 | 1880 - 774 pages
...sentenced by Judge Meeker to be kept in solitary confinement until Friday. July 16. 1880. and on that day to be '• hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy on your soul. Such is the penalty to follow an outraged law. MONROE TOWNSHIP. Monroe... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1880 - 410 pages
...hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, where you shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead. And may the God of infinite mercy be merciful to your soul." ' Kidd replied, " My lord, it is a very hard sentence.... | |
 | Annie E. Hoffman - 1882 - 270 pages
...as regards rhyme or metre. The judge is supposed to have just pronounced the awful words, " that you be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul ! " Oh, judge ! take back that word, And every one you've uttered, And every one I've heard. '... | |
 | Charles Joseph Hayes, Henry Gillespie Hayes - 1882 - 548 pages
...the execution, within the walls of said jail, and there, between the hours of 12 M. and 2 r. M., you be hanged by the neck until you are dead. And may the Lord have mercy on your soul. As the last solemn words fell from the Judge's lips the prisoner echoed them, but in a far different... | |
 | Camden Pelham - 1886 - 740 pages
...plu--- from whence vou came, and from thence to the place of execution, what you will be severally hanged by the neck until you are dead ; and may the Lord, in his infinite goodness, have mercy on your guilty souls." This awful ceremony having been gone through,... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood - 1892 - 486 pages
...taken back to the place whence you came, and thence to the place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you are dead. And may the Lord God Almighty have mercy upon your immortal soul ! " "Amen!" The court was cleared. The day's excitement... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 896 pages
...on coming to the end — ''.Oh yes, I see, John Thomson ; John Thomson, I beg your pardon ; you also are to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Almighty nave mercy on your miserable soul also." Hardwicke's courtesy was one day pointedly shown... | |
 | JOHN URI LLOYD - 1901 - 500 pages
...evidence of fear or shame did he exhibit. And when the words were spoken, " I do hereby sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy on your soul ! " he gave no show of emotion. But I saw him glance toward old Holcomb,... | |
 | Mabel Craft Deering - 1901 - 138 pages
...the jail, and thence you are to be conveyed on Monday next to the common place of execution and there you are to be hanged by the neck until you are dead and the Lord have mercy on your soul' (As the judge pronounces the words "until you are dead," Hetty gives... | |
 | 1903 - 460 pages
...the County of Delaware, from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck until you are dead. And may God of his infinite goodness, have mercy on your soul.' ***** "After receiving his sentence, Monroe,... | |
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... to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul ! Yesterday a most excellent sermon was preached by the Rev. 
