The Sun. — 1846-03-23 (London, England)

EXECUTION OF W. SPICE°' FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFF of S af dr d.,ybr(•ak. Frid v. tie e, n; off ed , n oem.ly ..,our toes ti ere he te.-n ex-tiding thee. way toe etds t to witness the pe.gress of fne werks. The below were thrown (Teo by the occupiers. i'B° Jersons of every age and viz, hasten. d by I-0( rot bug l•efore the appointed hour of execution-4r o'clock. There were, at the low.st. colep.iis6;tlhef wards of 5.000 p,rsons present, and the tooklilf,e' most deciderily omposed of women, many havii,f; in tier arnee t The -,vr,tclied culprit, William Spicer, threelZhetli huh-, of Thursday, appeared very peniteet symetions ui contreion, for some time ; ast, attendants and others connected with the gall to that he was prepared for the solemn event wi..ef toweled him ; indeed, his expre:siors aed could lead to no other conclusion. Mny hauls op° spent by him in perusing the sacred Volume) hr in devout meditetion. 113 retired to PIO tween eleven end twelve o'clock last night, *9104 soundly until ab ;ut his usual hour of rising this and, having dressed himself; partook of a hearlY .014 fast. The whole of the prisoners ate ra'ed sertice' chapel at nine o'clock, and after the readieg of tV,Pdiir era, a brief address suitable to the ccasion v,rerl by the highly-esteemed chapbntivi in, the l‘rof.e Field, woo at te has been unceasingly to tlfeyrcet tot ate crimin 1 ever since his inearceialion• 'seLsll4 being concluded, o ach prisoner return: d to his ce',„ rle , f ern about halt-pst ten until a little before , Spicer was en.....aged .he chaplain, wien he 1., .i 8 to his own room. Upon elle o his attendant., "NP s,irof to him a ho,:e that 1w felt re ighel and bap, 1. Id!, 0 repeeted the f passage from the .I"'6,' expiessive of his felings, " Yea, there' ere throug. the valley of the snailew of depth, ei„ lli ;of in evil, fur Thou art with ,- ; Thy rod and Thy ,ts comfort me." The fatal hour having struck, o",fei' w-rt to the room for him, up on seeing when], 1),-isi'l'A patine. purpes. fur whiet was wanieiff "Shad I pull if my neckerchief ?" end being 5",%t01, in the affirmative, he did so, and placed it in 'hoof leiving it upon the table. Ile was then britlgh room helow. where he underwent the prove: e P'olotee without being in the lea t decree excited. The re°o,,tht, process en here formed, headed by Li ut. Hoke wit' goy- nw. the chaplain following, reading the ,:tos servic-, the culprit, and the officers of the moved slewk o towards the scaffold. Th, a.stenishii.g. ne-s the prisoner maintained in ascendieg th st e: d1;111 the subject of univers,l remark. Having er,.l.'l,ed-ifeew4 drop, he placed himself IN neeth the beat°. L'll` or afterwards turned round bald heartily shock • he governor, who asked him if he had any goof;Ail bye; t.o which Spicer replied by saying, " No, P'"'",oi.i.e( give my love to your family. Calcraft, the exec end from efewgitte, then drew the cap ever the e'ooor culprit's face, and was about to adjust the roPei-vitY the criminal's neck, it being already suspendetori b-atn, when the noose was found net to r• c'' than the middle of his ,face, and a few minutes ed,,el before it could be properly done ; and )et..0111: this time not a muscle or limb in Stne'r„ffloo'f,'" served to move. At length the neces,a,ty pre"-;er were arranged, the chaplain continued to read ill tellf vice in an audible voice, and at a giver, signal the et! sustaining the platform on which the culprit etelbetiiliae withdrawn by the executioner, and he was I,..une ofe, eternity. He made a few convulsive throes, le; taised his hands, but in a few short mini-lit:4,lr, quite extinct. There was no expression of freolletbey Pr, the man on the part of the vast multitude, tvnealrli,, turned homewards. The body, after hanging ,e 011 was taken dewy, and buried within the preolle.4‘lie;t nearly close to the het con- ct, Jetilit'g97 oe =training spectaters then quietly disperse s" eeiumed its usual traliquilitty.—Reading suiteoirt  Ogittito