Sunbury American

ATROCIOUS EXECUTION.

The "Comercio del Plata" of Montevideo, gives the following revolting account of the execution of an Irish Priest and young woman whom he had seduced :

A priest, named Gutierrez, ex-curate of the parish of Socorros, in Buenos Ayres, seduced a young girl of 22, named Camilla O'Gorman, the daughter of respectable parents, and fled with her in disguise to the province of Corrientes, where they remained engaged in teaching school until discovered and denounced by an Irish priest, named Gannon. Gutierrez was immediately conducted, together with the young girl, from Goya to Rosario, in a vessel bound to Rio, and after remaining there for a few days, exposed to all the malice and calumny and insult, were brought before Rosas, and both condemned to death.

Finding that Camilla was enciente, and unwilling to postpone her execution one short month, it was ordered that the child should be baptized, and the order was accomplished by pouring, in a spirit of mockery, holy water down the mother's throat.

As they were being taken with their eyes bandaged to the place of execution, Gutierrez asked, who was walking at his side? and Camilla replied: "It is I—my child has been christened and I am now content to die. Do not grieve for me."

So great was the horror felt at the atrocious sentence, that even the soldiers at Santos Lugares, accustomed, as they were, to scenes of butchery, recoiled as the order to fire upon the victims was given. One of the executioners fainted, and another, while aiming at Camilla, turned aside his head. They were obliged to fire three discharges before the act was fully consummated. At the first fire, Camilla was untouched, at the second she was only slightly wounded, and at the third she fell.

What must have been the feelings of the father of the wretched girl, and the Irish priest, Gannon, the former of whom had informed Rosas of his daughter's flight immediately on its discovery, and had procured a search to be instituted for the fugitives.

Camilla O'Gorman, who, had she lived, would now have accomplished her 23d year, was an excellent pianist and singer. The execution took place on Friday, August 18th, at 10 A. M., and the bodies of the lovers were placed in a box made for the purpose.