| Show J STBlVRE CVSE IX VEIUIONT I IT i > VOI13 TiE ELUEMS O IOVE JEVLOCSY MARIIIAOi 1 MUHDKK James Shcrmtn Caswell has hat n mast remarkable escape from the hangmans DOOM if o murder wa more dellliertely planned than tile one for w hlch he was placed on t II trial Vet thejury found a verdlc of manslaughter and tho avos Ins punishment will be limited to n term in the penitentiary This tec pnlellt4ry tct despite the fait that Vashingtoi County VL where the crime tool place has In the pnt fourtee > j ers bcen the scene of seven brutal mur dersand Ic s than half that number of executions eXeutol When Urn war ended Sherman Casuell then a wounded young veteran found work and a hoiiu on the farm of Willard Cut r ue > r Moritpellcr At that time Cutlers daughter Liura was a beautiful girl of 1 > The two fell Inlove but their uuiuu WI IiI by Launxfatlur because of Cisw ella dkolutehnblt The 3ears Went by Mr duhr ditd and then Mrs Cuter lie latter InlSSS Caswtll who still resided on the farm urged his rjt once mIre but although as 3 howl at the trial by her own a < mL iIon she had been hN uifo for twenty four Jt1 In all hut uarue Laura refuted him In the fall of ISS9 the nomin agreed to marry George J Gould all in Sejlumber the two weT united by n Unitarian rnlnMtr at Montpeher IIIa They droveto the Cutler homestead and had no tooncralichtu than Caswtll thrust ahivilyloaded oldCuhloncd slot inmcutof an open window ami Urtd the muzzle uf tlie u eaiou not IwiiiK three fett from Goulds no The lattern face and clicsl were ultodilpgly mangled lie ran acroffl the road fell down and In half an hour wu dead Csswell ImmedhUlygavolilniwlf up ami stratigM t My the ijuieXb widowed bride became lib ttrmgeH cliampiuu She vUited hlai in jail tlie hired lawyers for him am leilared she would be hL wife the moment hegotout TLetrillwhich reeently took place rou I ted a stated above and tht > su thoroughly cognizant cogniz-ant of the ftcbi declirc that the criminal 1 Mat henuuieually lucy In itcaplng tho death penaltj |
