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Show HANGED TWICE BEFORE HE IS 1 CALLED DEAD W( "ns r x K. N. R . OeV. 7. Twice reprieved from hanging, the second time because no hangman could be found. Benny Swim, who was convicted con-victed of killing two persons, was twice hanged Friday when a second hanplng v.as called after te first at-' temp1- had been bui pled. Swim was sent;nc.-.l jlo be hanged' July 1 5 for the murder of his cousin ' Mrs. Olive Swim TTUlholrn. nl hsr husband. Harvey Tronbolmc, a returned re-turned Koldlor of Ba'.o Yerle He then pleaded insanity and won a re-j prleve until September 16, On that date a haupman could not be found and the execution was put. off. j Today a hangman. f let Itlously I named ' M. A. Doyle," sprunp th trap. : When Wis body was cut down it was dlacoere,! that life was not extinct. , Th. noose, It believed had been Improperly adjusted. Officials, forced to carry out the order of the execution apala took ih body to the scaffold, and a second hanprnan. known only an "Gill, from Montreal," sprang the traj. an hour after the first attempt. |