Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1896 — HANGED THOUGH INNOCENTR [ARTICLE]

HANGED THOUGH INNOCENTR

On* ok th« Koat Sensational Martel of the Century. The most sensational judicial murder of this oentury was the execution of Eliza Fannin* in her time one ot the moat beautiful women es London. Bhs waa scarcely eighteen when oharged with poisoning the family in whtoh she was a governess. It was proven conclusively that she herself had become 111 from eating the poisoned food. Her Innocence was established at the trial, but the recorder before whom the case was heard oonoeived so great a prejudice that in his final charge he passod only upon the evldenoe against her. She was executed, and as she stead robed in white on the scaffold between two old offenders who were suffering a like penalty, she cried: ‘Before the just and Almighty God, and by the faith of the holy saerament I have reoeived, 1 am innocent of the offense of whloh I am charged. ” Before the funeral It was discovered that the poison was in all likelihood administered by a maniac who had been sheltered in the house at the time of the poisoning. Ten thousand persona sttaoked the house of the proseouting lawyer, and only a large military foros prevented death and destruction by the infuriated mob. On the day of the funeral half of London appeared on ths streets through which the cortage passed, and only the presence of troops prevented another riot.