The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-21
Tag Ends Of News

Peter Goode, alias Charles Shaffer.
Is under sentence to be hanged tomor-
row at Luray. Page county, Va, for
the brutal murder of Miss Fannie
Stroop
The trial of Ruth jackson of Seattle.
WASH. charged with the murder of her
husband, which was set for this week,
has been postponed until April 10 to
allow the attorneys for the defense to
make further preparations. Mrs. Jack
son is alleged to have caused the death
of her husband by sticking hatpin
through hin brain.
Money has been secured by popular
subscription in New York to carry the
appeal OF Chester Gillette, convicted
murderer of Grace Brown, before the
state court Of appeals and it will he
argued at the fall term. A stay of exc
cution has been secured by attorneys
for Gillette. and pending final action in
his case he will remain in the death
house at the Auburn, N. Y, prison,
Possibilities Of further litigation In
connection with the de Castellane d.
vcrce suit have cropped up, owing to
the refusal of George Gould to pay a
bill OF $4,000 for the legal services
OF Edmond Kelly. attorney for the
countess in the suit against Count Boz
nj. Gould. who is the trustee of the
estate of Nine. Anna, declares the sum
demanded Is excessive and unreasona-
BILE. Attorney Kelly is former New
Yorker, now a resident of Paris.
The celebrated case of Mrs. Angie
Birdsong will probably come up on
appeal before the Mississippi supreme
court this week or next. Numerous
technical errors are set forth by the
defense and the arguments will prob
ably consume about three days. Unit
ed States Senator A. j. McLaurin, I'M
Gle of the defendant, will represent her
in the hearing Mrs. Birdsong, who
killed DR.. Thomas Butler as the re-
suit of alleged slanderous statements
he had made regarding her, was con-
victed OF manslaughter by jury at
Hazelhurs;, Miss.
A plea of self-defense and emotional
insanity resulted in the acQuittal of
Mrs. Joseph Mahaney, the Venus, Tex,
woman charged with staying her hus-
band. a former Baptist clergyman. Ma
haney was shot on the street at Venus
on March u. Mrs. Mahaney immedi-
ately gave herself up, admitting the
crime and declaring that she shot the
father of her three children because
she believed that he intendd to kill
her. Many prominent citizens of the
town signed bond for Mrs. Maha-
ney's release, and after hard legal
battle the woman was acquitted
John Siemesen and Louis Labner,
known as the "gas pipe murderers,"
will be hanged at San Quentin, Cal, to-
morrow. They were convicted of kill
ing NJ. Munakala, Japanese banker
of San Francisco, and sentenced to die
on the gallows, the California supreme
court sustaining the verdict. At the
same time and place Louis Sveder,
who killed his brother-in-law, Louis
Bliaz, and Joseph Field, who murdered
his father-in-law, Fritz Dirking, will
be hanged. Field was convicted over
two years ago and his attorneys have
made hard fight to save his life.
The trial of Benjamin G. Wright, al
legged poisoner of his wife and child,
has been set for early next month
at Denver, Colo, where the alleged
crime was committed. 1t is probable,
however, that the case will be dropped,
as the prosecution has been unable so
far to gather sufficient evidence to Sc
cure conviction. Shortly after his
arrest Wright made a confession, but
now declares that it was secured by
intimidation and the use of physical
force by the police. The theory of the
defense is that the death of Mrs. Wright
and her child was due to carbon diox-
ide from gas stove, which had been
burning all night when the bodies were
found.
Rosario Emilio, an italian, convict
ed of the murder of CarrilliO de Mira
bal, a young Mexican girl, is under
sentence to be hanged tomorrow at
Lincoln, N. M. The condemned man is
rs years of age, of good family and
we'll educated. The crime for which
he is to die was committed on April
3, 1905. He had been engaged to the
girl, but she Tilted him for another
man. Emilio met her on lonely road
alone, and, slipping up behind her,
shot her to death. He was convicted
on May 8, 1905, just one month after
the murder, and sentenced to be
hanged. An appeal was made to the
New Mexican supreme court, the de-
tense attempting to prove that the girl
had committed suicide, but the verdict
OF the lower court was sustained.
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