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A Gallows Horror

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
October
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Ciaciunati JCnquirer tbns ; acribes the terrible scène whieh occurted dtlring the execution of Francia Ept a; Coshocton, O., for the ïnurder of Ab ham Wertheirner : Tüo next momeut the faf:;l cap bU out daylight forever frora the visión o! tho muiderer, and a secund later tbe trap was sprung and Fivncis Ept iras dangling in the air. AU held theii broatli for n moment; some, inint at heart, tnrned their faces aw&y hom 'ia ghastly sight. Just then a low mot was haard issuing from Ept's breast, aai soon his piercing cries of anguish filled the air. The noose slipped aronnd in such a mancev that its knot "was over the hanging min's chin, and, the fall nol having broken his neck, bnt merel; foi a moment stunned him, he was now, amid the agony of death, crying for ielief. "Let me go, let me go!" hf sbonted in Germán. " Oh, have mer(j on me, oh, have inercy on me!" "Cl God, the Father, have mercy on me!' "Oh, let me go, let me go!" "01, Mother of God, help mo I" "Father lf ping, cut the rope and let me go!" Cries of horror sprang from the ut ence, while tho Sheriffs and Father Epping ran to the edge of the scaflbld plat; form. "Shoot him and put him out of his misery," snggested a bystnnda. "Oh, shoot me, shoot me!" ejacnWd Ept, who was now fully sensible: "1 was ten years a soldier; shoot me, aw don't hang me like a dog." "Pull to up!" aaid one of the Sheriffy. T strong men seized hold of the rope au dragged the dangliug victim, hand otc hand, to the platform. Here he b placed in a chair, while his cries, mo and pleas for mercy would have mdW a heart of stone. " Courage, my son," said Father Epping, " think of thest; ferings ol our lledeemer, and beaman. I "Oh, Father Epping, for God's a cut the rope and save me," prayeil quivering wretch. Thus he criod OJ i the trap had been readj usted, and the he was again lifted on to it. Now si nerves were nnstrnng, as well theymig I be, and he was almost as limp as a W He never oeased begging for mercy, . in the midst of one of his cries thew? was sprung, and this timo the work eflfeetively done. „

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Old News
Michigan Argus