Show HIS m DYING PRAYER As the sheriff T sprung g the drop the condemned ead tidied gud have inerny on my my soul the gallows bcd was the same on which ben carter was executed in in 1888 the rope waa it a four strand half inch hemp and the drop was six test feet and eleven inches there was no hitch in tile the proceeding from from be bp 0 inning ginning 0 to o end the hanging hati ing was strictly private only about twenty five 0 n acers newnon per re reporters portera and friends friend of the condemned man mail being present tile murder for which toward howard paid the death penalty was committed at dixon in tile the southern part of carbon county on ne neej yell years s eve charley aar horn a cowboy in the ne employ of J C kane was tile the victim howard how ow r d was a blacksmith it at dixon and had been keeping grace bickford a woman of ill repute who lived in that section horn icorn came along and the woman took up tip with him but still remained in howards house on oil new deiv years eve horn was in the house with tile the woman when a shot was fired out doors horn opened the door to see what the trouble was and as he be did so howard shot hini dead with a winchester rile |