Show HE WAITED LONG Terrible Work of a Convict at ValIa I IValla Walla Walla Wash Jan 21About noon today at the penitentiary Conviot Fred Hoyt killed George Relf by striking strik-ing him on the head with an ax The men were at work excavating pits in the brick yard about 40 feet apart Hoyt picked up an ax lying on the embankment em-bankment and deliberately walked to I the pit where Reif was working and without warning hit him in the head j I Relf tried to throw off the blow with his arm which was broken and cut badly Hoyt again struck Reif twice on the top and side of the head killing kill-ing him almost instantly The COlOn ers jury found a verdiot charging Hoyt with deliberate murder Hoyt was sent to Pierce county in 1890 for twenty years for the murder of a man named Crosby j Reif was serving five years for grand larceny committed in Tacoma When Hoyt was tried for the murder of Crosby Reif was the principal witness wit-ness and since that time Hoyt has been I waiting an opportunity for revenge and it came today |