BLENHEIM.
» This day,
Every arrangement was made yesterday for the execution of Woodgate this morning. Sam Chandler was engaged as hangman, but was driven out of Picton. The condemned man received the sacrament yesterday, Archdeacon Butt and the Rev. Eonaldson being present. He maintained his innocence until the last. The sheriff and gaoler refused to execute the sentence, and failing to find any one else the man remains unhung. It is not known when or how the sentence will be carried out. The telegraph was employed until midnight in attempting to obtain a hangman from Wellington, but without success.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2512, 24 January 1877, Page 2
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99BLENHEIM. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2512, 24 January 1877, Page 2
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