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2 Men Hung for Murder—Srx Murders Confessed —We learn from George Darling, of liio Canada Express, that Iwo men were executed for murder, at Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday forenoon last. The name of one was Hamilton, and that of the other, Turney.— The former was hung for the murder of an old man * with whom he had had some pecuniary difficulty, in settling which, as he asserted upon the scaffold, they got into a quarrel, and coming lo blows, he hit the old man on the head, and killed him, These facts he stated just previous to the rope being placed around his nock. Turney seems to have been a hardened and desperate villain, Some time since, he murdered a man while engaged in a row. Previous to being executed, he came out upon the scaffold, and addressed the assembled thousands in a speech of half an hour or more, in the course of which ho acknowledged the murder for which he he was about to suffer the penalty of the law, was the sixth which he had committed in the course of a few years The scaffold was erected without the walls of the jail, the crowd assembled to witness the execution being immense, a large proportion of whom were females. The doomed men were attended by two priest, and as they knelt upon the scaffold to receive the last blessing, the rope was cut, and both were launched into eternity, at the same instant.— So great was the desire to witness the strang-1 ing of the two men. that it was utterly im-possibleto do any business whatever in Toronto. Men, women, and children, flocked around the scaffold by thosands,—Rochester Adv„June 24.flO-A Great Feat.—A man by the name of
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Hudson Columbia Washingtonian
Hudson, New York, US
Thu, Jul 01, 1847
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