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ALMOST HANGED TWICE.

EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT AT _ : AN EXECUTION. v By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright . New York, February 18. At Calgary, Alberta, an extraordinary incident marked the .execution of Jasper Collins, a youth, who had been sentenced to death for murdering, a farmer, named John Benson. The'youth lay unconscious in his cell •before the execution, but revived sufficientlyto be'carflcd to a chair on the scaffold. The drop fell, and the cxecu•tidner cut down the body' before death occurred. Tho shocked prison officials were preparing to hang the youth again when death supervened. A coroner's jury severely censured the hangman, and demanded an investigation of tho whole affair.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19140220.2.44

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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1989, 20 February 1914, Page 7

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104

ALMOST HANGED TWICE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1989, 20 February 1914, Page 7

ALMOST HANGED TWICE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1989, 20 February 1914, Page 7

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