Page:Life, trial and execution of Agnes Rae, aged 22.pdf/7

 the floor, langhing, and said, 'There, take  hang me, or do what you will with me,  don’t care now.' The prisoner was then  into custody.

The judge summed up the evidence, and Jury returned a verdict of guilty. The then pronounced sentence upon her, to be hanged by the neck until she be dead! The unhappy woman, at the time of her trial, was far advanced in pregnancy; and, according to custom, was allowed to live. A month after, she was delivered of a fine girl, to whom she gave the name of Agnes Wilson, her seducer's. She suckled the infant child on the morning of her execution, when she requested permision to suckle it again on the scaffold when the rope was fixed about her neck. The infant was brought her, and she was allowed to suckle it ten minutes. It was truly distressing to see this young woman when her infant was taken from her. She was in a state of complete insensibility, and was obliged to be supported by the turnkey