Show SLAYER AWAITS GALLOWS DEATH Last Prisoner to Bo Be Legally Hanged in Colorado Is Stoic CANON CITY Colo Dec 1 l UP UP- UP In utter stoicism Walter Jones today today to today day awaited certain death upon Colorados Colorado's Colorados Colorados Colorado's Colo rados rado's strange hanging machine Sometime between 8 and 9 o'clock tonight the squat pound pound murderer murder er will vill be jerked Into oblivion the oblivIon the thelast last man so to die in irk Colorado Unrepentant grim regretting only that he struck Hartford Johnson a fellow transient too damned hard hardIn In a freight car robbery in October 1032 Jones said today he would go goto goto goto to the gallows like a man Lethal gas gns under an act passed by the last legislature h has hs s replaced hangIng hanging hang hang- Ing but Jones sentenced before the new law was enacted must die by theold the theold theold old means While witnesses sworn to secrecy look on the Flint Flin t Mich slayer will stand upon the black spot in the death house at the state prison here Then Theil a trigger will be pulled and the pound SOD weight will drop tossing toss toss- tossing ing Jones Into the air at tho the end atthe of at the hempen death rope I If fate late is kind to this grim trIm man he will die a merciful death his neck broken by the jerk upward If It his is the starred ill fate late of more than half halt the 44 men who have preceded preceded pre pre- c ceded ded him hm to this gallows he will dan clan gle gin until strangulation claims his life It was one such death by strangulation tion that tion-that that of little Eddie Eddio Ives murderer murderer mur mur- derer of a Denver patrolman which patrolman which gave impetus to the fight for a change in the method of ot execution Ives was hanged twice twice and and some says three times before death relieved re re- him of at his agony The rope broke the first time as lS he was jerked into the air It was suggested to Jones today that he should be glad to know that he Is the last man who will die on this grotesque machine Hell he said what good does docs that do me |