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The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1860., [Electronic resource], Land and Slaves in the county of Amelia, for sale privately. (search)
Execution of a Matricide. --Ezra Brainerd was hung at Three Rivers, C. W., on the 25th ult., for having murdered his mother some months since. Since his conviction strong efforts have been made to have him pardoned on the ground of insanity, and the wretched doggerel which he has had published in a paper at Three Rivers would seem to indicate that be was far from being in his right mind. A correspondent of the Montreal Gazette sketches the closing scene of his life. He writes: Shortly before 11 o'clock, a door leading to the convict's cell was closed, and the hangman proceeded to pinion his victim in the dimly-lighted dungeon, screened by the closed door from the looks of the people in the jail hall. The constables who accompanied him state that while being pinioned Brainerd requested Sheriff Ogden to convey his body, after execution, to Melbourne, in the Townships, for burial, and that the twenty dollars in gold among his effects be appropriated for the purpose. The