Show A T I HIS EXECUTIONER Legal Hanging of Fred Lee Rice Recalls One of Canadas Most Famous Criminal Cases Murderer Mounted Gallows Without a Tremor 0 Ont Oat July 18 Fred I Le Lee ee J I Rice was wa hanged here today for forthe forI forthe I the murder of William Boyd Bod a constable in June 1901 1901 Rice received his spiritual adviser this morning and spent a Quarter of an hour hou in silent prayer pryer He greeted the hangman smil smilingly smi and mounted the gallows glows without a tremor tremor The murder murde of Boyd was wa committed when wh n Rice Ric Frank Frk Rutledge and Thom as Jones were ere on trial for robbing the te postoffice at Aurora While hUe being bing con veye from the court house to the jail jaila jai a package in which were two revolvers wa was thrown into the carriage crage County Constables William Boyd and nd Walter Walt Stewart Stew r were in the cab cb with wih the pris pris In the struggle for the package Rice got a revolver revolve and shot Boyd He then thc pointed It I at told lol the prisoners to get out out As Ak soon son as they left let Stewart tired fired fred after them as they were boarding a car One of ot the shots struck Jones Jone The prisoners were overpowered and taken to laS Jail Boyd and Jones died Rice and Rutledge were convicted and sentenced to Kings Kingston Kingston ton penitentiary penitent r for years er Rutledge suicide by hurling himself from a balcony in the Jail jai to toa toa toa a stone tone floor below blow Rice was found guilty of murder He came ce from Champaign Ills Ils where whee his people are highly respected Every Ever ef et effort fort for has been made to have the death death sentence ment meat commuted to life Ufe imprison imprisonment |