Wasco County OR Archives News.....REGRETS RIGHTS TO GIVE MAN SENTENCED OF DEATH May 24, 1919
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Associated Press May 24, 1919
 THE DALLES, Ore., May 24,- Edward Primrose, one of three men charged with 
having held up and robbed the bank of Washougal, Wash., last month, and who 
subsequently shot and killed Chief of Police Ralph Gibbons of the Dalles, in an 
effort to escape arrest, pleaded guilty in the circuit court today to a charge 
of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Dolph 
Lewis, arrested with Primrose, pleaded not quilty to a simular charge.
 In passing sentence, the judge told Primrose that it was a matter of regret 
the Oregon law did not permit the imposing of the death penalty.
 

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