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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Execution of Thos. J. Armstrong in Philadelphia. (search)
old he mounted the step without any appearance of fear, and he took his place under the fatal noose with an unnerved form During the prayer offered by the Rev. Mr. McAuley, Armstrong listened calmly, and then advancing, spoke in a firm voice, as follows: "My friends, let me say in passing I die in peace with my Maker, aarning by my fate Sabbath-breaking was the first cause I bid you farewell. To the prison keepers, to Mr. Perkins, to Sheriff Kern, and to my spiritual adviser, Mr. McAuley, I bid farewell; gentlemen, I bid you all farewell; I now die in peace with everybody." There was much disappointment that the dying man had made no allusof his remarks the fatal rope was placed about his neck, and all except the sheriff and the condemned left the scaffold. He snook hands with them all, and when Mr. McAuley was about to leave him he whispered something in his ear, and then kissed him. The noose was fixed, the ghastly white cap was drawn down over the face of t