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Yorkshire Oddities and Incidents.
no gums appearing, her visage being like his wife's sister, and wife to William Barwick.
(Signed)"Thomas Lofthouse."
When Barwick ascended the gallows to be hung, he told the hangman that he hoped the rope was strong enough, as if it should break with his weight he would fall to the ground and become a cripple for life. His apprehensions, however, were soon quieted, for the hangman assured him he might venture upon it with perfect confidence.
After he was dead the body was hung in chains by the pond where the murder had been committed.
