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Show HORRIBLE HANCINC. Th, Awful Penalty Paid by a Brutal Negro Murder, Washington, Fa. Feb. 26. William West, colored, was hanged today for the murder of three members of the Church family on May 14. 1800. the crimo was one of the most deliberate and thorough ever committed in this section and everything against the man has been purely circumstantial, yet convicting. West slept until 7;o this morning; at 8:o0 o'clock while the death watchers were changing, West secured a small piece of iron concealed con-cealed in his bei' .nd j bhd ins"lf in tho neck, lie was rendered unconscious. uncon-scious. Physicians were jiumediaiely called in but "were unaBleMo restore consciousness up to S:80 p. in. i when ho was hangd. His condition had not greatly changed. Ho was strapped to a hoard'atiid carried to the scaffold. At 2:113 thet trap was sprung aed the rope" broke." The murderer mur-derer was in terrible distress and it took live men to hold him, .though he was manacled. At 2 10 the rope was strung up again and this time the hanging hang-ing was successful. At 2:48 West was pronounced dead. Tho hanging and horrible occurrences connected with It created great excitement. KrKNsHt'H(i, Fa.. Feb. 20. Henry Marsh who on July (!, lHO, murdered Clara Jones, aged 10, because she would not marry him, was hanged here today. The crime was committed on the road near Hazelton, Fa., and caused considerable consid-erable of a sensation at the time, |