| Show iff iff 0 arti ff r ic MY adil IN tit rj colly pet acate THE FINISH OF LORD FERRERS IN N THE eighteenth century alie hung hang man ans na tile tho busiest inan in england the death penalty was inflicted for tho the most trifling misdemeanors men ilen were imaged hanged for stealing spoons for defrauding their creditors for perjury arson disturbance of the peace there was no discrimination la in favor of tile Wo women luell scores ot of servant girls were hang hanged edIn la those elioso grand old days for offenses which would scarcely draw a i reprimand in these easier times naturally the hangman and ills assistants and the jailers jailors Jai Jal lors and all who had to do with the condemned were cano calloused and brutal and et a doomed steer at the stock yards receives more consideration now than did the doomed human being then lie ile was hustled front from the prison pilson to a cart or sledge and hauled to the gallows without ceremony and arrived at the fatal trot tree he was turned off on as part of the days daya work yet snobbery wits was possible even in this dismal matter of execution the treatment that was good enough for a poor but respectable thief good enough for a blooming nobleman and the plain people of london never knew how artistic it imaging hanging could be until laurence earl ferrers met ills his fate at tyburn lord ferrers lint had the blood of plan magenot 1 pings angs in his veins ills dinces ancestors for figes ages had distinguished them r A his lordship asked that he might ride to the gallows allows in his own landau selves on battlefield and in council room and ono one of them who died heroically tit nt shrewsbury Is mentioned by shakespeare tile iho earl curl himself was a man of high ability and when lie was aber which happened liali penea perhaps once in ili four or five 5 years cars he was said to liuio lave tile the most charming manners but lie kept himself pickled nearly all tile time lime and his charming manners were not in evidence ile ho new flow into senseless rages over nothing conceived violent prejudices against people tind and always was threatening to kill one per son or another ile he was so cruel to ills his wife that silo she applied to parliament for relief and parliament granted her a separate maintenance with the revenues from froin certain forms farms and other property william johnson was tits ills lordships lord ships steward and because lie ho had to pay money from the estate to the lad lady tho the earl began to hato hate him bitterly iio got the idea in ills his sodden wind mind tint that there hero was too much johnson in ili the n and determined upon johnsons destruction ile he prepared for the crime deliberately notifying johnson to at attend tend upon him at a certain hour in tile tho afternoon As tile the hour approached the earl managed to send everybody away from the place with tho the exception of two ivo or three mald maid servants johnson appeared for tho the interview promptly on time and the earl handed him a paper and told him to sign jt it the paper was a confession of all sorts of crimes and crookedness on the part of johnson and lie he refused to sign it and began to expostulate but tho the earl produced a pistol and told him to got get on oil ills knees johnson fell upon tits his knees and then the nobleman shot him lie lingered until tile next day when lie died cited then the earl barricaded barricades barrica ded himself in Ms M ancestral hall and defied arrest ile he was armed to the tenth with pistols and blunder buses and other oilier vip apons lie ile held off tile crowd of ott officers leers and citi citizens for sever nl hairs epurs but wag an finally captured while ti tr talai lai g to make his through a bick garden no lie was taken to the tower ur ot lon where lie sobered up completely nad justified the theory that lie ito lynx ava naturally a charming man all who mho came in ili contact with jilin during chiv hiv hi imprisonment agreed that lie wits was just too sweet for anything an thing in ili due season ills his trial occurred and lie conducted conduct edi ills Is own ou de defense rense introducing it a great icat deal cal of testimony calculated to show that lie wits vas insane when alie calm was committed there were no prot pro title fists in ili those ilna days and tits his showing make much of an impression upon the jury lie ile was wag found guilty of willful murder and tien fenced to ho be hanged and thui then turned over to tile he college of surgeons for dissection tills this little matter being set tied lie ho expressed regret that lie he had tried to prove himself Ill salle lie dl it by the advice of friends lie had its ills defense resulted lu in acquit tal hed have been greaty ashamed and