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AN AMERICAN DEEMING, (San Francisco Chronicle, March 31 ) E. Bates Soper was hanged at half pla? 5 o'clock yesterday morning, at Harrison ville, Missouri. The execution was private, witnessed by only 40 person. Soper was one of the most cruel and, most unusual of murderers. The crime, for which he was executed won the murder at Archie, near here, of his wife and two daughters, the latter aged four and five yeats respectively. The murder had been planned, and was revolting. Soper ran a hatcher-shop. One day in April, 1891, he announced that he had learned that there was a‘ blind tiger,” or an illicit saloon, In the town, and that he could not live to a pace so wicked. He sold his shop, and disappeared. Four days lnter neighbors broke into the S»per home, and found the mother and children dead in bed. The heads of all had been crashed with an axe, and blood and brains were everywhere. Soper had left a note saying he could no properly support his family, and that he believed thay would be better off hand. Soper went to Porland, Or., and, taking the nome of Prentice, married a respect able widow. In April, 1897, he deasrad his second wife, taking their two-year-old child with him. He afterwards killed the chid, choking it into a sensibility, and burying it alive. Later Soper, under the name of Homer Law, leaged and worked a small fruit farm, near Ashland, Cal., where he was captured June 11,1897. After being landed in gaol here he confessed not only the killing of his wife and two chil dren in Misanori and his child in Oregon, but admitted the murder in 1880 of his father. According to his own story, on the evening of the last-named murder Sop r started to attend the meeting of a literary enomy. On the way he met his father and rhet and killed him. Throwing his re volver away, he professed to the society and took part in the exerclass as if nothing had happened.
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Albury Banner and Wodonga Express
Albury, New South Wales, AU
Fri, Jun 02, 1899
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