The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-28
BIC CROWDS SIT
TRIPLE HANGING
FIFTY BOYS ON ROOF CHEER AS
RAYMOND, RYAN AND VAUGHN
GO TO DEATH.
WOMEN VIEW SCENE.
From Nearby Windows While Camera
Snapped the Picture as Traps
Were Sprung--Doomed Men
Penitent.

Jefferson City, June 27.--Harry II.
| Vaughn Edward Raymond and
George Ryan, state convicts, were
hung in the yard of the Cole county
Jail at 9:35 o'clock this morning for
killing two guards. No "a, 1905. Ray
mond was strangled to death after his
fall of six feet through the trapdoor
Of the scaffold. Vaughn's neck was
instantly broken,
Each OF the conyicts marched to the
scaffold firmly and went to his doom
without a word.
Raymond was chewing toothpick,
and his cold. gray eyes remained open
JntiI the black bag hid his face
AS the moose was being adjusted
around his neck by Sheriff G. d. Glib
son of Howard county, he ierked his
head to the left as though to indicate
that the rope should be shifted under
his ear.
Vaughn lived longer with broken
neck than his companions. DR., J. +
Lopp said the heart stopped beating
in lG minutes after DR.. @. T., Amos
pronounced Ryan dead In l2 minutes
Raymond's conyulsiye death struggle
ceased one minute before pals had
lnished the penalty.
Two hundred residents OF the capi.
tai city were massed in front OF the
gibbet The house.ops and the win
lows of adjoining buildings weresoverf
lowing with men and women.
Fifty boys on a neighboring roof
commanding a view of the gallows
,heered the forms of Rev. Fathers
1eisert and Sellinger mounted the
platform OF death at the head Of the
inister procession.
On school hill a quarter Of mile
iistant, women anil el,ildren's gar
nents futtered iii the breeze.
One photc grapher thrust his camera
lense through hole In the fence
focusing the three dangling nooses.
Standing on the trap door, Vaughn
was in the center. with Ryan to his
right, Raymond to the left, where
longer rope hung tha was calculated
for a drop of eight feet.
Adjust the Nooses.
During the preparation for the exc,
cution Raymond's toothpick bobbed
about between bis lips and a wan
smile fickered about the corners of
the mouth. The eyes of Ryan and
Vaughn remained closed and the
Of their pale jaws quivered.
Ten seconds after the black hoods
had shut out the world Sheriff Roth.
well gave rapid glance at the men
from the tops of the hoods to their
patent leather shoes, and, stepping
backward touched the elbow of Sher-
in Scott, whose hand was on the lever
Men Are Hanged.
A quick backward movement of the
;heriff's arm released the bolt uphold :
ng the swinging doors. They fell
downward with dull wooden SOUND.
The three bodies shot straight to the
End Ct the hempen rope and hung
notionless for 20 seconds, with three
pairs of fee. not IL inches from the
bare ground under the platform
The crimes we're avenged by the |
aw In less than Is minutes and the !
slayers paid their debt to the guards
who were killed at the time, when
Vaughn. traih robber. also concern.
ID In the staying of three detectives
n Pine street st. Louis, shooting, |
md Raymond and Ryan. highwaymen,
blew up the gates of the penitentiary
n a desperate dash for liberty.
Ryan left the story of his life in
900 words as warning to others.