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Af-iessen-theine3en. toatop-gn-ed,osi-ncy i of ing out, aton.hiptie.hisnu-iehbutavethere*ob-re-indtheim-sof,»metheoseainriffles-nn-f or 1 to* ftLEGALLY STRANGLED.Execution of Whaley, the fJreene CountyMurderer—Story of HI* Crime.Columbus, 0., June22.—William Whaley, the colored murderer of Greene county, was executed in the state prison shortly after midnight last night. The trap was sprung at 12:14, but the noose was not properly adjusted and he slowly strangled to death. It was 12::»0 when he was pronounced dead. He jmade no confession, as expected, and from the scaffold onlv said he was notg-uilty of a capital crime.The crime for which ^ ilUam Whaley suffered the death penalty, was the murder of Allen W ilson, a colored lt;iuai-hhhhhhMhhhhhmhI i i *,wrvman, on .lune IT, iw,,Springs. Wilson’s body was found m his backyard, his head mashed and hismoney gone. A year before. George W. Koetrier, an old soldier, and a colored woman named Lou dead in her room.1i!Kevs, were found Koegler had. justdrawn his pension The money wascrone. In both murders a blocxly ay pin. lying near by, showed ow ® work ha.I been done. Detectives we!unable to ferret either of the oriffl'1 •Six weeks after the murder of llson an attempt was made to kill a nukmannamed Hopping, but he escape* . c recognized his assailant as Whaley.| '1 he whole country was aroused am j searched for nearly a week, for it was fullv believed that he had eommited all the murders. He was finally foun |hiding in an old barn, nearly starved.Soon afterward he confessed to the W ll-son murder and implicated three otherpersons-.]olm Jones, Diamond .b»im-son and John Stanford. They P™v0lt;jalibis however, and W haley denied ahis confessions. On trial he was cou-Vdiamond- -___ECHOES.The Higa\M 1CertainSCaif** o Furt!Washtee invcators w dav aft itv repo cious \Lindsa' t h e v d i of goveposited that onwas eorframer* not feeltlt; t hlt;- sclearly Ad miwhet he eont rib secure lt;within thev da 'pete neehas conof any
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Norwalk Daily Reflector
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Fri, Jun 22, 1894
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