The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

St. CHRISTOPHERS, November 19.

On Saturday morning last, Nicholas Johnson, the murderer and pirate, was publicly Racked, pursuant to his sentence in Saint Eustatius-- About nine o'clock in the morning he was conducted out of the fort to the place appointed for his execution, where he was bound fast with cords to an engine resembling a St. Andrew's-Cross.--The executioner, with a great deal of deliberation, then proceeded to execute the law upon the criminal, breaking his right leg with a blow of an iron bar provided for that purpose-- He bore the breaking of his legs and arms without a groan; but when his thighs came to be broke he made dreadful out cries. After all his limbs were thus mangled and shattered, received twenty two blows on his stomach before he expired. Some time before his execution he confessed he had formerly been guilty of two murders; and acknowledged that he and his accomplice Joseph Andrews, intended to have murdered William Harris, the day he escaped out of the boat.--Johnson was about 35 years of Age, five feet six inches high, and a very cheerful countenance: his behaviour after sentence, and at the place of execution, was decent and resigned, which makes us conclude, that, if he had lived as well as he died, his life would not have been bro't to so ignominious a period.