Millard County Chronicle | 1912-05-02 | Page 5 | Goes to Scaffold with Smile.

GOES TO SCAFFOLD WITH J...ILE. Murderer Esecuted in Utah Pnton Meeta Death Without a Tremor. Sa!l'lke City. J J Mots, iniir-. derer of J. Waiter Axtel. .-s i xeiuiid at the state prison 1 i.'csl.iy ni .rnitiK The scaffold trap wai s.u it g a! S 12 oclin k. Nine minutes la'-r attending phyaiciatia prononm ed Moirts dead Ilia neck was broken tiy the fall The sheriff and his demi'ies came to Morn, waiting in his cell, at j " o'cloi k. For a quarter of an hour !beriie, the Rev. II. J Talbot talkei 'larmstly with the condemned com eni-, eni-, ing bis soul. T!;c i leigyman sfepid i ln-t de as th sheriff arrived. j Morris leaned against his cell di.or luff.ne at a fragrant rigar wl.lle the 's'eriff. In th presence of th guards, and his deputes, read aloud the death : watrant , Morris le.med against b'm iell door hesr'ue. farrweli, and with a amile on hia fair, and apparently the cool s! ,nian In the crowd, marched to the ; scaffold.