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Show IttfANTFP IN nf An I Ll--riH f YFPI TUP No One to Shoot Condemned Con-demned Man at Nevada Ne-vada Prison Reno, Nov. Aug. 12. If there are five men willing to undertake the (grewsome task of shooting a man to I death. Warden George W. Cowing. I 'of the Nevada state prison, is anx-j'lous anx-j'lous to obtain their services. He has 1 1 made efforts to find the fle. but has J met no success, and the date of the I ' execution has been set for August J '.9th. j. The situation that confronts the J I warden, is due to a new law which 1 1 grants the privilege to a man con-jidemned con-jidemned to die to choose the means wl.arcby ho shall be executed whether by the rope or by shooting 'if he choose, the latter, the law re-1 re-1 quires that he shall bj blindfolded, placed In a chair, a target be fastened fasten-ed over his heart and five men armed with rifles, shoot him down. ! Four of the rifles arc loaded with ball cartridges, while one carries a blank cartridge The weapons are shuffled Just before the executioners receive them, and no one knows who really has the gun with the blank The " riflemen are concealed behind i black curtains. I The man to be executed is Andrlgl , Mlrkovich of Tonopan. |