and Joseph Moseley, aged 40, who were convicted at the late assize for the county and city of Chester on the 3d of August last, of the wilful murder of Mr. Ashton. The singular facts connected with the extension of the forfeited lives of those horrid miscreants has so long been before the public in a variety of forms, that it is only necessary to state that the cause originated in a dispute between the Sheriffs of two jurisdictions, as to who should carry the sentence into effect, and which ;del. hereafter become a matter of lewd disassion. When Gitcskle was informed on Sunday that all his hopes were futile, he sans; into a sullen state of despondency, but he appeared to regard to the ags.vice of his spiritual visitors, and depay little termined to think as little as possible of a future state—indeed, we were infin,:ned by the principal tipstaff, that for a time he seamed „treme., y callous. Yesterday the wretched men were attended by the.' ,Chaplain, Mr. Baker,. and other pious gentlemen,. when th.'y were urged to confess their guilt, which was the only atonement they could make for having broken the awes. Upon this point, although at times an ill feeling apirese'ed to exist between there, they were both cautiously silent Last night, at 12 o'clock, the culprits were removed from the King's Bench prison to Horsemonger-lane gaol, in the custody ee" Mr. Hester, the Tipstaff of the Court of King's Bench, hie- Ward, the Marshal's Tipstaff, Mr. Colwell, the senior Turra.-ey, and other officers, some of whom remained in the prison all right. Upon being placed in his last cell Garside wept, anti assumed a more serious air than he had ever manifested. '.At art early hour this morning the unhappy men were visited by the Rev. Mr. Mann, the Chaplain of the county gaol, and Messes. Walfourd and Harrison, the Chaplains of the King's Bench prison. As the hour of death approached Garside declared that the confessional statement he had made, implicating the two Moseley's in the principal part of the foul transaction wee false, and thus showed that the verdict of the Jury was correct. Moseley to the last declared that he was innocent, but yet he seemed to speak with a mental reservation. At a quarter to nine the tipstaffs and sheriff of Surrey proceeded to the chapel yard, where the men were disencumber eel of their irons, and had their arms and wrists pinioned in the usual way. They were then taken through the avenues to,the foot of the lodge in front of the prison, which they ascended with a firm step. Immediately they got upon the platform, Calcroft, the Newgate executioner. adjusted both the ropes, and with surprising celerity withdrew the bolt in the I space of three minutes. The malefactors never spoke after they appeared in public, excepting to the constable who apprehended Them, with whom they snook hands. Notwithstanding the coldness of the morning, the crowd began to collect cei early as six o'clock. After the bodies were suspended the *lntel time they were cut down, in orde: to be interred in the precincts of the prison.