A GAMBLER SUBMITTING TO BE HANGED.
The following incident is said to have occurred in London: —
Two fellows were observed by a patrol sitting at a lamp-post in
the New Road; and, on closely watching them, the latter dis-covered that one was tying up the other, who offered no
resistance, by the neck. The patrol interfered to prevent such a
strange kind of murder, and was assailed by both, and very con-siderably beaten for his good offices; the watchmen, however,
poured in, and the parties were secured. On examination next
morning, it appeared that the men had been gambling; that one had
lost all his money to the other, and had at last proposed to
stake his clothes. The winner demurred — observing that he could
not strip his adversary naked in the event of his losing. `Oh,'
replied the other, `do not give yourself any uneasiness about
that; if I lose I shall be unable to live, and you shall hang me,
and take my clothes
after I am dead, for I
shall then, you know, have no occasion for them.' The proposed
arrangement was assented to; and the fellow having lost, was
quietly submitting to the terms of the treaty when he was
interrupted by the patrol, whose impertinent interference he so
angrily resented.
