EXECUTION OF MRS DEAN.
Dunedin, August 12,
Minnie Dean waß exeonted this morning at Inveroargill, Bhe slept from half-past eleren o'clock last night until three o'olock this morning. She ate no breakfast, and took only a sip from a glass of spirits given to her by the Gaol Surgeon. At three minutea to eight o'olook the Sheriff arrived ftt the Gaol and demanded the body of the condemned woman, and at two minutes past eight Minnie Dean wbb dead. "Don't let them keep me in agony, Dootor," were her patting words to the Surgeon. She retained ber Beif-pO3Beseion to the las;, walking firmly on to the soaffeld. Io reply to the question, " Do yon wish to Bay anything before you leave this world?" She replied, "No, except lhat I am innooenl." After the hangman had pinioned her legs, she exo' aimed, "Oh God 1 Let me not suffer. ' The exeoutioner then drew the lever, and ail was over, death being instantaneous.
The condemned woman Btated to the Bey Mr Lindaay that aa far bb the evidence was oonoerned the sentence wbb justified, but she protested her innocence aa regards intention and forethought to commit murder.
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Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8325, 13 August 1895, Page 3
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195EXECUTION OF MRS DEAN. Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8325, 13 August 1895, Page 3
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