THE HANGMAN IN DEFENCE.
Some comments upon bungling executions have been going the rounds of the English papers. At length the honor of the successor of Ketch and Calcraft was pricked, and he published a letter, in which he resents the discredit sought to he cast upon his performance of his grim office. He says :—-" lam confident that none of my predecessors could have discharged the national duty I have to perforin with more humanity than I have done.” And then he cites this extraordinary testimony ;—“ I have the satisfaction to know that my mode of discharging the duty I have before alluded to has not only the unmistakable approval of the Government authorities, but of : a very great number of private individuals, one English gentleman in a prominent'position, and a member a Christian church, being so highly satisfied with my knowledge and with the discharge of my duties, that he has quite recently forwarded me a handsome piece of china, with my name and the town I reside in inscribed, in gold letters thereon.” Was the person hanged about to oppose this Christian gentleman at the general election, or was the victim one of his wife’s relations ? ” —“ Angles ” in the “ Australasian.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2125, 14 January 1880, Page 3
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202THE HANGMAN IN DEFENCE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2125, 14 January 1880, Page 3
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