Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-12-19
CRIMINAL.

FOUR INDIANS HANGED-AN Ex
CITING SCENE.
MIssOULA, Mont, Dec. lO-The
gre,i rst han iins excitement which
eser tnk pace In the Northwest
was this m,orning when Lalaze,
Pierre Paul, Antley AMI Pascale, the
four Indian inurderers were hanged
at the court house here. They all
died game. Pierre Paul and Antlcy
smiliugly bidding their friends good
bye. Twenty minutes utter trap
sprung ull were pronounced dad,
their necks being broken.
The four Indians played cards
nearly all Of Wednesday night.
They then went To sleep and did
mt get up until late in the day.
About MON yesterday they became
wild again aud made things very
uncomfortable for the death Watches
In the corridor. Sheriff Houston was
annoyed nll day yesterday with II
crowd Of curious people. lie had u
Closed lane leading f'om ih. door of
the jail 10 the gal.ows ien, 81 he
could get his prisoners To the plhce
of execution without their being
seen by the crowd. Many wild and
fOlisl, runiOis were ntlmt yesterday
Of IN attempted rescue. There was II
Ia ge number Of Indians In the vi !
cini v, hut 4 W anticipated that they
woul | d" anything.
wIFE.MURDERER HANGED.
WEILAND, Ont, Dec, 10. Aathur
Hoyt Day, who murdered his wife
by pushing her over cliff atNmgra
Falls, in July last, wis hanged. The
condemned man walked to the scat
fold firmly and with II smile ON his
face. Day committed bigemy
under the name of Arthur HOyt,
aud his second wife having disc"v-
cred Ills real name, II became neces.
sary for him to choose etween the
two women. He elected to live with
his bignnous wife. Day took Ills
first wife an his sister to Ningra
Falls, but OF the three only he and
his sister returned later. The second
wife proceeded apni,,s him for hig-
amy. and his arrest followed, when
the trial was commenced Days sis
ter gui led u detective TO the spot
where IT,. d, ad wife 10y at the base
ofac cliff l.,O feet high. She testified
to her brMher pu u-l,ing the woman
over the Cliff. His conviction fol-
lowed.
CANADIAN TRAGEDY.
SHERBRooKE, Quebec, Dec. 10
Sheriff Webb died suddenly Of heart
disease this n,ornirg. The excite
ment attending the execution of
Remi LaMontagne was probably
The cause. The death Of the sheriff
delayed the ext cutiun hut u few
Minutes. LaM0mtagne was hanged
sho'tly after. In July, 1883, La'
Sl"Iitagnc went to the house Of Ills
ofother.in.lNw, Na,.lr0n Michigan,
ehticed him 10 the door, shot him
tw'c,', cut lis throat, slashed his
D*'y aud dragged him haak Into
'hs house and set II on Rre. The
wounded mar dragged hiMs Il from
'he flames badly scs,rcasti, hut died
al'er few weefs. The. murderers
Sister, Leda, wife Of the yictiW, was
arrested fur nMplluily IN The crime
~ came out at The tvIal that Le'la
and her brother had been living In
incest, She was acquitted hut her
prolhcr WAS codvicted.
TRAGEDY AT FRESNO.
FRESNO, Cal, Dec. l9.--AnOlher
s''"cious muider was committed
nefe yesterday aftern,x'n. when DIR.
~ Vincent shot aud killed his
s~' Owing IL drink, Vince,It has
ven going steadily down for
Aon''s, His wife, who was u model
.oa'a'' In every respect, has worked
a1'us'rlous'y TO support mt only
.sse'f but her husband, aud Ills III
"sa'ment forward her became vi
.S'' w unbearai,le thas she sued f'i
sN"'ee Vincent iu-isied she with
Law The suit. hut Ia no lurI"'se'
~ went 10 her h0,,se ,O-,lay and de'
"saasd that the suit be Withdrawn,