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Show GW BALKED IF HWU m Reprieve Halts Execution of Wife Murderer After Gibbet Was Ready. (CLieago Tribune Special Service.) CHICAGO, Dec. 12. With the noose dangling, the machinery of the gallows oiled and in perfect working order; aJl j other prisoners horded in ceils far from the deatn chamber and the death march under way, a reprieve today halted the ' execution of Arthur Haensell, who murdered mur-dered his wife last February, It was the tears of his two sisters that gave him the brief lease of life, the execution exe-cution being stayed until January 9. The sisters had by their frantic pleas, started much sympathetic machinery and finally Judge Pam, who condemned Haensell, sent a request to Jailer 'Will T. Davis to stay the execution. Under the law the execution should have gone forward, but the jailer stopped proceedings. Three hours later Haensell walked from the de;i t.h cell, past the gallows, to the Criminal court building. There he sat, too dazed to show emotion, and heard J udge Fain order the execu-' tion postponed. Tlie judge admitted that; counsel for defense had failed to show I any error or excuse for halting the exe- ! cution, but he hesitated to permit the I hanging until every possible opportunity i had been given to prevent it. Haensell sat unmoved during the brief proceedings. As he was escorted back to jail, he saw carpenters dismantling the gallows. t'ntil this morning Haensell had no money to carry his appeal to a higher court. His sisters, who are employed in a 'large concern. Interested their employers employ-ers and fellow-workers in the case, and the required sum was soon raised. Then came the request from the trial judge and a large card with the word "stay" in prominent black letters, was hung In the window of the death chamber. "Look," said the minister wdio was leading the death inarch. Haenseil looked at the 1 card, but did not seem to comprehend its meaning. The death inarch turned back and Haensell will probably escape death by that route. |