EXECUTION AT DEVIZES.
At Devi/os on Monday morning, John Hortou, (|uairyman, ai,'cd 3S, wna executed fur the murder of Ins father and his pnuunuur ftt Bmdfoid-ou-Avon on the 20th of Novciithci lint. Since hu uomiction Miutun had '•howii little feeling, except wlieu pntiug fiotn his childien, of wnottJ he knives eleven.- He said lie did not intend to kill the people, but only to give thorn 4 good thi ashing, because lib was loalous of his father and tlio «oincn. iiu bad sh'pt well and eaten largely. He ro i -e e»ily in the uKirmuq, nod \imt«i! Wy the chaplain, llev. A. C I>jv.is, to wlwso'admiui^tration he nttontiM'iy h'sk'iled. 'He vaa pinioncil by Jiuiiy, ami walked without .icialstanue tv the Huitlo'd. liv manifested no emotion \vlMtt\< : "r. Berry allowed a drop uf between rive nad six iimif, ,in»l th« man uppeand to di« inatantuneoualy and vtithout'a Htrau^la. A ciowd of about *2tH) pei>p|o n^oinblwl to sec the black (lag hoisted. All the- arrangements weie niatle by Beryy in a moat; «a.ti^fautoiy manner. Thu last execution at Deuze.s was in 1881, and preiioua to that tlieie had not been ono for over twenty yeafs. There w«a » little sympathy tc,lt tw the murderer.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 10 April 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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201EXECUTION AT DEVIZES. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 10 April 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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