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Show iiiiiEii incest; Runii Lamontngue Pays tho Fenalty of Hi A wl'til Crimes a' Sherbrovk.) This Morning. THE SHERIFF'S SUEDE' DEATH. Just a Few Moments Btore the Time of the Exto uiou, Buttlie Hinging Was Delayed inly a Few Moments. SllEHHItooKE, Quebec, Dec. If. Sheriff Webb died suddenly of cart disease at 8 this morning, lie excitement ex-citement attending the exe u n of Hemi Lamonlagtie was probably the cause The death of the sheriff delayed execution but a few moments. Lamon-taguo Lamon-taguo was hanged at 9 21 o'clock. The crime for which Laiuoutagtio suffered the extreme penalty was an abominable one. In July iH8 ho went to the house of his btother-in law. Napoleon Michigan and enticed him to the door and shot him twice, cit his throat, slashed his body, dragged him hack into the huiise. and set it on tire. The wounded man dragged himself from the llanies, badly scorched, hut died after a tew weeks. The murderer's sister Leila, an unusually un-usually handsome French Canadian p-irl of 20, the w ife of the victim, was arrested arrest-ed for complicity in the crime, but her brother escaped It came out at the trial that L da and her brother had been living iu incest. She was acquitted; the fact that she was enciente evidently having iullu-enced iullu-enced the jury. A large reward was offered for the murderer and he was finally captured. Leda absconded but was recaptured at Boston and extradited on a charge of arson. At her brother's trial she refused re-fused to testify and was sent to jail for a year. The brother wus convicted and hanged as above. |