ALSO, THE EXECUTION OF ENOS G. DUDLEY, AT HAVERHILL, N. H. , MAY 23D , 1849. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE CONFESSION OF MARY RUNKLE, WHO WAS EXECUTED FOR MURDER. PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR. 1850. It has probably never fallen to the lot of man to record a list of more cruel, heart-rending, atrocious, cold-blooded and horrible crimes and murders, than have been perpetrated by the subject of this narrative, and that too in the midst of a highly civilized and Christian community; and deeds, too, which for

The reader may depend on the truth of the fact in the foregoing pages; but, in consequence of their singularity, the author was induced to search minutely into her parentage, and has spared no exertion to obtain his information from the most authentic and respectable sources. After perusing it, he will pause and reflect, “Poor human nature! how weak and corrupt thou art, if not checked in the morning of thy existence.” The father of this wicked woman was the victim of disobedience to kind but ar

A large number of people from the surrounding country came here early this morning, all anxious to witness the execution of Enos G. Dudley, convicted at a recent term of the Court of Common Pleas of Grafton County, N. H. , of the murder of his wife. The town throughout the day was the theatre of intense excitement. The evidence on which Dudley was convicted was entirely circumstantial, and, in the opinion of many, inconclusive. Strong expectations had been entertained since the period of convict

Mrs. Mary Runkle was executed at the Jail in Whitesboro; The gallows was erected in the room over the Jailor’s office and consisted of a strong lever about fourteen feet in length the long arm of which eight feet in length, was held by a cord, and loaded with weights. To the short arm was attached the hanging, which was extended down through the floor into the jailor’s office, the noose being attached to it. During the day, up to the time of her execution, she lay almost motionless on her bed, h