Wholesale Hanging

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 90, 5 February 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)

Wholesale Hanging

The hauy;His <>f four men. at once is. not (says tlw* Melbourne Telegraph)) without parallel in Australian, history ;: in fact, it i& a comparatvrely tinning affair beside the e^cutions which occurred in Sidney between* 1820 and 184,0. The- bad laws of a worsegoverned penal settlement «ondu#ted rather to crime than to prevent it,,and thrust in ttho«e years waa appalling.. A gallows was erected at the corner oft Park and CastlerHagh stceets^ in Aug;ust, 1821, and hangings oa it for sowe tine wwrn almost of weekly oc-. cujceuce. In fact. BQ.unwnport&nt didi thje pumshqaeut become thatr no record soems to have bee% kept), or, if soyit was lost many years ago. In* &i*gußt, 18^1, twenty^iz men were uitku:gutl witljju. serioiis offence, and ofr ttkeir number nineteen were executed the- day after-they were found guilty. Perhaps it is. as well that their names have been butf-iod with, them, for the most patient search* fails to give any clue as to. who thpy were or for what they dfod. In October 1822, the same gaU«ws serwd for the exwuHon of tbi^-four 3»en. for bushoanging. They*- were* not all of the siame gang, bufa hadi beoa captured. i during the preceding moath, mainly ; owing to the eadeavors. of an* ex? f convict, who aftier enrolling himseU |.in the poliiie force, became famous for jhia bravery an^l success, in securing robberSi All of these thirty jfour wer»> given iato custpdy by him fand they were hanged ilk ba,tpne& of five during the^ first feift day. oft thft ; month.

;| The condltioc* termed laoapa« tn^oraes. ; : ifr frequently ra?b with in young horses, and is dun* to teething. Hhe appearance presented* hy tUe swollen stata> oft th» g^ms ancU pnla\e are too.* well known to need desapipti^a. Lam^s is not a disease, bi4 a i^atural cjenseq^oeace and» aa«ompanimenVj of teething, and the only treatment, required; is to soarify^the gums with a lancet, ancfogive a.few braa mwhes, with a, little cammon,salt OTf-pi-trate of potash. The baarbarou^ practice ofe burning out the bar». with.a.hoti^n* c*nß(Ot be too strongly aeademnedj.

"-Dr" Gilbert who . somo , tim«. ago* rak^d in a lot of money in New Zealand by. lecturing in favor,- of religipa* and) morality, was afterwards sentenced to a» term of hard Inbonr in, Außttaliaafpr,th.e trifling indiscjsefion oft having married several wives 19 now.ottfe of prison, .and "■rupxiiag the same oldjracket"inApieri« oa. He is announced jia,ntk« San,Euau» cisco papers as " Dr <X« Gilbert, lat«.-of Australia, tlie celebrate^,l#oturer, trafelv ler, and rtemvhsher •o| Freethought.** TJie/-Amer. can, Good Templ&ri are ru-9* n,inn the iiiueii-married^do-otor."

Hwv^to <>kt Sick,— EJfcpose yourself day and night; eat tsO, iftttfih without] lexgrciqe* work, too h-acd without rest, . doctor all the type ; ; t»Jfv aJjLthe vile nos» trams advert^e^, w&ffyitweiLjrUl.icant.i