Show AT A T THE MOLD two wretches W re c hes to he be executed Exen ted STORY OF THEIR GRIMES CRIMES ane one rifled his wife the other murdered Murder cd an entire family special to tha CHICAGO dec 14 A man tall and athletic of frame and notwithstanding oyer over two years of incarceration de dei i handsome hande oraa of 0 features sits with in n the of the gallows gallon a in the cook county jail on the north side george H painter is his bis name and unless GOY gov altgeld should interpose executive clemency defore before tomorrow morning mor and of any such intention there aidi are no ao indications in today his life will pay forfeit for the crime for which tie be was convicted and sentenced to be hanged this was waa the murder of alice laitio 31 aitio a woman with whom he had bad lived beneral years aa his hia wife aal aad the crime was committed on may Alay 17 1891 from the day of 0 his hia arrest and dp ap to the present time painter has h a a iwas stoutly protested his hia innocence an and d on we the thial the evidence was waa purely circumstantial ile he is ij the son boa of a once prominent eLt preacher i now new york now deceased but the precepts which he be learned in his boyhood days were soon forgotten his hia first employment was as aa a clerk in brooklyn broo klyn and after trying the same BAMO for a while in chicago ha turned his bia attention to gambling and became bi became ft a sporting man about town in ayery sense of the word his agreeable grebence ore bence sence and fascinating manner made him a favorite with the women whose chosa tastes were like his bis own and out of his bis many many acquaintances ha cose chose alice martin fr for a paramour the two lived together on the west alle of the city but the life they led was naturally not a haddy one and quarrels between the two were wera frequent it was claimed at the tha trial that he had not only lived on the wages of her shame but byi bra beaten and threatened to kill her fol forgot not supplying him with as much money as he n needed the circumstances surrounding the murder were involved in ia mystery mya tery all that is ie known is i that un the sunday night in question painter came out of his bis room and yelled to the tenants in the other parts odthe of the building that his bis wife bad been mur murdered derad when the a neighbors rushed to the room they hey found the woman lying leinz dead on the flook her har body had bad been terribly stashed and butil mutilated I 1 ani and there th waa blood alt all over the ills floor and on the walls walla painter notified the police and professed to be prostrated over the affair suspicion was directed against him however and he be was arrested A fow I 1 days daya later the overcoat which he always I 1 wore wora was waa found in a closet literally saturated alu rated it ic blood on the trial he attempted to prove an alibi and witnesses were called who said aid he ha ha ba I 1 spent the day and night up to midnight at a west side saloon the tenants of the tha bouee however 8 wore ora that they had bad heard him reline eling with the woman tome time before he gave the alarm and that they bad seen been hin hi n acting acting suspiciously auspiciously about the building earlier in the evening IL ho was waa promptly convicted and upon being brought brough tinto into court for sentence creat created ed a sensation by asking judge clifford to grant him a twenty minutes private interview saying that if he was given the oar ear of the ilie judge ho be would never be hanged banged the request was refused and sentence agn tence was passed the case care was taken to the supreme court the verdict erdice wits was of affirmed firmed and the date for tb the execution aaa for tomorrow recently painter created something of a asenia sensation tion by trying to induce the ties to demonstrate his i io inno o ce cenca or aunt by putting him under hypnotic in flance le appealed to annie ann beans professor carl SOME and and hypnotists in all parts pans of the country has without ane nc c within a few weeks he caused an appeal to be b made mada to the court to sane fane tion the tha experiment but an exhaustive examination lamination of the records failed to develop any precedent lor for granting a uch each a re auest Fain Pa interi idea bag aft been based upon the tha of dr charcot in paris that if a man was guilty of a crime ho he could under hypnotic iffla once ence be made not only to confess fint also to describe the surrounding eur circum atances down to the slightest I 1 detail deta ia the condemned man has ban all alridg along strenuously insisted that onea an es pediment peri ment would d demonstrate hir hia entire innocence of the crime I 1 |