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Execution Of A Woman!

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
June
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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A few days since we published a repnr tvhich was current in our exehangcs, tliat tli human fiend, wlio was under senlence o death in Illinois, had cheated ihe gaJlovvs b eating glass. The Charleston (Hl.) Iiepor er refuletj lliis repon, and gives n minute ac count of lier cxeculio, puisuant to santence She was hnnged at Si. Lmvrenceville, (III. on Ihe 23d uit. She 6tated upon the jtillovv ihat 6he feit an interest in ihe redeeming bloo of the Prince of Peoce, and died, but to liv forever in a state of bliss made perfect to the glory of Gud the Father. She was very unwell on the mornii! óf the execution. and with a wenk and feeblestep, slie was condocted lo the scafTolu, and hung in the prescnce of eight thousand spectators. After herepirit had taken its flight to anolher world, her body was taken down and (Jissecled by tliophysicians. Her 6tomach, upon examination was found to contain a numbcr of piecea o brick as Jargc os a pea, and pulverized glas? by wbich she had n vain attempted to save herself from an ignominious oud public deaih It is justly presumed that ahe could have lived bul a few rinys longer. She has made her confeesion, rvhich, with the trial, speech of Mr. Linder (her counsel) and the eentence of the Court, ('pronounced by Judge Wilson) is published at Charleston. In il isrelntcd ihe circumstances attending the inurder of the husband, coniummoied by administering poi son by the wife. The story is snid to be of

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Signal of Liberty
Old News