Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-06-30
HIS BUSY DAY.
The Hangman Has Plenty to Do
in Many Places.
TRIES NEW PLAN AT CANON CITY, COL.
Three Men Executed by an Automatic
Device-Brutal Negro Pays the Penalty
at the National Capital Several
Other Executions.

Canyon City, Col, June ga triple
execution occurred in the state peni-
Tertiary Friday night shortly after
eight o'clock, when William Holt, aged
s2' Albert Noble, aged So, and Deonocio
Romero, aged 80, were led from their
cells in the execution house to the
death chamber and were separately
hanged by the automatic device which
has proven SO successful in the past ex-
ccutions According to the law, no one
but the warden, the prison surgeon and
few authorized witnesses are permit
ted to be present at such times. Each
man i'll turn was ushered into the death
chamber and seated upon chair placed
upon the trap. After the cap and moose
are adjusted the automatic device is
set in motion and in due time the trap
Is sprung.
tThe crime for which these men were
executed was the murder Of nightwatch-
man in Trinidad. named Solomon which
occurred one night in November, 1895, while
the trio were In the act of robbing
gambling saloon. Before the trio had COM
pleted their job, Solomon appeared and
sought to arrest them. They were we'll
armed, and without moments hesitation
shot the officer down and escaped They
were afterwards captured by sheriff
posse. tried. convicted and sentenced.
Young Holt, who was led by his compan.
Ions into this sche!n.. had sought for some
leniency, but the board of pardons, after
reviewing the case, refused the petition.
The plot to rob the gambling house was
originated by Mrs. Martinez. who wanted
money with which to defend her son Le-
andre, who was then under arrest for
the murder Of one Charles Allen. Leandro
Martinez Is now serving life term in the
pen" for the crime. The woman was never
tried for completely in solomons muir.
der.]
Swift Justice to a Brutal Negro.
Washington, June ~. = Irwin Ford
(colored) was hanged in the district
Jail Friday forenoon for the murder of
Elsie kreglo, 16-year-old white girl.
His execution marked the elimination
of the quickest case on record where the
death penalty was legally inflicted for
capital crime in the District of Co
lulnbia. The murder was committed
on May 4, Ford was arrested May :, was
indicted May II, tried and convicted
May IS and sentenced on the 27th. The
crime for which he suffered the extreme
penalty was most brutal. 1t was COM
mitted in the suburbs of Washington,
near the National geological park. Ac-
cording to the confession which he
made, Ford attempted to outrage the
girl, became incensed at her resistance
and stabbed her to death with small
pocketltnife
Mannow Sentenced to Hang.
Chicago, June 27.-Julius Mannow
was sentenced to hang October 16 by
Judge Horton Friday morning. Mannow
was an accomplish of Joseph Windrath
in the murder of Carey B. Birch cashier
of the West Chicago Street Railway
company, June 25, 1906. Birch was
alone at midnight of that day in the
Armitage avenue barns when the two
men shot him to death and robbed the
safe of $500. Windruth was hanged
three weeks ago.
Hanging In Maryland.
Elllton, Md, June ~. = James II.
Truss was hanged in the Jail yard here
Friday for the murder, on January 2,
of Thomas Camp, of Goshen, N. j., cap
tain Of the schooner Manaway, of Cam
den, N. j. The motive for the crime
was robbery. Truss was one of dis
charged crew.
Colored Man Hanged In Arkansas.
st. Louis, June 27.-A special to the
Scripps-McRae league from Mari
ana. Ark, says that Arthur Taylor
(colored) was hanged there at ii
o'clock Friday morning for the muir
der of his wife last October.
Trio Executed in Colorado.
Canon City, COL, June 27.-Thomas
Colt, Ebert Noble and Dominica
Romero, who murdered Policeman
Solomon in Trinidad, were hanged Fri
day i'll the state penitentiary.
Wife Murderer Hanged in Oregon.
Marshfield, Ore. June 27.-Carl Au-
brecht, who murdered his wife because
of her failure to support him, was
hanged here Friday morning.
SKULL OF A FOSSIL BEAVER.
Remarkable Find Near South Bend, Ind.
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