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Show MIGHT DELAY THE GAME. Condemned Man Wants No Praying on the Scaffold. HELENA. Mont . Mav 1 Herbert H. Metzger. who will bo executed at White Sulphur Springs tomorrow about 4.3ft p m for the murder of Homer Ward. November Novem-ber 16 iBSt today refused spiritual consolation, conso-lation, tolling the minister win. interviewed inter-viewed him he did not want any praying on tho scaffold "It might delay the game ' he asid Metzger malnlalns his Innocence, professing pro-fessing to enre little about dying excopl for the disgruce his manner of taking off will bring upon well-to-do people living liv-ing ln Pierce ( who from ail accounts have been kept In Ignorance of his Ben-tent Ben-tent 0. |