Show DIED protesting INNOCENCE man executed in montana Is strangled to death helena mont A special arru from white sulphur says howbeit 11 II metzger was nas hanged about 3 ap p in priday for the murder of bomor ward last thanksgiving day ills remark able nerie nene did not deceit him and lie he died without showing an of wea weakening hening ile ha maintained ills his in nocenzo to the en cal I 1 ito he left a written statement to be made public in the couise of which he reiterated his dewal denial of the crime abe I 1 be doad dead body of viard victim was found jaitly burned in the bed of his lawn ho lived alone A bullet bole in the lie lead head showed the manner of death 1110 murdies ei hid cv elien tl tried to cover ki up p the ciline by smoking the aid of fire the bed clothing had bad boen been satur abed with aith I 1 mosene abil set file but the names flames failed to do part ward had evidently blen been shot the window as lie he was vins eating his din ner one of ills his farm buildings was also bained wag mas evidently the motive as some borne of ward a ebeyta found in Alet gers possession vb when n lie he waa mas arrested mv varal ral weeks atler after the discovery of if the therlee therl me metz ger eer m was as only 21 years old and Is said to belong to a good family living in peirce near alron 0 lie he did every thing possible to keep his family aiom the news neis of ills his conviction often say ing he did not care so BO much about dy ing as he did the result upon hla his iela tives metzger Metz gers w as not broken death resulting from strangulation and lie he was pronounced dead in eleven and a halt half minutes |