City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . thin the memory of hvinginhabitants. Thomas Jones was hanged in1868 for the murder of his niece in Dela-ware ; he protested his innocence on thescaffold. He was the last malefactor publiclyexecuted in London. In 1871 Cyrus Pickardwas hanged in the jail yard for the shootingof his employer, Duncan McVannell, an EastNissouri farmer. There was an element ofromance connected with the tragedy thatlifts it above the brutal butcheries of was engaged to be married, but on of his paramour, Mary Ann Stokes; and Ja
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . thin the memory of hvinginhabitants. Thomas Jones was hanged in1868 for the murder of his niece in Dela-ware ; he protested his innocence on thescaffold. He was the last malefactor publiclyexecuted in London. In 1871 Cyrus Pickardwas hanged in the jail yard for the shootingof his employer, Duncan McVannell, an EastNissouri farmer. There was an element ofromance connected with the tragedy thatlifts it above the brutal butcheries of was engaged to be married, but on of his paramour, Mary Ann Stokes; and JamesSmith in 1890 for the murder of one who forthirty years had passed as his wife, but withwhom, as he confessed under the gallows, hehad eloped from England, leaving a wifebehind. At this execution the hangman wasfor the first time unmasked. He was J. (called in the newspapers Radcliffe)and this was the first occasion on which heofficiated as a regularly-appointed official ofthe Dominion Government. The last execu-tion took place in London on the 17th of May,. C<5VBNT GARDEN MARKET. some representations by McVannell to theprospective father-in-law the match was for-bidden. Pickard asked for his wages, that hemight go elsewhere and marry, and afterseveral refusals he shot his employer. Theonly woman hanged in London was PhoebeCampbell, who suffered the extreme penaltyin 1872. The murder, committed in Nissouri,was a peculiarly brutal one, the victim beingher husband. It was the outcome of anintrigue between the murderess and herhusbands hired nxan, Hugh Coyle. BenjaminSimmons was hanged in 1885 for the butchery 1899, the culprit being Marion, orMaide, Brown,a Texan of mixed blood—negro, Mexican andwhite—who was convicted of shooting andkilling Police Constable Twohey on the nightof June 24, 1898. The affair took place besidethe C. P. R. track, a short distance east ofAdelaide street, where Twohey had gone toarrest Brown for an unprovoked assault upona railway w
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