THREE FAMOUS HANGMEN.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3016, 29 November 1898, Page 4

THREE FAMOUS HANGMEN.

CALCEAPT, HABWOOD, AND BEERY. ' "William " Calotaft;-' the' furious prticptioner, writes a correspondent Vof ! the 4 " Pall Mall Gazette/ like His ■ sUQcessor;cMarwood; was a shoemaker,. and had- tried 'other walks iii life besidea,.before he rfpuod his true., vocation at Liucoln. ifoxton - brought - him to- London. Vfbt>a Fo*Umdi,<jtl.;on the Valentine's Day of 1,829, Ctlortft ffos.sworn into (he Taosnt effioe. : kiehada retain jug foe of. (Ifty guineas, a year froto tLe pity, Rod from Burro;, in addition to a mof ttwrjr gumta per operation. > For ooObtry^lis, Le got wa#d to.call >' the t van tourer," anil expenses. . So. w«vs getting nesr li o end of tiis time wl en I pas privileged Co make his ecqiluilit&t.ce— a Bb'iunk, bent, bloary-ejed uidar,' with a hobble, unkempt, iv -uuktiuipl black. A conscientious workman, witb a fad for-auaikitig- little rings fur his patients lo ntani iv, but' tot much " enthused " with his pioffcS'Jou. Quitj unlike tie flsaiboynnt Bcwy, vrlicth I wfta -to know later on. ; Nob (iivcii to many word?, but With tyles tojteli when ih.c tnord v.»s en Lira. >\ He was the list to •H crate in public, (ho pjsta<*nt on lhst'Z6lh of May, 1868; uein^Miobatl ßßarret,l t, 'tber'f'iiuiiiii dynamiter ; and .the fijßt to operate iv private on tho murderer of the Dover s.ationnjaat<ir, at MaMstonc, in the . Au a usl following. Through l.is unmunicured Lands lie bad had Msynard, the last mr'n h»ngedfor forgery ; Bishop and Williams, the J>urk«-rfe< ; Greenttcrf, Uviirvoisiw, Rush,- the Mmiuiog-. — *' Slie.was ti.e one," he used to Bay, witb nu appreciative .smack — Palmer, the fiu^eley poito:;ri\ and Muller, the,preoui«pr at LvUyy. v He hiidcou* duclod brides two sensational 6uperooll(\tioi s — llitt ol tho three Manchester Feniaut>, and that of tLe five FlowtryLand pirates. From 'a '.housetop in the Old' BaiUy, I;, above such seething, churning lufficuism «4 fouled tte tombient air (yen iti that a'tilafle, assisted at this last futiatha. I don't know thai I would have 1 missed it It was an cxpt-rit nee likq uo otlif r ; but it sufficed. Yet I was present at two subssqucnt Qiientions. : I. pew the last of'Heury W b>u* right. '* 3?h»t Res c. different matler. U tock plt.ce inside Newgal*, md, Infancy aiuat bave handselled the *• raseutienUhed " ' :bat now is, f^*** «- ->?-. ■*■■■).. WaJnwrighfc bud put a victim Out of liis tray under Iho fioor of his btusu warehouse iv WhiU chipel. The leaaa of U;e pibinii>B cxpiied. He transferred tLe curpse to a back, &ud eft tLe as<k on tb*> Whiti-oL&pul p^vemeut, m Wroad dsy)»gb.t t ? with a porter, wLrkt h« went off to whjstle up a caK'** The p^rt« r bfij-uikd tLe wait V) an iiupt-cticu cf lisa tkdk, rfiik tha , rcsalt that Waiuwiiaht had to tio with WllSiam p Marßcod, who had come in Culcjaft's r^con. A wL-j]e before, l had OCOos!ou to go to'a shueinaiiir'B shop in Cbuicfj-lauc, Hon,ca*tU-,i«Lczv •' Crown Office " wrb written up over l&« door. , There, engngod ju cordwainimr, 1 f uutid a groyieceu, grey-hiired man, vrtll &v iv lift', frittj.i>g , iv bis bhut-sleevcs, witb a Lug<- psir of »ilveL . athwwt hia uose Over hii thtumy ej^B surveye<] aie;>.Thea be tfr3k a pair of bootltcts from a row L«ngiiig conrcnient, md said " Stzpeqce," with Iftcenio gi«ffnef^. ff^vrcver, I got b g&cd dca! mure out of lijir, thsn tLose bootl^CvH, in which, it seeatd he oil liood bur-mess nith proruiat u^>us