Within the walls of the Bucks County Prison just inside the Main Gate, the sheriffs of Bucks County lived while maintaining order and supervising punishments, including death. On July 19, 1914, James Linzi became the last of two men hanged there and in Bucks County. Sheriff Charles M. Meredith, a Quaker opposed to capital punishment, was praised in newspaper accounts for efficiency, though he turned his back as his deputy sprung the trap. Linzi had confessed to murdering his pregnant wife, was convicted by a jury, and was sentenced to death by Judge Wm. Ryan despite efforts to spare his life by his court-appointed lawyers, Webster Grim and his assistant Arthur M. Eastburn, who both attended the hanging. Meredith began a newspaper dynasty, and the law firms of Grim and Eastburn, among the county’s two oldest, continued as legal dynasties. Meredith’s publisher son, Charles M. Meredith, Jr., later became president of the Bucks County Historical Society and Mercer Museum, where the gallows may be seen today across the street.