The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-28
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He Mardsred uis wife for Dtsssutinu-
ing sfIs whisky Msney.
Fsrsmo, Cal. 0ef. z5.--isr. y. o. Vincent.
the wife murderer, vas hanged ~ noon.
He passed q sleepisss night. bat ate
hearty breakfast and maintained his usual
courage. The trap Was sprung at II
e'cicck and yincent's neck was broken.
Everything went OF quietly.
fDr. n. o. Vincent shot and killed his
wife on the afternoon Of December s. 1880.
The circumstances Of the shooting were
such tisst the murderer % the time barely
escaped being iynched, Mrs. Vincent vas
formerly Miss Annie Laura Pooie. She
lived with her parents nc Red Bluh. ge-
hsma county, till she married Vincent in
ISL. After the marriage Vincent coHtiFs-
ued that course OF dissipation which had
made bis wife's people oppose her marry
Ing him. The couple removed 20 Fresno
In lsss, and Mrs. Vincent vas forced 20
support the family, and even clothe her
husband, by sewing. This lasted for i've
years. Then Vincent began 10 add abuse
% his neglect and his wife sued for divorce.
Vincent pleaded with her 10 take him
back, but she steadfasily refused When
he found he could not move her he went
20 her house. and. after asking her for the
last tins IL she would not dismiss her suit
for divorce, shot her four times. lie was
hurried 90 Jail and posse Of forty armed
men we're placed on guard TO avoid mob
violencs. lie was tried In the superior
court Of Fresno. found guilty of murder In
the fifst degree and sentenced to be banged
on May -. 1901, in Fresno county. In the
meantime the law had passed the legisia-
ture that capital punishment should ba In
ficted only wilhin the walls of the state
prisoa. This Law went into effect on May
%. 1891. inst one day after Vincent was 10
be hanged. His attorney appealed from the
superior court Of Fresno 10 the supreme
court .. Caiifornia upon legal exsep-
court ans. was as s sssirmsa. Then ' 0n r..
bearing vas applied for, which was
denied. and Q remittitur was issued
by the supreme court directing the Fresno
court 20 execute the Judgment When
Vincent was called TO the bar on Scpteu-
Der 20. 1901, and asked why judgment
should not be pronounced against him
VIneent's attorney moved for eontinu-
Hnce Of the passing of the sentence on the
ground that he bad applied TO the United
States supreme court for writ Of error.
This motion was denied and DR.. Vincent
was sentenced 70 be hanged on November
III. fs92. The attorney then appealed TO
the state supreme court from the iudg-
ment OF the superior court Of Fresno
fixing the date OF execution while q
United States supreme court The scat
fold was brought from Los Angeles to
Fresno on which 20 hang Vincent. But
u was taken back again, for on Novem-
Der 10 the governor reprieved him
ell December L. in order that the writ OF
error might he obtained from the SUI
prefne court. On December 8 hisexecntion
was again postponed till January q, 1888.
On January II. is9s. Justice Field issued q
writ Of error, which acted ~ stay of exc
culion till the United States supreme
court should pass on the case. Vincent s
appeal was dismissed on May rs, the
United States court deciding that the mat
ter was not one of Federal jurisdiction.
pr. Vincent murdered his wife because
she would no longer give him money with
which to buy whisky. IL il believed that
shortly before the execution he wrote a
new version OF the tragedy, In which he
accused his wife of being unfaithful to
him and charged q prominent citizen OF
Fresno. who had befriended Mrs. Vincent,
with being the father OF her little girl,
who IL now living. So the last wish OF the
drunksrd WAS that his curse should follow
his daughter throughout her iige.l