CABLE NEWS.
Tripple Execution-
A GRUESOME AFFAIR,
A WARDER INJURED
Perth. December 14,
Hagen, Espade, and Marques were executed on Thursday for the murder of the German traveller Liebglib. Hagen died protesting his innocence. The other two were hanged an hour later.
Espade, who owned to his guilt on the scaffold, twice moved his pinioned arms, and held on to the slack of the rope. The chief warder, named Webster, who was standing on the trap to hold the rope free when the bolt was drawn, fell with the convicts into the well, receiving severe injuries- to the head, which necessiated his removal to hospital.
Death was instantaneous in the case of each of the convicts.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3611, 16 December 1905, Page 3
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116CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3611, 16 December 1905, Page 3
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