The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-09-24

forming the post mcrtem examina-
tton, but all others went away, and it
was several hours later before the
sheriff found out. that mob violence
hal brooded about his Jail all night.
Bevies of men had been arriving in
the yard of the court house pear the
jail all night. Many had come from
out of the county even, but no atten-
ton was being paid by the officers.
A few sheriffs from other counties
and number of officers from Kansas
City and elsewhere came in and were
received by the sheriff, who had in
vited them. In the meantime Filley
was in his cell, passing his final night
with his brother-in-law, James Sloan,
brother Of one of the victims, his
near neighbor, James Burnett, and
the Rev. William Backsdale, a Pres
byterian minister.
All night these three men tried to
influence Filley in favor of final
confession. He demurred. refusing
every offer. Over and over he repeat
ed the assertion Of his innocence and
desired to know why innocence should
confess falsely.
Broke Down In the Last Minute.
The minister made final effort to
influence his ward this morning and
accompanied Filley to the scaffold,
but without fruit. Filley was calm
until the very minute of his end. AS
he walked from his cell toward the
long steps leading up to the long cor
ridor and the scaffold, however, he
trembled and hesitated. Urged for
ward he collapsed and had to be car
ried up to the gibbet. There he rail-
lied and asked that he be permitted
to talk to his brother-in-law once
more. Sloan was not present, and
the request was refused as an at
tempt to delay the execution of the
sentence.
Twenty minutes later the crowd
was told that the slayer was dead.
The hanging this morning came
just nine months, to day, after the
committing Of the crime. Originally
the execution of the sentence had
been set for last month, but a delay
of one month was granted by. Gov
ernor Folk. The impression was gen.
eral here that the states chief execu-
tive, in view of the fact that there
was some question of Filley's sanity,
would issue a Communication to life
imprisonment. Feeling in the county
was most bitterly opposed to any
show of mercy and>there is little
question but that violence would have
been the result.
The Story of Filley's Crime.
| The story Of the murder is of the
most cruel character. Filley, it is al
legged, had been suffering with fell
on last December and it is believed
that the pain unbalanced his mind.
A few days before the murders were
done Mrs. Fflley was found uncon-
scious among the horses in the stable.
Fllley said that his wife had been
kicked by a horse, statement which
the physician who attended the in
jured woman disputes. Mrs. Nlley,
unconscious most of the time, and
unable to move from her bed, was be
ing waited upon in the fatal night
by her husbands younger brother
and his wife. In bed with the injur-
ed woman was her 6-year old daugh-
ter.
The story, as It was told by the
prosecution, Is that Albert Filley first
shot his brother and then left the
house, probably to get hammer from
the shed. The mortally wounded man
tried to barricade the doors and win
dows against the infuriated. farmer
and put up fight at the back door
when Nlley broke the glass with a
hammer and started to come In. In
the midst of the fight the younger
brother fell to the floor and died.
The sister-in-law was no match for
the infuriated man, who entered the
house and knocked her unconscious
with a blow of club.
With his brother dead and his SIS
ter-in-law unconscious, 1t is said,
Albert Filley entered his wife's room
and beat her and her daughter to
death with heavy hammer. The
wife Of the dead brother In the mean
time, regained consciousness and fled
to neighboring house with her 2
year-old babe in her arms. For some
time 1t was believed she would die
as the result of Filley's blow. She
survived, however, and was the chief
witness against the farmer.
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