Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-07-02 | Page 7 | Midnight Execution

MIDNIGHT EXECUTION the body 01 of a man dangling from I a protecting stone atone over the gateway of the venetian castle called the castrale Castr Cast akl has writes or dr matilene My tilene correspondent on may 31 been an object of curiosity all day the turkish warders here hanged the man mail a greek early eaily this morning ho he was condemned to imprisonment for life for murder minder seyen seven years ago and orders canis bazli suddenly from constantinople stantin ople that thai ho was as to be hanged harders entered his cell call at halt half pa past st seven last night and aroused him telling him lie he was to bo be sent to rhodes he was shaved and given give n a sult suit of clothes and hurried down aown to the castrati Castr Cast akl raki which la is by tile the waters wafers edge here a greek greck priest was standing catching sight of him thep elsoner realized for what purpose he had been rought brought there drawing himself up he r raised fas to laten listen to the priest andrade and bade his gallers accomplish their task tits his hands bounds bound aal the rope passed round his neck and over the projecting st itono stono 6 ne dawn was wag just breaking when the rope lope nearly an inch thick was tightened med and ho he was lifted anto into midair mid raid air the knot had been badly tied and for fifteen minutes the murderer struggled before death released him 1 the priest fainted at the sight and was carried away by the guards London mail