["Latest Telegrams", The Northern Territory Times and Gazette (Darwin, NT), Friday 22 December 1905, page 3]
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Charles Hagen, Simeon Espada, and Pablo Marquez, found guilty of the murder of Mark Liebglid, a buyer of pearls, at Broome, have just been hanged at Fremantle.
On being taken to the scaffold Hagen made a long speech, in which he strongly protested his innocence.
A sensational scene occurred during the hanging of Espada. He twice freed his hands and grasped the rope. On the second occasion Chief Warder Webster, who stood by the trapdoor, took the rope from him. At the same moment the hangman pulled the lever, with the result that Webster dropped through the opening with the doomed man, falling heavily on his head and shoulders on the ground below. He was found to have sustained serious injuries to the head, and was conveyed in an unconscious condition to the hospital.
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