A shocking description of a hanging in Montreal following the 1837 Rebellion

   A shocking and haunting hanging took place in Montreal after the 1837 Rebellion but only made news across North American when the event was described by an eyewitness five decades later.
   Rather than having the condemned fall through a trap door with a rope around their necks, soldiers executed prisoners by pulling the ropes upwards.
   A boy of seven later reported that he climbed along the beam above where the rope was suspended and saw Jules Delacroix, who was a family acquaintance, propelled quickly towards him with the noose around his neck until they were eye-to-eye.
   Delacroix managed to slip his stump out of the knot and loosened the rope around his neck before crying out "Mon dieu! Mon dieu!"