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!Eva Dugan DecapitatedfIi ...on GallowsContinued From I*uge 1crirn * of which was com bded. Warden !,oremo Wright created I a sensation a few minutes ln*for# 11!«' banging by revealing to news-| \m\* t mlt;‘ii ihe discovery of what lie Iwdieved wit- a plot l*.v Mrlt;. Dugan to cheat the gallows by tailing jm4s-oti l*ef* iv - lit* w a removed to the*• dentil chaiider.t Acting on t tip that the woawflli hail procured a lMiimn iliw, Wrightfsaid be trs n#f erred her front her(Nison coll tlt;» the rondemned chans*h*r iilratit I a. in. A .search of thei abandoned cell, the warden said, led to the tifacoverjr lenettb a mattre«si of a * ounce Imi tie of a “deadly‘ poison,” Tbf bottle. he sit 1 fI, holej the hits I of a l lorenee drug store, j—Wright said the woman apparent*, ly intended to commit suicide, hut j whs prevented from taking the. poison hy the vigilance of guard*. ’An investigation has l**en started to!{ learn tIi#* nittve €|i|p jlilt eta ills (lUfNtS! The 52 year-old hotp»ekeei**rt who \ was eonv ieted of the murder of Ma-! j this, lier employer, in January,111127. in order to gain inww^od of jhis pr«»|H*rty, s|wnt the hotifs preceding her exeeutlon in the com*pony of the {irfsott chaplain and a| few friends. Until after midnightshe sat at a card fable and playedwhist with two women friends amiWith flic execution of Mrs. Uv;* Dugan at sunrise today, the Stale of Arizona created a priced nt—that of I a tiring a u email.! murdering A J. Mat Ids. an agedram her. on the desert near Tile-!I son about two years ago. ;Ma;his was 1»*t m*n alive January 1 I. IU27. about a month after j he had employed Mk Dugan as housekeeper. A few days previous* ly Mrs. Dugan ami a mysterious!Jack,** a IT year old boy, left the]Mathis’ ranch and drop|H*d from!night. * ’ - ‘ ' ij a woman prisoner, while outside her• »uI ‘toI tinit just a name as far as.neeumubued re. cud of threeceil the death watch peeed hack and.. . u . ... years is eoimerued. He a pi **a red atforth. Oeeasloiially she reached out|t« cap.- a tclw.m which lay ou rHmh 11 *«* “r ,w“ N‘tnhlp—a fawwrtl from f,,r Ma,hU' 'I^P^ran^ and b-jsher daiwhter, Mr*. ('..11 Lovell. im lm'n ^'u ^During the course of tin* game, j Fried Selling lowMrs. Dugan requested that her; 1 ‘dlowing MathK disappearance*‘gm sts** he served with orangeade, Dugan, after attempting to eel!Several minutes passed before* the ** *‘MVV IHl,i some chickens on !he i drink wa* served, and the count mh. left in a coupe owned by Ma-denmcd woman called to a guard : •Please bring on the orangeade. I want it now. Tomorrow will be too late.”Since early evening the sky had been overcast, and a light rain was pattering on the gravelled pathwaythis in company with “Jink.** It isbelieved that this young man. whose last name lias never ln*en learned, j was employetj by Mrs. Dugan to drive the ear..Mrs Dugan and the hoy first want to Amarillo. Tex., where sheias the woman was I*sl from her cell sold tin* lt;*fwv|e for $Uoti signing the in tho prison proper across an open pupers “Eva Mathis.” The hoy!pace to tin* death cell. She smoked *b£ned A. J. Mathis.’’ There Mrs.a cigarette ami joked with guards Dugan bought tickets to Kansu*as she marctied along, and as they C*lf.v.mm red the gallows house she laughAfter discovery of the body ofed and sung “I don’t know where Mat his December 11, 1027 by J. F.Urn Doing. But I’m on My Way.” , Na b. an Oklahoma machinist, whoMile kissed two of the guards who hud slt;€H;the pieeisr |M»t whereleft her at the door of tin* death * D - lowly was buried ilt;» driven tenthouse and said: *’l love everyone stake, Mrs. Dugan was arrested at connected with the prison. A’on White Plains. N. A., returned tohave ail t*»en goes I |o me, and I can’t blame yen for what the law is going to do to me.” The guards wereTfbson and convicted of first degree murder. She was originally I sentenc'd to be hanged June I, 11128,more visibly affected than was the bat obtained a stay of executionwoman who stood in the shadow *\*tm apical to the supreme courtof the scaffold.Is AdmiredDecetjih* r 2. P‘2P,Tlu* stipn tne court affirmed theV. . ■ . / I * lt;7* • • ■ .. . ■.- ». ,*i • ;■ ’ J . -..j .\ Udegram delivered to her in judgment of conviction and resent-the ci»mlemnelt;l ceil revealed a enc**d her to U* hanged Fehnniry I ,hitherto unknown chapter of her • 21# 11^‘d, ex. tly two ,\mr» from theearly life. The message, signed date her trial begun.• %Ada lb *Meapp!e, Beattie, Wah.**Taist nnndh an uiH*llcatb*ri wasread, **l s\mtHithi/,e with y«ui and rande Jlt;» the board of panbms andhave the greatest admiration foryour bravery and grit.”“Ada is an old friend of the Yukon days,” Mrs. Dugan said, “probably you didn’t know it. but 1 was one of those Who followed the gold(.parole* for eotnmutation of tin*• featli scnfeii'e tlt;► life* imprison- j ttHMit. Ftdlowi-iig a hearkfg, tin* iMiiird. by a vote of two to one, declined to reeomtuend eotiuntitutlmk After a jury foil in 1 Mrs. Dugan%atu\ the board was asked for a re-*rush into the Yukon.”Mrs, Dugan will be burled in the prieve, which was refused,prison graveyard, ill a shroud ofwhite -ilk which she made her elf.I*III FOKF AND AFTERSeveral w**ekn ago she purt based a A w i'efdng woman crom IhhI at casket and paid ail undertaker to the burs m pa rating the gate en-prepare her body fur burial. , elomtre from the women’s tier «»f jHer 82-year-old father, William ! tdnring tu^ten-hmrtts11y m 1Me! Millets, of t’eres, Uailf., wm itn-11 he mad scramble of humanity at* Iable to grant her wish to be with tin* outer entrance, draggling to lw* \ her during tlu* hours pre«*eding her ffr^t In at the death of her prison!death. She r«C»*ed to iliseloM* the mate nr ! laugldreg eottrpnnhm of lt;name of her son, and the name of ’ yesterday ....her daughter was not revealed until ? the message came from her lust Date crushers trying subterfuge* i night. in onb r to add more sordid in- IMrs, Dugan was convicted of i|Wlsfivctu*'- and an inal beat io the .;
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Arizona Silver Belt

Miami, Arizona, US

Fri, Feb 21, 1930

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