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Show DIES OH SCAFFOLD FOR DOUBLE MURDER LINCOLN, Neb., March 13. Gottlieb Nlegenllnd was hanged here at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. The double crime for which Nlegen-flnd Nlegen-flnd was hanged was committed September Sep-tember Uth last when he visited the home of his divorced wife, "Mrs. Anna Peters, and .shot Mrs. Peters and . her father, Albert Breyer, dead. After the murders Nlegenflhd escaped and for six days-wandered over, the country eluding cspture, and sending word.through friends that he would not be taken alive. He was finally located In a corn field by two farm boys, slightly slight-ly wounded with a. shotgun and overpowered.' over-powered.' He was the first murderer to be executed under the law providing that all hangings shall be. In the State prison. - ' |