INSISTED ON GEINS HANGED murderers who have pleaded tor for cx elution of S Str ri tence the case of the condemned murderer who the other lay practically lacally himself by r fusing 0 0 sign a 11 pell lion tor for a reprieve ve ia not so laig laic as 31 many beope e Inja imagine gine one famous parallel instance was abat or of rev mr hachikian Hach isian shot an actress miss bliss reay as silo she was leaving the stage door doom of convent garden theater ard ai d alio although actually actu aly offered a preferred to die upon the gallo vs tvs in n the expiation of his calme only a few weeks ia iak bak k agala again the derlin papers s chronic letl the case of a stealthy land owner who having bioc a servant in a fit of passion tried as aulgo and sentenced himself to ten solitary confinement in one of ills his town private dungeons in his own ined medieval eval bastle in the heart of the black forest nine deuis and somo old months of tills puni punishment lie he actually endured his house steward doling chivi out daily a meager ration of coarse prison fare are unluckily for him howe vZ the qu iu ties got to hear of tile the aff affair air and ho he was haled baled before the ordinary til lil burial bunal to awalt await his ti trial lal in due cou couse se another extraordinary case also I 1 curiously enough of getman geiman oli gln was that of a sergeant major of an infantry regiment stationed in bremen who anilo a few weeks hack back sentenced sen himself to be shot by a squad oil ol 01 its his own men the soldiers thought they ware silas blank but tho the sell sel condemned mau man had surreptitiously removed the harn harmless less cartridges and substituted ball ammunition so BO that at his own word of con imand fire lie he lill dead finally it may be mentioned john lee tile the eier who survived three parate sv attempts to ban hang him owing to sorbe defect in the machinery of the drop insisted vehemently that his sen rence must bo carried out to law this is of course quito quite contrary to the generally cene Zolie rally received opinion regard ting the cas case but the wilter was re gentl assured of its correctness by the convicts own mother and her assurance Is borne out by rev john pitkin who was chaplain of exeter E a at t tho the time said this gentleman the dasy when the attempt to execute him lor lee failed he called out acain and again J 1 I will be executed and when I 1 suggested after the third attempt to take ills his life that the execution should be postponed lee exclaimed arent they going to execute me I 1 will be pearsons weekly Weel cly