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Show FIVE MURDERERS Three Executions at New Westminster, West-minster, B. C; Otlicrs jn t lie United States. 1 GO TO THE GALLOWS WITHOUT A MURMUR One Man Thanks Sheriff for Kindness, arid Bids Spectators Specta-tors Farewell. . . BELLrXGHAM, Wash., Dec. IS. A special from New "Westminster, B. C, says: Without assistance, James Jenkins, negro; Jack Portella,- neg'ro, and Lee Chung, Chinese, walked to the gallows in tho provincial ;iai this morning at S o clock and took tho drop without a murmur. Only when Hangman Rad-cliffe Rad-cliffe tightened the rope about Jenkins's Jen-kins's and Chung's necks did the3' commence com-mence to loso their nerve, but Portella never moved- a muscle. They dropped togethor, while Salvation Army officers offi-cers repeated praj'ers, Sheriff Armstrong Arm-strong giving the signal and Radclifie pulling the bolt. Tho three men stood on a single trap and the pulling of the bolt sent all three into eternity. Rad-cliffe Rad-cliffe said he never officiated at a more successful execution. Sleep Not Disturbed-The Disturbed-The three men slept well last night, Portella remaining in bed until ihe guards aroused him to go to the gallows. gal-lows. He smiled at the crowd of spectators spec-tators before the black cap was pulled down over his face. Jenkins assaulted and murdered Mrs. Mary Morris at Hazlemere; Portella killed a mulatto woman at Vancouver, while Chung killed another Chinaman. Chung and Portella confessed their guilt before the execution, but Jenkins did not. The latter was convicted solely pn circumstantial evidence, and the chief justice of British Columbia, who pre-fiided pre-fiided at the trial, interposed a stay after sentence and ordered' the case reviewed re-viewed by the full court, declaring the evidence was not conclusive, that there was more than a reasonable doubt of his guilt, lie was overruled by the full court, all the other justices dissenting. dis-senting. The case was then placed before be-fore the minister of justice at Ottawa, who, after rf close study of the papors, refused to interfere. As soon as the jail ph3'sician declared de-clared the men acad they were interred in graves already dug in the jail yard, the liodios covered with quick-lime and tho .irth filled iu by convicts. SPHTNGPIELD. ill., Dec, 13. Frank Bryant, 26 vears old, was hanged in the countv jail here today for tho murder mur-der on August 20 last of Thomas Brady, n 70-year-old man. out of whose trunk after the murder Bryant stole a small quantity of money in order to go to Chicago to visit his sweetheart. In a statement upon the scaffold. Bryant thanked Shoriff Werner for tho kindnesses kind-nesses extended during his imprisonment. imprison-ment. He then said to tho two hundred witnesses assembled, "Farewell to all, gentlemen," and the trap was sprung. CHARLOTTE, K. C, Dec. IS. Will Graham, a negro, was hauged today at Concord, N. C., for attempted criminal assault upon a 10-year-old white girl. The negro, when arrested, narrowly escaped es-caped lynching. 2000 people, mostly raiU workers, marching upon the Coucord 'iail: but ho was protected by several companies of the national guards. |