| Show liVENS IVENS I MUST PAY PAYI I I DEATH PENALTY Scaffold Awaits Self Confessed Murderer Murder r of Mrs Bessie Hollister INDIFFERENT TO VERDICT v Pica of ur I nfl Not Cred by Ir Members of Ir I 1 V 1 Trial r il 11 Jury y 4 f 24 Richard Ivens J was wan found guilty s of the of oC Mra Mr It ns olio one oC ot iho ho atrocious H ever OI J in this community n It and though but a bUy boy bb of 24 4 and anti of ot pre pre- record fajr and good family In Influences In- In he exhibited the stolid t In Indifference indifference In- In difference of or the thc most hardened criminal wheT when the verdict consigning him to the sea scaffold hl was vat returned r At I p m m. today the tho jul Jury jur having ha been out rut OttO one hour and thirty nine minutes voted the verdict p pf ff guilty and death loath In Judge Ben M I Smiths Smith's court Only nl one ballot was t as taken takei and nd the dclay dc- dc heay la as lay ay vas occasioned 3 Y the fact that court ourt had been adjourned until 2 p p. p m tn TI and did diet not nol convene until 2 20 We Yc the tho jury JUT find jho tho prisoner guilty and fix the death yore the fateful words that thal the clerk cad oad to the spectators In the courtrOom court- court oom rOom The only person who did not seem corn to bo bG affected 1 yas was lyons Ivens the tho risen or As S soon a us the verdict had bath been cad ead he pulled d a fl a cigar from his pock locket t and snapped his hiS' lingers at his father ather who stood at his elbow Give me a. a match snatch I 1 Want to lo smoke moke he ho said lIc Then Jhen he be gambled f out of tho the court court- oom with lh tUG the bailiff guar guarding him hitti I 1 11 1 Ht lilt I II Crime Richard G. G G Ivons n aroused cd the tho l l entire en on- 1 thi tire e city to retributive c Indignation 1 by murdering Mrs Mn Be- Be Belo l lo C C. Hollister Ina Ina in ina a revolting oWns manner manne Hollister a n rIlY r tv find anti Hl chore woman small rc- rc lined and delicate was walking from a n flORists flORist's to her 1 r homo January 12 12 at dusk usk when Iv nfl drunk anti and brutal a giant irant in s s th emerged from flom his lathers fathers shop on worth 1 street and seized her het arm Jfe Ife In Insulted her and when site she fh screamed l rl and tried to her arm tum tree roe ho lie placed place a n hand honel 01 over her hOl mouth and dragged lcd her Into the tho shop For hours Ih the young young- ns victim t tt to h MI huC J. J put to 0 physical tor- tor or- or tuf-t tuf tutt jt Cr I cn ended her cries by tying Lying a n p c piece of wire Ire her herl l J 1 n and atuk tho th VI IB with a tot tf T pU u sr iho ho w was wis cUt h eF it llOJa h Next s Mip yC bo 1 it 1 f me tr- tr he t. t Ills I I f tt 0 UI uT J lou oh 1 1 PIl In lous fo Ml I. I I lyons Ivens was wal a model Su Sunday school pupil Ho lie was was vas once nce awarded a a bible for attending church every Sunday for fora a 11 year scar CI C I. He was wa indicted January 20 20 March ft fi fl and tried the welt eek thereafter Franklin C. C Hollister husband of or the tho he murdered woman Is a wealthy employing pi printer Inter His Ills brother William Wiiliam Hollister tried to shoot lyons Ivens In the police station lyons Ivens was ivas convicted on his own conCe confession lo in which he went into the I minutest details of ot his horrible crime cilmo His ills lawyer lawyor attempted to ll show that Ivons confession was merely a Suggestion Sug sug- sug by the controlling will o of o. another an- an I j lather other person perNon and was thade while the I accused man was In a f stale of hypnosis II The Jury refused to credit c this assumption |
