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Show falter. Regarding his crime h had nothing to Bay. Taylor Hanged at Lincoln. LINCOLN. Neti.. Oct. 28. Bert M. Taylor of MInden was hanged nt the Ptate prison this afiernoon. The crime for which he was executed execut-ed was the murder of hla Blster-ln-law, Pearl Taylor, 19 years of age, a elater of his dead wife, in the town of Mln-den. Mln-den. On tho nlrht of April 27, 190$, while Pearl Taylor, a younger elster, and Taylor were the only occupants of the houne, Taylor assaulted Pearl and bfcauso of her refusal to promise silence, si-lence, it la alleged, heat her so brutally brutal-ly that she died several days later. Caught After Long Chase. The young sister, it is claimed, wa.? also abused. Taylor fled and was fol-lowed fol-lowed through Kansas, where the trace of him was lost. Eight months later he wan apprehended in California, Califor-nia, admitted his identity and was brought back to Nebraska. Taylor has continually j proclaimed his Innocence, andias told a rambling story of auoiher man, a strancer to himself, who committed the crime and whose apprehension he Fought himself him-self when he- fled to California. He still protested his innocence on the gallows TWO MURDERERS PAY I PENALTY FOR CRIME SACRAMENTO. Cal , Oct. 2S. As becomes tbe Indian nature. Wilbur Benjamin, the murderer of little Violet Vio-let Cilmer, met death on the gallows at Kolsom prison today as stoically as he faced his accusers at his trial and heard the fatal words of tho Juctlce who sentenced him to be hanged for his awful crime. Benjamin smoked while Warden Iteilly read the death warrant to him. At lO.lj a. m ho walked up to the steps to the gallows frame without a |
