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who was his favourite daughter, very much to heart, 

 her death having been as it were caused by accident, 

 he made the confession that he had poisoned his wife 

 intentionally, and had it not been that the daughter 

 had shared the same fate, he should never have owned 

 his crime. Thus from his own confession he was con- 

 victed and sentenced to death. The sensation produced 

 by this was immense, and every possible exertion 

 was made by numbers of the inhabitants all round 

 to get a reprieve or commutation of the sentence, 

 upon the plea that he had suffered much provocation 

 from his wife's conduct, and that she always had been 

 a negligent, shiftless kind of woman, and had given 

 him much trouble and so forth. The authorities, 

 however, much to their credit were firm ; they said 

 that there had not been such a thing as an execution 

 for more than twenty-five years, nor had there been 

 so heinous a crime committed in the canton as 

 that which was now before them, and that for the 

 good of their country and as an example he must 

 suffer the penalty of death. Accordingly, Carl Cad- 

 waller was condemned to have his head cut off, and 

 to be buried, according to the custom of the canton, 

 in unconsecrated ground. 



It was on a lovely morning in the month of July 



