The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-05

His Execution When He Plead Pitt
r,,Iv for More Timc--Two Pistol
Shots Followed by Scene of Hor-
ror..rhO Story of His Awful Crime.
KANSAS CRY, KAs., Sept. 4.-The his
tory Of the gallows tells no more hide
on. story than that OF the execution OF
Louis Bulling, the st. Joseph wife mur-
derer. at Savannah, this afternoon.
Inst before the time for the execution
,bedOOmcd man shot himself in vain
effort to commit suicide and finally died
on the galIows, shrieking for mercy and
cur.ing his executioners. Up to few
days ago Bulling seemed cheerful and
hopeful in the face OF approaching
death. lie had twice nearly cheated
the gallows by Jail breaking. He
reasoned that that chance still
remained, and to it might be
added two others = Communication
Of sentence and suicide. Early last
week it was discovered that Bulling
had planned to break Jail again. Steel
.aws were found in his cell and they
werc taken away from him. Perpetual
guard was kept over him and all visitors
we're searched before being permitted
10 enter. Then the doomed man sent
Tor his father and mother and pleaded
with them to appeal to the Governor
for a commutation OF sentence. The
faithful parents went to Jefferson City
and had several personal inter views
with Governor Francis, but the Cover
nor was firm in his decision not to
interfere,
TENDER HEARTED SHERIFF.
Sheriff Berry had set the hour for the
execution at 10 o'clock this morning,
but whenho went to the cell at 6 o'clock
10 prepare the doomed man for the
scaiiold, Bulling pleaded so pitifully for
aa extension of a few hours that the
sheriff yielded and gave him until .
o'clock to live. He still had faint hopes
Oi a Communication, but ut noon sub
Mitted TO the baptlsmal ceremony and
received the sacrament. When 9 o'clock
arrived he renewed his supplications
10 the sheriff and pleaded for one hour
more. The sheriff granted his request.
The sheriff then retired, leaving the
murderer with the Rev. Lavake, at the
same time removing the guard from the
cell door, at Billings request to be
LETT alone with his spiritual adviser.
The silence OF the jail was broken
only by the voice OF the priest, when
suddenly two shots rang out. The
sheriff ran to the cell. The priest lay
prOstrate on the floor. At his side lay
Bnlling, weltering in his own blood,
which flowed from wounds in his breast.
lie had shot himself twice with re-
yolver. The priest had fainted.
A HORRIBLE SCENE.
A hasty examination OF Billings
body showed that one of the bullets
had entered the left breast, and glanc-
ingirOma rib had passed around his
body and come out OF his back. The
other bullet had inflicted only a slight
flesh wound in his left side. He had
not lost consciousness, and when the
sheriff ordered four deputies to carry
Inn to the scatTold, lie cursed and
sNore at them in O horrible manner.
TIE deputies dragged the strug-
lying man to the court yard and
,it'ed him upon the gallows.
lie refused to stand and
they placed him upon a chair. AS he
tlt there he presented a revolving spec
iacle, Hewas dressed only in shirt and
Trousers. His hands and face were
covered with blood, which also stained
MS shirt, and blood was streaming
iArongh his shoes, whence it had run
nom the wounds in his breast and
!orned dark pools on the floor Of the
ssGaIiolii, dripping thence to the ground
beneath. He cursed and swore at the
deputies, cried and screamed for mercy
and shrieked in terror.
DIED cURsiNG.
The sheriff gave him large glass Of
brandy and he swallowed it at one gulp.
Finally he was told to get up and stand
upon the drop. He refused, and four
equities held him up while the rope
was being adjusted. The black cap was
paced over his head, and yelling,
,TItC4mlne and blaspheming he shot
through the opening at exactly 5:2l
gGEgock;; His neck was broken by the
tAil y, and he died almost instantly.
Ihe Rev. Lavake has been arrested
,of % giving Bulling the revolver with
SSule!! he attempted to commit suicide.
''''' LaVake declines to be interviewed.
HIS CRIME.
Louis Bulling, who was hanged at
savannah, Mo, today, paid the penalty
= q i5e law ior one Of the most atroclous
,s's Seeds Ill the annals Of crime that OF
:, hulI!ng was married to the victim Of
t.s ,, crime about four years before the
M.agedy' At that time she was only a
aS aSue over fifteen years old. Taking
is iaav?;ntagc Of her age and inexperience
~ naeed her into room, where he
;Si,nl ;Tnel her, and compulsory marriage
.sS.'oWed, He was cruel to her from the
~ afst neGlecting her and utterly falling
70 pFovidetor her and spent what money
az earned for drink. She did all in her
IoTer lowe to win him from his evil WAYS,
Sa Sau endured his brutality for several
ears, until she was finally compelled 70
i iiyaye him. Obtaining work at the Her.
~ SvsS n House, the husband made several
t-eIeetgal attempts to win her back.
sseing that he could not induce her 10
"'4'n live with him he planned her