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EG.773.042
20-27 Jul 1773:2082 (5/261)
London, April 27. They write from Stuttgard that Mr. Suss,
heretofore Privy Counsellor and President of the Chamber of
Finances to the late Duke of Wirtemberg, was hang'd there
the 4th of this month, on a gallows of iron, and afterwards
put into an iron cage fixed thereto.
. . . [10 lines on his pleas for mercy.]
He was carried to execution clothed in scarlet embroider'd
with gold. He struggled so much and made so violent a
resistance, that it was with great difficulty he was
executed. He would fain have spoke to the people when he
was on the ladder, but he was hindered by the noise of
drums.
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