Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-09-20
LOVESWAR PAYS PENALTY
Hanged at Sturgis for the UnprOvskSd
Murder Of Two Men.
LAUGHS WHEN ROPE is BEING ADJUSTED
Says CT Am Satisfied and Hope You
Fellows VIII Die Like I Do
Brother of One Victim
Sees Execution.

sTURGIs, s. D.. Sept. 1s.-(special Tele-
gram ERNEST Loveswar paid the penalty
today on the scaffold, for the brutal murder
Of two men while they slept. and while
he was enjoying the hospitality Of their
home. There we're no unusual scenes at
tending the execution.
The condemned man did not retire last
night until IL o'clock. He then slept until
o'clock, but becoming restless talked with
the watch for awhile. He then dropped to
sleep again and did not awaken until $40
o'clock.
He ate a hearty breakfast and during
the meal said that 'he did have it in"
for the sheriff and coroner but that he had
nothing against them now.
The death warrant was read by the sheriff
to Ernest LOveswar for murder at o'clock.
while he was smoking and rolling a cigar
between his fingers. The last rites by the
minister. Rev. Wylie. began at 12 S5 o'clock,
lasting forty minutes, and he was taken to
the gallows at LAS p. m.
When asked by the sheriff II he had any
thing to say he said: II am satisfied and
hope you fellows will die like l do
mean to be brave" He went to the gal
lows alone, without any assistance, and
made no resistance. whatever at any time.
He laughed when being strapped and
laughed when the rope was put around his
neck He shook hands with the officers
before the cap was put on.
The trap was sprung at 1851, and he was
pronounced dead at 2:10.
He ate dinner at 1880 consisting OF
fried chicken. lemon pie, cake, mashed po-
tatoes and gravy, and baked squash. He
remarked that the chicken was very good.
The body was prepared and taken out this
af 20 Null f,4a
ment. in accordance with. request made
by him.
Among the witnesses OF the hanging was
A. F. Puck of Sioux City, brother of one
Of the murdered men.
Makes written Confession.
Ernest Loveswar made a written con-
fession which is now in the hands of the
! sturgis Record, acknowledging his guilt as
| follows:
sTURGIs, s. d, Sept. II, 1907 am
| the 10th of June 1902. l will tell you Just
the truth of it. Well, had a quarrel with
\ ard findly | got into it. And l will tell
what 1 had a quarrel with him over, 1t
was about a girl, and never can tell you
out by yourself. Ostrander was trying TO
/ take the girl away from me and he, fnd-
I
told him that l don't want to fight over
a girl and he says that he will kill me
| II l don't be CAREFUL.
Than said I'll fight with gun or a
knife any wpy he wants ana Puck told
me me to not to do anything with him; so at
that time we didn't do anything. l try TO
| get Ostrander olt alone, so 1 can do some
! business with him, but l couldn't do 1t.
| l had my mind made up that he either
| kill me or l kill him. What hurts me so
| bad is amt got anything against Puck.
! When l have shot both of them l light
| a mache and see them and l begin to feel
! bad, but / couldn't help, II was to late.
| did not mean to hurt Puck. He is the
| one told me to stay all night, and so |
| did. / will say right now that / didn't
| had thing against Puck. but OstrandeT
| is the man that | mean to kill. I've shot
! Ostrander with my gun and Puck with
! his gun, but l don't know If Puck's gun is
! loaded or not but l know my gun was
! loaded, and / used that on Ostrander and
| | always wish that Puck's gun wasn't
! loaded. And another thing, they wasn't
| nobody there at that time but Ostrander,
| Puck and myself l never took no drafs
| either. / don't know nothing about them.
| didn't have time to look around and
| never open that trunk. didn't take any
| thing out of there but the gun and moth
! ing else, and | never hit Puck with the
ak either, but l hit Ostrander with the ak
| Now l guess you people will know il all.
feel just as bad some of you people
do. Now that is all; | answer not and
return no more. ERNEST LOVESWAR.