Red O'shaughnessy

Red O'Shaughnessy by J.H.M. Abbott is about prisoner Edward O'Shaughnessy as he gives his last rites before he is executed. Excerpt: “I shall not have very much to say to you,” said Mr. Justice Creighton, as he signaled with a little wave of the right hand to the Chaplain on the Bench beside him to place upon his wig the small square of dark cloth that represents the Black Cap—"for I do not desire to inflict pain upon you.”