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500 ktrby’s wonderful museum.
tion into robbery, barbarity, and murder! She affected the
visions, the trances, the second-sight of that wretched sect,
large bodies of whom from Leeds attended the execution;
the more simple part of whom really imagined that some mi-
racle would be worked in her favour, and that she would fly
©ff the scaffold in a cloud, or on a broom, and be saved by
the interposition of Heaven! Jack Ketch, however, was of
a different opinion, and his opinion prevailed; his tether was
too tightly tied against any attempts of her supposed assist-
ing angels.
Notwithstanding all the prayers and exhortations of the
clergyman, she obstinately persisted in denying that she had
poisoned the woman for whom she suffered, and died ex-
tremely hardened and unrepenting; thus quitting, after foul
and deliberate murder, the last brink of time, with an obdu-
rate lie hanging on her quivering and distorted lips !
March 20th, at eleven o’clock, she was brought on the
scaffold, with Brown, a soldier of the York Rangers, like-
wise sentenced to die for murder; and the culprits, after
praying a short time with the ordinary, were conducted under
the drop, to which they came very readily, and were launched
by the instantaneous falling of it, into that state where re-
pentance comes too late.
It is a curious matter to state, that so ingrained and assi-
milated to her disposition had became Mary Bateman’s pro-
pensity to plunder and witchcraft, that from the poor wo-
man who had attended on herself and child in the prison,
she contrived to steal a guinea, by telling the woman’s for-
tune and making the stars favourable to her in a sweetheart.
She carried on this religious mummery to the last, and the
gallows only stopped her taste and her insight into futurity.
When it is considered that this wretch by the same means
and by a complete knowledge of poisons, had before de-
stroyed the lives of two innocent women, whom she robbe4
tion into robbery, barbarity, and murder! She affected the
visions, the trances, the second-sight of that wretched sect,
large bodies of whom from Leeds attended the execution;
the more simple part of whom really imagined that some mi-
racle would be worked in her favour, and that she would fly
©ff the scaffold in a cloud, or on a broom, and be saved by
the interposition of Heaven! Jack Ketch, however, was of
a different opinion, and his opinion prevailed; his tether was
too tightly tied against any attempts of her supposed assist-
ing angels.
Notwithstanding all the prayers and exhortations of the
clergyman, she obstinately persisted in denying that she had
poisoned the woman for whom she suffered, and died ex-
tremely hardened and unrepenting; thus quitting, after foul
and deliberate murder, the last brink of time, with an obdu-
rate lie hanging on her quivering and distorted lips !
March 20th, at eleven o’clock, she was brought on the
scaffold, with Brown, a soldier of the York Rangers, like-
wise sentenced to die for murder; and the culprits, after
praying a short time with the ordinary, were conducted under
the drop, to which they came very readily, and were launched
by the instantaneous falling of it, into that state where re-
pentance comes too late.
It is a curious matter to state, that so ingrained and assi-
milated to her disposition had became Mary Bateman’s pro-
pensity to plunder and witchcraft, that from the poor wo-
man who had attended on herself and child in the prison,
she contrived to steal a guinea, by telling the woman’s for-
tune and making the stars favourable to her in a sweetheart.
She carried on this religious mummery to the last, and the
gallows only stopped her taste and her insight into futurity.
When it is considered that this wretch by the same means
and by a complete knowledge of poisons, had before de-
stroyed the lives of two innocent women, whom she robbe4