Show INS isrED ON BEING HANGED murderers who have pleaded for ex edition of sentence the case of the condemned mur derer who the other day practically sentenced himself by refusing to sign a let i et lion tion for a reprieve is not so baie a 9 many people imagine oi or e famous parallel instance was hat bat of bev mr air hackman who shot an actress miss reay as she w was as la 1 aung the stage door of convent oar gar len ten theater and who although biaua 1 13 offered a commutation cum mutation pre ferreb to die upon the gallows in the ei exl of his crime only a few weeks back again the papers chronicled the case of a Ne healthy althy land ovner who having hot hol a servant in a fit of passion tried him with himself as judge and sen fenced himself to ten years solitary confinement in one of his own d in his own med eval castia castle in the heart of the black forest nine years ears and some odd months of this punishment he actually endured his house steward doling him out dally a meager i atlon of coarse i rison fa e for him hofei however er the a ai I 1 ties got to hear of the affair and he was haled before the ordinary tri bunal burial to await his trial in flue course another e tra ordinary case also curiously enough of german orian ong n was that of a sergeant major of an in fantry regiment stationed in bremen who a few wee s ba k sentenced him self to be shot by a squad of his 0 men the soldiers ol diers they were firing blank but the self condemned man had surreptitiously removed the harmless cartridges and subs titu ed ball ammunition so that at his own an w or old d of command fire he fell dead I 1 it may be mentioned that john joha lee the dabbico abe murderer who survived three separate attempts to hang owing to some defect in the machinery of the drop insisted vehemently that his sentence must be carried out according to law th s Is of course quite contrary to the generally received opinion regard ing the case but tle writer was re bently assured of its correctness corre etness by the convicts own mother and her as s airaite is borne out by rev john pit kin who was chaplain of exeter at the time said this gentleman the other day hen the attempt to execute him lee failed he called out again and again I 1 will be executed and when I 1 suggested after the third attempt to fake lake his life that the execution should be boned lee exclaimed aren t bey hey going to execute mea I 1 will be executed pearson s weekly |