Show BULLETS S FIVE RIFLES 4 t Six Men Ma Will Shoot at Peter Petr Martensen M S 4 PREPARING FOR EXECUTION AU vow NOW OW UG BANGED BY EImY 4 I Since there appears to be no possibility of saving Peter P Mor M front from death at the hands bands of the law on Nov Ney 20 Sheriff Frank Emery is Iii going gol g ahead nd making full preparations for the execution As shooting was the mode of death deeth chosen by the condemned coa man there is but little work to be done ex except ept the actual execution i I I On the day da of 11 the execution a tent t nt i 1 will be pitched ed in the north end of ot the prisoners recreation ground at the penitentiary about midway between the east et and west walls wails In this tent will be stationed the six mens who to are selected to do the shooting They will willI I t take their places before anyone is ad to the ground and will remain there after the shooting until those j i who witnessed tl the execution have de df dei departed i I parted so 80 that tha t their identity will wilt re rp remain remain main unknown to everybody but the sheriff N I Time For the Th is Ic f to tr tlc take nta some Rome time t between the hours of 10 a m and andr r p m the exact time to be bp deter determined determined I mined by the sheriff The spot ot lI where is to be shot is near the northeast corner just a few feet north I of where Pen U is supposed ed to have hae thrown the revolvers over aver the wall that were used by Convicts Majors and I Waddell in the recent attempted break I ran can die standing up or sit sitting sitting sitting ting down just as he pleases Either the night before or the morning of ot the execution n Sheriff Emery will read the death warrant arrant to him providing he at doe M not object to hearing it will not know the exact hour that he is il to die until the time Ump arrives He will be brought from his cell ell when everything is I ready and ancl turned over to Sheriff Emery by War Warden Warden den Dow or a deputy dt He wilt will be M taken to the spot selected for the shooting ar will be given an opportunity to tomake tomake tomake make a statement if he so desires desire if He Hew will w also aJ o be allowed a minute or so with JB a clergyman after which one of the physicians in attendance will pin pina a small white paper target over Ma ilia heart at which the executioners will shoot boot Morten en will be dressed to in black Six Ken Xen Will Tire Pin When everything is I In ta n readiness a agnal signal lignal will wUl be given to the six men in inthe inI inthe I the tent They will flee fire together or oras orI oras I as U nearly so as possible As Is the custom on occasions of this kind one ODe of the six guns gnus p will be loaded with a 3 blank cartridge None of the men mea who do the shooting will know mow who has the weapon which contains the empty cartridge After the shooting K the physicians in inI I charge will m make an aD examination e and andas andas as aB soon as life lite has been declared ex cx extinct exI I the body will be removed remo to the I I prison chapel and an autopsy held to 1 officially determine the cause ca of death When this has bu been done the body will willI willbe willbe I I be turned over to rela relatives I tires tives or friends for tor burial In case cue no JIG noone one Inc claims the remains lemalu they will be lone buried burled in the prison graveyard g thus thua j far has evinced no I outward signs of nervousness aa as the fatal hour approaches He Be chats chat pleas pleasantly pleasantly antly with the death watch or spent spends his hta time reading read or drawing during the day and sleeps alee well at night He took considerable interest in the election I He talks tana willingly wIDIng concerning the exe eat and declares be he will win go ao to his death without t fear He lie still maintains main taI j his h innocence and says sya 18 he has no con conI I I to make |