EXECUTION OF JIMMY GOVERNOR.
♦ ■ Prwi Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, January 18. (Keceived January 18, at 12.41 p.m.) '
Jimmy Governor was executed -this morning. As the condemned man left Ms cell he -walked to the scaffold, and made an attempt to appear calm by smoking a cigarette ■when' he> took Mb' place on the drop. In reply to the tisnal question ho said that be had nothing to say. As the fatoM moment approached he gare evidence-of fainting. The bolt -was immediately drawn, and death -was instantaneous.
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Evening Star, Issue 11450, 18 January 1901, Page 4
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