Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-06-13 | Page 1 | Murderer Hanged in California Prison

MURDERER HANGED IN CALIFORNIA PRISON James P. P Wheelock Pays th thO the Penalty for the Brutal Killing Killing- of Mrs Emily Martin SAN QUENTIN Cal Cat June 13 James James F. F Wheelock was executed In the penitentiary penitentiary peni peal here this morning for fOI the brutal murder murd r of Mrs Emil Emily Martin at Couto- Couto I leno en co Butte county on the night of March 3 3 1901 The The condemned condemned man ascended the scaffold scaffold scaffold fold with a firm step and said not a word while the rope was b being adjusted The drop fell feil at 0 37 o'clock and soil death was apparEntly apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap Instantaneous with the neck being bens be be- In ns ing broken In lii seven minutes the heart had ceased to beat