The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-09-10
a MISSOURI MAN HUNG AFTER SHOOT.
ING HIMSELF TWICE.
The Spiritual Adviser Of the Man Furnishes
the Pistol With Which Suicide was
Attempted-The Scene On the Scat.
fold One of sickening Horror

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 4.-The
history of the gallows tells no more
atrocious story than that of the execu-
ton of Louis Bulling, the st. Joseph
wife murder, at Savannah, this after
noon. Just before the time fixed for
the execution the doomed man shot
himself in vain effort to commit
suicide and finally died on the gal
lows, shrieking for mercy and cursing
his eXecutioners. Up to few DAYS
ago Bulling seemed cheerful and hope
full in the face oFapproaching death. He
had twice before cheated the gallows
by Jail breaking. He reasoned that
that chance still remained, and to it
might be added two other commuta-
tions and suicide, if these chances
faded away. His faithful parents
went to Jefferson City and had sew
eral strong personal interviews with
Gov. Francis, but he was firm in his
decision not to interfere with Bull
ing's second chance for life. He broke
down completely when he received
from his parents the message that the
governor was obdurate, tainted and
was with difficulty revived. He was
a confirmed opium eater, and during
the last night was given large dose
of the drug, but it failed to have the
accustomed effect.
Sheriff Barry had set the hour for
execution at 10 o'clock this morning.
When he went to the cell to prepare
the doomed man rthe scaffold, Bull |
ing prayed so pitifully for an extern
sion that he gave him until 2 o'clock |
to live. When 2 o'clock arrived he |
renewed his supplications to the
sheriff and pleaded for one hour more. |
He fell on his knees before the sheriff |
and begged piteously for mercy. The
sheriff granted his request. Bulling |
then asked for brandy and the sheriff
gave him pint. Injections ofmo1phine
were administered but the drugs had |
little effect. The sheriff then retired. |
leaving the murderer with Rev. Ian
oke, 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 where the priest lay PROSTATE ON
the floor. At his side lay Bulling,
weltering in his own blood, which
flowed from wounds in his breast.
He had shot himself twice with a re-
vOlver. The priest had tainted. A
hasty examination of Bulling's body
showed 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 bullet had inflicted only
slight flesh wound in his left side. He
lad not lost consciousness and when
he sheriff ordered guards to carry
lim to the scatfold he cursed and
iwore at them horribly.
The deputies dragged the struggling
nan to the court yard, and lifted him
Up on the gallOws. He refused to
stand and they placed him upon
chair. AS he sat there he presented a
most revolving spectacle. He was
dressed only in his shirt and trousers.
lis hands and face were covered with
)lOod which also stained his shirt and
,lood was streaming through his
hoes where it had run from the
wounds IN ms breast ana formed
lark pools on the floor of ,,
he scaffold, dripping thence
o the ground beneath. He cursed !
nd swore at the deputies and scream :
d for mercy and shrieked in his ter
or. The sheriff gave him a large !
lass Of brandy and he swallowed it !
t one gulp. Finally he was told to get
p and stand upon the drop. He re- ,,
used and four deputies held him up
While the moose was being adjusted
nd the black cap was placed over his !
cad, and yelling, screaming and I
laspheming he shot down through i,
he opening at exactly 3:21 o'clock. !
lis neck was broken by the fall and !
e died almost instantly. q,
Rev. LanolIe has been arrested for
living Bulling the revolver, with .,
1hich he attempted suicide. J