A TRIPLE EXECUTION.
licceived, 14, 11,20 p.m. Perth, December 11. Hageu, Espade, and Marques were executed for the murder of Liebglib. Httgeu died protesting his innocence. The other two were hanged an hour later. Espade, who owned to his guilt on the scaffold, twice moved his pinioned arms and held on to the slack of the rope. The chief warder, Webster, standing on the trap, held tb e rope free, and when the bolt was drawn he fell with the convicts into (,'ie well, receiving severe injurie s t) his head, and necessitating his removal to the hospital. Death was instantaneous in the case of Ihe convicts,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8004, 15 December 1905, Page 2
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107A TRIPLE EXECUTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8004, 15 December 1905, Page 2
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