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Show A MURDERER HANGED. And Another One Who Ought to Hang-, Too, Keprieved at the Last Moment. New Orleans, April 22. -Philip Baker was handed here this morning- for the brutal and unprovoked murder of the young wife of Neil Nelson, a grocer, by whom Baker was employed as a clerk, after he had attempted at-tempted the life of his employer, March 6, 1890. To add to the enormity of his crime the murdered woman was enciente. Baker tried to tix the crime on Nelson, saying Nelson Nel-son discovered that he (Baker) was intimate with Mrs. Nelson and cut her throat in jealous jeal-ous rage. Etenxe Desehampes, a quack doctor was to have been executed at the same time for the seduction and murder of Juliette Dietseh. affed 12 years, January 30, 1889, but the governor this morning granted a repieve pending the action of th- board of pardons. After killing his victim with chloroform, Deschamps attempted suicide by the same means but was resoussitated. Both were discovered nude on a bed, the girl dead, Desehampes unconscious. |