Show HANGED I Michael Mooney swings Into Eternity A Hardened Villain Meets a Fitting End OXFORD IDAHO DEC 30 1SS2 Editors Herald 1 have just returned from Malad City and was present at the execution exe-cution of Michael Mooney who your readers will remember shot and killed Joel Hinkly the agent of the Utah and Northern Railway Company at that time at Franklin Idaho on October 27th 18S1 Said Mooney and one Frank Barnes who is now serving out a fifteen years sentence in the penitentiary at Boise City Idaho made an attempt tempt to rob the safe at that place Franklin and in that attempt Mooney shot and killed Mr Hinkley and then fled withcnt be ing able to perfect their plan of robbery In brief they were cap tured and Michael Mooney was ad judged guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged His case was appealed from the District Court to the Supreme Court of this Territory and there the decision de-cision of the District Court was affumed and he Mooney was sentenced sen-tenced to be hanged on the 8th day of December instant but ow ing to a petition to the governor gover-nor for commutation of sen tence to imprisonment for life he was repreived until the juth inst yesterday when he paid the penalty of the law for his crime 1I Certainly was one of the most hardened Yillian I ever saw lie did not make any public confession but stated to his attorney a few minutes before his execution that it was all right as he was a mur derer at heart any way He was dressed in a suit of black cloth white shirt socks and slippers and had all that he requested Among others of his requests on the morning morn-ing he wanted a first class breakfast a bottle of brandy etc When Sheriff Homer went into his cell and told him time was up he was perfectly indifferent and refused any assistance in mounting the scaffold scaf-fold also refusing the services of any clergyman etc When the rope was around his neck he indulged in blasphemy and with perfect non chalence told the sheriff to be cool in fixing the rope and said he thought no more of hanging than going to a dance or sitting down to square meal At precisely 158 oclock pm the trap was sprung and Michael Mooney was launched into eternity lie died without a struggle without even a spasmodic movement The drop was six feet and the neck was broken in the fall The attending physician pronounced pro-nounced him dead in ten minutes tafter the drop I will say in conclusion that the whole of the execution was performed per-formed without a single hitch everything going off as perfectly as clockwork and much credit is dun to Sheriff W H Homer for his careful supervision in all of the details and management of the execution from beginning to end Respectfully EYE WITNESS |