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Show A Butcher ami u Bnkcr. Now York, 19 A special to the Telegram, Tele-gram, from Petersburg, Va., sayB : Tbe negro, Frank linker, was hanged to-day, at iho Sussex County Court House, for tbo murder of Henriotto Shands and her infant child, near Stony Point, on tho night of August 1st. Only tho sheriff, ass slants, doctors and representatives of tho prtss were present at the execution. Baker passed an uneasy night, but was perfectly calm this morning, when told to prepare himself himself for the scaffold. scaf-fold. When the noo3e was placed around his neck, he trembled a little, but recovering re-covering himself, ho muttered a fow words of prayer. Ilia limbs moved con-vuhively con-vuhively for a minute after the drop fell, la about ten minutes the doalors pronounced pro-nounced him dead. His crime was an extremely brutal one. He attacked his victim at her home, almost chopped her head off with and axe. The child ho buried alivo. Tho co'ored people of this district were greatly iocensed against the prisoner, and at cue time tboro was talk of lynching him. |