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back wo PAGES to the perpendicular
lever and graSped it, his foot against
the wedge at its foot, while Mr.. Holmes
adjusted the black cap over Goheen'S
head. 1t had rubber cord run through
the edge and fitted close about his neck.
Then Holmes stepped off the platform,
and instantly Sheriff Billings kicked
away the wedge and pulled
back the lever. The trap door swung
down on its hinges and GOhcen shot
through the opening like an arrow.
1t was 1918 when the drop tell. All the
spectators went down stairs led by the
sheriff, and watched the doctor feel the
pulse of the dying man. His neck was
not broken, but the moose twisted
to the back of his head and stran-
gled him to death. In fourteen
minutes his pulse ceased to beat, and in
twenty his body was lowered carefully
to the floor and laid out for burial The
face was not distorted, but it looked un-
pleasant, because of the stubby growth
OF beard which had not been shaved for
TWO or three days. Before daybreak
this morning it will be beneath the
ground
In Pine Coffin,
furnished by the county. The fam
lily was asked a day or two ago
II they wanted the body, but Mrs.
Goheen told the deputy that there
was no money to give it decent
burial. SO came Albert Goheen to his
end. The execution was smoothly and
skillfully done. There was as little
that was CHASTITY or. horrible
about it as there well could have been.
The trap mechanism was perfect. A
hatchway was cut in the floor of the
second story of the hall, three feet
square. The trap was built i'll wooden
platform which could be placed over
the hatchway and removed at will. Six
inch uprlghtS at each side of the hall
support Cross beam overhead,
rounded at a point where the rope is
tied This is directly over the trap.
lhey Will be left in position perma-
nentIy and the hatchway covered with
ordinary pine boards, SO that in case of
future need the apparatus for execution
will be ready. The trap is single
door, hinged to the platform beams on
one slde and held in position OH the
other by two sliding cleats underneath,
which can be pulled out by the action of
the upright lever to which they are at
tachcd. ANY rebound of the trap door
as 1t falls is prevented by wooden
spring at the side, which snaps out
when it has reached its lowest point
and holds it there. Several
Trials OF the Mechanism
were made during the week, and it
worked well. The sheriff had two
ropes, SAt from the same piece. One
lie tested repeatedly with a sand bag
weighing IT'S pounds; the other he
tested once and that was enough. The
foptWaS of Italian hemp, twisted i'm the
ordinary way. 1t stretched little or moi
at all. The situation of things i'm the
jail VIII be made clearer by diagram
or the lower floor which is here given.
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eyes at that last supreme moment.
Neither will the accessories of the pict-
ure be forgotten. Several bright lights
shed their radiance upon the little
group assembled around the trap; the
condemned man in tie center, the
sheriff standing at one side directing
the movements of his aid, who stopped
as he bound the thongs around Goheen'S
legs: a tail, smoothly shaver Catholic
priest bending near with a look OF
diyine compassion upon his thin, ascetic-
looking cOuntenance; another n few
PAGES off: and in the background, lining
the white walls, perhaps dozen others.
with nearly every face mirroring strong
emotion. either pity Or horror. The
element of curiosity was swallowed up
in awe of the swift-coming death. The
guard Strengthened up, the black cap
was quickly adjusted, and with not
seconds hesitation the sheriff gave
great surge at the upright lever BY his
side. The door of the trap swung down
with a clang, and with swift rush
Goheen, the murderer. dropped out of
sight. In the place where he stood
moment before there was a yawning
hole in the floor, across which the spec
tatOrS looked at each other with horror
stricken eyes. A sound assembled
from below like that made by
maui striking lOg, and then all was
still. The sheriff waited till the sound
came which told him Goheen had
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Took Him for a Deer.

