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Show HUNG AT FQLS0M. Joseph Murphy Pays Penalty for Murder of a Guard. FOLSOM. Cal.. July 14. Joseph Murphy was hanged at Folsom prison today. Ho spent a restless night arjd slept about a half-hour this morning. Ho accepted tho ministrations of a Catholic priest and walked with a steady step to tho gallows, whero ho remained stolid as tho cap and noose were adjuated. He did not ray a word. Tho trap was nprung at 10.03. His body hardly qulvorod after tho drop and after ten minutes ho was pronounced dead. Murphy, with ten other convicts, last July escaped from Foleom prison, and prior to securing se-curing their liberty they nrndo an attack on tho prison official?, during which Guard W. L. Cotter was killed. Murphy was recaptured recap-tured and convlctod for tho murder. |