| Show execution of cockroft oooo codo oft william wiliam cockcroft the he murderer of robert brown was shot on saturday last in accord ance with the sentence 0 of the court theeb the execution took place within the court house inclosure some ahat that to the disappointment of a few hundred persons who were anxiously waiting waltin t in the street for the prisoner to be brought brough t out and ani taken to some place outside the city where it was supposed he be would be exe eke executed cutel in a public manner it was thought 0 by the sheriff col burton that no good could result from taking the prisoner two or three miles for execution and fand therefore in the presence of a suitable number of persons most of whom were officers of the law the penalty of death was indicted as before stated in the court house yard at ten minutes to three in the afternoon |