To the Editor of the Globe.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis. Oct. 22.-D.
Stiffler, while hunting near Deadham.
MIMI. this afternoon, was shot by
Adam Miller, of this city, dying soon
after. Miller was also hunting, and in
the twilight mistook him for deer,
Stiffier being in the brush several rods
away. Miller was very much overcome
by the affair, and at once hunted
up his companion, j. l.. Showers,
and returned to the city, going to the
police station, and Offering himself to
the officers. There being nothing to
warrant his being held at the time, he
was allowed to go home. This morning
Sheriff Kennedy. Coroner Whitney and
a jury will visit Dedham and view the
remains. Miller, who fired the fatal
shot, is carpenter of this city. But
little is known OF Stiffler, who was
resident of Minnesota.
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found on him which he tried to hide by
tucking them under his waistpand.
Still the evidence against him was very
slight, and lift had not been that public
sentiment was strong against him, he
would probably have got OFF at the pre-
liminary examination. A few weeks
later the trial took place. He was
brought pretty close to The scene of the
murder on the fatal night by direct
testimony. His wanderings in
the country with his brother Ande rson,
and County Attorney Daily introduced
many suspicious items of testimony
from the country witnesses. Probably
the two strongest single points against
him in tue minds of the jurymen were
the fact that he had handkerchief of
Rosa Bray with him, and thar he asked
a man somewhere up country if he had
heard of a woman being found frozen
to death in Fergus Falls; this before any
news of Rosa Bray's death had reached
that part of the country.
The prosecution was conducted with
great energy by County Attorney DAILY,
assisted by the attorney general. Go
heen was found guilty after the jury
came within an ace of diSagreeing.
Subsequent efforts for the Communication
of the death penalty were defeated by
his accusation of murder against his
brother Anderson, and his refusal to
testify against him when the time ar
rived. Since that time there has been
no hope for him. but he has been a
lively prisoner. Every officer about the
jail will rejoice when he is safely out
of the way. He has tried to cor
rupt the guards. to create an
insurrection among the other prisoners,
to secure poison or some weapon-he
stole razor once and kept it in crew
ice in his shoe several days before it
was found-tO induce his family to
make raid on the Jail and release him.
and to charge the crime to his brother
both by direct accusation and forged
note. There has been one continual
round of sensations at the jail all sum-
mer. Among other things, he has COM
posed poetry-a great deal of it.
This is the second legal hanging in
Otter Tail county. The other was of
NeIs Olson Holong in 1888. for murder
Ing a girl, cutting her to pieces and
throwing the pieces into hog pen. In
the early days several lynchings oc-
Cured, while of murder trials there
have been half a dozen o.. more but
among them all there has never before
appeared a criminal so crafty, so de-
PRAYED, so totally devoid of heart and
conscience as Adelbert Goheen.
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S o Z T II

The dotted lines above indicate the
bars of the cells. They all open by solid
steel doors on the central corridor. The
Jail is one of the best in the state. The
steel bars of the cells have center of
wrought iron, so they can neither be
broken nor filed. Each cell has a Win
dow opposite. The floors are of steel,
and the bars run without a break
through the top of the second story,
where the arrangement is the same as
on the lower floor. The bars extend
across above the upper tiers of cells.and
the whole structure is enclosed in solid
walls of brick. The sanitary and other
arrangements are admirable. No pris-
oner has ever broken out of this Jail and
probably none ever will. The outside
corridor at the left or west side is where
the guards stay who have sat and
watched GoheeD ever since his convic-
ton. Connected with the jail by the
hall in which the execution took place
is the sheritf's residence on the north
and the sheriff's Office OH the east. 1t is
substantially one building, built of
brick. The cut which is given Oh this
page shows it to good advantage, This
view is taken looking eastward. The
second barred window in the cut, count
ing from the front OF the structure. is
the one which opens on Goheen's cell.
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THE CRIME.
Story of the Killing for Which
GOheen Died.

