A SENSATIONAL EXECUTION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 140, 2 October 1876, Page 3

A SENSATIONAL EXECUTION.

That wide district of America known to French geographers as le Far west has lately witnessed an imposing exercise of public justice. The sufferer from Lynch law was a person of" the name of Diggles, whose punishment was as striking and severe as his crime—the murder of a child —was nefarious. Diggles, according to : the Pitjnn> t had been condemned by a jury of his countrymen, and was being led by : them and by any other citizens who happened to have a spare half-hour to the usual place of execution. On the road t ,ie public-spirited jury chanced to encounter some amateurs of another sort of %'ctaelo, who were eng&jed in the business of starting a happy, thought of combining ieroniatfc science with the avenging of public morality at ones occurred to some fertile mind, and Diggles was made fast by a nooae round his rtcck to the car of the balloon. The word ' let go' was .then given, and Diggles ascended into the firmament, his convulsive struggles testifying td the disagreeable nature of his position. After the death of Mr. Diggles, the really imposing part of this form of execution began. Ftve balloon, urged by contrary winds, was unable to descend to earth, and the natives of le Farwest were enabled to cultivate their moral faculties by studying through telescopes the appalling fate that overtook the carcase of Diggles. Tnc birds of the air gathered together, pursued the balloon, and feasted on the frame of the malefactor.