Show WIFE MURDERER HANGED I 1 aiex woods pays the penalty for killing his wife at blackfoot idaho friday afternoon alexander woods the legno who killed his wife at pocatello on may 5 1887 was hanged for the of tense feuse the drop crep fell feh at a and the b ody body w was as left hati hanging ging for fifteen minutes woods neck was broken by the fall but life was waa not extinct tor for six minutes he met his death without flinching in a brief speech made mad before the hanging mud aud after the noose had been adjusted he be said he had no ill feelings toward anyone x mrs woods the murdered wo woman man waw was like her husband a mulatto she was about the same age as her husband 30 years she had been married and divorced before she became woods wife ife they were married in auburn illinois where they lived for two iwo years woods heard intimations of his hid cifes faithlessness and ma moved ved to leavenworth in the state of kansas then they went to denver to colorado springs to ogden and finally to pocatello where woods was barder barber in the pacitia hotel for three years they were at ake latter place mrs woods intimacy with other men most of them white giving hima him a great deal of trouble on OB one occasion he came near committing suicide still he clung to the unfaithful woman the evening of the murder may ath 1887 he claimed that hie be saw her in a compromising rom ising position with another man and d getting tag a revolver shot her in the I 1 head ead he then hid bid her body in the tha sagebrush near the portneuf Port neuf river ay and left the place both were missed and three taree days later the ba body dy of the woman was found an indian told how he be had bad seen wood and his wife together and had heard beard a gunshot wood was at afterwards ter captured at corinne Cor inae utah having comedown come down to ogden a and ad started west he was taken back tried convicted and sentenced to be hanged banged on july on the witness stand at the trial he be denied the killing but before his death stated that he be so testified under the direction of his bis lawyers and was sorry he had not told the truth efforts were made laade to have his bis sentence commuted to imprisonment for life but governor stevenson refused to take ke the step frank williams the caribou murderer was sentenced to be hanged on the same day and at the same place with woods on july 13 both escaped from jail williams was soon recaptured and suffered d the death penalty at the set july 21 tile the cases of both men had been taken to the supreme court ot of idaho and had been decided against them when woods was not recaptured e d the governor granted a respite te from r 0 2 july 21 to august 17 this was done so se blidt it if he be was retaken before the latter date there would be no delay in waiting tor for the abe next term of court to sentence re him woods escaped he made his way in the disguise of an indian to bul batte te montana Mota then to bozeman at the 1 latter t ter place he was recognized and arrested lie he was taken to blackfoot where the scene of yesterday afternoon ended his bis earthly career |