| Show WAS HAHQED AT MELBOURSE ELBOlRNE in the Brunswick Last Chapter Ii t DrulHwIcl Tflafiy3 Farming CaKe Victoria B CFeb 12 The Royal Mail steamer Arawa which arrived yesterday from Sydney via Apia and Honolulu brought the following advices ad-vices to the San Francisco Examiner The last chapter in the Brunswick baby farming cases which have stirred all Melbourne as a few months ago those for which the Makins man and wife did Sydney where they were executed ex-ecuted is told in advices per the Ara waFrances Knorr the guilty woman was hanged at Melbourne January 15 Anticipating trouble three hangmen Antcpatng were in attendance but the prisoner walked composedly to the scaffold supported by the warden and a medical med-ical officer When asked if she had anything to say she replied Yes the Lord is with me I do not fear what men can do to me for I have peaceperfect peace When the bolt was drawn death was instantaneous As the body dropped a piercing shriek for a moment appalled ap-palled the witnesses of the execution the was until they learned that cry that of the matron who had attended Mrs Knorr and whose overwrought nerves gave way when she heard the fatal neres drop of her unfortunate charge The two executions of women so close together appear to have checked for a time what had almost become the open D business of Infant murder by mercenary fiends Despite the plain I proof that the condemned woman was guilty of these unnatural crimes there was considerable public feeling against her execution and this so affected the public hangman that a week before the execution he committed suicide by cutting his throat immediately after taking up his residence in the jail as customary before executions His name was William Rerrins but he was publicly known as Jones the Hangman He had complained to the governor of the jail that If he hanged Mrs Knorr he would not be able to live in Melbourne afterward and begged for a sufficient sum of money to enable him to leave the colony col-ony He said even the spirits had combined to annoy him He had held his office ten years and executed fifteen criminals |
