Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-09-23 | Page 5 | Doll Baby Plot Killers Hanged

DOLL BABY PLOT KILLERS r HANGED a DORCHESTER B B. C. C Sept Sopt 23 Two INS Two bewildered young b brothers others Daniel Bannister 2 20 and andr Arthur r 19 wont went ely y to their ft t h x on thi th j now lowi early laxly i bt for or the the Ih lest ds doll dolly I b bOb b r murders of ot I p Lake a L' L 30 y b hl la laW late r wit via i end ind d tb d it t 21 h JC loath oW nt old s son o 0 n nial d d dl l it i. gab t to o b 0 ck ial d w with tl twin tJi U a r o 0 u tl n nd d V their cash nci ki th the two wb brothers were were ro rodt dt dropped ed through h hi trip trAp n Mantel I f the the- Dorchester county count Jail at JOa a. a m m. At a. a m physicians s r noun ed b both th men dead K Th Thus ended a a dramatic andr and sordid r such ai seldom eldo is tI Ui IS seed d I In fa this thin primitive Canadian l k Tr l fhi youths wore were convicted convict d at at lt irate trials of oC shooting shoaling an and anCi andI d I I Kiting th the Lakes to lo death as S p part par rt t r It af a plot engineered b by their portly mother molher 11 nan Ban f r to to kidnap the infant daughter daughter daugh daugh- ter of ot the Lakes Lake s so 80 she sha could coul d y blackmail t two w a Moncton men sh she he I r accused of havin having g intimate t r relations el at Ion 1 with herself lf and an d ei t 1 her hor 15 13 IS ar old I d daughter F Fran Frances r n- n ces Mrs Mn Bannister r A. A told one of ot th the themen r it l men she he was t to toJ o i. i J become becom the mothr moth r Of or a child ehUd Arthur R Returning e UI q I n g t to o Moncton after atter a Do briG brief absence Mrs j Bannister walked through th tho streets holding what app appeared ared to bd be i baby It was subsequently des dosed closed however howe that h she carri carried d a n false krie doll and that In order t to o complete her hoax it was necessary for far her to have a real bab baby l f Mrs Bannister Is Js now serving a ala la year a year ear term at Kingston pent Tho The only charge on which h jIs ih was found guilty guilly was that o of at t Laboring a a. pd child R 1 The he two boy toys were not Informed d until late yesterday est that their pleas plea leas s fM i commutation of at sentence ha had c d hn denied and that they the would woul d I hive have t to dl die p Newspaper men were barred fro from rom m I t tin tat execution but official witnesses s te p rt d both Arthur and Daniel Danl l t laced heed ted death bravely c Th double doubt hanging was Will believed believe d Without pre precedent In Canada j 7 r A huge hurt hole was Wal cut through a concrete floor In the jail fall through h p which the bodies dropped when the th e gallows gallows' tr trap p was Wi sprung Sheriff L I. N N. Killam Kellam of at Moncton ho was Va on the gallows platform said taid ld he heard Danl Daniel l complain ln that tha t the th noose Mos waS was too tight I cant can't t pr pray y and ancS also mutter that ho h o ant n his hie brother were Innocent and an d spaying a crime someone ale elie de e committed V J Last wt evening the boys boy were per per- bitted to say IY bye rood to their ass Is t tn ter r Frances who goes on trial fo for tor r induction b in connection on with th the e hike Uki murders murder and In th the e ee sure nur future rail Jail officials said the they y joked with her ate well and smoked smoke d many f At 10 p. p m m. the they y tl given A farewell lunch o of ot f and sandwiches V Within t a minute of ot one hour after tt they y plunged to their deaths th the e I win bodies were wert taken t to the prison n in simple pirie pins coffins coffin s I and tod lowered Into ono one yawning hole 1 four font and one one half half feet feat doo deep I In n m b Curie uncertain light with hun hun- r f looking tin on on the grave was wa s tilled with earth r. r There Wu wee was some orne trouble outside e tie we Jail while the hanging w was ws lomi on and arid one ono man In the crow crowd I rt u beaten Dr John JohnF F. F Teed o of ot f D Dorchester i was summoned from th the e jilt Jill to attend him