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The Golden Era

Golden, British Columbia,

Saturday, September 17, 1892, Ten Cents

MURDERER EXECUTED

TUESDAY LAST

William Francis Maguire, 18, hanged Friday at the Kamloops gaol for the premeditated murder of Thomas Moody. His is the third execution this year in British Columbia and should be a warning to all who might think to fool Madam Justice by taking the law into his own hands. As most readers of The Golden Era know, the young Maguire is not the first in his family to be convicted for murder. Like his father, he maintained he was innocent right through to his execution. While green may be the lucky colour of the Irish, it is this editor’s experience that their oft-unchecked tempers lead them to see red. More often than not, it is an Irish whow lands himself behind bars, or in this case at the end of a noose.

VISITING MINISTER DEPARTS

Reverend Johnson of the Presbyterian Church conducted services in Golden while his esteemed colleague, Reverend Cameron, was in Kamloops on matters pertaining to the Maguire execution. Upon his return, Reverend Cameron united in marriage his niece, Miss Rosie Heywood, to Mr. N. Murray on Saturday, September 10, at 2:00 o’clock of the afternoon.