Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1919 — Storm Stops Hanging. [ARTICLE]

Storm Stops Hanging.

An eighteenth century execution on Kensington common was stopped for a time owing to a strange cause. On August 19, 1763, two days before the date of the execution, a heavy fog came over London, accompanied by thunder and lightning and torrents of rain. These conditions lasted for nearly 48 hours, and many people believed that the last day had arrived. When the time fixed for the execution arrived the assembled crowd cried shame on the sheriff forhanging aman’when the world was coming to an,end. persisted in his preparations, they burst through the btlfrlersand stopped the proceedings, shouting that the culprit might as well wait a few minutes, when the cgrand summons would come for all. The sheriff had to obtain the assistance of a force of soldiers before the execution could be carried out.—London Chronicle.