Key pulled a watch from his pocket and said: "Two minutes more to talk." Delaney said cheerfully: "Well, good by, b'ys; if I've hurted any of y ez, I hope ye'll forgive me.

Shpake up, now, any of yez that I've hurted, and say yell forgive me." We called upon Marion Friend, whose throat Delaney had tried to cut three weeks before while robbing him of forty dollars, to come forward, but Friend was not in a forgiving mood, and refused with an oath.
Key said: "Time's up!" put the watch back in his pocket and raised his hand like an officer commanding a gun.

Harris and Payne laid hold of the ropes to the supports of the planks.

Each of the six hangmen tied a condemned man's hands, pulled a meal sack down over his head, placed the noose around his neck, drew it up tolerably close, and sprang to the ground.

The priest began praying aloud.
Key dropped his hand.