Terrible Retribution.
A MURDERER BURNT ALIVE.
One of the moist atrocious criminals m AAmericaa — a negro named Jerry Cox — when lying ,under sentence of death for killing his mistress and then plasing her corpse rails to be cut up by an express train, set fire to the goal m which he was confined at Nashville, •nd was taunt ali^e m the building. He bad previously perpetrated a double murder m circumstances of appalling atrocity. The people were awakened by the rosr of the flame?, and many hastened to the fjaol, but on their arrival they tound the walls and bars glowing red with heat, while the murderer was screaming within m his death agony. In less than an hour the gaol was a mass of ruins. Next morning the uody of Cox was found, and the crowd stood appalled at the murderer's fate.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 38, 20 March 1883, Page 2
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