| Show u TO TUREE rtin SHekel Pays Pas tile thc Penalty Penally for His flis Triple Pur Purposes poses of Robbery lie He Killed W V 3 Shanklin and Cornelius Knapp and Wife 1 1 uh Jan t 1 I aus s ang ilila morning for fort forC t C fr c 0 W D B Shanklin near I th in Ibl this count county In ati that he hemd md people Ills Ilia victims 1 i i an Ii D Shanklin who lived 1 I ti near Kel Kelso county 1 I Ltd I Mrs Ir Knapp an i living near Ca tie Rock Hock aim while eating sur aup r i I Ur In 1 9 t L I In the which tT I by the tour n The rrt 1 a mystery r I u o 1 i year ear not not nol until unlit ot af t Knapp and I I J the II authorities tt get a clew m Th were ut t Ih the 11 I table on No tl 1100 01 the fact tarl that the td cd l h the window th ti II the I c I JIbe j the tt re that thu Ih to mon man had t 5 I three n IT a I w at al the muth ot of the a 1 f iI a eb thy after atter the bl b became arne Irb t f COWlitz county and Detective Samuel Samull Sim bone ot of arrested him and found on hit his person peron watch and keys kes maintained hl his In Innocence innocence for a time lime but bul finally lie he made madea II a partial Implicating lila his neighbor Pierce all as assorted sorted that thai ho he was present when the tho was commItted but bul that Pierce did the shooting After It known that had made I a eon con there were threats of lynching and the sheriff took the prisoner to Ta Tacoma Tacoma coma for tor safe IntI While In Jail there ho he Joined the Salvation Army and soon lIoon thereafter made u a full confes lon that thai lie he committed 1111 three and that lie he was alone In the matter mailer Ills his mothe was robbery In both tour mur murdel dora del delOn On his lii trIal here however ho plead pleaded ei ed not guilty his being that thai he inherited II a crIminal disposition to 10 time extent that lie he W va S not accountable for his actions his IUs mother testified that before her birth she was of n a sur IurI surly I ly and disposition and that the child was born sick and was 1118 always an unnatural The Tho trial was finished in one lIn day and the Jury Jur returned n a verdict of at murder tn in the thc first degree after atter deliberating only one hour |
