Show OflLA GAME tOFPOKEfi i Joe HubBe tf an Idalit Gambl Lost His Life SLICK CONFIDENCE MAN Personates the Brotlaer of Marcus S Daly S > I I And Swindles Kansas City BanKS and Kansas People Riprhtp < and lief t Intcrcatlnff Stojrs ADOW1 the Fellow d Killed Hl Family Fam-ily by Asphyxiation Proves to Be a FoRitlve from Justce S Other Crimea and Criminals Special to The Herald BOISE Ida Jan HLast night at Silver City Joe Hubberty a gambler got into a fight over a game of cards Night Watchman Pat Kennedy interfered inter-fered when Hubberty assaulted him The officer fired andsent a bullet into Hubb rtys groin Inflicting a very dangerous wound The supreme court has denied a rehearing re-hearing in the case of James Ellington Elling-ton sentenced to hang for the murder of Charles Briggs in Boise year ago Ellingtons attorneys will next apply for executive clemency but it is said the governor will not interfere The date for the execution will be fixed by District Judge Richards In a sjart time S 1iWAS A CROOK The Ulan Who Asphyxiated Ills Fam llr a Fugitive from Justice CHICAGO Jan HA local paper says The name of the man who Monday morning asphyxiated his wife five children and himself is not Peter Hougaard but Jens Hansen The murderer was a fugitive from justice having swindled his creditors out of 40000 and fled to America Upon his arrival in this country he assumed the name of Peter Hougaard A letter written by the mans wife to the Danish Dan-ish viceconsul January 5 indicates that she was Tiotignorart e husbands bands purposes Other circumstances t connected witii the case would tend to 1 show Hansen had probably been engaged j en-gaged in crooked transactions since coming to Chicago and had been made desperate by the failure of his schemes While it was at first thought the deed was caused by destitution investigation investiga-tion i is said shows this was not entirely the caseIn case-In examining among the personal effects of the dead family a number of letters were found throwing light leading to the on the circuEjstanees up murdervA IBtter sealed and addressed to the dftad mans mother in Denmark mdter was in slpSstance asfollows My Dear Loving lotheTr I am sick to death I havE few more hours to live My wife and children have been weij for There is but one in thj who would mourn my death I my mother I blame no one Peace to those who have pur I of them God will judge Your unlucky Another letter found was Mrs Hansen to C L M Danish viceconsul in Chic Last night Lieutenant cured a translation Tha effect that Mr Koedet l her to secure a position for hfff husband She viceconsul for not k Sm lrwrote she had e watdr for an ajnount equ onetenth of Us valu amY an intlnsure orJjv which amou the viceconsul had loaned her The final words of the letter are After what I found out yesterday there is nothing left now forus all but death by starvation or freezing This letter is dated January 6 and on the reverse side of the sheet are the i words I have no hard feelings against you but pray to God that you will do as I do You have put seven Continued on Page 2 |