c&IU-is. A kinrijy sexugenanan euou^h, wLose home affi o- . ti-ns weie vrell developed. A cat curled on Lis ti.ouhier. I'bero wcie other pits of sorts, ot ll.e premises— graadchildrcn so. - ae of tl-.eu^ t wrre. The mum busioc ss of bis life iut-ereaU>d hioj strongly. He had thought out !Le theoiy of tte long drop He had inwi.ted an im- , proved lever wbioh l.ad gro=t!j r ttiufed to emouth workings-off. Wi.tn I t&w Mr. Blor- , wood next Honry Waintvright wtwt goiJife- to b. »vo»ked off. It w?8 iv tbu rsiuy, mialy tnorniuf that followed the longest L.igbt in tbe yaar. • Up autl dowu those san.c fi^s vthtre we Btoid. \V»inwri,{l.t, tbey sßid. bad paced lb«t uiyht in the Goverurr's oompacy, while ho smoked a Ust cigar. Over (here iv t-be wall was a Joor. Out of that door the rnua would eii-.tuj-r iiircctly. A puce or two frr-at tLt. tlcbr »>• b.;i :, sLeil, like a butcher's fhop at a ftir, It wrs open in tronf, but so as to m»k^ threo-quaiti ) , figurtb of everybody iosiJe of it. Across it rai a long blaak ba»m From ttie btaco dei ei.ded ,t snort length ot »Uut oliain nnliitg in n twisty Lotk. . Hitcbtd on to tLis book, buL ueatly coiled up on the beam, r.-an a sletk Me.nila topi-. Ttje bell, the oixt.iog of tbo door, tbe egri'ts. of ;i small pioot-Hvfon— 6urphced t-ltrk, quavi-iing Lh< Offico from his bock; coidemn;d olao, cool, j (.•aim, smiling, tho least mtert-Hted person there, j to all se< tuii-K ; blur-coated offi.iale; and i. bowed man in blpck, n-iiovt-d wilb a ted comlorlor, .sherabliiig last. Hata off, a silenc<amon^Rt thf flae.kies in waiting who b«vc slipped in by) md the little group of us. Ali tLe three qu>.Lti-r figar&s in their pieces. Tf.en fioui th<- side tberecornt« fotlh c. black arm, uitL b red wiiut muffler painfully distinct upon il. Sicaltliily it drnwrta gh»B'.ly : wbile c>p over :he cool, smiling face of the central fi^urn ; s:talth;ly it mcDipulales the «ktk coil of rope. WLen it disappears the neck if m tuo noo«f, »ud a ooil festoor.s frooo (ho fi^me's Ief 1 xhouUier. Lender, and oioro quavery, the voice, of thi; clerk. Krj turns his BUtpl ctd back at th> prt.sctihed patsrge. The bine-coals are le.^t prcmini'nt. An ett rual pecor.d or Two, and Ibt.n Li) a click and a rrash, and the wbitu cap disappears lilto b flasb, aud the black arm i v the red wristlet is quieting' 1 he quiver of i Lr ro(>r Wben I see it next, one soft, sweet Nc-veuibri i.noruii'g, on tbo till .--t Lewes, it i« doing th< rame tliii'g and tLen Lefro/ his g.tie dowi inlo tbe pit , Tbrreafter, Mr. Mai wood and I forr gat here d no mere. It rras tbe fi- mboynnt Bony who wn.te Lim'-elf V.w cutioner of Eugland whom i met that iv(Diug ct a house of euteitaiument, vriu rt- hn wao hoidiDg a rcci ption. 1 kusjx ct Mr. Berry held too many of thtse nrct-pfciuug, ! nde. d, iie whs really enthusiastid about bis ;»rofe^Kin, aud never tired of expatiating upoi. it, nor of devibiug ituiirovemeu'.ii iv its woikiuy iU-Imlb. He clttimcd lo have brought the kia; . xvp to absolutely scieutitic perfection, ;uj.! he urtkinly was the iuvbutui- tf the cblcli wLieL uovv pievfnts tLe flips of the tti-p from ii.ixuj v. uic-uciug the paiitut b> flvingback iv biafacv j Moreover, be bad a tbecry of ft rope with >,vii in '■t.3 composition, v/hiub theory Me. Eiijinyton uj.'pears to have put in pnn-tice in ti.o c-hsc of Mrs. Dyer. That Berry's wts not a kuy turte: )* not, percaps, swrj-rieiug. li was, isow ver, a busy ano. He has rolll over a huudu.d op: rn(ions to his credit fo^vbis &v yotrs' t. uuiu oi effite.