EXECUTION BUNGLED
A DEPLORABLE INCIDENT. INQUIRY DEMANDED. Tress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, February 18. At Calgary, Alberta, an extraordinary incident marked the execution of Jasper Collins, a youth who was sentenced to death for murdering a farmer named John Benson. Collins was unconscious in his cell before the execution, but revived sufficiently to be carried in a chair to the scaffold. The drop fell, and the executioner cut down the body before death occurred. The shocked prison officials were preparing to hang Collins again when death supervened.
The coroner's jury severely censured the hangman, and demanded an investigation of the whole affair.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 5
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102EXECUTION BUNGLED Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 5
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