Show two of the four men confessed their guilt reno nov NOT 17 at 1055 this morning in th old shoe shop at the carson state prison al linderman of stockton cal and J P sevener a marine engineer were hanged foi complicity for the murder of jack welch in humboldt county in august 1903 the two men ncr lost their nerve al though both confessed their guilt a few moments before they ascended the scaffold T S florman whose real name is obrien of sau francisco and fied roberts of st louis implicated in the same crime were hanged at noon there was no hitch in the program ave a delay in the execution of gor inan and roberts on account of an attempt made to secure a stay for roberts who had been exculpated in con sessions fes mada at the moment by german the board of pardons rei fused to intervene however and at p m gorman and roberts were hanged sevener and landerman having been hanged at litls this icorn lug beffie the drop was made gorivan prated tor mercy for hla pasit sins and staled that he had committed a burglary in san francisco in for which a man named barker had baen unjustly convicted barker is now in prison sarvin sc rvin a life sentence the crime for which the four nien were convicted committed in humboldt county in 1903 for months a reign of terror had prevailed in that lection on account of bands of thugs who rode up and down the railroad line robbing trainmen and citizens public feeling was at an intense pitch when jack welch was blobbed lobbed and shot 0 o death on a freight irain by four men and it was with that the people were prevented from lunching lynching lyn ching gorman sevener laderman Lm derman and roberts after their arrest by the officers and their identification by he dying man the toon were tried tu ice in the lower courts once at winnemucca and the second time at reno the supreme court setting the first verdict aside another appeal was taken again but a hearing rehearing re was denied efforts to secure a of lenience seni ence b the board of pardons also failed bevner Sev ner aged 45 years was a marine engineer and bad served terms in california and washington peni for robbery goiman whose real name was obrien was a san francisco linotype operator roberts chosa name was fred beldt was a st louis brass landerman also known as williams was from stockton cal |