. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ce; and that finally his head shouldbe cut off. Not even his atrocious crime, with its endless consequences, northe natural frenzy of indignation which it had excited, could justify thissavage decree, to rebuke which the murdered hero might almost have risenfrom the sleep of death. The sentence was literally executed on the 14th ofJuly, the criminal supporting its horrors with the same astonishing calm were his nerves, crippled and half-roasted as he was when
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ce; and that finally his head shouldbe cut off. Not even his atrocious crime, with its endless consequences, northe natural frenzy of indignation which it had excited, could justify thissavage decree, to rebuke which the murdered hero might almost have risenfrom the sleep of death. The sentence was literally executed on the 14th ofJuly, the criminal supporting its horrors with the same astonishing calm were his nerves, crippled and half-roasted as he was when hemounted the scaffold, that when one of the executioners was slightly injuredin the ear by the flying from its handle of the hammer with which he wasbreaking the fatal pistol in pieces, as a preliminary to the execution (a cir-cumstance which produced a general laugh in the crowd), a smile wasobserved upon Gerards face in sympathy with the general hilarity. His lipswere seen to move up to the moment when his heart was thrown in his , said an onlooker, he gave up the ghost. Authority: Motleys Dutch Mary, Queen of Scots. No. 26 The Death of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Born 1542. Died 1587. QUEEN MARYS last night was a busy one: as she said herself,there was much to be done and the time was short. A few lines tothe King of France, her brother-in-law, were dated two hours aftermidnight. They were to insist for the last time that she wasinnocent of any conspiracy, that she was dying for her religion and for havingasserted her right to the Crown, and to beg that out of the sum which heowed her, the wages of her servants might be paid and masses said for hersoul. After this she slept for three or four hours, and then rose and with themost elaborate care prepared to encounter the end. At eight in the morningthe Provost-Marshal knocked at her door; a few minutes later it was opened,and he was confronted with the tall majestic figure of Mary Stuart. Shewore a robe
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