The handcuffs being removed, the culprits were pinioned by the executioner. Ellis yvas the first to ascend the scaffold, assisted by the Rev. Mr. AVilkinson ; Jepps and Fogarty followed, with the aid of the Revs. Messrs Forbes and Stevens. AVhen the three wretches yvere standing together under the gallows, they shook hands one with the other, and Fogarty, looking at Jepps, exclaimed " Farewell! W e shall soon meet in eternity." T h e executioner then shook hands twice yvith each of them, adjusted the ropes, and dreyv the caps d o w n over their faces; and whilst operating upon Jepps, the latter said to him, " M a y G o d bless you and your poor soul." T h e Rev. Mr. T h o m s o n proceeded with the reading of the burial service, and whilst he was doing so, the culprits appeared to suffer terribly. Ellis was hardly able to keep his feet, and took a slanting position, as if sustained by the rope ; whilst Jepps gave convulsive starts, and Fogarty opened and closed his hands several times. At length the supports were knocked away, the drop fell, and the three m e n died without a struggle. After hangingforan hour, the bodies were cut down, placed in the coffins (but not before the hangman, with outrageous indecency, had pulled off their clothes), carted ayvay, and interred in the malefactors' burial-place close by, but outside, the fence ofthe Cemetery. T h e executioner yvent through bis work m u c h more artistically than he did at the hanging of the blacks in January. His unskilfulness then yvas so universally censured as to m a k e him fearful of losing the " appointment;" and in order to be more up to his work the next time, and hopeful of making his post a permanency, he procured the strayv effigy of a h u m a n figure, and upon this model yvas in the habit of taking frequent private rehearsals. H e got £ 2 0 and their clothes for dispatching the bushrangers. " J a c k " AVilliams, the leader (who was shot) and Fogarty were what were k n o w n as "Bounty Immigrants," i.e., free persons whose passage to the colony was paid for out of the Land Fund. Fogarty was the son of a farm labourer, and born in Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland. H e had lost his mother whilst a mere boy. It yvas said that he turned approver in a murder case at home, and after helping to hang his companions, and receiving his share of the "blood-money," found his way to the Antipodes. Arriving in the colony about a year before bis death, he obtained employment with a well-known butcher, named R o e ; but, becoming neglectful of his duties and irregular in his habits, he was discharged, took lodgings at Seymour's, and picked up with his companions in crime there. H e was not quite 19 years of age. Daniel Jepps yvas 27 years old, and a native of Boston, U.S.A. H e was k n o w n as "Yankee Jack." For ten years he led a roving life in South Sea yvhaling vessels, was of highly respectable connexions, and had received a liberal education. H e yvas the captain of a merchantman, trading to the port of Sydney in 1841, and at the close of that year travelled overland to Melbourne, yvhere he idled his time, dissipated his money, and ended by putting up at Seymour's. Ellis, about the same age as Fogarty, yvas a native of Surrey in England, and came of poor, but honest, parents. At an early age he was compelled to look out for himself, and yvent to sea. Arriving in Sydney as cook of an immigrant ship about the time that Jepps was starting southward, Ellis, as if by some fatality, followed in his track, travelled also overland to Melbourne, and came to an anchorage at Seymour's, where he met, for thefirsttime, his co criminals. THE MURDERER OF MK. CODD.—5™ SEPTEMBER, 1842.
After the condemnation of Figara Alkepurata, alias " Roger," for the murder of Mr. Codd at Mount Rouse, he took the yvorld easily enough, seemed chiefly interested in practically testing h o w m u c h of the prison fare he could absorb. O n the receipt of the warrant for his execution, Judge Willis, w h o yvas often disposed to be ultra sensational, hastened to the gaol, and personally communicated the fatal intelligence. H e expected an aboriginal scene, but both himself and his news were received with a stoical impassibility disappointing to His Honor. " Roger" appeared quite unconcerned, so the Judge left highly offended, but could do nothing, for the blackfellow was beyond the reach of denunciations or " attachments." For some unexplained reason, "Roger," during the interval betyveen sentence and punishment, was not placed in separate confinement, but was one of twenty-six unfortunates thrust into one apartment. As the day of his death drew nigh, " R o g e r " apparently withdrew into himself, and was often observed to retire into a corner of the room and shed tears. AVhen asked w h y he did so, he merely shook
