Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-08-07
HOW SIEMSEN
Went TO Death
Brayado Disappeared In
Shadow OF Death
By Hanging

| San francisco, Aug. There was
the slashing of single cord in the Ga
ecution room of San Quentin prison.
yesterday morning and side by side
John Siemsen and Louis Dabner shoi
| through the traps of a double gallows
| to eternity. There was no sound save
| the chanting of priests to break the
awesome stiffness as the hangmans
| hand was raised in signal that the
| final instant had come-no last WORD
of goodby from the lips of either OF
| The men condemned-simply the swish
Of falling traps, the tightening OF
| hempen ropes, and the lives of the
gas.pipe murderers had been snuffed
out
A sparrow circled through the raj
,ers of the silent room-a prisoner
| aeeking vainly for some escape from
| The chamber of death. Below swung
wo black hooded, limp forms. The
souls had left the bodies. but still thu
hearts pulsed on, and doctors rushed
forward quickly to tear open tn,
| hirts from over the thrObbing bosom
md apply their stethoscopes. Minute,
| passed and the murmur of voices be.
| Lan to fill the room. Twelve, thirteen.
| ourteen minutes licked away, anf
| hen the doctors turned from Dabner
| rhe last OF life had cbhcd from h.
| body. Thirty seconds more. and Sien
zen, too. was pronounced dead. TIL,
| loors of the chamber were thrown
open and the sparrow darted out +,
| freedom.
| Close to the scaffod from whict
lung the lifeless bodies stood Henr.
3ehrend, the jeweler who so nearll
net at the hands of the murdcrers
he same fate that they had dealt e
hree others. but whose terrific bat
le with them resulted in their cap
.ure and brought to an end the reigl
# terror years ago. At Behrenl'
Jack was doctor, for the ieweler ha'
Ieen III and grave fears were felt ovei
he possible effect the eXcitemeu
night have on him, but the services
| " the physician were not needed. Beh
end never removed his eyes from tn
forms before him, but he spoke alouC
20 those nearest him.
, Wanted to See Them Hanged.
. I'm glad they're there. It's bette
heir lives than mine. and God know
fought with them once to see which
I should be-" he said. Yes, I'm sat
SIZED now. wanted to see then
, hanged. I'm deaf. That's what Dab
, ner did to me. He beat me over thu
, read with an iron bar until lost m
nearing forever and nearly lost m
ife. Oh, I'm glad to see them hang
inS there by their nCcks. I'm sorry
D or their people-yes-bu it's justic'
md it's satisfaction to me. I'm be-
Ter alive. They are better dead. Blu
never want to see another ma
hanged-never, I'll run away fron
i. These two, thOugh-rm gla
hey're there"
g AT a little distance from Behren
v nd those with him stood anothC
group II was a group of little me
With swarthy compilations, and In eN
cry brown face was the CLINT OF satl
faction. They were the Japanes
n friends of NJ. Munakata, the banke
!. whose life was beaten out by the me
whose bodies were swinging from tn
,allows. A. Sasaki, the cashier of tn
tiimmon Ginko bank, who came nea
Z ieath at the assassns' hands at tn
lme of the Munakata murder, wa
not there, for he is i'll with typhoi
ever, but his uncle, II. Kubota, wa
present, and with him were Cons,
General G. Koike; George Shim
president Of the Japanese Associatio
Of America: number or Japanes
lewspaper correspondents, and othel
of Munakata's race.
Siemsen and Dabner faced the g
piation of their crimes with no spo
IN plea for mercy at the end, but {
hey mounted the IL steps to the 81
lows their faces were ashcn with Il
error OF coming death. Neith'
broke down, yet neither faced the en-
with stoicism. Siemsen spoke Il
only word that was uttered by eith'
from the time they left their deaf
cells. As he reached the foot Of Il
gallows steps his glance fell on D
Wade Stone. resident physician OF Il
a. prison, and he muttered scarcely au
bly,, two Enthusiastically.
Il The March Of Death.
From the cells of the condemned
was but so PAGES. through the gre
steel doorway, to the foot OF the scf
fold, and on the stroke OF 10 oclo'
the doors rolled open and Ward'
Hoyle entered, leading the march
death. Fathers Walsh and Callopy,
full yestments, followed, chanting Il
!. service of death, and then came Han
man Frank Arbogast. Dabner walk
between Guards Burleson and Moor
and behind them were Hangm'
I, Knccland and Semsen, betwe,
Guards Clark and sullivan. AS u
doomed men reached the gallows PHI
form they had but feeting insta
to look into the faces turned up
them from below.
The faces of both men' were viii
and both half leaned upon the guar
, for support. Siemsen was led