The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-06
MURDER[RS TO
SUFFER DEATH
THREE AMERICANS KILLED TWO
MEN IN MEXICO FOR iasUR.
ANcE MONEY.
TRIED SIMILAR SCHEME
On Detective Sent to Apprchend Them
After Return to United States
viii Be Shot at Early Hour
This Morning.

i III Paso, Texs Dec 5.--Uniess
President Diaz grants an eleventh.
hour respite the three American mn4'
Isierers, Mason. Harle and Richardson.
| will be shot to tieath at an early
ihour tomorrow morning In the Mesis
fcan nrison at Chihuahua The case
has been Ia the Mexican courts I'VE
Years and has attracted widespread
Iattention on both sides of the intes
national boundary line.
!! Murdered Two Men.
The three Americans were. convict.
led of numbering two men al Chihna-
lhua for life Insurance money. Rich
ardson being the insurance agent
Mason. his brother.inlaw the assist
iant agent. and Hafie The examining
physician. They murdered man
Inamed Devers. decoyed from El Pasc,
land another man, named Mitchell.
Isaid to be half.brother OF Mason.
1.-THE arrests took place In Hi Paso ana
lthe men were extradited from hersA
Harle was formerly an Ell Paso phyyi-
ician.
| Richardson, whose true name Iii
Hubert. was the ring leader In the
tIeonssffs!!sr:aseeyY H e was . Rochester Law
Iyer. who ran away to Mexico WITH
lseven indictments over his head iof
running d divorce mill Mason was
lanother Rochester lawyer who follow.
led him later With the help Of Dr.
Harie, they poisoned their two yies
Itlms with strychnine after having
lcoused them TO be insured In the New
York Life Insurance company. unon
ttheir death they collected $4,000 o,i
1.-THE policies.
crooksd. Mork nisecysrsd.
] xlIt ~ a =
fTiafie, moved to Texas. In the tall 81
f1902, while looking over some Mexi-
Jean policies, the solicitor-gensral Of
the insurance company noticed pe-
chliar coincidence in two Chihuahua
|clams The claims came through the
same agent. Richardson. and were
certified by the same doctor. Harle.
and In both cases DR.. Harle had beea
the examining physician The mea
had both died after short illnesses
One of them. Harry Mitchell. Insured
Tor $4,000, had died OH February II.
The other. James Deyers. who was ~
stirred for $4,000, died on February
22 Yet the Mitchell claim was pre-
scented in February and the Devers
claim not until July. In both eases
the insured had no other relatives
than the, beneficiary. In the FIRST case
the beneficiary was Hulbert's wife;
IN the second case II was William
who posed as Devers' half
brother.
Upon Investigation Il was shown
that The men had died and been bur
led as stated. Then the check for
the Deyers claim was returned 70 the
New York bank II was indorsed BY
G r. Richardson. otherwise Huber
The other had been previously paid to
Hulbert's wife. the murdered Harry
sister
Apprehended.
After the gang had removed TO Dali
as. Texas. detective named Gray.
was sent to that city aud fitted out
as a lumber merchant One day TIa'-
bert spoke to Gray's little girl. The
men met. became intimate. and Hal
bert broaehed scheme to cheat the
insurance company ont of $4,000. HI
said ne had had experience. Gray
proposed that they insure his broth-
rr.in.law as a beginning A broken
Town detective named Evans was i'm
ported by Gray as his brOther-in-law.
lie was dying OF consumption. Mason
posed rs Evans and two reputable
physicians examined him and pro-
aounced him as a good risk.
The whole crowd. including GRAY.
was arrested within a few weeks. A
had already over
heard Mason and Hubert schsming
% kin OF Gray. By accident in the
prison IA this city. Mason discovered
sray's true identity.
He az once vent into a sham eata-
eptic ft that lasted two months. Dur
ng that time he didn't move from
,is bed and deaed all the usual tests
+ the physicians At last. they mixei
rs daily mix with whiskey. He be
ame drunk, junped on his cot aRd
wore at verybody IN sight
Execution Sure.
Finally. Dr. Harle. who was stiil IN
'hihnahus was induced 70 come int0
ne United States and vas arrrsfess-
fe was put through the third degree
nd made a eonfession about his con.
cctiar with the two crimes. The pm
eedlngs against Mason and Richard.
on on the Dallas plot were dropped
hey we're extradited 10 MEXICO aaf
ned fer murder Since their convie-
Ion ther have carried thu case 70 tha
iehest courts OF Mexico and have ex-
(Cpneluded on third Pzsel