The Execution of Spence Broughton
On Friday an excellent and well-adapted discourse was preached by the Rev. W. Richardson, from Rom. VI, 23. 'For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord' which not only affected the culprits, but many people who were assembled there.
They all behaved in the most penitential manner under condemnation, and, thank God, well employed their short space time in preparing for a long eternity. They all received the sacrament, confessed their crimes, and owned the justice of their sentence.
At the place of execution they were still fervent in prayer, conducted themselves with becoming fortitude and resignation, and ardently implored forgiveness of their heavenly Father.
An uncommon concourse of people accompanied them to Tyburn, who, deeply affected with the solemnity of the scene, were weeping, witnesses of their departure from this world to meet the Eternal Judge of mankind.
After hanging the usual time, they were cut down, and Broughton's remains were conveyed to Attercliffe Common, there to hang in chains, as an awful example to those who forsake the path of duty, and follow the multitude to do evil.
