Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1897 — HANOED THOCCN IN NOCEND [ARTICLE]

HANOED THOCCN IN NOCEND

One ot the Holt Sensational Jcdlolr Murders of the Century. The most sensation*! judicial nourde7 of this century was '.he execution ot Eliza Fanning, In he time one of the most beautiful women of London. Sh* was scar j'y eiithteoi when charge.’ wfh so! oi lug the family In which she wao a gov rut as. It wall provi u eon. e.usively hat she herself had becem, li) irnm outing the 1 oiaone 1 foo I. Het itincy en e was est» v 'li hed at ihe trip-1, but the recorder before whom the case was heard conceived so great a preju dice that in his final charge he passed only upon the svidenoe against her. She was exe uted, and as she stood robed tn white on. the naffold betweer, two old offenlers who wore suffering x like penalty, rhe cried: “Before the Jus) and Almighty God, and by the la th o! tho holy saorument I have reoelved, 1 am Innocent of the offense of which 1 am charged.” del ore the fun ai It was discovered that the poison was in all likelihood administered by a mahiao who had been sheltered in the house at the time of the \ oi-oning. Ten thousand person! attached the house of the prosecuting lawyer, and only a large military fore* prevented death and destruction by the Infuriated mob. On the day of tho funeral half of London appeared on lire streets through which the coring* passed, and only the presence of troops prevented another riot.