The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-18
DOUBLE CRINE IVEIGEIJ
WOMAN ACTS, AS JUDGE AND Exc
CUTIONER IN AN ALASKA
CAMP
COURT APPROVES HER ACT
UnprOvoked Deed of n Ruiflan Calls
for Summary Treatment-Mur-
derer Bound by COura-
geOus Female.

''You shall be hanged by the neck I'M
til you are dead, dead, dead"
A woman's lips read the sentence. A
womans hands placed the nose around
the prisoners throat. She was Judge
and executioner and her sentence of
death has been upheld blythe courts of
the United States and her hanging OF
Michael DENIM has been declared ju-
dicial execution, says the San Francisco
Examiner.
1t happened on Latuya bay, hundred
and more miles from Skaguay. Hans
Selson and his wife, with three miners
from Skaguay, had gone to Latuya bay
on prospecting trip, with provisions and
supplies They had q measure of sue
cess in their venture and a few thousand
dollars among them represented the re-
turns for their first months work
One morning they sat in their rude
cabin at breakfast. Michael DENIM,
one of the party, had not as yet come
from his tent. Mrs. Nelson mentioned
as he was usually promptness itself at
meals. A joke was passed on his ab-
sence and the laugh had not subsidized
when the cabin door was thrown open
and DENIM appeared, shotgun in hand.
He said no word, but raising the gun
to his shoulder fired point blank at one
of his miner comrades. The second bar
rel was then turned upon the other OF
his tent mates and a load of bucl1shot
perforated him. Within two SECONDS OF
time two men lay dead, literally shot to
Dieces with the heavy loads of large shot
discharged at so close range.
SHE ACTED QUICKLY.
Michael threw open the gun barrels and
reached into his pockets for two more
shells. Then Mrs. Nelson awoke to the
necessity of quick action and sprang like
y wild cat upon him. She twisted her
fin@ers into the cloth about his throat
and nv the impetus of her attack drove
him back against the wall.
Her husband slower of action, but
now aroused to justifiable rage, grappled
with the big Irishman and hammered
him into insensibility with the barrel
of his shotgun before Mrs. Nelson could
prevail mon him to desist Together
they bound the murderer mana ana Ioot
and rolled him into bunk They then
turned their attention to the two men ly-
ing on the floor, stone dead.
II was a greWsone days work that lay
before them and the frenzy ard excite
ment of that few minutes struggle had
left them weak and exhausted. But Mrs.
Nelson had not gone through the trials
a, long search 1OI 6O4Q " SlldI0 1II
ANYTHING tina might come. The task had
to be accomplished and she reused her
husband from the depression Of the hor-
rible scenes he had passed through to
the necessity aof the hour.
They went outside of the cabin into the
sunlight and clear air Of the day, and
with picks and shovels dug graves on
the beach. They were shallow, but were
the result of an hours hard labor. Here
they buried their two friends. Nelson
reading a. chapter from the Bible over
the newly made mounds.
With an energy born of intense excite
ment Mrs. Nelson set to work and
cleaned ND her cabin. The murderer
who had recovered consciousness and
was moaning in the bunk where he had
been thrown, was taken care Of and his
bruises washed and dressed. Hans would
not touch him, but watched with a deep
frown while his wife bound a towel
around his head. He still felt the anger