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Show SLOWLY STRANGLED TO DEATH. Horrible Fate of Wife Murderer-. Executed Exe-cuted In-Washlngton. ' Walla Walla, Wash. Richard Qulnn, a- wife murderer of Everett, Wash!, dangled at the end of the rope beneath the scaffold at the prison Friday Fri-day morning and slowly strangled to death. It being twenty-two and a half minutes from the time tho trap was sprung until he was taken down. The horror was no fault of the hangmen. The cords .in tho back of Qulnn's neck were abnormally large, and he held his head back and tensed tho muscles as the trap was sprung; Attendants were startled when Qulnn's legs began to twitch, and then horrified by his groans of "Boys, thlu Is awful," and "For Qod's ake, take me up and drop me agajn, boys." He was able to unbuskle tho straps about bis arms and drop.rtbem to the ground. After a moment his words became be-came more Inarticulate, ' and shortly he ceased to sway .and. died ' after" twanty-tw minutes. , |