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DELAWARE COUNTY. 215 longer. He drew Ms sword and with it struck a latcli : the next moment the unhappy man was suspended breathless in the air — he made but a slight struggle, and all was over. The people immediately commenced leaving the ground, and before night most of the vast multitude were many miles away from the place. The weather was warm, and there were one or more showers during the day, making it very muddy, which somewhat soiled the white dresses of the ladies, although I believe no serious accident took place. To finish the sentence, his body was given to the medical society for dissection, and doubtless his bones are still preserved. The iron-wood handspike with which the two men Cameron and McGrilfrey were knocked down, and which was found and produced at the trial, is still preserved in the Albany Museum. The other prisoner who escaped from the jail with Grraham, was named Kinney, and was a resident of the town of Sidney. He was charged with having passed counterfeit money. Expect- ing that search would be made, he determined, if possible, to deceive his pursuers ; for this purpose, he cut his shoes so as to tie them on heel foremost, to give the impression of his having travelled in an opposite direction. He was, however, followed to Sidney and re-arrested — was afterwards tried and sentenced to the state prison for two years. Only one other execution has ever taken place in the county, that of Nathan Foster, for poisoning his wife, in 1819. Mar- tin Yan Buren, Esq., the Attorney Greneral, assisted the Dis- trict Attorney, on the part of the people, and Erastus Root and Samuel Sharwood, were the prisoner's counsel. Judge Martin Keeler, of Kortright, was then sheriff. Foster was a tory during the Kevolution, and is reported to have been the identical person who inhumanly murdered Col. Alden, at the massacre of Cherry Yalley, in 1777. Priest, in his narrative of the capture of David Ogden, who died a short time since in Franklin, Delaware County, thus refers : This