After his imprisonment he behaved in a most decorous manner; he won upon the good opinion of the jail chaplain, and he was visited by the Bishop of Lincoln.

It does not appear that he expressed any contrition for the crime, but seemed to pass away with triumphant certainty that he was going to rejoin his victim in heaven.

He was visited by some pious and benevolent ladies of Nottingham, some of whom declared he was a child of God, if ever there was one.

One of the ladies sent him a white camellia to wear at his execution."] "You will live in New Hampshire.

In your sharp need and distress the Brown family will succor you--such of them as Pike the assassin left alive.