Show WOMEN I AS TRAP TAKES I SlAYERS SlAYER'S lifE William G. G Smith for I Whose Reprieve Thousands Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands Prayed in Field Walks Walk Bravely to Death HULL HULLS England Dec 9 By U. U I P. George Smith a a. ayoung ayoung young young- painter for whoso reprieve ve thousands of persons praye prayed In an open field Sunday Sunda and on whose be behalf behalf be- be half halt workers of ot Hull threatened a I general strike died on the scaffold today Petitions to the home office proved unavailing and a crowd of several thousand gathered outside the prison gates and sang a hymn while the execution was taking place f There e were vere no illi immediate disturbances bae d despite ge the ge threat ot of Commander Kenworthy M. M P. P that rioting and bloodshed would ensue unless Smith were reprieved Smith l killed a married woman with whom he had been blen intimate She was older than he and the I sympathies of the community were with the condemned man He climbed the scaffold unassisted to toda today today to- to da day prayed for a moment while the hangman waited and met death bravely Outside the music of the hymn on the morning air many women fainting a ag as the thud of the execution could be heard |