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Show PATRICK COUGHLIN EXECUTED The Murderer of . Stagg and Dawes V - Shot Last Tuesday, Spedl to the Salt Lake Tribune. Evanston, Wyo., Dec. i5.In a sage-covered flat whose stillness before be-fore had been" broken only by the doleful howl of the covote, Patrick Coughlin expiated the crimes, of Palmer's cabin. Twenty minutes after the execution the, plain was again surrendered to the coyote and the jack-rabbit. Coughlin died as he had promised game. 'With scarcely a tremor, he viewed the preparations of death, and without one sigh of regret he submitted-to the black cap and the mortal destruction that followed it fasti" No man could have displayed more unflinching courage. The only indication of the . feeling that rent his breast came when Dr. Lee was pinning over his heart the white paper target for 'the concealed marksmen. Coughlin appeared for a moment to catch his breath; then again calmness pOsessedhim, , ; The scene of the execution was. about twenty-five miles . directly north of the little cabin near Wasatch, Wa-satch, where aves and Stag'g were killed. It was the first execution in RiCtiX6unty,shl it created no . little excitement, not more' than 200 people assembled to see Couhlin's taking off. 'Though comparatively small in numbers, the crowd was miich in earnest. .Many were armed with Winchesters, in apprehension ap-prehension of some overt act that might follow'the numberless rumors afloat. But none occurred, happily. 1 he execution passed otf without a hitch, jit ;was .exceedingly well planued and managed. No miscalculation miscal-culation was made.' CoiigMin is not believed to have' even heard the report of the rifles' Death was not instantaneous, though" insensibility, seized him at the -moment Deputy Sheriff Calverly gave the word to fife . Four, minutes slater - - he was pronounced dead. It. was ,part of Sheriff Dickson's arrangements tjiat he should arrive on the place of execution. ex-ecution. at 10: jo o'clock, which" with an allowance Qf .ten minutes for final preparation would fix the event itself for 10:30 o'clock. At .the time agreed upon almost to a minute, min-ute, tne canvas-covered wrigon of the Sheriff, surrounded by mounted guards, rounded sl1 corner of. the hill a short 'distance off. The wagon was driven rapidly up in front of the chair and its occupants dismounted. A very few minutes after the fateful word was given, the rifies rang out in a volleying chorus, and the last I act 'Of the Dawes-Stagg tragedy had been completed by the expiation Of the crimes. , .' -' : . . . ; 1 |