The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-09-18
TWAS HORRIBLE.
A Revolving Scene at the Bull
ing Execution.
ATTEAPT TO CHEAT THEGALL0ws
Tho Pr,.oner Shoot. u,m..,, rw,e. and
IL Carried bleeding and cursins to the
6sa6old-Arrost OF the Leaders in a al.
gantsc swindic-cr.minal News.

ST. JOSEPH, No., Sept. 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. Mo. Before
the execution Bulling attempted suicide
by shooting himself in tho left breast
with q revolver. Sheriff Barry had set
the hour for the execution at 10 o'clock
a. m. When no went to the cell at 6
O'Clock to prepare the doomed man for
the scatfold Bulling pleaded 60 pitifully
for an extension of a few hours that the
sheriff yielded and gave him cntil 10
O'Clock to live. When 10 o'clock AZ.
rived Bul!ing renewed his applications
to the sheriff, and failing on his knees
pleaded for m hour more. The sheriff
granted his request and removing the
guard from the cell door left the doomed
man alone with his spiritual adviser,
Rev. August Lavake. The silence Of
tue Jail was broken only by the voice Of
the priest, when suddenly two shots
rang out. The sheriff ran to
the cell and found the priest
PROSTATE on the floor, having
tainted. At his side lay Bulling,
weltering in hin own blood which
flowed from wounds in his breast. He
had shot himself twice with a revolver.
A hasty examination OF Bulling's body
tered the left breast and glancing from
a rib had passed around his body and
came out of his back. The other ehot
had only inflicted q slight flesh wound
on his left side. He had not lost CON
seriousness and when the sheriff ordered
four deputies to carry him to the scat.
fold he cursed and swore at them in q
horrible manner. The deputies dragged
the struggling man to the court yard
and lifted him upon tho gallows. He
refused to stand and they placed him
upon the chair. As he sat there he pre-
sented a revolving spectacle. His hands
and face We're covered with blood, which
also stained his shirt, and blood was
streaming through his shoes whence il
had run from the wounds in his breast.
He cursed aud wore at the deputies,
cried and screamed for mercy and
shrieked in terror. The sheriff gave
him a large glass Of brandy and he
swallowed it at mi 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 blasphsming he shot through the
opening at exactly 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 aud
is now confined in Jail. Bullings' cell
was thoroughly searched at night and
no weapon was found. The only persons
admitted to the cell since that time were
a newspaper man, the deputies and the
Rev. Lnvake.
MIR. Lavske waa finally interviewed
by a reporter regarding Billings at.
tempted suicide. He said he did not
give Bulling the revolver and had no
idea where it came from. He was on
his knees praying, he said, when Bulling
shot himself.