LIVED AFTER BEING HANGED.
Innumerable instances of resuscitation after hanging are recorded. Henry Swiss who was hung up thirteen times without effect, on account of the peculiar condition of his windpipe, it having been converted into bone by disease. After hanging half an hour he still showed signs of life, and on examination it was found he had wrapped cords about his body connected with hooks at the neck which prevented the rope from doing its work. The apparatus was removed and the man hanged effectually. It may be offered in explanation of the cases mentioned that there was no drop used at executions in those days, the culprit usually suffering asphyxia without the cerebral column being broken.
A housebreaker named Smith was hanged at Tyburn in 1705. A reprieve came when he had been suspended a quarter of an hour. He was cut down, bled, and revived. William Duell, hanged in Eondon in 1740, revived and was transported. A man hanged in Cork in 1765 was taken in hand by a physician, who brought him round in six hours, and we are told the fellow had the nerve to attend a theatre the same evening.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 385, 14 May 1908, Page 3
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196LIVED AFTER BEING HANGED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 385, 14 May 1908, Page 3
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