The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-09-10

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Bulhng, the vito murderer. swaa ex4-
cuted 81 Savannah, the county sent %
Andrew county, No, q 1871 o'clock
Friday afternoon under most horrible
circumstances she story 81 the gal-
lows tails no moro hideous story.
Tho murderer made desperate EFFORT
to commit suicide Just prior 70 the
hanging and then died, yelling aid
sbrieking for mercy. The execution
had been twic3 postponed during the
day On Bulling's account; the last time
when the Stretched man fell In . fit
on being told 70 prepare for his doom
Shortly before 20 o'clock ReH Mr..
Lavake, Billings spiritual adviser,
who had teen with him alntTsst
continuously since Thursday night,
again entered the condemned mans cell
They were left alone. Five min.
utes afterward two shots were heard
Sheriff Berry and his Deputies rushed
into the Hcell. They found Rev. Mr..
Lavake lying prostrate upon the floor
In . dead faint. Beside him in his own
blood lay BullinR, who had shot
himself twice. One ball had en-
tered the left breast just below tho
nipple and struck rib and ran
partly around the body. The other
had inflicted q wonnd in the left side.
Four deputies dragged the wretch out
Of the cell. He refused to walk and
<kar 40 ia h;,,, * a. .a.A.1l n
would not stand and was placed on a
chair. Then the uxoricide proved HIM
self the craven-hearted coward.
He begged, !: cried, screamed
and blssphelned. !. He pleaded for
time, for mercy and for any
thing-everything but death. Fl
nally he was told to get up and stand
upon the drop. He refused and four
deputies held him up while the rope
was adjusted. Yelling and screaming
he shot through the opening at exactly
1921 o'clock, His neck was broken and
he died almost instantaneously. Ten
minutes after the shooting of Bulling
Rev. Mr.. Lavake was arrested, charged
with giving the pistol to the condemned
man.
The scene on the scaffold previous to
the fall of the drop was piteous in the
extreme. A squad of soldiers from
Fort Leavenworth surrounded the Jail
all day and accompanied the doomed
man to the place of execution.
take them away" he cried, incohe-
rently; ''they will kill me!''
AS the rope was adjusted he asked
for a drink. When given one he said:
That's my last" and then he began
to scream. When the, rope was ad-
justed about his neck he pleaded:
"Please! please don't! Wait, wait!
Give me little more time, just a mo-
ment more of life; it is SO sweet"
= lie kissed the sheriff, but no black
cap was adjusted and Bulling died gap
ing at the horror-stricken crowd
[Bulling deserted his wife In the summer Of
1889 and took up with another woman The
abandoned wife sought employment at tho
Herbert house in Savannah. For some
cause, which has never been explained,
Bulling gained access to her room one
night in January, 1883, and with an az almost
severed her head from her body and
Otherwise mutilated the remains in q horrible
manner. For this crime he was tried and sen.
fenced to be hanged ON March 8 last. The day
before the execution he was respited TO April
II, AMI on the night OF the 10th Of that month no
ESCAPED by cutting his way out of the Savannah
jail. A large reward was offered for his cap.
tire. The Pinkerton agency put men on his
trail, but their search was unsuccessful l!is
arrest was finally effected by the Chicago po-
lice after desperate running fire with tho
murderer and the woundine of him I'm the arm
At the time. however, the police did not know
the man they had in custody. Bull.
ling had been in Chicago for some time
under the alias of Louis May, sometimes
going by the name Of Dilltnger. His identity
was discovered the day after his capture
and he Was once more plac I'd in his cd quar-.
tiers in the Savannah (Mo.) jail On July
8, the night after his arrival at Savan.
nah. he attempted suicide by taking q d SO
OF morphine, which he had by some means
managed to conceal about his person. The
attempt was unsuccessful however, and
on August he was again sentenced to he
hanged. making the third time he had heard
the death sentence pronounced upon bin. Last
week it Was discovered that Bulling Was plan.
ming to, again break jail and cheat the gallows,
but his designs were frustrated by the sheriff