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THIS DAILY NEWSPAPER USES ONLY BIG TYPE AND IS EASY ON YOUR EYES THE DAY BOOK 500 SO. PEORIA ST 398 TEL.-MONROE 353 p VOL,2,NQ.65 Chicago, Friday, Dec. 13, 1912 OffE CENT OREGON'S BLOODY FRIDAY' SEES FOUR MEN SWING, AS "GUESTS" CHAT AND LAUGH "The Blood of These Men Is Not on My Head, But on the Heads of the People Who Voted Down Abolition of Capital Punishment." Governor West. Salem, Ore., Dec. 13. There was little sleep in the penitentiary of the sovereign state of Oregon last night. The warden spent the night in "his private office, pacing" up and down, smoking- cigar after cigar. The silent guards moved through the corridors with fur tive steps and. downcast eyes. Occasionally some nightmare tortured prisoner screamed aloud in agony. And from cell to ceTT, from wing- to wing; from warden's of fice to the solitary cell, went the dread Whisper row; iVLorgan ana laarnson; Fauldner and Roberts- they all must swing- tomorrow."1 From thTe bleak north wing- of the prison came muffled sounds; a chocked sob ; a mqanrag-prayer ; a childhood hymnsung-hxa qnav The death cells are m the up per tier of the lonely north wing. There the men a Christian: peo ple order killed must spend then last hours, alone with. God and their own memories. Shadowy workmen shuffled in and out of a deIapidated,old building-, standing; in the yard near thfe north wing. Inside the old building- they worked with muffled fools on a. gaunt, ugly strurLtrre a dbnble gallows built to send two fenman being- into eternity; at one jerk off a lever. The workmen: were restaur this part; and tesfxng-tfia part; going- Four men must swrag- tomop- i over every inch ipf the- scaffold. For had not the warden- as he bit nervously into a cigar, told them the day before: "Go jover it att; go over It all. Make sure it's working; right; make sure there will be no mis take tomorrow-"" o- the- yfoxfeiueg. tesfedl if oyer