STORY OF the h1IilnE IOr Wh.Ch
Goheen Died.
Special to the Globe.
FERGUS FALLS, Oct. 22.-The crime
for which Adelbert Goheen was
hanged this morning was the wanton
murder of Rosa Bray. She was
found dead one cold morning last March
near the third insane asylum north of
this city. Her body was frozen stiff
when found. She had a bedraggled
buff of muSkrat fur and threadbare
pair of black "half-gloves," about as
ef1caciOuS as mosquito netting to keep
out the cold; these and demonstrating
ragged little cape of black cloth were
the only protection she had from the
weather. Her dress and other clothing
were meager, thin, dirty, ragged and
old. a close examination was not made,
but the natural superstition was that
she had frozen to death, and in the first
reports it was so stated. BY and by it
was found she had been shot. A post
mortem and inquest were held, which
settled it that the case was ont
of murder and it took the general
public ye.y short time TO fix
with singul ananimity OH Adelbert
Goheen as tho murderer. His character
was bad, and he was the only person
who had had much to do with the
woman for some time before. He had
walked with her. taken her to the rink,
and as was afterwards established, led
the poor unfortunate to believe he ex
pected to marry her. Most damning of
all, he had left the city the night before
her body was found, twenty-four hours
after she was last seen.
S While the officers were securing the
country for him he returned. lone week
after he left. This looked hopeful for
him, but on the trial it was shown that
he did not start for home until he read
in a newspaper that Rose Bray had been
found frozen to death. He was arrested
and some thirty-eight cartridges were
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Wahpeton, arrived in the afternoon and
spent much time with the prisoner. AT
8 O'Clock Goheen was batpised into the
Catholic faith. Both fathers were pres
ent, with the Waterman at the farther
end OF the corridor. The other prison.
ers were locked in their cells while this
was in progress. The ceremony of bap-
tism occupied nearly half an hour.
and Father Albrecht stayed with
him till supper. This was served
on the table i'll the Jail corridor and
for the first time in weeks Goheen ate
with knife and fork. Father AIbrecht
and Mr.. Holmes sat at the table with
him. He was given broiled chicken.
jelly, cake and other delicles, and for
the third time to-day ate all unusually
hearty meal. After supper he sat in
the corridor with Father Albrecht.
both smoking good cigars. and PLAYED
hymn tunes for two hours or more.
The father nodding in appreciation
occasionally. Meantime the guards
gathered and preparations for the final
scene began. Goheen has prepared
brief speech to make on the saiiows.
but the priest will not permit him to
make it. They urged him to make
confession this afternoon, but he still
persists he Is not guilty.
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IN FULL BLAST AGAIN.
Montana Rejoices Over the Open
ing of the Anaconda.


Special to the Globe.
BUTTE, Mont, Oct. 22-At o'clock
this morning every whistle connected
with the works of the Anaconda com
pany blew in joyful announcement of
the fact of the opening of the cOmpany's
mines, which were closed down last
March on account of a disagreement
with the railroad company over freight
rates. Flags were hOSted from the top
of the hosting works in this city.
and the city put on gala
appearance. Marcus DAILY said to-day
that both the railroad company and the
Anaconda company were thoroughly
this shutdown, and each was heartily
sick Of the war. About 200 men were
put to work at the mines III this city to-
day, ard the number will be Increased
i'll the next few days to 1000 or more.
AS soon as ore is shipped to Anacun-
da the smelter at that place will
be started, employing about 1900
more. The Instructions are to run
everything full blast, and this means
that nearly 5000 men have steady EN-
ployment.
day, "And hope they will never close
arrangements we now have, | don't be
lieve any difficulty can arise again, and
l am confident there are years ahead Of
uninterrupted work at the mines. Con
tracts were signed to-day for the
receipt at the Anaconda mines
daily, beginning tomorrow. OF
forty car loads of Rock Springs
coal. The Anaconda, ST. Lawrence
Mountain Consolidated. High Ore,
Green Mountain and Wake jim mines
have all been reopened. The hosting
of ore will begin within twenty-four
hours, and about 5000 tons Of ore will
be turned out daily. Within four days
the shipment of ore will begin over the
Montana Union tracks"
BUTTE, Mont, Oct. 22.-The Office of
the Anaconda was open last night
awaiting important adyices by wire
from J. b. Haggin, Of New York. Maui
rice DAILY, general superintendent, said:
The situation is just this, the mines
will be started UP in five days or we
will be breaking ground for Il railroad
from Anaconda to Butte. We do not
contemplate going into the railroad
business beyond our mining and smelt-
ing necessities. We are going to nave
reas onable freight rates or Il local rail
road Of our own. If we build road
the Union Pacific, Northern Pacific and
Great Northern can compete for our
through business, and that is all
they will get from Us. Mr. Haggin was
to have received an answer from Gen
eral Manager Clark, of the Union Pa
cific, yesterday. Upon that answer the
whole matter hinges. If Clark terms
are not satisfactory to Mr.. uaggin, the
road will be built and the trouble set
tied at once and for all time"
A ,,Ft bn SfT DP
mine has been called for Dec. ) in this
city for the purpose of increasing the
capital stock from S12,500,0)0 to $I5,-
ono lnA
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-23
THROUGH ATRAP.
Adelbert Goheen Dropped to
Death in the Jail at Fer
gus Falls.
The Criminal Goes to His
Doom a Short Time After
Midnight.
Sheriff Billings and His Depu-
ties Make No Serious
Mistakes.
The Prisoner Is BaptiGed in
the Catholic Faith in the
Afternoon,
But He Insists to the End That
He Is an Innocent
Han.
Story Of the Murder for Which
He Has Just Paid the
Penalty.
SDeciol 70 the Globa

