. Important case Of Hanging.
{"newspaper_name": "Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 1321, "word_count": 246, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9751999974250793], "ccnet_perplexity": [722.9000244140625], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
Welearn from late number Of the Van
Buren, (Ark.) Western Frontier Wing,
that the old man Burnett and wife were
recently hung at Fayetteville, in that State.
Burnett and his wife pursuaded son Of
theirs to assist in numbering some one
whose name we do not now recollect.-
The murder was effected through the agen-
cy Of the son; and the old man and his
wife, being prosecuted as accessories be-
fore the fact, were convicted, and have
just suffered the penalty of the law. The
scene was melancholy-the old man and
woman being brought on to the stage, bid
ding no one adieu, nor uttering word
upon any subject whatever to each other
or to the world. The old woman had "a
Be upheld by main strength, while the ex-
ecutioner adjusted the rope; after which,
in the face and eyes Of . gazing multitude
Of some three thousand, this old couple
were hurled into eternity by the hands ol
a cirI butcherer. The SON has not vel
been tried. On the morning Of the exc
cution Of his parents, knowing it the ap-
pointed day for the visitation Of the awful
vengeance of the law, he was perfectly
Indifferent. Such is the capability of the
heart to become depraved, that it can ar
rive to that state in which the most heart
rending appeals fall as unavailing before it
as the waters Of the sea at the foot Of some
adaman.ine rock Of ages.