Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-28
MUROERERWEBER
RETAINS NERVE
WALKS RES0LUTELY TO HIS
m DEATH
Auburn Man Refuses to Receive
Pastors or Make Any Statement
The Fall Breaks His
Neck
nv Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
FOLSOM, Sept 27.-Adolph Weber
met death on the galows at 1929 p, m
today in expiation Of the crime of mur-
dering his mother. He went to the
scaffold with a firm step and to the
very last maintained the nerve which
has characterized him as one OF the
most remarkable criminals of the CEN
ttiry.
He was pronounced dead at 12:4O,
fourteen minutes after his body snot
through the trap.
When Attorney Mays message stat
ing that all hope for him was gone was
read to him Weber merely remarked'
"That settles It." He was the same
cool calm youth he had been through
out his confinement.
He did not refer to his case in any
way and his keepers carefully avoided
all reference to his execution until
moment before they adjusted the straps
which held his hands before him. Then
he was asked IL he desired to make any
statement from the scaffold.
mo-" said Weber, II have no state
ment to make, no writing to leave be-
hind, and have no statement to make
regarding the disposition of my body.
With this comprehensive declaration
Weber had uttered his last words.
Shortly after this, the straps being in
place, the march to the gallows began
Weber stepped from his cell in the
death chamber upon a balcony leading
to the gallows He was attended by
Chief Turnkey George Lamphrey and
j. r. Prigmore, lieutenant of the night
watch The trio walked with measured
hITt Ia OF cf light
his body erect and his head held high.
Weber Faces Crowd
Weber faced the crowd of spectators
in the death chamber without hinching.
His eyes rested for a moment upon
those below him, but there was no look
of recognition for any of the upturned
faces. After this hasty glance at the
crowd weber looked straight before
him.
Not muscle quivered, his frail 1.-THE
body was as straight as a sapling. and
with a cool, calculating eye he measured
the center of the trap and stepped
upon it. He was very pale and once or
twice he breathed deeply, as though
nerving himself for the crucial moment,
but there was no finching.
Lieut.. Prigmore stepped to the
youths side, and reaching the moose,
which hung over his head, placed it
about his neck. AS Prigmore drew the
moose closer around his neck Weber in
clined his head toward his executioner,
as If to facilitate the process. AS the
knot was dexterously adjusted Weber
made no sign, no movement. and stood
perfectly erect. looking straight before
him.
The black cap was then adjusted in a
twinkling and Lamphrey pulled the
lever which sprung the trap. Weber
shot down through space a distance of
eight feet, his neck being broken in
the fall.
The body brought up. with a sudden
jerk and hung quietly for moment.
DR.. c. F. Gladding, the prison physician,
and DR.. George B. Hesser of Folsom
then commenced counting the pulsa-
tions of the heart.
After the first moment with pulsa-
ton of 81 a slight tremor passed
through the body, followed by barely
perceptible convulsion. From this on
there was no percepaible movement of
the body.
The silence of the death chamber was
broken every moment as the physicians
tolled off the rising and falling pulsa-
tions of the heart. At 1910, fourteen
minutes after the trap was sprung. DR..