EXECUTION OF MRS DEAN.
Dunedin, August 12. Minnie Dean was executed this morning at Invercargill, She slept from half-past eleven o'clock last night until three o'oiock this morning. She at 3no breakfast, and took only a sip from a glass of Bpirits given to her by the Ga^l burgeon. At three minutes to eight o'oloofc the Sheriff errived at the Gaol and demanded the body of the condemned woman, and at two minutes past eight Minnie Dean was dead. "Don't let them keep me in agony, Dootor," were her parting words to the Surgeon. She retained her self-poaßesßion to the las?, walking firmly on to the saaffold. In reply to the qaeßtion, " Do you wish to Bay anything before you leave this world?" She replied, "No, except that I am innocent." After the hangman had pinioned her legs, she cxc aimed, "Oh God! Let me not suffer.' The exeoutioner then drew the lever, and ail was over, death being instantaneous.
The condemned woman Btatei to the Rev Mr Lindsay that as far as the evidenoa was eonoerned the sentenoe was justified, but she protected her innocenca as regards intention and forethought to commit murder.
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Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8342, 2 September 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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194EXECUTION OF MRS DEAN. Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8342, 2 September 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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