Year: 1868

CRY roar from the crowd outside ana lo0o c0utln-
headed mass stood white and ghastly looking In the
morning sun and the pressure on the barriers In
ranss ~ - ana anu sru1os n vas ss
Amid such sceDe as this and before such dense
crowd OF white Barrett was executed His cler
gyman came Dist. Barrett mounted the steps with
the most perfect nrmness This may seem stereo-
typed phrase but it really means more than is gen.
arms and hands closely pinioned would be at all
times diicut but to climb ladder TO go to certain
death might try the nerves Of the bodest Barrett
as marble, but still he bore himself with nrmness
and his deneanor was as far removed from bra
these details but from the singular reception he met
as he came out upon the scafrOld. There was par
tia burst OF cheers which was instantly accompa-
MED by loud hlsses and SO It remained for some
seconds till as the last moment approached the
dwindled down to dead silence. To neither cheers
ton. He seemed only attentive to what the priest
was saying to him and to be engaged In fervent
prayer.


instantly put the cap over his face and the rope
around his neck. Then Barrett, turning, spoke
through his cap and asked for the rope to be altered,
which the hangman did.


In another moment Barrett was dead man. After
h e Do h was drawn ana % the drop ie win sne LOUD
moved. He died without struggle. 1t Is worthy of
remark that great cry rose from the crowd as the
culprit fell-a cry which was neither an exclamation
nor scream, but 1t partOOk In its sound OF both.
With the fall of the drop the crowd began to dis





cutting down came, and when nine O'Clock struck
there loud calls of .COme on, body snatcner ~
'Take away the man you've killed ~ &c. The hang
man appeared and cut down the body amid such
storm Oh yeils and excavations as has seldom been
heard even from such crowd. There was nothing
more then to be seen so the concOurse broke up with
its usual cOncomitants of assault and robbery.


THE BODY


was placed in shell and removed to an adjoining
building in the presence OF the sheriffS and under
sherifYs the governor, the prison surgeon and the
ordinary. There the rope having been removed from
and arms had been piniOned, the surgeon certified
that life was extinct. The expression Of the face
trss WAS marveloasy sereace ana placid ana sne & dea
sight with the notion OF q violent death, though
the lips and parts OF the forehead were unusually
livid Towards the evening the body was buried in
the accustomed place within the precincts OF the
prison, in grave upwards OF five feet deep, In the
presence Of the governor and other officers OF the
jail


Barrett was an Irishman by birth, about twenty
seven years Of age of thick-set. muscular figure,
rather below the average height and with prepos-
sessing countenance. lie was unmarried and by
trade stevedore. Neither before after his con-
and after sentence he was only, chiefly, visited by
the Rev. Mr.. Hussey, who was with him considers
PIE time daily, and by his counsel and occasionally
prison was uniformly becoming and he bore himself
to the last with great forttude, submitting himself
at the same time with afectionate doclty to the
hortatiOns of his priest and gratefully receiving the
consultations OF religion He was never unduly
buoyed up by the efforts made out Of doors
the repeated resptes as afording him further time to
prepare himself for the worst should 1t come to
that. He died without making any confession OF the
crime OF which he was convicted so far as any of the
authorities are informed. What he may have said
to his priest, il anything, in reference to the
ders may never be divuged. All that Is known is
that he gave him ''mmense satisfaction to use that
gentemans own expression, by his humble and
penitent demeanor his extraordinary fOrtitude and
by the earnestness with which lie strOve to prepare
himself for his end Yet there was this popularity
about him, observed more than once by OF the
authorities in his visits to him after sentence, that
lie never absolutely denied his guilt. On those
sions, whenever he referred to the crime he always
said he had been convicted on insufficient evidence,
and that be was not guilty OF murder.


Since the execution the police who have guarded
the prison Of Newgate for months past have Deen
relieved.