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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 799, 23 April 1910, Page 14

'Mr. G. W. E. Bnssell, in a book published some years ago, has a characteristic story of. the.kindness of heart of Dr. King,:-Bishop :i of.Lincoln, ; whose death took place in March r—"Early. in his episcopate (he writes) a young man was. condemned to i death at Lincoln for the murder'of his sweetheart: The chaplain of the gaol, , new to his work, : broke down under the terrible-duty of preparing the murderer-for death;' and , the Bishop, hearing of his distress,.took the duty on himself. The guilty man was an absolute heathen. He had been a fisher-lad from Grimsby; his whole life had been passed at: sea, and he was as ignorant of religion —even of right andTTTbng—as a South Sea islander. The Bishop baptised him, confirmed him, and gave him his first and last Communion in the condemned - cell. On the "night before the .execution ho slept in the. prison, and on the fatal morning walked by the culprit to the scaffold, praying with him and supporting him till the drop? went down."