Salt Lake Herald | 1901-12-07 | Page 2 | Hanged for Murder

q HANGED SOB POR 1 ane G Green Pays Pys Penalty in Washington Par Fur Killing Rival Cascade I Locks Loeb Ore Ore Dee Dec 6 Jamte G a Green was wu hanged h at Stevenson Wash at 74 this Ua morning in hi the t presence of severity five persons S He HeI I walked to the scaffold and aDd nd betrayed no indication of a breakdown When asked if he lied had anything to say 81 he 1 hope this will m be an example to I the public and I warn arn am everybody to keel keep out of such scrapes I He H then bade all goodbye bye The fall broke his hie neck and he M was pronounced deed drad in eight e ht minutes by the physicians n present Green murdered E K V Benjamin on March 24 4 thIs year at Underwood landing landin Skamania county Was W Wash Ben BeR Benjamin Benjamin jamin was wa at a party and Green shot through a tI L window between 12 1 and aBel 1 cf lock in the morning while the guests e ts were eating supper au per Green was U engaged ed to Be he married to toa tors toa a Mrs rs Nellie Brown but at her solid solicitation lel tation the tile engagement was as broken brokeR Green believed that Benjamin was re Ible for the estrangement est and ancI andS was determined to bf be revenged S