Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-09
I'd FROM DEATH
,or GJILTY OF THE MURDER
OF ROBERT ROSS.
hight Hours Before He
nave Met Death TN the
80. chair John McGoush' a
convict, Confessss That
.m,ttcd the Murder o
shea Was to Die.

Republk,1 Tar. THE climax Of
major .ho most dramatic and sensa-
.ntion anal .n,minal incidents of the states
who W. nos made public to-day when.
unbrokan ,orrs urior to the execution OF
~ sentence upon Bartholomew
amends anotber man confessed TO the
mt The and Shea steps from beneath
aeueei ,,ov Of the death thrown by the
Ill ~e "ohair The invitations for the
p ~ billing of Shea had been Is
Il he o,So .La STATE electrician was already
,7S Gov LIN W. Ground at Dannemora prison,
: ana irornnr had decided, as eXclu-
fe,nJ stated in these dispatches on
surias W ,ov not to interfere in the car
| StotoS ~ of the sentence, n Shea
II nrorts usioped himself TO his fate, When
ner Coz ~ prisoner in the institution, n
atioDS ~ do Of Shea's and participation in
n omorr' ros,;on outrages, when h TRACE
meet 49, "nrred, confessed to the crime.
nan who voluntarily confesses
crime and who practically steps
. nrison chair to the menacing
The con ~ the electrical death, is John
| into tia Innb Of Troy, now serving a SEN
The cbl ~ 10 years and 6 months for
Il Of the mo and attempting to Kill VIII
he adoDti fpnss n brother Of Robert Ross.
ne comma Fc,s~ srrnosed to be Shea's victim.
'pUblican mo vav known only 10 conTscts.
Ongh had contrived to keep i'll
option of al as TO the success or the failure
clined to p applications for combination
ne a plu, IN hrbalf Of Shea. When Shea
s enabla sentenced TO die the Odd of De
vote of IT, r. IL believed that McGOUgh
II the ready tC cOUfesS. but when he
lui2atiop 81 That a rcspit had been granted
ed the ItbbeId bis confession. After the
e purpod arc he learned that the efforts 10
i. The a Communication for Shea had
ip Of Sen leased. and so he made no sign.
By Ser asgtury}ay. when Wardcn Thayer
that N made aware that the governor
by an rot interfere. and arrangements
s and I'd being made for the execution.
he Silenl ough cent for the warden OF the
sible The nWaiter y. Thayer, and told him
lcquipso tshad to make 4 statement.
epublic9 Makes n Confession.
ID them warden had McGough taken To
n. The Eofiee. and told him to put down
n (Nehl he had TO say In writing. Nc
ed that h wrote q communication OF
for b two pages. and. signing it with
l.. under bull name. handed II TO the ward
hell. and i To the surprise of the warden and
Allison deputies, the paper contained a ue-
statement that he, and not Shea.
IL most shot and killed Robert Ross. The
us had a Htrent contained no details Of the
stions aa bling other than the bold confeS-
Is. and Of the fact.
left by arden Thayer went at once to the
on to wa phone, when McGough had been
Democd IN TO his cell, and called up the eX-
e Repul i've chamber. He asked the gov
against y to please receive a messenger
g~islatiol IN he said would arrive, and then
ion Hd nee despatched the prison stenog-
rom Ma per, Edward NJ. Coughlin. to AL
rilliant !, who arrived here this morning,
,rapher. found Gov. Morton al the man
louroe The governor, upon learning the
pre- OF the communication, sent at
for the pardon clerk and Shea's
psel, Galen r. Hit. After a brief
!" zen ference, the governor decided to
~ Nha a respite Of four weeks, during
ie IcsW en- time counsel could take the
- 2n v per means to bring the matter be-
uon the courts for q new trial. Mr..
. VIII go before the supreme court
borrow morning and ask for q trial
non.oa Shea and the production in court
cohlhm icGough.