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Show CHICAGO READY FOR HANGING PARTY; 13 WILL STRETCH HEMP CHICAGO, Oct 13. The county of Cook ordered 1000 feet of Italian letup rope the other day. Not much of an incident, ordinarily, fn the busy affairs of Chicago, Iut of the highest importance lo thirteen men, now in the Cook count ail. For with that rope, they are lo be hanged. Every morning they waki ip with the thought, '"Lm ndng to hang pretty soon." And at night, when be) are tossing ob their cots, they brush their hands across their eyes, trying to Bh'ut out pictures horribly fascinating pictures of ropes and j gallows. "Horseshoe" Haenseal, three times given false hopes by having his j I execution stayed, is frankly tired of his attorneys" endeavors He want-, 1 i ri prleve o: else he wants to hang An ex-soldier, decorated, everything I has been done to save him from swinging for the murder of his wife. The last time he was saved just as he was stepping on the scaffold teps -Just like in the old melodrama plays. Bui he says he'.- going mad with the waiting he'd rather be hung than endure the suspense any longer. One man raves, living lo fake insanity. Another man who tried It tells him to shut up Another man prays, the only "religious" one of the thirteen, Another plays solitaire, and snaps and curses when they inter rupt him. He's been trying to beat the game for months. Perhaps he dunks if he can run out the deck some day it will portend good luck ndrea. who murdered an old watchman during a holdup, is the toughest. Hope- they'll let me wear heavy shoes." he says. "I want to drop last when they spring the trap' Two of the men are wffS-klllers ; the rest murdered during hold-up? The youngest is 19 and the oldest is 4u Nobody knows who is going to spring the traps. Nobody will tell, for very good reasons. But one n,tan will pull a rope, eight times one day, five the next. |