Special to the Globe.
FERGUS FALLS, Oct. %, l a. m.-The
pallid half moon which rose upon a
dark world from behind the eastern
clouds at 1918 this morning brought
with it death to at least one human
being, for as its disc appeared
Adelbert Goheen, the murderer of
Rosetta Bray, felt the hangnan'S moose
tighten and dropped from life TO death.
One moment he was sentient, throb
bing human heing-a man; the next Il
SenSelcss piece of clay dangling in mid
ara body. The lesson enforced upon
Sheriff Billings, of Otter Tail county, at
the execution of Rose at redwood Falls
week ago was well connPd. He made
no mistakes. The rope did not break.
There was nothing that could be termed
scene" Yet the tragedy enacted in
the brightly lighted corridor of the
Otter Tail county jail was, after all. Il
scene which those who saw it VIII
never forget. Some of them will bear
in memory till their death the picture
of GOhern'S set face and glazing
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Many Are for Woods.

Special 10 the Globe.
Elk POINT, S. d., Oct 22.-The feel
ing i'll this (Union) county over the can
didacy of Col. jolly for congress is
much against that gentleman. His rec
ord Oh prohibition is unsatisfactory to a
large class, and especially are his rec
ords i'll the state senate, where he voted
against taxing mortgages, very Obnoxi-
Gus. This is strong Independent
strong hold, but majority are disgust
ell with the iuefficiency of the indie
pendent candidate, Smith. and it is be-
lieved that majority of the votes will
be cast for the Democratic candidate,
Woods, who is clean, comp etent man.
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THE NEWS BULLETIN.

Weathar--Fair; warmer.
Goheen is hanged at 1915.
Coin and commerce discussed at Omaha
Six men killed in North Dakota.
Big hotel burned at Hot Springs, S. D.
Anaconda mines running again.
Third dry of Donnslly trial.
American association meeting, Chicago
Trouble feared at Cork.
Pope Leo may leave Rome.
Hopkins-Searles will contest.
East Fourth street not to be paved.
Decision in favor of the Milwaukee.
Rising of Yaqui Indians.
Many foods in Europe.
I. 0. 0. F. to erect a ten-story building.
Blaine is in New York.
No records broken at Independence.
Peculiar matrimonial knot at Superior.
Minnesota man shot for deer.
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The Arrest OF Scott.

Special TO the Globe
BISMARCK, Oct IA. A. Scott
Northwestern agent of Gluck " Co,
liquor dealers, Minneapolis. has been
Heid here under arrest for four days on
the charge Of forging the firms name
to certain checks. which Scott claims he
indorsed with his own name as agent
To purchase drafts 10 remit GIuck 10
Co. Scott is said to BE- good salesman,
and has done large business through
out the state. member of the firm
was here yesterday, and as he took no
action against Scott tits thought to be
an evidence of SCOTS innocence.
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on the head which raised lump the
size OF hickory nut; that his Ii mbs
were black and blue, and he
was unable to walk for couple
of DAYS. The boy is ten years
old. Witnesses for the defense testified
that he was bad boy in school and had
been disobedient on the occasion when
whipped. Ihe reacher testified that she
did not strike him Oh tine head, nor very
hard on the limbs. Several small boys
testified that Willie was out playing
with them, apparently all right, aftei
the whipping.
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Where Is John Loftuesa

Special to the Glche ~
BIRD ISLAND, Mimi, Oct 22.-John
Loftnes. a young man of twenty years,
from the adjoining town of Palmyra,
came into town>one week ago with
team and small load of wheat, which he
sold. He received and paid for some
fruit trees being delivered here that
day, took his watch to the jewelers. for
repairs, and put up his team at the
livery stable, saying as he left that he
was going to Hector. One of his neigh
bors asked him when he was going
home, and he replied as soon as his
watch was repaired, which he expected
would be III an hour or so. This is the
last trace had of him. Thorough search
has been made here, ut Hector and in
Minneapolis, and not the slightest trace
of HIM has been had.
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RUN OF THE MARKETS.

