Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1895 — Execution of Admiral Byng. [ARTICLE]

Execution of Admiral Byng.

The execution was fixed for March 14, and Byng's demeanor thenceforward was equally unaffected and undaunted. He met his death with a calmness of demeanor and a fortitude cf spirit that proved him to be no coward of that ignoble type which fears pain or dissolution as the greatest aad most awful of evils. His personal friends were solicitous to avoid anything that might give him unnecessary pain, and one of them, a few days before the end, inventing a pitiful russ, said to him, “Which of us is taller?” “Why this ceremony?" asked the Admiral. “I know well what It means; let the man come and measure me for my coffin.”—The Plymouth Road—C. G. Harper.