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Show ONE MURDERER HANGED AND ANOTHER REPRIEVED AT BOISE, IDAHO, TODAY BOISE, Ida., Aug. 10. William Henry Hicks Bond was hanged at 6:11 this morning at the penitentiary for the murder mur-der of Charles Daly. The crime was committed at Boise on the night of October 6, 1004. Bond was -30 years old and was born In Cornwall. He had no relatives In this country except a brother In Butte, Mont. Bond moved to the scafford with a firm step and said he was not afraid to die. "I am guilty," he said, " but not of all that has been charged against me." The drop broke Bond's neck and be was pronounced dead In six minutes. There was not a tremor of the body after the , fall. r Rudolph Wetter, who was to have been j hanged at daybreak this morning, at the same time as Bond, was ' last night J granted a reprieve by Gov. Gooding until un-til October 3, the date of the next meet-I meet-I Ing of the State Board of Pardons. Strong affidavits were presented to the J Governor, setting forth that the plea of I insanity had been Injected Into the case ; when Wetter was convicted against, the ' defendant's desire, and also that the evidence evi-dence of certain witnesses, said to be Im-portant Im-portant could not be secured at the time i of the trial. The nature of this evidence has not been disclosed. 1 Acting upon these representations, the I date for the execution of Wetter was j extended until October 3, to permit these , matters to be presented to the Pardon 1 board. j Wetter was sentenced to be hanged for j the murder of Christ Long and L. D. Wain near Secesb Meadows, Idaho county. In July. 1904. |