Show BEN EBEN L l BOYCE BOM HANGED TODAY TODA V Had Hope to tim Last but Collapsed at Final Summons I 1 AM A l A SOLDIER STILL Wil ns vas Hit 11 lii Iu 1 Lull i lu to n Ho lie 10 the elk erk Wash Walh Aug AU u fl Eben L wag n executed on on the he fifth floor of the tho court house hOUBe isis morning monIng mo tot for wife vICc murder Ho Ito 10 slept siept soundly from two t WI to the live 11 e and oven even then theA had hope bOle of ofa ofa a n at execution He lIe IQ collapsed when hen for tor the to the gal Bol gallows get lows Iowa but was Wa revived arid and ara as cc he stood on the this said I I nm ama a n soldier still stihi st The Tue le execution was w perfect hIs neck being broken by the tile fall fl the he drop fell tel at 01 TOC OG nM tho lID heart cased beating banting In 14 1 minutes I The crime of o which Eben ben L Ijoyce Doyce was wall convicted was committed In Ta Tacoma Tacoma coma on February 10 cOI ISO iQ 1900 at t 6 G I In itt tile the evening He went into the tho roe ros nt South Tenth street where whore his hla wife was employed as I cash cashier let ier and shot eliot her In cold blood lied had hal reached the city I an hour be before fore fOlo on Sn the Victorian and lied been heen drinking heavily nir ni nil tho to way wn down When ho opened the tho door d r of ot tho thin au aurant rant his wife saw the look hook of ot deter determination II In his IB face ao anti screamed In terror Boyce pulled a I double action Colts olta Culs revolver and opened fire Tho rho first I shot shattered her Iser arm arin nr n and she Rho turned to 10 run Into n a private prate box behind tho the counter The second shot struck her h r In Inthe Inthe inthe the left len breast and she fell to tho the toor Without a word he be advanced ad llred to the prostrate te body bOlly of at his 1115 victim arid and ald pine placing ing the lie revolver her hIrt breast fired tho the third shot As Al ho he left lett the restaurant he walked down dowl Tenth I street towards tho the Tacoma hotel but bUl was overtaken by and quietly submitted to arrest arret He lie le said he lie hoped he lie had done a I good job Eb Kb Boyeo Boyco as ni he ho was familiarly called enlo by his Ills associates tu lu the lie musical profession came caine from Colorado When Whenn a n boy bOYI previous to o his his entering his teens leens he exhibited wonderful musical ability arid and was even then Ihen considered n a paragon In his lila performances the cornet cornel Ho lIe le played nt at dances eke Hc In company with wih his father tather who was IS ISone one of ot the be lid fid fiddlers diess and the tile little fellow astonished d his hil listeners with the excellence of ot his playing He lie QuId could not nt read rad music and played everything by ear car r Later Iter he lie I went to 10 and alIt tak nu up by la iy the there per fler performing pert forming t In hi one of the churches tb It was hero here that he ho learned tOj ti t rend read music the lie method seeming s to grasp proper without effort and was always after afterwards afterwards wards known ns as a sight night reader He lie remained in III Boston Doston but two or three months when whon his roving disposition carried him hint back to Denver Dener where he remained until going to Tacoma Ills Is ability as a was recognized by Ii b every evon musician whoever heard him While at nt Denver he ho was engaged at one of o the he theaters and amid his hl perform performance ance anco there was something wonderful at nt times He ne was WaB very ery modest about his ability however and whon when under the Impression that someone was waB paying special to his hla part his efforts were confined to the simplest rendition nut Hut sometimes when In the humor and nod oblivious ns as to his auditors Isle Ills natural bent was given Ien full swing and tho the best beat beatt it t musicians were wore simply 11 astounded TUnes Times Time without number he ho line hns hI been of offered 0 splendid salaries to play 1111 In the best binds In the country but his lug natural abandon to Immediate sur stir surroundings thorn thom led him to 10 laughingly decline |