Show GHASTLY proceeding 1 q culling bouin wire murderer filled edth opi 1 um and brandy allowed TO SHOOT lad ind finalli to the gaffoli foli W akere kere 1 1 I amid horrible carling Is Is overpowered alij officials aid and danced IIan sed i KANSAS CITY sept 4 the history odthe ol 01 the gallows tella tells no more hideous I 1 ai etory than that of the execution of loula bulling balling the st joseph wife murderer at L savannah lavannah this afternoon just before the time tor for the execution the doomed man shot himself ina in a vain effort to commit suicide and finally died on the gallows shrieking for mercy and caning cursing bis his executioners execution becu tio ners ers up to a lew da days ago bulling seemed cheerful and hopeful 1 in the face of approaching death he had twice before cheated the gallows bygall by lail breaking ue he reasoned that thata a chance still remained and to it might bo be added two others commutation ot of sentence and suicide one b by one these chances faded away ET early y last week it was discovered that bulling balling had planned to break jail the third time steel saws were found in his cell and they were taken away from him ilia faithful parents went to jefferson city and had several personal interviews with governor francis but the governor was firm arm in la the decision not to interfere when bulling received from his parents the message that the governor was obdurate he be tainted fainted and was with difficulty revived ile was confirmed opium eater and dating during last night was given ia largo doses of the drug it failed to tave ha e ila its accustomed effect and the condemned murderer slept 0 less than two hours daring during the entire night rev august lavake daring during Bul ballings liggs waking hours spent the time in reading the bible and pr praying exhorting bulling balling to bonfe coffees e ah at his sins and receive baptism sheriff barry had bad set the I 1 hour boar tor for execution at 10 this morning when hu ho went to the c cell ell at 6 to prepare re the doomed man for the behold scaffold Bull bulling iniz pleaded so pitifully tor for an in extension of a few bo hours are that the sheriff yielded and gave him until 2 to live balling ate alight a light breakfast and spent the rest of the time plead pleada ing with the sheriff tor for mercy and attending to religious exercises conducted by rev lavake when 2 arrived he renewed hia his sap sup locations licati ons to the sheriff and pleaded for bior one hour more the sheriff granted hia his request bulling then asked tor for brandy and the sheriff gave give I 1 him a pint injections of morphine were administered but neither at 0 the drugs bad had much effect the sheriff then the murderer with rev lavake at the same time removing ape the guard from the cell door at ballings balling a re request eat to be left alone with his spiritual adviser suddenly two shots rang out the sheriff ran to the cell the priest lay prostrate on art the floor at bla big side lay bulling built in weltering in his own blood which flawed from wounds in his breast lie ile had shot himself twice with a revolver the priest had fainted A hasty examination of ballings body showed that one of the bullets had entered the left breast and glancing from the rib bad had passed around the body coming oat at the back inflicting only a slight flesh wound in his side lie ile bad not lost consciousness and when the sheriff ordered four dern ties to carry him to the scaffold ha he cursed and swore at them in a nor manner the deputies dragged the struggling man to the court yard and lifted him up on the gallows lie ile refused to stand and they placed him upon a chair As he eat there be presented a revolting spectacle he was dressed only in a shirt and trousers hia big hands and face ace were covered with blood which also stained bis his shirt blood w waa pouring pouting through his shoes whence it bad had run from the wounds in bis his breast and formed pools on the floor of the scaffold dripping from thence to the ground beneath lie ile cursed and swore at the deputies cried and screamed for mercy and shrieked in terror the sheriff gave him a large glass of brandy which he swallowed 10 wed at one gulp finally he was told to get up and stand upon the drop lie ile refused and tour four deputies held him while the rope was being benr placed the black cap was placed over his big head and yelling screaming and blaspheming be he shot through the opening at exactly 3 21 ilia ills neck waa was broken by the fall and he died almost instantly rev lavake has been arrested tor for giving bulling the revolver with ith which he attempted to commit suicide the priest dec doc declues clues anes to be interviewed rev lavake was interviewed tonight regarding Boi bullinga lings attempted suicide he ile eald said he did not give bulling the revolver and had no idea where it came from he ile wagon was on bis his knees pray in s r abea A hen bulling balling fired the first shot the muscular contraction following the r passage of the first bullet into ballings balling a body the priest asserts caused bulling to discharge the revolver accidentally and the he ball whizzed pait past lh head he first thought balling boiling attempted to murder him and fainted just before boiling balling was hanged the sheriff had a short whispered consultation with him regarding the attempted suicide the sheriff deell decline nel to eay say anything regarding the conversation bat but it is considered significant that immediately after the ez elocution lavake la vako waa was arrested |