 Cordelia Viau and her paramour, Sam Parslow, were to be executed on March 9, 1899.The preparations for the hanging on an elderly man at St. Scholastique, Quebec in 1899 had gone well, when the man, while standing on the trap, already hooded, noosed, and pinioned, suddenly fell lifelessly into Radclive's arms.The presiding physician quickly determined that the man was indeed dead.