Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-09-11
\ Missouri Murderer Attempts Sui
eide just Previous to His
Execution.
With Blood Streaming from His
Wounds He is Carried Out
and Hanged.
His Spiritual Adviser Arrested for
Providing the RevOlver-He
Denies the Charge.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Sept. 5.-The history
Of the gallows tells no more hideous
story than that of the execution of Louis
Bulling, the st. Joseph wife murderer,
at Savannah, NO., during the afternoon.
Before the execution Bulling attempted
suicide by shooting himself in the left
breast with a revolver, believed to have
been given him by a clergyman who had
been with him for several hours. Sher-
iH Barry had set the hour for the execu-
ton at 10 o'clock a. m. When he went
to the cell at 6 o'clock to prepare the
doomed man for the scaffold, Bulling
pleaded so pitifully for an extension of a
few hours that the sheriff yielded and
gave him until y o'clock to live. When
2 O'Clock arrived Bulling renewed his
applications to the sheriff, and falling
on his knees
Pleaded for One Hour Moro.
The sheriff granted his request and re-
moving the guard from the cell door,
left the doomed man alone with his
spiritual adviser, Rev. Mr.. Lavake.
Shortly after two shots were heard and
on reaching Billings cell the minister
was found lying IN the floor, having
tainted. By his side lay Bulling, well
tering in his own blood which flowed
from wounds in his breast. He had shot
himself twice with a revolver. A hasty
examination of Billings body showed
that one of the bullets had entered the
left breast and glancing from a rib had
passed around his body and come out of
his back. The other wound had onlyi in
&icted a slight flesh wound in his left
side. He had not lost consciousness and
when the sheriff ordered four deputies
to carry him to the scaffold he cursed
and swore at them in a horrible manner.
The deputies dragged the struggling
man to the court yard and lifted him
upon the gallows. He refused to stand
and they placed him upon a chair.
AS he sat there he presented
A Revolving Spectacle.
His hands and face were covered with
blood, which also stained his shirt, and
blood was streaming through his shoes,
whence it had run from the wounds in
his breast. He cursed and swore at the
deputies, cried and screamed for mercy
and shrieked in terror. The sheriff gave
him a large glass of brandy and he swal-
lowed it at n gulp. Finally he was
told to get up and stand upon the drop.
He refused and four deputies held him
up while the rope was being adjusted.
The black cap was placed over his head,
and, yelling, screaming and blasphem-
ing, he shot through the opening at ex-
actly 1921 o'clock. His neck was broken
by the fall and he died almost instantly.
The Rev. Lavake, who is believed to
have provided the murderer with the
revolver, was Immediately arrested and
Is now confined in Jail. The only per-
sons admitted to the jail during the day
were a newspaper man, the deputies and
the Rev. Lavake.
Denies Furnishing the Weapon.
MI. Lavake was interviewed by q re-
porter regarding Billings attempted
suicide. He said he did not give Bulling
the revolver and had no idea where it
came from. He was on his knees pray
ing, he said, when Bulling shot himself.