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Show MURDERER GRUBER IS RESENTENCED BOISE. Ida.. Jnly 7. Convicted of murder in th first degree at Coeur s'Alooe for th murdor of Jeaa Bllllnas, Pre Oruber . sliuss seattoa eras stayed by an appeal to tho euprom court, has Juat been resentenced by Judgs Dunn of th Eighth Judlsial district to be banged at th Idaho stats penitentiary n August SS, Th prisoner takae hi fat In a quiet manner and haa littles to say. Whsn arraigned before the court to receive the death aentenc for the second time he waa asked If he had anything to aay to the carrying out of the letter ot the law and reolled that ha had not. Oruber was convicted of th kllMng of a companion, ths motlvs being robbery. Both had been employees of th Parker Carnival company two years ago. In ths fall Oruber waa discharged while ths company was showing at Walla Walla-Later Walla-Later the traveling show went Into winter win-ter headquarters at Spokane, where Bll- llnsm waa tkaiit ntt. Thav mat In Bm. kana and under th pretense of Inspecting Inspect-ing a ehlrken ranch went -to Coeur d'Alene, where Oruber eJubhed Billings to death and burled his body undsr a pile of brueh. Th body was accldsnt-ally accldsnt-ally discovered there by children. Oruber wh trseed to I-ewlston. where be wss found la the county jell ss a federal prisoner charged with bootlegging. He waa released by th government to the state, charged with murder In th flrat decree and convicted. The prisoner Is Just of age and the etrong plea made for commutation of sentence sen-tence Is thst hs has never had a chance In life. Indeed his life history Is tragic Hs wss bora In Texas whsrs, when a mere child, hs wss sn eye witness to ths killing of his mother by bis tether snd the sillclds of the letter. Hs wsa plsced In sn orphsn home and taken to lowa, where he fel! In with a religions fsmlly. He rsn sway from his nsw home when II years old snd became a tramp, moving from on part of the country to the other. The trial waa on of the most sensational. sensa-tional. Ortiher did not deny the killing and waa willing to plead to murder In the second degree. The etats would not submit to thl snd he wss tried wholly on clrcumstsntial evidence. Senator A. O. Potts appeared aa counsel for the stats snd Attorneys el ''Bee and I.S Vslne ss legal advleors for the defendant. AH will appear before the board of psrdons recommending that the aentenc he commuted. com-muted. The oaa will be beard, thia month. |