| Show fRIENDS Of PRISONER MAY PREVENT HANGING I I Butte Mont March 28 Reports from Helena and Glendive indicate I there may be serious trouble Friday over the execution at Glendive of Jo Joseph Joseph Josh seph sh Hurst under sentence of death for the murder of Dominick Cava Cavanaugh Cavanaugh Cavanaugh Hurst and Cavanaugh were opposing candidates for Or sheriff of Daw Dawson Dawson Dawson son county at the fall fail election of 1898 1808 wag va a Democrat Hurst a Republican Cavanaugh c va won Some weeks later he be was found dead in an alley at Glendive with his skull crushed in The commissioners of Dawson DavSon appointed Hurst to the acan vacancy vacancy cy C Later he was sas arrested for the mur mar der and convicted i The evidence against him was alto altogether altogether gether ge her circumstantial and based ba d large largeS ly on the outcome of the election On appeal the supreme mc court could find no error In the legal proceedings but commented severely seer ly on the testimony t though under established rule re in such sueh ch cases eases unable to go into that branch of f the subject Friends of ot Hurst have been working worlds ig for weeks to secure I commutation of f sentence or at least sufficient reprieve re to allow them to hunt up evidence to o show that Hurst is I innocent This Tb Is morning word ord came from Helena that thi tt the governor refused to interfere and as Ld Hurst Hurat may hang Friday From Glen Glei dive comes word that friends are determined to prevent what they th y consider a legal crime and Injustice c ceven even if it becomes necessary to attack atta k the jail and rescue the prisoner pris ner Hurst Is only 29 years year old and well WE connected conr The dead man was sheriff sherl if at the tile time of his hig reelection and the ti Ia murder He was very popular Hurst s friends claim that there was no tes te 9 to warrant conviction beyond beyor be ond isi that of a aman man who has bas disappeared Ia from GIe ve since the present ex excitement e began fifths of 91 the prominent people In of the petitioned ed for the clemency clemen y the tile refus ed d x v |
