The Sun. — 1857-11-16 (London, England)

EXECUTION OF DAVIS (THIS DAT.)  --..At eight o'clock this morning, Teomas Robert Davi,', a fancy carpenter, was executed in front of Newgate for the murder of his wife, by cutting her throat at their lodgings, Dorset-street, Balls Pond, Islington. The crowd in front of the jail was less numerous than on many former occasions, but still there were before the scaffold some 5,000 or 6,000 of the worst sort of people London can proclaim. At half-past seven o'clock this morning Mr. Sheriff Allen and Mr. Under Sheriff Parker arrived at the jail and were soon afterwards followed by Mr. Sheriff Lawrsnce. At a quarter to eight o'clock they, with the governor (Mr, )Vetherhead), the Rev. Mr. Plairs, and Mr. Under Sheriff Millard proceeded to the prisoner's cell, where he was found standing with his hands clasped in the same manner as he stood at the trial, muttering, " Lord have mercy on my soul. I am innocent Of all knowledge of the crime. I die a dreadful death, bat innocent of any inientioe." Mr. Under Sheriff Parker fished hint, now that he was so near death, whether he persisted in his statement, to which he replied earnestly, " I do, I do ; before God and man I am innocent of any knowledge of the act '." and in reply to repeated questions he said that it bad been his only consolation in all his troubles to know that he was innocent of any knowledge of committing the act until some hours afterwards ; that he loved his wife dearly, and that the day on which it was done was the happiest day he had spent, but how mournfully had it turned out, He added that, as far as any man could, he died innocent. Mr. Under-Sheriff Parker and the reverend ordinary repeatedly asked him if he felt that he was truly penitent. His replies were reiterations of his , innocence, and the expression of a hope that God would be merciful to him. He desired that one of the warders should deliver some little books to his child, who he hoped would be taken care of now that she had lost both father and mother. Calcraft was here introduced, and proceeded to adjust the new leather apparatus, during which Davis asked the ordinary to request the executioner, whoever he was, to be as quick as he could, as he did nut want to be kept standing to be gazed at by the mob. Having been assured upon that point, he said he would not have minded being shot by some of her Majest3'is Foot Guards, as he should then have died the death of 1 a Christian, but now he was going to die the death of a do As the last moments which he was to spend on earth arrived, the convict appeared inn redmov too ooeneoro. nerve himself to the b utmost, still protesting At length the tbiei el l rev,tolle ordinary rad? bda tr 3 the processionbeadiug tbe burialed o to the scaffold, convict walked firmly and steadily service. The shook hands with the warder, bo towatedth e theside corfoCwadl,creaoftd, in a few moments had suffered the full penalty for his I crime. His sufferings did not appear to be severe. I frompay6l/13. was to asna. asl.twilefuel.woHrhemwanas, and frequently earned meat of Sir Joseph Tobin, of Liverpool, formerly as in the employ a sshipwrshipwrightHe was one of the volunteers who offered to go to the Baltic with Sir Charles Napier.