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Show HIS APPETITE NOT GOOD. Murderer Hall Slights His Last Breakfast on Earth. Wish Court House, AV. Va., Sept. 2. Tallou Hall slept but little last night, and when the sun peeped into his ceil this morning morn-ing he was wakeful and nervous. He was not detiant nor swaggering as yesterday, but chi.dish and petulant. A tempting breakfast j was placed before him by his sister but he refused to eat. He asked for a drink of whisky after taking a cup of coffee but it had little eilect. The jail aiid vicinity was weil guarded by determined mea who were resolved to see the law enforced, notwithstanding notwith-standing threats of rescue made by Hall's friends By 10 o'clock there were between ;5000 and people assembled in the village. Father Luetic entered the cell at 8 o'clock and active trepara:ijja for hacking hack-ing began at 10 o'clock. The drop fell at 12:30. The neck was broken. He was pronounced dead at the end of 17 minutes. No aiterapt w;is made by friends to rescue him. He madj a speech on the scaffold. Hall is the noted desperado credited with having killed nineteen men. The crime for ! which' he was executed today is the murder in cold blood of E. B. Ilylton. special policeman po-liceman of Orton, AVise couuty, "a., July, 1891. - - |