Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-24
(1N SHADOW
 |E CHAIR ELEVEN |T|MES. STILL LIVE
aska Men Granted a Stay
 in Last Half Hour

have been within the shad-
 the electric chair II times.
 are still alive, but they are not
 z the death shadow yet.
 5av afternoon of last week they
 to within less than half an
 of the time fixed for their ex-
 n Then there was stay"
 Iee times Executioner John
 ri of the Auburn (N. Y.) pris-
 come from New York ready
 ,t the two Nebraska men to
 Three times he has return
 New York without throwing
 witch. The state of Nebraska laid Hubert three times, for he
 his pay whether an execution
 place or not.
 bn't send for me any more,'
 Hubert, as he left the state
 entiary last Friday. "tt'm not hg back any more."
 lives of the two men have
 by thread for 30 months
 Friday, only a few minutes be-
 the hour set for their execu-
 their lawyers got their case to Bupreme court on question of her the two men had had le Examination as to their sanity. nembe1S of the court were pres
 The vote was a tie There was decision. So the execution was boned again.
 Appeal to Governor
 tery legal and personal effort been made to have Gov. Nickel commute their sentences to inn bnment for life. Three hundred en of Lincoln paraded through streets with banners and flags marched to the governors of to insist on clemency. The gov IF refused. He showed them a lion from the county in which crime was committed asking the |utive not to interfere but that ermit the law to take it's course. De attorneys for the two men at time made the unique assertion they were legally dead and be- dead, could not be killed a sec time. The attorneys said that
 and Grammer had been sen led to die on a certain date tnty-four hours before the hour Id for the execution they were hted a reprieve. The lawyers said |reprieve was not legal and hence two men were dead, legally. The feme court threw the conten- out of court.
 peculiar mark on the tire of an pmobile led to the arrest and con lion of Cole and Grammer.
 n the summer of 1917 the body Mrs. Lulu Vogt was found mur- ed beside a road in Howard Rty. Rain had fallen the pre- knight. The road was muddy
 sAe body were the wheel tracks Fan automobile. The muddy i'm 1t showed defect in one tire.
 See iImprit of Tire.
 fficers searched for several days found no trace of the murder
 Two of the officers were re- 1ing to Grand Island, 35 or 4C es away, having given up the SC. They passed a garage. In zpud by the door they saw the hnt of the defective tirde. They tinto the garage and found AL Cole and the automobile. Cole arrested and confessed that he killed Mrs. Vogt by first chok- her and then shooting her ugh the head. He said he had I promised $500 by Allen Gram If he would do the job. The au- obile belonged to Grammer. IFS. Vogt was Grammer's mother aw. Grammer was arrested in consin, where he had fled. He brought back and confessed er he repudiated the confession said the confession had been ob- ed through "third degree" meth hen the fight for the lives of two men began. Mrs. Grammer of the accused man and daugh- of the murdered woman, stood her husband. She was with him ne death cell six different times Ole afterward denied his story Grammer had instigated the der and said Grammer had had ing to do with it. But the ju- said otherwise. Both men were lemned to die.