Show REVOLTING SCENE tt AT in AN EXECUTION the st vincent witness reports the recent execution of a woman named mary james for murder when the chaplain who attended the wretched woman to the scaffold had bidden her farewell lie drew back she also quickly drew back butcho movement could scarcely have been perceived for the order was given the drop fell and the culprit was seen standing unharmed on the platform her ber eyes from the beginning were very imperfectly bandaged looking down slie she drew back further from the trap and her arms boing being free slie she removed the piece of muslin with which aln cli lier her eyes were covered from this tin s time she appeared to dread the trap having baning seen the danger and sh she e could not be induced to go forward the provost marshal then the turnkeys who with the haug hangman man wele constrained to use force to git her on oil the trapdoor trap door tile the instinct of self preserve preservation aaion seemed to nerve her with strength and a i scuffle ensued on the platform of the gallows I 1 allows for ten minutes when she was wa S ultimately tripped zip up and she fell lica heavily vily on one of the side beams of the gallows and rolled on the scaffold where she lay motionless she was then pushed over on oil to the trap door which was pulled and she fell through head foremost she never made a struggle or 01 movement after she was thrown down dowd and many persons sup posed that life was c minet beffi e she I 1 fell coll through the deop |