24 OCTOBER 1891, Page 14

THE HANGING IN SOMERSETSHIRE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The case of hanging which I quoted in the Spectator of October 10th happened both when and where I said it happened, in 1801, at Stone Gallows, in the Vale of Taunton. Your correspondent quotes another case altogether, which occurred on the other side of the county, and thirty-one years later. " For better for worse "—in this case worse—we are equally zealous in guarding the reputation of our native vales.