Show WEBER PAYS THE PENALTY Murderer of Father Mother Sister and Brother Is Executed Folsom CalAdolph Weber met death on the gallows at 1226 p m Thursday In expiation of tho Crime of murdering his mother Ho went to the Hcaffold with a firm step and to the ycry last maintained tbo nervo which has characterized him aa One of tho most remarkable criminals ot the century Ho was pronounced dead at 1240 fourteen minutes after his body shot through the trap The crime for which Adolph Weber paid tho extreme penalty of the law was most revolting On the night ot Nov 10 1904 tho town of Auburn Placer county was aroused by an alarm of fire caused by tho burning ot the residence of Julius Weber a wealthy retired merchant When tho firemen and many citizens neared the house they found that all the gates and doors had boon barred Inside the burning building wore found tho dead bodies of Mrs Julius Weber her daughter Bertha and little son Earl Two days later tho body ot Julius Weber We-ber was found Mrs Weber and Bertha Ber-tha had been shot whllo Earls death was caused by beating with a blunt Instrument Adolph the only surviving surviv-Ing member of tile family and solo heir to Its wealth a young man of ability but a recluse In his habits was arrested and convicted of the crime |