Show KEEPER DIES TODAY Condemned Murderer Issues a Sensa tionnl Statement Making Serious Charges TRIBUNE SPECIAL Lander YVyo Sept 21 James A Keef or the condemned murderer of A C Warren War-ren stage louder on the LandorRawllns line who will be executed tomorrow has Issued a statement In which he asserts that ho was tried In June 1902 by a drunken Judge who was so Intoxicated that ho slobburcd tobacco juice all over his white shirt front that one of tho jurors had expressed the wish that Kcefer bo hanged and although he made an effort to get oft of the Jury tim Judge would not let him go Kcefer also charges that ho asked for change of venue to another an-other county but this was refused He Uhtllled at the llrst trial but was denied the privilege of a second trial lIe closes In nn appeal for mercy and Hays that while he admits having 5 of Warrens money In Ms 1 1 possession he has no knowledge knowl-edge of committing the crime and that 1C ho Is hanpred Iho authorities will be talc lair the life J of an Innocent man Kcefer has experienced religion and while he snys he Is not afraid to die It Is I believed ho will break down on the gallows gal-lows and will have to be mipporlcd while the loop Is i placed about his neck Keefer has nn aged father throe brothers and one sister living in Gkncoe Washington county Oregon l Keefera crime was one of the most atrocious In lh I < history of the State He was employtj f by Warren who kept considerable con-siderable monoy In his cabin Keofcr 1 wanted this money and one night while the old stage tender was asleep Kitfer blew out his brains with a shotgun The body was dragged to the center of time room and chairs and tables overturned and other steps taken to make It appear that tIm killing was done In selfdefense The seafiold on which Koefer will die has boon thoroughly t tested by Sheriff Charles Stough ont lhlT to early plans Kccur will not hang himself the plug In the bucket of water arrangement hav ing I boon abandoned As now arranged Sheriff Stough will cut a small cord which will release 1 the bolt that holds the trau on which Ivtcfor l will stand Keefer will have a fall of six reel |