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Show MADE GOOD JOB OF IT. X Fred Lebeau Goes to Gallows In' , Stocking Feet and Neck is fl Broken by Fall. S Kallspcll, Mont. Fred Lcbenu was S hanged hero on Friday for tho murder 1 of William F. Yoakum and Roy R. 1 Yoakum near Fortune, In Flathead county, on Juno 17, 1908. Lebeau W killed Yoakum becauso tho latter or- m dored him off his place and refused ii to sell him food. Lebeau was nc Jj companled by a man named Joo Rob- r bins, who Is serving a life sentence- $ for tho deed. ft Aftor Lebeau had shot tho old man i In tho abdomen ho walkod up to him .and put a bullet In his head. Then ho had a duol with Rllcy Yoakunvtho " old man's son, and wounded him. Riley was so badly Injured that he .' shot himself and ns tho revolver ho used In tho duel was the same call her as Lebeau's tho coroner's jury found a verdict of murder and sul ; ctde. Lebeau wont Into a frenzy during fi tho reading of the death' warrant, pro-testing pro-testing agaliiBt tho word "murderer,"' declaring he was no murderer nnd Im- plorlng the sheriff to desist rending. '! Lebeau raced around his cell, knocked the paper from tho sheriff's hnndB, was seized with nausea, and was onljr quieted by( tho efforts of his counsel Mr, Long. Lebeau was burled In a lot and In a wlckerwnrk coffin, which the condemned murderer paid for him- ! self from collections mado during his- "WT Incarceration. Just before Lebeau mounted the scaffold ho removed his shoes, passing pass-ing a facetious remark to tho crowd. Then, with tho ropo around his neck, ho mado a speech, and was launched Into eternity, his neck bolng.broken by tho drop fit)m tho gallows. |