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Show WEBER PAYS THE PENALTY. Murderer of Father, Mother, Sister and Brother Is Executed. Folsom, Cal. Adolph Weber mot death on tho gallows at 12:2G p. m. Thursday In explntlon of tho crlmo of murdering his mother. Ho wont to tho scaffold with a firm step nnd to tho very last maintained tho ncrvo which has characterized him as ono of tho most rcmarknblo criminals of tho century. Ho was pronounced dead at 12:40, fourteen minutes after Ills body shot through tho trap. Tho crlmo for which Adolph Weber paid tho cxtremo penalty of tho law was most revolting. On tho night of Nov. 10, 1904, tho town of Auburn, Placer county, was aroused by nn alarm of fire, caused by tho burning of tho residence of Julius Wobcr, a wealthy retired merchant. When tho firemen nnd many citizens ncarcd tho houso they found thnt all the gates nnd doors had been barred., Insldo tho burning building were found tho dead bodies of Mrs. Julius Webor, her daughter Bertha and llttlo son Earl. Two days later tho body of Julius Wo-bor Wo-bor was found. Mrs. Weber and Bertha Ber-tha had boon shot, whllo Earl's death was caused by beating with a blunt Instrument Adolph, tho only surviving surviv-ing member of ITio family and solo heir to Its wealth, n young man of ability, but a rccluso In his habits, was arrested and convicted of tho crlmo. |