Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-01-02 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

EXEI  SAM.  On Monday morning, the sentence of death WWI carried out, within the precints of Durham Gaol, on Hugh Daley (37), pitman, who was ti ed at the last Durham Winter Gaol Delivery, before the Hon. Sir Anthony Cleasby, and convicted of Vie crime Of wilful murder. The facts of the case are well known. According to a mitten communication s•Mt by Colonel Ai mstrong, uoveruur et the gaol, the repre. sentatives of the press were not admitted to witneal the exeCtition. Canon Douala arrived at the prison gates at a quarter to seven o'clock. Halt' an boar afterwards Atarwood of norm:Asti°, the executioner, pw au s rs ke rhr rao: gg oh vtehrenogr [tot the .o pc7,oaorilrin his(Colonel it 1 y. Armstrong) entered about twenty minutes to eight, followed by the prison chaplain (Rev. J. C. Lowe) to whom succeeded the under.sheriff (Mr Richardson Poole), and the deputy governor (Mr Tames Young). The doors had barely closed when the Cathedral bells chimed out a quarter to eight, when, punctual to the moment, the passing bell was heard, and the few assembled outside became painfully conscious proceedings going on within the walla of ti The beetle within the walls was a mel  --The formal summons having been set . .  governor to hand over the body of tL warders were dispatched to the cond quickly returned to the press re, authorities were assembled, with a  On entering the press room, Marw readiness, immediately stepped jested the straps. The Under-SL,  out, followed by the culprit, accom Cousitt and supported by the warde Deputy Governor, and Chaplain, aua officials, to the number of about a doz. in this order, they passed through ti corridor. Emerging from the corridor, was suddenly brought lace to face witerne instrument of death, which was erected to the left of the entrance to the female wing of the prison, on the east side, and adjoining the wall which separates the prison from the Parson's Field. His emotion here was distreesing, so much so that we understand he had to be assisted on to the scaffold by the attendant warders. The bolt was drawn at six minutes past eight o'clock. Daley fell with a heavy thud, ' struggling violently, as a view of the body subsequently proved. The dull thud was heard distinctly outside the prison wall, in the Varson'a Field. It was an unusually short drop, the culprit's neck. not appearing to have broken. The body was left tc hang the prescribed sixty minutes by law, after which it was taken down pat into a plain rough coffin, and placed in the down, Room to await the coroner's inquiry. Outside the prison walls about fifty persons were assembled. At six minutes past eight o'clock the dismal black flag was hoisted. The first to emerge from the prison after the execution was Canon Consitt, was was so unwell that he bad to retire to bed.  At ten o'clock, an inquest on Hugh Daley was held in the deputy-governor's ooe, before Mr John Graham, to which the representatives of the press were admitted. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence adduced—that death resulted from strangulation caused by hanging. The body was subsequently interred within the preoints of tho prison, in close proximity to Dawson, Gough, Thompson, and Mary Ann Cotton.  Thc Tay is completely frozen over at Perth by ice six inches thick.  The goberttown Cotton Mill, Liversedge, was completely destroyed by fire on Saturday morning, entailing a loss of £lO,OOO, which is covered by insurance,nitai-Glasgow Citizen says Mrs Jamieson Living. tone, who had lived through a century, and had been servant to Sir Walter Scott, died on Thursday, at 37, Little Street, Calton, in very humble state. The death is announced of Mr Alexander Leighton, of Edinburgh, the author of by far the greater part of the "Tales of the Borders, and of many other literary works.