Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-14 | Page 1 | Horrible Death Scene

HORRIBLE LE DEATH TH SCENE Murderer r Slowly Strangles Strangle at Walla aUa Walia Wash V li After the Trap Had Been e 1 Walls Walla Walla Wash May Ia lag Ing ng For Gods sUe sake take me up and drop me again boys Richard Quinn a I wife murderer of or Everett Wash Vas h dan dangled dangled dangled at the t e end of or the rope ath the scaffold at the prison this morning momin and slowly gio y strangled to death it being and a half minutes from front the time tHe tile trap was sprung until he waS Wag taken down dawn The rne horror was as no fault tault of or the hang hangmen hangmen hangmen men The cords coros in the back of ot Qu Quinns inns neck were abnormally large and he be beheld held his head back ck and tensed the mus muscles muscles cles des as the trap was sprung Attend Attendants Attendants ants were startled when Qu Quinns inns legs began egan to twitch and then horrified by his ils groans of ot Boys Borl this Is awful and For Eor Gods sake rake take me up and drop me again boys He Re was able to unbuckle the straps i about his arms and drop them to the ground After a moment m ment his words be became became bei came more inarticulate and shortly he ceased to sway and died after atter 22 2 min ruIn minutes minutes utes Quinn was the thirteenth man to be hanged here bere and a a peculiar coincidence I Is that this Is Friday the day of the month