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Show MURDERER IS HANGED Execution of Negro Today May Be Last Legal Hanging in Nebraska Ne-braska Lincoln. March 21 Albert Prince. nero. was hanged at 1:35 o'clock this afternoon for the murder of Warden Davis, He was convicted of ihe murder l Deputy Warden K. D. Davis at the ,uie . mtentlp ry a year ago. heard the warrant for his execution read this morning. "All right, gentlemen '" he said, ' go ahead with the execution. Priuce atabbed tho deputy warden at the. close of chapel exercises at the state prison on February 11. 1912 Prince will probably bo the last mau to bo legally banged In Nebraska. Tho state house of representatives has passed a law making electrocution electrocu-tion the legal mode of capital punishment pun-ishment and another abolishing capital capi-tal punishment In this state |