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In the state of Delaware survive many of the customs which rendered English justice so deadly a century and a half ago. Latest achievement of this commonwealth which still champions the whipping post is a popular, public hanging. A crowd which the spectators at the old Newgate prison would have...
The Court was human. Although five of its members had refused to stay the execution, it considered the appeal in spite of the irregularity. The Court was also firm. The appeal was denied.
Died. William Christopher Patterson, 84, famed as "the world's oldest hangman and first electrocutioner," noted executioner of 54 persons in Auburn prison; at Hornell, N. Y., while peacefully asleep. Leon Czolgosz, famed assassin of President McKinley, was considered by Mr. Patterson the most notable criminal whom he executed. The press, however, accorded tremendous publicity to his execution of one Kemmler, a wife slayer, in the first electric chair actually put into use. He also superintended the electrocution of Mary Farmer, first woman to die in the chair. When questioned, shortly before his death as to whether he thought...
A few hours later the long arm of the British secret service had reached out and seized him. For months Mr. Basil Thomson, Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, had been waiting for Sir Roger to appear. During the course of the trial before Lord Chief Justice Reading,* Mr. Thomson was...
York House. On the site of "a hospital for 14 maidens that were leprous," dedicated to St. James the Less, Henry VIII built a palace, which he inhabited with Anne Boleyn until he tired of both. With the burning of the great Palace of Whitehall, the sovereigns of England from...