Russia's reported investment of Constant1-
nople scared the shorts and created a nerv-
GUS feeling on change in Chicago A loss of
one cent is The result of the days trading in
the wheat pit as compared with Wednesdays
closing figures. Last prices yesterday were
9S4c October. 04l2c December, S1O1 May.
Corn quotations are down about 4c at 54s4c
for October, 1859 November 42Ac May.
Oats practically unchanged at 2994c for Oc-
tober and November, Slice May.
The upward trend in New York stock mar
ket was checked yesterday, aud fractional
losses are noted in nearly all stocks. The
close was dull and steady.
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Did They Take Hush Money?

Special TO the Globe.
ASHLAND, Wis. Oct. ga general
raid has been inaugurated here on
toughs. The gambling houses are all
closed and the mayor is personally
prosecuting all the eases. There were
rather sensational developments in
court to-day when one Of the twenty in
mates arrested FROM the houses Of i'll
fame stated that she had always paid
money TO officers to keep quiet, and she
implicated several prominent politicians
as being in the deal.
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Ohio Robber Punched.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 22.-Frank Van
Loon, young married man residing
near Westerville, Ohio, was arrested
to-day at Galena, Delaware county,
charged with the murder and bank rob
berry at Columbus Grove, Pntnam coun-
ty. some time since. The circumstances
pointing to his guilt could not be
learned.
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SIX MEN KILLED.
One ofthe Worst Threshing Acct
dents in the History OF the Da-


Viz I1lStOIl O1 thC VA
kotas.
MAYVILLE, n. D., Oct. 22.-One of
the most terrible threShing accidents
ever known in the Dakotas occurred
here yesterday afternoon on division
No. of the big Mayvile farm, owned
by the Grandin brothers. Four men
were killed outright and two others so
seriously hurt that they died within an
hour afterward. 1t is the Old story of
boiler explosion, due to the fact, 1t is
claimed, that the engineer had allowed
the water to run down too low. The
machine had been standing still about
two hours, while some repairs were be-
ing made, and the explosion followed
within two minutes after the engine
started and the pump began pouring
cold Water into the boiler Two of the
killed were blown nearly to pieces. The
names of the killed are:
N. n. ERsBERGER engineer.
HANS BAASTAD, fireman
A. L. MARSH, division foreman.
A. W. BLOWERS.
WILLIAM CLARK.
AN UNKNOWN.
William Peabody and Larry Nav were
seriously injured but will recover. Mr..
Marsh leaves young wife and two
Children, who reside at Fargo.
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A DUKE PARDONED.
The Gar Acts Leliently to His
Cousin.

Cousin.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct 22.-High per-
sonageS in Copenhagen have induced
the car to pardon his cousin, Grand
Duke Michael, for his marriage to the
Countess of Nuremberg, daughter of the
Duke of Nassau, and this fact will be
announced at the cars coming silver
wedding. The grand duke and the
countess were privately married at San
Reno in April last. The car
was greatly displeased at the
action OF the grand duke and caused
his name to be stricken from the list of
Russian army officers, and eliminated
from the army list the titles of the regi-
mentS named for the grand duke and of
which he was colonel. The Polish pa
pers affirm that after the wedding cele-
bration the ear will make a tour of the
famine-stricken districts of the empire
with the purpose of defeating the nfhll-
lSt intrigueS.
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Big Suit for Libel.

Special 10 the Go be.
DULUTH, Oct. 22.-The Duluth Daily
Tribune has another libel suit on its
bands Mrs. Louise Glassman. Of West
Duluth, las brought an action for $40,
coo against thai paper on account of an
item published aeycra! days ago. ac-
cusing that lady Of running away from
home ami carrying with her the furni-
story had 40 tOuadatioA in fact.
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Odd Fellows Hail Dedicated.

Special to the CLIQUE.
CARLTON, Mimi. Oct. % The odd
Fellows lodge of this place dedicated
its new hall last night. Grand Master
johnson, assisted by +. w. Hugo, of
Duluth, and the cantons of Duluth and
West Superior conducted the c,remOn-
les. \ special train was run for the Oc-
casion from Duluth to Carlton via the
Northern Pacific.