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True
or just a story invented later?
William Palmer is credited with having said, as he stepped upon the trap
door on the scaffold, "Are you sure this damn thing's safe?"
found on the http://victorian.fortunecity.com/churchmews/599/lastwords/lastword.htm
site and subsequently on several other web sites.
However
I cannot find any reference to him having spoken these words in any of
the contemporary accounts of his execution.
Last
words as reported in 1856
In the Illustrated Life, Career, and Trial of William Palmer of Rugeley
published in 1856 it stated that, "After a brief prayer with the
chaplain, he turned to the hangman, had the rope put round his neck, and
the long cap drawn over his face. He then shook hands with his executioner
, said, in a low voice, "God bless you;" and as the last
word issued from his lips the bolt was withdrawn, the drop fell, and, after
a slight convulsion of the limbs, he hung lifelessly from the gallows.
So well had everything been managed by the hangman, so nicely had the fatal
cord been adjusted, and so clear was the fall of the drop, that death was
all but instantaneous."
Bubbles
and Indigestion:
In Fletcher's book The Life & Career of dr. William Palmer of Rugeley
we are told that "On the morning of his execution, when the hangman
came in to his cell, he was offered some wine before he was pinioned. When
it was brought and poured out quickly, he blew off some bubbles and remarked
"They always give me indigestion next morning if I drink in a hurry."
Within less than ten minutes he was dead"
Guilty
or Not Guilty?
Before the execution party were due to start their walk to the gallows
the Governor asked Palmer to agree that the sentence was just. Palmer replied,
"Cook did not die from strychnine". The governor told
Palmer "This is not a time for quibbling. Did you, or did you not
, kill Cook?" Palmer answered, "The Lord Chief Justice summed
up for poisoning by strychnine."
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Introduction
