| Show i mG RICHARD AO I IVENS Hm HmM M I I His Crime Murder of Mrs Bessie i Hollister Was a Most Re Revolting Ret Rei i t One NEARLY NEARL Y COLLAPSED AT LAST lu ut l 1 I p 11 cd nt n I I rig to III It i iSon Se el Son lint I i ii I Vi tl I lIml 1 o June JaM Jt hens Ivene was wai a hanged here her h today tod for the murder of ot otIra Mrs Ira haul Ite the wife If of Franklin C Hoi lister head of the lb large printing establishment of ot II Brothers Brothe The Th crime which was as com coni committed on oIl the Ule evening of oC Jan Jn K U 1 of or this year r wan waa otis one 0 of the till most moat revolting in inthe Inthe Inthe the polk history of oC Mrs Mr Irl who ho was 1 a h woman and prominent In church arid and andE social E II circles circle on 1111 the north tide side of the city It left her home In III the morning of Jan 1 12 with It 11 the IIII intention of oC carrying tome come flowers flower to 10 the funeral of ot a I She purchased the and nd per formed several errands In iii the Ibe vicinity i of If her home but bul dM did riot not appear at the funeral funI nor Was as she he again seen toon alive II by b any of ot her friends friend On the tb morn In IT of January II tl hens Iven who 11 at it 1066 Hal rI I mid M his hi father that the i body of i a woman uman n was lying on a pile site of oC r refu In Ih tho the rear tear of oC their barn Mr Ir Ivene nt lit once Informed the pollen poll stud and the body hod which was w Identified as all that of Mr un 11 Hamster was 8 taken to her hr home Her Ur I thing nan ws M torn and disarranged and lId she an hp evidently had bad made tactic a R desperate fIght before being g overcome Around her bar neck was I twisted a II slen den der d r copper wire the She hc had evidently beet to tn death after being mal mel treated in the Ih most moat killu manner The Th induct of Ivens rouNd Aroused th Ih suspicions of the Ib notice and anti hi hiwa hiA wa was A taken into Inlo rusted custody and charged with the Ihl crime rime He lie U a i first denied ft hii hl hut but within three hours huu of nf his hla ar at arrest are teat rest made m a full confession to 10 the he t n tars cers Th The Tho confession be bl later laler r tea at the request and nd In iii the presence ot ni Jhc coroner and nd on en another to 10 the stat tall attorney He Uti went Into th chocking details of ot lh th the crime In III a R fashion that aroused intense Int n popular Indignation ien arraigned for trial Ivens Ivetus denied his hili guilt and claimed that be he bad been n forced to confess by b tin tint tit Ih t Ills His defense et nse was Dr an alibi allN anti and the claim that t he h had made Ih tin confess conCe Inns alone Ion under tinder hypnotic kUKe tion Application Ap to the supreme court Ourt for fort forI t I of ot proceedings proe and to the th gob cov emor emos and the th hord hoam of was wa In vain In anti and his hi sentence te was wai II carried Into Inlo effect on the h date dle originally r ret t by h the jury at the conclusion of ot his hili trial The condemned man until he upon th the drop faced death In the same stolid manner In which be bf has hns con COI ducted himself since his hi arrest 1 When hen be he stepped on the tile scaffold however much of his hili courage failed him Just before bero the Ih cap eftI W a a se F drawn dron over oer tile his face ht II tf t tn lr r a hull hUI al I though his bi lips noved convulsively c iI hits hi voice would nut not re on l ami he lie ws wat 0 not hot able ble tn to utter a 1 sound It was v il dent that he ha ai U on the verge i f n a complex complete collapse and nd the has hu hastened hastened the test lilt details as lIS much as aA p pos In trier to avoid such sueh a contin i genry ncy Just prior to the execution the igat father fa tiler of or hens hn called at the Jail anti and asked 19 Ic see his hi son pen for the last latt time tin His request was refused by br the and the father made quite a It scene ne as he hi h begged b with th tsar tears t to 10 be 10 in aw II the young oun man once more mott It wa wee finally found necessary to 10 lead lend him from the building An aged woman who ho made her appearance Jl at about th the same earns M ml time Ume a as the father of or Inn Ivens In elated aimed that the condemned man mn was wai about to be hi hanged unjustly a as AI her h holm own olm son eon had confessed to her br that tb t he hI hean an anti l not no Ivens lydia was a the actual crimi criminal nal nh She Ih was waa U detained pending an n in inquiry inquiry into her sanity |
