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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 106, 24 October 1877, Page 3

Frank Smith was a negro murderer of Texas, and he was justly led to the gallows s short time ago- m Montague comity. As always Happens at Southern executions, au immense crowd was present when the negro* was led v upon tne "platform. He made a fervent prayer and after it addressed the people. He confessed his crime, and exhorted his hearers so fervently to avoid His . : errors that all were moved to tears. The "sheriff put the noose-around his neck, but th.e.?rough. crowd, moved by the murderer's eloquence, surged around and upon the gallows, demanding his release. The Sheriff made an ineffectual effort to clear the platforni. The men were avniedf and he was m" their power. All .at once the murderer, who was an Hercules m strength and stature; r shotted, "Stand buck I Tlhs is no time for a row. lam guilty.- Let the law take it* course, I am- a man, and I can die like a man." The rescuers shrank back quite appalled. The sheriff, with a heavy heart, completed hia. preparations, the trap was sprung-and the brave malefactor fell and died without a struggle. la there another' ' frtetence ia history where a man, having life and liberty before him, threw them away to- ; vindicate the majesty of a- law whichJhe • hunse^ had violated ?