Deseret Evening News | 1903-05-08 | Page 2 | A Double Execution

i A Double Execution St May Wilson and Sampson Gray negroes were Imaged hanged in n the jail yard today for murder This Is s the first double hanging here since Maxwell who murdered Arthur Prel ler er In the Southern hotel and another murderer were executed Aug 10 tO illS It was wan also the first private execution In n the history of St Louis a few officials and newspaper men being the only persons present Gray was condemned to death for kilting killing another negro for money while Wilson was convicted of the murder of Thomas Mooney a levee saloonkeeper whom he be attempted to hold up