The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25
YOUNG WILL HANG TO-DAY,
THE MURDERER OF PETER LATES-
TIRE TO SUFFER THE DEATH
PENALTY.
HE Is COMPOSED AND HAS Pro
FEssED RELIGION - HISTORY
OF THE CRIME.

William Young will suffer the extreme
penalty of the law in the prison death
chamber this afternoon at O'Clock,
Final arrangements for the execution have
been completed and the double gallows
from which the Hesper murderers were
dropped last week will be used without
alteration.
Young will stand on the trap occupied
by st. Clair just seven days ago. The MUIR
derer is a German, % years old. He is
short and stout and has regular features
and soft brown hair and mustache, and
but for his eyes would present an attrac-
tive appearance. His visual organs, how
ever, though of baby blue tint, are small
and shitty.
Young is the only doomed man now
confined in the cages, and as this is the
first time since the prison became the
official place OF execution that upon the
eve of hanging only one man has occu-
pied the condemned cells his waiting for
death is particularly lonely. The death
watch sits beyond the wooden bars playing
seven-up or yawning over books, but they
are performing only uninteresting DUTY
and in the absence of the company which
misery Graves Young falls back upon HIM
self alone for company.
Since being placed in the condemned
cell last Tuesday Young has done little
but sway back and forth in his squeaky
rocking chair or pace the floor of his cage.
! He does this, however, only for the sake of
doing something, for he has not vet shown
| the slightest trace of nervousness or fear.
and he will probably go the gallows with
unfailing composure. He speaks, how
! ever, freely and unreseryedly of his crime
/ yoh lanyhS cjliU q rrac Sp1 oioulaS or
| the appearance of visitors peering at him
| through the bars.
Il Killed him all right enough" he said
| this afternoon. But | never meant to
| kill him. l would not shopt anybody for
all the money in the world. The gun went
off accidentally and he fell. Then / got
afraid and thought 1 had better take his
money and go away. But they caught me
and | must die. But l don't care. | feel
all right. 1t was an accident but l could
not speak to explain it just right and /
told them to hang me. I'm glad it will be
| over tomorrow" Young has been receiv-
| ing spiritual consolation from Prison
| Chaplain brahms and from members of
| the Salvation Army.
Staff Captain NJ cIntyre of San Francisco
was over to see him to-day and Young pro-
| fessed conversion. He believes his sins
| have all been forgiven.
The condemned man was born in Berlin
in 1872, the youngest of six children. His
mother, brothers and sisters still live in
| the old country and are, so far as he
knows, unaware of his impending fate.
He says, however, that they may have
learned it, as Young is his true name. The
crime for which Young will hang was the
murder of his employer, Peter Latestre,
near San Ardo, Monterey County, in the
spring of last year. The motive of the
crime was robbery and the killing was
done in cold blood. Latestre had received
S75 few days before the murder. Young
determined to secure it and asked his en-
ployer to accompany him to town to meet
a mythical sister, who he said was coming
from San Francisco. While the old man
was htching up the horses Young poured
the contents of both barrels of shotgun
into his breast. He then took the money
and fled, but was captured three days later
at Kings CITY,