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Show CONDEMNED MURDERER WAS Ml! CHOKED TO DEATH Bungling Hangman Adds to Horror oi Execution of William Hayes at Montana State Prison. Butte, Mont. William A. Hayes, J accessory to tho murder of Guard John Robinson nt tho stato prison on ?, March 8, 1908. was executed at tho prison Friday morning at 8 o'clock. S Tho hangman bungled miserably. f Hayes neck was not broken by the , fall anil he hung for eight minutes, j slowly strangling to death, in tho A j presence of a large crowd of Invited guests. i Tho room In which Fnthpr Landy said mass Friday morning! was the1 W onovln which tho struggling com mended that has cost Hayes and Rock their lives. Tho death warrant wns k also read In this room and tho march 1 to tho scaffold begun there. Tho condemned man novor lost hln 1 nerve, nnd from tho time tho death warrant was read to him until ho was f jerked Into tho air to bo strangled to J death ho remained calm and bravely Jj faced death. |