Show TWO MEN HA bal IN GE 04 GovAll I 1 geld refuses muses to Inter feil A s BUT bold blooded murder fi fr r which they wore were hanged 0 her crimes special to TUB ENQUIRER I 1 DANVILLE ill dec harvey pate and frank stires were executed here this mo morning loraing for the murder of henry helmick the execution was under the supervision of sheriff JohnW john W newton of vermillion county it was waa his first experience in the direction of capital punishment and a few days daye ago h visited via vis itei itel the cook county jail at chic chicago ago for the purpose of obtaining pointers on the performance of the duty of a hang hana man jailer price prica who has had more or less experience in that direction nf af forded corded him a practical exemplification of the working of the chicago gallowe gallo wg and also gave him instruct instruction io a as aa to the tha adjustment of the noose aa a result he be was enabled to 10 perform his unpleasant duty cleanly and with dis dispatch the unfortunate boys stires being but twenty years of age and pete but a year older slept well during the night and awakened of their own accord at an early hour they partook of a hearty breakfast and afterwards devoted themselves to prayer and psalm singing the drop fell without inci dent while the murder was waa without sensational incidents the case was rendered interesting 11 by the decision of the governor upon tho iho application of attorney salmon for a reprieve in denying the llie application the tha governor said that he be considered hanging an unnecessary cruelty that he did not believe that it wis was of any benefit to the state and tuat it di I 1 ut ot deter othera from committing murder inasmuch holover ho as ad capital lUp itil punishment was a part of the laws lawis of the state ito ho did not think it won would bu bc right for him to 0 o commute the tha sentence of the trial court ta t life imprisonment unless strobie treasons Trea sons were adduced and no juo such reasons were apparent A tair fair trial had been 91 given I 1 both of the convicted men had confessed their guilt and no mitigating circumstances had been presented the murder of henry J helmick which paten and stires expiated with their lives today was committed on august and was a deliberately cold bloode i affair while returning homo from churek with his hia wife his bugey was waa stopped slopped hy by four men pate stires elias mcjunkins and charles smoot alias harris they demanded dea maney but bat Ne II elmick linick refused to disgorge and lashing his bia horses attempter attempt el to get out of reach ot of the ligh highwayman wayman before the vehicle had gone many feet I 1 paten aten and stires corn com firing the farat shut shot took effect in the unfortunate mans head just jast behin behia d the left ear and instant death resulted the horses frightened hy by the report I 1 of the revolvers ran away but were ware reined in by mrs s helmick with one hand while with the other she she held the tha body of her husband in her lap the marder created cousine aass of a tun and a few days later smoot made a clean blewit oi of affie affair mali cabug beating his hid this resul ltd in the arrest of the en aire gang subsequently all made con Jas passions and upon being arraigned plead guilty to the indictment charging ithem with murder stires and ana paten who were proven to have fired the ebona were sentenced to death able amt and Me mcjunkins Junkins were given life sen fences at the finale of the trial a thousand people the court house and had the verdict been differ ent danaville would undoubtedly have witnessed a lunching lynching lyn ching bee bea paten and tires stires smiled when the death sentence was pronounced and afterwards re milked that they expected to pull hemp irom the first |