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Evening Star, Issue 4652, 28 January 1878, Page 3

An intelligent murderer who was sentenced to be hanged at New Orleans, in the words of the New York ‘ Herald,” “ bossed the job himself,” seeing that the rope was not long enough, he had it lengthened, cool y remarking to the sheriff, “ I want a regular break-neck fall of ten feet.” He then commented in strong terms on the clumsiness of the e?i ting arr;n o e - reats for the extinction of life, and pointed out that the knot was too tight, and in the wrong place. When this was rectified and the cap adjusted he laughed loudly, observing I hat it was a complete farce, as “it was too thin, and he could see through it.” However, he said he would not delay the business for a matt rso trifling, and he died with the greatest sang froid. The New York “Herald’ said it was the “ first thoroughly successful hanging that has taken place for a long while in the United States.”