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Show REQUESTED TO BE HANGED. Trlsoner Declares He Wants Capital Punishment Pun-ishment Inflicted. "I plead guilty, and I want to be hanged," announced Lawrence E. Walsh of Chicago when he was ar" raigned before Judge Baker charged with the murder of Robert W. Gilchrist. Gil-christ. "This is a capital case, and 1 want capital punishment inflicted. I killed that man and therefore I am guilty.". He was sent back to jail pending an inquiry as to his sanity. Walsh was a volunteer in the Spanish war, and a peaceable man. He killed Gilchrist without any provocation provoca-tion three weeks ago. |