embarrassed on the morning of may j 1760 the shei of london and middlesex made a formal call at me tower of 0 london and demanded the body ol of laurence E larl art ferrers for execution ills lordship being informed of lt it asked that lie he might ride to the gallows gallons in his own landau and tilts this was vas granted we ve strive to please was the motto of the sheriffs of london and middlesex ills lordship bums from ills his cell cool intrepid suave attired in ili ills his wedding suit which wits via trimmed with silver ills toilet tollit had been attended to with great care and lie was a line fine figure of a man sheriff valliant and another prominent citizen seated themselves in the landau with jilin him tilts this carriage was waa drawn by six horses and would hava lave been a credit to an american circus the grand free street parade wan wati then organized zed us its follows A large body ot of constables in advance on foot party of horse grena grenadiers diers find anothy of la fantry mr sheriff errington in ill hta his cli arlot tile landau escorted by horse grenadiers grena diers private carriages a mourning coach drawn draw by six horses a hearse drawn by six horses li orsia the tha calliope invented then or there would have been one at the end of the procession the streets were absolutely packed with humanity all london wets was there to see it a rent real nobleman go to a felons death every few rods the procession was halted until the grenadiers grena diers could clear the way so it took learly three hours for the pageant to reach tyburn meanwhile ills his lordship not in the landau its as serene as though going to a clambake clam clani bake ile he discussed literature art and religion ile he criticized a new book by lord bolingbroke and recited several recent poems which had caught tits ills fancy sheriff valliant Val llant used to say in ili after years that lie he never heard such a refined and helpful f ua discourse 4 at last the pageant reached the place of execution E everything hit biad been done to mako make the scaffold seem cozy cosy co sy and cheerful tile timbers were covered with black and there was a comfortable chair for ills his lordship in case lie he wanted to rest the whole mechanism of thi gallows had been clinn ged to make death its as pleasant as possible the earl ascended tho the steps jauntily gave live five guineas to the executioner smiled cheerfully on everybody and died without it tremor during his last night on oil earth lie he tried tits his hand at po poetry letry and produced the lio following foli follow owing hiir three allne 3 in doubt I 1 lived in doubt I 1 lie die yet stand prepared the vast tast abyss to try and undismayed expect eternity pew no 2 I 1 mis ills s nolen helen bachman mcclnne of this city and lier ter sister alsy blary ML ile kinney gra ad daughters of alois bach man a pioneer of 31 adison jefferson county arp posses possessors sore of nil an interesting document this Is a deed to it pew in ili the church of the county of jefferson dated february uary 5 5 mid and sworn to before daniel comstock Tom stock justice of tile ponce peace tho the consideration was tile sum suin ot of cents to me 1110 paid by alois bachman tho the receipt whereof Is hereby acknowledged have given ghan granuil granted bargained sold assigned and conveyed conned and do hereby give grunt grant ete etc unto the said alois bachman ills his heirs and assigns all that pew or sent situ nto and being in ili the presbyterian church of tile county of jefferson fand state of indiana and in the town ton of madison peaceably an und quietly to have hold use occupy possess and enjoy tile sald pew or seat without tiny any molestation or interruption inteer whatever hn teer and free from all incus brai brat itea ices and demands whatsoever the document Is recorded ns as given hy by alexander wilson to alois bach man inan for pew no 2 1 news do chauffeurs Chauffeur Je work in chile while automobiles are common the two seated runabout runn bout Is 18 not common and when seen generally lias has a small sent seat behind for tile the chauffeur this Is demanded by custom for even en though the owner of tile lie car Is driving lie he must always have like IM chauffeur with him in cast case of nead ua ita it would never neer do for tho the owner to change a tire or to crank tile the machine no himself A conservative what sort fort of view does Dub walte take of life tile the sort that Is not incompatible with an easy chair in ili a club window something to drink at his elbow and it a good cigar tit in tits his mouth in ili other wolds allo granting that there may inny bo be roin fur fr improvement in this world it does doea not come within the range of 1119 immediate observation |
