A SENSATIONAL EXECUTION.
Washington, September 7.
Just before an execution at St. Joseph, Missouri, a priest handed the condemned man a revolver. The man fired twice at himself without serious effect, and was carried bleeding and struggling to the scaffold, where the sentence was eventually carried into effect.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 214, 9 September 1891, Page 5
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