Show HANGED FOR TERRIBLE CRIME william ff letoe boe mounts mount the scaffold smilingly cly william M roe was hanged at napa cal the other day for murder roe smilingly mounted the scaffold smoking a cigar and did not falter when his legs were strapped and the black I 1 MP cap adjusted the crime for which roe alias moore suffered death was the murder of mrs john L greenwood feb 9 1891 1891 his companion in crime carl schmidt is undergoing a life sentence at san quentin Quent ln roe and S chmidt went to the greenwood home five miles from napa on the evening of the day mentioned they found mr greenwood at home alone they bound and gagged him and carried him into the house while they were doing this mrs greenwood drove into the yard she having been to a neighbors after a paper she stepped upon the porch affa aj was about to open the door when one of them came out mrs greenwood stepped back quickly and fell from the porch roe following the woman was dragged to the porch and into the kitchen and her hands and alid feet tied both she and her husband were compelled to drink several times from a bottle which roe carried and which afterwards proved to be poison about 11 captain greenwood recovered consciousness so much of the drug drag having been given him as to nauseate him he managed to get to his A h 1 VI 1 M ron ROE feet feel though his hands were still tied behind his back his first thought was of his wife and he entered the bedroom to find her lying dead upon the bed he then went into the hall and was again confronted by the fiends who had in the meanwhile been to town and returned they immediately knocked him down and while he was down roe shot him twice in the head captain greenwood though not entirely unconscious feigned death but again taking the precaution to bind and gag him the men made their escape taking mrs greenwoods Green woods horse and buggy mr greenwood was bound and gagged until about 7 in the morning when he managed to get his feet tree free and crawled to the front gate where a neighbor saw him and gave the alarm schmidt one of the men arrested was captured in denver two years ago he claims he was forced to assist in the crime and subsequent events bear his story out he is in tho the insane ward at san quentin |