Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — A NARROW ESCAPE. [ARTICLE]

A NARROW ESCAPE.

A half hour before the time set for the execution of Theodore Lambert in thej county Jail at Camden, N. J., Thursday morning, a stay of proceedings, grunted) by-Judge in Washington until! March 4, was served on Sheriff Barrett? At that time a score of witnesses had as-! sembled in the execution room. Notice of the slay was given Lambert by his counsel, Lawyer Semple. The condemned man fell to the floor in a faint, from which ho recovered in a few minutes' through the use of a stimulant. He fell into a second faint, in which ho remained, for nearly five minutes. On being revived; he shouted: “Glory to God,” and then fell on the neck of his counsel, klssingi him. Lambert's mind was temporarily turned by his good fortune. Since learn-, ing that he has two months more to live, ho has not been able to talk intelligently. He shouts and sings at turns. Lambert was originally sentenced to The Governor of New Jersey granted a reprieve till Jan. 3. Lambert’s counsel then held that he was legally dead! an<J carried the matter before the Supremo Court, with the result as above stated; Lambert was sentenced to hang for thq murder of W. G. Kalrcr, a banker of Camden, Dec. 4, 1893. Lambert was arrested ihe next day. Two months later he confessed that he killed Kairer.