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Show Protest Innocence to Last. Lincoln, Neb. Bert M. Taylor ot Mlnden wns hnnged nt tho stnto penl- r tentlary Friday. Tho crime for which ho was executed was tho murder of his sistcr-In-law, Pearl Taylor, lt years of. age, a sister of his dead wife, In the town of Mlnden. Ho protested his innocence on tho gallows. On tho nlgnt of April 27, I 190S, whllo Pearl Taylor, a younger 'Bister, and Taylor wore the only oc- leupants of the house, Tnylor assaulted W I Pearl and bocnuso of her refusal to .W ' promlso silence, It Is nlloged, bent her so brutally that she died several hours H I Inter. M |