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Show HE EXPIATES HIS CRIME ON THE: GAIJMS : HE MURDERED HIS WIFE AND Hia MOTHER-IN-LAW. . Charles Baldersar Did Not Deny Hit Guilt and Said He Deservod to Be Hanged. San Quentln, Cal., Jan. 29. Charles Baldersar. who murdered his wife and, mother-in-law in Stockton on September Septem-ber 30, 1908. was executed today in i the 6tate prison here. He kept up a brave appearance almost to the last, i but showed signs of weakness when appending the scaffold and nearly fainted Just before tho trap was sprung. He did not deny his guilt, and said that he deserved hanging. A3 ho weighed only 129 pounds, he waa I given the unusually long drop or eight feet, Tht trap fell at 10:04 o'clock and fifteen and a half minutes later Baldersar was pronounced dead. Hla neck was broken by the fall. |