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was discovered that ho sustained no fatal injury. Whilst the curpenteis, under tlje superintendence of Mrl W. Long worth, were lefitting the gallows, the prisoner, who appeared weak, was forced to lie down, and was offered wine, which he refused. When every thing was.again ready—an hour having elapsed in the preparations—Dowey was carried out of the juil and up on to the scaffold, by constable lieoitz and MeUuillan nud two policemen. He was seated in a chair whilo the sums horrible preliminariee were again gone over by the hangman ; and in this position the signal was given, the trap fell, the rope rushed through tlie pulley for the fall of three feet; but the weight and force of the suspended man were so great, that the cleat around which the rope was fnstened, so as not to allow of more than the three feet fall, gavo way, and the rope rushed through until the prisoner’s legs touched the ground. Out of sheer mercy, several of those who were ou tlie scaffold seized hold of the rope and hoisted the criminal about eight feet from the ground; and in this condition he was allowed to hang for forty minutes, wh^n he was eut down, and the body placed in a cofliu iu the jail, whence it was removed on Wednesday morning for interment in the l'rotestant ce-metry. .
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Saint Johns Patriot And Terra Nova Catholic Herald
Saint Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Mon, May 03, 1869
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Alvin E.
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