The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-26

cell I'M the .5a11 wsas1,s ne Remained until
n YVES marched to THE saaHfp1a To meet
his DOOM today
Taa sta1s WAS represented by Saaoes
Attorney 7 h McCauag, assisted 10y
Wesley It StRaTl, while Lorsswag was
defended by Attorney AL McMaana, as
sisted by Ja-nss Mc01ang- TING case
was "a hard fought ONE fgaaEaa beginning
TO end butt owning TO. tine evidence,
which had been Rroaaaced by the state
There YVES mo chance for L,opesmar 10
escape the fla1guaaanTS MOOSE
ON August G, 1902, at 9 81 III, Judge
w G. Rice sentenced taae doomed man
10 be hung by the neck Until. dead eaay
Friday September rs. 1862, between this
hours of 10 a. ma. and I p ra- After he
had been sentenced Sheriff Josar F.
Smith returned the prisoner to his cell,
where he had been closely guarded ever
since " !
Among the people who were groJaiG-
emily interested in this noted case was,
Sheriff john Il Smith, Deputy Sheriff,
Frank Smith, Coroner J. Il. NcS1ey'
and States Attorney McClCaE. They
kept on the traia OF the murdered until
he YVES landed behind the bars.
L~ovesmar's Two Confessions
The first story told by Lovesw7ar was
that me went TO the ranch of the mar
dere5 Eaaea the might before the murder.
That Puck and OS1SanGer had QUAR-
relied over a cow and that Os1ranaer
had knocked Pack On the head with.
an ax, and then after he fell shot hsua
in the ear; he sew Oseraa6er coming
oGs c. the aio&se, GIG thinking he :s-
tended to kill him too he shot him In
the face, as ne ciasne6, in self de-
fess- He then carried him into the
house.. unGresse6 both Men aad placed
them in bed. lie then sadSsea his horse
and started for Boies' ranch. taking With
him PUck's gun This he threw away
In the grass near = big tree about If
This was the confession hat he made
on June II to Dr.. McSioy, Sheriff
Smith and Deputy Frank Smith.
On June - the, same men had an
other interview With Loveswa-, and
after showing him the way OF his many
contradictory ~stor!ess he finally weak
ened and told this, his second confess
sion: We'll, I killed both OF those men
while they were asleep Now. do veu
believe that's" In following UP this
line he told how he had gone to the
Puck ranch the ev ming before and
George Puck 70 advance hin, see
on some horses which he had con-
tracsed to sell him tPuckl, but which
had not vet been delivered. Puck re-
fused to grant the request, and the con-
~versation ended in some words, In
which it was stated that he (PucA did
not want the horses, anyway.
Men Were Hospitable.
Then lac Went out, mounted his horse
and was about to ride away, ws,es Os-
tran0er came u and invited him to
remain at h cabin all night, saving
that you tLoveswar) should not pay
thu iASSf 1sf ~ 1t-anfs,, =.
you have just had with Puck" He dis
mounted, unsaddled the horse, and
picking up an AK that was sitting on
the outside. Of the cabin Went to picket
out his horse. After completing this
errand he returned to the cabin; sit
ting the an on the inside of the cabin
door. - \ short TIME later they all.
Went TO bed, he sleeping on q cot at
the foot of the bed of the wv men who
were his hosts. Along about midnight
he awoke and began to think OF the
quarrel he had had with Puck 8 short
time before. The longer he laid there
thinking of the trouble, the more desire
he had to avenge himself on the two
men. Noise!essly creeping from his bed
he reached over the sleeping men and
drew Puck's gun from the scabbard,
which hung over the bed, Taking his
own pistol in II hand and hat OF
tuchs iii the other, he placed them to
the heads of the sleeping men and fired
both at the same time. When the
muscles in the body of Puck contract
ing caused him to move he feared
that the shots from the pistols had not
proved fatal, SO he ven and procured
the AK, which was standing inside the
door of the cabin, Il crushed in the
skulls of the dead men When this
confession was made he drew a chart
showing the place where he had thrown
away the pistol of Puck's, and DR..
Mcsloy and Deputy Frank Smith went
and found the gun in the grass near
the point which Loveswar had indi-
Gated. The AK with which the crime
was committed was also found, Still
bearing spots Of blood of the two MUIR
dered men.