A TRIPLE EXECUTION.
f SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD. ' United Press Association—By Electric *• ' Telegraph.—Copyright. PERTH, December 15. Espade and Marques had an angry ». altercation on the scaffold, lasting *: some minutes. This, and Espade’s . grasping the rope, unnerved the execu- ! ' tioner, and led to the accident to .Webster. (Hagen, Espade and Marques were ;' executed for the murder of Liebglib. y Hagen died protesting his innocence. The other two were hanged an hour later. Espade, iwho owned to his guilt ’on the scaffold, .twice, moved his ; pinioned, arms, and held on to tlie ' slack of the rope. Chief-Warder, Web- * ster was standing on the trap, to hold . ■ the rope free when the bolt was drawn, - and fell with the convicts into the *’ well, receiving severe injuries to his ; 's. head, which necessitated his removal .to the hospital. Death was instantaneous in the case of the convicts.) '■(V .
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13934, 16 December 1905, Page 6
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144A TRIPLE EXECUTION. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13934, 16 December 1905, Page 6
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