Show MICHAEL tto lu of joel ay kapl ates ills crime upon III hip scaffold uld at malel idaho to the HERALD MALAD cm dec 29 michael mooney who murdered joel hinckley at F franklin idaho on tho day of october 1881 WA IVA this afternoon at 68 minutes past one ho ilo i was as first sentenced to hang on jany SOth issa an appeal was hoft hou ever taken to the supreme court of tile territory which court decided against him and lio lie was to liang flang on oil dec ath 1882 governor john B neil hen ilion reprieved eve d lain until the omi day dar of Dee december ember on a petition asking for a commutation of his sentence to ims P cent for life lire ANXIOUSLY MOONEY has bas looked fora tho the scaffold having been framed was warnot not eroded erected until this morning ho ile spent ft a comfortable might night apparently parent ly lie ile ato ate as usual breakfast and evinced no signs of breaking down at 11 a iii cje he took a bath hall was shaved put on a new suit of black with A fine linen shirt MOONEY positively to talk of himself his history or anything connected with himself or his ills lo of fene irenae about 12 hi ili ho lie went r into his cell coll in consultation with J W morgan who had exerted his ills influence in behalf balfor of mooney for a commutation of the sentence een tence mooney while being shared eat mat and looked constantly and steadfastly at hia his scaffold which immediately faced him it solemn indeed duft have been his with all the paraphernalia of his death and funeral IN TIM race FACE at one mooney was still in ill consultation with dr INI morgan organ the bp tp of the fence surrounding the jail y yard ard was covered with or me men and boya boys the sheriff notified them tile execution must be private and they promptly retired about 20 10 persons person sare are within the jail barj to u atness the execution under tinder if the a law Three quarters of an hour more I in n which a mess messenger erizer may arrive with tile GOVEn NOSS communication the tile sheriff looks anxious at half hair post one snow is fillin mooney is still in lila his cei with morgan one quarter to pm the sheriff reads bato mooney the death sentence of the court and tile Gorer governors nors reprieve he ile manifests no feelings fet linB lings whatever aurius its reading bu but t Is eita Is on a bundle of bedding and d lo 10 looks around five fire minutes before two mooney ascends the tile sli showing owing a little weakness eA knees MOUNTING TITS tor TOP he lie says homer god damn danin vou dont set tet excited over this thing thin ild it right lie ile ill then en bade goodbye good bye to several on oil the scaffold saying homer do thia this as quick aa as christ will let you if there is any christ I dont t care any more for dying than I would forgoing for going guing to a dance ills lefand arms wore were pinioned tho the black eap drawn over ili hw A faco face and NIS IS LAST WORDS to benj I evan evans tile under sheriff were goodbye good bye byo benny and thanks for you kindness kind to me in jail then nt at two minutes to pm the trip trap was and with a nick mick ening thud Il michael ichael Moo neya body gwun swung between the heavens and tho the earth A few short movements of the body was all and in ton minutes lio lie was pronounced DEAD by the tile attending physician and aud lowered into his coffin iiii his nock was dislocated dislocate el by the fall ox |